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THE SAN 13, 1897 HARDING DAVIS IN PIECES. SOLDIFRS OF FORTUNE—By kichard Hard- g Davis. New York: Charies >cribner's The rec extravagance with which Richard Harding Davis has made his latest book pointment will strike some of his readers as a curious change from his old way of accomplishing that end. This time, ead of making his threads meet under ngly mination of his romantic fabric, he see er (0 bave spun cach one of them separately and 10 have lost his ¢ ontinuity in a tang] nee does has gallog aimless diversions f them, in s way 1c Mr. Davis has do priate 1 iy appr nay T what amused oys th . Ana open up s has discovered pa Clay (the ngham ( one ire, he he heroine anotker, a of them - " Their acqu fel. C 0 Ola accomplishing gone there to acco # year or two the Langh w Yor way to thougn eship has 1 cen distinguishes ay goes cho, self mightily by the very & that he end of haa ATOuS CoASL 10 se he has done am an Clay are again g d Clay nobly determines 10 make 5 le the su 2 most amazi love with a sis ead ung persc ess sidetracks id along an 10 give the su er- hing to do—and all that ation and a disturbanc & transfer of his makes 50 &b s 8 The girlto whom he accommoation me which tne author fl gl s to make clear. The origi heroine promis t 10 be an interes i but when the author got lost on lar-sidetruck h ber, and re he ack to com- he drops out at the most her development, and is but ip 50 inextricably be rescued by bis readers’ imagin ags one of i1 1s Sou volutions as & carpe r oo nent dift Mr se numer rag on . with Davis does: re. do wit there. the reader ge waded half way course, ina ussistanc characters in the ; but otherwise, the beautiful ¥ 0f the work as a modern war mu odv under heaven may under- is left undimmed e fect thet Mr. Davis in this case chose for his hero & cowboy instead of a swallow-coated Jeader in society indicaies a laudable purpose which, ales! he failed to carry out 10 the end. The cowboy falls short of the mark after mak ing a splendid s probubly because Mr. Davis’ beart failed him at the supreme moment #nd his instinets deserted to the conventionai man of the story, who is more in the ne, and who, on second thought, ard g hav iter's tting out as ped fitter positive refinement. ble hero, a romsutic Clay as & rough-and- chap in leathe: u ! Ther. an Clay did 10 marry the girl | [ for vegetables the grass of the fields, but he | describes this class as so apathetic and stolid thatsympathy with their condition is wasted Even for these people Russia would yield an sbundance of good if they would rouse the amoition and energy and struggle for a better | tte. The book contains & fine description of Mos- cow, of the crowning of the Czar and the at- tendant pageant. Village lile, the Greek church, Orloff horses, Russian ljterature and the roya: family are features trcated in an en- g style ese impressions of Russia are very pless irougnout. Mr. Logan a great snd happy nation with a future ahead, a joyous people looking with love and reverence upou their Tsar, rich in all that relates to personal ireedom, intel lectual, confident of their own sirength, and of & boundless hospitality. INTERESTING SHADES. PURSUIT OF THE HOUSEBOAT—By Johin Kendrick Bangs. New York: Harper & Bros. Focsale in this City by A. M. Kobertson, Fost street. Price 31 This » boat on THE ht be termed a sequel to the “House- he Styx.”” The houseboat of the Asso- at a time when it happens to be most famous female shades zed by the pirate Cap- g who x w The masculine shades who rested in these captured spirits atoace to pursue and release them. The long ersation that ensues smong the most nent shades —as Socrates, Bonaparte, Noah, Sir Walter Ralelgh, ete.—is exceedingiy clever, but this part of the tale is far surpassed by the account of what takes piace among th atducted ladies. These hold & council and de- to czll on the pirate for an explanation of s horrid conduct. That astute shade assures at the whole affair was planned b, heir husbands, Jovers, brothers, etc., 1o give them a vleasure trip untrammeled by mascu- ne presence. The spirtied Xantij p that Socrates could have been so thoughtful of her pleasure, and Queen beth flatly dis- belfeves that Raleigh was willing to part with clated Sk inhabited by tl of Erebean society, is se ain Kidd g 1 1 seas, are in lan but the wily Kidd diplomatically con- nces them. The finale is happy. REMINISCENCES. AN EPISTLE TO POSIERITY — By M. E W sherwood. New York: harper & Fros For | salein wnis City by A. M. Robertson, Pos. street | Price sz 50. T of the liie of ambling recollections of mapy years Mzs. Sherwood are very entertain- They are well written and tell of meny politics, literature and art or wis ina yo Among Thackeray and Far ‘amous pe w sons in om th ilia on 1o go ese were Daniel She very actress i Edwin Kembie and her description rful enough 0 whom she wri are good d life, the West in 1k lite in Washington, 1 | ties, New York societ: and Londo: SUCCESSFUL SUBSTITUTION LEONORA OF THE YAWMISH—By Francls Dans. New York: Harper & Brothers. For *ale 1 this City by A. M. Kobertson, 108t 3 reet. Price $1 The Leonora of the story is a sort of & wood nymub, her fatner, Mr. Willouzhby, being an eccentric old man who graw disgusted with { mankind a red to the Oregon forests to iake his dwelling-place. Cherles Moorehead, on an exploration in the woods, Ly ed and stor the to made that pos- s regret iis late birth. scriptions of New Engtana orties, officinl and social erary Boston i the six achel is pow eri onora | Moorehead’s brother Tom to personate Charles | and go to the wood nymph | tions and humorous scenes book. | MARRIAGE A MISTAKE. iA D] v i The sub-title of this story is “An Episode in | ! 1 Some tine descrip- find place in the =Y OT Mary Cholm dward Arnold deles. the Life of & Butterfls.” The butte young took herse more se than is usually the case with girls who are compared to the insect tha lightly fiits from flower to flower. | ines herself so grave and serious in heart and mind that the wooing of young men meet with no respouse, and she mistakes her ad- miration for a man old enough to be her fatner fiy was a man ously wao for lov kinduess 10 her as being the | perfect sympathy of two kindred souls. Sne H ts on marrying him, and in Ler error | nterest of the tale. breeches and sombrero, is to tne acute sensi- | 1 itics of Richard Harding Davis and his | et n very good fellow and an inicresting | A STORY OF CHRIST. gharacter 10 gaze at through lorgnettes, but |\ oy oSt when it comes to the real point of marrying a | ' Nizou “New york t 42 corre favorite like Alice Langham—|{ Company. Price §1 ourse, & line must be drawn some- | The atory of the life of Christ, substantially (Here a depreca bow and 8| astold inthe four gospels but filled out with | Ruesses at unnarrated events so as to make a - Davishad better keep to his society | Jonger and more complete narrative, is here tes and storfes. This other kind is too | 1o1a much for hi e is not boid enough for it It not 1t Soldiers of Fortune' had not gone to pleces in the middle and the threads had not blow hither and thither like chaff before a Western gale—if the story had been held together and pursued to the end on the line which the author had evidently mapped out for it in the beginning—it would have been a good bit of w —or udmit of half-way measures. Eut 1t id go to pleces in the middle. CARRO CARRINGTON, VIEW OF RUSSIA. (U IN JOYFUL RUSSIA—Ey John A. Lozan Jr. New York. D. Appleton & Co. For sale 1o this City by William Doxey, Palace Hote.. Price 150, In strik ng contrast to the usual gloomy vic- tures of despotic Russia is this account of the | land of tne White P condition of the Tsarand estimate of its Logan Jr. The book is the graphically written record of a holiday irip. I's author was so hospitably received by the Russians that his views of the great empire are rose-colored. The volume is in no sense a politicil one, nor is ita study in economics, but its purport is to give the reac of the pleasure which Mr. Logan enjoy that visit to & compara- tively unknown land. Perhaps the greater part of this pleasure will be in perceiving throt e eyes of this traveler that there is a brighter way of regarding this Immense country than that which we have grown ac- customea to having presented 10 us. The Russians, the nuthor telis us, are fully as free as they deserve to be. They are not yet fit for comple:e self-government, and they are ruled with & kind and lenient hand. In re- pard to the reports of rigors practiced, he be- the Russis idered, and that we have wested a mpathy upon a criminal class that is and insancly seditious, lotot s spiritually coarse Russian reforms are as rapid as they can be without doing more harm that gcod He admits that there is a large class of wretchedly poor, living on the pounded bark of trees, mixed with & littie meal, and using ture by John A. | Government has been one who appesrs 1o have made a con- scientious study of all the records concerning the Nazareue and the histors and habits of the Jews and their Roman rulers at that t'me. The deseription of Mary, whom Jesus loved, and her sister Martha is interestingly done. Peer, John the Baptist and the ambitious Judas ure vividly drawn, and s clever attempt | is made t0 so relate the death of Judas that it } will harmonize the ciffering accounts of 1t as given iu the New Testument. ECONOMICS IN RHYME. TO-DAY.