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o HE Brooklyn Ethical Associa- tion -has issued another of its in- - teresting “and helpful volumes. This is called “‘Life and the Condi- tions of Survival.”’ It containsa number. of popular and yet learned lec- tures.germane to the title that have from time to time been delivered before the society. * - 3 5 There are fourtéen of these lectures in the -book, as follows: By Dr. Lewis G. Janes; on *“Cosmic Evolution as Related to Ethics; by A. Emerson Palmer, on “Solar | Energy”; by Dr. Robert G. Kccles, “The ‘Atmosphere -of Life”’: Rossiter W. Ray- mond;, Ph.D.,- “Water"; Professor W. O. Atwater,“Food as-Related to Life and Sur- vival”; Professor Edward D. Cope, £h.D., ““The Origin‘of Structural Variatiops’; Dr- Martin L. Holbrook, ‘‘Locomotion and Its Helation to Survival;” Dr. David Allyn Gorton, ‘“Labor as a Factorin Evolution”; Mrs. Lizzie Cheney-Ward, ‘Protective Coveriug”; Z. Sidney Sampson, “Shelter as Related to thie Evolution of Life” : Rev. Jobn. White Chadwick, ‘‘Habit”; Rev. ©John “C. Kimball, “From Natural to Christian Selection’; James Avery Skil- ton, -“Sanitation”; Rev. ' Edward P, | Powell, “Religion as & Factor in Social Evolution.” This . is not.a ‘'dry, learned book,” but .. one that is full of information of the use- ful sort-in everyday nineteenth century life, and it is ¢oyched, too, in language that the non-specialist readily grasps and comprehends. While the lectures are all by . specialists they have evidently been | en for those who are not spe- | cialists in.these lines. The publications of the Brodklyn - Ethical Association have a pecaliar value to students in-almost all depariments, since they give in & large measure the results of a broad and very effective ethical work that rests upon science as a basis, is philanthropicin | character,and alinost entirely gratuitous outside of the supporting mbers of the association,” whose motto “‘The Truth | Shall Make-You Free." ‘“Life and the Conditions of Survival” isfor sale at the bookstores or at the association’s head- quarters, Brookiyn, N. Y. SCRIPTURE READER OF ST. MARKS. Despite certain .small crudities of com- position, and abrupt piecing together of situations this.is a“well-written novel with strong human interests. Michael Angelo Lee1s a poverty-stricken Scripture reader, whose sole ambition is to | ease the life- of the poor members6f his | parish. Returning home one Christmas eve he stumbles against a female in a | dark court.- The woman has been rendered desperate by- ill treatment and is intent upon suicide. Shéis dissuaded from her | purpose -by Lee, who conducts her to his | Tooms. B ; The woman- proves to be possessed of | great personal -charms, but totally illiter- ate. Lee. asks her to become his wife. This she refuses to do, but is willing to act- in: that capicity if the Bcripture reader will consent to dispense with ecclesiastical or legal formalities. The struggle ‘between his better self and his merely animal- nature is well pictured, and in-a. weak “moment he consents. Twelyve. months aflerward a child is born lo{lue couple, and the woman becomes his wife: Some time afterward Lee accompanies a paor man—Charles Cunliffe by name—to the hospital. Cunliffe has been run -over by-a-wagon in the 'street, and, seeing the friendly interest taken in his welfare by the Scripture reader, the two become friends. The sick-man confides to Lee the fact that he has a “‘beastly temper,’’ an ex- hibition of which ke has_ already given by unmercifully beating a dog. The animal is placed in-Lee’s- care, and ie regarded with extraordinary. interest by his wife, Upon Cunliffe’s release from the hospi- tal he claims his dog at the Scripture reader’s house. Hére he finds the woman for'whom he'had long been searching, in the. person of Mrs. Lee. Itis now made | apparent that she had run away from | Cunliffe by reason "of his ill treatment of | her; and has willfally contracted a bigam- ois :marriage with Lee. The pair leave for Australia with’ a few lines of farewell addressed to the lady’s second *husband.’” The last part of ‘the story is probably the most unreal, and here occur the portions that appear stilted and jerky. Never- theless, the author of . “The Scripture Reader of St. Marks,” K. Douglas King, may. be congratulated unon having written an interesting story of life in_London, which in F!aces is quite.pawerfuily told. [The Merriam Company, New York; ‘price 50°'cents. For sale atall booksellers’.] OUT OF TOWN. A bright, sketchy volume, without any pretense of depth, has been issued under this title by Messrs. Harper & Bros., New York. It-is. one of those delightfully ephemeral pieces ot literature which is best read on a summer-day, on vacation or dur- ing picnic time., No name appears on the title page to father this series of sketches, though the illustrations are done by Ro- sina Emmett Sherwood in a highly credi- table.