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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MARCH 29, 1896. 21 Tisa peculiar fact which has never been paraded in print that the leading humorous writers and lecturers of America started out to make their n the world by acquiring a | of the printer’s trade. Some- | now venture the supposition that y s of familiarity with serious edi- torial copy has had the strange effect of i ing the genius of humor. Be that , the fact remains that our best have been printers. humori Twain s devil at_thirteen in | Hannibs and he worked at the case | for many a year in the Golden West. Charl rar Brown (Artemus Ward) | followed the printer's trade for vavid R. Locke (Petroleum V. N ed an apprenticeship in a pri g e at Cortland, N. Y. Charles B. Lewis he Detroit Free Press learned the trade h. George W. Peck sart p Bob Bu per office; : of Josh Billing devoting his boyhood to \d his young manhood to aunc- g be had not taken a course at 1th h the typesetters’ tui- IN PARIS. sraphical novel, by Eugene , is now in its second It views the nco-Pruss war, the siege of Paris and the commune from American standpoi Among the actors in the book a 3 Moitke, William of Prussi: Napoleon 111, Eugenie, Thiers, Favre, Labouchere, MacMahon, Bazaine, Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, Washburne and Zola, and he | declares them to be the auth of the speak in his yolume. The in- the world-changing struggle rance and Germany, according were selected from the most records made various observers. Mr. vidge has up a remarkable d clothed ~incidents of the with fresh and deep interest the American point of view.” The chief character running through the vol- ume is Kent, the son of a California mine- owner and ranckman, who has been sent dispatched abroad father spec to sell beef and to the comn departments dur- | ing the anticipated war between the Ger- man and the Frank. By accident, young | Kent becomes attached to the American | ion at Paris, where he seeks, with | asm, to acquire the diplomatic T He falls in love with one of the| court ladies, and is soon aware that these charmers of the gentler sex are often the | most valuable diplomatists of royalty. | His career is influenced by Hortense Le Biane, in spite of himseli. She is one of Napoleon’s favorites, and an adept | in the diplomatic art. The incidents which | bring these characters together are alive with interest, from the first meeting of th twain at a royal fete in Paris to the trag- | edy which ends Horten career in the | midst of the commune. rom learned | Ame ns in Paris Kent is made familiar with much unwritten history. ‘‘The Fall | of Richmond,” for instance, ‘‘presaged that of Louis Napoleon.” He learns that the French throne was tottering and a | European war. was imminent because a Republic ex East to college, and the by his fath 1 ative He rer- foreign attempts to undermine it. learns that Bonaparte and Lord Palm ston had conspired against American it and that Bismarck had prac- ti ced brilliant duplicity on the strengtt 1 the result of the American 1 of That result and the emphatic American rotest _against French upation of Mexico, followed by Maximilian's down- 1, bad weakened Nap prestige. Theén Bismarck had tempted Napoleon into changes that would restore the tar- nished prestig agreed. He remained Prussia vanquished Austria but Bismarck never fulfilled the pror to join with France in a division of rope, and France was sudden fronted by a United Germany s the i of neutral ce American intermed. Napoleon lisiened and while 1d Sadow: Bismarck haa all the time been getting ready for the conflict that was bound to come when France realized the Am deception. n tempted N. that loss o leon into loss of p: gave sma e Republic ge his opportunity to make and united Germany, and that lies at the base of the 5 rmany.” The ch historical data. 3. Lippincott Compa: » by Joseph A. Hof- n TATL This Per: its English version, W ishea sixty- five years it was issued in the folio, buried in great i y at ali ed and edified by connex richness of startling adventures. ng it. ted es in exciting interest and imaginative 1 € Hatim rabian tribal chief of the latter half of the sixth century. Heis held up to-day as the embodiment of the Mohammedan ideal of human excellence. He represents what man should be ording to the standard of Islam; and in that the four | chief virtues are faith, veraci and blind submission to the decr Duncan Forbes William Rounseville Alger is the edito the revised edition. publishers. Bound cents.] A WOMAN INTERV in boards, Robert Barr's