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Show ifi I IN THE LITERArTtoRLDJJ IPPIII NEWS AND GOSSIP OF BOOKS, MAGAZINES, AUTHORS H;i tiki i ) AND PUBLISHERS. y. a s s o & iH jn.wi 4 Lie LITERAIIY T1VS. ISMMala! A Bl ,h ennlrn " author till' ul a f El on' iiieti ,h" " cniied p'- ''nil I' I -Iptlonn me Invaluable lr fi 1 t) For clearness read Macaiilay .m ,' li '') II rm olc ,ea'1 ""'" un1 Bacon aaaV ijl B'1 i'" Fr lli0" rend Homei and Scott H i 1, 't r for conclne read Bacon and M ii f v For sublimity of conception mad JJ i ' ! , Hiton aHal ifliif '' ' : For vivacity read fltavtmon and aWcMl ?, ' Kipling. aaBclJV' ' roi Imagination read Shakespeare Lf Jlr (J 1:1 "d Jnb H!f ' ' Mi' ' For elegance read Virgil. Milton ami aaB hUi V ' rnold aaB'uii ' I I r for common aenae read Benjamin B I , l J ' 1 ranklln M I i , 1 1 For simplicity read Burna AVhittler ,1 1 tf A nd Bunyan 'l Jf ' For humor read Cenantea Chaucer B i I jJ, 5 , I nd Mark Twain -Modern Culture Hlf'.V ' t ' WHO ARK ORBAT WHITEHS? fkj, How do we aa Individual uae the Hp' rm great In llleinture' We line H. ''.J jr loosel) but ni more loosel) than we HlK jU 'lJ n In other connection, and prestim- B Ij1 ' V hi) we all use it lnnlnl) of thing or fl li t jf' C , praona that do something notof IIHr'Fpl I , hlngsor lefsons thnt are on thn whole IIBlhr 'u 1 descent no matter how full they nmy IIHlt) Ik' I 1 of rotentlal cnerg) The (.real IH i i ft ' 1 ! atesmnn for example l tn ench of (Jl V , 1 I ii the man who accomplishes Rome- IHUU ' thing In the sphere of politics not tho LLW&Vcif'? r an who haa merel) the potentlnlltle 1 , f aiiceeof And he mut accomplish y 'I t methlmr which In our Men In large IH?i Jh 'J iportant Influential compnrathely M 'iP Permanent more or le original anl i il unique or we ahall not mil him great ,( i Ii we not appl the term In literature t m !uime euch way? The lioem or the t roet the hook or the writer must ll,1:l f tualy do aomethlnK Willi 1 nml W' I thit lomelhlng mint he large Im- ll'l : 1 rrtant Intluentlal omMratlel II '1 HB P rmnnent more or le orlKlnnl nn 1 . rf ' unique OMioual) there oie two MS tih rpheroa In which thla large Important IV 3( i eomethlnff ma be ione-the ppheie of 11 .11 fit ' f our emotion and the ephere of our In Ufl ' V )!r I telllgence One book ailre our fcollni! KmhiSltl 1 deeply unl permnuenllj nnothera openi Hlir Vfil IU out a range of new I.Veaa whhh make K.T! L i'iii I on Impreaaion upon our lle we nll PiftWlT'1 261' I both the.e Iwoka great nml right i'f' ii 1 ? M rrof Tr'nt ln '""matlonil Monthl ll'll 1 ; WHAT SHALL WE HEADP (f I !J' j ) " ' In 1JM the unknown author la na ex- Hil tftl tlnct na the iloto Fhe natiie of rlalns H if"1 lilt "3 genius la heralded from one end of D J ' ji , the country to the other mid hla ph- I'i ,1 i J turn la furnUhed to oer Piper that HcA v ll I ian he persuaded to in hit II A little H ,) nit it while ago Mnrj MacUuie the MnMe 'fl III I Hiahklrtaeff of llutte Mont ' wioto :i'l Mu k rome lncredlhl allly confeaelona Se- H'I It' ' i einl weeka before the) came out the l W I I j!f J) J rubllxhera innlled to the prlmlpal H l5,i it IS newrpntera pioof-aheeta of striking t'rt !; Jl 1 , chapters Then tame a torrent of IMij t'l1 aneciloiea nbout the girl halftone if i i IL F ' i poitialls full face nnd frolic In street Hiri 'tilr drees ami In eimlng drosx and as M ' M.l "(J i', sorted rites of lnterien a 11) the time H t Jl t i'j . of actual publkatlon the unforlunnte H 0 H "fl, "1 Soung woman was known to most K KM l it 7 newsijpr r.adeiH In Auurka and, ln- 1 ill . I J' 1 Mr"' of two small elltlona In three B Ml (i f u i J )us nawlthJgna Vustcn Mnrj Mai H ill lit '' Lane inn probahl) pilde herself on H M -"i ' tun lorie cdlllnns sold on adtanLO B . J) 'l orders 1 'ill ft ft if 1 Dut while eer) publisher Is shouting H rt (ji r fi n ""res from the houetop nre the H M ''" ' M' coreumera of books glowing equnll) H 'f i .) I In KT'icc and knowledge the gentle E m " lil P1 reader with all hla gentleness used to H til i K offer stubborn leslstnnce to a hook he H i U ( '' did not like If he had tlslltd his H ) U raving fm in tie Austens Hense and H . ' J j enslblllt) h) punhartng two ndllloua. H ibf ' 1 '' stopped and neither Mr Tgrton H :Li nor MIsm Aupten dreameil of making 1 :. .( , him budge lnda) the publisher and m t ' :l the uuthoi do not )lell ki meekl) H i The) have destro) eil the nl 1 ha! nice 1 l fi ' of power llu no pi ri an elaborate H ft I w i , campaign to make n bonk 'he fashlun Hl fi 1' I'i nnd 'orcc It upon us ulll nlllj Our 1 'If ' grandfalhiis took up n inti h dlacimed M !)' Hi novel certain that honeMi ooi It ha I H if If ' recoinmeuthd Itself to u any pnjle H VW h o palheiliall) follow tin. imlltlon Jll; I u nbout rending the hooks that me H SIU , t Iked nlsut certain or nothlnt, ex H 'II" ' ' i I 'I" ,hal tor ll month the title han H iviiii-i I " "'"l at " nn every hand We w Ida 1 V (' T VWS I 'hrough It heaiise we suppose ever).- H ill fi Vol it ' K, llm ' reading It and we wint to H llllHtfl '. h1,d "' "l"' hada In cIMIUed aoclt) H 'i)1rl2;' ;M Thus the ahrewd puhlliher ml author H t-iHiJfiJ 1 itch i nnd stud us like sill) StraiM- itJii tt Sj burggae HI Ml 'it i What are we going to do nbout If I'fll: (. i Moat of us will do nothing Hut ieo. M'ln it ' ' nt education "viv it to themselves H? tWJ f V ' i ' nt to b "ampeded b) mee ahoutlng H ) ) i They should withstand the oclfernug .J1 f ( i ! nttaeka of the ndertlsr ind remain H "'U 7 i t uranhamed e en though thev uao ieid H it 71 one of the Immortal ninstriplrt s tlmt H 'f(( , i v ithln a e. r hn sunk to oblivion H VI t Ji' i Ir ne nr" l0 'u" o'" """ "" ni'i" H I V I ,u'h tn ISmeraonn lulcof uniting ml H Iff I book has Ihed nt least a )ear before H V ' J v e faxor It with our intention And wa H j iuat more than evrr try tn ste out M . J j 1 Judgment b) turning buck to the book H J M that have enduied roi a geneiatlou or H I more If we nre fimlllar with Jane B i Austen dcott Dickens rharkein and M , 1 f.eorge Eliot e shull not be strmk H if J I u lull with uinaaeinent nt the KfnluH of B . J) 5 I ciertrudo Atherion and rharles Majoi H p M 1 1 or even of James L4iie llon Clllbrt B Parker and Mooih Taikington Iffmm B J time to time we return to the inasteia B I. , we may hope ti be guided b) leason In H I Vi' I . Head of by nolsa N Kvenlng l'oet I , jll THE SECTIONAL STRUOGLE. I BB! i All tho Wiishlngton newspaper cor- m respondents h.ivu long known that Mr B , . 