-manner. ‘Indeed, they are the better portion of the book. “Out of Town’ records the adventures of William Harford, a ¥ay young bachelor with a fondness for athletics and a marked distaste- for suburban residences. His tastes and conversations run_in the direc- tion of Jife in clubland. Numerous ex- traneous personages are introduced thronghout the book, who, by .judicious blundering. help -to keep Harford away from the object of his affections, Miss Mary Burnham. “For the rest, it can be said that Williath Harford isintroduced to Miss Burnbham in sketch 1, and-is married to herin the final sketch 10. ° A pretty conceit is introduced on the contents page, wherein Harford is pictured as talking to his.lady friend, the before mentioned extraneous personages being shown as “on the line'’ to the end that conversation befween them 1s interrupted. [New York: Harper & Bros. For sale by A. M. Robertsor; price $1 25.] THE WOMAN'S BIBLE. The first part of the mucn discussed and criticized Woman’s Bible has reached us. Its professed object is ‘“‘to revise those texts and chapters directly referring to : women, and those also in which women are made prominent by exclusion,”” The . .movement can be termed a direct cffshoot | constitution of the State?” | eral incorporation of the people and inci- | may be a boid that scheme, has developed a vast amount of adverse comment directed against the powers that were and are. The introduction to the “ultra-revised” version of the Pentateuch, which forms Part I, is written by Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The venerable advocate of woman’s suffrage finds much at which to cavil in the ordinary revised or King James’ edition of the Scriptures. She de- fends the position of the board of editors from the attacks of those who have urged the uselessness of such a work as the present in this wise: “Why is it more ridiculous for women to protest against her present status in the Old and New Testament, in the ordinance and discipline of the church, thanin the statutes and Much of the present portion of the Woman’s Bible is done over Mrs. Stanton’sinitials. A curious fact in connection with tbe work is that Mrs. Robert G. Ingersoll ap- g:ars on the title page as one of the mem- rs of the Revising Committee. This is certainly ‘peculiar, viewing the attitude adopted by this lady’s husband toward matters biblical and religious. Mrs. Inger- soll could hardly be called an unpreju- diced critic, and there is, by the introduc- tion of her name, a loophole of adverse criticism left unguarded. The opponents of the movement among women them- selves will no doubt have something to say regarding this in the near future. And it will be worth hearing. [New York: Euro- pean Publishing Co., 35 Wall street. Price 50 cents.] THE BLUE- SS NOVELIST. James Lane Allen, who is distinctively a “blue-grass novelist,” recently submitted to an interview in which he gave the in- formation that he outlines an entire volume before beginning work upon the manuscript. The mood which he finds conducive, and even necessary, to satis- factory literary labor, comes by fits and starts. Mr. Allen came into prominence in 1892, as the author of a series of maga- zine articles descriptive of the Kentucky blue-grass region, and the works by which he has attained wider distinction are: “John Gray,” “A Kentucky Cardinal” and a sequel to the latter, “Aftermath.”” The last-named novel is one of the notable late successes. Mr. Allen expressestheopinion that American literature is on the verge of a new movement; that realism and commonplace have seen their day; and in the tendency of the move- ment toward the themes of Ameri- can history he sees cause for confi- dence in the revival of interest in George Washington and the period of the Ameri- can Revoluticn. e looks for a very ge: dents of the latter part of the last century into the fiction of the future, and for a fresh valuation of the extraordinary in all classes of books. Mr. Ailen is a middle- aged man of healthful principles and high ideals. He taught school for some years foilowing bis majority, but laid away the ferule as soon as he discovered that there was more profit for him in the pen of the author. He now resides in New York. His mornings he devotes to literary work, and his afternoons to athletic exercise, especially on the wheel. His favorite writers are Thackeray and Eliot, and the works which he- declares gave him the greaiest pleasure are ‘‘Vanity Fair,”” “‘The Newcomes,” ““Adam Bede” ahd “The Mill on the Floss.” He