The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-03-13

Messrs. Merrill & Baker have begun to
issue An edition of George ElioI's books
that is nota BILE for good taste and chaste
elegance. There are to be "a volumes.
A volume Of Essays and Studies" by
Mr.. J. Churton Collins, has just been pub
lished by Macmillan & Co. 1t includes
essays from The Quarterly on Dryden, the
Predecessors of Shakespeare, Lord Ches-
terfeid's Letters, and the Person of
Shakesperian Criticism; and an essay from
The Cornhill on Menander.
Mr.. Howells will not respond TO re-
quests for his autograph except "to such
askers as can furnish me proof by in
telligent comment upon it that they
have read some book of mine. III
they can inclose n book sellers certificate
that they have bought the book their
case will be very much strengthened; but
l do not insist upon this" Mr.. Howell's
publishers should see that this delicious
bit OF veritist self appreciation is widely
printed, and that check is at once sent
TO MIR. Howells commensurate with its
value as an advertisement. Maybe, after
all, IL has never occurred to Mr.. Howells
that waste baskets yawn for letters that
need not be answered.
sin Stevenson's Land" by Marie Frazer,
which Macmillan Il Co., have in press, is
a book OF unusual interest. An account
OF visit of some months duration to the
land where Robert Louis Stevenson lived
and died, it gives most vivid picture
both OF Stevenson himself and of his as
sociates and surroundings.
Mr.. Henry M. Stanley is going to try
and discover his practically lost reputa-
tion, as an author IL not also as an ex-
plorer, by publishing book to be called
"My Early Travels and Adventures"
Macmillan & Co. have just published a
new edition OF Professor silvanus Thomp-
sons "Elementary Lessons on Electricity
and Magnetism"
Tolstoi has new book nearly ready,
called "Pr.ceiess Wealth and all the
Trou bles Attached 20 It."
There is a. least ons sane critic of Mr..
Crawiord's Glove in Idleness." The Lit
erary World says it is more important for
its drawings and photographs OF Bar Har-
Dor "and for the general beauty OF its
makeup than for the text ITSELF"
Mrs. Humphrey Wards new novel.
"The Story OF Bessie Costrell," will run
as a serial both in America and in En-
gland and will be pu blished by Macmillan
4 Co. Ia book form in May.
In Harper's Young People for March
9Th the first instalment OF a story OF ad-
venture entitled "Snowshoes and
Sledges," by Kirk Munroc, was given.
The eleventh edition OF Kidd's "Social
Evolution" published by Macmillan & Co.,
In paper, will be novelty in that it Is a
really cheap edition for tn /, general pu bl ic
This edition contains the authors latest
revlsions and an entirely new preface not
to be found In any pirsted edition.
The Century's Life OF Napoleon has
caught the popular fancy in a most sur
prisiug way, and copies Of the magazine
have been hard to get unless purchased
within few days OF issue. With each
instalment," says The Critic OF March 2,
the value and thoroug hnoss OF the work
becomes more manifest"
Harper's Magazine Ii to try TO partici-
pate in the French renaissance by pub
fishing personal recollections of Jeanne
d'Arc--the recollections being those OF
the maids secretary or attendant by way
of " the most popular OF living magazine
WRITER'S" whose name, / have before
guessed, is Thomas A. Jsnvier.
Miss Yonge has just finished another
OF her popu ar stories. Ii is called "a
Long Vacation" and will frat be pub
lished as a serial In The Churchmsn and
then issued by Macmillan a Co. in style