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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, APRIL 5, 1896 21 RNEST ARTHUR GARDNER, formerly director of the Brit- School ot Archmology at , has contributed to the esof “Handbooks of Archzol- iquity” a valuanle work on Sculpture.”” He expresses the belief Y ie there are several histories of Greek sculpture, the need of a handbook on ler scale and ofa somewhat different has been widely felt, and he has sudeavored to give a general out ine of our 1owledge of Greek seulpture. tish- possible the different ods and giving typical in- ¥ 5 > show the development of each. made any attempt ata com- austive treatment of the sub- from the at i ble examples only h as seemed most useful inillustration. first volume, which has just been re- ta introduction and the Gre The t s uipture down to the el o e v 0! f Phidias. se fifth and lenistic and Grmco-Roman eculpture second part will rth century B. C. dices to the whole work. The e bandbook will appear some g the present year. Theauthor the history of Greek art| i each of which is a chapter in his o T are three chapters in | . he first considers the prevalent in Greece and the | countries during the period mmediately preceded the inde- t existence of Greek sculpture, and at surrounded its ori- The author also seeks ch contained in them- ities of so glorio second chapter are s - earlier stages of development of Greek sculptu itself, from the rude and un- th images which seem little better than work children or savages up to les with_the technique of | rt that precedes a perfect mas- | over the material. This period fitly | ds with the date of the battles of Sala- | mis and Platea; as the Persian invasion | and re supplied fitting } at actually left an reise of his art by de- 1is predecessors. chapter deals with the age of tainment, when the sculptor, competent to express his thoughts ze or marble, or in yet richer ma- is also inspired by the noblest e age of Phidias and Polyclitus, Greek conception of the highest d most perfect embodiment, and m of man was rendered in its most et t Thus concludes the volume t to be published will delicacy and more Te- ill in rendering ons and moods, mark the copas and Praxitel study and care of ex the school of Ly ome the Hellenistic age. which owes to the conquests of Alex which begins at his death, 32 . Grmeo-Roman age begins about ve sack of Corinth and con- ut the time of the foundation tinopla (324 A. D.). The Byz ge is beyond the scope of the wo s0 also is the monumental sculpture and portraiture which is especially Roman 1 racter. By Greco-Roman work is produced to meet the demands an market for Greek sculpture, while the taste was in fashion—or at least juced under the influences to which demand had given rise. [New York: Macmillan & Co. For sale by William Doxey; price $125.] POETRY BY THE BUSHEL. Carsner B. Jean writes to THE CaLL that ae isabout to publish a volume of verse, and he considerately forwards a number of sample effusions dashed off at odd times ander various inspirations, as a sort of forerunner to the book which he threatens to print. Carsner has been writing poetry since before the war, and bas great wads of the stuff stowed away ready to be bun- iled to tne pubiisher as soon as ever the press shall bave decorated him with the bardic wreath. Here is one of the touch- ing stanzas from his “Harp of America’ : Sweet harp of America in mourning awake thee, Unbonored, anbeard, thou hast slumbered too “r the bard of the future forsake thee, 6 10 thy glory one tribute of s0Dg. Mr. Jean's general merits as a poet may ve very safely estimated from the loregoing sianza. His other verses, it may be ven- tured, are all equally soul-stirring and beautiful. If Tom Moore could see that stanza he would be overcome with sorrow the thought that ever he framed a lody like the one that runs: ar harp of my country indarkness I found thee: e cold chain of silence had bung o'er thee 2 proudly, my own 1sland harp, I unbound thee, And gave all thy chords to light, freedom and song. Nocriticism could do justice to the poetic work of Carsner B. Jean; and there is no law which could be invoked in the prem- ises, either, ROBERT ATTERBURY. Thomas H. Brainerd, author of “Go Forth and Find,” has written a new novel, “Robert Atterbury,” which deals with the problem of marriage. One of the lessons which the story is intended