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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, APRIL 26, 1896. 23 A i vas !” And again: HE admirers of the late Ernest]she was spared to me Y Renan have now the opport: rnits' Since I lost her there has grown in my i 4 PPOTEUNILY | 11in s semblance of the angnish of a of viewing him in an entirely new | atient who has_suifered amputation, and aspect of his character. In a work | who has the limb he was deprived of con- (**Memoirs and Letters of Ernest |stantly in his sight. She was a radical and Henriette Renan’) recently published | factor in my intellectual existence, and by Macmillan & Co. he is shown, not as | With her a part of my actual being passed the eminent historian and philologist, the Jearned occupant of the chair of Hebrew at the College de France; weighty disputant of Chris not as the | tor, 3 the divinity of | had brought himself to a philosophical | not as the eminent‘explorer of | state of mind in contemplating her life | | away.”” | The last words of the memoir sum up | Renan’s thoughts on the death of his sis- They would seend to indicate that he Pieenicia and the Far East. He is simply | Work and her efforts in bis behalf. He | concludes: exhibited to us in ‘his domestic reiations, Lot us hold fast her memory as <! in the love he bore to his “dear sister Hen- | . ciong demonstration of those eternal riette,” “the person who has had most in- | truths whereof every virtuous life con- fluence on my life.” | tributes proof. Personally I have never The deceased scholar was always averse | doubted the reality of the moral law. But to publishing matter bearing on the life of | NOW I see clearly that all the logic of the | ; i universal system must come to haught if bimself and his sister. In September, | jyo Jives as ners were nothing but & de- 1862, however, he composed a pamphlet | ¥ 0 | Iusion and a snare.” with the title: ‘Henriette Renan; A | The letters, which form the greater por- Memorial for Those Who Knew Her.”” In | tion of the te‘;en_t wo;k. are d;;g;g‘ = its opening lines the following words will | various periods during the years 1842.45. « 4 | Like the memoir, they breathe a love be- attract attention: ‘“These pages are not | S intended for the general public and will | e neiTnon: never be offered to it.” The reason given | Henriette are philosophical and analytical. for this note is remarkable, and illustrates | They serve to throw some light upon dis- to what extent the life of the sister in- | puted phases of his character. As for his fluenced that of the brother: *“My sister | sister’s letters, they indicate the almost was so modest, and her aversion to the | maternal regard she had for her “darling bustle of the world was so extreme, that | Ernest,” with whom she discusses ab- if I had offered these pages to the general | struse questions of theology in a manner public I should have fancied her casting | that confirms Ernest’s assertion that their reproachies on me out of her grave. * * | minds were as one. . 1 E,‘-e no right to expose a memory 1| The work of translation has been ad- hold so sacred to the scornful judgment | mirably performed by Lady Mary Loyd. which is part of the right acquired over a | The letterpress of the memoir is illus- work by purchase.” | trated by etchings of Ernest and Hen- The present volume of memoirs and cor- | riette Renan and with pictures of their respondence isauthorized by Ernest Renan | Dative tows, Tr o in his will. The reprint before us was, in | [Macmillan & Co., New York. For sale fact, prepared by er)ne. Renan, who is also | in this City by William Doxey; price responsible for the selection of the letters. | The death of their father during their | youtn was the means of cementing the love of Ernest and Henriette Renan. The care devoted by the sister to the brother is graphically pictured by the latter in_his | correspondence. After the death of their | father, who was a sailor by profession, | Henriette took it upon herself to repair | the fortunes of the family. She accepted | the position of schoolmistress in Paris, | poorly remunerative as it was. An earnest | student, she passed all the appointed ex- | aminations. Excessive labor did not have | the same effect upon her mind as it might | have upon a more mediocre intelligence. Instead of exhausting it strengthened it and produced a prodigious mental devel- opment. Later she taught the younger members of an aristocratic Polish” family, where was well treated. In 1845 Renan records that his sister ad- vanced to him the sum of 1200 francs. “That sum,” says