believes that the epoch of short stories is ebbing rapidly, and in- tends devoting himself almost exclusively tonovels. He has two or three now in hand, as well as a volume of Kentucky traditions. JOAQUIN MILLER’S NEW VOLUME. The Whitaker & Kay Company of this City, and George Routledge & Sons, London, haveissued Joaquin Miller's new book of poems, “Songs of the Soul.” This volume is the result of the poet’s ten ears’ hermit-like meditation on the eights. The cover is from a design sug- gested by the poet himself—the Sierra snow-plant on a dove-colored background. In the preface Joaquin Miller says: “It thing to sing by our own great sea bank instead of abroad, as be- fore, but I have faith in my own people, ard believe the time has come to keep our, work at home.” The volume contains, besides a large number of poems that have appeared in the public prints, though never before in book form, many new pro- ductions of the poet’s genius, notably “Sappho and Phaon,” embracing ““The Songs of the Soul.” The poet dedicates the work “To Mother,” and the prelude is in the following beautiful strain: Long years, lorn years apart, alone, Despite man’s rage or woman’s ruth, -1 kept my cloud-capped heights of stone To watch for light, to toil tor trath. And oh, the voices I have heard! Such visions when the morn in; grows— A brother's soul In some sweet bird, A sister's spirit in a rose. And oh, the beauty I have found! * Such beauty, beauty everywhere; The beauty creeping om the ground, The beauty singing in the air. Thelove In all, the good in all, ‘The God 1n all, in all that is; But oh, I stumble to my fall, To try to tell & tithe of this! Poor falt’ring tongue! Each rambling tale, Save here and there a ray of light, Reads as some tavera of the vale, Instead of God’s heuse on some helght. But take these flowers: tears and toil Have meshed them In most sad array; Yet if some weed, some wood, some soil. ... A tear may wash the moil away. "HOW SOME AUTHORS WORK. G. B. Burgin in the April Idler (Lon- don) tells how some of the popnlar Eng- lish authors work. Dr. Conan Doyle, like Sir Walter Besant, scorns the use of the typewriter, and writes his own copy. His day’s work varies from 1000 to 2500 . words. If he is writing about any epoch he begins by reading every book that bears upon it. This he usually does while writing another book. *‘He takes copious notes, and then rearranges them in long lists under the heading of different characters, getting, for example, everything about archery under the heading of ‘Archer,’ and every- thing about a knicht or monk under these headings.” Dr. Doyle believes the most rmanent fiction to be that which is B:sm or leans most upon fact, as, for in- stance, Defoe does in “Robinson Crusoe,” or Reade in sll his great novels. Unlike Dr. Doyle and Mr. Besant Rider Haggard dictates his story to a secretary. He likes to work five hours a day. He'is - irom that of'emancipation of women, and, - as has undoubtedly been the case with supposed to begin at 10:30 every morning and he dictates till lunch time. Then he breaks off for a brief intervaland works | | | prominence, while the un | ing gentleman’ is left behind in the back- THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MAY 3, 1896. again for two and a half hours after lunch. V&hen he is regularly at work on a book he resumes for a hour after dinner—that is to say, if he has not made up his five hours. *“He works very quietly and once he has a plot in his head goes straight on and makes few alterations.” Stanley Weyman, we are told, writes very slowly and corrects much. “He will begin with a rough copy of a page or two, seldem more; then he makes a fair copy of this, and so on to the next paragraph. He never does more and sometimes less than a thousand words a day. Itis a common experience with him to find that the story leaves the lines on which he has placed if; a minor character sometimes has an un- pleasant knack of forcing himself into ?nrlunate ‘lead- ground.” He believes that the morning hour has gold in its mouth and he writes between 5 and 7, but he “seldom sits down to work without a groan.” More than half of what George Gissing writes goes into thefire. The first volume of one of his earlier works was, Mr. Bur- gin says, written seven times. On the other hand, “New Greek Street” was schemed and written in exactly eight weeks. Mr. Gissing used to write at night; now his hours are morning and late after- noon, and he only feels comfortable at the desk when the whole of the day lies be- fore him, without a fear of interruption. Grant Allen works regularly every day from 9 o’clock until 11:30 or 12, and from 4r. M t06:300r7. He writes after great deliberation, and takes infinite