to convey is that, as a rule, marital infelicity results from the fact that couples enter the mar- riage state without due or proper appre- tion of the seriousness of the step they are taking in a matter of lifelong import- ance—without that perfect understanding between the parties which should precede the assumption of the marriage relaticn. The hero of the story witnesses the de- | whether or not to risk the fate of two lives on matrimonial uncertainty. For instance, he runs across an old Harvard chum, who was valedictorian of his class, and of whom the president of the university had said: | ““The world will hear of him—he will have |a place among the coming men.” This | old chum looks world-weary and old. He artles Atterbury with this advice, *‘If you | wish to accomplish anything in the world, don’t marry! Don’t marry unless you | are so rich that you don’t have to think of money, or so poor that the town takes {care of you.” Yet, among Atterbury’s | own family connections there appear two prominent instances of marriage for money, and both are fraught with un- | happiness from the beginning, and end in | separation. not unattended by pain and misery. Atterbury had acquaintance with another couple who never quarreled, but always treated each other with the utmost formality. They had not learned how to | love. Atterbury isa Bostonian, and a man of character and education. On a trip through California he meets his ideal woman, Sarah Gardner, a Vassar graduate, living with an aunt at Santa Cruz. Sarah’s father is a wanderer on the face of the earth. The father provides for her, ana in his letters he advises her never to marry, as the tendency of educated women is to remain single. Sarah, however, falls rapturously in love with Atterbury. The girl’s father, however, thinking himself at the point of death in Japan, writes a fare- well letter to Sarah, revealing a story that drives her nearly crazy—the story of her insane mother. ~Sarali’s mind is made up instantly. She sends the explanatory cor- spondence to Atterbury and immediate departs for Japan. Meantime, Atterbu is taken iil in Boston, his life despaired of, he resolves to give up rah, and ils to the South Sea Islands. At Apia, he receives the letter with Sarah’s story. His health has im- proved, and, without delay, he embarks | for Japan, where Mr. Gardner is recover- ing, and where the devotion of two hearts overcome a father’s scruples against his daughter's marriage. Father, daugh- ter and Atterbury return to America, where success in the literary world awaits both Gardner and the hero, and content- | ment and happiness await all. Robert and Sarah have no children of their own, but | they adopt a daughter oi Robert’s niece, { who married money and misery, and they | also become father and mother to a little | son of that formal couple, who, by the | way, had been united in love over the graves of their other children, but whose love-story was made all too brief by the hand of death. These children, reared in a sphere of such devotion and excellence as that of Robert and Sarah, profited by the golden example, and their eventual happy marriage is a crowning blessing of | the Atter! Theauthor has evidently been a keen observer in the ranks of so- ciety. ‘“Robert Atterbury” will doubtless | bave many readers in thisCity, particu- larly when it is known that the name of Thomas H. Brainerd is merely the nom de | plume of a lady who is a well-known and alented member of San Francisco so- Mrs. Jonn R. Jarboe. [New York: The Cassell Publishing Company. For 15“15 at the Popular Bookstore; price 50 | cents.] I MARRIED A WIFE, This is the rather happy title of a rather happy novel by John Strange Winter, who relates some of the matrimonial experi- ence of Derrick Lipscombe, “officer in her Majesty’s Black Horse.” Derrick is made to tell his own story in a manner that is both fresn and rich with humor. The present novel will not detract, by any means, from the reputation of the author of “Bootles’ Baby.” Derrick meets his charmer in the person of Miss Geraldine Brodie, “one of the nicest girls in Lon- don.” He lays siege to her heart. He discovers that Geraldine is brimful of charity for the poor and downtrodden, and she becomes dearer still to him on that ac- count. He even smiles encouragingly on the blessed work, and she is constantly pestering people for money to aid the nu- merous “'societies