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ft NEW YORK. SATURDAY. APRIL 1G, 1904. ft 271 ABOUT AUTHORS. What Some of Them Are Saying, Writing, or Planning.

NEW novel is announced by Thomas Dixon, author of "The One Woman and The Leopard's Spots," It Is aatd to be. In a way. a companion to his first book, and la entitled The Clansman." Mr. Dixon's purpose here la to show that the original formers of the Ku Klux Klan were modern' knights errant, taking the only means at hand to right wrong. The book will bear the Imprint of Doubleday.

Page tc Co. Apropos of Mr. Dixon, his Leopard's Spots" la reported to be well In Its second hundred thousand, while "The One Woman Is passing the 100.000 mark. Richard Bagot, a Knight of Malta, an Englishman well knOwn in Roman society, whose Catholic trilogy. "A Roman Hyatt jr." "Casting of Nets," and -Donna Diana," has excited much adverse comment In Roman Catholic circles, Is about to bring nut a new novel through Longmans, Oreen entitled Love's Proxy." Memories of Jane Cunningham Croly June," who was known In England and America as the mother of women's clubs,) Is to be published In June by G.

P. Putnam's Sons. It Is edited by a memorial committee of the Woman's Press dub of New York City, and Is made up of articles and letters by friends and associates. Caleb Powers, the former Secretary of State of Kentucky, now in a Louisville Jail, condemned to death for the murder of "Gov. Goebel, la writing a book covering his personal experience during the troub lous days of Kentucky's fleice partisan war for the control of the State.

The book' Will be published by McClure. Phillips Co. Arthur Henry's new book, The House In the Woods," to be published next week by A. 8. Barnes A is founded upon the author's own experiences In a return to nature in the Catskill Mountains.

He pur chased a tract or land and built a cottage, and has gathered about him cows and chickens and all the accompaniments of an Independent rural life. He not only tells of the making of a country home, but also the life of the native residents of the mountains and the characteristic features of his outdoor Ufa. The late Guy Wetmore Carry! laid his new story, "Transgression' of Andrew Vano," In Paris, the scene of his "Zut and Other The author gives a picture of the American colony In the Stench capital. The book will be published Ute this Spring by Henry Holt A Co. Henry Harland, author of My Friend Projpero," and Mrs.

Harland have left London and are spending the Spring season la Rome. They were accompanied by lime. BL Maria Albanesl. author of "Susannah and One Other." The hard Winter drove Mr. Harland away from American shores, but It la stated that he intend to return this Summer.

Netaon Lloyd, whose story. "The Soldier of the Valley," begins In the May Scrlb-oer's and will continue for several months, has for a number of years contributed to Set-toner's stories with the quaint characters In an out-of-the-way valley. George Madden the. popular author of Emmy Lou." has named her new novel The House of. Fulfillment." It will hegln aerial appearance In the May Mo-Clure's.

It Is primarily a love story. la his new volume. How to Get the Beat Out of Books," published by the Baker Taylor Company. Richard Le Galllenne outlines tasks that will discourage neither the busy maa nor the ambitious youth. He loaves out many booka that are' Insisted apon by other manuals, and writ.

A "What's the Use of poetry." Miss Margaret Horton Potter new novel The Flame-Gatherers." to be pub-Ushed nexj month by The Macmlllan Company, la said to resemble Istar of Babylon more than her other books. It la the atory of Aara, a captive Prince, who la In battle by the Rajah of Mandu n4 becomes his cup bearer. Aara talis an love with the Rajah's favorite wife, and oh with him. The first part of the tale deals with their growing love and with the contest between Aara and the Rajah' vrfjdor. Miss Potter has been working on this novel for five years.

The Earl of Iddeslelgb, author of "Luck Laasendale and Belinda' Fitiwar-ren. has written a new novel entitled Charms" which John Lace will publish. Thomas Okey. author of Venice," Ac, Is writing a similar book treating of Per-la, O. F.

If. Ward Is making Illustrations color- iatlar to those in the book on Venice. The biography Charles Dudley War- tB McClure. Phillips Coa Contemporary Men of Letters which has been partlaaUrty well received on ao- wiuit ut aiueno unpublished corre-apondeuce between Mr. Warner and W.

D. wuwhi, mua ui lignt which it throws upon Warner's Interest la the prison reform. Charles Wagner, author of By the Fire-side. recently brought out by McClure, Phillips A Co is to visit this country In October or November. He will deliver ser mons and lectures, speeches to children and young men's clubs, and will make ad- drewc" in the universities.

"Side by side with my lectures." he says. I Intend to carry on a discreet propaganda for my work here In Parts. work Is the centre of my activity, and consists essentially In the diffusion of the Gospel under a simple- and logical form appropriate to the mind and the needs of the time." 8outh America and not Africa la the hunting ground which has been chosen by the author of ''To Windward," Henry Rowland, for his 8prtng holiday. It Is probable that his Journey will result In new literary material as well as game. Profs.