reputation as a novelisf enhanced by bis latest production, Woman Intervenes, or the Mistress of Mine.” Jennie Brewster, who is really kindness es of fate. as the translator and T of [Boston: Ginn & Co., price 50 t is “p the as much of a heroine as the good angel, Edith Longworth (although the author intended the latter for a model worthy of exam: and Jennie for a character to be exec ple ed), 1s employed on a New York newspaper. She is “‘a sweet, innocent-looking girl,” who boasts that she has lured state secr rets | out of members of the Cabinet, while ordi- Senators and Congressmen are her ul prey. She had gone to a hotel as chambermaid in order to write up | her experiences, and had been ar- rested and locked up that she might write a three-column account for the Sunday edition of “How Women Are ‘reated at Police Headaguarters.” Miss i Brewster is_detailed by the editor to cross xisted securely in America al(erl the ocean in the same steamship with two THE LARK'S NEW COVER. = & = = s T ¢ PORoTTY ) V:CENTS M, PALLAS TAKE AWAY THINE OWL 1 VS HAVE A LARK INSTE AD.” 780mas ss0a experts, who have with them a confiden- tial report _as to some important mines in Canada. To male reporters on this side of the water those_experts have been impen- etrable. Miss Brewster secures a seat at table next her intended victims. She fas- cinates Wentworth, the more susceptible of the two, gets him to talking about him- self and 0§tain.~ the whole story. The guileless Wentworth has been led on under the impression that he was talking to the daughter of an American millionaire. If the report ig published before its delivery in London it means disaster to a big scheme. Jennie intends sending the story by cable from Queenstown. Near this port the ship breaks down, and Miss Longworth keeps the newspaper woman a .| prisoner in her cabin until the boat has pushed off and it is too late to send the cablegram. Both young women exhibit much bravery. It turns out, of course, that Edith, although for long unknown in the premises, is the real ‘‘mistress of the mine.” Jennie redeems herself somewhat by obtaining information while masquerading as a housemaid for pro- fessional purposes in the villain’s house that saves the mining enterprise from wreck and ruin. The two experts, both heroes, pair off in the end—Edith and the man she has aided, John Kenyon; Jennie and the man whose secrets she once un- locked, Wentworth. ENew York: Freder- ick A. Stokes & Co. For saleat the Popu- lar Bookstore; price $1 25.] THE AUTHOR OF ¢“CLEG KELLY.” S. R. Crockett is one of the English au- thors who in the last few years have writ- ten themselves into popularity. He is a new light in the literary firmament, and his few volumes have received praise from no less capable authority than the Hon. W. E. Gladstone. His best known works, perhaps, are “The Lilac Sunbonnet” and “Bog-Myrtle and Peat,” but his most re- cent production, *‘Cleg Kelly, Arab of the City,”” promises to_greatly enlarge his cir- cle of admirers. In the new novel the lights and shadows of curious phases of Edinburgh life and of Scotch farm and railroad life are pictured, it is said, with an intimate sympathy, richness ot humor and truthful pathos which will make “Cleg Kelly” welcome to reacers every- where. The nevel, finely illustrated, has just been issued by D. Appleton & Co. CHARLATAN,” Robert T. Buchanan and Henry Murray have written 1n collaboration a novel, “The Charlatan,” founded on the drama of the same name. The story has appeared serially in the newspapers, and is now re- published for the first time in book form. The work is intended as an exposure of humbugs and charlatans, especially those who use theosophy and hypnotism as the { rallying ground for their imposture. The book, it+is contended, is notan attack upon heosophy, nor a satire against hypnotism. ‘he authors acknowledge indebtedness for the original idea, and notably for the sleep-walking incident which figures in “THE the story,to an unpublished sketch by Miss Harriet Jay, authoress of ‘‘The { Queen of Conr '* The book cannot fail to interest. ew York: F.T y Neely, publisher; paper cove A DRAMA OF HUMAN LIFE. In “The Love Affairs of a Worldly Man” Maibelle Justice has aimed to present a time, the present; | place, the world; actors, worldly men and women, with faults and .frailties com- mingled with sincere desires and honest purposes; plot, not so much to conve: moral or theory, as to depict how li realities differ from ambition’s cherish | dreams. There is a flattering, rhetoricat | introduction by Richard Henry Savage. New York: F. Tennyson