for the welfare of chil- dren” in which she is interested. Slum- ming is Miss Geraldine's fid-fad. She takes Derrick around to see various of her atients 1o hovels of poverty, and Derrick regards Geraldine as nothing short ~of an angel withont wings. Derrick’s siege is successful. Miss Geraldine is the wife he marries, They become identified with the official Society of the Black Horse Regiment, and Ger- aldine resumes her fid-fadsin the army. Herkindness of heart gets herinto trouble, Her maid has a beau in the regiment, and she tells Geraldine how inhumanly the fellow is treated,how iil-fed and tyrannized over generally. The man deserts and a rumpus is threatened over the affair, The maid prevails on Geraldine to visit her bome, where the officer's wife sees the deserter ana hears his story. At the entreaty of her maid, Geraldine vows never to reveal what she has seen or heard re- garding the escape. How. ver, she letsout part of the story in an effort to excuse the deserter’'s conduct to Derrick; but Der- rick’s demand for more information 1s met with refusal. BShe finds that her promise has put the interests of a iraitor against the interests of a husband. The police will be certain to find outabout the visit of an officer’s wife to the hiding-piace of a deserter. This, coupled with sworn a!l the manuscripts lefit by him, and among them was found, ready for publi- cation, the one entitled “Ocean Rovers,” which is clzimed to be the equal of any of the previous works from Mr. Thomes’ pen. ‘‘Ocean Rovers” is a series of stories dealing in a considerable part with ad- ventures of American privateersmen in the war of 1812, and all of them are of a character very attractive to the reader who would like to pass a leisure hour in the enjoyment of narratives that yield de- light and are never wearying. [Chicago Laird & Lee, publishers.” Price 50 cents.q LIVES THAT CAME TO NAUGHT, This is the title of a new book by Gar- rett Leigh, author of ““The Burning Mist."” The pain and deception that follow an ill-advised marriage find treatment in the story, and the title 13 well borne out by the tale. Edith Loveret is in- clined, from her own experience, to the view that the only real love to a woman is of “the dog-in-the-manger type, when it s self-sacrifice it reveals its unreality.” dgar Brownri% and Gerald Watson are close personal friends. It appears that Edith, after her marriage to Edgar, discovers that she had made a blunder in the analysis of her own feelings, and she has resolved thereaiter to feign a love where love had no place. Gerald was the man to whom her heart went out in reality; but he could mnot be hers, and, rather than he should be to any other woman what he might have heen to her, she would tear the heart from her own breast. Death comes to Brownrig, and Edith is free once more. Gerufif has never married, and the widow receives him with rapture when they met. But the rapture is brief, for Gerald has only come to say farewell. He discloses to Edith the secret that Miss Wilberforce, the woman who was believed to fove Gerald, and of whom Edith had been jealous, was, in fact, in love with Brownrig, and that Gerald had pretended to love Miss Wilber- force only to J)rotect the good name of Edith an himself. His ideal of marriage, however, is too high for him to use the death of his dearest friend as a glad escape, and to make falsehood a link to such a union as Gerald and Edith. And so they kiss ana | part—Gerald becoming & martyr to his | 1deal of right and honor, and Edith, in her woe, acknowledeging the justice of the pun- ishment. The Stoic philosophy of Brown- rig gives zest to the early chapters of the book. The author 1s quite epigrammatic at times. The iilustrations ‘are by Ida Lovering. L ew York: Macmillan ‘& Co. For sale by Doxey; price 75 cents.] THE LITERARY GOSSIP. 