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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, S DAY, MARCH 7, 1897. 23 DR. ANDERSON'S NEW BGOK. STUDY OF THX LAW OF CAUSE EC By Jel e A, Anderson, M.D,, Pub ed by The iotus Pabiishing mpany, 1170 Market street, San Fraucisco. Price $1. “From the blossoming of a daisy to the up- heaval of a continent everything is law-gov- erned.’ ma,” he could comprenensive expls one could, with ad- from the same page: fects seen are either harmonic or ture to restore disturbed One might go further, and say that “Karma” seeks 10 show that +‘All is governed by law.” ct is one definition of karma, dly & complete one, for the Western he 1aw of cause and merely Llaw. Science itself will not dis- pute that “the blossoming of a da: or *‘the upheaval of a continent” is under the law of a and effect. But here science and the world halt, while the author of and a good many other thoughtful n and womon go several steps ‘arther and ause and effect is con- nsible and impersonal; that anes of nature, animate and cal, mental, psychic and sp ual; that it deals exact justice to every being, hough there b ears betwe ag of the is greater than love, because love n nown by contrast with hate; that it is more compassionate than mercy, because e is the gre compassion; tha unfaling and extends beyond time being the law of an uncognizable around whose pavilion there is eternal darkness to mortal ken. Karma is a good English word now and has come into all the new dictionaries. It came in about the time that the word “altruism” began 10 be recognized by the lexicographers. And though the two words have none or but scant philological relation hand and are used much by the same cf writers. The author of “Karma” uses ism’ often, and seeks to show that only by a thorough understanding of the nature of the ie ideals of the Iatter be exgn ap- In its truest - men are brothers in fact because they are but aifferentiatled rays of > and conscious whole. hor of “Karma,” it need scarcely be said, is a theosopbist of high standing and &ls0 & direcior in the Scnool for the Revival of the Lost Mysteries of Antiquities, at Poiat Loma. Being a theosophist his expl cf the manifested universeis: The resul xternal d u forever taking place 1 Absolu! n hat which di Its two great aspects, consciou bstan w of karma (kno on the ne es the law of cause and effect : nd there is range of g side of nature, not or beyona nature and nothing at is not the effect of an ade- | ng can be | Western thougnt, and seemingiy unde- follows John Smith | deriying the hard luc! served misfort hat it But the author doesnot find the same dif- n the tre for he ares that m and that the the acts and thoug u does not follow, of course t John § was necessarily an evil man in his last life; may only be ihathe neglected to round out certa; portions of his character which are | now being filled in by his present experi- | ences, This is reincarnation, and—it may De | stated as well first as last—that unless one can | accept the rationale of reincarnation, ove can | scarcely see the eternal fitness of things in | Karma. For on the face of thingsthe world is | unjust, and only to those who are willing to take more than & cursors view of life will the iaw that “Whatsoever & man soweth thatshali he also reap'’ become a practicable and guid- ing truth, “Kerma,” from a literary standpoint, is the best of Dr. Anderson’s works, and that is saye | ing a good desl for the artistic merit of it. | Though philosophical it s not abstruse, and there is much good taste and earnest elo- quence in the composition. It will doubtless Ve read and valued by many more thau those | who mey agree with all it premises. e J.H.G. LIFE ON THE OCEAN WAVE. y Frederick Benton Wil- llan Company, New York. For sale by Wiliiam Doxey, Palace Emporium Book Departme.t «A sailor's life, by a sailor.”” These half- dozen words form an exact estimate of & book recently published by the Macmillan Com- | pany of New York and entited “On Many Sess’’ The adventures ‘herein narrated read £0 much like the record of past events that| one would almost like to take them as history; | but fact or fiction “On Many Seas” is one of the best neutleal storles we have read in years, and its author and editor are to be congratuisted upon having furnished the | reading public with something breezy in that class o1 literature, where it is cxceptionally difficult to find novel and entertaining | matter. There are not many who can tell a pieasing story, like this, in the first person, but the few | who can are able thus to throw a charm of vivid actuslity about the tale which makes us heed with a more lively attention than can be aroused by any other method of telling, which is like hearsay