Neely, publishe Paper covers, price 50 cents A USEFUL HANDBOOK. Messrs. Laird & Lee have just pub- lished a miniature edition of Encyclopedia Brittanica. It is quite a useful little work and contains much that is new for so { small a work in history, biography, geog- raphy, philosophy, chronology and sci- ence. pedia has been thor- oughly Americanized and edited by a corps of university men. It is illustrated { with twelve full-page and sevent: smaller portraits, six full-page maps ke; to show points of especial interest in all parts of the world and a special frontis- piece. [Leather, full gilt edges and gold stamped, $1; 448 pages, 16mo, library style, marbled edges, title in silver, 50 cents. Published by Laird & Lee, Chicago. ] CHAIN. The season is almost here for hammocks and love stories in the rural shades, and Dora Russell’s novel, “A Hidden Chain,” will suit the sentimental. It is all about noblemen and beautiful woman, and society affairs, with a little tragedy thrown in, and there is nota bit of harm in the story either. [Chicago: Rand, McNally & Co., publishers. Paper covers, price 50 cents. | SOME REPRE THE NINE TEENTH CENTURY This little book forms a syllabus of uni- versity extension lectures by Melville B. Anderson, who occupies the chair of Eng- lish literature at the Lelend Stanford Jr. University, Palo Alto. The poets treated of are: Wordsworth, the poet of nature; Shelley, the idealist of the revolution and the revolutionist of ideals; Byron, the poet of the political revolution; Victor Hugo, the poet of hu- manity; Tennyson, the asserter of law; Robert Browning, the vindicator of ver- sonal freedom; Emerson, the friend and aider of those who would live in the spirit; James Russell Lowell, poet ana patriot; Matthew Arnold, the critic of life. To the syllabus is appended a list of specimen examination questions and bibli- ograpbic and other hints on each of the poets mentioned. The book is a gem of usefulness to university men, as well as to students of English literature who are without the walls of a college. [Pub- lished by William Doxey, Market street, San Francisco. Price 50 cents.] THE APRIL MAGAZINES. St. Nicholas. St. Nicholas for April is a fine e from whichever standpoint it is rezarded— literary, artistic or typographical. It opens with some account of flying ma- chines by Tudor Jenks, who inclines to the belief that “all signs seem to show that many boys and girls now living will see flying machines traveling through the air, and some, perhaps, will ride in them, which, or course, is quite within the bounds of possibility. seeing the advanced stage reached in the experiments of Maxim and others. A very curicus feature of this article is a picture illustrating a German artist'’s idea of warfare in the air, where sturdy Teutons are shown with wings and manipulating rifles from aerial points of vantage. John Vance Cheney has a pretty piece of verse in St. Nicholas entitled *“‘Cloud- land,” which will be read with interest by his admirers in this City. *‘Mardie’s Ex- perience’” is the name of astory dealing with the ambitions of a country girl to be- come an authoress. Mardie pines for the larger life of a great city, so she goes to New York, where her manuscripts, deal- ing of the sayings and doings of dukes, baronets and ‘duchesses, are persistently rejected bf steely hearted editors. One of these gentlemen gives Mardie some good advice, handinz her at the same time a copy of a book that has made its author famous. To her infinite surprise the would-be authoress discovers the writer to be her own mother. 'The story, by Kate Dickinson Sweetser, is cleverly worked out, and prettily written. Other features of this excellent number include: “Two Maidens” (verse); ball” (verse); “The Scisso “Little Bob Kim- (verse); “Teddy and Carrots”: “Cloudland” (verse); ‘‘A Won- derful Trick” (verse); ‘“Lieutenant Harry”; “The Prize Cup”; ‘‘A Puzzling Example”; “Sinbad, Smith & Co.)’; “How the Whale Looked Pleasant’; “A ‘Dare’”; “Stalled at ‘Bear Run’’’; “The Olympian Games”; ‘The Ewordmaker’s Son,” etc. The Cosmopolitan. The Cosmopolitan is a well-filled literary dish served at the modest price of 10 cents, The opening article, entitled ‘A Word About Golf, Golfers and Golf Links in England and Scotland,” by Price Collier, contains many interesting data on the sport that is dear to the heart of the Hon. Arthur James Balfour; “Vicissitudes of the Dead,” by Eleanor Lewis, isan ably written article on a rather gruesome sub- ject. Ex-Postmaster-General Thomas L. James gives a history of the development of the overland mail service in this coun- try. Miss Beatrice Harraden of “Ships that Pass 1n_tne Night” fame contributes a story under the cantion, ‘“Hilda Strafford.” Like much of tbis author’s serial work, it professes to describe life in California, or at least, the southern portions of the State. “An Imperial Pleasure Place’’ is described by Isabel F. Hapgood, and incidentally treats of the life of the Emperor and Em- press of Russi written by Sir Lewis Morris, who was mentioned prominently in connection with the laureateship prior to the selection of Austin. 