Literary Miscellany. BYAM SHAW has undertaken the illustration of all the plays of Shakespeare. IT is reported that John Morley has been paid $50,000 for writing the "Life of Gladstone." A TRIBUTE TO CHARLOTTE YONGE.-The sum of $60,000 has been subscribed, chiefly in Eng land and America, for the scheme to honor the veteran novelist Charlotte Yonge by founding a college scholarship for girls at Winchester High School. "JOHN HALIFAX, GENTLEMAN."-Some one, says the N. Y. Times, has written to The Academy of "John Halifax, Gentleman," that it is dead, and its destiny is limbo." Mrs. Dinah Maria Craik's "John" was certainly a gentleman, and a gentleman may die in the flesh and never in the spirit any more than can Sir Roger de Coverley as Steele and Addison drew him. "John Halifax," as it came to us in 1857, made a strong impression, for it was a most wholesome book. We are pleased to learn that the London publishers make the statement that last year they sold of the various editions some 24,190 copies. There are, then, many newly born books very much more dead than is "John Halifax, Gentleman." THE ORIGINAL OF "DAVID HARUM."-The sales of "David Harum," (Appleton) the book which Edward Noyes Westcott wrote on his deathbed, continue to be phenomenal, says the N. Y. Times. The original of the character was Dave Hannum, a well-known resident of the village of Homer, where Westcott's father once lived. The residents readily recall Hannum, who died in 1892, "Billy P."-William P. Randall of Cortland-and other figures in the book. Hannum was a powerfully built man, though only five feet six inches tall, and a master hand at horse training and horse swapping. His first enterprise in life was when he set out with a pair of "horse frames and a wagon load of buck stoves to sell. He returned with the stoves all sold and a splendid team, the result of successive trades in horseflesh, beginning with the two old scarecrows. " GEORGE MEREdith's Choice OF FRENCH AUTHORS.-A French journalist, according to the London Academy, has been asking certain English men of letters to name the French authors, now dead, which in their opinion best represent the distinctive genius of France, and the replies have been printed in the Gaulois and the Morning Post. Altogether they are rather disappointing, possibly because the question is too large a one. Among those that answer concisely is Mr. Meredith, who makes this choice: "For human philosophy, Montaigne; for the comic appreciation of society, Molière; for the observation of life and condensed expression, La Bruyère; for a most delicate irony scarcely distinguishable from tenderness, Renan; for high pitch of impassioned sentiment, Racine. Add to these your innumerable writers of mémoires and pensées, in which France has never had a rival." MAARTEN MAARTENS.-Americans, says the N. Y. Tribune, are to be favored in the autumn, with a glimpse of a Dutch novelist who is a great favorite in London. This is Mr. J. H. Van der Poorten Schwartz, better known as Maarten Maartens. He will cross the Atlantic for the first time to have a look at America, where his stories of Holland life have been widely read, and, as he says himself, have been unerringly understood. He has travelled widely in Europe, but lives in a delightful old castle in Holland, and ordinarily he is seen in London during the spring, where he has many literary friends, Mr. Barrie being perhaps the most intimate among them. Having been born in Holland, that Babel of modern tongues, he is an accomplished linguist, and can write with equal facility in many languages; but his literary work has been done almost exclusively in English. Mr. Maarten Maartens is an artist without affectations of manner, a man of strong religious convictions, and a most genial and accomplished gentleman. MAURICE HEWLETT.