he, “‘was the corner- stone of my whole life. * * * At this crucial moment in my life Henriette's | peautiful letters were my support and con- | solation.” Upon leaving Poland Henriette joined | her brother in Paris. “And then,”’ writes Renan, ‘“began those happy years, the recollection of which still draws tears | from my eyes.” i Her assistance given to him in his work i | was considerable. Here is his own testi- mony on this point: “She had the ex- tremest respect for my work; I have known | her to sit of an evening for hours at my | side, holding her breath lest she should | disturb me. There was not a delicate | shade in the theories I was then evolving | that she did not appreciate. She sur- | passed me in knowledge on many points | of modern history, which she had studied | at the fountain-head. The general plan | of my career, the scheme of inflexible sin- cerity I had mapped out, was so essen- | tially the combined product of our two consciences that had 1 been tempted to fail in any particular of it she, like a sec- ond self, would have been beside me to call me back to du She was my incom- parable amanuensis. ‘She read everything | I wrote in the proofs, and her invaluable | criticism would discover delicate shades of negligence in style which might otherwise have escaped me.” Of her persona! character the affection- ate brother has much to say. ‘‘She was not witty, if that word is taken in the French acceptation to mean something light and bantering. She never made game of any living being. She hated all malice and thought it cruelty. A person who at- tracted ridicule at once acquired her pity, With pity shs gave love and set herself be- | tween the mocker and his prey.” | The almost jealous eye with which his | sister regarded his going and coming | nearly prevented Renan’s marriage with | Mile. Scheffer. Driven to a choice between | the two affections, he made up Lis mind | to accept the older and that whicli verged | most closely upon a duty. But the sister was not willing to permit the sacrifice, | and after some delay the marriage took place. i In 1860 Renan was chosen by the Em- | peror to make a voyage of research in the | districts of Jerusalem, Tyre, Beyrout and | the upper Jordan. His sister was one of | those who pressed upon him tbe need of | his acceptance of the commission and even accompanied him to the Holy Land. Ernest was at that time engaged upon his famous work *““The Life of Jesus,” in which he received valuable assistance from Hen- riette. In the midstof his work his sister was seized with a feverand several days after Ernest himself took the disease. His anguish at the suffering of his ‘‘dear Hen- riette,” as described in the memoir, is some- thing pitiful. He freely expresses his sorrow that she was ever permitted to join the expedition. In three days she died, | unattended by a European physician, and without the necessary remedies or conven- iencesof a sickroom. In his memoir Ernest thus expresses his feelings: *‘Oh, my God, have I done alt that in me lay to insare her happiness? With what bitterness do T now reproach wyself for my habit of reserve toward her, for not having told her oftener how dear I | father has been i forit! $225.] A HOUSE OF CARDS. Alice 8. Wolf of this City is the author of anovel, *‘A House of Cards,” to which brief reference was recently made in these columns. The story concerns San Fran- cisco society life. Loys Yerrington is the eldest of three daughters, reared on a ranch. The country life becomes distaste- ful to her, and her friend, Gregory Ken- dall, secures a position for her as teacher in a seminary in the City. Loys is not a favorite with her father for some unex- vlained reason, and she leaves the ranch in spite of his protests. At the seminary the girl comes in contact with the daugh- ters of the wealthiest San Franciscans. She longs to travel and see the world. Sne is very ambitious, and writes a book which is not a succegs. Overhearing the discus- sion of the merits of a fortune-teller she advises some girl friends against consult- ing a medium, but, urged by some unseen power, Loys herself goes to the medium and learns, among other things, that her ead twentv yvears. She hears her father's name pronounced—it is different from the name of the man she bas always looked up to asa father. The latter, too, she learns, had once forgiven a grievous wrong. A trip to Europe is fore- told. A few evenings afterward Kendall informs her of his intention to go to Europe on business. Hehad begged her to become his wife before; but now she con- sented, saying the temptation of the trip