3 In The World of Art and Letters Ed- ward 8. Martin makes comment on the London Spectater’s remark: *“That the Americans should believe that they hate us, or at any rate should profess to do so, is a very grievous wound to Englishmen; but what is bitter beyond all bearing is the thought that the Americans not only do not like us, but do not even know that we like them.”” Mr. Martin thinks that rich Americans have been drawn to imi- tate rich Englishmen; that London has the same attraction for wealthy Americans as the candle to the moth; and that for these reasons the American is bonnd to disguise. it were, his natural brotherly love for his friend across the water. “And,” adds the writer, “the instinct of self-preservation leads us to pitech into these intolerable countrymen of ours who show themselves so irresponsibly overap- preciative of British delights!” Toward the close of his article Mr. Mar- tin protests the friendship of America for England in this wise: But how can the Spectator believe that the majority of the Americans hate the English? descend upon their pleasaut island mer like Swarm of locusts (except e locusts we pay for what we eat)? Has any eminent Briton come to these shores within'half & century that we have not stood on our heads to welcome and entertain? Were we gruff to the Prince of Wales when he came? Were we inhospitanle to the English sailors who came to the Columbian cele- bration? Do we refuse to be entertained by English actors, or to read English books? We have our Jingoes, but the Spectator knows Jingoes—it has them at home. Perhaps some of our schooibooks need rewriting; that will come. Do our young women frown on Eng- lishmen? Good gracious, good Spectator, we are not hostile, we are merely coy; coy becausa we are conscious of tendencies 'that require restraint. Take comfort about us, friend. 1f we were half as attractive to you as you and your country &re to us you would visit us oftener,and come to know us as we really are. Some beautiful specimens of hali-tone work bring the contents-list of the Cos- mopolitan to a close. Scribner’'s. Scribner's opens with a history of the late Lord Leighton, by Cosmo Monk- | house, which derives additional interest from the fact that it was already in type when the news was received of Sir Freder- ick Leighton’s elevation to the peerage at the beginning of the year; and it was pre- paring for the press when word came o bis death on January 25. The deceased Roval Academician himself assisted in choosing the subjects for illustration. J. M. Barrie’s novel, *‘Sentimental Tommy,"” is continued in its serial form. vival of the Olympic eames at Athens is admirably treated in an article by Rufus B. Richardson. Richard Harding Davis contributes to this issue a short complete story entitied *Cinderella.”’ The “‘History of the Last Quarter Century in the Unitad States,” Professor E. Benjamin Andrew: brought down to the events of the panic year 1893-94. The writer dis- cusses the closing of the mints by the British Indian Government to the free coinage of silver, and its effect upon the commercial world both here and in Europe. pled railroad travel in America, is well covered, and in a manner particularly in- teresting to citizens of Ualifornia. Professor Andrews handles the Southern Pacific Company in a rather rough-shod manner, narrating many instances of how astute merchants have contrived to beat that company and its allied corporation, the Pacific Mail Steamship Company. Of the Valley Lailroad he has this to say: “The experiment (of a competing road) was watched with desp concern owing to the fear that this young plant, xhuuil it mature, would go the way of preceding {roads into the clutch of the ‘Octopus.’ Though a careful plan was devised to pre- vent this, by placing the shares of the new corporation in the hands of a trustworthy trust, acute students of the movement ana of the events leading to it believed that nothing short of a governmental or State railway system would meet the require- ments of California.” There are two other important articles in the April “Scribner’'s’” which are wor- thy of particular mention: one entitled “The Tithics of Modern Journalism,” by Aline Gorren, and “Tbe Quarrel of the English-speaking Peoples,”” by Henry Nor- man, who recently acted in the capacity of Washington correspondent for the London Chronicle. B Harper’s Monthly. “Harper's” for April opens with a con- cluding installment of Louis de Conte’ “Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc.” “The Voice of Authority,” by E. A. Alex- ander, is the story of a Nebraska girl’s experience in Paris. Katarina Trask has a piece of religious verse entitled **A Night and Morning in Jerusalem.” The serious side of a_university man’'s life is dilatea upon by Henry T. Fowler in a well-written article under the heading, “A Phase of Modern College Life.” The illustrations of Mr. Fowler's articles show Murray Hall, at Prinzeton; Dwight Hall, Yale; Stiles Hall, at the University of Califor- nia, and Barnes Hall, Cornell, all being religious character. George W. Smalley discusses the im- Tortance of Mr. Lowell’s residence in sondon. He came to that city, Mr. Smailey thinks, “the man he had been all his life long—a man of books and of literature, a thinker, a dreamer, a poet, almost a recluse.” He cared not at ail for society, and during the first part of his life in London ‘“he would hardly accept an invitation which was not official and, therefore, compulsory.” A great student, Lowell was not much of a judge of char- acter till he discovered that ‘‘London society was * * * akind of microcosm, or the whole world in little.” One cause for the interest Lowell aroused in London was the intensity of his Ameri- canism. About this, Mr.Smaliley remarks: “It was not merely that the flavor of it was piquant, and that London is ever eager for new sensations. It was still more that this trait was so obviously genuine, and genuineness is a part of character on which the English set a high value. There may have been Americans who thought they could make their way in London by renouncing their Americanism, or by disparaging their own country. If so, they knew nothing of the English before whom they abased themselves. If ever Lowell’s large charity grew strict, it was for such as these,” There is much work of real interest in Mr. Smalley’s article, which is probably the star feature of this month’s Harper’s. Otherinteresting contributions, besides the regular departments, inciude: “The Final Word,” a poem, by Alfred H. Louis; “The Voice of Authority,” a story, b E. A. Alexander; “A Spring Flood in Bro: way,” & story, by Brander Matthews; *‘Mad Anthony Wayne's Victory,” by Theodore Roosevelt; “On Snowshoes to the Barren *Ciyitas Dei’’ is the title of some verses | Grounds,” by Caspar W. Whitney; “Briseis.,” a novel, part' V, by William Black; ‘Life,” a poem, by Julie M. Lippmann; “The German Struggle for Liberty,” part X, by Poultney Bigelow; “A Dream,” a poem, by L{lrgnet E. Sangster; “The Missionary Sheriff,”” & story, by Octave Thanet. Lippincott’s. The complete novel in the April issue of Lippincott’s is “Flotsam,” by Owen Hall. The scene shifts from England to India and Australia, following the fortunes of a heroine who through a severe experience at sea loses track of her past life, so that her identity is established only after many months and much difficulty. *The Vivi- sectionist,” by Carolyn Wells, describes the conduct of a novelist whom no scruples deter in the search for literary material. Lieutenant Thomas H. Wilson, in “Be- tween Reliefs,” telis of a not wholly un- rig hteous revenge. *On the War-Path with Kit Carson,” by William Thomson, is a true story, and =o probably is *‘Dream- ing Bob,” by Dr. Charles C. Abbott. The incidents of the first occurred on the Cali- fornia trail in 1850; those of the other more recently in New Jersey. *‘The Drama of One Hundred Acres,” by Calyin Dill Wilson, is an imaginative sketch of the development of an Ohio farm. Ellen Duvall, in “An Old Testa- ment Drama,” comments on the tale of | Naaman the Syrian. 