evidence compared to the testi- mory of one who has seen und h eard, and knows. Tne rightful and deep dislike of ego- tism produces, by an association of ideas, & prejudice which makes it difficult, even in fiction, to use the pronoun “I” without of- feuse, but when we fina & talker or a writer with the rare gift of So using 1t that our in- terest in the story makesall thought of ego- tism sink out of mind, how close to our lives his story comes. “This with my own eyes I saw; thus in my own heart I feit; through such experiences I, s human like 8s you are, actually passed.” These ar3 moving considerations, and our sympathy, when adventures are £o narrated, | -takes us out of ourselves to follow the nar- rator through the thrilling scenes. Soitis in this tale of & life spent “On Many Seas,” and guch may in part explain the book’s sudden success. It was electrotyped in December, 1896, and in Februsary, 1897, a second edition ywas printed. The style of telling this story is unostenta- tious; it is simplicity itself. The eaitor of the book, William Stone Booth, had often listened with great pleasure to the sea- man telling the disconnected yarns, and efier & good deel of persuasion got him to write them all down in his own words. The editor's one were forced to condense tos | ire purport of | And then, if a tion of | | soon grease and soot from head to foot; but yhe as | open palms. | ern seas about one Mike, an American sailor, | confessed. | who have | There is no hint of blame for those who | task was merely one of elimination to get | them into a book of reasonable size. The seaman, Williams, seems to have been | born with a disposition to rove. He was but a | child when his father moved to New York, | and the first thing the youngster did was to | disobey the injunction to stey close at home, | and nestarted out on a trip to_inspect the big | city and of course got lost? Instead of going 10 the polics for aid, he had a terror of them and ran away whepever one came near him. When he got a little older he took a dislike to other and fled to Maine to try the ons of farm life. ound there was no romance in that and decided 10 go to ses. The overpowering motive in his first resolve to leave the farm was that a young companion proposed that ) they run away, and Williams did not want to shirk anything that seemed to require nerve to do. The boys balked in their first effort to getaway. Akind uncle persusded Williams to go back and consult his father before he wenttossa. When he got home his mother- in-law greeted him with the affectionate ex- clamation, ‘“Well, what in the world did you come back for 7’ This manner of welcoming him home made him still more determined to put to sea. He first shipped on s little schooner bound ernandina, Fis. In the captain of this nd a man who would not keep a agry for adventures loug in de- re was soon & great gale blow- nd the steward gave Williams the cheer- that if the wind did not moderate or e young sailor’s carcass would be roll- ing in the surf before another morring dewned. The captain met the chalienge of the breeze by hoisting more sail, and made the little schooner leap more than half her length out of the water ever time she rose on a sea. He made her dance, and at every plunge she would bury hor bowsprit, “and the water in | the leewas as green as it was over the side.” | Williams overheard the mate say to the cap- | tain, “If you don’t take some oi this sail off her she will start & butt and go down like & stone.”” The bold skipper gave this prompt reply, “‘And if I do take anyof it off her she | will wreck on Hatteras before 10 o'clock to- night; she is hardly holding her own mow. ), 8ir; ifshe can’t liye through this breeze let her go to h— flying.” Such is the adventurous start of our young hero on a seaiaring career, and this vigorous swing to his story-telling is well sustained | throughout. as with varied fortune he voy- ages over many seas. He made up his mind in the beginning to become a captain, but when he thought of all he would have to learn it made him “iired beforehand.” Down on the Florida coast the ship’s cook became | disabled and the captain made Williams cook. n he object ptain assured him that a cook was an officer on board a ship, and it was an honor to hold that position. Williams went at it with a vigor, and was in shiit the meals were never ready on time nor fit to | eat when they were ready. One day a big Swede came to tk n bringing a sample biscuit, which he complained was more fit for a deep sea lead that for human food. OQurhero | was hot, tired, dirty, disgusted. In language more emp! than polite he requested the Swede to el to Pluto’s realm. “You tell t, you dirty swab,” said the Swede, and de the galley door. | Williams knew that