all events, it is written in admirable, almost flawless style. A more charming picture than he has here given us of the south just before the war, we have never seen. The fortunes of an aspiring art student, the intellectual lights and shadows, the conquering over obstacles and the awakening of love are all set forth with a delicateness of touch and vividness of delineation that is thoroughly characteristic. Plot it has not, and it needs none. We commend it to the discriminating reader as a book of rare charm, finished style and pure heart interest. It is almost a classic.

The Millionairess.

By Julian Ralph. Boston: Lothrop Publishing Co., 1902. Julian Ralph has done better work than " The Millionairess." In it he has essayed to present a study of contemporary New York life, the central

personage being Laura Lamont, a young woman of good breeding but morbid sensibility, who has inherited a vast fortune and finds not a little trouble in the proper expenditure of it. She is a member of the Beaux Arts Club, finding in its freakish proceedings relief from the monotony of existence. We think the author's description of the initiation of a member in this club, the cleverest thing in the book, albeit, Mr. Ralph gives his readers not a few pleasurable moments. He has traveled widely and observed closely, doing work as a war correspondent that was brilliant in the extreme. But as a novelist he does not seem to shine with the same sure, steady light While the book abounds in what the newspaper men would call "good stuff," it is somewhat lacking in coherency and the interest is not maintained throughout.

The Way of Escape. By Graham Travers (Margaret Todd, M. D.). New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1902.

Here is a strong, true, delicate, altogether admirable piece of literary workmanship, fit to rank with the best of the year's output. From the very opening chapter the interest of the reader is excited and it is held throughout the 400 pages. The story deals with the love of Giles Willoughby, and depicts in a masterly manner the struggle between an early boyish love and a later one. There are many delightful touches, and not a few pathetic scenes. To give in detail the excellent plot would be to spoil to some extent at least the reader's pleasure. It is a book to read and to keep, and to read again.

Frances Charles, the young San Francisco author, whose "In the Country God Forgot," published last spring, is now in its fourth edition, is at work on another novel.

Literary Notes.

Dr. Talcott Williams contributes to the Review of Reviews for October, a brilliant article on "The World's Fiction for a Year," including a summary of the latest statistics of literary output from all the civilized nations.

Many will be pleasantly surprised to hear that the late Frank R. Stockton left the manuscript of a recently-completed novel, which will be worthy, it is said, to complete the long list of novels that began with “Rudder Grange,” in 1879, and, until now, was thought to have ended with "Kate Bonnet."

"A Treatise on the Law of Intercorporate Relations," by Judge Walter C. Noyes, of the Connecticut Court of Common Pleas, will be published by Little, Brown & Co., Boston, in October. This book will treat fully of consolidation, corporate sales, leases and corporate stockholding or control, and of combinations.

"Oldfield is

a Kentucky Cranford" says the London Spectator in a long and appreciative review, "with a difference that the setting of outside things in which Mrs. Nancy Huston Banks puts her human figures is much more vivid than what we find in Mrs. Gaskell's story." Oldfield is already in its second edition.

The four most popular novels, according to reports gathered from all large cities by the Booklovers' Bulletin for September, were "Dorothy Vernon," by Charles Major; "The Mississippi Bubble," by Emerson Hough; The Virginian," by Owen Wister, and "In the Country God Forgot," by Frances Charles.

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Mr. Rossiter Johnson writes appreciatively in the October Review of Reviews about Dr. Edward Eggleston, historian and novelist, who died at his Lake George home early in September. Perhaps more people remember Dr. Eggleston as the author of "The Hoosier Schoolmaster" than as the his

torian of American colonial life.

Lippincott's complete novel for October is "Fruit Out of Season," by Mary Moss. This is the first work in fiction to appear in any periodical by Miss Moss, and that she is given the place of honor as novelist of the number indicates the quality of her work. The story deals without gloves with a social situation that is new, yet as possible as an every-day passion.

mental attitude toward his subjects and compares the state of democracy in Great Britain with the democracy of the United States. Even those who do not altogether agree with Mr. Stead's conclusions always find him interesting as a writer, and "The Coronation and its Significance" is no exception to the rule.