4 loero W Hairls waa cngagod uon a Ki ', tiaat hlatorlial work Hut many win B he surprised to ham that the work B , ha made Ita nppiarame The Brook - 1 . X I ivn Eagle says of It I'nder the title IftiTllf! i rh Sectional Struggle Jlr HairU ilMwiJ V. haa projected a hletoi I. al work hlch ftuiHff 'V ' ""led out with th. i unpletcnesa lBt I '' which the author contemplates will 1 ii, treat In o wa not hentfon under , ITT" i j ttken u special phasi i set lea of ''f' S I t hates in the hlatory of the HepublU Jt 1 71 I i Wl comeptlon Is a hi ia one aa he Jk Plena to present a rutew of the po ; j l 'I llthal cuntroveislea Inaphed by section- f ' 111" "' IntereetH that ha arisen between H P!', it Ti ' the Noith and South from the Uaa of ('ill I ft the ooloiilea down to the ilose of the l5f l , h- War of the Hehellloti U might be said HrSfi t W that n history planus I on ihe lines in- ii!'" " . i. i dlcated waa almost If not ijulti a po 1 'I1' ii 1 1 lltlcal hlator) of the K.puhlk and that HI f r' 'f ' It would be Impossible ti srpaiate the J ' I., if t I story of these lontroMrsl.s fiom the ) .i1 story of the general couitc of events In H filni(( 'M "l0 -'Hon" progress I ndei the old j - '"I! I ) deflnllions of hietor) thnt were once ai- K , ,!(' ij cepted 'hut would be tiue but mm. WB "t; j adays tho story of a ti Hon i overs a i1', . I good deal more than ihe mltnl or tht J I'!' lOlltlcnl stltlggle that engag 1 the at- iiyt , tentlon of It people at an) stagt in lis Jt IJ, n ' reer .Mr II ir Is tluds thin his f ro IJt! M K' Jected blutor) nuluiall) aepaiuK" listlf f)!J h lto tluee main dl Islons lint fi lm II Krl- tnB oolonlal period down tu the tin irr , ill' nirti, rompiorntae of 13J including tin n ti AM) it slavery compromise tl it of lMU rV ' n3 1 md fiom 1 down to th eionl I . . 't p't I Klatr lonipiomlso In IStO nod tliii i J.'Jjl.f fi( from 1850 to the close of tho flvll w ii "fril ' 3Ie hRS ne10""! "' leisure In the tut r I j fj . i vals of inffhhljnat lihoi fir u goi 1 . a, Ij '(I l I riAny yedra to the ac-umu'atlon of ma MB terlal for thla history going wheneier possible to original sources He intends to st forth in the hlstor of th- first period an account of the colorles that will pr sent their I loral and social characteristics the dlffiremes In theli ilvlllsatlon and domestic tllt the oi-Igin oi-Igin of the Itepublli the adoption of the ( on'tltutlon the giowth of the early political parties nnd the rnjitroveisles thut aiosn betwien th" ttlons with the dawn of the nineteenth enlur) the carl) movements for the dlslntegra Hon of the I'nlon the beginning if the alnven controiersv Its suppose I settle-ment settle-ment with the compromise of 120 the rise of the tariff iontroiisy Its development devel-opment Into the nullification movement In South i aroltna and th final settle-m- nt of that Issui as suppose 1 in t1 rertalnlv here I a Held broa I enough and mifflitentlv Interesting to attract any students of .merlr8n hlatory Ills narrative Is rlt-nrand cnmlse animated and forceful It Is a source of gratlfl catio.i to the lover uf hlstor) to nnd thla trlklng icrlod in our national history his-tory so carefully aummailted Mr Harris Har-ris has been at esperlal palna to verlf) all statement of rHCta while his preset! tatlon Is made In a true spirit of his torlcnl research and without prejudice Shoull he be nble to .arrv out tin oihr portions of hi self-imposed task In the same admirable manner hi work will constitute a valuable addl Hon to our historical literature (J U Ilrplncott compan), cloth. vo, 12 at) net ) Mil, OAHLAND S WEAKNESS Mr Hamlin riarland tellvered