—By Jobn F. ews Company. Price | Thisnumber of the *‘Interest Tax Series” treats of soclal ills and their remedies in verse, | It is dedicated to “those self-sscrificing ones whose lives are spent in minisiering to the aflilcted” by their brother physician. The author believes iu the interest tax system of | raising revenue, in postoffice eavings banks, jand in the substitution of co-operation for | competition. | A WAR STORY. | 4 SWEET REVENGE By F. a. Michell. New York: Harpe & Erothers. For sale in this C ity by A. M. Huberison, Post stree.. Price $1. Aromance of the civil war with the usual round of capture, cscapes, wounds and. affairs jof the heart. In this case Major Crander- |stane, a Union man from Tennessee, is res | eved from guerrilias by two brave Southern | girls whose friendship he had gained, and | afier the War he marries one of them. | — | THE SENTINELS. | THE sTORY OF TH Barlow. Alameda, Cal 50 cen 5. The picturesqueness of the Farallones is well shown in this neat little pamphlet, with its many illustrations of the rocks and surf from different points of view. It contains an inter- esting account of the birds which frequent the | 1sland and their habits. The book was ar- ranged and published by H. R. Taylor, editor | 5t the Nidologist. | : i | Frice FARALLONES.—By H. K. Taylor. | oft with it | 1n the seveuties, Rome | | and they become cn, When he returns oid sweetheart, Neilie Merivale. Nelife is » resourceful girl, and she plans to keep her | lover and avoid robbing Leonora, by getting London | 18 greatdeal | be imag- | { | ligtous meetings, ete. | of Mr. Justin McCarthy’s “Siory of Gladston RIGHARD HARDING DAVIS. Richard Harding Davis is one of the younger | response to his particular beckoning. him suddenly into ths glare of pi cent has been in precise conformity with the growth of his list of productions. which, however faulty, will doubtless extend his reputation as From a report tention. aders of ¢ ntemporary 1 author. letters. er’s desk on the New York Evening Sun his Van Bibber stories lifted sallagher” followed and raised him still higher, and since then his as- His latest work is ‘‘Soldiers of Fortune,” Success and affluence came early in THE JUNE MAGAZINES. The Outlook. it has been the custon tlook to issue in the early a “recreation number.” These numbers have been largely devoted to out-ol-door topics and For eight year sum to vacation interesis. This year the magazine number of the Out'ook for Juce (bearing date of June 5) is the recreation number. It ¢ tains nearly 200 piges and has a illustrations, admirably printed. The leading feature cons sts of & group of pleasant articles brought together undar the fanciful title Jountry Roads aud Inland Waters” Tae several articics of the group deal with the pos- sibility ot taking quiet vacation outings away from the crowd and at moderate cxpense. Va cations on foot, in carriage, by the bicycle, on norseback, in houseboat, by camping and other equally delightful ways are described by Heary Van Dyge, Ernest Ingersoll, Charles 1 Norton, Mary Tracy Earle, W. W. Eilsworih, J. Cleveland Cady and others. All these articles arc cssentially readable; ther also contain many practical hints and valuable suggestions. They are illusirated by more than a score of charming out-of-door pic including several full- page illustrations specially roproduced for the Outlook. A other seasonnble feature is a carefully com piled list of summer schools, conventions, re- The flavor of the sum. mer season is found everywhere in the paper, and the adver.ising pages contain a really r markable smount of information about su mer resorts, vacation routes and like top! Among the contributed articles not included in the group sbove described will be found the first of two papers on “‘How to Study English Cathedrals,” by Helen M. Nortn (with striking views of Durham and Salisbury cathedrals); a delightiul story by Auune Elic an appreciative article by