The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-11-08
Literary Notes.

J. b. Lippincott Company will have ready
next month Countess krikas Apprentice
ship" from the German Of Ossip Schubin
by Mrs, A. l.. Wister.
Emile /ola's much-talkei-of story. the
| title OF which. literally translated, means
| The Smash-Up," will be published by the
! Cassen Publishing Company.
A new organization has been started in 7. on.
don under the name Of The Women Writ
! ers CLUB. which will admit authors. Journal
/ lsts and literary workers generally. Tempo.
rary quarters have been taken in the Strand.
The Anarchists: A Picture of Civilization
! at the Close of the Nineteenth Century. -
| from the German Of John Henry Mackav.
! and Holiday Stories" by Stephen Fl ke. are
about TO DO issued by Benjamin h. Tucker,
Boston.
The American Humane Education Society
has offered IA prize Of $1,000 for the best
/ equestrian drama Of Black Beauty which
shail eu1ody the merciful teachings of that
book The dramas written tor the prize are
70 be left at the Office of George I. Angel on
or before May /, 1892.
SO far as is known the largest newspaper
ever published in the United States was the
ILLUMINATED Quadruple Constellation New
ork. jnly !, 1852. It's size was 7Jxl00 inches
and 1t had total Of 1Ol columns each ~
inches long. The price was fifty cents per
copy for an edition OF . 900.
In their series Of Good Books for Yopng
Readers. Messrs. ID. Appleton IL Co publish
a, book which Is probably more deliberately
Illustrated than any Juvenile work dealing
with Indian life which has ever been pub
hshed ID tins country. This will be Little
Smoke" by W. O. Stoddard, tale of the
warlike Sioux.
Hougbton. biifin Co. publish this week
The land OF the Lingering Snow by Frank
BoAes, ihree Tales by tie late William
-. OConnor, author of "Hamlet's Note
BOOB etc; new edition Of 5. G. W Benja-
INNS Persia and the Persians:" Dr.
holmes Page from an Old Volume of Life
and "A Mortal Antipathy" and a holiday
edition OF Mr.. HOwells' Venetian Life -
WITH col0red illustrations from designs by
Chllde Hassam, Hopkinson Smith. Rhoda
Holmes Nichols and Ross Turner.
According to writer in Brains Mrs. A. /.
Wister, the well-known translator Of Ger
man novels, is the Miss Furness of whose
ballad singing Thae keray wrote so enthusias
tcally when IN Philadelphia and is a woman
or 50 much cleyerness and originality that il
10 question whether she could not do far
better service to letters by putting her own
thoughts upon paper than by translating
those o. other. Mrs Wister is the daughter
OF l)r. William II. Iurness. the venerable
Unitarian divine. who IS well known rs a
writer on other subjects as we'll as in lines OF
theology"
Mr. Crunden, Of tho ST. Louis PnbEc
Library, notes tie following curious fact
about STANDARD works published in sets. The
frst volume" ne says is re nouud many
times and a. last worn out, before the last
volume shows signs of age. 10 all comes Of !
an unrestricted impulse which often over |
whelms people They discover that they |
ought TO be cultivated but don't know iust |
how 10 set about getting in that interesting |
condition. They feel that they ought to ac |
quaint themselves with English history. and |
hearing that Green's IS good history of |
England plunge into it full of zeal |
But TO one unacquainted with the subject
It's details are apt 10 be tiresome, and zeal
flags and dies out at the end of the first
or econt volume. The circulation of the
first volumes Of such works is many times
greater than that OF the last If such people
would 60 through good outline history and
ret oirds-eye view of the subject an out
me OF their ignorance they could fill in the
details with profit and PLEASURE. After get
Ting the outline they could direct their stu lies
ID any particular period which Glanced TO
interest them and exhaust that, il they were
Jealous enough. without losing sight Of the
connection OF that period with the past and
Is bearings on the future English history.
instead OF being a bore, as it is TO those who
top at the ilrst or second volume, would be
lulck with lively interest