a lecture lec-ture the other day before the summer students of ihe I nlverslty of ( nlcago His topic was Literature and hla tone was despondent He said Shakes-I Shakes-I eare w is nn Incubus Haute too was nn Incubus Hlatorlial novels he de scribed as epniadlc lirlhermore he did not like tliim Altogether Mi Oarlnnd was gloom) over the literary outlook Ho some, tlmf-s doubled he said whether the Meat American novel would ever be Yet there was i ra) of light Chicago Chica-go had produced some lennrkable writers Then, there v ere some great men w ho h id ph Hired the mid lie A eet Mt flnrlind rifeircl with soino enthu si ism to his own woik lie gave the names of fotii writers who ade eminent then he added And I' I may be per mitted to mention myself Hamlin liar-laud liar-laud Is to be lurluded In this list ' Later on In the lectuie he again spoke with s)mpnthetli appreciation of hla own work as li diplit-r of Western life Hut ho inodesti) il issldcd himself nv Ihe fifth In this group of Western tlf-Iciklers tlf-Iciklers He an I four others It seems hive risen superior to the Incubus Incu-bus of Hhikescnre 'lhls of lourse Is cheering Theie In still hope Ml airland Is still with us nnd we need not lespnlr He nil) )et teaih us to forget Shakespeare and the other lniubl Hut even Mr Cinrlanl haa tho fault that li common with so man) of our gifted ones of literature of the present da) He Is cromi cd hedged In by overmoiest) He must conquer that weakness Tint Is the trouble with nearl) nil of our litter-day novelists The) nre too hiikwvrd In self appreciation appre-ciation Why should Mr ilarlaud In lecturing Uion the subject of literature feel constrained to Bay If I mi) be permitted to epmk of myself, when lie Is cilllng the roll so to speak, of the gient masters of the pin? W h) should he thus put hi' Anger In his mouth anJ look io)l) upward with hanging heal ind swaying bod) llko n little sihool girl speiklng her first piece when he mentions himself with Shakespeare Dante aid the t ook county school of iwets and prose writers' If n mnn la a great man wh) not let him aa) so' Jlr flnrlind nnd the other llterar) fellows must get over this shyness It hnndhnpa them The) must assert themselves nioio Tht re Is hirdly a liver pad or a Mine) cuie nn the market mar-ket that Is not advertised na dtllcitel) in I nt the same lime almost ns voclf erousl) as are mm) of Ihe novel nnd novel writers of the da) That Is what la keeping our novelists In the bark-Rtound bark-Rtound It Is not llterar) geniuses thest we tnik We hnve llternr) geniuses to burn Anl n good Job It woull le to bum some of them Just to show the world how ensll) In our aduence It would be for us to get along without them New ork Kvenlng Sun EVANSTON'S PnOSCBIBLD LIST. Hoernccin a "Decameron " Hardy's ' Jude, the Obscure, and Mai Ion norlands nor-lands Ur Dile on these looks his fallen the hoav) hand of I.vanstons dlsappiui.il On the proscribed list Is Irfidv of Quallt),' bv I'tunce Hodgson Hurnett Julian Hawthorne as the author of Fool ot Nature also con under the lian and Sir lllchard t'nlmdy b) Lucas Mulct Is another The Mlsloirats b) ilertrude Atherion Ath-erion heieafter onlv ho handed from the llhrai) to the favond few and the same la the ruse with The hei ret Or-I'harl Or-I'harl b) Eirerton Tastle ami Oiloff and Ills Wife by Maxim Oorkv If I Were King hv Justin