The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 5, 1897, Page 23

THE SAN =RANCISCO CALL UNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1897. 23 T MAY be reparded as an axiom that whenever a man, no matter how scholarly he may be or what experi- ence he may bring to his work, at- tempts to cast doubt upon matters and things which have for centuries been accepted as truths, he will be met withone of three things—ridicule, censure or quer ing retort, and P ofessor Amos K. Fiske's “'Myths of Israel” is apt to be greeted by o1l of thes: In hislatest published work Professor Fiske has taken up for analysis the Book of Genesis, the first of the Pentateuch. He maintains that modern critical research into the char- acter of the ancient Scriptures leaves no reasonable doubt that the Book of Genesis ‘‘a composite production, made up largely of myths and fragments of myths embodying the conceptions of the earliest writers of Tsrael regardinz the relations of that people to their Deity Looked at in this light, it certainly derives a new interest and significance, but whether “a rersistence in the oid view of its orizin and meaning is in « from reverence to der that is (and we say it with all due respect to t learned professor) a subjec. for question. I'he value of such 2 work as the one un- der review dep s yery much upon the reader into whose hands 1t is likely to To the peace-loving and church- going laym unversed theological controver:y, its stateme will not be taken in the spiritn which they are of- this is but nataral. Is it a man having grown to years and having studied “the wo of this law,” rather than its inter- pr tion, should in a moment, at the Lidding of an erudite igher Criticism, forsake that which ha been ingrained into him, into his father nd into his father’s father? Now let Protessor Fiske place his book hands of the theologzian to whom be Bible as it stands serves as a shield nd a buckler. Profess Fiske advances e theory that Abraham, Iseac and Jacob fered. And likel t discretion d cf among the Israelites, but among tions round about. The obvious v to him will be, How do you know? i the question is a poser. It proved so to Richard Simon, to Ewald, to Reuas, to Lenormant, and finally to nest Ren: In England this seli-same matter proved a veritable hornet’s nest to Bishop Colenso and Professor William Robertson Smith, whose deposition from the chair of He- brew at Aperdeen was lamented as a speci- men of intolerance toward the Higher Criticism and its aavocates. Professor Fiske approacnes his subject thoroughly equipped mentally and by study. His recognized scholarship and standing guarantee that whatsoever his hand finds to do will be done with all his ht, By his own claim, his is no time- ng work. He is absolutely independ- t of creed ect, and if for this reason ! to set forth for the com- mon understanding ‘“‘the view of the Oid Testament which modern knowledge jus- tifies,”” is worthy of attention. The author of “The Myths of Israel” is clearly a believe the truth of Goethe’s observation “‘only clods are modest,” and one of the main characteristics of the work is ity freedom from reservation, its configent method of advan dicta, its positiy ness. One need look no f than the title to confirm tte truth of this statement. Itistoo brilliant, too large. We quote a recent writer in the Critic on the subject: No doubt, Isrsel had mytk ) of them cons ¢ elements in both the ic codexes of the Hexateuch. a slight reaction in high d men are getling cautious. 1f Mr. Fiske by his deseriptive of th Y dde end find tic and There are mixed with fi butif he means ction he 1s perhaps aceur: the looser sense of & pure fabr: allegori- cal, paraoolic, for the purpose of influenc- ing religiousand political formations, he wiil m the soberest schol Sound critical scholarship no long Moses #nd the Exodus are mytbical. The ologicel method of deducing myths has cdged tool. It isnothing shocking not have with} says that keness of th m, msan, and rom the mah, earth, to side of Adam was caused by the simtlari; tbe word Issah, woman, to Is, man. But when it comes tu deriving Moses from the story of t zon, beceuse of a0 imaginary ctymology, we rebel. “Divine revelation,” says Professor Ficke, “*has not been confined to one age or to one peop'e, and it never employed human elements and human agencies with more effect than at present.”” This sratement may of course be accepted as the manife:to not only of the iearned | author of the work under review, but as well of most who approach the testaments in the light of nineteenth century scholar- ship and criticism. The slogan is not a new one, but again the fact must be em- phasized that it will in many directions fall upon ears that are rnheedinz and deaf, and it is to be feared that, notwith- standing Professor Fiske’s avowed inde- pendence zs far as the church body iscon- cerned, his claim of sincerity of purpose | and a desire to serve the cause of truth | only will be accepted with skepticism. Nevertheless our author is fully pre- yared to zccord a hearing to such as have derived their knowledge of cosmogony and of the events