Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1899 — BIT FOR BOOKWORMS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BIT FOR BOOKWORMS

“Heroes of the Middle West,” by Mary Hartwell Catherwood, is full of romance and power. , It Ja said that the sales of “David Harum,” by the late Edward Noyes Westcott, are averaging nearly 1,500 a day. Eden Phillpotts, author of “The Children of the Mist,” has brought out • very successful comedietta called “A Golden Wedding.” ’ “Bach Life Unfulfilled” is the title of a novel by Anna Chapin Ray, a graduate of Smith College, and the author of “Teddy, Her Book.” Dean Farrar has written a boolf which he entitles “Texts Explained,” and describes as helps to the understanding of the New Testament “The Rejuvenation of Miss Semaphore” is an absurdly funny story by a writer calling herself “Hal Godfrey.” It deals with quack advertisements. “A Double Thread” is the title of a new novel by Ellen Thornycroft Fowler, author of “Concerning Isabel Carnaby,” which is to be published shortly. Lord Charles Beresford’s book is to have the title “The Break-Up of China.” This might seem, at the first glance, to make against Lord Charles’ policy for keeping China intact What he refers to, however, is the process of division which has been threatening China. Miss Braddon is still, at the age of 62, as industrious as ever, and a new novel, “The Infidel,” which has been promised for publication soon, makes it sure that 1899 will not go by without a novel from her pen. Since 1862, when she began to publish in book form, she has skipped only two years, and the total number of her novels since she wrote “The Trail of the Serpent,” in iB6O, comes to fifty-six, including the book almost finished. A book of the musical memories of Sir Arthur Sullivan will be published during the early summer. It Is being written by Arthur H. Lawrence under the authority of Sir Arthur Sullivan. Naturally, we may expect the volume to give us, more or less, a history of the Gilbert-Sulllvan operas. But it will also be a general picture of {he English mnsical world of our own day. Sir Arthur Sullivan has known all the notable figures associated with modern English music.