Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 30, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 22 January 1898 — Page 2

lilTERAEY MATTERS. *1

BOOKS ON THE FAR NORTH TO BE PUBLISHED EARLY IN THE SPRING.

Peary's Forthcoming Work to Be Followed by a Volume From the French on Andree, Who Went Poleward by Balloon,

Jalian Ralph and Anthony Hope. [Special Correspondence.]

NEW YORK, 17.—Author, en gravers, printers and publishers are alike working with might and main to hasten the bringing oat of Lieutenant Peary's forthcoming work, "North ward," wherein the explorer will make faithful narration of his adventures to date in search of the pole and outline the work he hopes to do in the near fu ture. One volume is already finished and in process of manufacture. The sec ond is to be completed before the mid die of February if persistent driving can accomplish the task. It is believed both by the lieutenant and his publish ers that "Northward" will have an ex ceptional sale, not only in America, but on the other side of the water also.

Interest in "Northward" has un doubtedly been greatly stimulated in England by the gift of a gessol to Lieu tenant Peary from Harmsworth of the London Daily Mail, and the American publishers have bad several cablegrams from English publishers asking for terms. Nothing has as yet been decided with regard to the English edition of Jhe book, however.

The lieutenant's publishers say his oapacity for work is extraordinary. He has been lecturing most of the time since the first page of his copy was put into type, and at the beginuing of the setting had not yet turned in the last batch of manuscript. But no matter how far from New York bo has boen or how long and tiresome his journeys between lectures, he has read every galley of proof as fast as received, has re turned every one promptly and has kept a steady stream of copy flowing into the office. Through it all he has been constaiiJly bouyant and cheerful and never annoyed by the inevitable complications that must arise from an at tempt to see a book through the press at long and varying range. These complications have been increased by the unusual sizo of tho work and the large number of illustrations. Lieutenant Peary expects to see the work completed some time before he goes northward. His lecturing tour will not close until May.

Soon after the Peary book comes off the press a volume from the French of Henri Lachambre and Alexis Machuron, dealing with Professor Andree's attempt to reach the pole by the aerial route, will appear. The interest felt by Americans in Andree, his scheme and his fate is undoubtedly inuoh less than in Europe. But this book will probably Attain a fair sale, partially on its own merits and partially beoause of the gen eral interest felt in arotio matters at this time. Booksellers here expect also that the publication of "Northward" will cause a revival of demand for Nansen's work.

Julian Ralph, who seems to have permanently joined the London oolony of American writers, has just returned to the other side after a flying visit to Now York made in order to close some contracts with publishers here. His presence was known to a few only, even among his best friends, until the publication of a report in the newspapers of the Chinese diuner given to Anthony Hope at which Ralph was a guest.

Mr. Ralph has been dividing his time recently between his work on the Loudon Daily Mail and a novel soon to he issued by ouo of the great publishing houses here. It has heretofore been a question, even among his admirers, as to whother lie could producoa sustained work of fiction or not. His ability at description and tho reporting of actual events is conceded to be of the highest order, but thoro have been differences of opinion concerning his short stories. One or two literary acquaintances who have been allowed to look over the manuscript of his first long work of fiction, however, declare that it stands a good chance of making an unusually strong hit. If their forecast should come true, tho despairing views of those who hold tho atmosphere of tho United States to be still unpropitious to the production of really 6trong fiction will bo rendered "well nigh untenable.

Tho unexpected value of Dr. S. Weir Mitchell's Hugh Wynne, Freo Quaker," which has already sold more than (50,000 oOpies, and the earlier success of Bichnrd Harding Davis' "Soldiers of Fortune" with a sale equally large or larger, have given encouragement to those who believe, in spite of the croakers, that the race of the novel is not yet run, and, moreover, that the American novel is just entering upon a period of development which will place the fiction of this country upon a plane quite as high as auy old world fiction.

