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Show G. P. Putnam's Sons have taken the "Rhymes of Ironquil" from a Kansas publishing pub-lishing house, and a new edition will be published shortly. Eugene Ware, the new pension commissioner, com-missioner, is the author and tlje rhymes are in their tenth edition. There has been much curiosity among readers generally to know the name of the author of "Confessions of a Wife," now running in the Century. The magazine people peo-ple declare they do not know who writes them. Dr. Conan Doyle has been unable to find a publisher in Holland for his booklet on the Boer war. Dutch publishers are outside out-side the copyright convention, and a rule of the association governing the trade is that when one firm announces its intention of issuing a translation of a foreign work no other house may produce that book for eighteen months. A leading Dutch publisher pub-lisher having stated his decision to issue the translation of Dr. Doyle's pamphlet, without, with-out, apparently, any real intention of doing so, no other firm may take it in hand. The work being thus "hung up," the English house, Smith & Elder, have posted 3000 copies to State officials, professors, clergymen, clergy-men, burgomasters, and editors. The book is published in this country by McClure, Phillips & Co. New York Times. The "Mississippi Bubble," Emerson Ilaugh's new novel, published by the Bow-en, Bow-en, Merrill Co., is having a wonderful sale all over the country. The book has been extensively advertised and the work warrants war-rants it. It is most interesting, and in the person of John Law, Haugh has given us a splendid character. Some of the newest fiction includes "To the End of the Trail," "Heralds of Empire," "The Diary of a Good Girl" and "Hard-niche." "Hard-niche." Another refreshing bit from the pen of Kate Douglas Wiggin is "The Diary of a jood Girl," just published. It is the best thing the author has done in many a day and night, and should find a ready sale. |