| Show SUll S SIt U It h Iq r p rt 11 i from that many lORn 1 1 B hi who havo hitherto ita no branch houses houe In Amerl f ea will 11 speedily open them It IH even een Intimated that some Ilme of or the greater I houses Ions represented here by hy will 1111 fol their Ih h to 10 the to un try u has hogun to tobe be bl the depot of oC their tile II nules They The will their thell merely ns branched l ol the ln t twelvemonth tw I Jool h d m in Lond n hn e foil nil their market here her and n t In Iu If It such lIch be t tie c record for tor a I oar at may rna We expect from the decade This portent Is I big lIh for forthe or the future a Il larger thuu the I K and even Oen a n larger Illg r number of ot educated Iud and Intelligent citizens The In III population und In III education e lion tion and Intelligence Is relatively t there litre fore tOle u fortiori absolutely greater hero here than thull abroad readers more moreover over me lire luno Jre In their tastes than They fhe welcome books noks from abroad with the same hospitality they to the native product They rend load good books as ns avidly III toot good American hooks books Nay n more they oro cultivating a II tante for universal literature It Is not Impossible therefore that the lives of oC men now the Ih United States may In y Become the center cell tel of oC distribution for tor the literature of or the world Not only on hut but dor Oer dorman man French Italian and oth other er authors will wll haxo to tend their for approval and acceptance not to the great cities of oC their own land Philadelphia tn to tf New NEI Tork mayhap to Chicago and Sao San Francisco A well known literary r critic publishes heH the following In n recent Issue of nn on eastern magazine One daf nt at while Hitting at ot n little In HID big hi hall drinking ten I 1 met l lW W D Ho eis and nil had a delightful con conversation with him After fler knowing the personality of ot this famous author one enjoys his writing ten times limes more ho IH so o magnetic mn and his conversation alln so I Interesting and breezy V Yf s he heald ald I advise any an one who has an Inclination for It to tn try Iry to write One I expect et to have the tho first things ono OM lines published hut but one must keep on trying It Is an nn excellent plan to 10 set Ret down something one onu has haM F cn en In life and Ind try It to get a story II lOT out of It II Indeed Its 1111 the best m to practice I s mostly drudgery he con can continued t to force myself to go 10 Into Inlo my lilY library to 10 work I 1 find tin 11 my myself self elt putting ore off the hour as ns long as possible Hut when you OU once sit down 1 I J ventured F n Its hard worl for tor a n until I Ft vet Into Inlo the swing Let I t no one Imagine the muse mUM comes come without a n sum summons mons without a n good deal deol of oC urging In ing At least she doss to me meTho Tho Iho recent reception of Mat Matthews Into Inlo the London club eighteen cl ears of oC waiting wailing for the Is III nn an honor of rC no moan Im Importance Importance Professor Matthews WOK or initially nominated by hy Matthew Arnold nearly near a 1 score of years ago When It Is a Ilmi and walling wallIn list belong to the Ih mum ilium ono one ilia Iho rarity of ot admission shin sion to Its lis charmed and charming cir clr circle cle Professor Matthews Alo Vignettes of oC Manhattan Is I very v ry known and his most novel The Action and the Word out by 11 the last hut fall H lie wal horn born In Orleans ami VMS from Crom Col Columbia college coll 8 where he Is now nol professor sor lor of oC literature Publishers complain of the scarcity of 1101 foot books far tor girls their readers say sn that no successor to 10 Louisa Alcott has yet tt come com tu view Hunks like Lit Little tie tle Women are aie as rare n AI yet such books pell away up u In the thousands and 1111 with the th offered it II Is III Indeed to under understand stand st 11 1111 why wh for loth me not forthcoming A recent in a made the statement that lead boys hooks mthr than the girls books houks fh nason tOl this thin may be la fund In the Ih fu tal t that no sentiment IH I put Into III to books bools for tor and It Is 18 a u ml taken Idea Id a to II tint lIlt sort 01 of or r li PUI books bOOi as i 1 MIM MII the works work nf Kiri I irl Mu ro W L LAlden LAlden Alden 1 1 P I ure Ir In In I I 11 in h Ki they I arc Mm wh nn Th Helpers Seli ti l I i and iii II 11 Young Si ill I hide these th l and man l u hl h II the best to tu be hud hilt for foi folks litem tur question In us to whether n 0 1 IM has hilS tod In Ills hll novel i al people whom hi h has hili known or has merely his hi general experience ex com comp p it of ot a number of In Is III always alway a U question for m particularly so when the au Is III himself well known l mi III n 1 at t the In Days fIt B LUll Like Thill Mr 1 II 1111 W nl novel Just published by II the Ih Harpers I or exam example 11 a It conspicuous New dally Hints A Mr It has hll e 11 n nI M I iv n mid daring d use ul e of ot hl hll ox