recorded in tue first book of the Pentateuch from traditional sources, and with those who recognize in these events the finger of the Deity inter- posed directly or through the medium of human beings he has no quarrel. He acknowledges a divine element in all humanity, a divine energy working in all human history as it wrought in ihe develop- ment of the physical universe before human history began. He has no doubtot adivine power in the mighty ethical and religious de- velopment of the ancient Hebrews, in the beautiful esthetic development of the ancient Greeks, in the development of the capacity for organization and government of the ancient Romaus, and in the combination and inter working of these factors under the blending influence of Christianity in modern eciviliza- tion. Egqnally divine to his mind is the ex- tension of knowledge through science, re- search, reasoning and philosophy in these Jatter times, correcting the errors of the past and clearing the eternal verities from the in- crustations of ignorance and superstition. A notable and valuable feature in “The Myths of Israel” is to be found in the separation of passages that belong to the Jehovistic and those appertaining to fl:el £ of sinking it | sion” is a matter | advocate of the | common names of personages | ther | of the making of Eveirom the | y of | Elohistiz portion of tre Eer pture. For the information of the lay reader itshould be explained that the term Etohistic is ap- plied to cerlain passages in the Penta- teuch in which the Deity is spoken ol in | the Hebrew text as Elohim. These verses ! are supposed by some to have been wr.t- | ten at an earlier period than the passages | in which he is called Jehovah or Yahveh. | It may be recognized that the Elonistic paragrarhs are, as a general rule, simpler jand more primitive in their characacter than the Jehovistic. Thus: Genesis is Elohistic, and Genesis ii:21-24 Jeho- vistic. If it be not presumptuous we may be | permitted to point out one instance in !which Professor Fiske faits to establish { his case, plansible asit may sound to the student unacquainted with the letter and | the spirit of the Hebrew text. In chapter xxxii, headed “Judah and His Family,” we find the somewhat start- ling theory advanced that the episode of “Judah and Tamar appears much more | like a satire upon “Judah and the Houss of Divid” than like history. The paral is drawn with a show of reason that is | plausibility 1tself. *“The first offspring of David and Bathsheba,” says Professor Fiske, “di d in consequence of divine anger, as does the first born of Judah and Bathshua. The lettars of the name i Hebrew spelled backwsrd mean T Now this toying with philology does not | constitute legitimate criticism. Its basic principle is fanlty, and the etymological method of deducing facts, as is pointed out by the writer quoted elsewhere, has proved an edged tool. It is worthy of an imaginative Oriental to deduce from the word VAYISHAKEHU ir Genesis xxxiii:4, a reference to the Hebrew original of the | words, “Is not ke rightly named Jacob, | for he bhath 2. adopt a suit of the truth which Professor Fiske claims is the object of the Higher Criti- | cism is, to say the least, extremely dan- gerous, We append the conclusions which Pro- fessor Fiske takes as established beyond further dispute. They serve to indicate | the scope of the voiume before The first six books of the Old Testament— the Pentateuch and the Book of Josbua, or the Hexate: which embody the ancient cove- nants and the Jewish law, were put into their { present forw after the return from the exile in Babylon, when the Levitical system of the second temple was developed. Th 4 con-titutes the bulk of the ts of which are reiteruted sxodus and scattered a, wus then form- en somewhat crudely into the old narratives the early history of the veople, which were modified and adapted for chap- passages in teronomy, whic’ supplanted me—,” but to considerabl Tre Book of De cluded in th. .’ contained the *h was put in form and which tended to primitive o was used es of marrative for the entire tem of prescriptions and requirements and aws and ord| e for restored Judaism, ch it was the special purpose of the priests rate. This sacred histor; in the time of Hezekiah, and near the end ot ¥ B.C., mainly from two older versions, of which hed been p duced in the Northern Kingdom and the ot atJeruselem from half & century to a century b This material constitutes the bulk of book of Genesis mnd the first part of Exodus, and is traceable in fragments through the other books, was i mework EMANUEL Evrzas, ARTISTIC. | = IN THE TRACK OF THE BOOK-WORM—By | ¢. fast Aurora, New Yorx: The ting Shop. $2. | Chat about book-collecting and collectors by one who Lies bibliomania himself is sure to be interesiing to book-lovers, aud in this case it is given o airily and wittily that it will in- terest the generel reader also and be very apt to have a proselytizing effe2t upon those who are not book-worms. The book under review aboundsin fair thoughts and amusing fan- cies, With scraps of history and anccdotes sbout books, aud with gentle suggestions of what is