was more responsible than the love she bore him. Kendall was willing, however, to win her love after marriage. In Europe Mrs, Kendall meets Penelope Browning, one of her husbana’s friends, and the acquaintance proves productive of many pleasures. Penelope introduces her | friends—Riker Van Arsdale and Bishop Yorke. Gradually Loys and Yorke fall in love with each other, but neither confesses to the other that secret love. Then achild is born to Mr. and Mrs. Kendall, only to be taken away. Loys’ heart was nearly | broken, but Gregory seemed satisfied when the child’s eyes were forever closed. Monghs afterward Kendall is called to tne deathbed of his mother,who for fitteen years has been confined in an insane asylum. This fact had been known, it seems, to every one but Loys. The latter is shocked at the news. er health begins to fail, and_ she finds interest in nothing but Yorke’s society. Loys’ own mother comes to visit her, and the old visit to the clair- voyant was related. Mrs. Yerrington eagerly listened and grew deathly pale when the name of Loys’ father was men- tioned. ““What a great deal vou have to forgive your mother,”” Mrs, Yerrington moaned. “You cannot_uuderstand, for you are a happy wife. I was happy once for a brief while. 1 have paid forit. On, I have paid You canuot know what I have suf- fered. Loys! my child! do not say that you canrot forgive me. Mrs. Yerrington returns home and on the ‘same night TLoys dies saddenly of beart trouble. The last scene discovers Mrs. Penelope Van Arsdale and Yorke kneeling beside her conch. Yorke asks Penelope, “Will you leave me alone with her for a few moments? Inyears to come, Ishall be glad of her dreamless rest, but justnow” —— A key was fitted in the house door and then footsteps echoed through the hall. Kendall had reached home. [Chicago: Stone & Kimball, publishers.” For sale by Doxey; price $1 25.] THE FEASTS OF AUTOLYCUS ; or, The Diary of a Greedy Woman, is a book to make a good man or woman very bungry. It is not a cook book, although it treats most fascinatingly of the delights of the table. It contains adyice for break- fasts, lunches, dinners and suppers for all seasons of the year, and this advice is given, not in the manner of a professor of the divine culinary art, but in the style and in the language of an enthusiast and beld her, for having yielded too easily to my love of silent meditation, for not bav- ing made the most of every hour in which poet. The work is most charmingly written, those who appreciate the work of the chef de cuisine. e following gives a fair idea of the crisp style of the work: And it must be in Marseilles that glitters under midsummer’s sun and grows radiant in its light. Those who have not sean Marseilles at this season know it not. The peevish finder of fault raves of drainage and dynamite. of dirtand Bnnrch?’. Butturn a deaf ear and go to Marseilles gaily and without dread. Walk outin the early morning on the quays; the summer sky is cloudless, the sea as blue as in the painter’s bluest dream, the hills but warm puzple shadows resting upon its waters. The oir is hot, perhaps, but soft and dry, and the breeze blows fresh from over ths Mediterra- nean. Already, on every side, signs there are of the day's coming sacrifice, In sunlight and in shadow are piled high the sea’s sweetest, choicest fruits; mussels in their somber purple shells; lobsters, rich and brown; fish, scarlet and gold and ereen. Lemons freshly plucked from near gardens are scattered among the fragrant pile, and here and there trail lon< sprays of salt' pun- gent sea weed. The faint smell of ail comes to you gently from unseen kitchens, the feeling of bouillabaisse is everywhere, and tender an- ticipation illumines the faces of the passers- by. * * * But Marseilles’ trne mission, the sole reason for its existence, is that man may know how goodly & thing it is to eat bouilla- baisse at noon ona warm summer day. [New York: The Merriam Company. ;‘lm;s ?ale by Johnson & Emigh; price SLEEPING FIRES. George Gissing’s new novel, “Sleeping Fires,”” is an interesting story of love and life. Edmund Langley proposes to a daughter of a wealthy family, after con- fessing that he is the father of a boy born out of wedlock. He is rejected; the girl whom he loves marries Lord Revill, and Langley goes to Athens, there to devote his life to study. At the Grecian capital he meets an old classmate, who is tutor for a ward of Lady Revill, the name of the ward being Louis Reed. This boy, it ap- vears, has been sent abroad by her Lady- ship to escape the influence of a woman she dislikes. Lady Revill also succeeds