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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, AUGUST 1, 1897 23 VIEWED BY A VISITOR. THE LAND OF TH vens. New Yorl fn this City by Yrics 81 25. Three times during the past nine montn have we been called upon to notice'a book di cussing America and its peopie frem the point of view of the outsider and the transient so- journer. In the first of theseeffurts, that of the Rev. H. R. Haweis, we weze treated ton dissertation upon our maniers and cus- ms; but the English “cleric saw fit DOLLAR—By G, W. Stee- 20dd. Mead & Co. For site M. Roberison, Post street. douse us with & strongly saturated solution of - Haweis. His 100 aggressive persons th from every page and in ov. HO AM 17" asked the author and Morals” on the fi “Travel and Talk.” and 500 ana odd pages seemed to the reader to be largely a carsfully executed & swer to the question. Then & few months later tnere was tssued om the press of tne Messrs. Ser cntitled “America and the Am s French Point of View.” The autho clever proauction chose to remain and at the time of its bublication not wanting critics who ssserted writer of the work was none oth: American, the editor of & leading New paper, masquerading, for some reaso! kmown to himseif, as a resiaent of Fr His book was cagerl mented upon. It was b and disciosed a conside with our fustitutions, The third and latest book see ourselves as others se W. Bteevens, a member of the s don Daily Mail, who was sent by his paper to this country during theé rec 1 campaign. His letters home have porated into a book of some 300 page: fon of “The Land ot exd Mr, Stee forth his impressios revealed themselves tc ew months, during from Maine to Califor sense M that the best nee. , designed is writt as they ng astavol a hich time e iraveled r o In acertain eevens’ work is of 1 than that of either of his two immediate predeccssors, - In coming to this country he was not bound to ill protessionsl He delivered no lectures . No mounte-| his advent In Awmerican cities, neither did he indulge in church quarrels. He came simply as & nour every-day mann - trip in the vol befors us cevens is a man of observation and a gentleman of cnlt ing none of the atiribules of the egotist. e, hav- Mr. Steevens' book possesses the jurther val indicating the difference between the s of new journalism, of which he is & me in England, v and our own variety. ng, and not at all to the cre ed State eeds not the explanation of the pewspaper man to show that he chosen *“The Land of the Doilar’ as the title of his book in any spiritof wssumed superior- ity or of contempt for our c. Mr. Steevens professes & vast ad our business instincts, and admits that our men engage in the pursuit of w b for the reason that in this, a comparat try, there 18 1 that America is “unfinished”’ in thatwe are siwaysin a hurry,and it was only in Phila- delphia that he found a community at all Tesembling the peopla of Great Britain, Like all transient visitors to this country,who are here with the uliimate purpose of writing us up, Mr. ens falls intoa curious habit of generalization. Thus he spea of Denver as & town whose inhabitants “appesr. to gai a precarious livelibood by seiling esch other raflway tickets at reduced rat And sgain: “Every Amerfcan is at heart mu anarch He hates constraint. He. hates regulation. He hateslaw.” And when, after propounding some theory of his pwn relative to the Bnaucial questions agitating this co tinent, he adds: “All this may be an fm- e 11bel, but it isa good story, so let it e constrained to lieve in London is in one in brother of the same & here. Tie monetary problem is one that s han- & masterly manner. mto the question of free © gold standard and ex: plainsitin a ma that should be &’ Tevele- tion t6 Some of.0ur campaign orators, mouth- 1ng theirshibboleths of “sixteen to one,” *unit of vatue,” “free and.indeperident coinsge” and “contracted currency.”’ The.matier of argu- ing finance with starving overatives, akin to the_scriptural demand ior bread and receipt ol 'a stone; was. well' put te him by & native of Leedville: *Whavsithe good of talking sound dled by Mr. § ns o He goes _carefully us the €ing finance to a man when he's huugry? Feed him first then he'll listen. They haven't for- gotien Homestead, and they're soie.