| Show I in I NOTES I It U Is Ia that a 1 memorial to 1 11 tl will wIil be In Edinburgh iU M iUan MT T an nn early earl Onto date So for far nr nothing i I h uRN H been decided bellIed n I replica l of ot l Is 1 ns n well ai n nn I n CL or III bran In Wt ft t ca CIl cathedral CaI I thedral Meanwhile will l j received by b Mr tr Ir 45 43 York place Illace the honor J dry Pcr to 10 LI tift tho op lip for or the tho purpose I 0 Mr Ir Max In has ha MO we o lean Iron l tulon tIlt ot if Jr after litter that thit nearly 10 years which i i he lie secured for tor It n II In tiit th l periodical i vree Mr Ir ton now expects to June more tin for work the tho telling ot 4 tales tulea of ot adventure venture nIl Koino 0 fl n o Max In ns one of ot I g hUh Iho band of ot young yount who help helped ed Ill I Alfrod to mako An Ant 11 t n a One day da Mr lr Ir Harms woith sent ont back bak to Ma In nil the tho orti dos clog he ho had written that week I like Ilko 4 our wi rk us liS much is ever he ho wrote I should like 1111 to print every overy line but tho paper U Is l badly 11 I tear fear 1 hould not bo be ohIo to pay you for to your IF Perhaps you CUll can uso U It else elso elsewhere where Mr sent Rent tho the arti article f cleA cle to tho the paper telling hi that he lie wax was road to take tako the Iho jink and the cornland and ond became a 1 tIle tho foundation I of ot ninny more Inure successes for tor all nl con oil Mr ir 11 first novel nine Tho The Diary Ilary of or a 0 Scoundrel In a n society Paver A AM Stevenson wrote Inland for boy liny renders null and It lundo him famous with older tOIl folk II 11 Pemberton wrote th the Iron Pirate for forthe or orthe the tile boy hoy readers of or o of ot which he lie hens liew w was ns the first editor I The author who In Stories of ot Married Life lAte and recently rel In Mote Stories of Married Life Ilife makes us FO RO O familiar with amusing types of ot JK is ono one of the few who llo that her renders reader shuT aha know little of or her hert t or IF hor appearance Stewart Cutting has hall ney Ile permitted a I photograph of ot herself her cl to appear III lu tho the newspapers new paper or nr magazines since sinco oho tho at nt literary fame and stoutly re resists all nil attempts on the part parI of ot her publishers tho the press Nell res to 10 make bet hei forego her decision Tills Is nil the themore them more m r unusual her kindly counte countenance nance would timely surely furnish one olie moro more reason for or reading her charming channinG hooks book II as Progressing through the tho literary pe periods IJ I nods of Chaucer and Mil Milton ton Tudor Jenki comei down to the tho nineteenth century with n a book de events In III the Lite Days of at Scott It ItIs Itis Is III tho the fourth volume lump In a series called the Lives Liven of lit IC Great Writers It to give gle a 1 running sketch selch of or anti and critical commentary upon 1011 tho lie enlivening and dramatic Incidents of ot Scotts life and tunes times II IS It rt happen that Scott lived at tt atthe the crossroads of ot British history hl lory whence ho he rould could look In hi many directions lire up anil ni down clown the picturesque fields of Scottish romance Ills was wt as nil Mr 11 Jenhs describe lIe It II a 1 borderland that extended from froni the days of ot the eighteenth to the tit nineteenth century With him In hi Imagination we c cross orosi tho the reign of ot GeorgI lit IU to 10 that of ot William IV 1 from rom rain the American cola colo colonies cob nies to 10 the presidency of lit Andrew Jack Jackson son We see ee the tho last of ot old oil methods of or life lito and ond tho the beginning of or the era ern In which we w still live for during the of lit Sir tir Walter Scott were vere muncie made those discoveries and Inventions which de olo developed and ani applied have transformed tin till conditions of ot civilized life Steam and electricity became doelle ser vents In thoe years and ami to these ngen agen elc primarily Is in dup due the amazing change that