in getting the woman in question to cease correspondence with him. Theboy rebels, and resolves to go to London and demand nis freedom from the authority of Lady Revill. Langley, however, who has learned to love the boy, is permitted to erform the mission. Langley visits Eng- and. calls on Lady Revill, and hunts up Reed’s history, to discover that Louis Reed is Langley’s own son, and that Laay Revill had adopted him as a source of com- wrong man, as far as love was concerned. Louis dies suddenly before Langley’s re- turn to Athens—dies in happy ignorance of the story of his birth; and, after all, Langley and his old love, the widow of Lord Revill, are united in marriage. [New York: D. Appleton & Co., publishers. Forsale by William Doxey; price, 75 cents.] DAMNATION OF THERON WARE. Harold Frederic’s new story, “‘The Dam- nation of Theron Ware,”” whieh describes in the author’s masterful literary style the various stages in the downfallof a young Methodist preacher, is hardly cal- culated to inspire any loity religious thoughts or sentiments in the mind of the fort when she found she had married the | “good” frauds. Theron tires of his wife’s intellectual inferiority, as he thinks. He seeks the society of Celia Maaden, who en- tertains him with sensuous music and talks about the “‘only true object of worship being beauty.” Heimagines'she loves him and feels that he married too soon and that. heis mismated. He neglects his wifeand is denounced by old acquaintances who once praised bim. He hears suddenly that Celia is going to New York on a certain evening along with Father Forbes. Plead- g urgent church business to his wife, Thberon departs on the same train, follows the priest and the girl to a hotel and when the priest leaves visits Celia’s parlor. There he learns that the mission of the twain he had followed is to save a brother of Celia from prison. Celia condemns Ware for moral infidelity to church and wife, and drives him mad with an analysis of his character. The young preacher goes out and vainly essays to commit suicide. He winds up at the house of the friendly ‘‘debt-raisers,” who reside in New York. They brace him up, send for his wife and she and Theron make up. Ware hasreached the bottom; quits the ministry and has no further use for religion. He winds up by leaving for the Northwest to put his facility of tongue | to use in_politics. [Chicago: Kimball & Co., publishers. Forsale by Doxey; price, $150.] CLEG KELLY. S. R. Crockett, the gifted author of “Bog-Myrtle and Peat” and “The Lilac Sunbonnet,” has here writtena charming story dealing with the adventures of a poor little outcast, Charles (Cleg) Kelly, the terror of the country-side for miles around. This youthful Ishmael is ex-- pelled from Sunday-scheol for asserting that “God’s dead”—in other words, for denying, in his own rough way, the existence and power of the - Deity. Toward the Divine Being Cleg cherishes 2 grudze on account of his hard lot in life. He was afflicted with smallpox, his father “took to drink,”’ and his mother died of grief—hence the making of the youthful atheist. : Among Cleg’s exploits is the discovery of a hoard of stolen treasure, which he re- ports to the police, thus escaping prose- cation for an offeuse for which he was re- ported by one Nathan, a pawnbroker. At the same time Cleg’s father is arrested for “ganging intil anither man’s hoose with- out speering his leave’’—for burglary, in fact. He is sentenced to on& year's im- yment. The scenein courtis quaintly bed by the Scotch prototype of Tom «And I was there and saw the Judge gle him a ‘ongue-dressing afore he spoke oot the sen- tence. ‘One year, says he. ‘Make it three,’ says I frae the back of the coort. So_they ran mé oot; but my faither kenned wha it was, for he cried: ‘May hunger, sickness and trouble suck the life from ye, ve bloodsucking son of my sorrow. Wait till T get hoult o’ ve! I'll make ye melt off the earth like the snow off a dyke, son o’ mine though ye are!’ The friend to whom Cleg narrates this < him: nd what did you say to him?” “Faith! I only said, ‘I hope ye'll like the | oakum, faither.”” There is a simple, old-fashioned fluvori \ W “Y EXPECTED TO FIND YOU KILLED. [Reproduced from “Gryll Grange.”’] much of quaint wit in Gryll Grange, which would probably cause it to find favor in el ot e o Ui Aok ain lier works and Moore’s satirical® verses. The satires of Gryll Grange appearing to- day are just as opportune as these. [New York: "Macmillan & Co. For sale by William Doxey; price $1 25. FOUR-LEAVED CLOVER. This is the title of a book of Stanford rhymes by Charles Kellogg Field ('95) reprinted from the student publication and illustrated by Donald Hume Fry ('95; The rhymester celebrates events and ex- periences of the first four years of Stan- ford University—1892 to 1895, inclusive. Some of the pieces possess considerable | merit. Here is THE DEDICATION. My four-leaved clover groweth not. Upon Parnassus steep, But on the Pajo Alto hills Where Stanford poppies sleep: And though these song-weeds cluster not Beside the Muse’s well, The Spring-filled Lagunita Lake Perchance may do as well. “1 SHALL BE RUINED!” [Beproduced from “Cleg Kelly.”"] reader. The book, nevertheless, is certain to be widely read. It says some things that are only too true about shams that are not infrequent in the churches; but the author has advanced many proposi- tions relative to Christian beliefs that will undoubtedly meet with spirited criticism from the religious press. Theron Ware enters the ministry with noble resolves and Jaudable ambitions. He hasa saint- like countenance and is regarded as an in- tellectuaily superior person. He and his devoted young wife bave fixed their hopes and hearts on an appointment jo a pulpit where an up-to-date, brilliant preacher was wanted. Theron, how- ever, is sent to a low-salaried village where nothing about his church is congenial to him. Discontent grows upon him. He accidentally forms the ac- quaintance of Celia Madden, the organist of the Catholic church in the piace, and is charmed by her beauty and intellectual attainments. Through Celia he is brought into acquaintanceship with Father Forbes, the Catholic priese, and the latter’s friend, Dr. Ledsmar, a scientist. Conversation with these men causes Theron to dream of “a wor!d ot culture and grace, an intellec- tual world of lofty thoughts and the in- spiring communion of real knowledge, where creeds are of no importance, and where men ask one another not ‘Is your soul saved?” but ‘Is your mind well fur- nished 2’ The priest astounds Theron by a discussion of the “Christ myth,’ Im- pressions crowd upon the young minister’s brain. His eloquence is of no avail in the work of raising the debi that hangs over his church, and a pair of “‘debt-raisers” are sent to his aid. They collect all the money needed during a revival, after get- ting the church members worked up by methods that Theron can hardly counten- ance. Theron’s faith is further shaken by the admission of one of the ‘‘debt-raisers” (in confiaence) that the pair of them were formerly mediums and variety actors, and and its suggestions are most valuable to | that their present boast is that they are about the latest work of Mr. Crockett that renders it most acceptable. Once taken up, the reader feels compelled to finish it at a sitting. And this is true notwith- standing the cry that has been raised in certain directions against so-called ‘‘dia- lect stories.” Indeed, it may be said that | the Scotch air pervading these tales ren- | ders tbem delightfully refreshing and lpeculinrly tasty to the jadea palates of atter-day readers of fiction. New York: D. Appleton & Co. sale by William Doxey; price §1 50.] GRYLL GRANGE, This is a reprint in Macmilian & Co.’s “Illustrated Standard Novels'’ series. The book itself is by no means new, seeing that | it was planned in 1856 and published in 1861. It is a satire, written almost in the form of a play, with the name of the speaking character ovposite his part, though minus the direction of action. Prefixed to each chapter are favorite quotations of the author, Thomas Love Peacock, from the classics. This is a man- ner of writing much favored by the late Thomas Hughes of “Tom Brown” fame. ‘The satires are distinctly English, though they refer to manners and customs long since obsolete. Some of them are politi- cal, though the majority touch on social matters. The competitive examination, that sore subject of devate in England for many years, comes in for treatment. This fact alone would prove that Gryll Grange has little value to the reader beyond as a reminder of out-of-date theories and dii cussions. Peacock’s antipathy to English universities, too, was quite unwarranted. It appears to have been, in the words of George Saintsbury, who has prefaced the present edition, ‘‘one of the most enduring of his crazes, probably because it was always the most unreasonable.” For /| and woman is a hypnotist. 