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Show J .4 , - ... 'V-- v..- m. KJ S. J W . VJ 4 A. . A . Mi W 4. W 4 m W J ; ; - - -. - T T " r J i " T - r" , . , ... . J ' ... t - i 4.- J fc J V ! A ' . ) .' ; ' m t ... i l H - - - . , - , - -- - - -, ii in "i "i - . .3 . . v.. . .3 . . a. , ..l - .9 : . f ' 3 I!-. Ivors" Is the t'tie (!) 'at . i ; ty Anna lUa-lng fi) ( .. - ::.:. hss been just is- Q . : i 1 f.cri the press of J. E. Lip- "I t- . C . . cf t:.e caintiest of the au- T) ! r-s r:.cy l.s entitled "Soul Es- - e": ; . : ' '.. "T". f-y loo'.; t the lovely picture; ; , v Faj". ' 'Tls moon on the sea'; . ( I t front the ehimmeringr silver . - - ( A face lKks up to'me. . ) -j . ! P in tpiced glooms of forest . f. Haunts an aroma rare, . j And I know the trail of her spirit I , Is livivinfflts fragrance there.. ie 30O iVs- EUCCZCZrUL AUIEOES. . ' j . The Bookman has made a list of "Fuoressful authors. 1835-1902," (Inclu-f (Inclu-f ive , from the record of all their took quoted among - "best selUng" lifts.' According to ' this tabulation, Mr. Y.'inFton Churchill Is the most pop- . ular and successful author in the United States. The' list includes not or.iy our own novelists, but also a few i:r irishmen. 1 Third on the list atands Mr. James Lane Allen, while further down sre Mr. Charles Major and Mr. Marlon Crawford. In another tabulation tabula-tion cf the best-selling books for eight years past are found six volumes published pub-lished by The Macmlllan company: "The Crisis." by Winston ; ChurchllU which ranks second; "Richard Carvel," ' The Virginian." "The Choir Invisible,'; Invisi-ble,'; "The .Iteign of Law" and "Dorothy "Dor-othy Vernon of Haddon HalL" " The last is by Mr. Charles Major, whose first story.. "When Knighthood Was In Flower," enjoys the almost unique distinction dis-tinction of having been quoted In The Bookman's record of most . popular books during the five consecutive years since its appearance. It so happens i that, new ..novels by Mr. Major, Mr. Churchill and Mr. Allen are to be pub - ll&hed in July, 'which seems to promise abundant good reading for the Bim j A SrCTDY Or QLADSTOSTE. h - 'OT how few. who have lived for more than sixty years in the full ' sight of their country, and have been as party loaders exposed to angry and some- fes spiteful criticism, can It be said t ' there stands on record againetj rrt no malignant word and no vtn-tive vtn-tive act?" .. In this striking sen- ' . tence Mr, Bryce sums up one side ?of ' Mr. Gladstone's., character. In. his ' . volume . of , keen, and- - penetrating . "Studies of Contemporary Biography;" j . Mr. :3ryce roe on to say that this I r'rr'jrr.ftar"? is cue '.'net re'hars t--tlrely to tila'.-t -r.e's ri: ...ral sweet-r.efs sweet-r.efs cf .!.-position, but rather to tc'.f-control tc'.f-control and to a certain larger. cf soul which would r.ot co-.iscend to anything niean cr r-:Uy. Pride, thouli it may be a sin, U to r-.ot cf U3 a useful, to some cf us an 1' t-r.?) !, buttress of virtue. Kor t'hould it be forgotten that the perfectly .harpy life which he led at home, cared for in everything by a devoted wife, kpt far from hlrn those domestic troubles which have soured the temper arid embittered em-bittered the Judgments of not a few famous men, . . . As elevation was the note of his oratory, so was magnanimity mag-nanimity the note of his character." ... . - ''.- . A tovus op roarsT.XAin) Those readers who are following ..In The Outlook the serial upon outdoor life which Stewart Edward . White is publishing under the title "The, Forest," must have recognised the freedom and enthusiasm with which the . author writes those chapters upon life In the open air. Readers Interested In all outdoors will enjoy their ' work even more than those vigorous stories,-"The Conjuror's House." and "The Biased Trail," which ' have . made the' young author's reputation. The several portraits of Mr. ."While, which his publishers have sent - out. have always shown him with, his. hat on, and Interested readers have argued from that fact that, though young, the author might, perhaps, have an, insufficiency insuf-ficiency of hair. This first portrait of him, without a hat. proves the.