makes makel our outer oilIer worM world different from that unto which Scott was wn born 0 Mr Ir Tonk account of ot Scott nod lila Ills is time of or course contains nothing new and original Its lis it merit being n a succinct und and straightforward presen presentation tattoo tation of or entertaining facts After rh giving rhIn gt log ing In a n view of Scotland In the days pre preceding ceiling ceding Scotts birth mind of tho the sur aur surroundings of ot hi lila hili boyhood and ami youth he step by hy i step atop his hili dabbling In the Ian In his hia progress In literature and the unfortunate business ventures that were directly lh responsible for or the tho rapid I of ot the tho Waverly Novels In in appendix ho he gIves tho the chief his hili dates bearing beann upon UIn Scotts life lito ami oni works a n list of the Waverley Nov Novels ov cia els In chronological order amid a n brief bibliography Here Hore and ruil 1111 there we re 10 have haven havea a n glimpse glimps of tho the curious literary cus customs cu toms of ot the tho th day It U was nII the fashion nt at this Hill time ho says to publish SUCh suen an a these theBe of ot Scotts In a form orin that Is 11 t practically never neer seen at nt pros pres present ent cot that Is In quarto size about four tour times timeR lIB art large largo n a 1 rage page as ns li III now used for tor the overage average book bool The These o enormous volumes In largo large print sold jold at nt thing tilIng over oer 10 n a 1 copy COIl so It will be lu seen that lint when copies of The Lady of ot the I Lake ake were disposed of or in 11 i ia ft a 1 single year nr It Is III not surprising that Scott alcott should have made from that ono one poem nn as n much as for tor himself lr That such prices were Well paid 1011 by hy so many buyers seems surprising to ut us hut the public were accustomed l to this form torm of at publication whereas today an nn even een greater poem might readily rail fall of or u a wide market nt at such a price I The Tho Williamsons literary and geo itinerary Is IA to 50 often otten one On tho same sume that It Is of o double lo Interest to hear of or them according to 10 Mrs Wit AVIl VilI I toil bumping 1101 and jolting Jol t ing about Spain In n it motor rill ear After the roy royal royal royci al ci wedding In iii Madrid they will go o to tn 1 until September and then thell In Inthe Inthe the fall toll for or a n brief visit vl lt to Venice be before before before fore returning to tn their Chalet Pins Pills at Cape Cipe Murtin After Arter the of or Lady Hetty I tt which Is IK Ii tho th story of it I i typical clear CIPRI girl who comes to our shores In of ot adventure and proves a 11 delightful fem Cam feminine mine Columbus the will probably have their belt touring of or S S t O 0 Henry spent four tour collecting the tho material which went vent Into his book of at New ew York Toik The rhe Four Million Just Ju t published by McClure Phillips A good ninny moro maIo years went tent to th tha gathering of ot the In his hIli earlier Cabbages and Kings which dealt more or less with Control Central America Life Lit U It Is It rarely rore that thata a humorists product is 18 so 10 o long In the Ih but hut the of ot 0 O henrys Henrya workmanship which at lit times suggests 1101 at times Poe Ioe Is 18 a It 1 valid excuse 0 O Henry Is III of ot course couise known as 1111 a II humorist but In these now new stories theO them In is evident a n deeper here a n touch of ot hu human moan man sympathy II II there thero a n grim trim grimness grimness ness and anil again a Mash hash h of terror with Its lightning Illumination of nf the mys mystery mystery tery tory of or life In hl his four years of ot loaf loafIng big Ing Mr Ir Henry hits has seen many nany odd cor corners ners of ot New York mind he lie discovers nil 1111 unexpected amount of lit passion and pathos In lii the tho life lito I on and off ort Broadway S S Maxim horky an estimate of ot whoso whose life suit work worle by h I J S Dillon hiss has re ro recently been