1t must be said, however, that there is | in fact, is described merely as “seli-delu- No brilliant bloom, but rooted deep In Stanford loyaity: Their still small voicé may speak to those Who share that love with me, Who once within a cloistered place Were college-mates of mine, In clover there for four sweet years That bore the stamp divine. Then, though this lyre have but two strings, One Love, the othier Beer, I calmly dedlicate them both To every Ploneer. Accompanying the volume is an _‘“‘apol- ogv” by David Starr Jordan, president of the university, who declares that the rhymes of voung Field are part of the traditions of Stanford—t‘original docu- ments’’ in its academic history. He re- minds the “sober and decorous public, to whom these rhymes were not addressed, that they are not to be taken too literally,” as “love and wine in youth are metaphors ¥ n Francisco: William Doxey, publisher; cloth-bound, p rice, $1 50.] STAFESMAN’S YEARBOOK FOR 1896. The thirty-third annual publication of this well-known work is replete with in- formation, not only valuable for business and professional men, but absolutely in- dispensable for all who would keep abreast of the times. The present number con- tains several well-executed African maps, showing the Transvaal, Bechuanaland and the Matabele country, now the scene of warlike events. There is alsoa colored map of tne dis- puted territory in the Venezuelan ques- tion, and one of Upper Burmah, Anam and Siam, illustrating the Indo-Chinese frontier. 'To illustrate the geographical features of the Russian frontier incident on the Pamirs there is a colored map show- ing Russian Turkistan, Bokbara, Afghan- istan, Chinese Turkistan, the Pamirs, Kashmir and Little Tibet. Tke informa- tion as to the people, products, govern- ment, military strength, resources, etc., of all the countries of the world is most complete. [New York: Macmillan & Co. by William Doxey; price, $3.] TALES BY BELGIAN WRITERS. “The Massacre of the Innocents, and Other Tales,”” by Belgian writers, trans- lated by Edith Wingate Rinder, has just been issued in the Green Tree Library scries. The titular story is by Maurice Maeterlinck, and the translator declares that it 1s the only prose tale which he has ever published. Georges Eekhoud is the author of three of the stories; heis de- scribed as ‘‘one of the captains in the great realistic movement which derived its first potent influence from Balzac.” The translator says that perhaps the Belgian life of to-day is, in several of its aspects, best mirrored in the almost brutally direct narratives of M. Eekhoud, in the vivid realism of Camille Lemonnier’s stories and in the broad and sympatnetic “Mounte- banks’’ of Hubert Krains. All three au- thors furnish representative short produc- tions to the collection of Miss Rinder. In all, nine Belgian writers are introduced in the volume at_hand. [Chicago: Btone & Kimball, publishers. For sale by Doxey; price, $1 25.] BRIGADIER GERARD. For sale The “Exploits of Brigadier Gerard” are familiar to many readers from baving pre- viously appeared in various publications. Now that they are gathered in book form, however, they will be gladly welcomed by every lover of adventure. Dr. Doyle evi- dently found material for the creation of his hero in the historical deeds of General Marbot, that dashing leader of light cay- alry in the Napoleonic wars. Marbot's memoirs tell sometimes of ventures that test the credibility of the reader, but there is a vim and_vraisemblance about them that never fail to charm. Granting that Marbot has served as the model for Gerard it must be admitted that the artist has done more than make a cooy; he bhas given us almost a new creation and if in some places_the tints are applied too lavishly the effect as a whole is pleasing. [New York: D. Appleton & Co. For sale by William Doxey; price, $1 50.] HYPNOTISM UP TO DATE. Sydney Fiower of Toronto, Canada, claims to be the mouthpiece of such men as Herbert A. Parkyn, M.D., lecturer on psycho-therapeutics in the Illinois Medi- cal College, Chicago, in the production of the work, *‘Hypnotism Up to Date,” is- sued as No. 56 of the Unity Library. The object of the work is to aid in rescuing hypnotism ‘“from the cluiches of the charlatan,” and of ‘“preserving it in its natural form to the world.” It is con- tended that hypnotism 1s not at ail won- derful; that itvis a valuable aid to medical science, and_that every intelligent man Hypnotism, sion,” and in the practice of it there 1s claimed to be no possibility ofj harmful effects. The book. contains 160§ pages of explanation. [Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Co., publishers. aper covers; price, 25 cents.] THE ISLAND PARADISE. The Oceanic Steamship Company has issued a large edition of a little paver- covered book containing Leigh H. Irvine's poetic descriptions of “The Palace of the Sun’’ (Haleakala) and “Hawail's Burning Mountain” (the active volcano of Kilauea). The sketches originally appeared in letters to the New York Sun (1894). The frontis- piece of the present volume is a fine repre- sentation in colorsof the crater of Kilauea. The Oceanic edition is for free distribution. It contains other information concerning scenes and pleasures to be enjoyed in the Rainbow Islands, as well as a statement of the necessary expenses of a trip thereto. 