At the sumo'time it must be admitted that English novelists still have a great advantage over those who write American fiction. English stories sell almost well in this country as in England, *ince American readers in the nature of things und»-stand English life well enough to appreciate the oonditions and the characters portrayed. But the number of readers in England who have sufficient sympathy with American char* acter and oonditions to be interested in stories of life on this side is too small to insure extended sale of even the most successful American fiction there.

So when Anthony Hope, for inst&noe, soores a big success with English read* ers he is morally certain to score an* other one almost or equally as great in this country, and tho American publishers of a story from his pen now feel justified in making preparations in advance for record sale. Thus the publishers of his novel "Simon Dale," which is now running through the press, vaaj with perfect safety print many more thousand copies of the first

edition than they would dare print of any American novelist's book, with possibly one exception, and, in fact, have felt justified in spending an unusual amount of money in the illustrations. These are from the hand of St. John Harper, and if they are nearly as well printed in the book as on the sam-, pie proof sheets furnished by the engraver are sure to attract general attention.

Hope still has some weeks of reading in America ahead of him. He has done very well and will take between $20,000 and $30,000 to England when he sails. This is below the profits cleared by Dr. Watson (Ian Maclaren), whose net was about $40,000, but Hope could have done as well had he cared to. Hope has seemed to care more for the fun of life while here than for making the last dollar he could reach and has declined to exert himself beyond a certain point, no matter how raofitefyle.-th!9 extra exertion might be. jjlaillal

His income from his books is not far from $40,000 a year, and that is practically more than any other writer in the English language is now earning except Rudyard Kipling.

DEXTER MARSHALL/

NEW YORK FASHIONS.

From Fnrs to Spring and Summer Garments. [Special Correspondence.]

NEW YORK, Jan. 17.—The sight of the summer goods has made me forget for the moment that we have still at least two months of the coldest weather before us, wherein furs next to open grate fires are the greatest comfort we can have. Furs may be worn up to the

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1st of May if the weather continues oold, as it sometimes does, and to the 1st of April they are quite proper in all oases. Those who can afford them hawe long coats, circulars and mantles, and also whole suits, skirt and whatever style of wrap is desired, usually a blouse oi a'snug jacket. Others less favored by fortune are becomingly and oomfortably dressed in short jackets of astrakhan, Persian or of thick woolen goods or velvet in blouses, with fur borderings, revers and collars. Some of the cloth garments are made so that they will be equally useful without the fur for less rigorous weather.

Yosterday I was in a large manufactory where all the spring wraps, blouses and skirts are now under way. I find that skirts are made in two distinct widths, some being for those ladies who from taste or an undue deposit of adipose tissue require slender effects and others for those who can wear anything. The first are narrow at the top, stiff and full at the bottom, but not nearly so wide as the other class. In a word, some skirts are in five and seven gores, others have up to nine and all wider at the bottom thau the others. The first measure 4 to 4% yards around and the others from 5 to 6. Some are even wider, the width depending somewhat on the material. Silks can bear much material in their made up garments, cloths less.

The blouse suit and the blouse in itself are in nearly all the new spring costumes. A few tight waists are seen. These are for those ladies whose figures are perfect and who are not obliged to be thankful for the oharitable disguisemen afforded by the blouse.

The printed foulards in polka dots are new and very pleasing. The all over designs are in two distinct classes—the close, mixed up designs more or less geometrical, and the large scrolls in porcelain blues and whites in fact, almost exactly like those so fashionable

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last year, only these seei^ to be less crude. Organdies, lawns, plumetis, ginghams, aephyrs and silk warp bareges are so very pretty that one wants to buy every one of them. White dotted swiss veiling and all of the thin silks will be very fashionable next summer. The pretty striped ribbons will give them the touch of oolor they need.

The silk warp bareges are among the most dainty and refined of all the thin goods ever presented. In plain white or ivoary they are exquisite in the delicate printed floral designs they are beautiful.