-"Mr. Maurice Hewlett, whose 'Forest Lovers' has been 'crowned' by our contemporary (The Academy), was, "says the London Literary World, "for some years engaged at the Record Office, where he acquired a considerable knowledge of NormanFrench. In fact, according to M. A. P., he is to-day looked upon as the chief authority in the translation of musty old documents in that language. Mr. Hewlett's researches at the Record Office provided him with the opportunity of writing several papers on matters connected therewith. Most of these appeared in The Nineteenth Century, which was then, as now, edited by his uncle, Mr. James Knowles. A few years ago Mr. Hewlett succeeded his father in the Land Revenue Record Office, where he is now employed. His 'Earthwork Out of Tuscany' has recently been reprinted; his 'Pan and the Young Shepherd' is already an acknowledged success, and other works from his pen may be expected. He comes of a distinctly literary stock." POPULARITY Of Mr. Kipling AND MR. JAMES. "In the contemporary popularity of Mr. Kipling and Mr. James," says The Nation, "there is an interesting suggestion of the influence of democracy on the production of literature. Not that Mr. James's popularity is, or has ever been, of so comprehensive and clamorous a sort as Mr. Kipling's, but always of the best quality and lasting and loyal. Until the nineteenth century begins to grow old, there is not much difficulty in chronologically grouping English literature without any assistance from the date of an author's birth. Each period has its hall-mark. When the reading public was small, taste had only one standard, a point of view was established. The men who wrote for the pleasure of their generation took little into account a hydra-headed, self-assertive mob, and all did their work in very much the same way-the way that would please a small circle with a degree of intellectual equality, with similar aspirations and congenial prejudices. It is the presence of a large democracy eager to read, fairly competent to estimate the worth of what it reads, of independent and very confident judgment, that makes possible the success in imaginative prose literature of two men who, in purpose, method, and manner are so far apart, so widely and so minutely different, as are Mr. Kipling and Mr. James. The difference goes so far that, though each is strong in the vernacular, even here they don't meet, but pasture, as it were, in separate and remote provinces of the mother-tongue." Survey of Current Literature. Order through your bookseller.-" There is no worthier or surer pledge of the intelligence and the purity of any community than their general purchase of books; nor is there any one who does more to further the attainment and possession of these qualities than a good bookseller."—Prof. Dunn ART, MUSIC, DRAMA. AGNEW, PHILIP LESLIE. A run through "The Nibelung's ring." Scribner. 12°, net, 75 c. EHRLICH, A. Celebrated violinists, past and present; from the German; ed., with notes, by Robin H. Legge. Scribner. pors. 12°, $2. HOLLOWAY, Rev. H. The singing voice of boys hints for clergyman, school teachers, and amateur organists. Scribner. 16°, 50 c. MOSCHELES, FELIX STONE. Fragments of an autobiography. Harper. pors. 8°, $2.50. A study of Wagner. Put NEWMAN, ERNEST. nam. 8°, $3.75. PARSONS, S., jr. How to plan the home grounds; il. by W. E. Spader under the direction of the author, and of G. F. Pentecost, jr. Doubleday & McClure. il. 12°, net, $1. Sets forth briefly some simple basic principles concerning the processes whereby home grounds can be made beautiful. A second part of the book is devoted to the public grounds of villages and cities, and fifty-six illustrations, plans, and diagrams, with lists of trees and shrubs, help to elucidate the text. Mr. Parsons is a fellow of the Society of American Landscape Architects and ex-superintendent of the New York City Parks. RUNCIMAN, J. F. Old scores and new readings: discussions on musical subjects. Scribner. sq. 8°, net, $2. SHAW, G. BERNARD. The perfect Wagnerite: a commentary on the "Ring of the Nibelungs." Scribner. 12°, $1.40. STEBBINS, EMMA. Charlotte Cushman, [actress:] her letters and memories of her life. New popular ed, with portraits. Houghton, Mifflin. 8°, $1.50. TAUNTON Rev. E. L. The history and growth of church music. Scribner. 12°, pap., 50 c. THORP, G. E. Twenty lessons on the development of the voice for singers, speakers, and teachers. Scribner. 