'ANOTHER NEW POET. Charles Leonard Moore has published a volume of ‘Odes,” written by~ himself. The contents embrace, among other things, hymns to Cybele, Oceanusand Porphyrion, an elegy on Edgar Allan Poe, and an ode to America. Mr. Moore is evidently a well-read person, very fond of Greek and Roman mythology, who is the victim of an unwarranted ambition to become a poet. Mr. Moore deserves sympathy. LITERARY NOTES. R. H. Woodward Company, Baltimore, Md., announces a new book, ‘“Story of Spain and Cuba.” This book is written by Nathan C. Green, the well-known au- thor and former resident of Cuba. It is beautifully illustrated with nearly 100 en- gravings and is sold by subseription. The Merriam Company (New York) will shortly publish a new novel, ‘“‘Apples of Sodom,” by Marie St. Felix, author of “Two Bad Brown Eyes,” ‘Patricia’ and ““A Little Game With Destiny.” A book of bistorical interest is ‘“The Courtships of Queen Elizabeth,”” by Mar- tin A. 8. Hume, the editor of the calendar of Spanish state papers in the Public Record office. Mr. Hume says in his preface that he has often been struck by the failure of historians of the time to ac- count adequately for what seems merely perverse fickleness on the part of perhaps the greatest sovereign that ever occupied the English throne, and that he has un- dertaken in this book to show how a strong modern England was rendered pos- sible by the fixity of purpose and con- summate statecrait that underlay the ap- arent levity and capriciousness of the ueen’s actions. Macmillan & Co. will publish 1 the | early autumn another volume in the American edition of their Elementary Classic Series, “‘Selections from Cornelins Nepos,” by J. Edmund Barss of the Hotch- kiss School, Lakeville, Conn. It will con- tain, besides seven “Lives’’ and the “‘Pre- fatio,” notes, maf word groups, and exercises based on the text for translation into Latin. Clarence Urmy, the poetic San Josean, has the following lines *To a Singer” in May Lippincott’s: Thou hast a gift of gifts: go seek for bliss In far, strange lands, through long and weary years, Thou wilt not find a sweeter boon than this, The power to move thy listeners to tears. The first of a series of papers on South Africa which Professor James Brice, M. P., is to contribute to The Century appears in the May number. Maurice Maeterlinck, ‘*‘the Belgian Shakespeare,” 1s putting the finishing touches to a piecc in five acts, entitled “Aglavaine et Selysette.” It will be pro- duced in Paris in the course of the spring. A new novel by George Ohnet is in the ress. It has not appeared in serial form. The title is “L'Inutile Richesse.” The book, whose theme is the inability of wealth to insure happiness, was suggested | to the author by the unhappy career of poor young Max Lebaudy, but'itis in no | sense a roman a clef. An exhaustive history and description of Caen, one of the oldest and most pictur- esque towns in Normandy, has been writ- ten by Eugene de Robillard de Beaure- paire. The volume, which is the resulit of the labor of many years, will be issued in Paris. It has been very copiously illus- trated by Paulin Carbonnier. A French version, revised by the author, is about to appear of three essays by Count Leo Tolstoy on Zola, Dumas and Guy de Maupassant. In the guise of a preface the volume will contain letters by Dumas fils | and Emile Zola. An important work dealing with French colonization in Western Africa will shortly be published in Paris. The author is M, A. Verdier, who for many years was French Resident at Grand Bassam. ‘‘Trente-cing Annees de Lutte aux Colonies” is the title of the volume. H The second volume of Henri Rochefort’s memoirs is ready. It deals with the great pamphleter’s first exile from France, with the death of Victor Noir, the Franco- German War, the fall of the Empire and the Commune. A waltz arrangement of Paul Dresser’s song, “Just Tell Them That You Saw Me,"” has been made by Theodore F. Morse, the well-known composer, and will appear in the May number of Ev’ry Month. Miss Barlow is engaged upon a new vol- ume of Irish stories, which will be pub- lished in the Iris Library as a