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Weighing the Baby.

The story is of a young and devoted father. The baby was his first, and he wanted to weigh it. "It's a bumper 1" he exclaimed.

Where are the scales?" The domestic hunted up an old fashioned pair, and the proud young father assumed charge of the operation. "I'll try it at eight pounds," he said, sliding the weight along the beam at that figure. "It won't do. She weighs ever so much more than that.''

He slid the weight along several notches farther. "By George!" he said. "She weighs more than 10 pounds—11—12—13—14 Is it possible?"

He set the baby and the scales down and rested himself a moment. "Biggest baby I ever saw," he panted, resuming the weighing process. "Fifteen and a half—161 This thing won't weigh her. See, 16 is the last notnb, and she jerks it up like a feather! Go and get a big pair of scales at some neighbor's. I'll bet a tenner that she weighs over 20 pounds. Millie," he shouted, rushing into the next room, "she's the biggest baby in this country —weighs over 16 pounds!" "What did you weigh her on?" inquired the young mother. "On the old scales in the kitchen.' "The figures on those are only ounces,'' she replied quietly. Bring me the baby, John."—Pearson's Weekly

Why ••Grey" Hound?

Up to about 800 years ago "greyhounds" were the shaggy, gray colored dogs used in the chase of large game. After that the name was transferred, sufficiently absurdly, to the black, white, blue and yellow, but generally spotted or bicolored and never gray, dog that is now so popular for coursing hares. It is very odd that no one, writing about the dog, should have insisted upon so obvious an absurdity. On the contrary, a great many writers who have written very wisely about the word "grey" have tried to explain away its simplest meaning by referring to Celtio, Gaelic and Saxon roots, but considering these two animals were called ^indifferently "grey dogs" or "grey hounds"—in two words—when our language first came to be written, and that in those days "dog" and "hound" were absolutely synonymous, it seems to me as great a waste of wisdom to try to prove that "graie," "gray" or "grey," when it is joined with dog or hound, meant anything else but grey as to say that grey-fly means a fly of princely ex traction or gray-beard a champion beard,

I# I were quarrelsome,' I should like to pretend that greyhound really meuns "badger dog." At any rate I should have sense of language on my side (for gray, grey, graie and grei are all names for the gray badger), and I would not be more absurd than the rest.—Good Words.

A Rat Catcher's Story,

There are tricks in all trades, and probably as many in that of the professional rat catcher as in any other line, According to the story of a man who has made a barrel of money in that business, but who has since drifted into other pursuits, it was foce easier to make a living catching rats than by running a shell game at a country fair. "I used to use ferrets for the extermination cf the rodents, he said, "and when I received" an order to clear a warehouse of the pests I always insisted that the pay should be gauged by the number of rats killed at so much per head. I carried tl»3 ferrets in a big woodea box, with a false bottom. In a secret drawer underneath I would place four or five dozen live rats before starting out, let them run loose upon reaching the place to be rid of rodents, and then free the ferrets. Of course, with 50 or 60 rats running around loose, there was always a great slaughter, and sometimes the ferrets would kill nearly all the rats I turned free. In this way I was always sure of receiving handsome remuneration for an evening's work upon the presentation of the caroases to the parties who employed me."—Philadelphia Record.

Edwin Booth as a Husband*

At this period the second Mrs. Booth, always a nervous invalid, began to show signs of the mental lack of balance which finally sapped her own life and almost broke his heart During her frequent attacks at Saratoga and later, when the two families met in New York and in London, sometimes she was very trying, but I never knew him to show a sign or utter a word of impatienoe. He bore meekly with everything she said and did, made excuses for her, concealed her irritability and her irresponsibility as much as possible. He held her in his arms, as if she were a baby, for hours and nights together without a murmur, and he showed a de* votion that hardly can be equaled.— Laurence Hutton in Harper's Magazine.

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Had Done What She Conld.

