Show LITERARY NOTES The Bookmans Ist of the six bestsell log books compiled for time heMlsel gust Is ns follows 1 Gordon Keith Page 1 Lady Roses Daughter Ward u TIme Gray Cloak MacGrath 1 The Filigree Ball Green r The Under DogSmIth G Lovoy Mary lleganRIco Mr Howard Pyle I whose religious novel Rejected of Men continues to excite tin mOll diverse opinions from religious and secular revlowcis Is at work for Harper ii Brothers on some Important Illustrative work Mr Pyle him the dln llncllon of being probabl i > tho only Amer ican artist of distinction who huti not only never studied abroad but tuLIt never even traveled trav-eled I there ills work Is u significant example ex-ample of what purely American training can do for the American artist for Il la generally acknowledged that Mr Pyle has maintained for years I position in 1 the front rank of American artists So far as versatility Is concerned hls record la unique his work being equally dis tinguished whether In IenandInl black andwhite or color To the artists who trained themoelvcs to work In blackandwhite In order that their sketches might be properly orer repro duced In miganlnoH and books artists working In colors for the some purpose promise coon to miccced In JCngland the threecolor printing process IH enjoying i positive boom and American publishers Illblshcr teem well on the way to making a really adequate transformation of the Illustra tive art that passes through llmlr hands Oddly the best English color work has been done In books only one or two periodicals peri-odicals having accomplished anything In In this Held vhlle In this country It In to the magazines that we have had to look for the most satisfactory results nttorly however several new Volumes with illus rations In color have appeared here and these have been very good Where wo are not unlikely to recclev a setback Is In our way of trying to do too much at once Some of tho recent Christmas numbers havo offered melancholy testimony to the disposition of editors to try for n more elaborate effect than at present our printers print-ers can achieve It would bo a tine thing If I they would content themselves with Iho modest but beautiful effects that arc well within i their reach nnd not attompt complicated com-plicated schemes until tho process of printing thom In largo editions has been brought to perfection Y Tribune Words Children will be the most beautiful and richly Illustrated books 0 the year The text of this attractive volume vol-ume Is l by MIss Dorothy Menpes ono of LImo moat talented young woman writers In I England The pictures numbering 100 arc the work of her famous father Mortimer Morti-mer Mcnjteit who mndo the pictures for Japan A Record In Color and the in tercut of the volume Is I greatly Increased by tho fact that thesfo pictures have bei reproduced with wonderful exactness Uy Miss Maud Menpes and the Illustration were engraved and printed at the Menpos Picas Children of all sorts and kinds and l social conditions ale pictured In this volume from the beautiful English girl with flaxen hair who forma the frontispiece frontis-piece to ragged little Italian and Sicilian chl drcn with straggling locks anti from the pale little Flemish Marguerite who seems largely a study In white to the splendidly vivid Russian Van clad In daring dar-ing red and Wettrlncr a dark blue cap on her brown lock The Macmlllan company com-pany will publish Worlds Children at once Those who follow the light fiction market with Interest stales the New York EvLnlncr Post must bo Impressed with the exceedingly high tone of tho 1S03 midsummer output it Is I all but Impossible Impos-sible to turn tho leaves of the August magazines that apcclallzo on hammock reading we are told without lighting upon an earl the WaldorfAstoi or at tho lowest a girl with a million dollars All this hlghfnlutin fiction the Post continues Is ao different from what has commonly been thought of ns the American Ameri-can product that It ought to be explained ex-plained Practical business men ns well as serious seri-ous students of finance will be keenly Interested In-terested In a notable paper in the August Atlantic Tho Concentration of Banking Interests In the United States by Charles J Bullock Prof BulJock who has Just been called from Williams college to a chair at Harvard Is one of the foremost fore-most authorities upon his subject and his conclusions are sure to be vigorously debated de-bated by tho press and by men of affairs The core of Prot Bullocks paper is contained con-tained In hh closing paragraph Tho systematIzation and within conservative con-servative limits the unification of our banking system otTer large opportunities for legitimate enterprise nnd contain the possibility of great advantages for the en tlro country The analogies furnished by the experience of other nations suggest al nny rntc that such developments are likely like-ly to occur during the next decade At the center of any stable system there must stand large banks of which the Independence Independ-ence and tho conservatism must be ns unquestioned as the power Without these qualities macro bigness will be of no avail and this Is thc fact that must receive chief emphasIs In tho consideration of present conditions and tendencies