Hamilion W, Mab) on James Lene Allen, the Kentucky novelist, whose new book, “The Cholr Iuvisible,” is at- tracting just now so much interest (with a full-page portrai); and another installment ur Life,”” which is illusirated even more fu thau usual, many of the pictures having been taken expressly for the Outlook at Hawarden. Ladies’ Home Journal. The June Ladies’ Home Jourzal presents an infinite varlety of strikingly interesting, timely and practical features. It opens with an article by William George Jordan on “What Victoria Has Seen.” which graphically re- counts the progressof the world in the past sixty years, since the coronation of the Eng- lisit sovereign. Coming on the eve of the Queen’s jubilee it is especially timely. Tne establishment of Methodism in America 1s told in an interesting article by Rey. W Scott, D.D., on “When John Wesley Preachad in Georgia.” It narrates Wesiey's great work, his forceful preacning, describes the first Methodist sermon in America, which was delivered by Wesley, and his Sundas-school. which was the first in the worid, * cle Sam's Confessional” describes how the money passed into the conscience fund of the United States Treasury is reccived and how its guilty senders carefully avold revesling their identity. Edward W. Bok makes an sp. peal that the poor children of the cifes bLe given au outing in the country during a part of the summer. He vigorously denounces the “Oftense of the Colored Shirt,” also discusses the ““ltch to Be Seen.” Lovers of fiction will read with delight Ella Higginson's short story, “Oue o' Them Still, Stubborn Kinds,” and Alice 8. Woli's romance, “Her Alter-Fame." Charles Dana Gibson's drawing, “The People of Dickens,” most@interestingly pictures Mr. and Mrs. Micawber, David Copperfie'd and Traddles, and & page of Mr. Wooll’s wails gives & most touchipg 1nsight into Woman's | ana proves “mec | iliustrated with pic i poor in ei by e very lover ’s contribution ticles discusses cheracteristic, cnats of 'k Along the more practi Rorer’s “Cooking Lesso their preparations, The Backyard as a Summer Retrea es for Sum Garden “What by Ruth cedlework, etc. sha r “F, E to Ashm “Wauke Up, Cupld,” of “The Princess Tycoon,” will be wel- of music. Dwight L. 0 the series of Bible- Ho in the evange- 4 manner, and sor and the Humor- cal lines are Mrs, §.T. on vegetsbies and Way to Swim,” “Lamp- ottages,” *The City or Wear in Summer ect From a Young e, articles on dres McClure’s. Professor Langley’s issue of McClure’s Mags hara study and experin tion of fiying machines amachine that actuall anic account in the June zine of his ten years of ent in the construc- »wned at last with ¥ solves the problem flight””, to be both possib e and practicable, is positive contri- bution to sci ce, but § resting story o effort directed toa Ty made timely her ref are twenty-five of thes duced with rare beas noble end. tis at the same time & { heroic patience and The puper § es of Professor Lang- | ley’s own machine (the only flying machine that has ever flown) made under his direction, A series ot life portraits of Queen Victoria, ¥ the sixtieth anniversary of is another attractive feature. There e portraits, all repro- . and showing Victoria st various ages, from 2 years to the present time. Mme. Biane (T} ong been associated Deux Mondes, has an the great *“Revue,™ its Bentzon”), who has with the Revue des intercsting article on founder ‘and first editor, Buloz. and its present editor, Brune- ticre, who has just finis| of lectures ‘n this coun writes of “Grant's First War,” supplying some bed a visit and course try. Hamlin Garland Great Service in tie new persoual glimpses of Grant, s Lippincott’s. The complete novel in the June issue of Lipoincot’s, “As Any Gentleman Might,” s a rattling tale of adventure by Willlam T. Nich- ols ismainly in England, early part of the present century. That From the Grand Stand,'” Jean Wrigh!, sre very brief. stories, “To Him Nathan Meyer, and b The hero is an American, but the action and the time is the The other by Annie Hath," The iormer shows how subscriptions may be won for char- itable work. D. Morgan, is & cbarmin of tarushes, whose dom A Feathery Debut,” by Lalage 1€ account of a family icile was in the writ- er'sgarden. Natural history is further repre- sented by ‘* A Year of Butterflies,” by Frank H. Sweet. Fanny Bullock We “Spanish Plains and Si kman describes rras”; K. G. Robinson writes of “A Yankee Farmer in Florida”; and John Murdceh