The career of the world-famous pathologist, Dr. Rudolf Virchow, of Berlin, is the subject of two articles in the October Review of Reviews. Mr. Oswald Villard reviews Professor Virchow's great and varied services to science and the State, and Dr. Henry Smith Williams describes "Virchow the Teacher," as he appeared before his pupils in the lecture room at Berlin. Both articles are illustrated with excellent portraits.

Perhaps the most interesting character in the story of the American Revolution is Alexander Hamilton. A study of the man, his characteristics and guiding motives was prepared by John Fiske before his death, and appears as the leading article in the October Cosmopolitan. No paper could illustrate more clearly the difficulties through which the American Union had to pass on its way to the excellence already attained and the perfection which it must ultimately reach.

Little, Brown & Co. will introduce a new English novelist to the American reading public this fall. John R. Carling has written a story of adventure, "The Shadow of the Czar," the scene of which is laid first in Dalmatia and afterwards at Slavowitz, the picturesque capital of the old Polish principality of Czernova. The romance deals with the claim of the Princess Barbara to the throne, and the conspiracy of the Duke of Bora, aided by Russia, to dispossess her of it.

A succinct and unbiased statement of the points at issue in the famous "Pious Fun" case now before The Hague arbitrators will be found in Mr. W. T. Stead's article, entitled "The United States and Mexico at the Opening of The Hague Court," in the October Review of Reviews. It is an interesting fact that the first case to be arbitrated by The Hague tribunal should be brought to it by two American nations, and that the matter involved should be the disposition of church funds. Portraits of the arbitrators accompany Mr. Stead's article.

The late Mr. John Fiske left two volumes of essays ready for publication. They will be published at once by The Macmillan Company under the title Essays Historical and Literary. They comprise the only posthumous work completed and made ready for the press by Mr. Fiske himself before his death. The contents of the volumes will be, Thomas Hutchinson, last Royal Governor of Massachusetts; Charles Lee, the Soldier of Fortune; Alexander Hamilton; Thomas Jefferson, the Conservative Reformer; James Madison, the Constructive States

man; Andrew Jackson, Frontiersman and Soldier; Andrew Jackson, and American Democracy Sixty Years Ago; "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too;" Daniel Webster; Old and New Ways of Treating History; The Boston Tea Party; Evolution and the Present Age; John Milton; John Tyndall; Koschei the Deathless; The Story of a New England Town; Reminiscences of Huxley.

Little, Brown & Co.'s fall fiction includes "The Pharaoh and the Priest," translated from the original Polish of Alexander Glovatski by Jeremiah Curtin; "The Queen of Quelparte," by Archer Butler Hulbert; "Tower or Throne, a Romance of the Girlhood of Elizabeth," by Harriet T. Comstock; "The Shadow of the Czar," by John R. Carling; a new edition of The Colonel's Opera Cloak,” by Christine C. Bush; a new edition of "Miss Belladonna," with additional chapters by Caroline Ticknor; and a new book by the author of "Miss Toosey's Mission," entitled "Faithful."

Charles Marriott, the gifted author of "The Column" and of a new novel entitled "Love With Honour," is an Englishman whose natural taste for letters has asserted itself in spite of circumstances.

Born at Bristol, in 1869, his family was originally

a Flemish one, and it may have been from his ancestors or from the associations of his boyhood's haunts that he imbibed a taste for things nautical. Indeed, but for defective eyesight a naval career had been decided for him. On leaving school, however, he received two years' training in a London art school, after which he followed the calling of a photographer in various parts of England. In view of this fact his new novel gains interest, inasmuch as the hero is himself a young photographer, whose various successes reap for him a very enviable position in the world. Mr. Marriott is now married and lives, with his family (consisting of two little girls). in a cottage by the sea in the beautiful country of Cornwall, England.

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Archer Butler Hulbert, the author of The Queen of Quelparte," a romance of the Far East, just published by Little, Brown & Co., is a native of Bennington, Vt., and a graduate of Marietta College, Ohio. In 1897 he went to Seoul, Korea, the pivot of eastern politics, as a representative of several There he obtained material American newspapers.

for his novel. The queen of Korea was murdered in her palace at Seoul, October 5, 1895, in the belief that she was intriguing to put Korea into the hands of Russia. The palace was fired and only a fragment of her body a little finger remained to be buried in November, 1897. Russia did throw Korea over as a sop to Japan in 1898, and this talented American journalist, who was also editor of the "Korean Independent" at the time, was the first to announce to the world the withdrawal of Russia. Out of these stirring events Mr. Hulbert wrote a vivid romance in which facts and fiction are intermingled. The title of the book, "The Queen of

past summer.

