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Show THE LITERA UX7S AND GOSSIP OF BOOKS HAGAZINES, AUTHORS j v AND 'PUBLISHERS., J ;Tf.Vr v ; I - . - - nnlMnTi"i-i1l , S : . T JTE X1TS, ,. f ! i - - 4 There's a fsney tome lean ta and 0 others hate- That when this life Is ended, be tins - , , I . New work for tha soul ta another etste. . . Where, it strives and gets weary, loses and wine; TChra the strong and the weak ' this world's congertes, Repeat In large what they prae- tlced In small. Through life after life In unlimited series; ' Only 'the scale's to be changed, . that's all. -., Tet I hardly know when a soul has seen By the means of Evil that Good la beat, ; And, through earth and Ita noise, what ta heaven's serene When our fafth In the same has stood the test ' Why. the child grown man, you bum the rod, . The uses of labor are surely done; There remalneth a rest for , tha people of God: And I . have had troubles enough . f or one. BKOWNINO, "Old Pictures In Florence." - H. A. Shute. Boston: The v Everett . Press. A small book purporting to be Just what ita name impitca. IN THE GARDEN O? CHAKITT. Basil King. Harpcra, .W. Aq Idyllic lave story of the Nova 8co ttan coaet; a study of two women. JOURNEYS END; A Romance of Tedsy. J. M. Forman. Doubltlay. Page & Co. 91M. , A story of modern New Tirk city. BIX TREES. Mary R V. Freeman. Harpers. 1 JG. V . , 8hort stories In which Vrs Freeman "blends the aseoclatlons of New. England Eng-land treea wKb the lives of tha New England people.' ... Poetry and Drama. THE POETRY OF GEORGE WITHER. Frank Sldgwtck. t volumca London: A. H. BuQea; New Torkt goribnera. CMu Thick pocket slse issued In the Muses' Library. THB POEMS OF ANNE, COrNTESS OF W1MCHELSEA. Myra Reynolds. (The decennial publications of the University of Chicago.) Chicago: The University Press. ' ; The volume is based on a small book of verse published by the Countess In 1712. on two ' unpublished manuscripts, and on poems scattered through various miscellanies. History and Biography. THE FRENCH REVOLL.TION. Thomas Oarlyle. Edited by C. R L. Fletcher. 3 vols. London: Methuen Co.; New York: O. F. Putnam's Sons. THE LIFE OF JAMES MADTSON. Oatl-lard Oatl-lard Hunt.- Dotibleday, Paire Co. fi.W. The first of a series which Is Intended to furnish a history of tha United States through the Uvea of Its great men. Geography and Travels. A NATURALIST IN INDIAN BE AS. A. A 1 cock. London: John Murray; New York: E. P. Dutton ft Co. Sc. There la ana atrlklng- aimUaiity. be-Iwoan be-Iwoan tha work of the late Franle Nor-tts Nor-tts au4 tha work of tha late, Emila Zola. Each left unfinished an ambitious lite- rary scheme. Each' had begun a series of aovsla unified, by one central Idea, and each had been interrupted in bla task by death before the last and crowning book of bis series could be written. A few weeks ago tha second -,- novel of Frank Norrla triology, "The Epic, of Wheat," was reviewed In this department of the Dispatch.. Today I tell of the third of ola's "Four Evan-gell6t4,, Evan-gell6t4,, "Fruitfulness. Labor, Truth n4 Justlc." Just as tha last number of, Mr. Norria trilogy, will " never be Written, so M.' Zola's "Justice" will ' fcever sea th light of day. . There tha resemblance between the work of the two novelists ends. , V Tb English translation of Zola's last Xbook. ".Vertte" has Juat appeared under the Engllrsh Utle "Truth." The trans-1 trans-1 lator is Brneet A. Visetelly. tne stanch .frtena of th deceased French author, Mho has given to the English reading '. Jjublio many others of Zola's stories, sot, as he himself says, merely for mercenary mer-cenary reasons, but as a labor of love for his lata master. .-,.. The very prominent Tart which Zola, took-in the Dreyfus controversy is fresh In tha memory of all. People expected that 6rne effect of that struggle would . be observed to the literary worjk of the apostle of realism, and they were not . mistaken, for all tha essentials ef the .Dreyfus affair are reproduced in an-1 an-1 other form In this book. "What Impressed Zola most In the recent re-cent eoctroverey that tore up tne French army, was not the injustice of . which Dreyfus was the victim, but the overwhelming tissue of 'falsehood by means of which, that 'injustice was wrought. But In' this book his attack Is. not upon the army, not ppon militarism mili-tarism -and military castas, but upon 4 he Roman Catholic - church and Its colossal French, education. Rather, he assailed the eystem which until very recently was followed in France In the name ef the church. It is not surprising surpris-ing that, in the bitterness of his wrath, ola. castigated . Indiscriminately, not orJy the system, but the church; and not only tne church, but religion. To oorrectly Judge bia altitude it would be -necessary to have a knowledge of recent re-cent history In France, of the wresting ot the primary schools of that republic frora the control of the church and giving giv-ing it? to, the secular power, a process whic. ts rains' on at this moment and wrfh the novelist In his last days ap-roved ap-roved with all his heart. Zola charged the Catholic church with being an embodiment of all-that is , Talse, and with 'dividing society into two antagonistic classes, higher and tJk lower. The character in' his book, "Truth," that corresponds with Drey- fus, is a Hebrew schoolmaster; the enemies ene-mies who committed a great crime (In Utls instance murder) and fastened- it "pon him. were not army officers, but , - jealous clericals. j The struggle etween Catholicism snd free tnought.is. also depicted in a domestic do-mestic struggle a feud-between husband hus-band and wlfe.