has some of Snow.” Francis M York's First Poet, whose works appeared “College Athletics’ | by Aibert Tyter, one of in the Olympian games at Athens Fireplaces are vindicatea the American victors in 1896, words on Butler writes of “Tescup Times," | and Edward S. Van Ziie resurrects “New namely, Jacob Steindam, in 1659 and 1661. The poetry of the uumber is by Julien Gor- do nypacker. Current Li Carrle Blake Morgan, and Grace F. Pen- iterature. Mr. Cable continues the Edltor’s Symposium in his usual happy vein in this month’s Cur- rent Literature. One of the conspicuous changes in the magszine under the new edi- torfal management is the illustrations of mer means to the cnildren of | special personal articles ana regular depart A song, ments devoted to personal mention with por- traits of the writers or celebrities mentioned in the text. In the June number F. M. Hop- kins continues hisinteresting series of articles, entitied “American Poets of To-Day.” John B. Tabb, the Marsiand poet, is the subject under discussion in this number. All the regulsr departmenis of the magazine, poetry and prose, are of the ususl high orderof excellence. A notable series of articles, entitled “Great Magazine Editors,” is begun in the magazine. Henry M. Alden of Harper’sis the first editor 10 be considered. Frank Leslie’s. “Homes in Greece'” is the title of the leading article in Frank Leslic’s Popular Monthly for June. Itis written by George Donaldson, Ph. D.. and there are more than a dozen illustra- tions, including a full-page group of portraits of the royal family of Greece. In conjunction with this arsicle, and of cqual timeliness, is one entitled “Crete and Its Vicissitudes,” b Anna W. Young. *A Day With the Trout,” by Henry E. Haydock, is another paper appro- priate to the season, and both the text and the pictures make one long for such an outing | as the author describes. The eighth paper in the excellent series of articles on “American Universities and Colleges” treais of Williams College, and is by the Rev. Dr. Eben Burt Par- sons, the popular secretary of that institution. It contains twenty-seven illusirations, among which are several groups of stndents. There are many good things in this num A pro- fusely fllustrated description of a visit to Cairo; “Locomotion in Inasa,” by Florence Fenn Foreman; ‘‘Fox-Tossing,” by Ernest Ingersoll; a graphic and beautifully pictured description of the city of Baltimore, by Charies Thomas Logan: an instaliment of Frederick R. Burlon's new serial; several clever short storie: new plays; an interesting department for young people, ete. Outing. Quting for June contains many seasonable ketches of sport, travel and sdventure at home and abroad. A profusion of beautiful illustrations embellish & thoroughly satis ing number. 1. Philip Terry tells of the pleas- ures of “Wneeling in the Mikado’s Land”; £d W. Sandys contributes a must useful paper on “Bass and Bass Fishivg”; R. B. Burchard Qiscusses *‘Champlon Canoes of To-day.” The fiction department contains & compleie story, Frankie’s Wooing,” by Louise D. Mitchell, “Intercollegiate Cycling,” *Interuniversity Rowing,” touring awheel, golf, sport in | foreign 1ands, driving four-in-hana, seafish- ing, the National Guard and other interesting subjects are ably handled in this best of sport- ing pub.ications. The editorial and recora departments ere up to date and valuable, Bal b e oy PHILOSOPHICAL. THEORY OF THOUGHT AND KNOWLEDGE~ By Borden P. Bowne. ew Yori Harper & Lrothers. For In this City by A. M. Kob- ertson, Post street. Price, §1 50. The author of this work is professor of phile osophy in Boston University. His purpose is not o give a complete and elaborate system of philosophy, but to expound afew elemental vrinciples that underite the problems of thought and knowledge, A large part of the | volume is devoted to illusions that arise from verbal inaccuracies. “It isincredible in ad- vance of investigation how much of what is said or written is pompous nothingness Richard Le Gallienne contracted his second marrisge recently when he made Miss Julie | Norregard, a London journalist, his wife. The witnesses were Mrs. James Welch and William Sharp of literary note. 8 description of some | | HERE AND THERE. | Mrs. Flora Annie Steel has dramatized ner famous story, “On the Face of the Waters.” The Roxburghe (England) Press is spending $50,000 on their new edition of Dickens. A bright little newspaper, the Indian Guide, | is publisbed at the