The latest issue in The Macmillan Company's English Men of Letters Series is Frederic Harrison's biography of "Ruskin." Among the other volumes on the press for early publication in the series are: "Tennyson," by Sir Alfred Lyall; "Jane Austen," by H. C. Beeching; Crabbe," by Alfred Ainger; "Hobbes," by Sir Leslie Stephen; "Browning," by G. K. Chesterton; "Richardson," by Austin Dobson; "James Russell Lowell," by Henry Van Dyke; "Ralph Waldo Emerson," by George Edward Woodberry; "Benjamin Franklin," by Owen Wis ter; "Matthew Arnold," by Herbert W. Paul; "Whittier," by Thomas Wentworth Higginson.

The dramatization of "Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall" is now having the finishing touch put to it by the author, Mr. Charles Major, and the dramatist, Mr. James McArthur. Mr. McArthur, it will be remembered, was the dramatist of "The Bonnie Brier Bush." He was for many years the editor of the "Bookman" and is at present one of Harper & Brothers' literary advisers. Mr. Charles Frohmann is arranging for the production of the play and the announcement of the leading roles may be made at any moment. Dorothy Vernon" is on all the book lists as one of the two or three most popular novels of the day, and Mr. Frohmann expects to produce a play which will have fully as successful a run as "When Knighthood Was in Flower."

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Nathaniel Stephenson, the author of a new and characteristically American novel, is a native of Cincinnati, where, in a rambling old house, he has lived from childhood up, investigating the neighborhood with historical eyes, with the result that for him the place bears much more significance than for others. His first novel, "They That Took the Sword," was a story of incidents of the Civil War as witnessed in that city, and its inhabitants. His new novel, called "The Beautiful Mrs. Moulton," differs entirely from his first. It depicts very strongly the type of successful American business men, and the social evolution of his beautiful and ambitious wife, the heroine of the story. Apart from the engaging interest of the story, Mr. Stephenson has a method of handling his characters which has been well likened to that of Thackeray - he shows a markedly philosophical bent, and there is a goodly distribution of epigram throughout his pages. Perhaps the most interesting and important characteristic of Mr. Stephenson's work is that, with an exceptionally thorough knowledge of English litera

The Earl of Iddesleigh, the author of a new novel entitled "Luck O' Lassendale," is the son of the famous English statesman, Sir Stafford Northcote, whose prominent and successful part in the Abyssinian troubles won for him a viscounty. The present Lord Iddesleigh left Oxford to become his father's secretary, so that he has had exceptional experiences in political affairs. In fact, it so happened that the news of the coup d'etat reaching Sir Stafford Northcote's residence during the absence of the minister, who was in attendance on the queen, his son and secretary had the pleasant and notable task of calling upon Lord Beaconsfield, then prime minister, to convey to him the auspicious tidings. Born in Devonshire, Lord Iddesleigh has always been an ardent sportsman, in the best sense of the word-hunting, fishing, shooting - he loved as a young man. His favorite intellectual pastime has been the study of the best English literature. His first novel was published a few years ago, entitled 'Belinda Fitzwarren."

The Lothrop Publishing Company, of Boston, will bring out two strong novels early in October, "Eagle Blood," by James Creelman, and "Richard Gordon," by Alexander Black. Mr. Creelman's story is full of incident and excitement and a clever handling of an international motive. The hero is a titled young Englishman, who comes to America, and, under an assumed name, wins his way to for tune and to the winning of a charming girl, and the deeper suggestion of the story lies in the slow, but sure, Americanizing of this British peer. Alexander Black has written, by far, his best piece of fiction in the present volume. It is a bold, even daring, handling of the love motive, yet essentially a noble book. The scenes center in New York and involve pictures of high New York social life, political and art circles. Both volumes are handsomely illustrated.