Barrett 8. Wendell and C. N. Greenough of Harvard University have written a tr a Th hnnk t- 4a.A.iKi uvovj iLrrvi aus Sa. JlUJlTTm henslve survey, and at the same time a concise history of American literature from Its beginnings.

It is designed for the general student rather than the specialist, and will serve as a handbook. It will be fully Illustrated and will bear the Imprint of Charles Scrlbner's Sons. Dr. Delos F. Wilcox has sent to the Macmlllan Company an essay on the problems of municipal government, with special reference to the growth of democracy, entitled "American Cities and Their Problems." Dr.

Wilcox looks upon the city as an open door through which political and ocial reforms are most likely to come. He analyses the causes of city growth, the characteristics of city life, and the Ideals of democracy. Charles Livingston Bun. who 'la making the pictures for Prof. Charles O.

D. Roberts new book of animal life. "The Watchers of the Trails." has rented a studio near Bronx Park and Is devoUng his entire time to the study of the animals In the soo there. 8. R.

Crockett has finished a new novel. The Loves of Miss Anne," which Dodd, Mead ft Co. are to bring out late in the Autumn. The story Is told by Miss Anne's former maid and companion. Clementina McTaggart Miss Anne Is the spoiled daughter of a Highland laird, and grows up mischievous and headstrong, but fascinating, brave, and true.

A number of men fall In love with her. Mrs. Violet Jacob, whose novel, 'The Interloper," will be published Aug. 1 by Doubleday. Page 4 Co, Is a member of a distinguished English family.

Her husband. Major Arthur Jacob, who has had a brilliant military career in India, at present holds a high command tn Egypt Mrs. Jacob's early years were spent In Forfarshire, where the scenes of "The Interloper are laid. Stephen Gwynn's new book Is made up of papers relating the author's experience In email rivers and lakes In the North of Ireland, and includes anecdotes, besides some discourse about angling. It Is entitled "Fishing Holidays." Mr.

Gwynn will bo remembered throtigh his former hooka, "John Maxwell'a Marriage" and "Highways and Byways In Donegal and Antrim." His publishers are the Macmlllan Company. Kenyon Cox. Frank Fowler, and Harper Pennington, the well-known American artists, will discuss In the May Scrlbner's Magazine Whistler's qualities as a painter. Valentine Hawtrey'a novel, Perronelle." Is described as a story of Bohemian tofd with all the freshness and unconven Uonallty of Bohemia." It Is to be published by John Lane. account of some quality of form or Importance In the line of evolution.

First Folio of Chaucer. At the suggestion of several distinguished scholars. The Oxford University Press Is printing a fao simile reproduction of the First Folio of Chaucer, edited by W. Thynne In 1532. It will be edited, with an Introduction, by the Rev.

Prof. 8keat, Lite Ac, and reproduced the photographic department of the Oxford University Press from the copy In the British Museum Library. This edition will be uniform with the reproduction of the Shakespeare First Folio of Thynnes edition of 1532 Is believed to be the only one of real value and the authority of the others that have followed It There la no other source tor Usk's Testament of Love," or for the ballads entitled "The Flower of Curtesy "To My Sovereign Lady," and A Goodly Ballad." Thynne Is the authority, too, of Go wet's Praise of Peace and The Romaunt of- the of "The Ballad of Good Ta Envoy to Bukton." and "The Assembly of for "The Envoy to Bcogan and The Book of the Duchess." The edition will be limited to 1,000 copies, and will be In two styles of binding, antique boards and rough calf. Mediterranean Architecture. A Cyclopaedia of Works of Architecture in Italy, Greece, and the Levant," Is published by Charles Scrlbner's Sons at $6.

It la a small quarto 350 pages printed on heavy calendered paper, excellently 'adapted to giro full value to the 250 Illustrations. The editor. WllUam Preble Longfellow, nephew of the poet, is the original editor of The American Architect, and was Chairman of the Architectural Section of Board of Judges of the World's Columbian Exposition la 183. The volume gives quick access to the knowledge of the important monuments of Italy. Greece.

Turkey, and other near-by countries. The student or Intending traveler will find Its dictionary form useful, though he will miss an index, Historical and literary associations have been cut down to the merest outlines to make room for the fullest possible descriptions; tor this reason some Urge and conspicuous buildings are omitted entirely, while many less known are Included on Memories of a Traveler. OLD-TIME TlUVfcl. Personal Rmtnlacneee of th. ('ontlneni Forty Voir Ago Com-r-arsd with Kiprrtoncra of th Pr-iU hy Alexander lnnes ghaad.

With Numerous Illustrations jr A. H. Hailam Murray. 12 mo, pp. in.

Sw York: Jamas foil Co. IJ.S4. What the wandering Englishman saw and something of what he did, on the Continent of Europe In the days before the railway was a real factor In travel, here set down In a fashion pleasingly dli-cursive. The author will be traveling by tanal in Holland when the mention of the bill of fare.on the canal boat will send him into reminiscences of a dosen other places where food Is provided, how good or bad th food la. what It la, what It was a generation ago, what It coot, what It waa named In the language of the ooan try.

with what wines or beers It was washed dqwa. No matter what the country of which Mr. Shand Is telling, and he tells many Inter-eating things of many kinds about every country In Europe except Russia, he never forgets the great dinner question. He Is an authority on hotela, cafea; those of forty years ago he remembers with regretful sentiment, those, of to-day which are good he mentions with friendliness even where they have driven away hi. old favorites.

