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Show ; " NEWS AND GOSSIP OF BOOKS, MAGAZINESAUTHORl AND PUBLISHERS. J - x o , l1 TRAIN'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY. I The Appletons nnnounce the publlcfl- I Hon In the autumn of the autobiography of George Krnnrls Train, which vv 11 irobably have for Its title 'My Life in Many Stales nnl In Torelgn Lands ritizen Train n few weeks ago ptepared an abstract of the nutoblogrnphy, ns rrnzEN ononoc ''"ANria lit A IN Al'TOBIOCinAI'HY llOlLl-D DOWN, 4"0 PACKS IN MO 1BD" , , .. . Horn 3 SI-'Ji Orphaned New Orleans Or-leans '33 il'alher mothtr nnd thtee sisters-yellow fever) Came North alone 4 yean old tn grandmother Wnlthim Mass Supported self since babyhood I'armer till 11 If""' boy i ambrldgri nrt two yeirs Phlp-ling Phlp-ling tlerk 16 mmiger IS Partner Triliiit..,o Jfi ilncomo JlOfinO) notion, 21 (IliOOO) HsiHhllshel O V T ft rn , M.lhomne ustrnlln "il Agent 11 lr-Ings lr-Ings Duncan . Miermin W lille tflnr Line (Income 911 (nwi snrtcd forty ,llppeiBtotallfornli 49 I lying floud Snveiiign of the S-eis Slnrforilahjre Hullt D ft O 11 It connecting Lrle with Ohio and Ml-slsslppl four hull-died hull-died miles Pioneered first street railway rail-way Iluinpe Amtrlrn Australia fKng-land fKng-land lllrkenheiid DnrllnMon rttaffnril-shire, rttaffnril-shire, London 10) Hullt first l'ifle railway (lT IM d CO through tlrst trust. Credit Moblller Owns live thousand thou-sand lots Omaha, worth SOOOOAno (Hftcen Jills without a crime) Trnln villi built ut Newport. M inughtera house No HC Madison nvenue. Cn Oi. giinlzed French Commune, Marseilles Llgtie do Midi October 'TO while on retuin trip around the world In e ghty days Jules Verne, two years later vvroto this up In fiction Cornered law-ytrs law-ytrs doctors clericals by quoting three columns of Jllblo to release Woothull-Clatlln Woothull-Clatlln front lleccher, '." Nrm lunntle by liw through six courts Now living In Mills police, 1 ngilnst M00 a vveik nt Train villa (Daughter always has room for me In country) Pliyed Carnegie Car-negie forty yens ohead Three genen-tlnns genen-tlnns living off Credit Moblller Author dozen books out of print (vide 'Wlun Who 'Alllbone' Appleton's Cyclopaedia) Cyclopae-dia) Pour times around the world l'lrst two years Pecond eighty diys, 70 Third sixty seven nnd a half diys, "in rnurth sixty diys shortest ree. ord 92 Through Psychic Telepathy, nm doubling nge. Seventy -fourth year ou,,!?'c.nonin rnAvcis tiiain. ' Mills Palace President Driftwood Club, 16C0 Sol-vent Sol-vent Members ' "THE QUEEN OF QUELTARTE." A novel of timely Intenat owing to the recent newii dlsp itches announcing the conclusion of nn Important agreement agree-ment between the British and Japanese Ministers to Korea on one hind, nnd the Japinese councillor Knto special adviser to the Korean I'mpetor on tho other, by which Oreat Ilrltulii nnd Japan Ja-pan mutually guarantee Korea's lnde-penitence lnde-penitence Is The Queen of tutl arte by Archer Ilutler llulbert, whleh Little III own ft Co will publish next month Prom the preface of tho ndvnnce sheets It nppems thit there Ih about us much fact as notion In thli new romance Mr llulbert snys 'lest there he misapprehension It ihould bo stated thit the Queen of Korea Ko-rea wna murdered In her p ilacc nt Peoul October 6, 1S95 In the In lief th it she wis Intriguing to put Korea Into the hands of llussln 'Iho (alico wan tired and only n fnigmcnt of her body lemilned to b