Hppletons' flDontblp bulletin. 



Garden " ; and in 1898, by " Concerning 

 Isabel Carnaby," her first regular novel. 

 She has one sister and one brother. 

 Her sister, Edith Henrietta Fowler, is 

 the author of two very popular children's 

 books, " The Young Pretenders " and 

 " The Professor's Children." Miss 

 Fowler resides with her father at Wood- 

 thorne, Wolverhampton, his country 

 seat. He has a London house as well. 

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" Concerning Isabel Carnaby " is to 

 be followed shortly by Miss Fowler's 

 second novel, which is entitled A Doi{ble 

 Thread. The brilliancy of her first 

 novel is accentuated in the new book, 

 which, moreover, will be found to repre- 

 sent even more distinctly the story-tell- 

 ing purpose. There is a peculiar plot, 

 with certain most unexpected develop- 

 ments, and the author's ingenuity in 

 construction is no less apparent than 

 the wit, incisiveness, and intense mo- 

 dernity of her dialogue. The new novel 

 deals for the most part with English 

 country-house life. 



Mr. Rudyard Kipling, after reading 

 advance sheets of The Cruise of the 

 Cachalot, by F. T. Bullen, wrote the 

 author as follows : 



" Dear Mr. Bullen : It is immense 

 — there is no other word. I've never 

 read anything that equals it in its deep- 

 sea wonder and mystery ; nor do I think 

 that any book before has so completely 

 covered the whole business of whale- 

 fishing, and at the same time given such 

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real and new sea picttires. You have 

 throwti away material enough to make 

 five books, and I congratulate you most 

 heartily. It's a new world that you've 

 opened the door to. 



" Very sincerely, 

 "RUDYARD KIPLING. 

 " Rottingdean, November 22, 1898." 



Frank T. Bullen. 



The success which Mr. Frank T. 

 Bullen has won by the force and vivid- 

 ness of his pictures of seafaring life im- 

 parts a special interest to the announce- 

 ment of his forthcoming book, Idylls of 

 the Sea. This book sketches varied 

 phases of the life and experiences of 

 those who go down to the sea in ships. 

 It is not confined to the whaler's ex- 

 ploits, but includes the things which 

 are seen and the adventures which are 

 undergone by all manner of men upon 

 the sea. 



Miss Lily Dougall. 



The Mormon Prophet, by Miss Lily 

 Dougall, the most important of this au- 