Beginning with Holland and Its cities, with Belgium and Brussels. Mr. Shand passes up the Rhine and visits the old German cities, Mayenco. NUrnberg. Frankfort, and the potters about the Rhlneland watering places before ever the gamblers, who.

with the fashionable physlclana, "made" those resorts and made tbem gay. were banished by Prussian puritans; before the famous M. Blanc left Germany to make the fortune of the than tmpecunioua Monaco. Mr. Shand regrtts these gamblors; they were bad.

but not all bad-and now the German watering places are dull In spite of the magnificence of buildings and gardens left behind by the sinners In their flight Then Mr. Shand talks of castles on the Rhine, at that time a drug on the market, lonely resorts of bats. Such a castle with some scrap of rocky IIntya.5d ttach to bTnad for a song. If any one cared to buy. I remember the excitement caused by the report that a fit it Proposed to i'i '1UP- A Rhine cantle often figured among the prizes In the Frankfort lotteries, but apparently the winners mutt have parted with their while elephanto on any reasonable terms.

wu In such fashion also Mr. Shand visits Vienna, which he loves, and Berlin, which he hates; the towns and Inns of Switzerland, Florence, Venice, Rome, Naples, Pa lermo, cverywnere be dines and wherever' he can he hunts and shoots snd rides and travels In sundry vehicles, by by vettura, by post So he goes to Parts, where the most of his talk Is of cafes and hotels, and to Spain, where the ancient small coin of the country Is the most vexatious thing. There are also the matters of changing coinage, everywhere most troublesome and wasteful forty years ago, and custom houses even more bothersome than now, to say nothing of passports, and offl-dais, honest and punctilious In Prussia, open to bribery, and not otherwise open. In the Italian States, more especially In the Papal Bute, which were not yet a part of the realm of the Impious Savoyard. The Illustrations are extremely Interesting, handsome, and numerous, consisting of bits of many famous cities by Mr.

A. LL Hallam Murtay. "The Fruit Garden." Charles Scrlbner's havs Imported a volume In The Country Life Library dealing with The Fruit Garden." by George Bun-yard, V. M. and Owen Thomas, V.

M. It Is the result of personal experience on the part of the different contributors, and every effort. It Is stated In the preface, has been made to make It a trustworthy guide to the production of fruit, both to the professional gardener who devotee his Ufe to the work, and to the many amateurs who engage In gardening as a recreation." The methods practiced In this country, In France, and the Channsi islands scribed by authorities. Among the writers are W. Watson.

H. IL Hugh Pettlgrew, M. Alfred Nomblot, IL E. Van-deman, and others. Numerous sketches and photographic reproductions have been made to illustrate tbs text The volume deals with the apple, the aprloot blackberries and allied fruits, the cherry, red.

white, and black currants, fruit tiees In pots, the gooseberry, th melon and the mulberry, the nut the peach and nectarine, the pear the pineapple, the. plum and the quince, the strawberry, the tomato, tropical fruits and how to grow them, the vine, the planting of fruit trees, fruit stor-sge. propagation of fruit trees, whole-frol preservations. Injurious insects and diseases affecting fruit trees, construction of fruit houses, and other Interesting topics. rss99ees The Senior Country Reader." The third IL fi.

IL Buchanan's flanlnr Country' Readers will very shortly be Issued vuiuHUl, 4 DO UHJO VOI- unie contains 143 Illustration and treats of the simple principles of manuring, preparation of the seed bed, straw crops, th oat and barley crops, th growing of tbs root crop, weeds of the plow land, cottage gardens, garden (fruits.) cottage pits and poultry, hares and rabbits, pigeons, and closes with some Hints on the Management of a Grass Holding." m-5 tng with the sliver work of Alexander Fwher la by T. Martin Wood: Lewis Mind writes about Kihlcal Art and F. Cayley Robinson "i "Joaquin 80 Pol and Spanish Painting of To-day the aubjoct of an article by Leonard WllUama, and there are the usual Illustrations In color. and white. and the studio talk from the art centres of tbe world.

Copyrights. Arthur 8. Hamlin has compiled volume dealing with "Coprrtght Cases and Decisions." This Is a summary of leading American dectalons on the law of copyright and on literary property during ltan-19US, together with the text of the United ftatea copyright statutes, and -selections from copyright decisions in Great UritaJn nd Canada. The book la to be published for the American Copyright League by O. -P.

Putnam's Sons. -The Ef'endL" The Effendl," the new.book by Florence Brooks Whltehouse. author of The God of Things," a novel of the Nile' country, Is laid in the Soudan. Tbe prologue of the ro-nance deals with the siege of Kartoumand the death of the hero. Gordon: and the epilogue with the retribution which England exacted from the Arab hordes.

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