carried In the Imperial funeral which occurred In November 1SJ7 The chapters, The Imperial Funeral Fu-neral ' and The Slgnnl of tho bcab-hird' bcab-hird' arc partly derived from tho author au-thor b letters to American pnpers written writ-ten at the time Hussla obtnlnetl the tunatet hnnd In Korea in tho winter nf 1SD7-8 nnd withdrew temporarily In Mnrrh IM" as announced by the nu-thoi nu-thoi s cables to the New York World at the moment llusslis leitw of Port Arthur from China was made known This was done, nccordlns to common ttport, to pacify Japan" A HELEN HUNT LETTER, The following letter written by Helen Hel-en Hunt Jnckson to a booksellet thirty years ago Is Interesting nt this time us a new Illustrated ulltlon of tho Imok she so highly euninieiids Is about to bo bioughl out this rull Newport. Monday, Juno li Dear Mr Nibs Pleate send mo a copy of Utile Ut-ile Women ' t have never riad It strange tn Bay, nnd I am an dcllUitcil with the first rhuplers of Little Men" lint I want to go back and Hnd out who they all nre I shull write n short notice of it nt once Miss Alcott is really n benefactor of households' You should have si en Ihe children In this house when 1 opened the package containing con-taining "Little Men ' Th. y crowded and reamed and all shouted at onco let me have llrst roidlng ' ' . .let me' You reid 'Little Wn. men Unit'" nnd so on Now they tnke turns the three nnd Hi. hoik Is In somebody's Innds fioin 0 a m till bedtime' Yours truly HL'LKN HUNT Adlress eiro Mrs Clmenco Pill M iry street, Newport AMERICAN ITCTION. A generation ago the eyes of educate 1 morlcnns were strulnln.- eugi rly foi the great Amu I. mi novel Our nm billon hid been stlmultled by iho w mid wide sue; esa ot 'Uncle Toms Cabin and tin high cililtal prilse won nt homo and nbroitl by lliwthorne un. Ill ev, ry strong new bunk was revh wed as much to deride whether It might nnt I osBlbly be the hoped-for won lor nn tn Indicate whit It renlly wiib '1 lie mno.1 passed in a. few jmrs The ciltiuil tuichers uiildil that American i llf w is ton vm led too Utile homogeneous for one book or one author to portray the different sections nnd types nf chat arte- That Ide i was ink. n up with avidity and ench slory tellei went tn vvnil. tilling his own llttlo cordon pmh and bringing fnrth tho product which uillectlvcly li known na A merit in fl. -Hon Some of this work him l,4n of high quilltv Mr JInvvells. wrlllng of ...ton and New York M,' liunnn n II tie sections or New York Miss W. kins mid Miss Jewell of New i:nglm I Miss Murfree nr Tennessee Mr Harris or Oeorcln Hiunlln Uurlaiid of il' pralrlo firmer folk ind Owen W 1st. r nf thn covvlpys luyeall produced wmk which Is ucognlze.1 an almost nhnii griphlc In its reprn lm Hon nf loml .on dltlons rharnttur and itinnspliere , quality w hit h has bo abounded thnt the word has bccomi a nulsin.e ii there was no blend In this vveilti, , lo.nl llcllon '" "r Hut within the Inst jenr there has be. nine visible a ti ndem y tn nv.rt to tho enrll, i ldeiil of the emit Anion an novel ' K la exemplified most strongly In two hoiks bv then lofiin, unknown men ihe ei, n . Pt ink Norrlrt and Ihe hnmKra hj llnrry Ixin Ullwin NBiiber wilier shows desire tn naaumi gnatness but euth hus striven to portiay the vini rorres which muko the t'nlted Hlntia whit they are today Mr N'nnls s lm ik wbb tho llrst lMrt or n trllogv n, L'plc , r tho Wheot,' win, , vvlll inrl'i o irolucllon trniistnirliiilon ana ,!,, maiket including apt ulatlon