good taste in selecting rare volume and in binding and arranging them. Int spersed with the sage prose there is & great deel of verse with many quaint twists 1o 1t. The author maintains that whatever may be the faults of the book-worm he is always guileless never has to hasten away to Canada es & result of his conduct. He scems inciined to regard women as among tne ene- Pric mies of books. He states that book coilectors have to father their treasures surreptitiously for fear th fair despots would consider themselves roubed of their bonnets and gloves by the price ot the books. A complaint is lodged agaitst booksellers, who, says Mr. Browne, & book-worm ata glance and let him browse around among the shelves without officious offers of help to find what he wents. The volume is most artistically printed and bound at Eibert Bubbard's shop, which turns jout work unique and attractive enough to tempt one to reed cven a dull author. The edition is limited to 590 copies, and each copy | is numbered ana signed. i b 3 HOOD’S FIRST POEM, The first poem publishe eppeared in the Dundee Magazine in June, 1815. It was called “Sabbath Morning,” and 1s said never to have b.en included in any edi- tionof Hood’s works. The lines are as follows: by Thomas Hood How few of all this hurrying crowd Who press 10 reacn the Louse of prayer, Who seek the tem e of their Geod, Seek him whose spirit hovers there! See yon demure and pious maid, She surely shows devoiion true; In robes of purity arrayed, Her bonnet, not her heart, is new! ‘To yonder heaving bosom turn, Which swells with silei: rapiurs big] With sacred zeal her heart must bur) AN! trace thccoquette’s giancing eye! That grave and s ately sage, Indeed, His thoughts must b2 on heaven intent; But heaven, perhaps, In him may read A ponderiug wisa for cent per cent With nimble steps and ea._er Laste That pious you:h with pleasu:e view, Who fears & single momen.’s waste— His footsteps yonder fair pursue. Yet who shall dare presume to raise A din of censure, better grudge Take, then, ihe mortal of my lays: And juige not that ye be no: judged. OLD-TIME ADVERTISEMENTS. WHEREAS MANY PERSONS ARE S0 UN- FORTUMNATE ASTO LOSE THEIR Fore-Teeth by Accident, snd otherways, 1o their great Deirl- ment, not only in Looks, but Speaking bo.h in Fublic and Private:—This isto inform all such, that the7 may have them replaced with artificial Ones, that Jooks as well as the Natural & answers imilar method in the sober pur- | er | should teach their clerks 1o recogn ze | { BY A PACIFIC COAST WRITER. [ — | FROM THE LAND OF NOW_ P RLS—By | " Ella Higgicson. New York; The Macmilan | Companv. Forsieby Wiilliam Doxey, Palace | Hoiwel Price$150. The land referred to in this title is that | around Puget Sound, where, ‘‘shining through | their rose-colored mists like pearls upon the ! | soft blue or green of the sky are linked the | great snow mountains, so beautiful and so | { dear, that those who iove this land with a proud and passionats love have come to think | of it, fondly and poetically, as ‘The Land of | the Snow Pearls’ The book consists of a dozen short stories, ten of which have ap- peared before in the leading magazines. They | are about the lives of country people znd are " | { | | told in aialect. | Residents of the Pacific Coast may with | justice feel proud of these aiditions to its literary product. They are strong, interesting | | and full of humor. They will be not only en- | | tertaining, but heart-enlarging to every | reader who will sympathetically follow the | i | author in her delineation of these eccentric- | Sha takes a large view of | 10-lav. IGGINSON. ities, faults and beauties of human nature. Mrs. Higginson's characters are so natural that they seem to be studies from real life, and they move the reader with a feeling that is a strange mixture of mirth and sadness. life and makes us see some of the pettinesses of human nature without meking us despise i, and she enlarges our knowledge and sympathies by showing us a greatness and goodness in a classof people that saperfietal observation would have set down us commonplace, yulgar or meun. Per- | haps the most fruittul sermons for good are those which are delivered to us through the medium of art, and they become to us more like tbe lessons of personsl exparience then lectures formally given for aidactic pur- poses Perhaps the best tale in the dozen is tha called “A Point of Knuckling Down.” Itre lates the somewhat tragic struggle for supre- between a young wife and her mother- The husband and his mother and the new wife and her mother are the principal persons in this little drams and the portrayel of each one is a masterpiece. The husband is distracted with the quarrels of his bride and his mother, both of whom he dearly loves, and being poor he wishes to have them both make tneir home with him. The women are at once vulgar and mean, spiteful and kind- | bearted. How this mixture is possible we are | enabled to realize throngh the author's skili and the gradual development of their lives must be read in the story in order to appre- ciate her art in this way. A beautiful life lesson is entertainingly con - veyed in “‘Patience Appleby’s Conlessing Up,"’ in which is cleverly ilustrated how certain self-righteous people of modern times fail to see the application to their particular case of the teaching of the great Nazarene, “Let him who is without sin cust the first stone.’” Iu1s seldom that one comes across a colles- tion of short stories of such uniform excel- ence. They can be commended to readers everywhere, butespecially should Californians give appreciative attention to the work of a writer near their own door, when it rivais the est thatthe leading magazines of the country can procure. the End of Speaking to all Intents, by PAUL RE VERE, Goldsmith, near the Head of Dr. Clarke’s Wharf, Boston. 