companion volume to her “Maureen’s Fairing.” Macmillan & Co. will coramence imme- diately the publication of their translation of the works of Friedrich Nietzche. The firsz, ,volume will be “The Case of Wag- ner. William Canton’s new volume, “W.V., Her Book, and Various Verses,” will be published in London next month. Itis somewhat on the same lines as his tender story, “I'he Invisible Playmate.” The next volume in Heinemann’s Inter- national Library is to be a translation s, a special vocabulary, | ing it in the same series will come a trans- lation of “Niobe,”’ one of the best known stories of Jonas Lie, the Norwegian writer. The discontinuance of Frank Leslie's Pleasant Hours for Boys and Girls and Frank - Leslie's Budget 1s announced. These magazines are stopped solely be- cause of the determination of the manage- ment to_concentrate all efforts on Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly, which, on ac- coung of its rapid growth in circulation and influence, demands more attentions than the publishers had to bestow while bsndlu;fi other publications. The May number of the Parisian is at hand. Itisa magazine devoted chiefly to the reproduction in English of contem- poraneous articles from the leading French and other Continental periodicals. It is published in New York. Miss Mary E. Wilkins has written a new novel, entitled “Madelon,” which Messrs. Osgood will publish in London during May. Of the young American writers, says the London Chronicle, English admirers re. gard her as the one most likely to perma nently interest English people. She lives’ in Massachusetts, and “Madelon,’ like #The New Engiand Nun,” and “Pem- broke,” relates to New Engiand. The illustrated *‘Lee of Virginia” series is continued in the May number of Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly with a paper by Henry Tyrrell, relating to General Lee’s part in the momentous events of the years 1859-1862. These events include the John Brown raid at Harpers Ferry, the seces- sion of the Southern States and outbreak of the Civil War, General Lee’s resignation from the United States army and appoint- ment to the command of tke Confederate forces of Virginia, his campaign in the ‘West, the establisnment of Jefferson Davis at Richmond as President of the Confeder- acy, the first battle of Bull Run and Gen- eral McClellan’s invasion of Virginia by way of the Peninsula and advance upon Richmond. Godey’s Magazine for May is a fine num- ber. Rufus R. Wilson, in “Seeking Both Ends of the Globe,” tells how half a dozen able explorers are setting about finding the poles. Beaumont Fletcher gives a study of the interpretation of *‘Camille” by Bernnardt, Duse and Nethersole. V. Robard contributes a survey of Teutonic work in statuary under the title, *The Masterpieces of German Sculpture,” and there are valuable chapters relative to the ‘‘Great Singers of America,” and *Music in America,” as well as much fiction, fact and fancy. The Lincoln paper in the May McClure’s will contain some very interesting unpub- | lished letters and anecdotes, showing Lin- | coln’s rare tact and sagacity as a political | manager, even as a young man. It will also describe Lincoln’s life in W as a member of Congress in 1847-1849, and | reproduce from the newspaper in which it was reported at the time an important bug now unknown speech of Lincoln’s made in New England in 1848. A number of rare Pictures will appear with the paper. There wiil also be a number of good, strong short stories, among them a railway story by Cy Warman. The complete novel in the May issue of Lippincott’s is “An Impending Sword,” | bv Horace Annesley Vachell of San Luis | Obispo. The hero enters the service of a { California millionaire, whose domestic peace is endangered by the threats and wiles of a relentless enemy. Some queer entanglements ensue. Scribner’s Magazine for May opens with the most intimate account of Robert Louis Stevenson in his home life that has ever been published. This is the first of two papers by Mrs. Isabel Strong (his stepe daughter and amanuensis), which are to be published under the title of ““Vailima Table-Tatk.” From time to time while acting as Stevenson’s secretary, Mrs, Strong put down bits of conversation, characteristic epigrams, a jest, or serious talk—just as they occurred.” These papers are therefore the authentic record of Stevenson’s every-day life by one who had his contidence. The papers are illustrated from photographs in the family albums, which give an equally veracious portrai- ture of the family life'and travels. 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