- fact, and also reveals a head with. 'so lm-poalng lm-poalng a dome of thought that the' author's au-thor's admirers feel their hopes of many more good books from his pea almost a certainty. v J . lOTl AND DAWSOS. ' ";;:; 'v ' '''.'', '. An Interesting literary comparison is made, between Aa.J. Dswson,.: whose remarkable novel. ''Hidden Manna," Is attracting so much . ' attention, and Pierre Lotl. author of 44 An Iceland Fisherman.'' : Lot! has been called a master of exotic literature from his I power of picturing life In, foreign lands, I and a similar power has been proved by Mr. Dawson In the Intimate and absorbing revelation of the strange life I of Morocco, which he presents ' under the title, of "Hidden , Manna." . v .; ;.i TH5 STJICXDB PEOBLS1L : .,.-Vv. 'A:? ."; - ,r ;:y:..r - An Asiatic race that considers suicide i a proper and natural deed, and who help even near relatives to speedy death upon request, lives- In the . extreme northeastern part of Asia, and is known' as the- Chuckchee. Waldemar Begoras, a member of the Jesup North Pacific expedition, ex-pedition, writes of these people In the May number of Harper's Magazine. Mr. Begoras saw strange things among a ;rc;:c o oc'oc;nsoo3G" r w- . a - - - wry v .... W W ZJ 0 O Sometimes at night within a 'wood- O ed ra-rk. ' x O Like an ocean-cavernw fathoms (?) fe) deep in gloom, , Sweet ecents, l.ke hymn's, from hidden flowers fume,. - And" make the wanderer5' happy; - though, tho dark . Ctscures their tint, their.." name, ? their shapely bloom, '. G .' ' . . Ed in the thick-set chronicles of fame ; 4 Th'ere hover deathless feats of . souls unknown. T S - They linger as the " fragrant ' .. smoke-wreaths blown ; ' From-, liberal sacrlSae. . Gone face ' and namel The deeds, like homeless ghosts. . live on alone. . - RUPERT HUGHES, in the May Century. ' ' ! people never before visited by- white mC He relates one incident of a woman wo-man .whose husband had expressed 'a wish to die. She held his -head in her lap while, his two sons, strangled him with a lasso, .It wa a cheerful scene, ' the suicide Joking with the last . breath. ' Mr. Begoras Is on the staff of the Amer- ; lean Museum of Natural History : -1,.':''''JlICnAllD''SOSNT." - ';--': v -1" : ' - 4 Uy.'! ."- - Very mach like Its predecessor from .this pen is the" novel "Richard Rosny. which Is good enough to deserve a more distinctive titles In It a young man commits a crime under great provoca- tlon. He conceals the fact for many years, and prospers, and finally he Is hunted . down by - the vengeance of his atep-brother, whom he has greatly befriended be-friended and who had good. reason for rejoicing in the death of the hero's vic- tlm. The denouement Is weakened by a conflict of factors, the tragic climax coinciding co-inciding wftn- a romantic climax the two involving practically none of the same factors. It is rather long, too, and. ."sklppable" In places, a point rather In favor with readers who are aultivatinr the art of skimming. But: many parts hold the attention sharply, and all phases of the . story are ' well written. It is by.no means as great an achievement as "The 8cene of Dean . Maltland." but It averages well up with the., striking novels of the period. : UTTTt atvt yoTEa " f ; Kipling's 'new. book . of poetry, -"The Five Nations," Is to contain twenty-flve : poems not before published; as well as , the newspaper ' and - rnagasrne " verse which he -has printed since the publication publi-cation of "The Seven Seas."'-' .''.Kr The bdok, "Dlscoures of Keidansky." Is made up of articles which appeared In the Boston Evening Transcript. -. '--..' , - .