12°, net, 35 c. VERESTCHAGIN, VASILI. "1812" Napoleon 1. in Russia; with an introd. by R. Whiteing; il. from sketches and paintings by the author. Scribner. por. 12°, $1.75. BIOGRAPHY, CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. BELLOC, HILAIRE. Danton a study. Scribner. por. 8°, $2.50. BLAKENEY, ROB. A boy in the Peninsular war; the services, adventures, and experiences of Robert Blakeney, subaltern in the 28th Regiment: an autobiography; ed. by Julian Sturgis. Little, Brown. map, 8°, $4. The Robert Blakeney of these memoirs was born in Galway in 1789, joined the 28th Regiment of infantry in 1804, left it in 1828. He died in 1858, in his seventieth year. This volume, which reads like a romance, is a spirited picture of an English soldier's life during the Peninsular war with the allied armies against Napoleon's generals. Blakeney describes the retreat through Spain to Corunna with Sir John Moore, and a vivid and touching account of that great general's heroic death is given, also a powerful and dramatic account of the battle of Barossa, and the siege and storming of Badajoz. CARLYLE, T. Letters of Thomas Carlyle to his youngest sister; ed., with an introductory essay, by C. Townsend Copeland. Houghton, Mifflin. pors. il. 12°, $2. FORCE, MANNING FERGUSON. General Sherman. Appleton. por. il. 12°, (Great commanders ser.) $1.50. GORHAM, G. C. Life and public services of Edwin M. Stanton. Houghton, Mifflin. 2 v., pors. facsimiles, il. 8°, $6. HALE, Rev. E. H. Papias and his contemporaries a study of religious thought in the second century. Houghton, Mifflin. 12°, $1.25. HILL, CONSTANCE. Story of the Princess des Ursins in Spain (Camarera-Mayor). Russell. il. pors. 8°, $1.75. SANDS, B. F. From reefer to rear-admiral: reminiscences and journal jottings of nearly half a century of naval life, 1827 to 1874. Stokes. por. 12°, $2. Noticed in March issue. SEIDL, ANTON. Anton Seidl: a memorial; by his friends. Scribner. por. il. 4°, net, $5. [Ed. limited to Icoo copies.] The publishers have presented the manufacture of this book to Mrs. Seidl, and all the money the copies bring will be paid directly to her. Very few copies remain. SERGYEENKO, P. A. How Count L. N. Tolstoy lives and works; from the Russian by Isabel F. Hapgood. Crowell. por. i. facsimile, 8°, $1.25. He The author first knew Tolstoy in 1892, and, having from that time come into intimate relations with the family, both at Moscow and also at the count's country estate at Yasnaya Polyana, he is qualified to give a fair and accurate account of the great writer's daily habits. pictures in a simple and vivid style. The illustrations are of great interest, and are here for the first time published for American readers. SIMPSON, EVE BLANTYRE. Robert Louis Stevenson's Edinburgh days. Scribner. 12°, $2.40. WALISZEWSKI, KAZIMIERZ. Marysienka: Marie de la Grange D'Arquien, Queen of Poland and wife of Sobieski, 1641-1716; from the French by Lady Mary Lloyd. Dodd, Mead. por. 8°, $2. "Marysienka' was the name of affection bestowed by the Polish people on the wife of Sobieski and Queen of Poland-Marie de la Grange D'Arquien. She was a French woman of not specially good family, but was herself a person of extraordinary charm and brilliant qualities. Her career has all the elements of romance, and her name is inseparably connected with the most thrilling period of Polish history. All this makes her life a particularly fascinating subject for M. Walis zewski, whose books on Catherine and Peter of Russia show that the romance of history is his chosen field. The author makes no pretence of being a close, critical historical writer, but in this case he has certainly studied the period carefully, and not only tells an interesting personal story, but throws much light on political events in the early part of the eighteenth century."--The Outlook. DESCRIPTION, GEOGRAPHY, TRAVEL, ETC. ANSORGE, W. J. Under the African sun: a description of native races in Uganda, sporting adventures and other experiences; il. from photographs by the author. Longmans, Green. il. 2 col. pl. 8°, $5. · Mr. Ansorge, who is medical officer to Her Majesty's Government in Uganda, deals with that country in particular in the pages of this vast book, and as he has travelled it assiduously, and taken photographs the while, he has much to tell and show. His writing is plain and to the point, but it is matter for anthropologists, sportsmen, and naturalists rather than the general reader, who prefers personality to mere record. None the less may the general reader, especially if he be at all interested in curious things, spend some time very pleasantly with this portly volume; while for any one proposing to shoot big game in the same localites it should be invaluable. By way of frontispiece we are shown the author exulting over the carcase of a lion that he has just killed."