the cook’s galley was his castle, and he grabbed the potato-masher and made a lick intended to mash the in- vacer's head; but by & lurch, lucky or un- lucky, of the schooner, the missile failed of its mark. A few daysaiter the disagreement the | blg Swede, who had in the interval made up | with Williams, came to the galley door with his | tin plate, and as it wasa very cold morning | d that the cook have something hot for him when he came from the w] The cook told him all right, and when he | d him coming for his breakiast he puta | 1ful of fire in his pan and covered it with | & tin pie-plate. When the hungry Swede en- tered Williams set the hot plates on his two Then there was war again. There is an interesting description of the wayin ¥hich the trained elephants in the East pile lumber and are bossed by big ele- phant foreman, who carries & short chain to punish those in bis gang who disobey the rules. And there isa good yarn of the East- who was wrecked with a lot of Portuguese. Faroutatsea in an open boathe could hear the starving alfens talking suspiciously ina tongue unkuown to him, and he fancied they eyed him with an appetite for American meat that grew ever keener and keener as the pass- ing hours made the pangs of hunger more im- perative. Years afterward, it is related, Mike would have nightmare dreams of this terrible inci- dentin hislife, and Williams gently hints a suspicion that there was some horror con- nected with the escape which Mike never Could it be possible that the time-honorea custom of casting lots in such emergencies was resorted to and that Mike eat one of the Portuguese who had been watch- ing him so huugrily? These are brief semples of his rich experi- ences, but the telling of amusing yarns is not the soie excelletice of the book. There isa splendid description of an encounter with icebergsin the Antarctic seas and a thrilling escape irom being crushed betweep colliding ice mountains that loomed up tall'as the sky. LIFE'S SHADOWS. GOD'S FAILURES—By J. 8. Fletcher. Lane, New Yor« and London. Price $1 5. saie by Wilham Doxey, Palace Hotel, City. This little book contains & number ot short, sad sketches of lives whose usefulness or hap- piness has been wrecked. There is an ad- mirable brevity in the way these tragedies present their leaaing features and the lesson they teachis quickly grasped. The warning 10 those wno by their evil deeds hurt not only themselves but others is given with much force. but thereis a tcne to the book which gives the impression that the writer attributes all the wroug of these failures to the first movers in evil, Who put pain upon those been honest, kind and true. Jobn For weakly and willfully refuse to bear in a proper spirit the burden of unhappiness thrust upon them by the misdeeds of others, and thus per- baps criminally permit their lives to become wrecked from mere lack of fortitude, which would have carried them through the rough- est day o & usefulness and happiness beyond the trial A STRANGE STORY. WEIGHED_IN THE BBLANCE-By Harry L:nder. John Lane, London and New Y THE AUTHOR OF “ON MANY SEAS.” {f This Were Faith. God, if this were enough, That I see things bare to the buff, And up to the buttocks in mire; That 1 ask nor hope nor hire, Nutin the husk, Nor dawn beyond the dusk, Nor life peyond death; God, if this werd faith? Having felt thy wind in my face Sptt sorrow and disgrace, Having seen thine evil doom In Golgotha and Khartoum, And the brutes, the work of thine hands, Fill with injustice lands, And stain with blood the sea; If still in my veins the glee Of the black night and the sun And the lost battle run; 1i, an adept, The iniquitous lists T till accept With joy, and joy to endure and be withstood, And still to battle and perish for a dream of £00d; God, if that were enough? It to feel, in the ink of the slough, And the sink of the mire, Veins of glory aud fire Run through and transpierce and transpire, And a secret purpose of glory in every vart, And the answering glory of battle fill my heart; To thrill with the Joy of girded men, To go on forever and fail, and go on again, And be mauled to the earth and arise, And contend for the shade of a word anda thing not seen with the eyes With the half of a broken hope for & pitlow at night That somehow the right is the right And the smooth shall bloom from the rough ; Lord, if that were enough? ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSO! the Athenmum. A Dreamer. He is a dreamer; let him pass. He reads the writing in the gras His seeing soul in 1apture goes Beyond the beauty of the rose. He is & dreamer and doth know To sound the furthest depth ot woe; His days are ealm, majestic, {ree; He is a dreamer, let him be. He is a dreamer; all the day Blest visions find him o his way Past the far sunset and the light, Beyond the darkness and the night. He is a dreamer. God! to be Apostle of Infinity, And mirror truth’s translucent gleam; He 15 a dreamer, let him dream. He s a dreamer; for all time His mind 1s married unto rhyme. Light that ne’er was on land or sea Hath blushed to him in poetry. Ho is a dreamer and has caught Close to his heart a hope, a thought, A hope of immortality; He is a dreamer, let him be. He isa dreamer. Lo! with thee His soul doth weep in sympathy; He is a dreamer and doth long To glad the world with happy song. He is a dreamer; in a breati He dreams of love, and life ana death, Oh, man! Oh.woman! lad or lass, He is a dreamer, let him pass. T. P. 0'Connor's London Sun. The Whale and the Greed. Religious fights I always did bewail; *Tis something that I never take a start in. 1 hate to see good people rant and rafl Of things on which, no one should feel too “gartin.” So this dispute 'twixt Jonsh and the whale IUs bard to see how one can take much heart in, And get his feelings all torn up and nettled About a thing that never can be settled, Ihave a friend as 0ld as he can be; S His legs are wobbly and his head is hoary— Who in a thousand ways has shown to me ‘A faith implicit in the Jonah story; His 0ld wife with him scarcely can agree; She says it is an ancient allegory, And he, in peace, permits his wife to doubt it, Though years ago they quarreled some about it. The Bible is a book that I adore For precepts found within its sacred pages. Oft when I'm sad I turn its pages o'er And read the record of depar ted sages; CLEVER VERSES BY CURRENT NEWSPAPER RHYMESTERS. But matters in dispute, alas, no more My way worn nd distracted mind engages Like Jonah and the whale and Noah’s landing And things that tax my feeble understanding. Iread instead what I can understand, The story of & Father's love, undying, The promise of anotner, better land Beyond this vale of pain and want and sighing, A mansion in a city great and grand, The glory of man’s highest art outvying, Where wickedness cau come to torture never And weary souls can rest in peace forever. And while T don’t bank much on any creed And doctrines taught by schools acelesiastic, 1 gather comfort from the things I read; It makes my heart more mellow-like and plastic. I cannot follow where some teachers lead, Nor take their theologic potions drastic; | And this is all my creed, awake or sieeping, The Lord is good, and I am 1n his keeping. —Nebraska State Journal. Mari Magno. Wild is the sea and dark when night befalleth, In unknown tongues breaker to breaker calleth; With murmurs as of menace and foreboding Groan the black waves beneath the grim wind’s goading. Yot passing lights may shine with friendly seeming, And from the pharo’s tower long rass are streaming; And songs of mariners are blithe to hail The rising anchor or the spreading sail. There is another sea which no man knoweth, Whereon with merchandise no captain goeth; Unfathomed, uniilumined, and uncharted, Whence never ship returns of all that started. Yet where the distence darkens ever dimmer, Dost thou not far discern a golden glimmer? And down tne fitful night-wind faintly ringing, Hearest thou not a strange triumphant singing? —Pall Mall Gazette. pleasure, but soon tires of that snd goes to work. But it is unscrupulous work to amass a for- tune. He succeeds, but he finds no happiness. The condeused substance of what his book conveys to his son is that there is butone creed for men, the cardinal principle of all faiths, unobscured by superstition or ritual— the religion of right and wrong. *Think care- fully and you will be unable to discover any act of sin which is not a violation of a fellow- creature’s rights.” To strive to live without thus sinning be tells his son is Iife's problem. ‘This religion of life sought to be impressed upon the son for whom the story purports to be written is good enough so far as it goes, but 1t does not go near far enough. It acknowl- edges no obligations of worship and love to the Supreme Being, which is the greater part of religion. That is the first and great com- mandment. The other one taught by this book is like unto it, but it is only secondary, and to seek to separate it from its companion and greater law and have it stand alone guide to life is f philosopby. Price $1 50. For sale by Willism Doxey, P Hotel, City. This is the story of a strange, strong, wicked end unhappy life, ostensibly written by a father to record his experiences for the benefit of his illegitimate son. He staris out by telling the son that upon the mimic stage the villain is seldom permitted to give a ver- sion of his misdeeds, but now that his hand is on‘the curtain that sbrouds the unknown he wishes to trace each action