Suoshone (Wyo.) Agency, the editors, printers and all the rest being full-bleoded redskins. | Mrs. Julia Davies, who died recent ton at the at CItf- edvanced age of 94, was probabiy the last survivor ef the intimate friends of Charles Lamb. Her father was Joseph Hume, | and in his house Lamb. Goodwin and Hazlitt Were the Constant guests . Rose Hartwick Thorpe, “Curfew Shall Not Ri still an occasional contributor to the Her home is in San Diego County, California, where she has lived for some years. Her famous poem was written when she was 16 suthor of the g To-night,” is | | Alexandre Dumas the younger is shortly to | bave his statue on the Place Malesherbes | Paris. | Subscriptions are already beiug col- | lected for the purpose, and as Dumas is a | | household name in France it should be less difficult to raise the money than it has u fortunately been in the case of many other distinguished Frenchmen. Richard Mansfield is writing a book. It isa | work he commenced merely for the pleasure | of writing 1t and reading it to Mrs. Mansfield | and an intimate friend ot h. The story de- | veloped in Mr. Mansfield’s leisure moments | served to while away the time for some of the favored members of his company on the traln while they were traveling, and uow he Das been edvised to publish it. An English writer asserts that there was any Grub street in London, the name hav- | ing been invented by Alexander Pope. This | may bLe so, but the expinnation offered, namely, that “hungry authors became identi- fied with that street because they were aiways | trying to fiud it,” 18 as false as it is fancitul. The idea in the name was that of grubbing, | digging, hard tofl and researcn. | In 1699 Dean Swift boughta second-hand | Eizevir, priuted in Amsterdam in 1650. This | volume the Dean gave to his iriena, the Rev. | Daniel Jackson, the Vicar of Suntry, and the | dute of the present was 1715. Jackson's | friend was James Grattan, and in time his ais- | tinguisbed son, Henry Grattau, fell heir to the book. The precious volume. enriched with | the four sigr of its respective owners, is | now the treasure of n London book-lover. | never | There are said to be 1 France authors and journaiists and sbout 7 artists. The provinces contribuie most <f the writers—about two-thirds—while Paris is rep- | reseuted in the same proportion smong the artists, Among the writers 1000 are nov. 1sts, 200 are poets, 150 educational writers, and the rest writers of various kinds. The artists comprise 107 sculptors, and the others | are painters, Tanging over all branches of the pictorial art. | 0 women 00 women The fathor of John Oliver Hobbes, who, in private life is Mrs. Uraigle, has boughtthe famous London review, The Academy. John Morgan Richards, as his full name reads, is also proprieter of a brand of liver pills, and u deacon in_the Lonaon Temple, Dr. Parker’s churcn. The rumor that Mrs. Craigie was to be married again to George Moore, the novel- ist, was apparently without founaation. Itis authoritative.y denied by & writer in the Lo: don Queen. It is not surprising to learn that the library of the British India Office, now being cata- | 10gued, coutains the most complete coliection | of Oriental lnterature in the world, as it rep- | resents the accumulation since 1559 ot the | st India Company, which, founded in Queen Elizabeth’s time as & commercial concern for | the exploltation of the East Indies, became, about 1700, a regular department of the Brit- ish Government, supery sing the affairs of ali her Majesty’s Oriental colonies. The longevity of literary men and women is above the aversge. Amella Opie, Miss | Edgeworth, Caroiine Herschel, Mary Somer- ville, Maria Mitchell, George Eliot, George Sand, Harriet Mactineau, Harriet ~Beecher Stowe, Frances Power Cobbe, Charlotte Cush- men, Fanny Kemble, Mrs. Emma Willard, Susan H. Anthony, Elizabsth Cady Stanton and many other noted writersand thinkers have lived and worked far up into the sixties, seventies and eighties.