1. J. Wistar, in a brief article on *Penal Administration in Pennsylvania,” tells what has been done and what may or should be done in the way of prison reform. O. L. writes of *Holy Week in Mexico,”” and Cleveland Moffett of *“Paris Swindles.” R.G.Robin- son recalls the case of ‘“‘An Expensive Slave’’ in Florida, who caused the war of 1835-39 and the loss of 1500 white lives. The poetry of the number is by Susie M. Best, Mary Bradley and Madison Cawein. An illustrated supplement, by Anne Hol- lingsworth Wharton, treats of “The Washingtons in Virginia Life,” and tells much about the early life and legendary love affairs of the Father of his Country. The Forum. The Forum has for its leader this month a noteworthy paper by Senator Sherman entitled ““Deficiency of Revenue the Cause of Our Financial Tlls.” The Senator con- tends that the President and Secretary Carlisle mistake the cause of our present financial condition in attributing it to the demand tor gold for United States notes, and he thinks that the facts which he submits 1 his paper will convince every one that the true financial policy is io supply the Government with ample means to meet its current expendi- tures and to pay off each year a portion of the public debt. He criticizes the Wilson bill very severely, declares that it bas pro- duced 2 deficiency every hour since its enactment, and attributes our financial ills—especiaily the continued exports of gold—solely to its workings. He says that he prefers a law that will impartially pro- tect and encourage all home industries, The re- | The Pullman strike, which crip- | devoted to purposes of a religious or semi- | | and he considers the McKinley law infi- | nitely better than the Wilson law. The | Right Hon. James Bryce, M. P., author of | that most popular and successfut work, | “The American Commonwealth,” has | written an article entitled wo South African Constitutions”—an elaborate anal- | vsis of the systems of government in the | two South African republics—the Trans- | vaal and the Orange Free State. Professor | Arthur W. Wright of Yale University, who bas lately conducted some remark- | ably successful experiments with the “X" | rays, writes about “The Cathode Ray—Its | Character and Effects.” cClure's Magazine. McClure’s April number has for frontis- piece an excellent portrait of Professor Roentgen, whom the German Emperor has within these few days made a baron for his marvelous discovery of the cathode rays, and the leading article is almost the first account yet given of Professor Roent- gen as seen_in his own laboratory in the actual conduct of his experiments. The { new Antbony Hope romance begun in this | number promises to supply the most at- tractive corpany of people and the most enturalling series of adventures that the fruitful author of *‘The Prisoner of Zenda” has yet created. An account of Lincoln’s courtship and marriage based on the tes- timony of intimate friends of his still liv- ing completely disproves a shameful story accepted by some of the best biographers that Lincoln once subjected the lady who afterward became his wife to the unspeak- able humiliation of absenting himself without warning or explanation on an appointed for their marriage. n thisis given an account of a debate, with passages from a little known speech of Lincoin’s, wherein he had Doug- | las for an opponent and completely dis- | comfited him, twenty years before the his- | The pictures are | toric debate of 1 | abundant and apposite. | Meehans’ Monthly. | Meehans’ Monthly seasonably hasfor its Prang colored plate a representation of the | beautiful blue Rocky Mountain Colum- | bine. The columbine history is as inter- | esting as the plate, It appears that the | botanical name, aquilegia, is not given as our botanists teach us, simply from its resemblance to an eagle, but it commemo- rates the beautiful daughter of Jupiter of that name who died for the love of Gany- mede’s peautiful bird. Treating of bees and clover, the conclusion is reached that they are non-essential in the production of seed. The proper potting of window plants is prettily illustrated. In a two- column article the history of cotton in our country and the phases of the cotton in- dustry in the South to-day are discussed. Over 3,000,000 spindles are running in the South to-day. Dean Hole, who, like many foreigners, has recently ‘booked Amer- ica,” gets a snubbing for his enjoyment of vulgar tastes. Specimen copies are fur- nished gratis by the publishers, Thomas Meehan & Sons, Germantown (Philadel- phia) Pa. The Century. The Century for the coming month is a ricnly illustrated number. It contains many beautiful engravings, the most notable being those used to illustrate Pro- fessor Sloane’s history of Napoleon. Pro- fessor Allan Marquand of Princeton University contributes an article on the +0ld Olympic Games.” This is timely in view of the forthcoming revival at Athens, “rour Lincoln Conspiracies’’ is the title of an article by Victor Louis Mason of the War Department which contains a large amount of new matter relative to the as- sassination of the President. | In “Plain Words to Californians” an ap- eal is made to