to its fmpulse and write the history of & soul which is lost, that he might weigh his life s1na balance. The father has been a lifelong infidel, but he is a firm beifever in the religion of right and wrong, although he most grievously fell from it. Heisa verycapable man and begins his life with noble espirations to benefit mankind, and he wakes heroic se f-sacrifices of fortune for humanity. Laler he becomes a man of THACKERAY AND HUTTON. In the March St. Nicholas Laurence Hutton says of his boyhood meeting with the great English novelist: The Boy,in his time, has been brought in contact With many fam us men and women, put upon nothing :n his whole experience does he look back with greater satisfaction than upon his slight intercourse with the first reat man he ever knew. Quite a little lad, he was staying at the Pulaski House in Savannah, in 1853—perhaps it was in 1855—when his father told him to observe particularly the old gentiemsn, with the spectacles, who occupied a seat at their table in the public dining-room; for, he said,the time woald come when The Boy would be very proud 10 say that he had break- fasted and dined and supped with Mr. Thackeray. ke had no ides who or what Mr. Thackeray was; but his father considered him a great man, and that was enough for The Boy. He did pay particular attention to Mr. Thackeray with his eyes and his ears, and one morning Mr. Thackeray paid a little at:ention to him of which he is proud indeed. Mr. Thackeray took The Boy between his knees and asked his name, and what he fntended to be when he grew up. He replied, A farmer, sir.”” Why, he cannot imagine, for he never had the slightest inclination toward a farm- or’s life. And then Mr. Thackeray put his gentle hand upen The Boy’s little red head and said, “Whatever you are, try to be a good one.” If there is any virtue in the laying on of hands The Boy can only hope that a little of 1t has descended upon him. z And whatever The Boy is, he has tfled for Thackersy's sake “to be a good one.” HERE AND THERE. Mr, Stead, determined on introducing good verse to poor readers with penny publications, has 1ssued Matthew Arnold’s “Forsaken Mer- man.” The Academy finds fault with what are called “cross headings.” In the journalistic craft “cross headings” are lines of small capitals which break up the long columns of matter. In a poem those “cross headings” would be singuiarly out of place. Supposc one were te subject Longfellow’s “Excelsior” to this kind of chopping up into bits, Flag He Carried,” “The Sort of Man He Wa: “What the O1d Chap Said,” “‘The Maiden Does the Taiking,” “Where the Dog Comes In,” and, finally, *“What He Bhouted.” How indescribably funny is that idea of Charles Lamb which Thomas Hood remem- bered and described. The subject was about the nge notions some very matter-of-lact péople form of the joys of heaven. Charles Lamb said: “There are persons who place the whole angelic beatitude in the possession of a pair of wings to flap about with, like & sort of celestial poultry.” There is & French journal called I'Enclos, which is the prgan of the Jeunes, or of the young writers who wish to push the old fel- lows off the track. The journalis distributed gratuitously. Brander Matthews and Francis Wilson tested the postoffice system of the whoie world lately, says the Book Buyer, by address- ing = letter thus: MARK TWAIN, : GOD ENOWS WHERE. It reached the person for ‘whom it was in- tended after traveling from San Francisco to Australia before finding Mr. Clemens in Lon- don. This story Suggests another told by a classmate of Robert Lincoln at Cambridge. When Abraham Lincoin was running for Presi- dentnumberless portraits ot him were pub- lished in newspapers all over the country. Robert cut out one of these pictures and pasted it on the outside of an envelope which contained a letter to his father. The letter reached Abraham Lincoln without losing a mai, so familiar was the postoffige clerk with the face represented in the woodcut. Poetry does not always spell profit in the dollar sense. Willlam Morris left $225,000, but he only made $25,000; the rest ne had in- herited. Tennyson left $236,000, most of his own earnings Browning left $85,000, Sir Henry Taylor $35,000, Matthew Arnold only $5000, Christian Rossetti §65,000, Professor Blakie $20,000, Dante Gabriel Rossettl $25,000, Charles Mackay $13,000. Tne rich- t poet of our time was Longfellow, who made and left & fortune of §350,000. | for this clever, if eccentric, writer. LITERARY NOTES. Mr. Gladstone is about to bring out a second series of books made up from his occasional writings. The first volume will appear in the spring. F. Tennyson Neely bas just published a paper-covered edition of Captain Charles King’s “Fort Frayne,” of the cloth edition