pawns. WEALTH AGAINST COMMON- WEALTH, “As much of an epoch-making book as Uncle Tom’s Cabin” is the way Edward E. Hale refers to Henry Demarest Lloyd’s “Wealth Against Commonwealth,” a cheap edition of which has just been | issued. It is certainly one of the remark- able books ot the time, as far as the con- sideration of economical and industrial problems are concerned, and not only is it replete with facts that are strong argu- ments in themselves, but the style is attractive, and the book should be widely read and studied. A good insight into the work is given in the paragraph with which the volume concludes: It is not & verbal accident tha: science is the substance of the word conscience. We must know the right before we can do the right. When it comes to know the facts the human heart can no more endure monopoly than tertainment, or afford pleasure in leisure perusal. Hamor and pathos mingle in the episodes—laughter and tears—and “A Fragment,” which closes the volume, has a dramatic coloring which is excellgnt. “At the Photogravher’s”’ pictures with naturainess some of the amusing incidents which occur in the average photograph gallery. “Dr. Bean, Dentist,” will recall to the reader his last sitting in the chair of torture, with the difference . that"a smile willaccompany the recollection. [Buffalo: The Peter Paul Book Company, pub- lishers.] MO PRt ke | STEVENSON DEFINES “GOOD LIT- ERATURE,” In “Vailima Table-talk” in the May Scribner’s Isobel Strong furnishes this in- teresting diary entry: S May 31, 1893. “I asked Louis this evening how you could tell good literature when you saw it. “ ‘It is capable of explanation, I think,’ he said; ‘when you see words used to the best purpose—no waste, going tight around a subject. Also they must be true. My stories are not the truth, but I try to make my characters act as they would act in life. No detail is too small to study for truth. Lloyd and I spent five days weigh- | ing money and making calculations for the treasure found in ‘The Wrecker.’ A GENTLEMAN'S GENTLEMAN. The volume which goes under theabove title is more particularly described as “certain pages from the life and strange adventures of Sir Nicolas Steele, Bart., as | related by his valet, Hildebrand Bigg.” | Sir Nicolas, while belonging to a good fam - |ily and technically a ‘‘zentleman” by | birth, is an adventurer of the basest sort, utterly devoid of honor, truth and shame. The siory, which is written by Max Pem- berton, has no great literary valne as a wkole, but there are some scenes which are quite strong and effective, notably that of l}ne Russian duel, near the end, which is thrilling and dramatic. Harper & A. M. Robertson. ADVERTISERS' GUIDE FOR 1896, The Lyman D. Morse Advertising Agency of New York City, whose reputa- tion among advertisers and publishers is world wide, has just issued the twelfth annual edition of its ‘‘Advertisers’ Han- dy Guide” (size 4x6)4, over an inch in thickness and contains 777 pages; price $2). Itcontains in condensed form all the information considered essential by an ad- vertiser. SOME MAY MAGAZI tic. [New York: rothers, publishers. For sale by Price $1 25.] THE CENTURY. Topics of the present time fill & large part of the May Century. As the cere- monies of the approaching coronation in Russia will be substantiaily similar to those of Alexander [II, the reader will gain a good idea of their character from a | journal of the latter event contributed by | Miss Mary Grace Thornton, daughter of Sir Edward Thornton, who at the time was British Embassador to Russia. The first of Professor Bryce’s papers on South | Africa is printed in this number, and | deals with the external and geographical [ features of the country to which the eyes “HOW DO YOU LIKE THE C | Reproduced fror ENTER-STREET WHEELMEN?” m Out of Town.] American slavery or Roman empire, The first step to aremedy is that the people care. If they know, they will care. To help them to know and care; to stimulate new hatred of evil, new love of the good, new sympathy for the victims of science, to quic science. This compilation of fact has been mude. Democracy is not a lie. There live in the body of the commonalty the unexhausted virtue and the ever-refreshed strength which can rise equal to any problems of progress. In the hope of tapping some reserve of their powers of self-help, this story is told to the people. The Utopia painted by Mr. Lloyd may not be reached, but it is to be hoped that vast improvements may be effected in gov- ernmental, social and industrial conditions through the removal of at least some of tle causes which now, to the greater part of the human race, obstruct the path to contentment. [New York: Harper & Brothers, publishers. For sale by