- They xnow that they can’t be worse off than they are, and they go in for any change. If iree silver i'll be something else. 1 iUl ‘be next.. And they're quite right. During his visit to Philadelphia of “The Land ‘of the Dollar” the cele brated Baldwin Locomotive Works, The sight inspired him with admiration and. disgu: admiration at American enterprise, disgust at the lack of the same exhibited by the British engineer. “Why,” he wails, “O British man facturer, must I come 3000 miles to Philade phiis to see railway engines supplied to Barce - jona and Jernsalem, Christianfa ana Riga? Ariswer me that, O British-engineer.” We Americans are intensely déemocratic. It 13 otie of our most cherished traditions, and the fact s impressed wpon us by every man who visits the country, be it for only » week. Here {s the way in which the wave struck Mr. Steevens: There appeared on. the train at Pitisburg or thereabouts & phenomenon of far more in: terest. This was Mr. McKinley’s brother. It will probably be news to most Britous that Mr. McKinley so muéh as kas a brother. Yet in the spectacie -of that brother in the smoking apartment American democracy was writ solarge as few people have the luck toseet. Fe was not unlike the pictures of the candidate. He wasstout and his trousers were tight; 8o very obviously svere his boots. 01 -his discourse it 1§ -not needfnl to speak; it was shrewd and good-humored rather than grammasical, e was' not unminaful ©of the spittoon.. He taiked quite freeiy about nis celebratea brother, and he talked to every- body -who liked to talk : with - him. ' The walters in. the diniog:car -chaffed " hini, and the conductor slapped him: on:the bsck. This morning I met him again in a Canton newspaper office. He was diverting his mind with a little larking ameng the report- ers. Now,do try to imagine: it. When: you can conceive the brother of the: man who has more than an even chance of becoming the first eltizen among sixty millfons larking with provinelal newspaper: Teporters . and slapped on the back by the conductor.of & railway trais, why; then you. will be a good step on ‘toward the comprehension of the United States of América.” A pleasant and amusing ehapter ol Mr. Bteevens’ work 18 given over to our food stuffs. ¥rom squab on ftosst 1o:littie-neck clams on shell the intrepid newspaper Correspoadent mede his way many times and. fn many cities through the maze of an American menu. - He found matter for marvel in: our varietics of edible vegotables. But it was the desserts, e writer the sweets, that finally conquered him. First, he sa. he endured, thnen he pitied, and ~lastly he embraced. . The fucculent pumpkin pie, the varieties of peach cobbler, the wonderful: cream and cocoanui to | i | of ga ew conn- not | not | | pies—nll aroused enthusiasm in his hreut.[ | multiplied a huudred fola-when he speaks- of | the American brénkfast, with fts mush and cream; its strange farinaceous: foods and gridale-cakes. - It is magnificeny, he says, but it is indigestion. “All’ the: same, he' declares, *I look forward to the day when America shall | produce an iuvention that will let me go | seross the Atlantic every morning. I shalf take a season tickel.'” But we eat far too quickly. We are & nation of dyspept And can it be wondered at? what other country -can be found that nation kaown a8 “‘quitk lunch?* Here is d food into ‘the human minimum: -of = minutes; is 10 ruin: the human minimum of years. Not u bave seen & young man barely out of his tecns surrounded by soup, fish, three meats, four vegetables, two salads, two sweets, fruits, icecream, icewater,coffee, sugar, cream, Cruets, a little jug of spoons and Wo! ester sauce, can you appreciate the fuil ror of the quiek lunch.” We should sy Tame and suburban.” Thus is the Cits of San Francisco described by the author of “The Land of the Dollar,” and then he remarks with monumental and unblushing nerye: “Here, 80 rumor says, Western freedom from aint takes & special form; it is said to be of America where you can main- mi-official wife without the least preju- dice to your position in society. ‘Many of | the fair matrons of San Franelsco,’ remarks | | the local guide-book gentaliy, ‘nave meémories | lant times at the Cliff House that e | burfed in their henrts as their greatest secrets, | The history of many a midnight revel there | I forever lieburied in oblivion.’ . Really! | in the name of truth and of our “fair rons' ” fame, sald 807 Can it be, asin an. | other case cited in this review, “it's a good | story, so let it go?” { As we have said, we consider Mr. Steevens' | work of considerably more value to the Ameri- can reader than thatof either Haweis, or that of the anonymous author of America and the Americans. With the eorrect instinets of mem- bers of his profession, Mr. Steevens has had a | keen eve to the main chance in the way of striking characterisiic and notable fea- | tures. Having seen a thing, he advances his conciusion or deduction in the main h modesty and prudence, His pen has & light touch, and he is a graphic and finished writer of description. He came to this coun- try admittedly to criticize, He remeined to admire. ‘That much {s evident from the work before us, Well would it be for us if more of hixilk came to see us in our country, to note our manners and cusioms, to receive our hos. pitality and to chronicle their opinfon of us in the same graceful manner as hss G. W. teevens in *‘The Land of the Dollar.” EMANUEL ELzas. PRESENT LITERARY TENDENCIES, Mr, P. Luftig, an Australian eritic, sums up | | 8s follows the literary teudencies of the pres- | entage in “A Ballad of Style”: | ! Having thrown aside that chiidish thing, the | simple style and luminous, | That pleased the easy-goiug folk of olden placid tand— Lot we rével 1n the technical—sidereal, bitumin. | ous; Ethersal, lezuminous, and glorions and grand. | | | | For unless you tell your stories inaweird and i wonilrous argat— i | The which no mortal ever spoke and few can | i understand— You miy lje forever damued beneath a.publisher's 2 emibargo: Yot may be indeed & ciasslc—but you won’t be | in demand. { So'we talk about the trammels that oppress the soaring mammals: We babble out a pientitude of anclent Buddhist | lore; J And we quote with ¢ase the curses of the Afghan on his camels, | we blend them in our verses and Ofl?l sketches e yermore. | |- attraction'is their newness, i will be widely and deeply regretted. Orat times we writhe and wriggle Inalingo Aber- doul i Gr froths and bubbles In the “brald auld | ttish tongue'’; Southron dare to murmur—why, we dub him “base Eezonian,” | And tell him ‘twas In “Doric” that our father, | Chaucer, sung. H w a Lincolnshire famiiy An@ wae paint Uareal Crimson and then call it Reallstic (*Give us color,” ¢ bers, or we diel’): . For:a public resrel on oleoy hasa dainiy taste | artistic, Audl s woe to pen and pencil 1 the public pass | us by, 4 the publlc, “Oye Danb | in this country was “‘Off the SEVEN TIMES SIX. To bear, 16 nurse, to rear, “H0'd the mirror up to Nature!™ cried old Alblon’s | Bt Ly ] i mighty teacher; obedient 1o his dictum, lo! we bend & rev'rent knee. Place the gliss before the beldame, eact faded then sno: beauty she - NSy | AN ESTIMATE OF LONGFELLOW. | | | Ang, bid her note To besr, 1o nurse, to rear; And on our canvas, what a | Among his own to.choose. T hear, to heed, to wed And with thy lord depart An English critic writing of Longfellow re- centiy argued that he was “‘a pleasing but not & great poet.” The New York World, admitting that the judgment of the few who pretend 10 represent the highest culture may sustain this | judgment, declares with emphasis thas it fs | uot the judgment of the English-spasking | people or of the reading veople throughout | the world. The World continues: *They declare by the hundreds of editions in many langusges through which Longfel- | low’s verse has aiready run that he comes | nearsr being ‘a world poet’ than any one [ Who has written since Byron and Goethe. The | | popular ear is seldom wrong, and it fs cer- tainly not wrong here. 1f & poet is “one who | sets truth to music,” then it 1s indisputable that Longfeilow has set more truth to better music than Any other American. - Poe among | Americans, Teanyson and Swinburaé among the Ilater English poets are better musicians, but Poe and Swinburne lack the guiding | powet of moral sense and show little or mo | appréciation of abstract truth, | “Lowell does not rank with Longféllow as s | poet, “for though his mind may liave been | ‘cuttivatea beyond that of Longfellow hisear | | for:the music of language shows its great in- | feriofity as soon as any ten lines: of his verse | are compared with iy’ ten lines of Longlel- {low. Thelike is true of Emerson; whose tn. | | tellect was greater than ‘that of either Lotig. | fellow or Lowell. Bryant aud: Holumes werg | poets primarily. because they: \ere: hataral Wiil let no longer smart, To hesr, to heed, to wed— 0 fond! O fool and blind! To God I gave with tears, My soul put by her fears. 0 fond!