-' .' " fc : The name of Anna Katherine Green ls known wherever the lover of detective detec-tive stories reads his " favorite literature. litera-ture. Her latest novel, -bearing the mysterious title, "The Filigree Bail." la published by the- Bobbs-MerriU - company. com-pany. -Mrs. Rohlfs, for that Is the au- thor'B name In private illfav says- she has done her best work In "The Filigree Fili-gree BaiL" The bookls...liajidsqmely printed and bound,' aria contalnaa fron- . tisptece by CM. Rllysavs v- .r?r.f r sr. t i vyKXi?K v "In Piccadilly" Is a lively sort of a novel for Benjamin -Swift W write. It Is an Idyll 6f ' the Lbbdoit Smart Set, with the fascinating Beatrice, Lady Os-sington; Os-sington; her. suspicious and maddened husband; ohe lover who'is rich-and in-'terestlng; in-'terestlng; . another, wjio. -Is . young and foolish; an old Scotch Lord and several valets and. hotel-keepers. Mm- its points of Interest. It Is most .cleverly, written Hi quite original In JU plot, and ought amuse 'anybody 'not too 4 -serious-nded:!i"-nv TtrcadHljn4s -"published bfC. I"TAiWm;"Sons4 flrice. $L00. i "Marjie of the Lower Ranch" is the title given to the story which has hitherto hith-erto been announced as "A Ranch Romance Ro-mance by a Real Ranch GlrL". - The C. M. Clark Publishing company will Issue this book In September. .... , , - f - ' f-. ' ' j V-- v"" v No one who -read Marion-Crawford's ghost story,v'.Th( Upper Berth,". . haa forgotten Its thrilling horror. - The author au-thor has now wrlt'Jgn a- similar' tale, "Man Overboard,'' which la to be the second volume in a new series of Lit--tie Novels by Favorite Authors, which the Macmlllan eompany is publishing: The great literary: event this month is the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Ralph Waldo Emerson, which occurs on May 23th. The current magazines mag-azines are. full of Emersoniana, and formal for-mal observances of the centenary will be held in Boston and Concord. , . . The Bookman foir Mar ' contains a short biographical sketch of Mr, White, which none of his readers should ovei look. Hhe graduated from ' Columbia university-In 1597; -In all, he-has published pub-lished three novel and thirty-one short stories, while a fourth novel la ready for publication. One of the first to congratulate con-gratulate the author vup)n the appearance appear-ance of 'the remarkable, book, : -"The Blaaed. TTaUlJ!.'waaaf. Kooeeyelt. ";y "Outing" has been getting more and more readable under the editorship of Caspar Whitney, whose admirable style of chronicling sports won him unique fame ' in the Maya when Jhe- wrote? f oV ; Harper's..! The May number has -a notable no-table ' frontispiece a , "speaking like- : neas" of John Mulr,- ? the mountain-climber mountain-climber and glacier expert, aa he sits wrttlng.at; Wa dk;, - v; fr ; The People of the Whirlpool"' is the title of a novel to be published by the Macmlllan company early in June. This Is by the author of "The Garden' of a Commuter's Wife." and Is said to preserve pre-serve the same point of view. The scene shifts from the country home of Barbara Bar-bara and Evan 'to New York. 8everal New Yorkers build cottages upon "the ridge of hills., which are conveniently near town for the spring and fall be- tween seasons and. tho week end golfing. golf-ing. -The doings of these cottagers are silhouetted by the searching; light of their .effect upon an Intelligent rural, community, v, " j , " - - -. - . The' Macmlllan ' company has .Just published a new volume In 'the American Amer-ican Sportsman's Xflbrary "The Water-Fowl Water-Fowl Family.". .Mr- L. C. SanfordV who has written most of 'the book.' devotes nearly all bis attention to duck-shooting and shore bird-shooting, but he has one long chapter on goose-shooting here and to Canada, another on rail Shooting and a brief one on the swans. Mr. T. S- Van Dyke, one of tha best-known sportsmen in this country, contributes chapters relating to the Pacific coast birds. The book promises to win friends by the. variety of its adventure j and anecdote and by the liveliness and breeziness of Mr. Sanford'a prose. ... - It Is said that Gen. Lew Wallace has built a huge modern : apartment ; bouse in Indianapolis out of the profits of his ''Prince of India." Probabjy the profits of ."Ben Ilur" have supplied the needful to build several apartment houses. Jt Is one of the books that sella steadily. - . ' A new . publishing .firTfi. itbe Scott-Thaw Scott-Thaw company of New York, la -bring-ing out a -volume upon life In the Ghettos Ghet-tos of New York and Boston, The author. au-thor. Is a youn Russian who came' to this country ten year3 atr'o and now writes I1I3 name r.ernard G. Richards. |