1 do notknow what Byron wrote— No time to read I've had, But Le's the man whose foot was clubbed, And morally was mad. T've never read up Shakespeare— I have (00 much work for that But I am quite familiar With his tendency to “‘bat.” T don't recall a single bit Of Mr. Shelley’s rhyme, But he's the man who tried to have Two spouses at one time. They say that Pope was pretty good— I've never seen his work But he's the humpbacked fellow With a tongue just like a dirk. I've not perused a line of Poe, But I know what 1 think; He is the man who couldn’t write Until he'd had a drink. And so you see, npon the whole, T've reslly somehow got A good iaea of all the queer And literary lot. And while 1 could not lecture quite To plense the learned mind, I sort of tuink I'd captivate ‘The ““Sewing Circle” kind. 8o, Dorcases, take notice: You can help a struggiing mate By subscribing Lo her lectures “:On the Failings of the Great.” —Harper's Weekly. A NEW CALIFORNIA BOOK. On the 15th of this month an Eastern publishing-nouse will bring out a volume of short stcries by Frank B. Millard, who is one of the ablest newspaper men on the coast, both as an editor and asa writer. “In the Black Horse there was mot an officer more contented than Derrick Lipscombe” 1From 1 Married a Wife,” a novel by John Strange Winter.) The title of the book will be “A Pretty Bandit.” Those who have read some of the tales and sketches that Mr. Millard suhlished a few years ago exE‘actA great eal of the coming volume. They expect to find in it keen dramatic interest and literary excellence. The tales will be not only interesting, but well told, and Cali- fornia will boast of another author who will, if the signs fail not, take rank among the producers of what the world calls “‘good literature.” The Fubhshen are J, %eh;{in Tait & Sons, 65 Fifth avenue, New ork. WIT AND HUMOR. “Bill Nye's Sparks’’ and “Nye’'s and Riley’s Wit and Humor” are the names of two volumes just issued in Neely’s Popular Library. Each volume contains a biograph- ical sketch of the late Edgar Wilson Nye (Bill Nye). *‘Sparks’’ isa collection of Nye’s characteristic stories, about thirty in num- ber, and every story is warranted to bring out a number of healthy laughs. The other isa series of poems and yarns by Nye and Riley, and contains some of the SIMON WAS SEATED BEFORE A GLOWING FIRE. [From the ‘‘Brown Squire,” a novel by S. Baring Gould.] mitting herself to cold type this lady ex- perimented for three months on herself best work of each of them. [New York: secrecy, would puclrllam a scandal, To prevent any unpleasantness, Derrick quietly sends in his papers, and Geraldine, having got safely out of a scrape, makes a solemn promise to give up slumming forever. The story closes with the inex- pressible habpiness that necessarily accom- anies the ennouncement of twins. [New g’ork: Frederick A. Stokes Company, pub- lishers.] OCEAN ROVERS. The late William H. Thomes was pro- lific as a writer of tales of travel and ad- venture, and his numerous stories have plorable results of so many matrimonial anions that when Cupid’s arrow at length finds lodgment in his breast he pauses for s time with fear and tremoling, undecided l for years been read with pleasure by young and old. After his death (which was of recent occurrence) his publishers secured F. Tennyton Neely, publisher. Paper covers, each 25 cents. | “HOW TO LIVE WELL ON 25 CENTS, A DAY.” At first sight this seems improbable, to say the least. Yet the reader of a small treatise just published by the J. 8. Ogilvie Publishing Company is assured that it may successfully be done, and that with- out stinting or pinching. This plan will scarcely prove popular in America, how- ever. Mrs. Gesine Lemcke of the Cooking Col- lege in Brooklyn, N. Y., greplred these recipes and menus for the New York World. Itiscomforiing that before com- and family. She isa trifle of a philoso- pher, too, for in a preface she oracularly remarks with a wisdom worthy of Ecclesi- asticus: “All wickedness proceeds from a dis- ordered stomach. Many a man after eat- ing a bad breakfast has said things which imve marred the future of his domestic ife!’” The figures given in the book are often in cents and fractions of cents. “But,” says the author, ‘“‘you are not expectea to buy 14 cents of anything. You must buy provisions in_reasonable quantities. The prices are those for the best quanty of materials. They are not wholesale price, but those of any good large store.” The book is worthy of perusal by careful and economical housckeepers. It contains besides numerous hints on_the conduct of the housebold, which will make it of value. It will be sent by mail to any address for 25 cents by the J. 8. Ogilvie Publishing Company, New York. CHARLES WARREN STODDARD, Walter Lecky, a New York literary | man, pays the following tribute, in a re- cent number of the Catholic News, toa widely known and popular California au- thor and poet: The news that the Catholic University will