or to stuft nf life," vlth un,,, of ,,1,lrl",, tor in nil stages The Spond,"' ,, I, sa '111 intlc In oullluc iiiim lli it nnd s a much mure cnUrtaimuy, Look thu The Oi topus ' although Its grnep Is less firm or profound Mr "A llsnn studies the gold from its dlgfclng In tho mines of .Montana to Its spending In the Waldorf-Astoria and traces his characters from their mine environment environ-ment to the city and hick again. The merit of both books Is In the aspiration of their writers to fill adequately a lnrge ennvis tn print something whlih shall fittingly represent fundamental forces of the fulled Htntes ns n nation, Instead of mere surface rocl.il fripperies, frip-peries, rather thin In tho skill nf achievement Mr Norrls linn n fine grlii on character, but whole pases, even chapters, of his book nie undenli-bly undenli-bly heavy Mr Wilson with nn equally keen eye for character nnd much grcnt-cr grcnt-cr lightness and vivacity, sidly lacks distinction of style His characters get there" but bis sentences hive nn exasperating habit nf falling to arrive, Fnve when he lets his Western millionaires million-aires talk In theli veinnculnt Then his use of the sling or the streets Is nl-most nl-most stirtllnc In lis vividness Nothing Noth-ing ltter thnn Mr. HlBheen dealing with his boh b social nsplntlons or tho ntrounl which the Knnsas City million-nlre million-nlre gives of the nltempts nf the scion of an Impoverished New iork fnmllv to jay court to his Caroline tins been seen outside of tho Chlrnso novels nf Henry II Puller Hut when Mr. Wilson Wil-son keeps to Rood l.ngllsh In his own person he mlssei the vividness and lower which he Is nhle to reach In tho vernacular However, the old miner nnd his grandsons nre sterling, dim at -lers and with this Isink, ns with "The Octopus" It Is better to hive seriously attempted a gre-it subject nnd to fall short of literary perfection than lo hive made a terfect miniature ot a summer love ntory of Newport or Bar Harbor In this country the big subjects sub-jects He ready to tho hind of the novelist nov-elist Tho big stories nre being lived all about un waiting for the telling, nt they must be nmong veiy robust people hewing their way to a new civilization Perhaps the example of Messrs Norrlt and V llsnn may turn the tendency toward to-ward novils which are national na distinguished dis-tinguished from parochial and nvvay from the petty flummery of historical romance When the writer nrlses who shall treat such national themes with the power nnd tlnMi which Ellin ("lias-gow ("lias-gow puts Into her plcttiics of Vliglnla during and since the war wo shall hive a llctlon which will ho ns truly Amerl-enn Amerl-enn ns Thackerai or lllclnrdson nre typlcnlly English And then 'The Oreat American Novel will no longer be a barren Ideality or a hopeless dream Philadelphia Press. aossip or books. There his Just been published by tho New inrk hoilety of helf Culture n work entitled 'Coirect Social Usige' This work will prove of value to tho pirson not thoroughly familiar with every rule of ttlquelte while It rnnnot fill to Interest even the most polished It treats of cnlls, weddings, illnniis, receptions, balls, servints, etc in ono word, gives vnlunble advice on every mihject relating to soclil lite. No leis than fifteen well known writers havo tuken part in the wilting of tho book. Oraco Miller While his written a clever llttlo book uilled "A Harmless Itevoliilliin" The elurncters arc taken from the ptiuctuitlon