Alp. Parth) is not in the strictly proscribed list but protests aifalnst It have been received bv the llhrai) authorities Tes of th t !' oervllles b) Thoma Hatdy Is under suspicion Whenever a pation of a llhrai) object ob-ject to a book It Is examine I bv the librarian or one of his assistants Then If found tn be ' unit for tin- use of the )oung or the Impreaelonable. It I put on the blacklist SOME NEW HOOKS . '.Cn'iP HBnJ'r ,(Bo.ton tithrop 1 ihllshlng i itniism) the Interest centers arm id il. renrestiiiaiives of the third leneratlo i of estern inllllaimires l"ii' vi ..'. " "i r"' etwlmen a drllghtful vvestcrner who eannul sliak the habits of the fr.ntler anl let Is never an Jouh He Is mpr refreshing In some ,n 0ds thnn David llarum more vvholesonw In his business methods altogether a delight an A a treat Hit arandsen Hi spuider whose extravagin.e and rerkle pluni Iiiks nn Willi stieet i ire so near to mining min-ing the fumtl) despite Ha man) millions Is entertiilnlng also tin n t in th. same will The slorj niches a point of i ,u. the illmnx t the close this young scion of wralti who thinks himself ninnara tlvelj ruined after his dlsiitrni. i"ne. dlllon Hit the etreei furclng hit love aftalr n a succesful issue la a most mi. convrmlon and surprising maiuiir u ""i! '."v" "' lh -ounii a novel H w I Sorrls Is an entertiilnlng ae. co ml of the maneuvers of i .arveuue Kngllsh fiunllv In forcing Itself upon th urlstoinu of Hentshlre It revealt th cinvvdlng nrocets which ti mis ion uanllv to vewne lh titled exclusive of the rjrltish prpvlmes tp Uc,cpt the rp. i""In.lV Mfi-...i?h"7mon ."""P'te their la k tf ellstlnguishcd ancsstrv Home of the Khvmes of Ironn ill (New ii'rk..9 r . u'naoia ijonaj conulji over 2ii nibs Fvcnbodv low kniwt that liin-iull I lugeno F Ware of Kanese There Is iilen another Iroinull Mrho. lm. Ilunvai of oiii , who aome two ear ago published V Qimkt-r 81011I i uVn. J n1,"'! Ilrl In Purls (Sew oik jonn I jin Is oiiourse under nnnn) mil) n .ill the fiishlm The Washlngtrin ?"',''!.,l.", h disssiiation of n I nullsh iltrl la Purs heai strung tlHvor-lags tlHvor-lags f a niah mind mature and ills iirnliig of muise. the author may he a wimiir, and hut shi will I Just ns likcl) ie Amoii in when disclosed -as of course I i tin regular wa) of the b ink tradi she II in I t lie-im Hnsll.h ghe Is un 1 i n ut n I Is i l m She lus 1 rl o, u en igh t i !nl Ihe the i tmoi-i ei id . r ei th i r iiu.jn It Sht ie iter her scrlptlons aroun 1 a group of Parisians of ah ares and the effect Is ot a cerles of hits of Action Nothing much funnier has been done cf late than this unnimel person per-son s jlc-rcrli Hon of the anxieties of the widow Of a Ute Cabinet Minister who has presente i th. rep ibllc with a Lust of her del nrted husband In order to keep his memory green , The Jeffeison rtlhle-th I Ife nn 1 Alor-sis Alor-sis of Jrsiis cf Nsiiireth extracted text imll front the gospels together with a c impsrlsou eif his do irlnes with those of i lh re Hv Thomas Jeffron 8t Ijvuls, V n Thompsin Publishing company Ihe Silver ecrlcs it t lassies-Old l'n-gllsh l'n-gllsh Hnllads l.dlted with Intro luctl in nnd notes hi Jamc P Ivlnnrd Ph I), professor of Kngllsh literature nt Win-throp Win-throp Norm il college nock Hill N C Mltre IMrothv if Had lm Hall He-lag He-lag the true lov stoiv of nor ith Vernon if lliiridon Hull lly Henry