confer on Charles Warren Stoddard an LL.D. will afford pleasure to his admirers, and they are all those who love an English style that catches the shifting forms of sky, nature’s coloring and the words &nd melodies of men. | He is a typeof that rare but noble class of authors who neither peddle their own wares nor found cliques to manufacture spu- rious fame. The coming century will have a herculean work to perform in cleaning from the shelves marked ‘‘Fame” the trash auda- ciously put there through the agency of syndi- cates, cliques, yellow books, chap books, and other means 100 numerous to mention. Mr. Stoddard has written one volume that will ind room on the cleaned shelves, I refer to that book which Mr. Howells has declared is one “of old memories of delight, graceful shapes, careless, beautiful, with a kind of undying youth in them.” My first_introduction, in one of the isles lying off Venice, to this book is one of the memories that haunt my soul. Of itI have written in “Down at Caxton's.” I laydown on the green sward under the beneficent shade of a huge palm, wrapped in the odors of & thousand flowers that sleepily nodded to the music of the creamy breakers on the rocky shore. Books have their atmosphere as well as men. Deprive them of it and many a charm is lost. Idrew the little volume from my pocket, and there in that atmosphere akin to the one in which 1t was begot, I read of life in summer seas, life that floats along serene and sweet 2s a bell-note on & calm, frosty night. Since those days I have re- read the volume in the lumber shanties of the Adirondacks with pleasure not a whit abated. I have given the book to others, men and women of the highest cultivation, and their criticism was summed up in the word “delicious.” Robert Buchanan, a critic to be reckoned with, has chided America for its apethy to sucha man of genius as Mr. Stod- dard.” Rudyard Kipling declared that the reading of “South Sea Idyls” made him anxious to roam again. A book that can draw from critics so diverse as Buchanan, Kipling and Howells such whole-hearted sympathy breathes 1n its pages what Hazlitt calls the “silent air of immortality.” Such a book has no need of the minnow crities who bite at everything that fallsin their pool. When such authors as Mr. Stoddard go a-fishing they dis- dain such fry. Every Man His Own Poet. Youbulld a sonnet on about this plan Your first iine ground out, take the next one—so! And make it rhyme with this one, just below, Then, next, you match the first 1ine, if you can, Don’t hurry the machine. The lines must scan. With steady motion turn the crank. You know *Tis not a sonnet if it limps. Go slow. Now find the rhyme for “scan”—for insiance, man, As to the last six lines some latitude May be allowed. Take any word, as ‘grove,” Now hunt a line for “latitude.” Try shrewd. This line must end with dove or Iove or strove, And this with mood or prude or crude or dude, And therz's your sonnet. Throw it in the stove. — Hartford Courant. LARGEST AND SMALLEST BOOKS. Professor Max Muller of Oxford, in a re- cent lecture, has called attention to the largest book in the world, the wonderful “Kutho Daw.” It consistsof 729 partsin the shape of white marble plates, covered with inscriptions, each plate built over with a temple of brick. Itisfound near the old priest city of Mandalay, in Burmah, and this temple city of more than 700 pagodas virtually makes up this monster book, the religious codex of the Buddhists. In accordance with the three parts of which it is composed, generally called in a figurative sense ‘‘baskets,” the whole is often termed ‘‘the three baskets,” and con- stitutes a library larger than the Bible and Koran together. As the Jews figured out that the Old Testament contained 59,493 words and 2,728,100 letters, so the Bud- dhist priests have computed that the “Tipitaka” contains 275290 stanzas and 8,803,000 syllables. This monster book is. written in Pali. Rather strange to say it is not an ancient produc- tion, but its preparation was prompted by the Buddhistic piety of this century. It was erected in 1857 by the command of Mindomin, the second of the last Kings of Burmah. As the influence of the tropical climate bas already marred the inscrip- tions, a British official, Mr. Farrars, pro- poses to have these 729 Ellle! carefully photographed, and asks that the Govern- ment,or some friend of science able to do so, make