of which, he states, nine editions were sold within a year. During her stay in England Miss Beatrice Harraden will see through the press her Cali- fornia story, “Hilda Strafford,” which ran through Blackwood’s Magazine iast year. Messrs. Blackwood will be the publishers in this country, and the volume will be issued by them this month. The American edition, published by Dodd, Mead & Co., Boston, wiil appear at the same time. Ouida has written & book called “The Mes- sarenes,” which is said to be a new departure The hero cf the story emigrates to America, where he accumulates a fortune by more or less ques- tionable means and returns to England to spend it. The efforts of the millionsire and his wife to buy their way Into society are said to be handled with a scathing pen. We have received from the publisher, A. W, Voorsanger, a copy of the Pacific Jewish An- nual. The work contains agooa deal of in- formation touching communal institutions founded by Hebrews of the Pacific Coast. There are also added the usual calendar, list of festivities, etc. The annual will be found of considerable interest to members of the Jewish faith resident in the State or upon the coast. It is 1ssued from the office of Emanu-El. We learn that since the middle of November last over 120,000 copies of J. M. Barrie's books have been sold in England and the United States, 100,000 of these being “Sentimental Tommy” and “Margaret Ogilvy.” It is said that the sale of the latter book fn England is only resiricted by the difficulty in reproducing the etched frontispiece portrait of Margaret Ogilvy, which is printed in Paris and cannot be supplied quickly enough to meet the de- mand for the book. When “Tess of the D'Ubervilles” was first published, it was generally agreed that it contained material for a fine play. With the author’s consent, the plsy has been made by Lorimer Stoddard, son of Richard Henry Stoddard, who has done constderable literary work already, and has had what many theat- rical managers regard as almost indispens- able in a writer for {he stage—experience as an actor. 1t will soon be produced in New York by Mrs. Minnie Maddern Fiske, who will appear in the title role. The London Bookman says: “We understand that the Clarendon Press are meditating a great and worthy enterprise, no iess than a complete and magnificent edition of the Brit- ish classics. The volumes will be produced in sumptuovs form, and as far as possible the editing will be fi It is too soon as yet to give exact particu’ars, but it will be generally felt that the Clarendon Press is taking a step worthy of its greatest traditions in giving a fitting and permanent form to the classics of Britain.” «Tatterley, the Story of a Deaa Man,” is the title of anovel by a new writer, T. Gallon, which is to appear shortly in Appleton’s Town and Country Library. This curious and strik- ing story takes the reader outof the beaten track of current fiction, and any prototype which is suggested belongs to an earlier time. The book will be found intensely interesting, very vivid in its pictures of avarice and love, the meaner prssionsand the noblest senti- ments, and American readers are likely to join English critiés in predicting a brilliant future for this new and talented writer. The “College Yearbook,” which Stone & Kimball announced for publication last De- cember, has been delayed, and is now to be 1ssued. The delny was caused by the exceed- ing difficulty of collecting so varied a num- ber of interesting facts about the colleges of America, including notonly full lists of the faculties of each institution, but the records of the athletic and other contests, as well as college socleties, which g0 to make up this volume. The book makes, altogether, about 600 pages, and will be of great interest not only to students and instructors, but to those preparing their sons and daughters for col- lege. Graduate Conrses, 1897-98, 18 the third issue of a very valuable annual, which sets forth compactly, so that comparisons are easily made, the special opportunities which our aif- ferent American universities offer to grad- uate students and specialists. Comvlete lists of graduate courses to be offered in all the leading univesities, together with statement of requirements for degrees and for admission to advanced stand- ing; the fees asked of graduate students; the scholarships or fellowships open to them; the library or laboratory facilities; the numbers of graduate students already connected with each univérsity—all of these things are con- clsely stated in these pages, 5o that it Is offered to ever; intending student as a valuable source of information. Messrs. Houghton, Mifiin & Co., Boston, an- nounce for early publication: “The Spoils of Poynton,” a novel, by