A colored woman went to the pastor of her church the other day to complain of the conduct of her husband, who, she said, was a low down, worthless, trifling nigger. After listening to along recital .of the delinquencies of her neglectful spouse and her efforts to correct them the minister said, "Have yon ever tried heaping coals of fire upon his head?" "No," was the reply, "but I done tried hot water."—Washington Letter in

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"Ah, yes" said the star, "I been married for eight years4" ••Continuously?" asked the critical one, but the query vraa deemed unworthy of reply.—Cincinnati Enquirer.

It is estimated that 1,300 toss of ostrich feathers have been exported from Cape Colony during the past 80 year^ valued at $12,000,000.

Advice of the Critic.

"At your request," said the kindly cvitio to the young author, "I have read your book from beginning to end." "So good of you,'' returned the young author. "And now I want you to feel that you can speak frankly and tell me just what you think about it. I suppose you saw a great deal in it that you would change if it were left to you." "No-o," replied the kindly critic thoughtfully. "On the whole I think I may say there was very little." "Really!" exclaimed the young author delightedly. "Do you know I h&d an idea you'd tear the whole book to pieces, figuratively speaking, of course. I can't tell you how pleased I am. But of course there are some changes that you would advise relative to the publication of a second edition. What are they?" "There's only one that's of much importance," explained the critic. "And that?" said the young author inquiringly. "Why, that's where the hero jumps from the yacht into the ocean to save the heroine from drowning." "Is it too thrilling? Wouldn't you have bim jump after her?" inquired the young author anxiously. "No, it's not too thrilling," was the reply, "and of course I would have him go in after her but, you see, they're both rescued. I wouldn't have that." "You—you wouldn't have them rescued?" "Certainly not. Let them both drown." "But this happens in the first chapter—almost the first thing in the book." "Precisely. Tha^s just when it ought to happen."—Chicago Post,

The Blrtli of the rcater" New York. With tho dawn of the new year the "Greater" New York Is ushered into the world a full grown giant. The problem of municipal government in this country is to be put to the supremest test on the grandest scale. Within its limits is contained a population equal to that of thirteen of our sovereign states at the last census, and as large as that of the original thirteen states when the union was organized. Provisions for the life and health of this vast vast multitude of all nations and climes is an unsolved enigma, but profiting by the experience of half a century's success, thousands of suffer ers in New York and elsewhere can be wrested from the grasp of that agonizing complaint, rheumatism, by the timely and systematic use of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. which is. moreover, a preventive of malaria and kidney trouble, and a sovereign curative of liver complaint, constipation, dyspepsia, debility, sick headache and nervousness. It is an adminicle appetizer and promoter of sleep, hastens convalesence, and counteracts the infirmities of age.

Probably Just From Chicago.

The enviable reputation which Cleve land holds in educational circles is enlarged. Many's the time and oft that our citizens have laughingly read of the peculiar answers which scholars have given in the schools of other cities, complacently assuring themselves that nothing off that sort would happen in Cleveland, but an incident which occurred in one of the high schools—we will not designate which one, as Principal Harris might feel unduly complimented— will serve to advise us that some Chicago children must have been recently enrolled on our school list.

It happpened, in the English class. The question was," "Who was Dante?" The schdlar called upon arose and gave the startling information that "Dante was a Greek goddess." "What were some of Dante's works?" asked the teacher. 'Paradise Lost.' "—Cleveland Plain Dealer-HL

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"Hold up yer hands!" The citizen thus addressed suddenly shot out his right fist. It caught the murderous footpad squarely on the nose and stretched him motionless on tb3 frozen ground. "That was a nervy thing to do," said the policeman who happened by son.e mysterious dispensation to be in the neighborhood and had come running to the scene. "It was a pretty nervy thing for the scoundrel to do,"replied the citizen, scowling at his damaged hand. "He didn't know he was tackling a desperate man. I had just paid a gas bill 'V-Chi-cago Tribune. J_

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