provisions for this. Professor Muller urges that this be done in order to preserve at least the pictures of this unique temple-city book., A noteworthy contrast to the Kutho Daw is furnished, according to the Literary Digest, by a recent German literary jour- nnf describing what is probably the smallest book in the world. This is a “Konversationslexicon,” published in Ber- lin and prepared by Daniel Sanders. The volume occupies the space of only six cubic centimeters (.366 cubic inch), al- though it is claimed to contain 175,000 words. The book must be read through a microscope especially prepared for 1t. At a recent book sale in London nine- | | | | war, and any Government or commander is one by James Walter Smith, who treats of the American literary colony in Lon- don. jamin Franklin London appealed labor. teen volumes of Cruikshank’s Comic Alma- nacs sold for £2010s. At an auction sale of a library in a northeast town some time since a set of Cruikshank’s Almanacs, two large volumes, which might have cost their o:iginal purchaser $10 aplece, sold for 35 cents all told. The people were not interested in Cruikshank and the an- nouncement that the almanacs were fifty years old made the people smile. If they had any wish for almanacs they wanted them strictly up to date. MAGAZINES. Godey’s. Godey’s Magazine for April is a “*Bicycle Number.”” No less than a round dozen of articles are devoted to the differ- ent aspects of the wheel, Its praises are “sung in song and told in story”; in fact this month’s Godey’s is an epitome of the art and science of cycles and cveling. Major-Gencral Nelson A. Miles opens | the ball with some observations on the | use of the bicycle in warfare. He remarks: “The French Government has found th bicycle so practicable and usetul thatit | has adopted it as one of the appliances of | utilizing this means of transportation and putting a large or small force upon the | cycle would compel an opponent to do likewise, or else have him at great disad- vantage. In the United States armv at the present time there are nearly 5000 officers and soldiers who use the cycle, | either in service or for recreation.” F. A. Egan, in ‘‘The Evolution of a| Sport,” relates the history and origin of | the cycle. Itisiearned from this thatas| far back as 1868 ‘‘velocipede receptions’” were nightly occurrences. It is recorded at one of these receptions that, “among | the gentlemen who 5“9 proof of their skill was Charles A. Dana, who is an ex- pert rider.” Isaac B. Potter discusses “The Work of | Wheelmen for Better Roads,,” taking oc- | casion to compare American with French roads, to the disadvantage of the former. Mr. Potter thinks the cyclist of to-day is in much the same position as Balaam’s | ass, in so far as he protests against the con- dition of the king's highway. “A Cycle Show in Little,” by Marma- duke Humpbhrey, is written to show some of the curiosities and anomalies of the cycling trade, This article is a very inter- esting one to the ordinary everyday world. Bicycling for women is well discussed in several articles, and the magazine is well to the front with its usual departments, “The Bookery,” “Fashion, Fact and Fancy,” etc. The Strand. The Strand Magazine for the coming mouth is full of good reading matter. Principal among the articles in this issue Even as far back as the days of Ben- to the American writer as a good field for his The number of American journal- ists and playwrights is being constantly augmented by young men and women, who find in" London fame a singularly sweet and inviting prospect. 2 Among literary Americans resident in London are mentioned the following: B. F. Stevens, Bret Harte, Henry James, Mrs. F. Hodgson Burnett, Robert Barr, W. L. Alden, Gertrude Atherton, M. D. Conway, H. J. W. Dam and Poulteney Bigelow. ‘‘Between the Acts” is a story of the Franco-Prussian war translated from the French of M. de Blowitz, the well-known Paris litteratenr and corre- spondent of the London Times. Charles Knight has a lengthy article descriptive of ymnastics in the British army. Mary Spencer Warren shows the German Em- peror at home in her story entitled “The Palaces of the German Emperor.” ‘‘Some | Peculiar Entertainments” by Framley Steelcroft illustrate to what a remarkable extent the modern showman will go to entrap the elusive shilling from the pub- lic. Several other stories and descriptive articles, well