'his quaint advertisement, which appeared in the Boston Gazctte of December 19, 1763, | serves 10 show that Mr. Revere was a man va: j rious and versatile. It appears that his bu ness was not solely to be a revolutionary hero, to take exciting midnight rides and warn the | Lexington minutemen, but that in his odd | moments he carried on the more lucrative | trades of goldsmith and dentist. His occupa- tion as a handicraftsman in precious metals has long been known, but the landlord who sald, *Listen, my children, and you shall | hear,” did not give the wide-eyed young peo- pie the interesting details in regard to Paul’s dental work. In fact, his skill in this regard might never have been known Led he not conceived the rare value of advertisivg. In these end-of-the-century days no brancho! | business has shown more development and diversification than advertising, The prob- lem how to let the world know what wares you have to offer it, either in brains, stcam engines, soap, real estate or butter and eggs, | has been & burning one eversince Noah sent Shem, Ham and Japbeth out in the world to | shift for themselves. Men have always had to | solve the problem in &bout the same way—by modestly prociaiming their merits from the | housetops; and the only reason that adver- | tising in these times has assumed such pro- | digious proportions is that there are millions | { more men, they have infinjtely more things to ; offer and use vastly more words in which to | say so. The successful advertiser has always been the man that adopts methods so startling as to catch theeye of the casual cbserver. And with all due respect 10 the $10,000-a-year ad- vertisement writers of the present age, it | seems that the advertisers of the last century had a fciching and atiractive style thatit would be bard to equal now. Look, for in- stance, at this touching and ingenious tribute {0 Brechus that apeared in & Baltimore paper in 1788: “IN GOOD WINE THERE IS TRUTIL" THE ROSY GOD, ever attentive to the wants and wishes of his votaries here below, has for their use deposited In the hands of the subscriber (one of his oldest tspsters) some of his CHOICEST GIFTS, the best Procuce of various Vintages. Such exhilarating Beverage as, 0f 0ld, cheered the Hearts of Gods and Men. The Publick’s most obiiged and devoted Servant. THOMAS HEPBURN, Baltimore. April 11, 1788. Some people say nowadays that they read the hundred odd pages of advertising in the maugazines before they read the articles, and the advertising columrs of some of the old colonial periodicals must have possessed equal interest. How would this do for & dime museum? CURIOUS LIVING ANIMALS. MR. GILBERT informs the Pablic that he has purchesed, at considerable expense, a Collection of Living Animais, harmless aud playfal. A large Batoon, which is allowed to be the most curious Animal of its kind ever seen in A merica. A Porcuplue, Bear, Rackoon and Rabbitt, which are also very great curlosities, The Coilection may be seen every day (except Sundays) from 4 o'clock in the afternoon unuil | sunset, at the Granary, Head of the Mall, Foston, | Admittance Nine pence for Lidies and Gentlemeny and balf price for Chiidren. —Columbian Centinel, May 12, 1798. Or with this from the Essex Gazette in 1773, in the days b2fore there were a thousand hair- restorers on the market to bring back to the “most important Heads” (as Mr. Lang says herewith) the curling locks of youth: WILLIAM LANG, Wig-Maker and Hslr-Dresser, Hereby informs the Public, that he has hired a { Heads, whether | Headstoany Pitch they desire, Person from EUROPE, by whose assistance ha is now in the several branches of his busi- ness, to serve his good ‘customers, and all others, in the most genteel and polits Tasie thal are at presest in Fashion In England and America. In particular, WI1G % mude in any mode whatever, such as may grace snd become the most Impor.aut ose of Judges, Divioes, Lawyers or Physicians; together with all those of an in. ferior Kin1, 5o 83 exactly to sult their respective Occupazions and Indlinations. HALL DRESSING, for La‘issand Gentle- men performed in the most elegan: and newest Taste, Ladles, in a pariicular Manner, sh be attended to, In the nice, easy, genteel and polite Construc- | tend 1o rais» their also + rench Curls, made 1n the neatest Manner. He gives cash for Har. When it comes down to the matter of books it must be acknowledged that the lists of pub- tion