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Books
SUNDAY, JANUARY 16, 2000_____________________THESUNHERAID________
Coast native plays literary sleuth
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Emily de Montluzin, originally from Bay St. Louis, publishes works on her investigations into anonymous authors in English literature.
De Montluzin finds identities of authors known as 'Anonymous?
By NAN PATTON EHRBRIGHT
THE SUN HERALD
BAY ST. LOUIS ? Emily Lorraine de Montluzin has been playing detective for the past 11 years, conducting investigative work into the world of English literature and history. De Montluzin, who grew up in Bay St Louis, is a professor of history at Francis Marion University in Florence, S.C. She specializes in 18th and early 19th century British press history.
She has just published her third bibliography based on her work to discover the identity of anonymous authors whose writings appeared in the Gentleman?s Magazine in 18th-century England and to edit the work of others who have compiled names of some authors.
The GM is a significant key in understanding British history, economics and culture in the 18th and early 19th century.
During the 18th century, de Montluzin said, some people considered it shameful to write for the press. Anonymity and pseudonyms protected writers? identities. She used sleuthing skills and her understanding of the times and the historical significance of the writings to help her discover the identities of many authors.
The titles of De Montluzin?s works may sound tedious ? her first two bibliographies are ?Attributions of Authorship in the ?Gentleman?s Magazine,? 1731-1868: A Supplement to Kuist? and ?Attributions of Authorship in the
?Gentleman?s Magazine,? 1731-1868: A Synthesis of Finds Appearing Neither in Kuist?s ?Nichols File? not in de Montluzin?s ?Supplement to Kuist.? ?
But de Montluzin compares the challenge of the undertaking to ?breaking a code.?
GM was founded by Edward Cave in 1731. John Nichols was a longtime editor of the publication.
Kuist?s ?Nichols File,? published in 1992, became an indispensable starting point in GM research. But Kuist?s work was limited to attributions recorded in marginal annotations in the staff copy of the GM, now housed in the Folger Library, by various members of the Nichols family in their efforts to reconstruct their files following a fire in 1808.
?Unfortunately, the annotators were inconsistent in their efforts, erroneously listing some identifications of authorship and failing to record many others,? de Montluzin said.
Her first two bibliographies, published electronically in 1996 (and 1997, logged more than 2,600 accesses from researchers in 32 countries during the first seven months that her GM databases were on the Web.
?Attributions of Authorship in the ?Gentleman?s Magazine?: An Electronic Version of James M. Kuist?s ?The Nichols File? of the ?Gentleman?s Magazine,? ? contains 727 pages that chronologically list 13,950 attributions of authorship, following 4,000 identifications and 1,850 identifications in her two previous bibliographies.
The Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia published all three works. The newest bibliography is accessible at http://etexLlib.virginia.edu/bsuva.
Nan Patton Ehrbright can be reached at 467-6663 or 896-2438 or at npehrbright@sunherald. com
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sleuth
During the 18th century, some people considered it shameful to write for the press. Anonymity and pseudonyms protected writers? identities. Demontiuzin used sleuthing skills and her under-standing of the times and the historical significance of the writ-ings to help her discover the identities of many authors.
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Hopkins to sign Civil War books
THE SUN HERALD
GULFPORT ?A book signing for Gulfport author Donald A Hopkins will be held Saturday at 11 a.m. at Barnes & Noble Bookstore in Gulfport.
He will sign copies of his books ?The little Jeff: The Jeff Davis Legion, Calvary, Army of Northern Virginia? and ?The Horsemen of the Jeff Davis Legion: The Expanded Roster of the Men and Officers of the Jeff Davis Legion, Calvary.?
?The little Jeff? is the first complete history of the Jeff Davis Legion, initially designated the 2nd Mississippi Calvary Battalion. Fighting under Jeb Stuart and Wade Hampton, it later followed Hampton to Georgia and the Carolinas. Firsthand accounts follow these soldiers from their early enthusiasm until camp life and sickness brought war into perspective.
Donald Hopkins graduated from Mill-saps College and the University of Mississippi Medical School before joining the Navy as a general medical officer. He saw action during a tour of duty in Vietnam and was awarded the Purple Heart, Bronze Star with Combat V, Vietnamese Service Medal, and National Defense Medal.
An avid collector of Civil War memorabilia, student and researcher of Southern history, this is his first book. He is working on another Mississippi regimental history.
Folk tales stimulate with terror, daring
By SUE CORBETT
KNIGHT RIDDER NEWSPAPERS
MIAMI, Fla. ? If a 6-year-old told you she wanted to see a movie in which two children, abandoned by their mother in a desolate forest, must outsmart an evil woman who plans to enslave one and boil the other, most parents would at least hesitate before saying, ?Let?s go!? Right?
Yet ?Hansel and Gretel,? nearly 200 years after Wilhelm Grimm first published it, endures.
No body of literature has been more controversial than folklore, which pits people who believe their children will be horrified by a
Page Turners
Here are the best sellers for the week ending Jan. 14 compiled from data from Independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and Independent distributors.
HARDCOVER FICTION
1.	The Lion?s Game. Nelson DeMille. Warner, $26.95
2.	False Memory. Dean Koontz. Bantam, $26.95
3.	Timeline. Michael Crichton. Knopf, $26.95
4.	Atlantis Found. Clive Cuss-ler. Putnam, $26.95
5.	A Walk to Remember. Nicholas Sparks. Warner, $19.95
6.	Monster. Jonathan Keller-man. Random House, $25.95
7.	Sick Puppy. Carl Hiaasen. Knopf, $25
8.	Pop Goes the Weasel. James Patterson. Little, Brown, $26.95
9.	Saving Faith. David Baldacci. Warner, $26.95
10.	Soft Focus. Jayne Ann Krentz. Putnam, $23.95
11.	Hunting Badger. Tony Hiller-man. HarperCollins, $26
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1.	The Rock Says ... The Rock with Joe Layden. ReganBuOks,
$26
2.	Tuesdays with Morrie. Mitch Albom. Doubleday, $19.95
3.	Body for Life. Bill Phillips and Michael D?Orso. HarperCollins,
$25
4.	?Tis. Frank McCourt. Scribner, $26
5.	Who Moved My Cheese? Spencer Johnson. Putnam,
$19.95
6.	Have A Nice Day! Mick Foley. ReganBooks, $25
7.	The Greatest Generation. Tom Brokaw. Random House, $24.95
8.	Guinness World Records 2000: Millennium Edition. Guinness Publishing, $25
9.	The Greatest Generation Speaks. Tom Brokaw. Random House, $19.95
10.	The Art of Happiness. His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler, M.D. River-head, $22
11.	Sugar Busters! H. Leighton Steward, Morrison C. Bethea,
Sam S. Andrews & Luis A. Balart. Ballantine, $22
MASS MARKET
1. The Testament. John Grisham. Dell Island $7 QQ