-The Academy. BOND, FRANCIS. English cathedrals, illustrated. Lippincott. il. 12°, $2. BROWN, W. HARVEY. On the South African frontier: the adventures and observations of an American in Mashonaland and Matabeleland. Scribner. map, il. 8°, $3. FRASER, Mrs. HUGH. Letters from Japan: a record of modern life in the Island Empire. Macmillan. 2 v., il. 8°, $7.50. HAMM. MARGHERITA ARLINA. Porto Rico and the West Indies. Neely. por. il. 8°, $1.25. Contents: Geographical notes; Suggestions to travellers-sights to be seen; Sea roads to Porto Rico; The animal road; The lower forms of marine life; The world of vegetation; The people Historical notes; The government; Social life; City life; The woman's world; Porto Rican cookery; The foreign commerce of the island; Coffee and coffee growing: The sugar industry; Tobacco and tobacco raising; The minor agricultural industries: Business opportunities in Porto Rico; The West IndiesPorto Rican pirates; The aborigines of the West Indies; Governmental problems. JACOBS, JOS. The story of geographical discovery; how the world became known. Appleton. 16°, (Library of useful stories.) 40 c. PALMER, F. In the Klondyke; including an account of a winter's journey to Dawson. Scribner. il. 12°, $1.50. Contents: The start from Dyea; On the trail; Dawson; The first discoveries; Miners and mining; Some Klondyke types; Getting acquainted; Arctic trails; Pilgrims' trails and trials; Profit and losses; Government; Down the Yukon and home, STONE, Rev. R. H. In Afric's forest and jungle; or, six years among the Yorubans. Revell. i. 12°, $1. sided for several years in a large native town A series of sketches by a missionary who rein West Africa, where he came in contact with some phases of life which are now largely things of the past. WHITTAKER, T. Sights and scenes in Oxford city and university; il. with 101 pl. after original photographs; with introd. by G. Saintsbury. Cassell. obl. 8°, $4. DOMESTIC AND SOCIAL. HERBERT, Lady MARY E11Z., comp. Wives and mothers in the olden time; from French, Italian, and L in authors, by Lady Herbert. Macmillan. 12°, $1.75. OCCUPATIONS of women and their compensation. N. Y. Tribune. 8°, (The Tribune Monthly, v. 9, no. 12.) pap., 25 c. A compilation of essays by prominent authorities on all the leading trades and professions in America in which women have asserted their ability, with data as to the compensation afforded in each one. RORER, Mrs. SARAH TYSON. Leftovers: how to transform them into palatable and wholesome dishes; with many new and valuable recipes. Arnold & Co. 16°, 50 c. EDUCATION, LANGUAGE, ETC. BLOW, SUSAN E. Letters to a mother on the philosophy of Froebel. Appleton. 12°, (International education ser., no. 45.) $1.50. SALVÁ, VICENTE, and WEBSTER, NOAH. SalváWebster English-Spanish dictionary, by J. Gomez; comp., with a geographical and biographical encyclopædia, alphabet and pronunciation in both languages, conversation, correspondence and reading exercises, etc. New and thoroughly rev. ed.; ed. by F. M. de Rivas. Laird & Lee. maps, il. 16°, limp leath., $1. SEGUR, PAUL PHILIP, Count DE. La retraite de The stories of Parsival (including Lohengrin). Gudrun, the Niebelungen, and Tristan und Isolde, in easy German, with vocabulary. staunch adherent, and "the other one" for a rich young ward of the duke who almost wrecks the happiness of many, but finally marries for love. BARRETT, WILSON, and HICHENS, ROB. S. The daughters of Babylon: a novel. Lippincott. il. 12°, $1.50. BENSON, E. F. The Capsina an historical novel; il. by G. P. Jacomb-Hood. Harper. 12°, $1.50. BLOOMINGDALE, C., jr., [“ Karl," pseud.] Mr., BOOTHBY, GUY. Pharos the Egyptian: a ro- CARRYL, C. E. The river syndicate, and other stories. Harper. il. 12°, $1.25. Contents: The river syndicate; The Pasha Club; The house of the way; Mrs. Porter's paragon; The Asper agency; The Colonel's desk; Captain Black. CHESNUTT, C.W. The conjure woman. Houghton, Mifflin. 12°, $1.25. Seven stories in negro dialect, namely: The goophered grapevine; Po' Sandy; Mars Jeems's nightmare; The conjurer's revenge; Sis Becky's pickaninny; The gray wolf's ha'nt; Hot-foot Hannibal. COTES, Mrs. SARA JEANNETTE DUNCAN, [Mrs. Everard Cotes.] Hilda: a story of Calcutta. Stokes. 