of ROLLS, such as may | lications that our publishers announce are somewhat more attractive than those fresh from the presses before the Revolution. this one from the Boston Gazette in 1767: THIS DAY PUBLISHED Persons of F N Concerning frequenting of Plays, Balls, Assembiler, Caid-Tables, @c., which is introduced the character of LUCINDA, Printed and sold by W. Mcalpine, in Marlboro'- street. A Pamphict worthy the Serious Attention of every Christian especially a: a Time when Vice and Immorality seems to have an Ascendancy over Heligion, and the Prince of the Power of the Alrreigns with almost an untroubled Restraint. in Or this one from the Massachuseits Gazette in 1774, which seems fairly to bubble over with cheerfulness: A BOOK WHICH UrON PERUSAL Recommends itself. and which it fs only necessary 10 read to approve; extremely proper to be given at funerals or any other solemn occasion, being wriiten expressly with that intention. THIS DAY WAS PUBLISHED (Price 2s Lawiul Money By Themas Levere:t, Nicholas Bowes and Henry Knox in Cornhill, REFLECITONS on DEATH, By WILLIAM LODD, LL.D. Prebendary of srecon and Chaplain in Ordinary 1o his Mejesty. It 13 appoluted once for all men to dle, but after this the judgment. —Heb 1x:27. THE FIFTH EDITION, A desire of extending the very laudable prac- tice of glving books at funerals, and the great pro- priety of the present wors for that purpose, have induced the editors to put this valuable perform- ance one-hird cheaper than the London edition, althougn it 13 by no means Infesior iu poiut of ele- gance. It is easy to see points of similarity between eighteenth and ninet:ecth century adver- tisers. The tendency & hundred years ago was in many advertiszments to begin not with a huge display of type, but with some subtly phrased paragraph that was interesting enough to read merely in itself. The guilible fish swallow the glittering bait, as 1t were, and then are gradually hauled up end landed on the dry facts about silk goods at so mpuch the yard. This device wasemployed before the Revolution more generally even than now, and the latter-day advertisers might get plenty of hints from their forebears if they had the patience to peruse the musty old | file Take it all in all, however, the art of adver- tising has advanced in the last century, along with other things. The optimists say umzL ngle and 1s 84 the doz.) | | | on her account — this is to forbd any | person trusting him on her account, as she will not saisty any debt s0 con- | wish of the Subscriber. Take | everything is improving, the position o woman included, But what woman of the present day enjoys the ascendency that Sarah Brooks enjoyed In 1793? Just look at Sarah’s proud anunouncement in the Salem Gazette on March of that year: TILE Subscriber being apprebensive that her Husband, JOHN BROOKS, will contract debts tracted after this date —aitho my compassion for him is such, that he shall not want for any- thing 1 can help him to—knowing him to be a poor, forlora young min. T cannot but pity his condltion, and sincerely hope he will alter his way of life for the better—tear jealousy from his heart—bury in oblivion his unhappy temper—and take up a firm resolution, that he will turn from the error of his ways, (o a better course of life, be- como a good citizen, a friend to his wife ana chil- dren, and not hearken any more 1o his supposed friends (the greatest enemies)—this 1s the sincere SARAH BROOKS, Marblehead, March 27, 179 oLD [NGLIS?{ PAPERS. The olGest English newspaper is the London Gazette, which was, on its first pubiication on November 14, 1665, known as the Oxford zette from the fact of the Parliament sit- ting at Oxford. This name was changed on Fevruary 5, 1566, to the present one. But though the London Gazette contains some items of much interest to certain people, such ae those who have received “honors” at the hands of royalty, 6r those whose bankrupteies are announced, itis not & newspaper in the usual sense of the term—that is, being read generally by the public. The honor of being the oldest newspaper of this class in the British Isles, and hence prob- ably in the world, may be unhesitatingly awarded, says Answers, to Berrow’s Worcester Journal, whicn made its appearance in 1690, ten years before the beginning of the eight- eenth century. It hasalways had a wide cir- culation among the higher classes of its dis- trict and is to-day as vigorous as ever. But when it first came out it was not under its preseat name, and this factor is of import- ance in considering its claim to the premier honors of the journalistic world. Perhaps the palm of being the doyen of Engiish journuls ought to be awarded the Lincoln, Rutland and Stamford Mercury, still | published weekly at Stamford. This paper has now, as ever, a trulv great circulation and an enormous influence in the Eastern Mid- land district. ltstitle is exactly the same to- day as it was on the day it was first published, 174 years ago. Hencoe this important factor should almost assign to it the first place smong extant newspapers. There i3 In the Leicestér Museum & copy of the 1719 issue, consisting of four