-true lovers, but followers follow-ers of different creeds-- struggle .unhappily .un-happily too common even in our. own country. ; A NEW. SCOTT ANECDOTE. A new anecdote of Scott comes from the London Morning Poet. It wss first told by a Scotchman, now long dead. derness, and lo! the tale is told. In truth the affianced girl, whom a series of accidents had compelled to pass the night quite alone in her father's country coun-try house, awoke at early dawn to see her lover standing by her dressing table fingering the Jewels which she had worn the previous evening. - He and a party of her frienda had escorted her home from a dance and searofced the house for possible burglars; she had locked the door behind them and lain down without a fear. He, having left a window win-dow bolt unfastened, had sought his own home, swiftly slipped into morning morn-ing clothes, mounted his bicycle and returned re-turned for the booty with which he intended in-tended to pay certain heavy debts. Her father and brother waited upon him the next morning, the Jewels were recovered, recov-ered, and the engagement broken. In "The Philadelphians" the lady Is married, mar-ried, and uses her knowledge of the man's crime to end his flirtation with her married sister-in-law, but the source of the story seems Indubitable. An account of four years with the royal Indian marine survey ship Investigator. Inves-tigator. Art. FREDERIC, LORD LEIGHTON. J. C. Williamson. (Bell Miniature Series of Painters). London: George Bell & dons; New YorkfMacmillan. $1. ALBRECHT DURER. Una Eckstein. London: Duckworth Co.: New York: E. P. Dutton 6k Co. 7k cents. Issued In the Popular Library of Ait, edited by Edward Garnett. 'Miscellaneous. THE EGREGIOUS ENGLISH. Angus McNeill. London: Grand Richards; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Short personal character sketch? of the various species of English eitisens. THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. Edited Ed-ited by Iord - Braybrooke. London: George Newnes: New York: Scrbners. $1.25. ' A pocket edition of the complete diary, printed on India paper, bound In flexible leather. ADDRESSES ON WAR. Charles Sumner. Boston: Glnn & Co. Published for the Internstlonal Union, and containing "The True Grandeur of Nations," "The War System of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts." and "The Duel between France and Germany." Ger-many." Essays and Critieism. THE ORIGIN OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF RIGHT AND WRONG. Frans Brentano. Translated by Cecil Hague. E. P. Dutton A Ce. 11.60. A reprinted lecture. PROBLEMS IN GREEK SYNTAX. R. L. Gltdersleeve. Baltimore: Johns Hop-' Hop-' kins Press. A. paper reprinted from the American Journal of Philology. THE RELIGION OF PLUTARCH. John Oakesmith. Longmans, Green & Co. $1.75. An e.say under the Pub-title "A Pagan Pa-gan Cmd of Anontollc Times." MAN. MEN AND THEIR MASTERS. H. C. Potter. (The Bedell Lectures.) Edwin Ed-win 8. Gorham Theological lectures delivered at the Kenyon (Ohio) College Semlnarv. CHILD S00XS. Some vigorous language, entirely justified, jus-tified, is used by the Outlook on the subject of modern juvenile Action. It is this: In nearly. 200 children's books of the present season we have not found enough giants and goblins to furnish two really bouncing tales. - There is an abundance of stories of the Boer war, stories of garishly modern boys' and girls' schools, stories with an avowedly accurate historical basis, and of books in which contemporary actualities are so described or satirized as to drag the little reader prematurely out of fairyland fairy-land Into the sophisticated life which he is bound to enter on all too soon. But while such works as these could hardly be reckoned on a centipede's toes, the out and out fairy books can be counted on the fingers of one band. REJECTED MSS. ; When a boy he was one day watching some brilliant operations, probably near Abbotsford. when a lame man, bareheaded bare-headed and ' with a pen behind his ear, came up. Taking hold of a pail, the lame man turned It over 'quickly and aaked the workmen what he was doing with it. "Whamblln it over," one of them replied. "Thank you, thank you, my man: that's the very word I've been trying to get all the morning!" cried Sir Walter, gratefully, and straightway returned re-turned to hia desk. "It was the teller of this story." says the London Morning Morn-ing Post, who, when some years younger, saw in a Bhow window as he was going to school the new romance