St. Paul daily globe., 1885-06-14
LITERARY NOTES.

LITERARY NOTES.
New Novels and Current Literature
Reviewed.
Messrs. Houghton, Miffln & Co. have
published The Russian Revolt, by Mr.. Ed
mund Noble of London-a small but i'm
portant book, giving the origin and history
of the great uprising which is popularity
known as Nihilism. 1t is based upon ten
years of careful study of Russian subjects,
and two years residence and travel in that
oligarchic deSpotism.
W. Mattieu Williams, whose scientific
books ON the sun, heat, and other topics are
popular and successful, has thought The
Chemistry of Cooking a subject well
worthy of treatment, and has written a
book with that title, which is published by
d. Appleton Il Co. Certainly few themes
are more closely and practically connected
with the health and happiness of civilized
mankind. How thoroughly he goes over
the field is suggested by the fact that the
first chapter after the introduction relates to
The Boiling of Water, rudimentary but
important process. The remaining seven
teen chapters tell the reader about albu-
men, gelatin, fiber and juices of meat,
roasting and grilling-including Count
Rumfords roaster-frying, stewing, cheese
fat, milk, cooking vegetables, gluten,
bread, casein, cheap dinners substitutes
for tea and coffee, cookery OF wine, vege-
tarianiSm, matted food, nutrition, etc.
If DR.. William A. Hammond had begun
writing when he commenced practicing, he
might have developed remarkable fictitious
fecundity. Not long ago, well on in life,
he startled the public by becoming novel
ist, and has already produced three stories
The latest, Mr.. OldmiXon-D. Appleton
IL Co.'s tale Of New York city and its
neighborhood, in which the principal per-
Sonages are Henschel, the taXidermist, his
daughter Barbara, Mr.. Oldmixon, Jack
OldmiXOn and HOgarth OldmiXOn, for
whose benefit the full score of the ''Rogue's
March, is printed in the book. Positive
and conflicting opinions on Lai and Dr..
Grattan have been printed in this country
and in England, and there will probably be
as wide critical differences about their sue
ceSSes.
A popular 5O-cent edition of Mrs. Frances
Hodgson Burnett's earliest and best story,
That Lass o. Lowries, will be published at
once by Messrs. Scribner. This is one of
the few books to meet the success it de-
served at the outset about $4,000 copies
having been sold directly after publication;
and it still remains one of the most vigorous
and powerful stories ever produced by an
American writer.
Among book publishers it has been ira
dition for many years that volumes Of short
stories do not sell. The career of the series
Stories by American Authors, which was
completed a short time ago, goes to show
the fallacy of this prophecy. From the
start the books were successful, until now
nearly one hundred thousand copies have
been sold and the demand is as steady as
ever. MesSrs. Scribner have paid the
authors represented in this series $3, 900 for
the privilege Ofusing their stories.
Mr. Frank A. Flower of Wisconsin, as
sisted by two other gentlemen, has just
completed history of the famous war
eagle known as ''Old Abe"
The hitherto unpublished papers and
letters of Thackeray,. which are to appear
this year, will be brought out first in this
country by Charles Scribner's Sons.
Stocks and Shares, or Guide to Invest
ors and Spectators, with a Treatise upon
the Infatuation and Danger of Stock Spec
ulatiOn is the most instructive and enter
tanning book Of the kind ever published.
The various chapters are under the follow
ing heading: Speculation. stock exchanges,
brokers, bulls and bears, puts and calls,
pools, cliques and syndicates, outsiders, the
right time to long and the right time to
sell, operating for a turn, rubbish, rules,
reference tables, finale. The book is by the
author of How to Operate Successfully on
the London Stock Exchange, and is pub
lished by Carroll, Sprigg & Co. of New
York.
The second book of the Earl of Lytton's
Glenaveril is Just out; d. Appleton & Co.
of New York, publishers.