The San Francisco call., 1896-02-09

which appeared in THE CALL few weeks
since, has been purchased by Richard
Mansfield, who will produce the play in
America, while it is expected that Beer
| bohm Tree will in troduce it in England.
Francis Bellamy, who for nearly six
years was one of the editors of the
Youths Companion, has been added to
the editorial staff of the Ladies' Home
Journal as one of Mr.. Bok's principal as
sociates. The new editor is cousin of
Mr.. Edward Bellamy, author of Looking
Backward"
! Mary Anderson de Navarro's long-ex-
pected work, IA Few Memories" will ap-
pear during the month of March. Harper
! q Brothers are the publishers. In April
|. the same house will issue volume en-
titled Personal Recollections of Joan of
Arc" and the second volume of Curtis
Constitutional History
| Henry Houssaye writes in the annual of
| the Soc1ete des Amis des Livres: "Aldus
is taking the place of Virgil, Trabouilet of
Moliere, Pierre Brunei of Montesquieu.'
He means that book lovers, considering
books as art objects, not as instruments of
labor, think OF their illustrators, editors
and publishers, and not of their authors.
M. Georges Ohnet is engaged on new
novel. The title he has chosen is ''Le Fills
Adoptif." M. Jules Lemaitre, whose re-
| ception at the French Academy was the
great literary event of January, awoke to
| find himself famous in consequence of an
article in which he executed" M, Ohnet,
as few authors have been executed before
| or since.
| The new edition of Poe has finally been
completed by the issue of the tenth volume.
1t is now two years since the actual work
of this edition was begun, and this time
has been one of unceasing labor on the
part of Mr.. Stedman and Mr.. Woodberry,
the editors, and Messrs. Stone 81 Kim
ball, the publishers, to make this edition
| the absolutely final and defnitive one.
In The Lounger's" column of the
Critic of February L appears this brief,
pointed note: Mrs. Madeleine Yale
! Wynne, the author of "The Little Room
and Other Stories,'' is the daughter of the
inventor of the Yale lock. As Yale lock
is always accompanied by a Yale key L
wish that Mrs. Wynne would use one to
unlock the mystery of ''The Little Room"
To the Photographic Times New York;
for February Professor Charles F. Hines
contributes an excellent article on ''Elect-
rical Discharges Investigated by Means of
Stereoscopic Photography" with q re-
markably interesting photograph. The
! Hon. A. A. Adee. Assistant Secretary of
State, who is distinguished microscopic,
contributes an illustrated article entitled
"a Water Beetle"
| The notable features of Outing for
! February include THE Llewellin Setter"
Sweet Mariory," Padding in Hon
/ duras," Shooting at Swatow, China"
Modern Snipe," 1.-THE Wizard of the
Cascade" "Gycling in Mid-Atlantic,'
Balearics." The editorial and record de-
! partments are valuable, and the number
is beautifully illustrated.
The American Academy of Political and
Social Science, Philadelphia, has Just pub
!ished three volumes that are OF especial
interest at the present time. They are:
'The Nicaragua Canal and the Monroe
Doctrine" by L. NJ. Keasby, paper, %
cents; 1.-The Advantages of the Nicaragua
Route" by j. w. Miller, paper, 15 cents,
and THE Nicaragua Canal and the Eco
nomic Development of the United States.''
by L. r. Johnson.
In the February number of the Progress
of the World, the notable features are the
accounts of some recent marvellous dis
coveries, such as the device of Dr. A.
Graham Bell, by which he transmits
sounds and ordinary conversation along a
sunbeam, in the same way that we now
use telephone wire; also the new light,
accidentally produced by Professor Roent-
gen, that penerraIes solid substances, and
can photograph the skeleton of living
man.
The Roycroft Publishing g-house, East
Aurora, New York, announces for imme-
dlate delivery an exquisite edition of THE
| NOhS VI OOhSo5 w ulCu 10 CDlOMOn
| being a reprint of the text together with a
study by Elbert Hubbard, wherein a most
peculiar and pleasant effect is wrought by
casting the song into dramatic form. The
! study IS sincere. but not serious, and has
been declared by several learned persons,
! to whom the proofsheets have been sub
mitted, to be work of art. Hand-printed
on excellent paper, and bound in antique
boards, 50.
| The new biography of Lady Blessington,
which Messrs. Downey of London, Eng,
have announced, will be published on
February 10. 1.-The Most Gorgeous Lady
Blessington," as the memoir is called, will
appear in this country on the same day.
j. Fitzgerald Molloy, who is the
| biographer, has, in preparing the present
volume, had at his disposal letters ad-
dressed to Lady Blessington by such
celebrities as Marryat, Dickens, Tom
Moore, Lytton, DisraeIi and Gait, the Scot
tish novelist. Much of this correspondence
will see the light for the first time.
In the February 1st issue of the Chap
| Book is an interesting announcement.
Beginning with the next issue the price of
the magazine is to be raised from 5 to 10
cents. This is the first sign of a reaction
against the cheapening of magazines,
| which has gone on at such furious rate
during the last year or two. Many people
have questioned whether it makes any
essential difference to the purchaser
whether he pays 5, 10 or Is cents for his
magazine, provided only he gets some
| thing he really wants. And he suspects
| thar there is a limit IN the DOssibIe = haoD.