family ot tho English language, personified, and made to talk ovi r their nbusta by careless care-less writers It tcichen punctuation in nn amusing but entertaining manner. man-ner. The Illustrations by J K, llrynns have glvin n touch of humor, which adds to tho chirm and simplicity of what hns hitherto been considered a tiresome lesson "Tho Quest .of Polly Locke." by Zoo Anderson Nortls. di Us with the search of a young girl for her hie il man On the eve of lier departure from Pirls she givrs n rough outline or him In this wise ' Tliero must be no tilcktry in him," she snys nmong other thliigt ' no levity, no guile There must bo no sm illness no meanness, no Belt-sufficiency Thi re must be nobleness of heart and serenity lie must be proul but kind and gentle withal and merciful merci-ful He must be scir-iffmlng nnl trustworthy lie must In nymp Uhclli; and rouiteous nnd truthful "Joe's Pirndlse or the lslind nf Hriithcily Love by Marshall Saunders, Is tailed by the llbllshers I, J Pngo ft Co. the moat Itniiirliint book for young folks lo be puhllshol this Benson The following from a levliw fiom Ihn ndvnnce slucts only pirtly deBirlbos the charm of Jo, a Paradise' 'One of tho most rulgliiul hunks for children of all mowHih that has appeared ap-peared for years It Is bubbling over wllh lilch splills nnd the gayest, moat fnntnstlc humni , a lnvi ly wondei-slnry, nttuiied to thit spirit nf nuirvels bo dun to the childish huirt a hook np-penllng np-penllng to every lovir uf nnlinals n tnle so genuine fii lunching lu Its quality, that tears an almost nndy to follow In Ihe wake of liughlir as nnt lends ' Plnrenro Brooks W hltehouse author nf Tho find of Thln-s, ' Is spending the rht (lod of Things Is B ending tin Bunnuei on Squint 1 Island, Maine, while sho Is ri iiitul m bi m work on another novil 'i In Ood of Things Is In Its second edition Some of therrltlis uf The Hi mine nf (tie Htliill rililot.llt, , ni. !.. I..-, .,,,- ,,,,,.,. .,.,,,., my ii 1 1, ,re ine incident inci-dent of Angt llqui t ulllirltr h level Hlnn if thn rnnsplricy ,,r Poiill ip fictitious As a milttir or Out Miss Crowley fnuu led tills Important irt nf her m-ni m-ni met, on Inriinnnll.in Hint Iiqb come to light slnie Pirkrnnns day lint eminent emi-nent hlslnilnn did nut crullt Hie nc-cniiiit nc-cniiiit which nst i Ibex Hits mt to un Indian In-dian gill Little mown ft ( o s fall flillnn ln-eludcB ln-eludcB I In I'h uanli iiml ihe Pries!,' trMnBlal.il from the original Polish ot Alexander Olnvutskl by Jiremlnli Cur-tin, Cur-tin, "Iho line, n nt Qutliarti' ' by Archer Ar-cher Duller Hiilbert Tnwei or T hriuip, n ltoinnnre or Iho fllrlhool of I'llni-both I'llni-both by llnrrlet T Conislock Tho Shadow nf Hie (Vn " by John It Curling Cur-ling a ntw edition nf 'The Cnlonel s Oreri Clnik" bv Christine C ntish, a new trillion in Miss llellailnnnii wllh luldlllnmilf hn lers by Cninllnn Tlcknoi, and a new bonk bv Ihe nutlioi of Miss Tnosey'H Mission ' untied 'Tulthrul " The llnys mid (llrls rionksht If Is Ihe title of n new b. lies nf Illustrated 12mo Miliums by pniulai luviulli uutbois Just Ihbiii 1 bv I. IIU, llruwii A. ( o lu iinirorm i loll, bliiillngs at Jt each The re in ihlily volumes In Ihnserlis Includ-nil Includ-nil BlurliB liy U.iiIhii M Aliott Husun i io.ill.lKi Mrs r.wlng Lima Ilkhni Is Mary V W. lis Hmllh Inula. Clinn.lUi M.iultnn llt.heit liuu HH Vinson Lily h WiKselhnifi A 15 Plvinplnn Har-rlet Har-rlet Prestntt Hpuffor.l, Juui Ingelow and other Willi is |
