Show IN THE LITERARY ARY WORLD LD I NEWS AND GOSSIP OF BOOKS MAGAZINES MAGAZINE'S AUTHORS l. l AND A N D PUB PUBLISHERS LIS E R S. S f. f oJ se t. t f. f J L. L THE TEE MYSTERY OF THE SEA There Is nothing more fa fascinating to certain readers leaders usually very ry young youns ones one than the supernatural and to readers who arc are not In search carch of or shivers th there rc i Is i nothing duller than books where wraiths ghosts second sight and their like abound To those who still It III find pleasure In the mysterious goings R on of oC which women and ghostly processions enchanted sleeps and 1 such things s. s Mr Beam Stokers Stoker's Sto Sto- ker's kers new nets hook The TIie Mystery l of or the Sea fien will prove interesting The author hns has not confined himself to occult things alone but hut he has hns woven woven wo wo- ven n Into his tats tain all nil the ppl episodes odes that especially charm Immature readers In b arch of or a sensation The plot rests on a certain burled buried treasure there Is a a. f cipher connected with Its discovery mysterious strangers talk darkly t through Its pages a a. gaunt a prophetess walls and threatens In fact It would 1 be difficult to name an attraction of this order which this hook honk has haR not There Is even en an nn attempted I of or the heroine This sounds as all though r The lIh Mystery ter of the Sea were a 11 sen- sen national and m melodramatic book But Cut the author has used his sensational odes with so o much skill shill and has told the story with such f an nn air of quiet i l realism that It lends an nn atmo atmosphere of or oft off f t verisimilitude to an Impossible book The heroine Is an nn attractive person perron and th the tho r few v other characters In the l' l look book arc are not wholly unreal In fact atIt of at It Its kind the book should rank rack very high HOW V HE LEARNED TO RIDE The opening story In Mr James Jlmes M. M Douglass's The Riding Master shows originality of or conception The noble sire of oC Elliott Is broken broken- 4 hearted Ills ony son Mn Elliott the pride of or the house hous-c. louse doesn't how how- to rids ride a n horse rind more than that wont won't try to Fancy the agony of or fin nn English j trent who rides to houn hounds s and Is a n. lord to boot Then appears the riding master ProC Prof Augustus KobI Kob- Kob 1 I be he Elliott volens olene Is made to toP be bestride a hor horse e and the young fellow P lands sa say on his head In the ring Then the beautiful Mrs 1 Kobbe takes a a. hand She I Is an entire circus Elliott loves the riding masters master's wife wiCe Then the young joung fellow tellow becomes at nt once a most brilliant horseman Can romance romance- go further Is naturally Jealous and plots the destruction of or Elliott lie He lieIs lieIs Is Js to lo break his neck when mounted on onn ona ona a n vicious beast The young youn rider does make a bad break but somehow a pistol pistol pis pis- pis tol goes S off off and It Il Is Js the bad had Kobbe who bites the dust Then Elliott and Madame Kobbe arc supremely happy happ There ore are four more stories In the volume MAINLY PERSONAL Francis V IV Halseys Halsey's volume of or essays essays es es- es- es says Our Literary Deluge Is being published In England b by Grant Richards Rich Rich- ards London reviewers satisfaction satisfaction tion In the fact that In the yearly carl output output output out out- put of oC books Great Britain still leads the world worl One reviewer considers the figures of oC the worlds world's yearly earl output 70 Impressive rather than alarming and he adds Many Ian pf QC the modern bk fro aro Written n for the moment only They The aro merely merel enlarged magazine articles If It there Is a a. revolution or a a. abig abig big disaster or a war var the men on the spot promptly rush out a volume apiece e. e Of course these works do not last but they pay at the time Not 10 per cent of oC one years year's books continue to sell or to be r remembered a a. twelvemonth twelvemonth twelvemonth twelve twelve- month later Miss 1 Beatrice Hanscom whose book of ot poems Love Laurels and Laughter Laugh Laugh- I ter will shortly be brought brou ht out Is a i ir r resident of Marquette Mich and has I contributed for Cor many years to the leadIng leading lead- lead I Ing InS magazines I It was announced a few months ago I that the Journal des Savants ants was about I Ito to disappear the credits which had been annually set bet apart for Cor It b by the thel l French rench Government for more than W years having been cut cul off orr Happily l this famous organ of the French In Institute In- In r Is to be given yen I a new lease of life liCe In tho past Its contributors were en entirely entirely en- en confined to members of oC the five I academies academics In Its new form the Journal des Savants will be less exclusive admitting admitting ad ad- articles s that are worth worthy of oC It from the pen Den of oC other than academic academic- ians lans M. M Gaston Paris Is to be he the edl- edl tor in of oC the new 1 series and the first number will appear January Januar The a associate editors will be he MM IM Leopold Leopold Leopold Leo Leo- Delisle of or the Academy cadem of or Inscriptions Berthelot of oC the Academy of Sciences ces of or the Academy of oC Fine