-0-fool atd blind! I8 hope for unknown years. To hear, to heed, to wed— Fair 1ot th Thy mother's lot, my dear, She doth in naught accuse; To love=and then 1o lose, 1 see the pool, more clear by half 18aw reflocied yestorday A'mgiden with s milking-pail that ramors of her critical condition had been fregnent. where she lived with her bachelor brother. and printed by her brothers, sisters and hersell. Four years tater came “A Story of Doom,” and in 1885 a third volumeoi her poems appeared. Iligs,” which had a great sale. To see my bright ones disappear— Drawn up like morning dews. To watch, and thea to Tose— This have I done when God drew near, In tears that hie, as soou as shed, This while thou diast I smiled, For now it was not God who said: “Mother, give me thy child.”" i But when a man like grace would find God guards in happler spheres; That man will guard where he did bind maidens choose— Thy mothet's-tenderest words are said, Thy face no more she views. Her 10t .10 baar, 10 nurse, 10 rear, { A MAIDEN WITH A MILKING-PAIL Than pools where Other waters laugh Up at the breasts of coot and rail. There, as she passed it on her way, i There, neither slowly nor 1 hasfe— The death of Miss Jean Ingelow takes from us one of the sweetest poets who ever sang in the English language. was considered by many to be worthy of the laureateship, and if there had been any precedent for a woman receiving that honor it is probaale that the only bar in_the way of her having it would have been ber own modesty. She had long before ber death ceased todo any important literary work, but she was so well beloved for what she did years ago that her decease Itisto be hoped that her passing away will cause a revival of interest in her writings, for the time sonsumed m reading them will be more profitably spent than in searching through many volumes whose only Some of her other novels are* John,” *“Poor Mat,” *Mopsa’* and “*A Sister's By-Hours,” ~Below will be found saniples of her verse: One hand upon her slender waist, The ather lofled to her patl— She, rosy in the morning light, Among the water daisies white Like some {air sloop appeared to sail. She Jean Ingelow died on the 218t of July at the age of 67. She was born in Boston, Lincolnshire, England, and belonged to ince last October she had been suffering from a serious iliness, and long before that had been feeble, so For yearsshe had made her home in a little cottage in Kensington, Her love of naturallife was indicated by the fact that she had a conservatory twice the size of her davelling. She had a fancy for turning her birds out. among the flowers and there would sit and write under the inspiration of their joyous notes: Jean Ingelow wrote verses in childhood, and her first work appeared in a little periodical which was published, edited Her first important work, “Poems by Jean Ingelow,”” was published in 1863, The most popular of her novals "ated to Be Free," “Don Against her ankles as she troa Tuie lucky buttercups did nod. 1 leaned upon the gate to see; The sweet thing looked, but did not speak. Adimple came in eitner cheek, And all my heart was gone from me. 1said, “A tale was made of old That I would fain (0 thee uni Abl let me—let me tell the tale.” But high she held her comely he ] cannot heed it now,” she said, “For carrying of the milking-pail.” | With happy youth and work content, So sweet and stately, on she went, Right careless of the untold tale, Each step she took I loved her more, Aad followed to her aairy-door The maiden with the milking-patl, And when the west began to glow, I went—I could no: choose but go— To that same dairy on the hill; And while sweet Mary moved about Within, I came to her without, And leaned upon the window-sill. The garden border where I stood ‘Was sweet with pinks and southernwood. 1 spoke—her answor scemad to fail. 1 smelt the pinks—I could not see. The dusk came down and sheltered me, And in the dusk she heard my tale. 0 life! how dear thou hast become! She luughed at dawn and I was dumb, But-evening counse!s best prevail. Fair shines the blue that o’er her spreads, Green be the pastures where ghe treads, The maiden with the milking-pail. | musicians with.a kéen sense of al thatwas | | vesutiful, but neither in music nor in the | | bréadin of tneir syinpathy for humanity can they rank with Longlellow. Whittier comes nearest to him in both. Tried by the severést ccanons of music Longlellow's ‘verse does ot fail, His art is highest where his verse fg simplest. “That is one test of ilie great poet, The supreme and fioal test, above - al tests of | power in literary art ‘and ‘in music, is that of breadth of humian sympatny, and (here, too, Longfellow is justificl by his work. He s greater there than Tennyson, because he fs OPPOSED TO ALL PARTIES. 