illustrated, go to form a very attractive number of the Strand. The Pall Mall. The Pall Mall Magazine is very prosy, not to say insipid, this month. While it iswell illustrated and handsomely printed, it appears to depend upon the prestige of its aristocratic editors and makes no pretense of publishing interesting, popular or di- gestible reading matter. "An exception might be made in the case of Zangwill's “““hhout Prejudice,’”” but even the Ghetto word-painter fails to come up to the mark this month. A dainty etching, “A Diffi- cult Question,” is bound up with the April -Pall Mall. LITERARY NOTES. Professor Frederick Nicholas Crouch, the aged author of ‘“Kathleen Mavourneen,” is suffering from an attack of heart trou- ble, aggravated by poverty and want, and it is thought that his death is near at hand. His home is in Baltimore. Bishop John F. Hurst of Washington, whileon a visit to Geneva, Switzeriand in 1890, discovered and bought a mani s cript yolume which'proved to be the auto- graph journal of Captain William Pote, of that part of Falmouth, Me., now known by the lccal name of Wopulord s, The journal was kept by Captain Pote during his captivity in the French and Indian war, from May, 1745, to August, 1747. 1t | poet, will be grinted by Messra. Dodd, Mead & Co., in the exact language and spelling of the original manuseript. rhe Rev. 8. R. Orockett's new novel will deal with life in Holland, and he has gone to that country to get the local color. Macmillan & Co. bave in press an ex- ceedingly interesting work, which, under the title “Brother and Sister,” comprises the letters that passed between Ernest Renan and his sister Henriette during the crucial period of Renan’s life. 4 The April number of the magazine “Romance” contains articles upon _the mysterious New Ray, and one upon Man Flight, the latter giving interesting pho- tographs of Lilienthal as he appears while soaring through the air with his duplicate set of wings. Max Nordau has in the April number of “Book Reviews” an article on Alfred Austin, whom he declares to be the most perfect incarnation of Anglo-Saxonism in literatnre. Albert Tournier, librarian of the Ministry of Public Instruction in Krance, has written a book on Vadier, president of the committee of public safety, arch-enemy of Robespierre. An extended history of the British navy, under the editorship of W. Laird Clowes, is announced by Sampson, Low & Co. American writers will contribute to it. The first volume will bring the record down to Elizabeth. Stephen Crane’s first book, ‘“Maggie, a Girl of the Streets,” was never refused by a publisher, because it was never offered to one, says the New York Critic. He orinted 1t himszlf, and had no thought at any time of asking any one to publish it for him. Tue May Harper's will open with an article on” Mark Twain by his old friend and neighbor, the Rev. Joseph H. Twichell. It abounds in anecdote, and is embellished with a frontispiece portrait, engraved by Florian from the latest photograph of Mr. Clemens, and with pictures of his Hartford and Elmira homes by Childe Hassam. The London Athenzum has this to say of the author of “The Raven”: Ad- dictea as Poe was to mystery and to mys- tifying his audience, jor bimself he at- tempted to demonstrate there was no mystery. He, he would prove to us, had gauged the universe and could assay its value. Calmly and scientifically, if we will only submit to the glamour of his wizardry, he will explain the inexplicable. Creation 1s a riddle which he can ex- }mund. Death and eternity are but prob- ems he will sglve for us—but cryptograms he can unriddle for our benefit. Only resign ourselves to his guidance and, though he lead us through the Valley of the Shadow, it will be as a guide who knows the route and with whom we can- not go astray. Queslions bave always been raised as to the discoveries made by Sebastian Cabot, son of John Cabot. In Henry Harrison’s “John and Sebastian Cabot” the work performed by each is distinctly traced. The volume is aescribed as ‘‘a chapter of the maritime history of England under the Tudors, 1497- 2 According to Zangwill, the “new men of ’95" are Grant Allen and George du Mau- rier. *‘To wind up,” he says, “it is not at all improbable that the new man of ’95 may have been altorether omitted from this or any other catalogue, for without friends on the press a new writer may in the rush and crush of books escape the