A. M. Robertson; price $1.] DESPERATE REMEDIES. Thomas Hardy’s “Tess of the D' Urber- villes” has been followed by the republica- tion of'his earlier works, one by one, until now his very first novel, written twenty- six years ago, has been run through a fresh adition. “Desperate Remedies” was produced at a time when the author was “feeling his way to a method.” He ad- mits that the principles observed in its composition are, no doubt, too exclusively those in which mystery, entanglement, surprise and moral obliquity are depended on for exciting interest, but thinks some of the scenes and *‘at least one of the char- acters’” worthy of a little longer preserva- tion. Mr. Hardy has recently been hauled oyer the coals for the moral shortcomings of his novels. In a prefatory note to the new edition in question the author takes occasion to advertise the very things for which he has been widely denounced, for he says: ‘“As it happened that certain characteristics which provoked most dis- cussion in my latest story were present in this, my first—published in 1871, when there was no French name for them—it has seemed best to let them stand un- altered.” This is disgusting; and it is de- plorable that a man of Hardy’s ability should be found, with evident Tride, up- holaing the “smut’’ school in literature. [New York: Harper & Brothers. For sale by A. M. Robertson; price $1 50.] A ROMAN SINGER. This popular novel, one of the earlier works of F. Marion Crawford, first pub- lished in 1883, and which has passed through a number of editions in the more expensive forms, has just been issued in the Novelists’ Library, as volume 2, num- ber 1. These comparatively cheap edi- tions, well ];rinted on good paper, place the works of the better class of authors within easy reach of all. [New York: MacfiniUnn & Co.; publishers. For sale by en the old into a new con- William Doxey; paper covers, price 50 cents.] “ME AN’ METHUSELAR.” Harriet Ford’s neat little volume, *“Me an’ Methuselar, and Other Episodes,” con- tains a series of readings which will serve admirably for juvenile stage or parlor en- power, and, by enlarging its | of all the world have been directed by re- cent events. Apropos of the Roentgen rays a number of short papers are con- tributed under the title of *‘Photograph- ing the Unseen,” by T. C. Martin, K.g o Wood, Elihu Thomson, Silvanus Thomp- son, J. C. McLennan, Dr. William J. Mor- ton and Thomas A. Edison. An account by William R. Thayer of *“The Election of a Pope” describes the scenes in the Sacred College which follow uron the death of a pontiff. The first half of a two-part story of Western life, ““The Harshaw Bride,’ by Mary Hallock Foote, is_printed, and Mrs. Humphry Ward’s “Sir George Tressady’” develops dramatic intensity. A paper on the artist Diaz, by Rof'nl Cortissoz, is accompanied by three full-page engravings, and there is a view of the group for the John Boyle O’ Reilly memorial, soon to be erected in Boston, the work of D. C. French, the American sculptor. Two other humorous stories are “Cinderella up to Date’’; **A Romance of Etna,” the principal characters being an American girl and ‘“Prince Michael of Polkayia,” and a rollicking story of Georgia hi‘fl. 8. Edwards, entitied ‘“Mas’ Craffud’s Freedom.” ‘‘The Protege,” by Annie Steger Winston, printed in the Lighter Vein Department, is a humorous character sketch of Virginia. HARPER'S. The current nur?ber of Harper's is fully up to the standard of that excellent maga- zine, and among its features of special im- ortance may mentioned: ‘‘Mark 'wain” (seven illustrations), by Joseph H. Twichell; “Through Inland Waters,” a journey by canal-boat up the Hudson to Lake Champlain, with sixteen illustra- tions by the author, Howard .Pyle; “Eng- land and America in 1863,” a chapter in the life of Cyrus W. Field; “The Dashur Explorations,” by Jacques de Morgan; “The German Struggle for Liberty”’—X by Poultney Bigelow; ‘At Home in V. inia,” showing Wnahinfiton as the young ead of a household and man of affairs, by Woodrow Wilson; “The English Crigis,” by an Eastern diplomatist., “Lit- tle Fairy’s Constancy,” by Julian Ralph, gives an insight into the courtship and marriage customs of China. Other short stories in the number are “The Bringing of the Rose,” by Harriet Lewis Bradley, with a page illusiration by Albert E Sterner, and *“Three Old Sisters and the Old Beau,” by Mary E. Wilkins. Mr. Black’s novel, ‘‘Briseis,”’ is completed in the number, and there are poems by Dora Reade Goodale, Z. D. Underhill. Louise Imogen Guiney, Mary Allen and Lulah Ragsdale. The Editor's Study and Edi- tor’s Drawer contain a varietv of timely comment by Charles Dudley Warner, ana original humor by well-known writers, THE FORUM. The May