3 3 S By Tes. A eaciphias T, B Lippiston Com: pany. Price 50 cenis. 3 s : A €aliforpiawriter has very forcefully ar- raigned the evlls of partisan politics in:these ‘pAges, but inslead of -gdvocaing internal re- form in each of the parii(s e arguesTor the aweeping chapge of doing &way with political parties altogeiber, ~His method of doing this wouid be by prohibitive legislation: any man brosder (han Tennyson. He is our ‘greas American poet—the only one as. yet. Pge alone might have been greater, but certainly was not,” e i “Tug Quest of the. Giit-Edged Girl” at Doxey’s. * o Thie Continental Publishing Company have in press ‘‘Through the Invisible,” a mystic tale, by Paul Tyner. e ——— “PariEnce Sparhawk’ at Doxey's. * elected -by. party organizetion could be.pre- vented from takinghis office by appeal to the ‘couris, -Itmay salely be-predicted ‘that. the plan_is too Utopian to work. Combdination and: organization ‘are . meécessary ' 10 - carry through grest: measu There fa ¥nuch of evil in party methods, but the plan-is not harmiul per se. The book is good in so far as it shows that reforms aré meeded in order :hlneonum for poiitioal power might be more air. - E = “Tue Choir Invisible’ at Doxey’s, = * BOTANY FOR HOUSEKEEPERS. HOUSE PLANTS AND HOW TO SUCCEED WITH THEM-By Lizsie . Page Hilihouse, New York: A. 7. dé Ila_ Mare Printing and Publishing Uompany. Price § Mrs. Hillhouse has written this book for.the tmany: thousands of women who, although they haye no conservatory or hothouse, could yet make their -homes more attractive with begutitul house flowers it they knew liow to properly oare for them. She gives the knowl- edge acquiréd by exverience and says she has succeedea in cosxing the dainty ‘plants to grow under the most seemingly unfavorable | circumstances. The little volume is-profusely iHustrated. T, Y. Crowsli & Co. announce for publica- an English translation by Isabel F. Hap- g00a of the Polish movel by Mme, Marguerite Poradoswaks entitlod ‘Demotselie Micta.* “History - ¢t Our Qwn P .- MoCarrHY's Times." Doxey's. FOR MOTHERS. TR Chatorto W ustoman. Chicago and New ioite W, A n Yok Miand, MoNally & 00, e Gt As an example of how a good woman can through ignorance completely fail in develop- ing her daughter into useful and hxppy womanhood this history of Dodd’s sister will prove Imost instructive. Butalthough it is the intention of the author to place the. biame of the unfortunate evolution tupon the lack of parental wisdom _(he - feader. will be inclined to tnink that® no pos- sible trajuing could have made much of: such & nature as the Kirl - possessed. The lesson impressed is the need of cordial in- timacy and plain speaking between mother and daughter, so thatthe truths of life. ‘may. ‘be learned from pure instead of vulgarsources. There is nothing to the story considered as fiction; its didactic purpose could as well have been fulfilled by an essay on falde modesty. —— B " Krrrixa's “The Seven Seas' at Doxey’s.* HERE AND THERE. To parody a famous line of Matthew Arnold’s, says the London Daily Chronicle, Zola may be said to see life steadily and see- it vile. Ian Maciaren says that Harold Frederie is the American writer mostin favor in England justnow. A few months ago Stephen Crane was the one. The Bookman understands that Thomas Hardy, who has been aiscouraged by the per sistent misconception of many readers and crities, intends toabandon the problems raised in his later novels and to resort to his earlier mauner: His new work is now nearly com- pleted, but it will not be published for some time. That George 8mith, the senior partner in the great publishing-house of Messrs. Smith, Elger & Co., cares more for literature on & iarger scale than for the sums of money in- volved in lts adequate but unremunerative production, is evident from the fact, whicn is now for the first time made public, that the “Dictionary of National Biography,” the most important and voluminous work of the kind ever published anywhere, is published at his own personal cost. “My first book,” said Mr. Zangwill, “wasa romance of school life which, written in two copybooks, circulated gratuitously in the schoolroom and pleased our youthful imag- inatiof with teacher-baiting tricks