Los Angeles herald., 1892-03-14
NEW BOOKS.
Some Interesting Gossip About Late
Publications.

Some Interesting Gossip About Late
| Publications.
A new book OF poems by Rudyard
Kipling is announced.
| Van Bibber and Others is new book
by Richard Harding Davis.
Potiphar's Wife and Other Poems, by
Sir Edwin Arnold, is to be issued at
once.
A Good Woman is new four-act play
| by Oscar Wilde, soon to be presented in
London.
In Beaver Cove and Elsewhere is a
collection of stories by Matt Grim,
which is soon to be published.
George Wheaton Edwards has de-
signed new cover of Current Literature
and Will Fl. Lowe one for the Book
Buyer.
Tennyson's play, which is to be pro-
duced by the Daily company, is to be
published under the title The Forester
Robin Hood and Maid Marian.
In the English Men of Letters series a
life OF Carlyle by John Nichol is to be
published at once. The series stopped
five years ago with the publication of
Sidney Colvin's life OF Keats.
Hulda Fredericks has been commits
stoned by the Pail Mall Gazette to make
a tour OF the United States and write up
the social institutions and customs and
their effect on the condition OF women.
Mr.. Froude's new volume OF miscel-
laneous essays includes The Spanish
Story of Armada, Antonio Perez, An
Unsolved Historical Riddle, Saint
Teresa, The Templars, The Norway
Fjords and Norway Once More.
Jerome X. Jerome is of medium
stature, rather good looking, and has
brown hair that is usually rumpled over
his high forehead. His gray eyes are
deep set, and he has thick, dropping
mustache, good straight nose and a
large head.
The new revised edition of Herbert
Spencer's Social States will include
! The Man versus the Stale, series of
essays on political tendencies heretofore
published separately. Mr.. Spencer has
secured an American copyright for the
volume.
Ground Arms, translation from the
| German of Baroness Bertha Won SUIT
ner, is protest against war. 1t carries
the reader swiftly through the war be-
tween Austria and Italy, the Schleswig-
Holstein war, the war between Austria
and Prussia, and the Franco-German
war.
A Fellowe and His Wife is the title of
new story written by Blanche Willis
Howard and William Sharpe. 1t is
told in the form of correspondence be-
tween a German husband and his wife.
Miss Howard wrote the letters of Count
Odo and Mr.. Sharpe those Of Countess
Ilse.
J.. X. Stephen, author of Lapsus
Calami, died in London recently. Per-
haps the most universally known of Mr..
Stephens verses was the poem ending
with:
"Where the Rudysrds cease from Kipling,
And the Haggards ride no more"
The Fiction, Fact and Fancy series,
edited by Arthur Steadman, will begin
with Merry Tales selections from Mark
Twain, to be followed by Poultney Bige-
lows essays concerning the German em-
| pire and by volume of selections from
Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass.
]. M. Barrie's play, Walker London
(originally called The Houseboat) J, which
was brought out in London on February
25th, is said to have met with great sue
cess. It ie described as one of the most
laughable, original and artlessly quaint
plays seen in long time.
F. Hopkinson Smiths forthcoming
book takes its title from the leading pa
| per, A Day at Laguerre'e. The other
sketches are: Espero Gorgoni, Condo
| lier; Under the Minarets, An Escapade
in Cordova, La Canal de la Viga, A Bull
garian Opera Bouffe, Captain Joe,
Hutchins, Six Hours in Squantico.
Henry Cabot Lodge has collected into
a volume nine speeches made by him in
the last seven years. They do not dis
cuss partisan politics, but themes which
may we'll interest all good citizens. The
topics treated are: The Independent
Spirit of the Puritans, The Uses and
Responsibilities Of Leisure, The Blue
and the Gray. The Puritans, Harvard
College in Politics, The Day we Cele-
Copyright, The Civilization of the Pub
lie School, and Massachusetts.
According to the Critic, Edmund H.
Garrett's Elizabethan Songs has been
received with warm appreciation by the
English critics. Mr.. Garrett promises a
somewhat similar book next year and
1 will 90 to England this summer in the
interest of the coming volume. Mr..
Garrett was born in Albany, N. Y, in
1858. His people were French, coming
from Bordeaux, the family name being
Grenier. His mother was genuine
Yankee, being directly descended from
| the first child born in Salem. The artist
learned the trade OF wood engraving and
4 followed that for eight years. He after
wards studied painting with Jean Paul
Laurens, Lefevre and Boulanger. He is
| Of okrok Of
stories for children.