llastlnrs .New Vork II I renno .vi Lo Instruction it St Pierre, Martinliue" hi J Herbert Welch end II I. Tailor New A ork It r l'enno d. lo Amor ktor u novel of l.jihesus anl Homo 15 106 A D nv Orr Ivenvon II-lintrated II-lintrated Sew ork. I rederlck A Stokes mpany Aouths C mpanlon ReriegUnder Sun-ni Sun-ni Mkfe a gejgraphlLSl leader dtscrlb ln mntrleu of southern Luroii. Bos tun HI on & co Walling Hues a rovel Ily Alice Ashmorc Itogers New Aork, Th3 Abbey . Trees ( Charles I Alarsli author of 'Opening the lljstet cNew Aoik I rederl k V Stokes ompan) and other stmlee has written a ver rendahle story called Not on the e bait The name e a itoid i ne. for the storv Is a romance of the Piclrtc ocean and the scene Is nn islan 1 not nn the i hart There nre but three characters In the siori hrlc mild, rth ir Stone and Josephine Merton The men are voing merlcan erentl men and the girl Is un Australian ladv returning home from a visit in the I nlted States They are 1 fellow passenaers on nn Australian liner Arnold Is a wealth! New Aork r with a I penchant fir nnturnl science who Is bent on stulllng the Mora of the antipodes ritono Is n nntlve of fun Francis o and a mining engineer He l en tome for S)d-tie) S)d-tie) 1 1 manage a branch of a machlner) tlrni hi this native cltv Hoth voung men have been iltrictel Iv Miss Merlon anl bl ench other The stenmcr Is wrecked und the three are cust upon the lslin! the onll survivor of the ship a com-pan) com-pan) Ihe Islan 1 turns out to be unln-iit unln-iit Ited Mr Marsh has written nn Interesting In-teresting storv that Is not flnlshed until lb list chiuier lilt" mj.lt Dm oil Aim ' piihlMi.il I) the ItinliL II ltevll inmpan). New Voile mikes i strong in fir rccoiil-Hon rccoiil-Hon as a mw nit In tin llniutuio if the III of the imktinit idler Th llfcofthi communities pf th IVnisylv ml i coil re-alons re-alons Is sul r. nerls-i kind if Its own How I iterogeneo is f i Instanc ihe p ip alit'or Is can le Imiilmd from Ihe fut that no less than eighteen dirfercnt Inn-1,11 Inn-1,11 igcs nnd cllnlccts aic spikn b ltlnO luplls of cirtnln of their public schools mj c cms cm ihi-i c-iicc 11 1" 11 III? OI cxtieiiKi jivcrtj In esant toll mid Inv inlnent l crll and we can see whit tho liilthfiil portraj il of It means Ihe nil llior of this picturesque un I trni l story Wlllium I t.thbnns Is eiiilppc 1 or his vvi rk bv a long niddr. nee ai"onT the miners mi-ners as well as h) his experience is ft storv writersome pirtlma of th's novel having al eidy appeared In perlpllpal ' Prewltt a Hream b y W L Mden np-rears np-rears In the ppleton Town and Country 1 Ihrnrl The stor) tells the result of a voung mm s drrnm In lea ling him over half the worll to Unit his dream sweetheart sweet-heart in unc inured but kino hearted mllllonilrn lecome Interested In the senrch nnd takes the vo ing mm nlout In his aeht The book besins letter than lien Is I) Vppletou tu New Aork A new serial b. J Al Ilirrle to run through four n inibers. begins ln thd fiction fic-tion number tvugust) of Scrlbner s its title Is The Little w hlte Hlrd ind It Is said to he the niort petl thing ever writ-ten writ-ten b Air It irrle u old club I achetnr, n oung married couple and a small child are the chief characters Itudjird hip-ling hip-ling a lurt stor) which will lend the tlctlon number of Scrlbner s Is entitled w Ireless and It begins It