pages demi-quarto, its style that of the old news letter. In July, 1853, its circulation bad become 14,000 a weck—the highest at that time of any paper out of Lon- don. Its price was then twopence, but is now a penny, with a circulation of 2,000 weekly. Thomas Coover, the famous Chartist poet, was on its staff in his younger days. The political compiexion ot this ceiebrated paper is Lit- eral. e Professor Theodore Mommsen, the German historian of Rome, will celebrate his eightieth birthday next autumn. Tne University of Berlin, of the faculty of which Mommsen has been & member for thirty-nine years, will ob- serve the occasion by a special festival in his ¥ HERE AND THERE. Mrs. May French-Sheidon, who has spent most of her life abroxd, although she is a na- tive of the Unitzd Siates, has been elected a member of the English Royal Geographical Society. It issaid thatsne is the only woman who ever received this distinciion. 8. Baring-Gould, the wellknown novelist, whose home is &t Lew Trenchard, North Devon, is about to spend a fortnight in exea- vating prehistoric villages on Dartmoor, and will then visit Wales, writing up scenery and localities for a Welsh story. It 1s well known that when thus engaged Mr. Gould cannot bear to have his mind drawn off to anything else, his study. Although Bernard Quaritch has nowadays books on sele ticketed in four figures his first catalogue was cailed a *Cheap Book Circular,” and contained a list of voiumes of tho average price of 1 shilliug and 9 pence. A writer in Great Thoughts states that when Mr. Quaritch set up in business after serving two years with Mr. Bohn, he said tonim: “Mr. Bohn, you are the first bock- seller in England, but I mean to be the first bookseller in Europe.” The Italian novelist, d’Annunzio, hes of- fered himself as a candidate for the Italian Parliament from Ortona and his campaign proves an exciting one. The least of the charges brought against him is that his real name, instead of being Gabriele d’Annunzio, 1s Geetano Rapagnetta. This slander had no sooner been disproved by an exhibit of bap- tismal records than d’Annunzio’s opponents began to exploit a phrase trom one of his novels, in which he had called the electorate “a great beast.” Says the London Westminster Gazette: The Ame-ican Embassador was last night enter- tained at dinner at the National Liveral Club by candida‘e at Walthamstow at the general eleciion Lord Basil Blackwood, ) essrs. Joseph Lawrence, Alfred Harmsworth, T. Cook, W. D. hoss. s'ey Carr, C. W. Furse, Herod Frederic. Ju- 1 Kalfe, A. H. Hawkins, Theobald Mathew, ereira, . H. Pollen, R J. H. McCar- thy, Whitney Mockridge and Spenser Eddy were mong the guests invied to mees bis Excellency. “Julien Ralfe” isgood! A correspondent of the Glasgow Evening News tells astory of Carlyle, which, he say. he received nt first hand, and which has the merit, he belfeves, of never having been pub- lished before. Templand Carlyle and his wife, along witn some friends, had sat down to coffee. “Jane,” sald the sage, in a fit of ili-temper, “this cof- fee is cold; Ishen’t have it.” Thereupon up rose Mrs. Carlyle. She went to the fire-grate, and, picking out a red-hot cinder with a pair of tougs, dropped it into her husband’s cup with the exclamation, “There, Thomas, is it hot enough for you now?” The London publishers and booksellers com- plain that the numerous biographics of Queen Victoria have not had a great “boom.” Jubi- lee prayer-books and hymn-books have sold freely. ordinary business eaused by the excess of pro- duction of “Jubilee literature,” and a general recovery of the book irade at present isnot expected. Butat the commencement of the new publications, as quite half the books which would normally have been issued in the sprivg have, in consequence of the Queen’s Jubilee, been held over. Unless something unforeseen happens, a part of Elmwoud, the beautifuf heme of James Russell Lowell, at Cambridge, Mass., will soon voet-statesman who made it famous. Most of the contributors to the fund which has been raised are Cambridge people. Elmwood is but five minutes’ farther walk from tte univer- sity grounds than Craigie House, the home of Longfellow. Happily this fine old place, almust as conspicuous for its historical as for its literary significance, has been marked by a preity garden, which will keep forever open the view across the Charles River meadows, which the peet loved. Criticism has shifted many times about Zola. unflinching realist, and he was rebuked for his sordidness and indecemcy. Then the pupils began to surpass their master, and we are told that Zola was no sccurate realist. He was, in fact, a poet, “‘composing” his novels, choosing and massing his facts as an epic poet might. Then he was merely a plagiarist. Now M. Baunetiere objects to him on the score o1 gross inaceuracy. His pictures of French life we are 1o believe fanciful, the results of obliquity of vision. The next mo- ment we may expect an attack from some new direction. M. Zola's reply to his crities in tae Mouvelle Campagne is sure io stir them up ngain. Mr. Samuel Kinnear, who has had many in- teresting manuscripts through his hands in Messrs. Blackwoods’ printing estaplishment, and who recently gave some particulars re- garding the work of the late Mrs. Oliphant, has been contributing some turther reminis- cences in & letter to the Scotsman regarding other notable writers whose wcrks have been issued from Messrs. Blackwoods’ press. In this letter Mr. Kinnear recalis a curious and amusing lapsus calaml Archibald Alison, the historian of Europe. Toward the end of his great work, in describ- ing the funeral of the Duke of Wellington, Sir Archibald wrote that one of the pall- bearers was Sir Peregrine Pickle, instead of Sir Peregrine Maitland. 