public-spirited citizens of | California to support the effort of John | Muir, the Alaska and Sierra explorer, to procure the recession to the Unites | States of the Yosemite Valley so that it | may be merged in the Yosemite National Park, which surrounds it, and which under military control has regained its beauty and value as a conservator of the water supply for agricultural regions in the 8an Joaquin Valiey. Following ure some others of the notable articles in the Century for this month: “Abrocide,” by Louise Imogen Guiney; “Sir George Tressady,” by Mrs. Humphry Ward; the ballad of the “Lflnllhin{ Sally,” by Charles G. D. Roberts; “To-day for Me, To-morrow Death for You,” by Howard Spencer Fiske; “The Little Bell of Honor,” by Gilbert Parker «The Mutiny on the Jinny Aiken” by H. Phelps Whitmarsh; *“Rainy Twilight,” by L- Frank Tooker; “The Churches of Periguex and Angouleme,” by Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensse- laer; ‘Who Are Our Brethren ?” by William Dean Howells; "!agmese War Posters,” by D. P. B. Conkling; “The Omne Desire,” by Frank Dempster Sherman; “The Delights of Art” SCoquelins-s Mascarille, ‘The Sick Doctor’), by . G. Vibert; “A Wound,” by Mary Ainge de Vere; and the usual departments. The Philistine. The contents of the Philistine for April are as follows: “Toa Friend in Time of Trouble,” Louise Imogen Guiney; “The Gold ttat Glitters,” Ouida; “Mooas,” Clinton_Scollard; *‘A Song of Sclomon,’” H. C. Bunner; “Afier Dark,’’ Kenneth Brown; “A Fable,” John Bryan of Ohio; “Thoughts,” Charles P. Nettleton; *“The Passing of Clangingharp,” Frank W. Noxon; “Death the Doorw: Alexan- S. R, der Jeffrey; ‘“Lines,” Stephen Crane; Rufarafk. O LITERARY NOTES. A popular edition of W. W. Read’s ““An- nals of Cricket’’ is in preparation in Lon- don. A limited edition de luxe will ap- pear at the same time. sul at Bombay, has written and illustrated a book on Nepal. Itis called “On India’s Frontier; or Nepal, the Gurkha’s Myste- rious Land,” and is being published in London by George Redway. Baron Ferdinand Rothschild, whose literary tastes are well known, has written a series of anecdotal sketches relating to French history. They are being published by Messrs. Macmillan under the title, “Personal Characteristics From French History.”” Some of the people dealt with are Louis XIV, Louis XI, Francis I, Mme. de Pompadour, Cardinal Mazarin, Voltaire, Marie Leczinska and Cardinal Richelien. The coming publications of Messrs. Routledge include a book entitled “Dr. Jameson’s Raid: Its Cause and Conse- quences.” m ready, is written by the Rev. Mr. King, and is an impartial ‘account of all the cir- cumstances connected with this affair. William Black’s new novel, “Briseis,’ will be published by Messrs. Sampson Low about the end of April. Almost immedi- ately the same firm will have ready R. D. Blackmore’s volume of stories, “Tales From the Telling House.” There are four stories. : Clement Scott, the leading dramatic critic of the London Daily Telegraph, wrote his first_criticism on ‘“Romeo and Juliet” in 1863. Some of his notable plays are ‘“Diplomacy,” “Off the Line.” “Cape Mail”’ and “Peril.” *The Midship- mite” is one of bis popular songs. A marble statue to Lord Byron has been unveiled at Athens, presented to the city by Mr. Demetrius Stefanovic Scheylizzi. The suggestion has been made that a miniature of the work might appropriately be presented to any one Who can pro- nounce the donor’s name without sneez- ing. \}T'Vith the April number ends the first book of the Lark. The price of single copies of the Lark will be hereafter 10 cents. Wings will be added in the form of an extra cover sheet to contain advertise- ments and announcements, by which financial aid the Lark may fly another year. All business letters and orders should be addressed to William Doxey, 1 Market street, and personal communi- tions and manuscripts to Gelett Burgess, % sutter street, San Francisco. Bangs & Co., New York auctioneers, have issued a forty-page catalogue of a choice lot of original manuscripts and au- tograph letters of celebrated American au- thors, including what is claimed to be an unsurpassed series of letters and MSS. from the pen of Edgar Allan Poe, all of which will be sold at auction on Satur- day, April 11. It will be interesting to see whether Americans can be counted on to pay as liberally for American literary relics as Britons do for similar treasures of British origin. An interesting feature of the Apnl Ladies’ Home Journal 1s a series of hith- erto unpublished letters from Louisa M. Alcott to ‘“‘five little girls'’ residiug in