The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-12-03

Mr.. r.. l.. Stevenson will write an In
PRODUCTION to his grandfather's reminis-
cences of his journey with Scott, which
Scribner's will soon print.
Dickens's daughter, Miss mamie"
Dickens, has written for The Ladies
Home Journal "a semi-ghost tale OF the
romance of an old English manor" The
late Henry Ward Beecher is said to have
"loved flowers earnestly" and to have "un-
derstood them intelligently," and these
traits in Mr.. Beechers nature are de-
scribed by she who knew him best" in the
"reminiscences Of her husband contributed
To the December and January numbers OF
the Journal by the famous preachers
widow.
George Kennan, who has been lecturing
In California, will sail from San Fran
cisco for New York via Panama to-day
just two days after his book on Siberia is
ISSUED by the Century Co., and will thus
have a months rest before he begins lee
turing again in the East i'm January. Mr..
KEENAN, has recently received letter
from Paul ID. Bergen, an American mis-
sionary at Chi Nan Flu in northern China
saying that the Russian Government has
refused to allow him to pass through
western Siberia on his way back to the
United States. 1t looks as il henceforth
Americans were not to be allowed to go
through that country on any pretext.
The library of the late Prof Guyot has
just been presented to Princeton College.
IL comprises 4 200 books, 1900 pamphlets
and 1900 maps The collection is very
valuable one, being especially rich Ia
books of early date and containing some
containing some complete sets Of maya
zines and periodicals. 1t has been arrang
ed and catalogued by Prof. Libbey, and
Will be placed in Nassau Hall.
An oak chair made from the printing
press on which the original kilmarnock
1856 has just been added to the Burns
cottage at Ayr.
According to the Cincinnati VOlksbldtt
Mark Twain has rented a house in Berlin,
where he intends to remain several
months, possibly a year. He suffers so
much from rheumatism that he remained
in seclusion for several weeks. His three
children and his wife and her sister are
with him. 1t is expected that he will
write a book on Berlin. but for the pres
ent the doctor has forbidden him to use
his hand even for taking notes, which he
finds great affiiction.
Other New Books.
Miss Elizabeth Bisland is announced as
in collaboration with the English novelist
Rhoda Broughton, the novel in construc-
tion being "A Widower Indeed" pub
lished by the Appletons. They also an
nounce an expensive, limited edition of
the autobiography OF Jules Breton, the
French artist, illustrated by twenty large
engravings of Breton's paintings of French
peasant life, such as THE First Com
munion," Evening at Finistere," etc.
The book also contains a fac simile of a
poem in manuscript by the artist.
Houghton, Miffiin & Co., Boston, repub-
lish in the Riverside series Bret Harte's
Ward of the Golden Gate" in which he
draws so firmly the coarser and the finer
traits in American men, both Northern
and Southern, as brought out in early
California life, and touches so exquisitely
the corresponding contrasts in the women
there. Both men and women he idealizes
of course, in his inimitable way. The story
drifts to New York and to European
baths in its development. Mary II. Cath
erwood's Acadian romance, THE Lady of
Fort ST. john" and 1.-The Abandoned
Claim" by Flora III. Longhead, come in
l. g.. g.. . l. A.,