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LITERARY.

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The above book is one of the few work
| in novel form which bear directly on pres
ent and passing events. Although write
before the assassination of the Gar,
treats directly of the causes which led t
that event. and in an interesting yet de
tailed manner, it conveys information o.
Russia and Russian affairs as affected b
Nihilism, which is of more than passing in
terest. A strong resemblance too may b
found in the characters of the novel t
those concerned in the murder OF the CZaI
and it is easily to believe that Sophie Pie
offsky is the original of Wanda Krylofi
What could be more characteristic of Wan
da than Sophie's dying message to he
mother: Waste no time in assuaging tn
wrath of my father p
The description of her beauty, Of her re
finement, of her cool, unfiinching courage
of her wonderful self possession, are al
Wanda Kryloff to the life.
Sword AND PAN or, Ventures and Adventure
of Willard GIazier'' by John Algernon Owens
illustrated. p W. Ziegler & Co, Philadelphia
The above is the title of work b,
Owens descriptive of the interesting careel
of Willard Glazier, who is author himself
as well as soldier. 1t covers all of his
varied and interesting life, from the frs
incidents of his childhood, his life as stu
dent and teacher, his career as soldier and
author and embraces the story of his I'M
precedented journey from ocean to ocear
on horseback Biography, to be interest.
ing, must be a description of an eventful
as well as a remarkable career; and to be
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in his aims and his mode of attaining them
The hero of this story comes up to the
standard thus indicated
NOTES
j. B. Lippmcott & Co. have in press a
new work by S, S. Haldeman, of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, entitled WORD
Building" Also a new novel from the
German of E. Hartner, called 'Severa."
Somebody's Neighbors," by Rose Terry
Cooke, is the best collection of short stor-
les whice has appeared in many a day.
Each story is as complete and finiahed, as
a three volume novel James r. Osgood
& Co.
F'Ouidas" novels We're some time ago
withdrawn from circulation in the library
of the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution
1t is now said that the directors, at a re-
cent meeting. ordered their return to the
shelves.
Dodd Mead & Co. announce for inlme-
date publication THE Five Great Mon
arches of the Ancient Eastern World,
the History Geography, and Antiquities
of Chaldea, Assyria, Babylon, Medea, and
Persia, by George Rawlinson.
The Harpers have now ready for publ
cation cyclopedia of British and Ameri-
can poetry, from Cliaucer to the present
time, edited by Epes Sargent. It will APP
pear in one royal Svo volume of 1000
pages, printed in double column.
Charles Scribners Sons issue this week
st. George Mivart's treatise on 'ssThe Cat. ."
This volume devoted not alone to the fe-
line but as the author says in his preface,
lis expressly intended to be an introduc-
ton to the natural history of the whole
group of backboned animals. since they
are all formed according TO one fundamen-
tai plan"
A copy of the ''Augsberg Confession"
and The Apology for the Confession" is
10 be sold by auction in London soon, that
bears the autograph of Philip Melancthon.
4 bible is shortly to be sent over from
Germany to London for sale, which is said
20 have belonged to Count Zinzendorf, the
'ounder of the Moravians. and to contain
eight pages Of writing in Luthcr's auto
graph and two and half in Melancthon's
r. Worthington has just published Frost
md Sdca's History Of the United States"
md his new edition of the Spectator"
which is issued in two styles, sumptuous
edition in eight volumes bound in vellum
With red labels, and a four-volnme edition
pound in cloth. Mr.. WOrthington has
llso nearly ready a new edition of Par
on's ''Great Men and Their Achievements:
", The Peoples Book of Biography" for
nerly issued by Virtue and Yorston.
An important volume of Hudson's
Complete Shakespeare" is the fourteenth
which contains two such grand plays as
Julius Caesar" and Hamlet" and which /
las just been issued by CHM and Heath, |
Boston. For all alterations or cancellations |
# the text Mr. Hudson has some authority |
0 vouch. In Hamlet" there are many |
bscure lines, but in Julius Caesar as
he edit or remarks, the correctness of the |
riginal text fortunately, leaves little to |
uesswork which, however ingenious, is |
ever wholly satisfactory.
Mr. Alfred J. Butler, Fellow of Brasenose
'ollege, Oxford, translating the songs from
he Greek Anthology" which he entities |
Amaranth and Asphodel,' thinks that the |
edantic scholarship of the past must give |
-ay to the artistic, and that its highest re-
ult is the power of understanding and low
lg what is beautiful in the writings of |
reat writers and in the world of nature |
n his opinion, there is no book like the /
for the student of Greek art |
r languare who wishes to understand the |
lotives and conditions of Greek life So
n as the English language can be made to
ypress the inner shades of thought and |
ceiling in the original, Mr.. Buffers work
lust be pronounced successful. 1t seems
, have been conscientiously done. c.
-egan Paul 81 Co., London, are the pub
shers Of the tiny volume.