Pennsylvania. In these epistles the auther of ““Little Women” is said to have most delightfully revealed her extraor- dinary nature. She takes her young cor- respondents into her closest confidence, and writes them of her work, her re- muneration, her daily life and cares, of the influences that directed her to literature, of ber spiritual belief and faith, her views upon immortality, with passing reference to spiritualism and kindred topics. They begin in 1873 and continue at intervals un- til a short time preceding Miss Alcott's death. One epistle, in which the beloved author desls at length with religious mat- ters, is of singular interest, as it presents her view upon the immortality of the soul. Womankind for April is a creditable number, containing a great variety of in- teresting matters that will prove enter- taining and instructive to the reader. As “‘Lounger,” in the New York Critic, observes, Miss Harriet Munroe must look upon the World’s publication of her Columbian Ode before the appointed time with somewhat mixed sentiments. An ode that can earn for its writer $6000 is an ode worth writing, and that is just what Miss Munroe’s ode has done for her. She was paid $1000 by the Columbian commit- tee, and now the United States Circuit Court of Appeals has just ordered the New York World to pay her §5000 for printing the ode before it became public propérty. J. Norman Lockyer, the well-known writer on scientific subjects, has, in con- junction with W. Rutherford, written a andbook of golf forbeginners. It will be published by the Messrs. Macmillan. In “A Few Memories,” the autobiog- raphy of Mme. de Navarro, better known as Miss Mary Anderson, will be included portraits by G. F. Watts, G. H. Boughton and F. Miilet. The Messrs. Harper will publish the book toward the end of the month, According to the Westminster Budget, Mrs. Craigie has announced her decision not to write any more stories of the type of “Tne Gods, Some Mortals and Lord Wickenham.”” Her next novel, *“The Herb Moon,” is of a very different stamp, the heroine being of a noble type of womanhood. A correspondent who has read the greater part of the story expects that it will add considerably to Mrs, Craigie’s reputation. The efiects of Paul Verlaine consist of some papers in a table drawer, a bundle of MSSin a handbag, another—the work he wasengaged on last—1in the portman- teau which was presented to him the day before be went to London in 1893, half a dozen clay pipes and a clay cigarette- holder, two pairs of eyeglasses, a hat and a nightcap. Matthew Arnold’s early poems, ““The Strayed Reveller’” and *“Empedocles on Etna,” with some other verse by him, are to be issued in Walter Scott’s Canterbury series. The announcement is made that the So- ciety of the Philistines has arranged with Walter Blackburn Harte, the editor and publisher of the Fly Leaf, Boston, Mass., to acquire and incorporate the Fly Leaf with the Philistine. Under this arrange- ment the services of Mr. Harte will be Te- | moved. / { ..!s‘\\\‘\\\\\ \ = Henry Bauantine, lately American Con- | The volume, which is almost | AR CROCKETT. tained by the society, and he will hence- forth devote his time and efforts to fur- thering the interests of the Philistine and the Roycroft Printing Shop. Aiter April 1 Mr. Harte’s address be East Aurora, N.Y. All unexpired subsecrip- tions to the'Fly Leaf will be filled by the Philistine. Tyndall’s Alpine book, ‘‘Glaciers of the Alps,” which gives a narrative of excur- | sions and ascents made by him, is to be | reissued. It has been oui of print for | vears, and Mrs. Tyndall has written a preface for the new edition. Messrs, Long- | mans, who announce it, also promise Mr. | Lecky’s historical work, “Democracy and Liberty,” at an early date. A curious volume will soon be published | dealing with the cafe concerts, the circuses | and the showmen of Paris. The text is by Georges d’Esparbes, Andre Lbels, Maurice Lefevre of the “Chien Noir”’ and Georges Montorgueil, all of them writers who are known as specialists on the subject. The book will contain a number of illustrations by H. G. Ibels. Max Pemberton’s diary of a valet, which he now entitles ‘A Gentleman’s Gentle- | man,” will be issued at once by Messrs. | Innes. It appears that Saint Thomas d’Aquinas was an anti-Semite. Such, at any rate, is the contention of the Abbe Gayraud, who is about to publisha volume in support of | his views: “L’Antisemitisme de Saint Thomas d’Aquin.” The Roycroft Printing Shop announces a sister book to the “‘Song of Songs,” | which i lomon’s. 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