Arts and anti Dareste of or the Aca Academy em oCr of oC r Moral and Political Sciences Frances A. A Mathewss Mathews's My oI Lady Peggy Goes to Town has Just finished a three months' months serial run In the I Sphere illustrated by hy Wai Wal Paget and has been brought out In Lon London on In book form by Grant Richards Tho of oC the pla play from mm the book oc occurs occurs occurs oc- oc curs December 1st In Brooklyn and the theauthor theauthor theauthor author Is Ja now writing the tho last act She Shet SheI I t will Ill supervise the rehearsals She has hast t Just finished the thu play pIny which W. W A. A t Brady asked askell her to write for Grace Gracer r Geor George e tho the hook book rights of at which have been secured secure by the Bowen Merrill company compan to whom she sho Is under contract contract con con- tract for tor a new novel now half done and Its play pia for Cor January 1903 llO Claudo Claude Walter Va Iter the thc writer who staged Mme 01 me Butterfly In London has a n. contract with Miss 1155 Mathews oI to dramatize dram dram- her Sign of or the She Also nl o has hns a modern serial to run In a prominent English En periodical beginning carl early In the n new nv year car but the stor story Is not nol yet et named A. A Radclyffe Dugmore the artist sportsman and photographer of or outdoor outdoor outdoor out out- door life will on his return from th the Maine oo woods contribute a series of oC elaborately illustrated articles on camping campIng camp camp- Ing fi fishing anti and hunting to Country Life In America for which magazine he ho la Is now engaged to work exclusive exclusive- ly lYe His collection of or photographs of or birds wild flowers and native animals I Including about ne negatives es aU was re- re purchased by hy Doubleday Page Pago Co Mr Dugmore has written Nature Nature Nature Na I ture and the Camera a hook book of oC suggestions suggestions sug sug- HJ on the art of photographing the animate and He lIe was educated at Guernsey and Smyrna and Studied art at Naples Lord Brougham Is 15 his granduncle I Alfred Henry Lewis has hag dc-cl dc decided ed to call all his new volume Wolfville Nights and It Is to be bo a companion companion to Volf Wolf and llIe Days Das and la is to tobe tobe tobe be brought out by the thc Frederick A A. A. A Stokes company Arthur W. W Marchmont author authol of oC In Inthe Inthe Inthe the Name of oC a Woman Santa the etc has been visiting Amer Amer- ica ka An edition of or copl copies of or In Inthe Inthe the thc Name of a a. Woman oman In paper aper cov cov- covers covers covers ers ers has hIlS just Juat been cen sold It Is reported In addition to the large sales salea of or the novel Gt cloth r Sir SIrE E. E Maude Thompson director and r f principal librarian of or the British museum museum mu mu- seum scum reports that the grand total number number number num num- II ber of or visits for or 1901 1201 was This is 18 an nn Increase of or over the total of oC The number of or visitors to the room reading was vas several thousands thousands thou thou- sands over those of or last year ear The Munich says that the year Clr 1905 1903 will III be the anniversary anniversary anniversary an an- of or the foundation of the University University Uni Uni- of or Jena The Historical Ills His il commission slon has undertaken the Publication of or two works as 38 a a. memorial of or the Jubilee of oC the lan university sity y A A Chr Chronicle of or the University i h by Dr Stephan Stoy Stay and an j I which Is to contain the most I important documents relating r to Its I constitution and history edited by Dr L. L I- I Devrient I Alfred Wilson B Barrett tho the son of the Hie well known actor has hns taker taken up literature litera Lure ture- with a n vJ vigor or begotten of oC oCI I vigorous orous New Nt England lIe He went teem to tn London not quite a year ago aJO from rom his New r-ew Zealand 1 farm larm arm where he hc has lived hived for five p years lie He has already written two novels and anda a third to he ho called The French Master Mas Mas- ter Is on tho the wa way He lie Is collaborating ing with Austin Fryers In a story en entitled entitled entitled en- en titled The Man Ian with the Opals and anti th they have havo In hand a pIa play I La La a. a Marquise Marquise Mar Mar- IarI I quise which Mr lr Wilson Nilson Barrett Darrett may produce product on the stage on his return I to England Booth tons ton's latest novel The Two which has been heen running running running run run- ning serially In McClures McClure's 1 Magazine lne will be he published In October The scene is laid in Rouen the old proud proul aristocratic aristocratic aristocratic aris aris- town of oC Indiana which considered con con- lt Itself elC socially a u. little above any of oC tho the greater Eastern cities In the the time at which the action takes place The author has hal obtained the tho material material ma ma- from his mothers mother's girlhood memories memories mem mem- ories of the gayeties of oC the old town The book has been Illustrated by Henry Henry Hen lien ry Hutt It Is s said ld to be pure romance NOTES AND NEWS The author of Elizabeth an and Her German Garden will shortly have published published published pub pub- through the Macmillan company A Joyous Journey Round Rugen nugen