12°, $1.25. CROCKETT, S. RUTHERFORD. The Black Douglas. Doubleday & McClure. il. 8°, $1.50. DIX, BEULAH MARIE. Hugh Gwyeth: a Roundhead cavalier. Macmillan. 12°, $1.50. DODD, IRA SEYMOUR. The song of the Rappahannock: sketches of the civil war. Dodd, of women and men alike. Probably American readers will feel a stronger interest than their English cousins in the vivid glimpses which the author contrives to introduce of historic Church, the burial-place of Pepys, and of the scenes in Westminster Abbey, of St. Olaf's home of Thomas Carlyle. DOYLE, C. W., M.D. The taming of the jungle. Lippincott. nar. 16°, $1. A strong story of India, of the simple, primitive folk of the Terai-the great tract of jungle that skirts the foot-hills of the Himalayas, in the province of Kumaon. The author, Dr. Doyle, was born in 1852, at Landour, a little hill station in the Himalayas. His father was killed in action in the Sepoy war of 1857-58, while leading a regiment of native cavalry which he had been commissioned to raise by the government of India. Dr. Doyle lived in India for a number of years; proceeding later to England, he studied medicine and graduated with honors. For several years he has practiced in America. GUNTER, ARCHIBALD CLAVERING. A lost American: a tale of Cuba. Home Pub. 12°, (Welcome ser., no. 35.) $1.25; pap., 50 c. HAWKINS, ANTHONY HOPE, ["Anthony Hope," pseud.] Frivolous Cupid. Home Pub. 12°, (Welcome ser., no. 38.) 50 c. HECTOR, Mrs. ANNE FRENCH, [" Mrs. Alexander."] Brown, V.C. Fenno. 12°, $1.25. HIND, L. The enchanted stone. Dodd, Mead. 12°, bds., $1.25. JAMES, Mrs. FLORENCE ALICE PRICE, ["Florence Warden," pseud.] Joan the curate. Buckles. 12°, (Century ser., no. 1.) pap., 35 c. KING, C. A trooper Galahad. Lippincott. il. 12°, $1. "One of the best of Captain King's books. It finds its way to a pleasing end without a strain of the imagination. Its soldiers are true soldiers; its women true women. The things which it depicts might have actually happened at some frontier station a quarter of a century ago. To all this Captain King's crisp, compact literary style gives an added attractiveness."-Boston Weekly Transcript. LAGERLÖF, SELMA. The miracles of Antichrist: a novel; from the Swedish by Pauline Bancroft Flach. Little, Brown. 12°, $1.50. LEWIS, LEON. Andree at the North Pole; with details of his fate. Dillingham. por. 12°, (Dillingham's Metropolitan lib., no. 48.) $1.25; pap., 50 c. Beginning with the departure of Andree and his companions from Danes' Island, July 11, 1897, in search of the North Pole, the writer traces his balloon through a series of imaginary and highly sensational adventures. He is shown to have arrived at the North Pole after many dangerous episodes, and to have found a new world and a new race. This narrative originally appeared in the New York Evening World. LUST, ADELINA CoHnFeldt. A tent of grace. Houghton, Mifflin. 12°, $1.50. MCLENNAN, W., and MCILWRAITH, J. N. The span o' life: a tale of Louisbourg and Quebec; il. by F. de Myrbach. Harper. 12°, $1.75. MAGRUDER, JULIA. A heaven-kissing hill. H. S. Stone. I il. nar. 16°, 75 c. A poor artist paints a picture which he gives to an equally poor dealer to sell at any price. After long waiting it is bought by a woman who gives him, through the dealer, $100 and a letter of great encouragement. Soon he makes the acquaintance of a proud society girl who also admires his work. His first customer watches his career and criticises and inspires his work. A picture typifying Shakespeare's words, "new lighted on a heaven-kissing hill," finally brings on the dénouement. MASON, CAROLINE ATWATER. The minister of Carthage. Doubleday & McClure. I il. 16°, (Ladies' Home Journal lib. of fiction.) 