—New York Sun. The Philistine has just completed its fourth | volume, and the bound result is before us. As & mental laxative (10l to say cathartic) it is unsurpassed, aud Dr. ffubbard can b | on 10 administer more shocks than three static machines. The st.fnecked | and unregenerate should give ear to the | dogma promulgated by the East Aurora School | of Phitosophy, whose disciples resemble Solo- | mon’s liltes in that they toil not, neither do they spin, and whose doctrine certainly does not “distil like the gentle rain upon tue grass.” counted in agiven time That was a good story that Mr. Doxey told recently of the individual who inquired for a WOTk on book plates. “Which one do you ~Oh, [ don’t know; the fellow who asked { me for it do=sn’t scem to know himself,” re- plied the intelligent customer, “but if he'd | been apprenticed to old Bancroft like I was, | {he’d know more about them. Why,do you know, [earried all the book plates of Bancrofu's | history 10 the top floor of the building, and | you can bet I know enough of them to suit | me!” s | Mr. Gladstone’s letter on book-collecting has | sct many comparisons afloat. The greatest | book-collector ever known, says the Westmia- | | ster Gazette, was Richard Ieber of Hoanet, | | M.P. for Oxford University. He had four im- | meuse libraries all purchased by himseli—one ) at Hoduet, his place in Shropshire (which col- | lection sold after his death for §53,000), an other at Paris, & third at Brussels, and a fourth at Amsterdam. Another great collec- | tor, Thomes Grenvlile, collated every book in his famous librars, writing on the title page | of each its price and history. lo his case | book-collecting was taken up as a cure for a | broken heart, he having as & young man had a hopeless passion for Georgians, Duchess of Devonshire. The eatire sutograph of Keat’s Endymion | | was sold at auction in England recently, It| | eame direct from a descendant of Keats’ pub- | lisher, and was then off:red for the firsi_time. | The manuscript, says the London Times, “comprises 181 leaves, and includes the four *books’ into which the poem was divided. The | alterations in pencil and pen are exceeaing interesting, and with the exception of one folfo, the manuscript is entirely in the beauti- | fully clear and neat handirriting of the poet.” In sddition to E:dymion, the same sale in- cluded also from the same source the auto- graph manuscript of Lamis, which covers | twenty-six pages folio. Both the manuscripts | bear the usual “instructions to the p ter,” and are consequently the actual “copy” from | | which the poems were set vp. | | Mrs. Elia Hig | of the sett LITERARY NOTES. Miss Braddon has completed & mew story which is called “Under Love’s Rule.” Rider Haggard has dealing with Boer l1 finished a new novel c entitied “*The Sivallow.” Houghton, Mifllin & Co. have been obliged 10 postpone publication of the second volume of Victor Hugo’s correspondence. 1t will nog appear until the fall. E. L. GodKkin’s papers on Democratic Govern- ment, now appearing in the Atlan Monthly, are parts ol & system itic work on the subjzct, to be published in bock form at an eariy date, An interesting mew addition to Browning literature will appear from the press of the Macmilians durivg June. Its ti The Bos- ¥ Papers,” speaks for it~ lude many noteworthy - w own writers, ton Browning Soc The book wil The Philistine for June has eleven short articles besides the “Side Taiks with Girls— and Others.” There is thought and feeling and good humor on every page. Butif a man efraid of plain living aua high tk bad better let the little “Phil” alone. kiug he F. Marion Crawiord's new novel, “A Rose of to be published in book His readers will recollect a scene in an earlier novel where his feeling toward divorcs 1s shown, and will feel special interest in a book in which divorce has become the main motif. Yesterday form. wi Carlyle'searliest writings were contributions Brewster's Edinburgh yelopedia, and consisted of biographical notfces. These pas pers are 1o be published by James Gowan & Son u the title of “Montaigne and Other Essays.” These writings have never before this been issued in book form. to de “Volcanoes of North Am Lesson for Students of Geograp ogy,” by Israel C. Russell, professor of geology in the University of Michigan, is announced by the Macmillans, who are bringing out aiso the work on ‘“Ancient Voleanoes of Great Britain’ by Sir Archibald Geikle. Mr. Ruskla spends several hours a}day gar- dening in a little green cultivated place in the middle of a nut wood, which in spring is full of daffodils and cherry blossoms. Here the professor admits no other toil but his own, ca, & Reading y and Geol- | andis as proud of his garden as of the great books which bear his name on their titie-page, The letters on the United States which G. W. Sievens of the London Morning Post wrote to his journal during the recent politi- cal campaign have been republished in