The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-09-20
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Literary Notes.
Tho autobiography History and fcrsonai
Re,ninisceuces'' of General brnlainin /. but
Ter is to be published 10y subscription by a.
NJ rhayer y CO.. Boston
The next annual meeting Of the American
Idbrarv Association. which Is to he he'd NJ
San Francisco will occupy the week OF ten
DAYS beginning with October 10th.
Rudyard Kipling's new novel. written rl ~
ooiiaboration with Wucoit nalestier for The
Cenf,1rv il entitled The Naulahka. Tale of
West and East" Il Is story II America
and India.
The number % periodical publications IN
Gerrnauv las increased very rapldlg uurihT
tho last four years. IN 1893 ? - peiiCuie.aa ~"
were published in the fatherland IN lors tue
number WIS 2..s2. In 1890 IL amOun'e' "
S.z0i. ThI- year t is 3.43}
Lady Tcnnyson IS known 10 TIE COMPOSE,
OF some charming muse. although a-e and li
health have rendered l,er nnab.e OF late 70 90
much in mat ike At the recent ceicvration
Of the Ialraatcs eighty second birthday, az
trushwite lis wOrds vefe sung SCI % MS
wife music.
Theauthor Of "Rutledge" one OF the most
popuiar novels ever publish ~ this country,
has written new novel which Is 10 he puo-
lished shortly by y. Appleton & GO. The
title OF the forthcoming book is An Utter
Failure. and II is described as work ~ re-
markabe interest As many readers are
aware the name OF the author OF Rut.edge'
is Mrs. Miriam &. Harris.
Charles Scribnoris Sons announce THE
Sabbath in Puritan New England by Alice
Morse E,rl. a Lite of the late Professor Austin
Phelps by liis dau yhter, Mrs lizat ethS. L.
Ward The Literature OF the Oid lests-
ment" by Professor >. Is. Driver. the nrst
volume in the International Theological
Library, to be edited by Professors Charles
A. Briggs aud 5 ID. +. Salmond, ANA coAec-
ton of Historical Studies, y by Henry Adams.
D. G. Heath q Co. Boston have in press
for early publication. "A German Science
Header with notes and vocabulary, by >.
Howard Gore professor Of German IN tho
Columbian University. This book aims 10
enable students 10 read scientific German
with facility. IL discusses derivatives and
compounds, illustrating by numerous ex-
amples. and furnishes graded selections from
elementary books on science. Tho latter
have been selected and arranged with care,
and il Is believed will constitute agreeable
and profitable first reading in science
Mr.. James Whitcomb Riley has been re-
ceiyed with much euthusasm in London:
One Engishman writes concerning MN:
had the pleasure OF meeting him recently at q
dinner given by Mr. Henry irving, when. I'M
his own poems in manner that drew tears
from All eyes selection from his poems,
some of them in what Is known as the Hoo
sier dialect" mas Just been published by
LongInans. Mr. Riley is a humcrist OF high
merit An impression prevails that should he
adopt the stare he would take rank Us a come
dian of the first water so mobile and ex-
pressiye IA face has seldom been accorded a
inan. In any case a brilliant future is before
him"
James StiIie. the veteran dealer in second
hand books nj Edinsburgh. says of Mr. Glad
stone that on one OF his last visits to his shop
he began 70 think he was buying too many
of my scarce books and. to the great amuse-
| nent of Lord Rosebery. who was with him,
ne exclaimed 4 must leave this shop or /
shall be runed'n Mr. Stillie began his APP
premiership as O bookseller with John Bal
| iantyne in 1916. One of his duties was TO
| deliver proofs to Scott at Abbottsford. He
recently said IF Scott: Some men are proud
but Scott was not like them; he had kind
word for everybody. He did not know what
what pride was. He spoke 10 me az If | was
| his equal. And he was a true man. lie was
a great mana very great man; therell never
| his like again"
| G.. 2. Putnam's Sons have In press Life
| OF Thomas Paine" by Moncuro ID, Conway
the Life and Correspondence Of George Ma
son, Of Virginia" edited by Kate Mason Row.
land. in two volumes; The Renaissance;
the Revival Of Learning in the Fourteenth
and Fifteenth Centuries" by Philip Schsf, D..
d.: Julius Caesar and the Organization Of the
Roman Empire by w. Warde Fowler. "A
| History of Greece" by II. X. Fox-Bourno;
The Industrial and Commercial Supremacy
of England" lectures by the late j. f.. Tho
rold Rogers. edited by his son. Arthur Rog-
ers; Tho English Language and the Eng
lish Grammar Treated Historically" by
Samuel Ramsey Economic and Industrial
-Delusons: A Discussion Of the Case for Pro-
lection" by Arthur 3. and Henry Farquhar
The Evolution of Life; or Causes of Change
in Animal Forms" by Hubbard Winslow
Mitchell, NJ. d.: The Merrimack River
and Other Poems" by Benjamin w. Ball;
"Parnassus by Rail- poems by Marion NJ.
Miller. and Pierre Chsron's Treatise on Wis
| dom, paraphrased by Myrtilla Ii. n. DAILY.