50 c. Under cover of a pretty love-story there is an arraignment of the clergy who still seek place, reputation, and power, always ready to hear a "call" from the centres of prosperity and cultivation, changing from parish to parish for wholly selfish reasons, totally forgetful of "the cumulative effect of a long pastorate, where there is undivided sympathy between pastor and people." The methods of the churches for securing pew-filling preachers are also frankly stated. MASON, CAROLINE ATWATEr. A wind flower: a novel. Amer. Bapt. Pub. i. 12°, $1. This story, like the author's former stories, "The minister of the world" and "The min ister of Carthage," deals with the changing views of clergy and laity regarding orthodox doctrinal religion. Two absolutely sincere men-one an experienced, spiritually-minded old Quaker, the other a poetic, visionary priest in a most advanced ritualistic church, afford fine studies of character, and enable the author to bring out her beliefs on the essentials of religious belief. The scene is New England. MORETTE, EDGAR. The Sturgis wager: a detec ive story. Stokes. 12°, $1; bds., 50 c. A detective story of New York City, with a villain compared with whom Mr. Hyde is an innocent baby. The latest appliances of science are at his command. Roentgen rays, vats of chemicals in which human bodies are dissolved without leaving trace, registers through which gas is turned on to a phyxiate reporters and detectives, etc., etc. A bank defalcation and a murder occurring in New York City on the last day of 1896 start a train of reasoning in a reporter that leads to very remarkable detective work which traces crime to a rich, respectable, learned scientist. PULITZER, WALTER. That duel at the Château Marsanac. Funk & Wagnalls. i. 16°, 75 c. Two rivals for the hand of a fair German beauty, who looked with equal favor upon both, agree to decide which one of them shall quit the field by fighting a duel not with swords or pistols, but with a game of chess. The story deals with the circumstances which lead up to this arrangement, the complications in which it becomes involved, and the startling dénouement with which the contest ends. RAINE, ALLEN. By Berwen banks. Applepleton. 12°, (Appleton's town and country lib., no. 260) $1; pap.. 50 c. “Human nature would seem to be just about the same in Wales as elsewhere, and the course of true love to run no more smoothly by Berwen's banks than in any other part of the known world where more extended observations have perhaps been recorded. The regrettable rancor and bitterness that have so often grown out of a difference in religious belief induce the same stubbornness and cruelty demons in this instance exorcised by the sovereign power of love. The plot is entirely conventional, but the picture of life and character and scenery in a region but little known give a peculiar charm to the story, which is well told and of sustained interest. By the author of Mifanwy' and Torn sails.'"N. Y. Commercial Advertiser. RAY, ANNA CHAPIN. Each life unfulfilled. Little, Brown. 12°, $1.25. A novel of to-day dealing with American life. The principal characters are a young girl studying for a musical career and a young author. Having become acquainted at a western lake, the two meet again two years later in New York. In the course of the story a vivid picture is given of the début of the singer. ROD, E. Pastor Naudié's young wife; from the French, by Bradley Gilman. Little, Brown. 12°, $1 25. ROGERS, ANNA A. Sweethearts and wives: stories of life in the navy. Scribner. nar. 16°, (Ivory ser.) 75 c. Contents: Sweethearts and wives; Mutiny on the flagship; The commodore's chair; From three to six, dancing; War and peace; Marjory and the captain; Amma-Sau; Reconstruction days. SANDRAS DE COURTILZ, GATIEN. Memoirs of Monsieur D'Artagnan [C. de Batz de Castelmore, Comte D'Artagnan,] Captain-Lieutenant of the King's musketeers; now for the first time tr. into English, by Ralph Nevill. In 3 v. V. 1, The cadet. Scribner. 8°, net, $6. The historical romance upon which Dumas based his "Three musketeers." The confunding of Camelia. Scribrer. 12°, $1.25. After two triumphant seasons in Londor, Camelia Paton returned to her country home in the old village of Clievesbury. She came with the reputation of a wit and a beauty and also of a "spoiled child," old friends saying she inherited much of her father's graceful selfishness and hear lessness. The story is a study of her personality. She is an essentially modern girl, whose chief thought is her own happiness. How her eyes are opened to her own shortcomings, the story tells. By the author of "The dull Miss Archinard." SEDGWICK, ANNE DOUGLAS STILES, W. C. Double jeopardy: a novel. Home Pub. 12°, (Welcome ser., no. 39.) $1; pap., 50 c. |