notice of even the most impartial spec- tator.” It is announced that the first volume of Victor Hugo’s still unpublished corre- spondence will come out Junel. The le ters will be (1) those written to his father at Bloisin 1820; (2) the poet’s love-letters to his fiancee and to his young wife; (3) the epistles to Academy of Floral Games; (4) the bulk of the correspondence referring to ‘“Hernani,” ‘‘Marion Delorme’” and *Le Roi s’Amuse”; (5)a big bundle of letters to Lacretelle and Victor Pavie, with fifty to Sainte-Beuve. The series, which reads like a novel, is edited by M. Theodore Michaelis, wko intends eventually to give them the form of an English translation. Macmillan & Co. announce that a ninth volume will be added to the new edition of Pepys’ Diary, which they are now pub- lishing under the editorship of H. B. Wheatley, containing various appendices, additional illustrations ana a copious in- dex. The seventh volume has just been issued. The next volume in the Century Science Series will deal with the work of James Clerk Maxwell. England is not as bad off in material for future poet laureates as one might think. | Mr. Zangwill writes: “We have a plethora of poets uble to give every satisfaction iu their work and ready to celebrate amy- thing and everything with neatness and dispatch.” According to reports the effect of bad literature, the smut school, on juveniles in France is shown by an increase of 16,000 criminals in thirty years. The criminol- ogist refers this increase to ‘‘bad books and journals.” James Whitcomb Riley, the Hoosier is now editing a semi-religious monthly journal known as the Orphan’s Bougquet. Shortly before his death Alexandre Du- mas fils wrote a preface to “Miremonde,” a short novel by M. Henry Rougon. The book is to apnf&r in April. It has been il- lustrated by M. G. Mendez. An autobiographical paper, by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, in McClure's for April, re- vivesthe tragic history of the burning of Pemberton Mills—a = casualty that jur- nished the basis of one of Miss Phelps’ most effective stories; and also tells how, moved by the mourning that filled the land at the close of the war, she wrote that epoch-making book “The Gates Ajar.” William Morris, the English poet, dramatist and socialist, fias a paper in the Avril Forum on “The Present Outlook of Socialism in England.” In the same num- ber Brander Matthews, the critic, novel- ist and dramatist, has a delightfully enter- taining essay entitled ‘‘On Pleasing the Taste of the Public.” FAIR WILL CASE. Marc Levingston as Executor Is Master of the Situation. In the Fair will case Dr. Marc Lev- ingston’s position remains unassailable. He is the executor under what is known as the Craven pencil will, and is therefore master of the situation. Rumors bave been flying thick and fast that he had been offered $300,000 to sur- render his advantage, but had demanded a half million 1n cold coin to retire from the field ; but thesereports cannot be traced to trustworthy sources. Dr. Levingston, guided by the advice of his lawyers, Messrs. Delmas & Shortridge, is saying nothing, and the lawyers, exalt- ing the advice by example, say nothing themselves. Samuel Shortridge, being asked yester- day if he could not cast some ray of light on'the subject, said: “I simply decline to be interviewed at present. Later in the day, after I have had a certain conference, I may have a statement to make.” 0ld and half-forgotten romances hinting that Mrs. Craven might produce proof of a certain contract marriage to Senator Fair have been resurrected to embellish the recent news, but nothing has been ad- duced to indicate any weakness in Dr. Levingston’s position. SHE WAS TIRED OF LIFE. Mrs. Giusifini Albera Takes a Fatal Dose of Strychuine While Despondent. Mrs. Giusifini Albera, aged 60 years and a native of Italy, took a dose of strychnine in her room, at 835 Pacific street, at 12:40 o’clock p. M. yesterday, and dled from the effects. life. Her husband had suffered reverses in New York some years ago and she has peen brooding over the loss ever since. Yesterday morning her husband went out to the City Hall ‘o transact some business and when he returned she told him she had taken the poison. He summoned medical aid, but she died in a short time and the body was removed to the Morgue. S Scenic Painters Honored. 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