of Waverly" lying open at the first page. The school boy stopped to read it through the glass, and his eager absorption so took the fancy of the bookseller that each day as he passed the pages were turned for him in the shop, and he was thus enabled to read the whole story without touching a leaf of the book." The kindly, cheery letter of an editor who sends back a manuscript is supposed to fall like bslm on the lacerated heart nf the rejected snd dejected author. We say "supposed." because the main thing, from tha author's standpoint, la that It has come back. No compliments, bow-ever bow-ever nicely buttered, can alter facta. The human touch may lighten the blow; not so a castlron formula, set out with the angularity of an account book, like the following. It wss received this week by a correspondent from a well-known London publishing house: The editor has considered the Inclnsrd MS., but regrets that he Is unable to make us of IL The res sons which in the editor's opinion make the story unsuitable are Indicated by asterisks In the appended form. The story-Is story-Is too long. Is not clear snd bright enough. Is too tragical. Contslns too strong a religious element. Contains too much of the supernatural. Is too emotional. Is too slight. The plot-Is plot-Is not sufficiently plausible. Is not sufficiently novel. . Is too complicated. Alt MSS. are gladly received and care- I fully read. They should be typewritten, and a stamped envelope should be Inclosed In case of rejection. Special comment: It will be .noted that our correspondent, being a good boy. had only one . He escaped the "special comment" altogether: otherwise the residue ef hla brain might have gone with a snap. The whole business busi-ness is reminiscent of the old nigger story "If you floggee. floggee; and If vou preachee. preachee. But no floggee snd preachee. too." A wise judge never gives his reasons. London Outlook. w AN EFFECTIVE CUBE. . " Charles Edward Rich, author of "The New Boy at Dale," Just published,- and dedicated, by the way, to Henri Pene - Du Bols. has theories on the training of boys. One at least is based on experience. experi-ence. At the age of 16 he had a violent attack of sea-fever, and his father astutely sent him to sea. Mr. Rich's account of it is this: "We sailed out of port In.the teeth of a roaring gale, and we did not lose it during the entire forty-three days that it took the rather antiquated bark I had been shipped on. to beat her way across the Western ocean. The captain cap-tain was a young man with a record for carrying sail. He lived up to hia record. rec-ord. Every old sail on the tub was carried away during the first week, and new canvas was bent In the face of the howling gale. When he reached Belfast, Bel-fast, Ireland, our port of destination. I was convalescent; but when, some time later. I set my foot on my native shore, J felt the dry land was quite sufficient for all my future purposes. And it has been." THE STORY OF A STORT. The lynx-eyed newapsper man has often been accused of having no regard for the personal feelings of the public, or the right of privacy, but it appears . from revelations in connection with a recently published novel that the novelist novel-ist has rushed in, at least once, where Journalists have not seen fit to tread. This is the story of that story. For five years the story of a certain broken engagement has been whispered In Boston society, and has been matter of familiar knowledge in the offices of the wicked, merciless dally papers, which, as is well known, spare nobody, "1 snd are much condemned by virtuous magaxine editors who have no tempts-Si tempts-Si tlon to tell the truth. But they have Anever published this tale, although It s a good story, apart from its local interest. in-terest. Now comes Mrs.. Katharine Bingham's "The Philadelphians," reprinted re-printed from a magazine making profession pro-fession of blameless gentleness and ten- . . v.v ... v .. j -' - .-' ' HISS TAYLOR'S NEW STORY. Among the' books which McClure, Phillips & Company will bring out in March is "The Rebellion of the Princess," Prin-cess," by Imlay Taylor. For readers of romance, it will be a grateful tidbit, and those who are familiar with the author's "On the Red Btalr Case" and "The House of the Wlsard" will find Miss Taylor here writing at her best in her own field. The tale deals with the Russian court, snd the scene Is laid in Moscow at the time of the election of Peter the Great, when the Intrigues of rival parties overturned the existing government, and made the city the ecene of a hideous Hot. The book Is not only stirring and exciting, but It is also accurate, even to the smallest historical detail, sharing this quality In common with all Miss Taylor's books on Russian subjects. THE NEWEST BOOKS. Fiction. TRUTH. Emlle Zola. Translsted by ft. A, VlseteUy. John Lane. An English edition of .Zola's well-known well-known novel. y BY THE RAMPAttTS OV JEZREEL. Arnold Davenport. Longmanb, Green A Co. A novel. The scene Is Palestine; ths time that of Jezebel. THE REAL pi ART OF A REAL BOY. |