Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1891-02-19
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Rider Hsgyard Is at present ii Mexico
securing material for new novel
Two hundred ard thirty thousand
copies # Helel4s Rabies have already
been sold
Mrs. Hodgson Barrett's income from
her hooks aud plays amounts a. over
S25. 600 year
De- Holmes is clleered / his old age
by the knowledge that ~Over the Tea
cups is selling more largely than OF
his earlier works
Undesigned Condolences in the Old
and New Testan ents. by the Rev. John
]. Blunt will shortly-he issued By Viii
bur b Ketcham. NV York.
Justin Mccarthy, the leader of the
anti Parnellites, has written an article
on the recent split in the Nationalist
party for the North Anlerican Reciea0
Like Dr.. johnson taking up the study
of Dutch Mt ali advanced age, the late
George Bancroft became an earnest and
enthusiastic student ot S.,a k peare al
81.
Within the past ten years htee great
men have heea taken from American
Iiterature-Emerson. l. m fellow, aud
Bancroft-bHt their works will live
always
w. Clarke Russell. VII Sc sea stories
have such renlarkabledasll, breeziness.
and out of door freedom. has long been
a ahopeless and we'll nigh helpless iavaIid,
chained to an indoor exisle c. IN an in
land town.
Bishop Per Us Bohlen Lectures on the
Constitutional History OF the Church
will be published shortly. 10y Thomas
Whitaker, N.w York The same pub
Usher will also issue Primary Doc
lrines. a volume of charges to his
clergy, by the late Bishop VaiL
The book SO long promised from
George Vanderbilt is said finally to be
IN the publishers h.nds. 1t is a ro-
nance, its scene being in the South, and
the story is something of war remi-
niscence. 1t is not stated whether the
young millionaire will publish over his
own name or nom de plume.
Mr. Richard Harding Davis will here
after be associated with Mr.. George
William Curtis IN the editorship Of Hdr.
pers Weekly He is but 20 years Of
age, son OF Mr.. l. Clarke Davis, editor
of the Philadelphia Ledger, aud Mrs
Rebecca Harding Davis, whose work in
fiction is we'll known. Young as he is,
MIR Davis has won his spurs both as
journalist and story writer
The many admirers Of Max Muller in
America will be pleased to know that
two imp rant " orks of his are soon to
appear. One of item, on Physical
Religion" comprises the second series
of his Clifford Lectures. and treats of the
~nature gods. and especially the gods
of fire aud Storm The lnst chapter dis
cusses the subject of miracles The
other work. IN two volumes, has for its
title AThe Science ,f Language, and is
based on his well known lectures of
1861 and 1868 now revised to include
tie advance of lie science during the
past 80 years.
Prof William Jlmes vigorously takes
up the cudgel' i,r q e prop 'sed shorten
ing of the college course in the HdrUdrd
Monthly He argues-justly, as we be,
lieve-that three years course would
deter from idlemess and Indifference
land we will add prankishness) in the
first year, and would "brace up all
along the line. He also touches the
marrow of the question when he says:
@1he distinction passmen from honor
men, # general culture mem from
specializers, is founded in the nature of
things, and must be provided for in our
academic arrangements. Let the higher
degrees serve for the latter class; let the
lower degrees serve for the former
New York Evening Post.
Statistics of the British book trade for
1890 show the total of new books to be
4, Ala, and of new editions /, 32i, making
a total Of 5,735 This, however, does not
reach the number recorded in 1889. when
4 694 new books and 1878 new editions,
or tolalof 9. .067 works, were published.
The A. Ala new books are divided into IA
classes, aud the numbers under the sew
eral heads are given as follows: Novels,
tales. and other works of fiction, 831;
educational. classical. and pathological,
61J; Theology. sermors. ETC., sos; iuven-
he works aaIu tales. 443; year books and
serials in volumes, 31S; history, biogra-
ply, etc. 29i; voya ages. travels. and
geographical research, 18S; helies lettres,
essays, monographs. etc, I'll; medicine,
surgery. etc. 143; poetry and the drama,
114; political and social economy, trade.
and commerce, 81; artS, scsercss, and
illustrated works. 54; ~. Jurisprudence,
etc, 40; and misce.lane. us. including
pamphlets. oil