This Is full ull of oC the liveliest episode centering round the strange adventures adventure of oC a a. phaeton This anonymous author whose Identity t Is pretty well established ns Countess Counters von van has a n. style which combines sentiment with quiet humor She seems a 11 born horn lover of oC birds and flowers The forthcoming publication publication publication tion will bo be Illustrated Dodd Mead Co have ha In preparation preparation tion for Cor publication provided enough h Interest shall be shown in the subject a n. book hook on organ org entitled The TheArt TheArt TheArt Art of oC Or Organ Building by George e Ashdown Ashdown Ashdown Ash- Ash down Audsley author of Ceramic Arts of oC Japan etc It Is said to be the largest and most complete treatise on tho the science and art of oC organ building In our language being th the result of oC thirty years' years study of or the subject In England France German German Rolland Holland Belgium Bellum and the United states The numerous Illustrations are accurately drawn by b- bythe bythe the author and an they the will be bo reproduced h by photo engraving and Inserted In the text for easy reference Each Ench of the two volumes will contain about pages and there w will Ill be two editions the regular regular reg rel- ular In cloth and the edition de dc will probably be limited to copies each to be numbered and signed by the author Roger Drake Captain of or Industry by hy II K Webster Joint author with Mr Mervin In Calumet K and The Tho Short Line Nara War Var Is to come from the press of or the Macmillan company this fall Call The basis of the stor story Is Js the formation formation for for- mation million of or a n. copper mining trust The romance which carries the thc hero Roger Dral Drake through his struggles nn and adventures adventures adventures ad ad- ventures In a Western estern mining town Is told h by himself The plot moves between heh he- he h tween heen een New ew York social life liCe and the scene cene of the action of oC the at the mines The two partners In the story are rivals for the same ame girl nn and this leads to rivalry In business The book will be Illustrated by Howard Giles Cruising In the West est Indies b by Anson Anson Anson An- An son Phelps Stokes formerly orm rl Vice Commodore Commodore Com Com- of or the New York Yacht club Is announced for early fall publication by hy Dodd Mead Co Cn Is dc described as asa asa a n. book hook for yachtsmen and tells teUs of the cruise of ot the schooner yacht Sea Fox to the West cst Indies advocates a squadron rOn cruise there and gives gl notes of some somo particulars to be he 11 considered In planning a sailing In those waters There are nl also also o notes regarding the Bermudas Bermudas Bermudas Ber Ber- Barbados Antigun Antigua and the Bahamas and a list t of good books about the West cst Indies Indle The book Is printed b by the De Dc Press and contains a n. map of the West et Indies Robert Southey's Souther's Journal of oC a a. Tour TourIn In The Netherlands of which mention was made In a a. recent cable letter will willbe willbe willbe be published In this country countr b by Houghton Hough Hough- ton Co about October 1st In Ina Ina ina a limited edition of COO OI copies The I manuscript of the tho Journal which Is 18 an i account of a visit made to Holland and I Belgium lum two or three months month after the battle of Waterloo was In the hands of the Southey family until 1861 when It was bought by the tho Pease Pea e family of or Darlington Darlington Dar Dar- lington and has on only now been obtained obtained obtained ob ob- for publication the present publishers pub pub- halters lishers having the American rl rights Curtis Cameron the publishers of oC the well-known well Copley Prints have secured secured secured se se- se- se cured a list of or fifteen otteen attractive pictures pictures pic pic- tUn tures A which originally original appeared In The Century Magazine and St. St Nicholas and which are now reproduced In the well known form Corm of or these thes prints Curtis Curtis Curtis Cur Cur- fc Cameron have ha also established a department for the reproduction of or private private vate yate pictures In the tho form Corm of or Copley Prints Reciprocity b by Prof J. J Laurence LC Laughlin head of oC the department deportment of or economics c In Chicago o University anti and Prof ProC II Parker Willis of oC Washington ton and Lee University will be published early this fall b by th the Baker Taylor also announces announces announces an an- firm company compan The same lame for or ear early early- publication the Life LICe L fe of oC Ulrich Zw ingli II the Swiss patriot and reformer h by Samuel Simpson Christian Christian Christian Chris Chris- to Called Bo-Called Valid Objections Rev He Andrew F. F tian Science b by the Shakespeare and andOver andOver Underhill the Rolfe compiled by Over O th the Black Coffee Cortee Arthur Gray The Imperial Republic a Drama by Miss Elizabeth G. G Crane Is shortly The fhe the Grafton press to be bc Issued by work Is called pessimistic but hut said sall to tobe he be strong It Is cast In n the form of or the political events In an history of oC stirring republic Imaginary republic Physical Characters of Indians of oC Southern Mexico by hy Prof Frederick Starr and The |