The morning times., 1896-05-10

| setti. They haveh been the most potent
forces OF the art wDr,diD the art world.
! Gen. Horace Pomer is preparing the rem
| inlscences OF Gen .sGrant for magazine.
! We are to have asvolume of reminis-
/; cences from "a man ewho knew Kipling
we'll"
Kiplipg was once abe assistant editor
! or the Civil and Military Gazette OF LAHORE,
| India.
| Mile DeMusset iieciines to let anyone
| publish her brother Alrred's posthumous
: writings.
! The daughter ofsthe of the Yale
lock is story writer. and she lives IN
| Chicago.
ponkaty Branch ROad'' will soon be be-
tween covers.
Elzabct!i stUartePhelps has conviction
: that her Iate5t. novel, "a Singular Lille"
! will be her last.
| Heine was the first of the great German
! poets to be i'll touch with the distinctive |
moving forces OF modern life.
! The extra illustrator" is thriving in the !
land and his ruthless hands make eager
prey of the bibliophle's love.
Marion Crawford will contribute next
years serial to the Century. The title
| has not yet been made known:
An Edinburgh firm is about to publish
| a new Bible dictionary, which is TO be in
! four volumes OF 900 pages each.
| Harold Spenser's 'At the Sign of the
| Gullotine" is another contribution TO vol
| luminous French Revolution fiction.
! Joan OF Arc literature accumulatcs like
January football. She seems to haverout-
| ed Napoleon and Lincoln from the reid
! Oxford refused recently to admit wcmen
! 10 the curriculum Friends OF the movement
see only pOstpa nementof thcrpet scheme
! Maurice Maeterlinck believes in the
! matrimonial symbol along with the rest
| Heis going tG marry young French woman.
Nobody, said DR.. Johnson. can write
| the life OF a man but those who have eat ard
drunk and lived in social intercourse with
! him.
j. NJ. Bauie once said that writing is
| all Il pursuit of that we can never seize,
! but We can 20 on pursuing. Al! work is
! that.
| Persian ltera turc is to receive new inn
/ petus among English readers by 1orth-
! coming translation Of poem by Omar
! Khayyam.
Nearly one hundred and seventyfive new
| books are published each month IN Amer
! lea. Fiction only uespasses on third OF
| this pumber.
! How good may be the poems OF writer
| who mas turned out 10000 and is s,i AT II?
| This is the feat OF Nine Irma Fed0ssovi, a
| Russian peasant.
An old German proverb gays that war
| leaves country with three armies-an
army of crinples. an army OF Inourncrs,
and an army OF thieves.
I Henri Rochefori's hair resembles snow
| drift, and his strong race is smooth EXCEPT
| for stuhby moustache and Il sinal! Tut
| OF whskers on the chin.
The new life of Lockhart, in prepara-
| tion by Andrew Lang, Will soon be availa-
| bic for these who love 10 read the Eng
| nsh critics commentaries.
| Over 400 manuscripts We're received in
answer TO the request for an answer TO the
STORY of an African Farm. The success
| full story came anonymously.
| Alexander Hamilton was student of CO.
| lunlbia College When 1t was King $ College,
before God Save the King gave way TO
columbia as the national air
| The BicyClers, which now appears in
| book form with other farces by John Ken
drick Bangs. was played by the Holland
| Brothers In Boston last winter.
The The new rev! and most unusual excursion
| tions made for Suphcn Cranes Legends
| by Melanie Elizabeth Norton. ..
| Bendett is accused OF inaccuracies in his
| recently publlshedtand translated Studies
| in Diplomacy. The bulk of ths book ap-
peared in reviews bet ween $50 and SS4
MARX Rutherford''is the nom de plume
| of W. Hale White, who was estranged from
the New College, Edinburgh, through his
advanced views. He lives i'll Hastings, Eng
! land
When Leigh Hunt edited the Examiner
| he had the able assistance of Hazlitt and
| Lamb. He wrote two OF his principal
| works while in prison for an attack on The
| Regent.
Emile Garboriau the most read of ali
| French writers Of,detective stories. began
his career as para grapher on news
| paper. He died when only thirty elght
! years old
Julian H wthnrnes first literary VEN
| lures weIr articles on natural history,
written for ire Naveriy Magazine in 1865
| fuCE ict emily achieved its one thousandth
| week C. life.
A Lady OF Quality led the sales in sev-
| en- of twenty-seven American cities held
| second place in eight cities and was within
the first SIX most demanded in twenty OF
| the cities pooled.
or all the writers who attained
| reputation in the middle of this century
! Bayard Ia ylOr is the least read.
| biography recently published is stimulat-
! ing interest in his career.
Sir Walter Bcsant has expressed himself
| on the laureateShip. He thinks SwinburE,.
vas VAS entitled to 3I Il BEYOND J. all question
| TO write even bad poetry?
One popularity OF Herbert Spencer, and
| il is not indcfenSible, is that he never aC-
| ccpts H Ollege degree Orany hon orary t-ade-
ma rk from any society. He says lie wants to
| stand or Iail on his own merits.
/ Poor, buffeted Alfred Austin has found
| an ap0logist in Max NardCu. II may he
| said that this is the ha rdest blow the
laureate has yet received and Narfou's
| Critique is the sanest thing he has done.
Harold Frederic's new novel is leading .
| dual life In this country it is maSquerad-
! ing as The Damnatlon of Theron Ware.
| In England they call it illumination" H.
Nathaniel Ha wthorne wrote an extreme
| ly fine hand 1t is computed tina. he cram
| med 300 words on Il single page of script,
i though Sonie were mere characters and
| parts of words INTENDED for his own in-
| depreciation
Dodd, Mead & Co. request all pur-
| chasers of copies of Beside the Bonnie
| Briar Bush" not containing an account or
! DR.. MacLure's funeral to notify them OF
| the fact, stating where the book was
| bought, and the price paid.
Prof. John Trowbridge, of Harvard, was
| the first American to- make Il successful
| Rocntgen photograph by the cathode rays
Tie Fly Leaf has been stitched into the
| Philistine, and has lost its entity as a
| ma gaZine.
F. Hopkinson Smith, our jack of all
trades, has British rival He is none
other than Wilnam Black, who not only
| writes stories. but pants portraits. is an
| enthusiastic gardner and an all-round
sportsman.
Rudyard Kipling has finished a long
life among the North tantic coast fish
cries. The material for the new tale was
| gathered in observations during several
seasons at Gloucester, Mass
Surgeons sermons are one of the lit
| erary successes OF the century, 1855 OF
sold, and the sum total of the sales reaches
nearly 100, 10000 an average of about
| $1,000 copies of each sermon.
Many-sided F. Hopkinson Smith, who
has been a contra ctor, bridge builder,
architect, artist and book writer, appears
in his Tom Grogan as a lawyer of no mean
| capacity. In HopkinsOn Smiths case it is.a
Jack OF all trades and master OF each
The English Bookman speaks OF our
Dick as Richard Arden Davis" Such is
fame. 1t recalls his first introduction into
London Bohemia when his hostess told
ha nv