St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-25
LITERARY LITTLE BITS.
Interesting Notes and Gossip
About the Popular Publications
of the Day.

AOOut thO Il OPhtaA IL
of the Day.
Mrs. Peixada, Sydney Luska's sucs
ceSsful novel, has been translated into
French.
The new edition of Society Verse by
American Writers, edited by E. ID.
PIerson, will appear in a new summer
dress of parchment and gold.
Nine. Adelina Patti is said to be at
work on her autobiography, with the
assistance of friend. 1t will be pub
lished simultaneously in France and
England.
On the LIST of May R. S. Peale & Co,
of Chicago, will have ready for the
critics and readers Ignatius Donnely's
long-expected. Often-delayed book, The
Great Cryptogram.
Edgar Saltus, the author of The
Truth About TriStram Varick, and
Alfred Trumble, the weLl-knOwn art
critic and eSSayiSt, are both in the
thrOes of novel writing.
The Great Amherst Mystery, by Wal
ter Hubbell, has just been published by
Brentano Bros. 1t purpOrts to be the
true narrative of the authors actual
adventures with some sociable ghosts.
Inc Youths Companion is soon to
publish some papers by the late Miss
AlcOtt giving an accountof her girlhoOd,
ana including "reminiscences of HaW-
thorne, Canning, Emerson and other
great men she met.
Miss Amelie RiyeS' first novel. called
The Quick and the Dead, will appear
complete i'll the April number of Lippin-
colts Magazine. Harpers are soon to
publish bound volume of her short
stories.
Moult0n, Wenborne & Co., of Buffalo,
announce two interesting volumes i'm
press. a volume of poems by Mrs. Nj.
f. Butts and one by Mrs. NJ. L. M.Dayis,
one OF the brightest writer's the South
has yet produced.
Mrs. Burnett's new story. Sara
CreWe, was translated into French al
most simultaneously with its publica-
ton here. Little Lord FauntlerOy has
Just been issued in Florence under the
title of Tn PiccOlO Lord.
In case an international copyright
law is gained the publishers of cheap
literature say it will be still possible to
publish novels in paper form as neat as
before at quarter, and give the author
cents royalty on each copy sold
Henry James, the novelist. grows
more industrious with advancing years.
The Aspern Papers is now running
in the Atlantic, The Reverberator" i'm
Macmillan's, and he has already begun
to write new novel
Charles Scribner'S Sons have ready
two very interesting volumes that every
book collector Will want. They are
The Early Days of Mormonism, by J.
ii. Kennedy, and Society in Rome
Under the Caesars, by William Ralph
lnge.
Miss Charlotte Adams, who has fire.
quently been heard from of late through
tha ah1nnaIc Of 40 In-
written two papers on 'The Bellies of
Old Philadelphia" which will appear
in the April and May numbers of the
American Magazine.
a new magazine, to be called The
Worlds Reviews soon to be published.
1t will be an international periodical
and contain articles by the leading
minds in all lands. These contributions
will be published in the language in
which they were written, together with
English TRANSACTIONS of the same.
Frederick Stokes IL Brother send us
one of the most elegant souvenirs ever
published. 1t is in the form of Birth
day Greeting" with an embossed cover
and satin panel, and contains birthday
verses by Dora Read GoOdale. illustrated
with fac SMILES of water color studies
of birds and flowers by Fidelia Bridges.
BOOKS IteceiVeU.
ID. AppeltOn & Co. are the publishers
of all the works mentioned below, and
they are for sale in this city at the st.
Paul Book and Stationery store:
CALIFORNIA OF THE SOUTH-It Physical Geog-
Taphy. Climate, Resources, Routes OF
Travel and Health Resorts. Being Com
plete Guide 10 Southern California By
Waller Lindley NJ. d., and J. p Widney,
A; NJ, NJ. d. With Maps and Numerous
Illustrations. limo, cloth. Price, 81. -,
Southern California is the new golden
HesperideS toward which inyalids seek
ing for health, cultivatorS looking for
new lands to plant, travellers searching
for fresh territory to explore, are now
turning in great Numbers. The guide
to this country now offered was planned
with the requirements of these classes
i'll view.
THE MEMOIRS OF AN ARABIAN PRGNcEss-By
Emily Ruete nee Princess of Oman and
Zanzibar. Translated from the German.
12mo, cloth. Price, 70 cents.
The author of this amusing autobOg-
raphy is a real princess. half-sister to
the sultan of Zanzibar, who some years
ago married a German merchant and
settled at Hamburg. We are afforded
inside views of MOhammedan life that
are new and full of interest.
REcoLLECTIoNs OF FORTY YEARs-By Ferdi-
nand de Lesseps. Translated FROM the
French. Two volumes i'll one. Syo.,
Cloth, s..
Contents-The Mission to Rome;
Episodes of 1910 at Paris and Madrid;
Rome. SueZ, Panama; The Origin OF
the SueZ Canal; A Question of the Day;
Afer the War of 1S70-71: The Inter
oceanic Canal and the Congress of 1879;
Steam; Algeria and Tunis; Abd-el-
Kader; Abyssinia; The Origin and
Duties Of COnSuls; The French Acad-
envy.
The Story of Colette, from the original
La Neuvaine de COllette, (the Gains
borough series.
Slips of Tongue and Pen, by j. IL.
Long.
The Art of Investigating, by New
York broker
An Unlaid Ghost, or Study in
MetempsychOsis.
Black Ice, novel by a. W. TOurgee,
author of A FOOLS Errand, Figs and
ThistIes. etc. 16mO, 438 pages, cloth.
S1.25. New York. Fords, Howard IL
Hubert.
The Deemster, romance of the Isle
of Man, by Hall Game, author of The
Shadow of Crime.
A Critical History of Sunday Eegisla-
ton from 321 to 1888 a. d., by A. H..
Lewis, ID. ID.
David POindexter's Disappearance
and Other Tales, by JUL Hawthorne.
The Soreheads Kick.
Faribault Republican.
The papers that oppose the renomina-
ton of Gov. McGill claim that their
opposition is based upon his unpopu-
larity. If he is unpopular, as they
allege, there must be a reason for that
unpOpularity but when they are pressed
to State wherein the people have found