we had not the pluck tocarry out in the actual. Isball always remember that story, because after meking the tour of the class, it was returned to me with thanks ana a new first page, from which all my graces of style had evaporaied. Indignant inquiry discovered the criminal— ne sdmitted he had lost the page and bhad re- written 1t from memory.” i Cruikshank drawings are now in keen de- mand with American collectors. One Amer- ican has instructed his sgent in London to buy any likely specimens that come ofi the market. The work of Leech and Doyle is also being collected, and it need not neces- sarily be the originals. As to first editions of English writers, Dickens perhaps is held in most regard by Americans. Alter him come Tennyson, Thackeray and Charles Lever; but, indeed, any interesting first edition finds a good market. The quantity of literary trophies sent across the Atlantic from London in the course of a year is surprising. The French physician, Dr. Toulouse, who not long ago explained Zola's literary power &s the resuit of a peculiar combination of liver and skin, has covered the whole ground in a lecture on ““Tne Nervous System of Art- | ists,” lately published in Paris. Recognizing the fact that a creative {magination is usually dependent upon nervous excitement Dr. Tou- louse warns arusis and writers against the idea that they can produce thisexcitement artificially. “If you have not by nature the requisite nervous endowinent you cannot make up for it by a free use of alcohol, coffee, absinthe, morphine, chloral or antipyrine.” An author resorting to any of these stimu- lants when imagination flagsis in great dan- ger, affirms Dr. Toulouse, of *‘proancing effects quite contrary to those he seeks.” Tne dose which is exc.ling in the case of & writer be- comes only soporific in the case of the reader. “The Chap-Book’” makes & wise suggestion in regard to some of the great libraries of America, namely, that theéy retire the rusty old law apainst the use of {nk at the desks in their reading-rooms. The point is well taken. Nothing is more exasperating, as “The Chap- book'' says, than to be forced to make one’s extracts from s book in pencil and then copy them out at home in ink. - The greater number of those using ‘he important reading - rooms are men and women of education and good manners. Thev cau be trusted with pen and ink. They will not ruin the books, the desks or the floor. In the libraries of Europe inkis supplied for use, and no one ever heard of their being in a state of uncleanliness as a result. We believe the Congressional Library has fnkwells and pens on the desks of ite reading-room. If not, it ought to get them &t once and set the pace for the rest of the country. It is’ time the blunt and maddening lead pencil was banished. An interviewer recently asked Richard Wat- son Gilder whether every manuscript that comes to the cifice of the modern magazine was opened and read. )" Teplied ‘the editor of the Century. ““With us every article which is not especially ordered by the aditors i read, and somet!mes reread, before it is submitted to the chief ed- itors. We havea nimber of readers, and an article is sometimes read by five different per- sons before it is aécepted. In some cases the article may be of such a character that the first reader sees thet it will not do for the magazine, and it goes no- farther. Articles that are ordered especially by us geaerally come to the editors without the examination of other readers. But at times the chief ed- itors themselves are the first to 1ook over the new manuscript.” “Can a man hope to meke a living by writ- ing for the magazines, Mr, Gilder?” the inter- viewer asked. “A number of persons are now doing s0,” ‘was the reply. A curious stoty is told of the late Professor Sylvester. He was traveling by coach in an out-of-the-way part of England and at one station, as he sat {n the vehicle weiting to de- part, two villagers approached. One mounted Dbeside the professor and as het friend turned to retrace her steps the latter said: “Good-by, Mrs. Harris!” Professor 8ylvester was the last man in the world to let a good opportunity slip by and as the coach drove off he called out, “Good-by, Mrs. Gamp.” The driver turned with amazement and said: “I thought you said you knew no one here? How did you know that Iady’s name was Gamp?’ This tale is vougched for.. jpecta- “In my old conveyanc- ing days 1 oncé had an abstract to peruse relating to someé property in a southern gounty (Hampshire, I think), which contained the names of 10 less than three of the person- ages in the ‘Plckwick Papers,’ ‘Pickwick’ it- self and, 1 think, ‘Tupman’ and ‘Winkie.” I eould not doubt that the deed in question must heve passed through Dickens’ hands when he was i1 & solicitor’s office and that he had ‘noted -the. names for use. So, I should thiok, with ‘Gamp’ and ‘Harris.’ * Ina very interesting book just issued, *The Private Life of {he Queén, by One of Her Servants,” - some particulars are given of what the Queen reads and whatshe lias read. Her Majesty is a great admirer of Scott, the works sheltkes best being “The Antiquary,” “The Talisman'' and “Peveril of the Peak.” ©Of Scott’s poems she is exceedingly fond, and she possesses: & copy of them with his own emendations ot them on the margin. The Queen’s. sdmitation for 8cott's work has, i is o stated, induced her 1o have one:room ‘at Balmoral entirely decorated with -scenes from his. poems and works, Amoug other authors of which the Queen thinks highly is Jane Austen. A few of Lord Beaconefleld’s works she keeps beside her, and 8 haandsome copy of “Lothair” gontains the inscription, *¥or the Queen, from ‘s faithful servant.” Edna Lyatl's works, many of R. L. Btevenson’s ‘romances, Rudyard Kipling’ stories, mearly all Mrs.. Oliphant’s novels, Rider Haggard's “Ehe,” “Jess” and “Handley Cross,” two_full editions of Dickens' works, inciuding the last published edition de lyxe, and many other works, are all conspicuous on her Majesty’s bookshelves. ——— “ERETCHES in Lavender, Blue and Green:” Doxey's. * LITERARY NOTES. L.:C. Pege & Co., Boston, have just issued Ouida’s latest novel entitled “Muriella. A new editien of I!Tc_nlrd Harding Davis’ “Cuba in Wartime” is apnounced by R h. Russell. Mark Twaln's forthcoming book, due about Christmas, is to be called *‘The Surviviag Inno~ cent Aproad.” Itis true, he says, that other members of the party who left America in the Quaker City some twenty-eJght years agoare still living, but he is the only one who has re mained innocent. Mr. Hall Caine’s new novel, ‘‘The Chris- tian,” will be published in Engiaud on Au- gust 7. The first edition is to consist of 50,000 coples. Messrs, Appleton have not yet announced the size of their first edition, but thers is no reason why it should not*be as large as that of “The Manxman,” Mr. Edward Arnold’s mew. announcements include *British Central Atrica,” by Sir Harry Johnston, with over 200 {llustrations and six maps; *Old English Glasses,” the account of glass drinking-vessels in England from the early times to the end of the eighteenth cen- tary, on whieh Mr. Albert Hartshorne has been at work for many years; and “An African Millionaire,” a new novel, by Graut Allen, The London Athengum in its issue for July 3 publishes a series of articles on the literature of the Continent for the twelve months ending in June. Belgium 1s treated by Professor. Fredericq, Bohemia by Protessor Tille, Den- mark by Dr. A. Ipsen. France by M. J. Reinach, Germany by Hofrath Zimmermann, Greece by. Prolessor Lambros, Holland by M. Crommelin, Hungary by M.L. Katscher, Italy by Com- mendatore Giacosa. Poland by Dr. Belcikow- ski, Russia by M. L. A. Bogdanovitch and Spain by Don Rafael Altamira. Messrs, Longmans, Green & Co.'s recent publications include “Cromwell’s Place in History,” by S. R. Gardiner; *The Victorian Era,” by P. A. Graham; and “Victoria, Queen and Empress: The Sixty Years,” by Sir Edwin Arnold, reprinted from the Daily Telegraph. They announce for immediate publication, *What the Gunvowder Plot Was: A Reply to Father Gerard” and. Vol. il of A History of Ith and Protectorate,” by S. and ““Croquet: Its History, Rules by Arthur Lillie. and Secrets, Mr. John Lane will publish another parody of one of his own books, *The Questof the | Gilt-Edged Girl,” by Richard de Lyrienne, i will be issued in the Bodiey Booklets, of which series Max Beerbohm’s “Happy Hypocrite’ was the original volume. The same publisher will bring out in his little bookle: Embassa- dor John Hay’s speech at the unveiliag of the Scott bust fn Westminster Abbey; “A Child in the Tem) by Frank Mathew; ana “The Stepmother,”” a novel, transiated from the modern Greek of Gregory Xenopoulos, by Mrs. Edmoncs. Messrs. G. P. Putnam’s Sons’ first announce- ments of early {all publications include *John | Marmaduke,'” a story of Ireland in the days of Cromwell, by 8, H Church; “Life of Ambroise | Pare,” by Stephen