Enge land, wnere they have been received with some enthusiasm. Dodd, Mead & Co. ar nounce the book for immediate publicatio hy It is incisive enough, and may give offense, but it has much truth in it, 100, and worth reading. T.B. Mosher is just bringing out the fourth edition of his “0ld World” edition of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayvam. By the way, the July and August numbers of the Cosmo- politan will contain 140 of the quatrains translated by Richard Le Gallienne. General Walker writes that they are very different fro 2 Gerald’s, but sufliciently great to put the erowning seal on the literary achieve- ments of the century. The friends of “Mr. Bill Williams,” of “Little Ike Templin,” of “Biily Downs and His Likes,” of “Primes and Their Neighbors,” will w e ¢ announcement of & new book by author of “Dukesbirough Tales,’" the title “Old Times ia Middle Georgia,” by R. Maleolm Johnston, which is to be published shortly by the Macmillan Company. It is a volume of short stories fllustrating a phase of life in Middle Georgia now almost entirely of the past. 10 etc., under Paul Lawrence Dunbar's * Lowly,” with Mr. How tion, is to be published b; London. rics of the s’ capital introduc- Cuapman & Hall of May our English cousins appreciate Dunbar’s clever verses, and s he is 10 lecture we trust he will be successful. To understand the dialect is not, however, so easy, but, then, Mr. Dunbar in his speech is precise and ele- gant, and so the contrast between the recital of his dlalect verses and his ordinary talk will be the more effe ve. he Critic's London correspondent writes that in England, at least, Mr. Crockeit’s new siory, “Lad’s Love,” has been received with lukewarm interest, remarking by the way that “the slight rebuff (to a novelist who is under contract to write well into the next century) may well be the very best thing pe sible for its author.” From this London let ter we learn, also, that Stevenson’s unfinished story, “St. Ives,” is to be completed by another band. The name of the daring writer who wou d undertake to complete the work of the master is not given, but we doubt the result. A remarkably well-prepared and fpractical article on *‘The Military Value of the ship- verd.” by Lewis Nixon, the designer of the battle-ships [udiana, Massachusetts and Ores gon, is published in the June number of the North American Review. ‘Every shipyard,” writes Mr. Nixon, *'that can build war vessels capable of sus:aining the armor or using the guns and projectiles of such forges against any common enemy becomes a public sbield againstany and ail possible foreign aggres sion, the value of which to the nation at iarge and in the long run cannot be computed by the formulas of trade. After many mistaken reports as to the date of publiea of James Lane Allen’s new novel, “The Chotr Invisible,” it was published afew days since by the Macmillan Compan: The first large edition of the Wors was ene tirely sold on tne day of publication, and & secoud is being hurried through the press as rapidly as possile. Curiously enough at the same time that they are publishing this story of Jobn Gray's life they are issuing &lso a new edition of a book which, according to the novelist's story, exerted a strong influence on bis hero at a critical moment in the story, The reference is to Mailory’s *Morte d’A thur,” which is, perhaps, scarcely so well known as it shouid b> The Macmillan Company announces a new edition, with new stories, of & little book en= ted “The Flower ThatGrew in the Sand,” by sou. The new title will Re *From the Land of the Snow Pearls, Tales of Puget Sound.” The book is another of those collections of studies of life and character which are of such value in helping one to a comprehension of the special atmosphere of a given locality. What R. M. Johnston’s stories do for Middle Georgis, Mrs. Higgine son’s do for the far Northiwest, as “Q's” stories nave done for Cornwall. Many of the re- viewers of the first edition of these stories likened them to Miss Wilkins' work, which is easily understood when one recal:s how many ers of that region are from New England acd cherish the memory of New England homes. Indeed, jt is exceedingly | interesting to read these tales beside Miss Wilking', and note how the original New land types bave been modified in the process of removal. Atall events, in this volume we haves book which deserves a place among the best collections of short stories of the year, Eng-