The San Francisco call., 1896-08-16
LITERARY NOTES.

Admondo de Amicis' "Constantinople" has
been translated from the Italian by Caroline
Upton and will be published shortly by
Messrs. Putnem.
Austin Dobson is now correcting the proofs
of his third series of eighteenth Century
Vignettes." The volume will not, however,
be published for some time yet.
Sir Walter Besant's novel, "The City of
Refuge which is now appearing serially in
the Pail Mall Magazine, will be published in
volume form in the autumn by Messrs Chatto
OF London.
NJ. Paul Bourget has gone to Ireland, where
he intends making a stay of some duration,
and whence he hopes to return to Paris with
his forthcoming novel in fair way toward
completion.
Charles Dickens the younger died in Lon
don on July 81 from paralysis. His last work
q new, uniform edition of his fathers
novels, now in course of publication by the
Macmillan Company.
A sea story of American war times is being
published by Messrs. Putnam, under the title
"Will o. the Wasp" The author is Robert
Cameron Rodgers, who has already written a
novel, 1.-The Wind in the Clearing
F. Tennyson Nicely has just brought out
under separate covers McKinley and Hobart"
by Byron Andrews, and "Gold or Silver?' by
NJ. A. Miller. The latter is a volume in de-
tense of sound money. Campaign literature
was never more abundant.
In the Philistine for August the best article
perhaps is Gan Hour With M@cenas, showing
the futllity OF mixing tuppence worth of lit
erature with an intolerable deal of finance. A
prose poem by Ouida is very choice bit of
composition. ''Let There Be Gall Enough in
Thy Ink" by Adeline Knapp, is not plea for
more gall, but protest against any.
Notable features of Outing.for August are:
ga Bout With the Bluefish, % by Ed W. Sandys;
"The Half-Raters," by R. B. Burchard: 1.-TWO
Hsndicaps," by Caroline Shelley; "The Naval
Militia by Lieutenant w. II. Stayton and
"Piain John Miller" by C. P. Burton. Other
seasonable sketches and many illustrations
complete an excellent number The editorial
and record departments are very interesting.
Memorials to Matthew Arnold Cardinal New
man, Thomas Hughes, Cardinal Manning
and joint one to Heminge and Condell,
Shakespeare's publishers, were unveiled re-
Gently in London on single day. Arnold's
bust is in the baptistry of Westminster Abbey
and Newman's statue in Brompton Oratory.
The coincidence of the ceremonies in honor of
these two leaders of rival religious movements
on the same day was entirely due to an acci-
dent.
The leading story of The New Bohemian for
August is called 1.-TWO in Garden" and is
from the pen of Leonora Beck. 1t is a striking
story of the weakness of human nature and
the strength of human love. tAlong the
Dunes at Scheveningen," by Mercia Abbott
Keith, is well written and handsomely
illustrated article on this famous Dutch
toll in,
semi-humorous vein, OF ''The Backslidng of q
Backwoods Christian" and incidentally gives
some clever portrayals of Cracker life and
Character in South Florida. There are
numerous other features of exceptional
merit.
The Review OF Reviews for August while
largely given over to the issues of the Presi-
Dental campaign, finds space for the treat
ment of other important topics. Besides tn
character sketch of Mr.. Bryan, the Democratic
candidate for the Presidency, the Review has
illustrated articles on Harriet Beecher Stowe
and Dr. Barnardo, the father of ''Nobody's
Children" There is the usual elaborate re-
sumo of the curr ent magazines, and the de-
partments of 1.-THE Progress of the World"
.Record of Current Events" and Current
History in Caricature" answer the typical
American demand for what is up to date and
Give"
The Macmillan Company has already pub
lished a considerable number of books bear
ing more or less directly on the history of Eng
land, including narratives of its political his
tory it's constitutional and industrial Develop
ment, etc., and will very shortly add to these
s.An Introduction to the History of the Church
of England From the Earliest Times to the
Present Day. by Henry 0. Wakeman, author
of a volume in the "Periods of European
History Series" on 'Period V: The Ascend
ency OF Frauce, A. D. 159S-1715." The book
is not manual or textbook, but is rather an
answer, in q short ana convenient form, to the
question, "How is it that the Church of Eng
land has come to be what it is?"
The ninth edition Gust issued) of Copp's
Mining Code, published by Henry N. Copp, a
lawyer of Washington D. c., is at hand. 1t is
book of more than 200 pages and will be
found of great interest to mine-owners
and prospectors, as it gives the United
States mineral land laws and the Off
cial instructions hereunder, the vari-
GUS State and Territorial mining laws,
miners liens. rights of way, etc., numerous
forms for use from the location to the patent
ing, lease and sale of mine and also large
collection of abstracts of court and land Office
decisions and rulings The San Francisco
News Company handles Mr.. Gopp's pubhca-
tions on the Pacific Coast. The book is for sale
by the principal bookstores. Price so cents.
AS an addition to campaign literature comes
a prohibition Handbook by George B.