Is n funnv thing this Marconi business Isn t It' It It said to be one of the most vivid!) Ini-agn Ini-agn alive tales ever written b) Air Kipling Kip-ling The special reports of Prof Robert T Hill of the tnltel States geoloalcnl s Ir-vev Ir-vev anl Or Isrsel O Itussell of tho t'nl verellv of Altchlgan. on the recent vol-cinlc vol-cinlc llsturbinces In the Wen In lies are published In the current number of the National Geographic Magazine Facts nnd Comments a voUme of miscellaneous essa)s b) Herbert Spencer he stvs conclusive!) Is his list w irk Thev nre not all new writings some hiving hiv-ing ntpearel before In whole or In part In periodicals, but others ure fresh ut t-nnce Tin volumes arrange 1 for and soon to le itlhllshed In ihe n vv tnallsli Men of I etlers Series fuel lUe Matthew Arnoll bv Herlct Paul lo be Issued this month Tennyson, by Sir Vlfred Lvall In An-gust An-gust rtutkln bv Trederlc Hirrlson In September and Bnwnlng b) Gilbert Chesterton In Oct iher John Huh AlcMniter will soon Issue hla hioLriphv of Daniel Webster some of w hleh has alread) ippenred In the Cen-tur) Cen-tur) AIaga2lne Hamlin Oarlanl Is enpoged 11 writing i I In) rim scene I I ill In Colors lo Hnd nmnug the plcttiresnie chnricters Intro dicelar miners ind nwhovs It will he thoroughlv Vmcrlcnn In spirit and action A ulort time liefnre his death the late Orant Allen seleted ten of his short sto. rles which lit believed to represent the tiesl work he hnd don In the !! ic of Action Ac-tion em I i xpreesed the hope that his literal lit-eral v reputed m as i Hor) teller might be allowed to rest on these These stories hive I ecu pul llshed hv l,ewls S rlbn r Jte Cti of New ork under the Htli of The Backslider 11 W Javier has procluced a queer thing In kld and I or tho Devil hi t halne " II Is a sort of autoblographv done In rh)me and from Its generil character mn) lie re'gante I as i moilern Pilgrim s Prigress In a prefn e of const lerahle length the author states his purpose to set I rlh hi religious treed which differs s mew hat from th accepted orthodox be-llf be-llf He undertakes tn show tint the levll Is mn own evil thoichts and that hell und hsaven are eon lltlons of mint a id not location To do this the more perfei tlv and In aecortance with my own w i) f thinking he says with a se eiuen not quite clenr I have neressar llv si irted with mv place of birth near the ptescnt site of Citlcr Carroll countv Ind Tlu opening lines of his tale real thus Twas m good fortune in he horn Aherc people raise bolh wheat anl corn nd man) things to cat nre grown And home the people mostl) own Twns there things being as the) mav. That first I us the ll.ht of ria. nd here mv storj must legln, The orliln of all m sin W. hleh la putting It pretty ro igh on Cir. roll count. The biographers of ihe late 1 1 Hung Chang will Is. ie his li'e In ihirtv volumes vn Fngllsh ellilon ahrllgel will proba. bl i rimed Hi Inner hve Ijs ie.1 a novel entitled Tho Master of Cnxli n by Hlldrgird Urook whose first nivel was Without a Warrant Th new book Is malnl) a love stirv of a pe. ullnrlv svmtathetlc qualltv In the buckgt mil Cie beautiful Southern places I axton and The Terra Ter-ra es are full of I he atmosphere of the South ind a dellc itely suggested flivor of romance Cassandra Dile uhandoneel it fortune In the N'orth to live with her poor white brothers In Cei rgl i |