pi ns 1111 a newspaper mon man of i lie h many man universally New Vork fph appear In Days Like Ilk These p very few are aro likely to be plen ed ovel their Helms taken in III his hili originals people whose eccentricities are known knowli nn 1111 newspaper Is read he IJ has hilI described them with that leaves not n 1 of or doubt If this be Le true we w may assume that Mr Ir Town send has hus no Intention of applying for forn n political tI a 1 ollie In New ew YOlk Voik as ns sev several eral erA I of or the In his novel arc politicians Henry Watterson In III writing for tor tho Louisville a n long re review view of or A Sailors Log LoA al K l says 8 s The bul ed than Ihan they tho In out after this admirable anil they the nude a II able ahle contribution to the patriotic spirit nf thi time In Us lis publication No 0 Atner Iran kan boy hoy can It nt at once to 10 serve his country If not lIot to run runaway rUnn away n Ia to sea ea Hat per Druthers are ure about to publish a u new lie novel entitled II and nn l Soul by 11 the well known author of oC Espiritu Mrs Henrietta Dana Skinner Mis Is tho daughter of oC the late H II Dana Jr who wrote Two 1110 Yeats the Mast She resides In Detroit where some of the scenes of ot her lieI new novel are laid lalli The diameter of the story la Is not historical In fact the tho only actually historic sketch In III the book boo Is that of ot The fhe main theme of oC tho narrative Is the de development of at the heros character who Is tried as Its by 11 tire lire through a 1 series of momentous circumstances It Is said that the book hoo will be he found of especial Intel eat to the people of Detroit who on July JUI will celebrate the tho bl hi of ot the founding of their city by La L r According to the returns received by bythe b the New Nell York State Library In re response reo to letters of oC inquiry to libraries throughout the tho country the following titles with the votes received appear as UK the best six books of the tho scar 1900 In a n list of or fifty Blo of n 1 Grizzly by Ernest Huton Thompson The Century Co To Have Haxe ami To Hold by Mary Iary Johnston Houghton lInn Co otes Ehen Holden by I Irving Pub Co votes An n American Anthology by b E EP P Houghton lImo Co votes yote Alice of oC Old Ol by Mau Maurice rice Thompson Co yates votes by II Mrs Humphry Humpl Ward Harper IDS votes In Mr Ir Will N novel noel Wes 11 which the Harpers will Issue this month as tho sixth of their Amer American ican novel series tilt the author has In Introduced a n rather original feature In Inthe the second chapter that Is to say the tho sudden drowning of DC the girl 1111 whom the render Is led to Is the her li I of oC the story The Interest begins with first line continues to the last la t cannot be said I of oC every hook book the tho hero Is R also n nel type Ipe and a n fascinating ono tor WOo men It Is Ml He lie Is Ii and handsome hut but he under understand r stand the other sex You ou think then Luko fold that a n Hood woman a real good love twice In InIn In a short phort space IIII CO of time Clee What a they love a n hundred 1 times before you OU kin say Jack Jark wIth yore ore mouth open II Mrs the of at The comes of lit n II family mathematics and music are the principal pal accomplishments She plays pIli the piano pin no like ilkI u It professional lonal and she lilli a it grip on In mathematics that a n prof I sor PIr of oC thAt brunch branch of or science p might I Iny ny Her husband Is a 1 role 1011 I J believe and like most mod pod Poi a n patriot He was at ne InfO time nn an exile In Siberia but hm now he hI Is n B denier In III rare hooks books mostly those that belonged to the nf or century and in London Mrs Inc o Is thoroughly In earn oarn earni i at MI in everything that sIlo and everything that she does 1108 hut but she he has hils hilst the t hI temperament t of Nihilist and re religion ligion find the powers that govern are In her Iler black hook bunks Trine whose Life Ite Hooks Books h l bv by Thomas y Crow fill nil II Si Co are r commendation as books L which the world Mod WAS liMn born In ill Mount Morris III In lI He lit worked his way through college e which he h prepared with the of lay fI labor l I etc tl In and about RhUt his native villa HN III Creature Is an eloquent appeal for or mercy merfY to our dumb fellow in ter Ing Thought ht Power JolEr the author shows hows how by h effort we mm 1110 train our Into Inlo WIS of thinking and Our characters arr ar the results f our thoughts present tn In us 1111 ns such ha t n onn nt things c and lUul ami K and ai 8 rn leaving nn truce trIM them that we fIn fall to toI I to 10 to 10 them t v import importance nee ance x they 1 tE The Th fi It ThInK Kown unfolds the se ser e eft r ft t of oC our underlying power and out how ho wo cnn enn the pur purposes poses poetS of our helm being i 1 Je has the follow Ins to ny 11 of the future novel nofI He lie would le lie a n wise IFe I J may add a rich publisher who could tate state what was l to be the next n craze In fiction At All |