0ddly enough, the blunder, as occasionally happens, successfully ran the gantlet of tho whole establishment, and nothing was known of the despite done to Sir Peregrine Maitland by confusing him with Smollett’s rather disreputable hero till the literary journals called attention toit. The historian was naturally annoyed, and could hardly believe that he had made such aslip till confronted with his own manuseript, and even then he was not to be pacified, as he com- better. The volume in question had to be re- called and the sheet canceled. America seems to have a chance (If we may trust the New York correspondent of the Lon- don Standard) of making a graceful return for our recent conduct in giving up the May- flower’s logbook. Discovery has been made in New York of a bound volume of manu- scripts, which has lain neglected for genera- tions upon the shelves of the Examination Historical Society, which has led to the dis- covery of what is believed to be an original copy of the journal of the elerk of the House of Commons during Cromwell's period, and ranging from the year 1650 to 1675. They are contained in eixteen folios, bound in antique calf. The entries are well written in single columns, with broad margins, but many pages are miss- ing, and appear to have heen detached for some specisl purpose. One tradition is (hat during the Revolutionary War in theAmerican Colonies the orders of the generals were writ- ten upon them. Possibiy they were brought over by some of the judges who sentenced Charles I, and who are known to havedied as fugitives in New England. Upon the other hand, the order of the House of Commons of May 31,1742, to print its journals, which was duly complied with, seems to indicate that these manuseripts were brought over after that date, otherwise there must have been du- plicate manuscripts, which seems to be un- honor. The Minister of Public Instruction will also do special honor to the historiaa,who 1s in excellent heaith Botwithstanding his advanced age. likely. Nothing appears to be known with certainty about these volumes before 1800, when they were in the possession oi Colonei De Hart. and refuses work which would interfere with | for nimself in 1847, | Arthur Hungerford Pollen, who was tbe Liberal | During a visit at the farm of | Aud yet they deplore the paralysis of | be set apart as a public park in memory of the | First, it was granted that he was an | committed by Sir | plained that the reader ought 1o have known | winter there will be ah enormous “outpat” of | Weekly London newspapers for the serial issve | progress. LITERARY NOTES. Ex-Queen Natalie of Servia has joined the ranks of authors by publishing a book of aph= orisms. Itissaid that George Meredith’s ideas om Russian fiction wiil appeer shortly in The Anglo-Russian. It is reported that Conan Doyle refused the task, lately undertaken by Mr. Quiller-Couch, of completing Stevenson’s “St. Ives.” 8ignor Crispi has been writing his memotrs. They will appear, possibly, this winter under the title of “Scventy Years of Italian Life The London Academy states that Mark Twain will spend the coming winter in Vien- na, where his daughter wilt take lessons with a view to becoming a public singer. Tom Gallon, whose first novel, “Tatterley,” wes given a warm welcome by reacers with old-fashioned seutiments, has completed an- other story, calied **A Prince of Mischance. William Le Queux is writinga new Tusc story, to be published serially. He is at pres- entin Leghorn engaged on the work, which will probably not be resdy for some months. David Wison, British Commissioner in Burmsah, h written a book on “Mr. Froude and Thomss Carlyle,” In whien, it is saia, the author criticizes tha biographer of the historian with great unction and along some new lines. Frederick Warne & Co. of New York have nearly ready “The History of Blazonry and Associations of the Flegs of the World,” by F. H e. The volume will have iliustrations in color from the banuer of the Crusader to the most modern ensign. Tke publishers of one of the notable novels of the year send the following: One of our people asked in a store of quite a nice town whether “The Gadfly” had caught on there yet. “No,” the bookseller replied, “but the mosquitoes have, wuss'n ever.” A new “Life of Goldsmith” is in the hands of Richard Ashe King. That Goldsmith’s somewhat wayward charecter should be sketched by a brother Irishman is fitting, and those who remember Ashe King's effective presentation of Dean Swilt, in his “Swiftin Ireland.” will realize that he has every quali- fication for the task Thomes Y. Crowell & Co., New York, heve receivea from England a psckage of valuable autograph letters written to Dean Farrar vy Tennyson, Browning, Lowell, Holmes, Dean Stanley and others. These will be reproducel in fac-simile and published in Dean Farrar's forthcoming book, “Men I Have Known,” which will be ready 1n October. Longmans, Green & Co., New York, have in press “A Boox of Dreams and Ghosts,” by | Andrew Lang; & new book by George Mac- entitled *“Rompollo; growths from an old root”; and another of Bertha Upton’s wondetful children’s books, entitled *“The Vegemen's Revenge,” said to be as good as “The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolis aud a Golliwog."”’ donald, Ernest A. Vizetelly of London has entered into an agreement with one of the leading in Great Britain of M. Emile Zola's fortncom- ing novel, “Paris. Negotiations with the colonies and the United States are now in The serfal fssne will begin in Octo- ber next and the work will appesr in volume form enrly in 1898, the publishers in England being Chetto & Windus and in America the Macmillan Company of New York. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, New Yor. very shortly the second volume of * by Dr. John Punnett Peters. The title will be, “The Oldest Temple of the World,” and the book will cover the second year's work of the University of Pennsylvania’s expedition to Babylonis in the years 1889-1890. Th!s firm will also issue, on September 1, “Ulysses Grantand the Maintenance of American Na- tionality, 1822.1825,” by Wiliiam Conant Church, editor of the Army and Navy Journal. D. Appleton & Co. were obliged to print three large editions of Hali Caine's “The Christian” before they could begin fo distrib- ute. Now that it is issued, it is acknowl- edged by high authorities as & most powerful work of lnsting merit. Georg Ebers’ new ro- mance, *Barbara B omberg,” dealing with the period of turmofl which followed the death of Luther, is just ready; snd “A Colonial Frea Lance,” C. C. Hotchkiss’ romance of the American Revolution, is becoming more pop- ular every day. Fstes & Lauriat, Boston, have just issued “At the Gates of Song,” by Lloyd Mifiiin, il Justrated with ten full-page drawings by the celebrated artist, Thomas Moran, a selection 0f 150 of the author’s best sonnets, many of which have appeared in the leading mage- zines; and they bave in preparation another volume of verse by Claiborne Addison Young, fliustrated by Ethelred B. Berry, which will be entitled “Way Songs and Wanderings.'” They will also issue short'y “The Heart of Hickory,” by Will Allex Dromgoole, & collec- tion of six short stories of Tennessee, and a third edition of “The Pilgrims, Puritans and Roger Williams Vindicated,” by Rev. T. M. Merriman. Ginn & Co., New York, will publish shorily & “Shakespeare Note-Book,” designed for ad- vanced courses in colleges and nniversities, for Shakespeare clubs ana critical readers, by Charles W. Kent, professor of glish litera- . ture in the University of Virginia. The book comprises a family-tree of Shakespeare, n chronological outline of his life, a compara- tive table of his plays, Dowden’s classifica tion of the plays, kinds of evidence weighed in fixing date of a play and 100 references for the study of Shakespeare. The peculiar fea- ture of the “Note-Book,” however, 1s the ruled pages for notes on each play. These ruled pages provide for motes on title, sutject, theme, plot, history, structure ot tke play, as well as for comments on the interwoven plots, meter, inserted poems, criticlsm, mooted questions, etc. Messrs. Small. Maynard & Co. of Boston an- nounce that they have acquired from the poe’s literary executors the sole right to issue the works of Walt Whitman and that they wil bring out greatly improvea editions of Leaves of Grass and the Complete Prose Works parly in the autumn. Both volumes were finally arranged by Whitman just before his death, and this arrangement, of course, will never be altered, but the matter they contain will be brought together in 2 more convenient form (the various supplements of Leaves of Grass, for example, being added in & uniform page) | ana with more regard throughout to typo- graphical excellence. The paper and style of binding will be greatly improved over all pr:- vious editions, though the price will not be increased. It may beof interest to note that the new volumeof “Leaves of Grass” will be the third Boston edition, following the issues of Thayer and Elarfdge and James R. O:good & Co. in 1860-61 and 1881-82, respectively. A number of new poems (printed in periodicais after the publication of the 1891 edition) will be added and a new copyrieht taken out. The edition of the prose work will be an entirely new book, printed from new vlates. It wiil contain a number of fac-similes and reproduc- tions of portrais and views illusirating the autobiographical character of the book. Since both volumes, therefore, will be in every sense new editions and ilkely to supersede all oth- ers a few copies will be run on hand-made paper for the purpose of greater permauence.