An Interesting literary algn of the limes Is the increasing recognition given by Hngllsh critics to American books This recognition added to a consequent Increase In-crease of interest In American llleraturo on the part of English readers has ro Plillcd In the publication there of more American volum and especially novels than eve before Manic Twain Mr Jlowolle Henry Jnmog Mary E Wllklns Robert W Chnmbers F P Dunne nnd a few othos have of course an assured following nbrond but even younger authors au-thors of less rrpul ire encouraged more and more to bring out editions of their works In London Many of the lending publishers I of America I have H branch of u sf 111 isiiiivJiMi iiijiiin nrltr rc r > i union uni-on who have been ropiosentcd there for more than half n centniry DREAMS Dreams heavenly dreams of some pure In ml of Joy Whoie golden portals open to the west Wheie rnfllant forms Ihclr energies em nloy In holy mission and benign behest Dreams peaceful dreams of some pacific Isle Lulled on the bosom of empurpled seas Where luscious fruits and gorgeous blossoms blos-soms smile Anil sparkling fountains play bid I Mowcrlng trees Dreams olden dream of wealth beyond compare Of dazzling Jewels priceless caskets hold Of marble palaces and treasures rnrc Of princely fortunes and I of countless cold Dreams ardent dreams of fondest Loves desires Impassioned hours that speed with winded feet Of sweet companionship hat never tires And kindred alms that make each life complete Dreams happy dreams when life on earth Is oer When the pale lips have drawn their latest breath A glad surprise a Joy unknown before Dwells on the brow crowned with the Mowers of Death Rose McWIIMam In the Frecc Lance THE NOVELETTE HERO One who confesses himself the father of many of them writes a defense of the novelette hero In the columns of V C He takes the line that the charge of dangerous dan-gerous sensationalism Is undeserved and only comes from those whoso opinions havo been formed on the subject by a cursory study of the novelette In Its In fancy Ho admits frankly that the ro mantle Interest of cheap modern fiction of today bears very little relation to the iuui3 ui iiiu UUL mis is I a cnargc nc ur clarcs which nll be leveled with equal i truth against the popular novels which literary Journals trent with high seriousness serious-ness The novelette hero Is almost invariably In-variably a man of action whose doings stimulate uiiHOphietlcated readers to line things and clean thoughts while almost always also he Is the champion of truth honor and religion There Is no pessimism In the novelette and the enormous sales of this humble form of Mellon may there fore bo taken as a testimony to the In herent optimism of the English people Lovu Is Its main Inlercst action Is Its setting set-ting and Its conclusion Is always Immaculately Im-maculately happy What strikes us most about the novelelllp perhaps Is the abil ity shown by the writers It is common knowledge I that many of them have only Just fallei short of attaining sueccaa III the higher fields of literature For the rest we are disposed to agree with the writer of the article that the charge of dangerous sensationalism is undeserved London Globe The Baker Taylor Co will Issue In late September My Mamie Rose by Owen JCIIdarc It Is an autobiography which when published In condensed form In Success broucht to the author over five thousand letters from all part of the country Up to his thirtieth year Mr Ivlldaro lived successively as a nowsboy prizefighter and bouncer In dives ulonr tho old Bowery lie could neither rend nor write At this time In a remarkable way he met a pure llttlo woman who was teaching school on tho East Side of New York Love nnd ambition came to him amid through tho honest hard work nn dlho pain and Borrow which followed ho roe until today he is a BUccossful newspaper man and a most promlulng writer In no BQIIKO Is the hook to bn classed with tho slum literature which abounds It Is a tale so full of strength and Interest or lito and tragedy as to deservo classification with tho stronger novels YyH it I la In every line faithful to fact Dr Marden the editor If Success Suc-cess says It III a wonderful life nkotch find should bring nome measure of good to all who read It Thorn Is the ring of abpoluto truth In all that Mr Klldaro writes And Hnll Cninc tho novelIst lilt Is a real transcript from life and Hint part of It which deals with the little Indy who was PO Teat and ennobling an Influence in your life brought tenrH io my eyes ana the tlirlll to my near M Jules Verne tho celebrated author has become almost blind and an operation opera-tion for cataract boa boon recommended Ho refuses to undergo It saying that at bin age which Is 75 n surgical operation Is dangerous Ilonry Jamons novol The Ambassador Ambassa-dor now appearing Borltilly In tho North American Review will be published pub-lished hare bv Harper A Brothers In tho autumn and In London by MosarH Mcthuen Co Thai novel Is not as the title might indicate a story of diplomatic life but deals with an American gentleman gentle-man who went upon u Very delicate mission mis-sion as private ambassador from nn Amorlcaiiliidy Io her son living In Paris There the American Is confronted with n