Lewis and Clark are becoming names to conjure with, and their latest appearance will be in a romance. Messrs. A. C. McClurg & Co. announce the book for publication early in November, under the title "The Conquest: The True Story of Lewis and Clark." It is by Mrs. Eva Emery Dye the author of a successful book dealing with the Northwest, and those who have seen her story say it will set a new pace for American historical romance. This book may not be the great American novel we have been waiting for so long, but it certainly looks as though it would be very near it.

"Human history is the greatest of dramas, and the clearer the historic eye the greater the dramatic portrayal. The characters of this book belong to the history of our country; heroes of the darkest days of the Revolution, heralds of the brightest days of

locks.

Along the hilltops we follow the tawny paths of buffalo and Indian; from the same coign of vantage we, too, look and signal to the future. No Indian now lays tribute on these roads; the wayworn emigrant has made them ours.

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Clear and clearer, as the years go on, catch we under the dim forest shadows glimpses of a primitive people, mighty in stature, courage and resources, battling like gods and demons for the future United States. Other lands record the drama of kings; ours is the drama of a people. A Homeric song, the epic of a nation, clusters around the names of Lewis and Clark and the border heroes of their time, and their story is the Iliad of the west."

Prof. Pelham Edgar, of Victoria College, University of Toronto, has edited a one-volume edition of the works of Francis Parkman, which will be published this fall by Little, Brown & Co., under the title "The Struggle for a Continent." Professor Edgar, with the aid of connecting notes, gives in the historian's own language a continuous account of the struggle for the possession of the American continent, beginning with the colonization of Florida by the Huguenots, in 1562, and culminating in the fall of Quebec, in 1759. The volume includes 500 pages, with maps, portraits of historical personages and other illustrations. For those who are not already familiar with Parkman's fascinating histories. this book is intended to serve as a valuable guide to the treasures which may be found in the works of America's greatest historian.

Legal Botes.

Payment of part of a judgment by a third person for the benefit of the debtor is held, in Marshall v. Bullard (Ia. [54 L. R. A., 862]), to be a sufficient consideration for a release of the entire judgment.

Dying declarations of a woman whom defendant is charged with killing by means of an abortion, are held, in Worthington v. State (Md. [56 L. R. A. 353]), to be admissible in evidence where they were accompanied by constant affirmation of expectancy of death, and begging the doctor to save her, as she was dying, although he held out hope of recovery.

The exemption of persons who have served in the Union army or navy from the operation of the statute requiring all persons peddling goods outside of the city or town to pay a license tax, was held, in State v. Garbroski (Iowa [56 L. R. A. 570]), to render the statute void as in violation of

eral nature shall have a uniform operation, and that no privileges or immunities shall be granted to any citizen, or class of citizens, which shall not equally belong, upon the same terms, to all

Justice Horace Gray, who retired from the United States Supreme Court last spring, died at Nahant, Mass., on September 15th, of paralysis. He was born in Boston, March 24, 1828, and was graduated from Harvard College in the class of 1843 and from the law school in 1849. President Arthur commissioned him as associate justice of the Supreme Court.

Signals at a private crossing are held, in Louisville & N. R. Co. v. Bodine (Ky. [56 L. R. A., 506]), to be required for a special train running at high speed, when the crossing is peculiarly dangerous because a view of the approaching train is cut off until it is almost at the crossing, and the crossing is used, not only by the landowner, but by the public, and it has been customary for trains to give signals at that place.

Machinery purchased for use in a permanent building under a contract that it shall remain the property of the seller, or on which, after it is placed in the building, a chattel mortgage is given by the purchaser to the seller, is held, in Anderson v. Creamery Package Mfg. Co. (Idaho [56 L. R. A. 554]), not to be subject to the lien of a real estate mortgage of date prior to the purchase of the machinery; and it is held that the mortgagee has a right of action to foreclose his chattel mortgage.

One who was tried and convicted in a Police

Court, without a jury, of keeping a bawdy house in violation of a city ordinance, and who, on attempting to appeal from the conviction, was required to give a bond with approved surety, to secure her appearance in the district court, which she declined to do, tendering one signed by herself alone, which was refused, is held, In re Kinsel (Kan. [56 L. R. A. 475]), not to be unconstitutionally deprived of the right to jury trial, since the constitutional guaranty does not extend to prosecutions for the infraction of ordinances and local regulations passed under the police power.