ben published Is III now nov In this country feasting his hii peasant eyes cyril tin the high buildings ot of o New Yolk nut being Interviewed by hy Now New NewYork York Yolk Mi Mr 1 Gorky does not lint but bul tho American t elmi list ii and Intellectuals 1 ii mo nun dining iii and the tile first of O our literary that lie lio met illet Willi r that It Is In pint part of ot the national education In HusnU Hu IL to read Mark Twain and aOI says consider considering r rIng ing Jug the Illiteracy of ot HO moo 0 largo hargo n a number of ot the time people probably Maik Twain has moro more readers In Hussla titan than In III Am America erica orica A committe Is III being formed among the tho literary people of or New ew York Howells Mark Twain Col Collier oi lier antI others to n In raising mining funds to aid the movement for or Itus Hus Ulan freedom I BOOKS I J Tho rho Hook tile the nIh clai organ ot or the tho American i ww ers ems association In the April number contains an nn Interesting summary and amid analysis Is of ot tho th best selling books hooks In iii America III in 1905 1505 have hau reports pie pre pared expressly for or the time purpose by mart than thlu of ot the tho chief booksellers of the country countr There were different ti titles ties tics reported during the twelve months of 1905 as IS of ot tIm tho best selling books bools for tor tile tho entire ellUre country It 11 Is n it I striking tact fact that Ihal fiery every book bouk on Oh the tho list lIet Is a n work of ot fiction And Andor of or tho the fiction novels of ot character draw drawIng lira w wIng Ing log are uro vastly In the lend lead with thir thirteen him teen tecH titles to their credit Tho other classifications stand Political mint So bo Sociological tour tOll 1 historical three nov novels novels els elM of or travel two detective stories and lint alit miscellaneous ono tumie each From Froni l the tho standpoint of the publish publishers ers era the following will be of ot Interest or Of the successes the tho company COlli pall published live mice the Harpers four the Century com coin Jodel F 1 A Stokes umi Henry Holt two each ench and Houghton Brown Appleton McClurg Ml Clurg and amid IoU Doit one each A analysIs of ot these theo figures de ike perhaps the most fact of or nil that hIlt tho the largest est number of ot best sellers seller was Willi sold soM by II the most ox ex advertisers ers tIme tho company In Jim the tho face ace of ot these thElIe fig figures tires ures tho the Hook Book and nih who shall lIllY sa that advertising does not nut create n S Brooks RhetorIc lly lJ hi I D su so superintendent t t of schools Cleveland Ohio Marietta Hubbard of English department High school l Ia i Hillin Sn ili American A ii Hook company Coni NO The Ilme mu it of ot this hi is vol tinie Is III to tu pupils to express s their thoughts freely clearly nath forcibly At the tho saute Kamo time tim It will ili cultivate III lit t hut a ii il develop d omo somo knowledge of nt theory thenn The book Is III Itol ly modem mu 11 I oh III pric practical t ira I In Iii Its nil character hIlt Cr In III I ni Pint I 1111 II C t Ono me time given the lie clement of or description narration t io ii exposition I t lot nurl a mit o a together with special chapters on let and poetry A more com om complete anti comprehensive treatment of the ito four forms of or discourse already dis discussed cussed cusped Is 18 In lii part pirt two In III rIch each part parI there here H is presented u ii 1 serIes of ot theorems covering these subjects Men cuch each theorem a n single sIngh new mw principle Tho Time pupils are arc how to correct their own errors alit careful iii a with Vi t hi the he t study of or I I tern tore ture niKl unit with lIh other school studios dis distinguishes tue book bonk The Tite modern of ot o tho the Illustrative extracts cannot fall to Interest overt Oel pupil An extensive appendix contains tho the ele elements el ments of ot form the figures of or speech etc tc A complete Index mill aid In ready reference |