Forum contains an analysis of “The Political Situation,” by E. L. God- kin, the editor of the New York Evening Post. Mr. Godikin declares that the two problems which at present constitute the sum total of our politics are tne tariff question and the currency question. With regard to the latter he thinks that what the champions of the gold standard reall: demand “is not so much the gold mm£ ard as assimilation in currency matters to the other great commercial nations, and the absolute abandonment of the currency question as a political issue.” Among other good articles are: *‘Is the Power of 23 JAMES LANE ALLEN, THE BLUE GRASS NOVELIST. [From a photograph.] Christianity Waning? No!” by Dr. H. K. Carroll, who had charge of the religious census, and “Modern Norwegian Litera- ture,” by Bjornstjerne Bjornson, the dis- tinguished Norwegian poet, novelist and dramatist. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge has written a stirring article entitled “Our Duty to Cuba.” REVIEW OF REVIEWS. In the May number of this unique peri- odical forty pages are still devoted to a thorough and varied digest of the most significant articles in the newest issues of the principal American, English and Con- tinental periodicals. The most important original feature in this number is entitled ‘‘The Great Occasions of 1896.” 1n arapid narrative fashion, with due regard to dates and precise facts, the reader is apprised of all the great gatherings and conventions of a political, religions, or educational character, foreign expositions, and note- worthy events in general that the coming six months will afford to American and European travelers. W.T. Stead furnishes a character sketch of that ever interesting personality, M. de Blowitz of Paris, the cosmopolitan journalist who represents the London Times. Charles D. Lanier writes with sympathy and discernment concerning the life and literary work of the late Judge Thomas Hughes, author of that most famous of all boys’ books, “Tom Brown at Rugby.” The editor’s depariment, entitled ‘“The Progress of the World,” covers as usual the field of American and Earopean poli- tics, and of general social progress, while the department of ‘“‘Current History in Caricature,” with about thirty reproduc- tions from the work of American and foreign cartoonists, throws many a keen and pertinent sidelight upon the course of events. THE PALL MALL. ‘The Pall Mall Magazine for May is richly entertaining. Theflontisplece is a beauti- ful etching, ““On the Arno” (Florence), by Fred B. Burridge, The number opens with a poem, “The Old Spinet,” a happy conceit by James Mew. Among other numerous features may be mentioned W. L. Alden’s interesting experiences with the “Practical Mahatma;” Sheila E. Braine's contribution, “The Blue Stockings of the Eighteenth Century”; Alice Mackay’s love-poem, ‘“Anthony to Cleo- patra,” and not the least important and attractive feature, I. Zangwill’s literary department, ‘“Without Prejudice.” The short stories are exceptionally clever, as a rule, and the Pull Mall’s illustrations are superb. LITEEARY NOTES, Dr. David Starr Jordan, president of Le- land Stanford Jr. University, has prepared for publication a series of chapters on the *‘Care and Culture of Men.” This book is now in vress and will shortly be issued by the Whitaker & Ray Company. This is the first book that the distinguished educator has published on this coast. A revolution has taken place in the firm of Stone & Kimball, Chicago. The name, business and good-will of the corporation have been purchased by the junior partner, who will transfer its activities to New York. The arrangement is an amicable one, though it is the result of some differ- ences of opinion on matters of policy be- tween the twomen. The Chap B’;ok. ub- lished by the firm, now goes to New York. Messrs. Harper & Brothers published on May 1 “Personal Recollections of Joan of Are,” by Mark Twain; ‘‘Madelon,” a novel by Mary E. Wilkins; and “For King or Country,” a story_of the American Revolution, by James Barnes. These will be followed on May 8 by Mark Twain's ““Huckleberry Finn” (new edition); “The Cavaliers,”” by 8. R. Keightly, and *‘Mark Heffron,” a novel by Alice Ward Bailey. A valuable article in the current Har- per's Round Table is the first of a series of five on “Practical Golf,” by W. G. Van Tassel Sutphen. These articles describe the game and tell in a semi-instructive ‘way many points not generally known. In the same number there is a hunting story, entitled “An Adventure on Tamarack Lake,” by Francis Sterne Palmer, and “A Mayday Play” (a lawn entertainment in which the time-honored May-pole plays a prominent part), by Caroline A. Creevey and Margaret E. Sangster. ‘‘His Heart’s Queer” is