situation which wellnigh baffles him A POET TURNED BEGGAR Standing at the doorypf the mansion belonging be-longing to thu Society of Men of Letters the other morning wag a brokendown beggar clad In rags anti apparently half starved The footman told him to go away but he pleaded no plleously to w the president of the society that he was at last admitted to the hull The president presi-dent came down and the beggar said In a whisper JI nm Germain Nouvean The nnmo is that of a poet who many years ago gave promise of great talent even genius but suddenly diHippenrcd and had sInce remained undlscovornblo The boggar was really GcVmaln Nouveau His history Is an extraordinary one Formerly For-merly u clerk In the Government Office of Public Instruction he published a few j > ocms which were of considerable worth and which attracted the attention of all literary people Wellknown writers took him up and encouraged him In his work Many critics considered that ht bado fair to become the foremost poet of his time One day ho suddenly came to the conclusion conclu-sion that poetry was sinful amid that the only holy life was total renunciation He threw all his manuscripts containing It Is said much remarkable work Into the lire resigned his clerkship and disappeared disap-peared He was not beard of afterward until the other day It seems that he lived up to his convictions and became a street beggar Clad In rags he sat for years nil any by tho porch of Alx cathedral cathe-dral and asked for alms subsisting only on the few pennies which people going to church bestowed on him Lately he took to apostrophizing persons whose demeanor demean-or he did not consider sufficiently devout rind one day he violently upbraided a lady because lie thought her dress was not plnln enough to bu worn In jhurch After that he waR no longer nlloucd to beg by the cathedral door PO he then started to walk to Paris With the aid of n small grant made him by the Society of Men of Letters he has now taken up lila abode in the Qunrllcr Mouffctard the mendlcanLs neighborhood nnd lives among the beggars hnpny to be In their midst and to be one of them Pnrls Letter Let-ter to the London Dally Telegraph Mr Kiplings new volume of verse The Five Nations Is now announced to appear on October 1st Through the Indiscretion of a person who must not be named I have become possessed of the following pages from the Diary of a Lady They contain what may he called her temporal budget her account for a day of the expenditure of her balance of Time Juno 21 ZlDln with Violet Lcbas literary lite-rary party never 1 Sass any of them bo fore J sot next Mr Mncprlg the celebrated cele-brated Scotch author whose nnmo everyone every-one has heard of amid whose books nobody no-body hns rend I tried to talk I to him nboiil my boys of course not that he has ever seen them or hfRrd of them hut I suppose from force of habit When ho found out Hint they were not In their school eleveiiH ho became morose and wanted to talk about his nephovn ns If 1 could poiplblv be Interested In thorn I I lttYTV 11101 lllri fill niitinva fan rtnli fnnt cd to i talk i about 11l books rour i I asked him how he managed to do such a tremendous tre-mendous lot and said i that I t I supposed he must work twcntjfour hours n dny How did he llnd time 7 Ho 1 said that where ho lived In Home hcnvenfnrfaken slum In tho suburbs time could be picked up quito easily and I hoaul him mutter something about knowing a Bank where the wild time grows I said that I never had nny time when ho nkcd me If 1 I kept t a motor which ought to economlr lime very much The owners of motors he said oushl to have about an eighth of time dally more than people who go about In omnibuses He I know that women wo-men had no time to sprak of and asked me if I had rend somebody on Tlmo In Relation to Sox I said that I wanted to rend II but had no time He I snld that Eve having been created a tIer Adam she was about half a day short at the I start md tll nhg eoSt tl and that women had never made un their ground He wns extremely dull amid seemed very much bored so I began to tnlk to Freddy Azure and left him to mnke himself happy In his own way III solitude However what ho told about time t mnde me think of writing out a kind of budget of how much I have and how 1 spend It and It Is I plnln that I really have none as follows 1030 Break fast Dally Mall 1 1115 Molly came In and chattered Went to Fnnchottois tlrebses Wont Into the nark 2 p m Luncheon till 113J I I Went about In motor nhopplng CiSO Ten txo s Dressed S3fr 11 Dinner at the Blethor Iiyshh3 a m Went round 339 Bed There I lIterally had no time I never have I add my own budget of lime for II day June 26930 Breakfast 10 lo p J m Scribbled lo luncheon At Lords Poor show from Cambridge They had to take off Trott to let lie Light Blue gel Into three nrlIrcg5i Sat In Kensington gardens Tall girls nlnylng I bull In a glade like Nauulcaa N B Not so like on closer Inspection Dined at homc10 Uroto letters 11 Bed It thus appears that the hours be tween breakfast and luncheon produce thc time which man possesses over and above that at the disposal of woman and of course he can save some lime between luncheon and dinner If he Is very economical Andrew Lang in Longmans Maprnzlne |