Henry James; “Greek Arton Greek Soil,” by Professor J. M. Hoppin of Yale; “The Liquor Problem in Its Leg: tive Aspect”; *The Trans-Atlantic Chate- laine,” by Helen Choate Prince, anthor of “The Story of Christine Rochefort”; “The Chiet End of Man,” by George S. Mernam; «Hymns and Sonnets,” by Eliza Scudder, with an introduction by Horaco E. Scudder; the following volumes in the Riverside Literature series: “Macaulay’s Essays on Johnson and Goldsmith,” ‘Macaulay’s Essay on Milton,” “Macaulay’s Life and Times of Addison,” all edited by Professor W. P. Trent, and ‘“Car- Iyle’s Essay on Burns,” edited by G. R. No and “The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell,” in the Cambridge edition, in one volume, with notes, indexes, biographical sketch, portrait and a view of Elmwood. Following are some recent announcements of forthcoming publications by the Roycroft Prinung Shop, East Aurora, New York: “Upland Pastures,” by Adeline Knapp, a se- ries of short outdoor essays dealing with the besutiful things that spring and summer bring. Five hundred coples on Dickinson's rough English paper, bound in antique Dboards, $2 each; forly coples on Japan vellum—hand illumined by Bertha C. Hub- bard—§5 each, ready for dehvery March 15. «Love Ballads of the Sixteenth Century,’” ready April 15; the book will bs on rough Dekel edge paper in the highest style of the. Royeroft art, and will contain sbout 200 pages, bound stoutly in antique boards, price $2, express prepaid. “In the Track of the Book Worm.'}| by Irving Browne; thoughts. fancies and gentle gibes on collecting ana collectors by one of them. “The Book of Job,” by Elbert Hubbard, being & companion vol- ume to “The Song of Songs’’ and “The Book of Ecclesiastes.” Following is the Arena contents page for March: “The Development of American Cities,” Hon. Josiah Quincy: “The Solidarity of Town and Farm,"” . Dr. A. C. True; “The Re- lation of Biology to Philosophy,” Professor Joseph Le Conte, LL.D.; “Women in Gutter Journalism,” Haryot Holt Caboon; “Brat for the Young,” Professor Burt Green Wilde: “Agnodice,” s poem, Selina Seixas Solomon “The Unknown—Prsvision of the Futur miile Flammarion ; “Despair,” a poem, Eleanor Ford; *Concerning a National University,” Ex-Governor John W. Host, LL.D.; “Wilfrid Laurier,” a character sketch, J. W. Russell; Ce- “New Experiments in Sheathing the Huils of Ships,” George Ethelbert Walsh; “Falling Prices,”” Dean Gordo: Maceo’s Death,” & poem, A, E. Ball; “The Foundation of a Colony of Self-supporting Artisis,” Appeal; “The menian Refugees,” M. H. Gulesien; “Compul- sory Arbitration.” Professor Frank Parsons; ‘Democracy—TIis Origin and Prospects,” John Clark Ridpath, LLD.; “An Olive Branch of the Civil War” a story, La, Salle Corbell Pickett. The editor of the Review of Reviews com- ments in the March number on the Spanish programme of reforms in Cubs, the United States Senate’s attitude toward the arbitration treaty with England, the immjgration bill, the proposed international munetary conference, President-elect McKinley’s Cabinet selections, the recent Senatorial elections, the New York trust investigation, the tamine situation in India, the affair of the Greeks in Crete, the foreign policy of Russia, the position of Eng- land, France ana the other great powers, and many other matters of current interest. An Englishman’s study of the longest reign in British history is contributed to the Review of Keviews in this diamond jubilee year of Queen Victoria’s rule by W. T. Stead, who teaces the growth of imperial dominion and the influence of the royal family from the point of view of the typical British subject. The article s {llustrated with & large number ot portraits of the Queen and of members of her family circle. Many of these portraits are rare, and are now published for the first time in America. The “Critic’s” Lounger gives 8 new view of the_publishing business in a couple of pare- graphs on “Tne Book of Wealth”—a “sube scription book,"” of which the ordinary edition is to be sold at $1000, and the limited edition 2t $2500. This book will chronicle the accom- plishments of wealth from the earliest days to the present day, in all countries. He gives us incidentally a description of the canvassers who sell these books. Theirs is not the drudg- ery commonly associated with that profession: “There are not more than haif a -dozen men in the whole United States who can sell these expensive books, and they sell notning else. Their season is short, but their harvest is large. They live in the most expensive hotels, and, instead of trudging wearily from door to door, drive about in their broughams, accompanied by & man servent who carries the book. The latter 1s not brought into tne house until the possible purchaser