the latest stor from the pen of Mrs. Georzie Sheldon, lyt is a romance of the life trials and love affaigs of a beautiful young girl. Street & Smith, New York, are the publishers. A short treatise on ““The Education of Chiidren at Rome,” by George Clarke, Ph. D., principal of Jarvis Hall Academy, Montclair, Colo., is soon to be publinhe&i by Macmillan & Co. The object of Dr. Clarke in his littie book has been to place within the reach of teachers and others in- terested in education a clear, and, so far as the limited sources of information al- low, a full account of the methods used in the moral and intellectnal training of chil- dren at Rome in classical times. The Qutlook Company has engaged Jus- tin McCarthy to write a popular lifeof Mr. Gladstone, which wiil be published in the Outlook’s magazine numbers during 1897. It will be proluseliy illustrated and the personal and social sides of Mr. Glad- ston:’s life will be brought out in strong relief. “Clara Hopgood,” Mark Rutherford’s latest story, is said to be full of pictures of the spiritual and common life of the Enaglish middle class of balf a century ago. The scenery is similar to that in “Cathe- rine F'urze,”” and the heroine is the daugh- ter of a bank mlnlg. Messrs. A. D. F. Randoiph & Co. (New York) are issuing **White Satin and Home- spun,” a short novel by Katrina Trask, whose poem, “Under King Constantine,” is now in its fourth edition. With the ex- ception of stories which have abpeared in magazines, this is Mrs. Trask’s first prose work. “It touches tne true phases of life represented by whitesatin and homespun, but its motif is not the sociolorical ques- tion of the present day, as its title might imply, but the more universal one of the 1ecreating power of love.”” Messrs. Little, Brown & Co. (New York) will begin this month, in co-operation with Messrs. J. M. Dent & Co. of London, the publication of a new, uniform edition of the novels of Cantain Marryat, to be completed in twenty-two vo umes. R. B. Jonnson, the editor of the Dent edition of Jane Austen, will contribute a full critical introduction to the set and a series of prefa- tory bibliographical notes. Each volume will contain three etchings. Messrs. Macmillan & Co. will publish shortly “The Daughter of a Stoic,” by Cornelia Atwood Pratt. Mr. Howells has already discussed the general principles governing those young people in fiction who find themselves engaged to the wrong individuals, but this author deals with the subject from a fresh point of view. It is reported from Constantinople that an ancient and beautiful manuscript copy of the Gospels, dating back to the sixth century, has recently been found in Asia Minor. It is written on the finest and thinnest of vellum, which is dyed purple, and the letters are in_silver, except the abbreviations and sacred names, which are in gold. Revpresentatives of English and American universities have uns\\ccessfulziy sought to obtain possession of the find, which has been secured by Russia. Says the ‘“Lounger” in" the New York Critic: ““It may be some gratification to Professor Brander Matthews to know that the London Queen has just completed a serial novel by B. Marion Crawford, an American, and that the Illustrated London News, baving recently finished one by W. | D. Howells, an American, has just begun | another by Frank R. Stockton, also an American, If Professor Matthews objects that Mr. Crawford is half an Italan, he must admit that Mr. Stockton and Mr. Howeils are good enough Americans to make up for the deficiencies of the other in that respect. It must also be putto the credit of England that Clement Shor- ter was one of the very first editors, either at home or abroad, to Fublish the stories of Stephen Crane. So, fittle by little, Eng- land is coming to acknowledge that there is something in the way of literature in America thatis worthy the attention of her editors.” J. B. Lippincott Co. announce a great reduction in the price of ‘Lippincott's Gazetteer’’ and ‘‘Lippincott’s Pronouncing Biographical Dictionary.” They have in preparation, also, a new edition of “Cham- bers’s Encyclopwedia,” at ‘‘a remarkably low_ figure.”” All of these are standard works. The Messrs. Harper will issue shortly “Cyrus W. Field, His Life and Work, 1819-1892,”" edited by Isabella Field Jud- son, with photogravure portrait andother illustrations. In November, 1895, when Professor Ront- gen was perfecting his discovery, but be- fore the results were made known, there was published “Stella” by Charles S. Hin- ton, a romance, the plot of which was based on the fact of the permeability of the human body to rays of light. Some montas later the condition stated in the book, seemingly so far beyond any likeli- hood of