The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-02-11
Some Recent Fiction.

A volume of travels by NJ Jules Niche
let has recently been discovered and
edited by his widow. 1t is called ION the
Highways OF Europe" Mrs. Mary J.
Serrano has made a translation Of the
book. which will be published by the
Cassen Publishing Company about the
middle OF February, some weeks In ad-
vance Of its publication in France. The
book is said TO be in Michelets most en-
gagfng manner, so that its appearance
will prove a delight as well as surprise
TO his admirers.
A previously unpublished poem by Char
iotte Bronte will form an interesting item
in the February Cornhill.
Phillips Brooks popular sermon on the
gains of growing old will be published in
few days by Messrs Dutton with the
title. 1.-THE Good Wine at the Feast's
End" The proofs were corrected by the
Bishop a short time before he died.
Macmillan & Co announce for this
month a new volume by the author or
| 'AIarius the Epicurean," entitled plato
and Platonlsm." 1t will be uniform with
the last American edition OF Mr.. Pater's
books. From the same publishers VIII
come a novel treatment Of the belief In
future state under the title Of 1.-THE I'm
| seen World"
The University Of the City>of New York
| has become the purchaser of the Paul de
| Iagarde Library, recently bequeathed 10
| the Royal Society of Gottingen. The
money to secure the collection has been
guaranteed by some fifty citizens of New
| York. The Royal Society was disposed TO
| sell It to university which would keep
| II unbroken rather than to private deal
ers, and accepted a bid OF s7,2O5 The
secretary of the society has sent cable
| gram notifying the university that 1t may
| expect a Government decree conveying
| the library to the University OF the City
| Of New York The North Germon Lloyd
Steamship Company will bring the books
! to this country free Of charge.
The Millcent Memorial Library at Fair
| haven. Mass, was dedicated on January
| goth in the presence of large number OF
people from that town and surrounding
| places. $50,
"'The Aim Of the Novel" IL the title Of
a Unity little volume by f. Marion Craw-
| ford which Macmillan & Co. have on the
| press Mr.. Crawfords papers published
| in The Forum are the foundation OF the
| work. but are far from being the whole Of
| IT. The subject is one that he has been
| studying for years.
| Mr. ]. Addington Symonds is at work
ubon a "Study OF walt Whitman" tthe
| thinker and the writer rather than the
| mani which he hopes to issue In small
| volume He is also preparing third
| edition of his Studies of Greek Poets"
which will present the two series In
chronological order.
Carmen sylvia" Queen OF Roumania,
Is the author of the illustrated article on
Bucharest, the Roumanian capital. pub
lished in Harper's Weekly Of February
list, i'm the series on the Capitals OF the
| World.
The Citizen has been decided upon as
the name OF the new Philadelphia weekly,
The Point Of View being discarded. Mr..
Henry Collins Walsh will be the manag-
ing editor; Mr.. Francis Howard Williams
the literary editor, and the following
staff will have charge OF departments
and assist In the editorial work: Mr.. Har-
rison s. Morris. Professor Angelo He'll
| prin. Miss Agnes Repplier, Mr.. Owen
! Wister Mr. Thomas Earle White, Miss
Anne II. Wharton and Professor Edmund
| J. James
| Hungarian papers report that the EN-
press Of Austria has acquired such a
mastery over modern Greek that she has
been able TO translate into that language
for her own qualification and without any
aid. Hamlet" Lear and "The Tenn
nest" During the progress OF her stuuies
| the Empress is said to have procured all
| the Neo-Hellenic translatJons OF Heine's
poems in order to read again the songs
Of her favorite poet.