Page!, with illustrations irom Pare’sown worksand from contemporary | sources; * “Some Colon‘al Homesteads and Their Stories,” by Marion Harland; ‘‘Impres- sions of Turkey During Twelve Years' Wander- ings,” by Professor W. M. Ramsey; “The Story a chapter of early American history, by Rev. S H. Cobb; “Cnronicies of Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow,” a history and guide-book, by E. M. Bacon; and “The Fall of the Sparrow,” a novel, by M. C. Balfour, The new Amsterdam Book Company an nounces for immediate issue “The Story of an African Crisis,” by F, E. Garrett, 11,000 copies of which were sold in Lonaon on the day of its publication there; *‘The Preaching of Istam,” by I. W. Arnold, an acconnt of the spread of Mohammedanism through mission- Aty methods; and “Pacific Tales,” by Louls Becke, the well-known writer of South Sea stories, This house has postponed tilieariy {fall the issue of the volume of heretofore unpublished sketches and articles by Dickens, to which Frederick Kitton, the well-known authority on Dickensiana, will contribute an introduction. Henry Holt & Co. announce for immediate publication: “Chrestomathie Francaise,”” & French reader, with phonetic transcriptions, and an introduction on the ‘‘Phonetic Method,” by Proféssor A. Rambeau of Johns Hopkins, and Professor Jeau Passy of Paris; also seven of Sainte-Beuve's “Causerfes du Lundi,” - inciuding the famous ‘'Qu’est-ce qu'un classique,” in one volume, with intro- duciion and footnotes by Professor George M. Harper of Princeton. They will issue at-the same time new editicns, with vocabularies of Goethe's “Hermann und Dorothea,” edited by Professor Calvin Thomas of Columbia, and of Riehl's “Der Fluch der Schonhell,” edited by the late Professor F. L. Kendall of Williams. G. P. Putnam’s Sons have just ready the sev- enth edition of the useful volumeentitled “Au- thors and Publishers, & Manual of Suggestions for Beginners in Literature,’” comprising a de- scription of publishing methiods and mrrange- ments, directions for tne preparation of manu- soripts for the press, explanations of the. de- tatls of book manufacturing, instructions for proof-reading, specimens of typography, the 1ext of the United States copyright law and {nformation concerning intersiational copy- rights, together with general hintg for au- thors, by George Haven Putnam and J. Bishop Putnsm, The work has been rewritten and much new material has been added, so that the manual will be of use to the bookmaker ss well ag author. They have also just raady s novel by Annette Lucile Noble, entitled “The Professor's Dilemma.” We seé that the Macmillan Company Is ¢on- tinuing {ts list of books of value: to the stu- dent of geology, mineralogy, ete., for it an- nounces as in press a translation of Dr, Behnable’s Handbook of Metallurgy, a work familiar to all students of the subject as the best work on metallurgy at present extant. 1t 18 fully up to date and thoronghly good, as might be expecied from the high reputation of the suthor. The translator fis Profescor Henry Louls, author of & woik ofi Gold Miii ing, slso published by the Macmilian Com- pany. His English version of Dr. fchnabl book wili be looked for the moro eagerly as there js at present only one treatise on: mels lurgy in our language which canat atl com- pare with this and it s both inferior and somewbat out of date. The author has visited this country and pays a very considerable tention to work which has been done in differ- ent parts of the United States, The Frederick A. Btokes Company have in preparation a sequel to ‘‘Courage,” an inter- esting book for young veople, by Ruth Ogden (Mrs. Charles W. Ide of Brooklyn). The iorth- coming book will' be entitled “Little Home~ spun,” and will be illustrated by Mabel Humphrey, the sister of Maud Humphrey, the well-known artist. They 8is0 Announce a uses ful book to be entitled, “An Emergency Roll.” 1t will congist of simple rules to be foliowed in case of aceident, while awaiting the arrival of & physician, and will be comptied by a teained nurse of wide experience. Itis to be printed on large sheets of paper, fastened to- gether upon & roll, 5o that it cau hang upon wall of a country or city house, and can be referred to at a moment’s notice in case of sunstroke, hoemorrnages, culs, burns,drowning accidents, bites of dogs, ete. It {8 to contain numerous disgrams, which will be of asviste ance in many emergencies S——— “Susax’s Escort ara Others.’”” Doxey's, *