conjecture, became a scientific and demonstrable piece of knowledge. Edward Arnold will publish a new novel by Stephen Crane called “Dan Emmons.” The May number of the San Francisco Traveler is unusually interesting and abounds in a profusion of elegant half- tone engravings as well as a great variety of reading matter. Among the many en- tertaining articles for May, all illustrated, are: ‘‘Water Front Sketches’” by E. K. Rountree, depicting quaint characters on the wharves; a chapter on “Basketry” by J. Torry Connor, giving an insight into the construction of the exquisite specimens in this line; *‘Tehipite Valley” by Theodore S. Solomons, containing an account of the new Yosemite, which 1s said to equal, if smart Broadway, New York, druggist has this sign hanging outside his store; it marks the new era of drug selling. Is it any wonder that he has to enlarge his quar- ters, that his clerks are busy, and that his store is one of the most popular along the leading thor- oughfare? ou can afford to trade with a druggist that has siich a motto as that. not surpass, the grandeur of that famous gorge; “The Fair Sex in Egypt,” by Ar- thur Inkersley,1s a crisp review of tne habits and costumes of the ladies of the harem; “Picturesque Humboldt County” by D. G. Waldron affords an entertaining sketch of that wonderfully sceric section; “The Great Rabbit Drive at Fresno,” by Hu. Maxwell, aptiy illustrated, is unique and aelightful; “Ostrich Farming,” “‘A Bit of Natural History,”” and other regular departments comprise in all oneof the best numbers ever issued. Alice B. Stockham, M.D., author of *‘Tokology,” ‘“‘Health Germs,” etc., has written a new work, entitled, “Karezza, or the Ethies of Marriage.” She takes for her text the words of Farnham, that ‘“‘rlonor to womanhood and reverence for maternity are conditions of permanency in any people, nation or race.” The work is a sequel to “Tokology,” and the ex- ressed aim of the author is ‘“‘to lead in- Eividuals to seek a higher development of themselves through most sacred rela- tions.” [Chicago: Alice B. Stockham Company publishers.] Dr. A. Conan :Doyle has been writing letters to the Westminster Guazette from Cairo on the British campaign in Egypt. Here is a description of one of the parting scenes as the troops board the train for Dongola: “A crown of red-fezzed Egvp- tians and sun-helmeted Huropeans are looking silently on without much sign of sympathy. A long-legged, red-coated dragoon wanders through the ranks look- ing for a pal. He finds him at last, just in front of me—a stocky little infantryman, all hat and knapsack. ‘Bye, -Billl’ says the dragoon. ‘Bye!” says the other, hardly gluucing at him. Two Frenchnien would. have been in each other’s arms. Yet it cannot be want of feeling, or way should the dragoon wander about in that blazing Cairo svn looking for his pal?” Messrs. Chepman & Hall of London say tbat they ‘will shortly publish a work entitled ‘The Veil Lifted New Light on the World’s History,” which is calculated to make a considerable stir.” It contends that the three races of Shem, Ham and Japheth have dominated Europe, Asia and Northern Africa since the first dawn of history, and that the Hamites and Semites were the Hebrews and Israelites of the Old Testament, and as they worshiped their Great Kings as divine incarnations none other gods did they serve. The Israelite Great King God married the Hebrew Great Queen Goddess, and:their son, Phraataces, tne Christ, as the legitimate heir to both | imperial thrones, became the Great King God of the Catholic or unionist party. There is a famous story about Newton and hiscat: According to a writer in the Ladies’ Kennel Journal there is also a cat story connected with the name of Mr, Stanley. When the African traveler was writing his *“Through the Dark Continent’ in Sackville street he used often, from want of a flat surface, to spread his maps and charts upon the tloor, and one day the cat of the house, which had taken an ex- traordinary liking for the great explorer and passed most of her time in his rooms, went to sleep on a chart that was spread out on the hearthrug. By and by the chart was wanted and one of Stanley’s assistants was going to turn puss off it, when *‘the man who found Livingstone’ stopped him. “Don’t disturb the cat,’”’ he said; *‘wecan get on without the chart till she wakes up. If you only knew how good the sight of that English cat, cozily curled up in tront of that fire, is to me you would -never let her move from where she is.”’ He had just come back from a weary and trying time among uncivilized tribes, and the sleeping cat was to him the symbol of comfortable security, peace and of home. 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