The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-03-27
LITERARY NOTES.

new volume oil snort stories Dy hicnaIu
Harding Davis, entitled "Van Bibber and
Others" viii be published shortly by Harper i
Brothers.
Thomas Nelson Page will open the Editors
Drawer of RGrpers Magazine for April with an
amusing character sketch entitled "How isrul
0ut-played Gabrul."
ain the vestibule Limited" by Brander
Matthews, is the subject OF the new volume in
the dainty and very popular "Black and White
series," published by Harper e. Brothers.
The popular story writer, Thomas Nelson
Page, has written for the April number OF the
North American ReuieW al impressive article
under the head of "a Southerner on the Negro
Question"
The complete novel in LippiacoEs Magazine
for April, "But Men Must Work. is by Rosa
Nouchette Carey. In it the narrator, as visiting
governess and presiding genius. digs her way
into the family secret, and at last banishes the
family skeleton.
'Tales of King Arthur and His Knights" by
Margaret We're harrington. published by the
Putnams two years back, is now to appear in an
edition printed in raised letters for the blind,
forming one OF the series issued by the publica-
tion committee of the American Association OF
Instructors of the Blind. A new edition 1.-THE
third OF the book was called for for the past
holiday season, and it seems likely now to re-
main in permanent demand.
Harper q BrOtnerS announce the lmuleuidtc
publication OF the following books: american
Architecture" by Montgomery Schuyler;
"Folly aud Fresh Air." by Eden Phillpotts;
"Iove Letters of Worldly Woman" by Mrs. w.
X. Clifford; Tributes to shakespe a-e," by Mary
K. Silsby: Monsieur Henri, a Foot Note to
French History" by Louis Imogen Quincy;
"Everybody's Writing Desk Book" revised and
edited by James Baldwin; "Stories From En-
glish History for Young Americans" and w.
D. Howells' new novel, "The Quality of Mercy"
The latest addition to G. P. Putnam's Sons
admirable ''Heroes OF the Nations" series is
"Julius Caesar and the Foundation of the
Roman Imperial SYSTEM" by W. Warde Fowler,
subrector OF Lincoln college, Oxford This
book is among the best OF those that have thus
far appeared in the series. Professor Fowler
deals with his subject in manner at once thor
oughly historic and thoroughly philosophic,
and nobody can read his book carefully without
acquiring clearer aud larger conception of the
character and achievements of him who was in
truth "the foremost man of all the world"
G. p Putnam's Sons announce the publication
OF Mr.. Conway's "Liie OF Paine," with history
of his literary, political and religious career in
America France and England. The pnblica-
ton of this work was thrown over from 1891 in
connection with the discovery by the author of
some important new material, including an I'M
published sketch of Paine by William Cobbett.
The paper by Cobbett possesses some exceptional
importance because it expresses a complete
change of opinion on the part of its writer from
the view held by him at the time Of some OF his
earlier utterances concerning the career of
Paine; while it was largely upon some of these
earlier utterances that were based upon the con-
illusions arrived at concerning Paine by those
who first wrote about him after his DEATH The
work will be issued in two octave volumes.
1t is the design OF the Modern Science Sc
ries," published BY D. Appleton & Co., to pro-
vide brief unteehpicai treatises for the educated
layman who has neither time nor inclination to
become specialist, but who feels the need of
informing himself on the present status of the
various branches of science The second vol
ume is entitled "The Horse: A Study in
Natural History" and is intended to es-
pecially illustrate some important priuci-
pies in biology. II outlines the principal
characteristics OF the comparative anatomy
of the horse and his near relations, the tapir
and the rhinoceros, and shows incidentally how
a "missng link" described by Professor Hu1-
ley in 1877 has since been found in the lower
eocene deposits, thus Identifying a connection
believed to have existed in the ancient ancestry
of the animals. The author is William II.
Fowler, C. B., director o. the British Natural
History museum.
With the April number OF Rarper's Magazine
Charles Dudley Warner will assume the control
OF the department known as the Editors
Study" Concerning his predecessors work in
that department he says: "Mr. Howells has not
only thought himself, but he has forced his
readers to think, of the relation of literature to
life, OF its seriousness as an occupation, of the
moral element that cannot be couaterfeited by
a mawkish senumentality. From his pulpit
he has truly bzen preacher of the spiritualiza-
ton of thought, in words that must have gone
hard sometimes with the 'natufist he happened
to be praising. 1t is not necessarily the test
of ones service to his age that mis- sentiments
have been agreed with; to win that honor one
would only need to ascertain the prevailing
sentiment and utterit. Mr.. Howells has sought
the truth as it appeared to him. His successor
would like simply to say to him, as his hand is
on the door, that deep affection goes out to him
for his sweet spirit and sincerity, and profound
admiration for the CHARM the grace, the ex-
quisite literary art, that nowhere else in these
days, in our tongue, has been so marked and
sustained as in his study"