expresses awish toseeit. One of the most successful of these agents told me re- ceptly that his season in New York did not be- gin till the Horse Show, and that it was over by the first of June.” Who would not be a book canvasser under such conditions? The Lounger adds that this particular book has been subscribed for by more than bhalf the crowned heaas of Europe. Meesrs. D. Appleton & Co. anmounce for early publication “Pioneers of Evolution,” from Thales to Huxley, by Edward Clod “Memoirs of Marshal Oudinot, Duc de Regglo,” compiled from the unpublished papers of the Duchesse de Reggio; ‘‘Some Masters of Lithography,” by Atherion Curtis: “The Aurora Borealis,” by Al fred Angot; “The Beautiful Miss Brooke, by “Z. Z”; “Tatterley, the Story of a Dead Man,” by T. Gallon; “A Pinchbeck Goddess,” by Mrs. Fleming (Beatrice Kipling); ‘A Spotless Reputation,” by D. Gerard, and «Perfection City,” a story of Kansas, by Mrs. Orpen, together with new editions of *Dy- namic Soctology,” by Lester F. Ward; by Professor Joseph Le Conte; Bimetallism in the United States,” by Profes- sor J. L. Laughlin, and “Actual Africa,” by Frank Vincent. Tne same firm will pube lish shortly “Memoirs of Marshal Oudie not, Duc de Reggio,’ compiled from the hitherto unpublished souvenirs of the Ducl esse de Reggio. The marshal’s wife was much with her husband in the field, accompanying him, for inMtance, during the retreat from Moscow. Of that she gives a very graphic de- seription; and, indeed, she draws vivid pic- tures of all that stirring epoch. The book takes in the revolution, the directory, Napo- leon’s ascendency, the restoration, and comes up to about 1830. It has photographs of the marshal and his wife, who in the end of course threw in their lot with the Bourbons, The opening pages of the North American Review ior March are devoted to & timely and elaborsate paper from the pen of Sir Edwin Arnold on “The Famine in India.”” The probe lem of “Prison Labor” is tnoughtfully cons sidered by Carroll D, Wright, United States Commissioner of Labor, and in “The History of & Poem” Edmund Gosse recounts the cir- cumstances connected with tie production of the late Coventry Patmore’s work, “The Angel in the House.” “How to Reform Business Corporations is discussed by V. H. Lockwood, and M. Georges Clemencesu contributes the second and concluding portion of his paper on “The French Navy.” A writer under the sige nature of “A London Police Msgistrate” gives a deseription of “Drink and Drunkenness in London,” dwelling especially on the class known as habitusl drunkards. Under tne captain of “The Ratlway Problem” are treated two distinct and vital aspects of this great question, the Hon. Lloyd Bryce considering «“The Legislative Solution” and James J. Wait giving “*A Mercantile View.” The Hon. Edwin Taylor appeals to the country at large “In De- fonse of Kansas,” and progressive religions thought bas its champion in Professor C. A. Briggs, D.D., who furnishes a brilliant paper on “Works of the Imagination in the Old Tes- tament.” Other topics dealt with are: “When Congress Should Convene,” by the Hon. J. . Shatroth; “The Question of Ships,” by Wia« throp L. Marvin; “Amenities of Philology,” by Professor E. W. Bowen, and “‘Objections to & Children’s Curfe,” by Winitred Buck. Dr. Nansen's “Farthest North” was pub- lished ip England on Tuesday, February 16, and on the same day the Messrs. Harper mede a formal publication of the book in this coun- try. To do this they had to make almost su- perhuman efforts. The book is in two vol- umes, octavo, and covers 1200 pages. Rough proofs were recetved from London and the matter was at once put into type. It took s tremendous force of printers to sccomplish tnis by the desired time. Then the revised proois were sent over from London, and the first American proofs corrécted by them. Though they worked as printers have seldom worked before, it was impossible to publish more than a sufficlent number of copies by the 15th to meet the re- quirements of the internatonal copyright law. The regular publication of the book here will not be until some time in March. It will have 120 full-page and numerous text illustrations, and sixteen colored plates in fac-simile from Dr. Nausen's own sketches, besides photogravure portraits and four maps. Notwiibstanding the enor- ‘mous price, $50,000, which they paid for it, the English publishers of the book, Messrs. Archibald Constable & Co., are said to have more than insured their expenses with their advance orders. “Farthest North” will be bound in a greenish coior, suggestive of the tinge of the fce fields. On the cover of the first volume will be a picture of the Fram, etched in gold. An edition for the colonies will be pubiished in the Macmillan Colonial Library.