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NF.W YORK, OCT. I 8 1907 631 Fall cAnnouncement L.EIOHTONS "THE SUMMER NOON." pleaslns rrnjement chlTd, dotu not so beyond the record of hi own Illustrations? Dom not Icnoro uch a piece a the (tor Mr. Cox 'doea not In the least need to be told that composition mar be the typical merit of a picture containing but a single veil as a group,) and, still more conspicuously, of such a piece as "The Summer Noon," where, It will seem to most observers, his generalization Is so flatly contra dicted that the power and grace of linear design are the rery motive of the picture "and the details developed from It?" In any case, we' owe the author thanks for putting the evidence before us. And particular praise belong to him for the care and success of his selection of illustrations In general They are all really such all chosen and Introduced for the light they shed on the text, thus greatly adding to Us Interest and, value. Let us add that the layman 'need not be In the least afraid of technicalities because the author happens to be technically competent.

There Is nothing In the volume which an Intelligent lover of art will not find both intelligible and Interesting. m. a. AVALANCHE OF SHORT STORIES. The three Judges In The Circle's short story contest are still occupied la reading the manuscripts which rained In upon them In response to their offer.

The contest was closed on the 1st of August. The total number of stories received up to that tlmo was in the neighborhood of The work of weeding out the stories whlchwere too obviously poor to enter the race was commenced at once, and this preliminary work diminished the pile very materially. Since then the reading has gone on more slowly, until now the number from which -the prize winners will be selected has been reduced to 106. The highest prise offered is ft.000. They are nine other prizes, aggregating 92.000.

tVTien these ten prizes have been allotted to the respective winners, the judges will then pass on the merits of the remaining stories for the purpose of buying, at the regular rates, such of them as are worthy. According to one of the Judges, the general average of these 108 stories Is decidedly good, and after the prize wlnnars bave been selected It is thought probable that as many as fifty of the ethers will be purchased by The Circle. A VOLUME OF IBSEN DRAMA. In their copyright edition of the collected works of Henrlk Ibsen the Scrlbners Issue Volume "Emperor and GalU-lean." with Introduction by William Archer. ($1.) Mr.

Archer gives quotations from Ibsen's letters, which Indicate that the dramatist considered this his greatest work. But Mr. Archer's own opinion Is that It cannot be ranked among bis masterpieces. In his Introduction Mr. Archer goes over briefly but carefully the historical bases of the play, pointing out the elements of history and of fiction In each of the two parts, and showing where and how Ibsen falsified while using facts.

This falsification he conceives to be due to the Intellectual Influences under which Ibsen was living when he wrote the second part. This wns during the Franco-Oerman war and the unification of Germany, snd it Is the critic's opinion that this political unification became In Ibsen's mind typical of the formation of large aggregates, preliminary to the coming of the "Third Kmplre," In which would be accomplished the reconciliation of "the Jarring elements of flesh and spirit" Aad be concludes that the Influence of this concentlon caused the poet to 60 rank Injustice to Julian's Character. "It has led Ibsen," says Mr. Archer, to cog the dice against Julian In a way from whlcn even a Father of the Church might bave shrunk." And he concludes: So far as Its Incidents are concerned, the second mlrht have been designed by a super stitkms haaiologlst or a. reeiedramaOat desirous of currying favor with the clergy." FUN BY MR.

BIGELOW PAINE. FROM VAW DWELLRR TO COMMUT ER. By Albeit Bignow rain, rp. sis. Nn York: Hur lirothflra.

HE who takes for his adventurers a few commonplace Americans la search of a flat in New Tork. surrounding them with the perils of dark hallways and steep stairways and subjecting them to the tyranny of haughty Janitors and flighty landladies, must possess a keen sense of humor and a pleasing literary style to make his book readable. Mr. Albert BIgelow Paine la his From Van Dweller to Commuter" achieves a difficult task through his sense of the ridiculous and the charm of his method of treatment. From multi-millionaire to pauper, the domiciliary problem Is a hard one to solve In an environment beset by four or five million people, each one of whom craves a home.

But the millionaire can build' a palace and the pauper can sleep In the To Mr. Palne's hero and heroine and their three children, being neither very rich nor very poor, the dif ficulties presented by the need of a satis factory home are those that, in some form or other, confront all outsiders who, feel ing the Irresistible call of the metropolis. migrate to New Tork. That a story of this mild and unexciting kind will make a wide appeal to a reading public that has seemed of late to crave strong meat la hardly probable, but It win find its clientele among those who enjoy Warner's "My Summer. in a Oar-den" and other half-realistic, balf-hu-morous transcripts of the more or less simple life that, In its varied phases, comprises the existence of So many Americans to-day.

JAMESTOWN SOUVENIR. "Jamestown Tributes and Toasts," a volume of sentiments In prose and poetry. Is Issued from the press of the J. P. Bell Company, Lynchburg, Va It Is the work of Julia Wyatt Bullard, a clever Virginia newspaper woman, and Its general design and Its contents are very creditable.

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Robert Rudd Whiting seems to be a sort of twentieth century reincarnation of Baron Munchausen, for his A Ball of Yarn" (Paul Eld 73 cents.) is a collection of grotesque perversions of possibility seanewbat arter the manner of the Munchausen tales. The Tarns are told by several men sitting around the stove in a hotel office and vary from that of the breath-bound village In which, on a cold Winter's day, the people all got lost In the frozen fog of their own breaths to that of the man who had a schemo for beating the races by telegraphing the list of a day's winners around the' world and getting It back to New Tork the day before It started. The book, which Is printed on tan paper and bound In yellow paper boards aad baa several Illustration in color, la gotten with an artistie whimsicality that as la Keeping wiw 11s contents. New Books Published by" E. P.

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