The San Francisco call., 1896-09-27
March Hares' and Some Notes
What Literary Men and Women Are Saying and
Doing. Gossip From the Pub1ishers-A Book
on Primitive Buddhism

ding writer. 1 liked his 'Germinal,' and La
Terre' is a novel of peasant humanity. AS for
'Lourdes, stopped at the hundredth page,
and Rome never opened"
Anthony Hope has refused to change the
name of his forthcoming book to ''The Princess
of Zenda." His American publishers-the
F. A. Stokes pany-suggested a COM
promise in "The Princess Osra of Zenda,"
but Mr.. Hope remained firm, and the book is
to appear on September Is under the title
chosen by him, ''The Heart of Princess Osra.'
The sale of 100000 copies of the Temple edi.
ton of Shakespeare has encouraged the pub
fishers the Messrs. Dent in London and the
Macmillan Company in this country to plan a
series of old English dramatists, to be pub
lished in the same style, unexpurgated. Mar
lowe, Webster, Fletcher and Jonson will begin
the new undertaking. series of Temple
Cla ssies will be started shortly with 'sFaust,"
Bacons Essays More's "Utopia" and De
Quincey's "opium Eater
Messrs Lea Bros. & Co. have just issued the
third and concluding volume of Henry
Charles Leas History of Confession and In
dulgences in the Latin Church." dealing with
the history of indulgences
Bjornstjerne Bjornson is about to leave Nor
way to take up MS permanent residence in
Germany In a recent issue of the Verdens
Gang he states that the continued attacks upon
him at home are the cause OF this decision,
and that he believes he will find more
congenial field for his literary labors in Ger
many, where he will have fewer temptations
to take part in politics.
Believing that much of the increasing neg.
lect of family worship is due to the difficulty
encountered in hastily selecting passages of
Scripture of a suitable devotional character,
n ctu
and the author Of several valuable books, has
prepared volume of 365 selections from the
Bible for daily devotions, and the Funk &
Wagnalls Company OF New York will publish
the same in few days in neat dollar vol
ume The selections are also for use in the
chapel services of colleges, the opening devo-
tions in the public schools, and for the daily
use of Christian Endeavorers and members
of other societies of young people.
In the September Review of Reviews the edi-
tor discusses different phases of the Presiden.
tial campaign-especially the revolt of the gold
standard Democrats and the attitude OF East
ern wage-earners toward Mr.. Bryan. Another
important topic of discussion in the depart-
ment of ''The Progress OF the World is Lord
Salisbury's Venezuelan proposition, in con-
nection with the general scheme for perma-
nent tribunal of arbitration. The editor also
covers most of the striking developments of
the month in British and European politics.
Who are the most popular novelists, not of
the day, but of the moment? asks the West
minister Gazette. Some one has been endeav-
oring to get a. the fact by an analysis of the
first hundred books issued after the annual
stock-taking at the Nottingham Central Lend
ing Library. Marie Coreui heads the score
with eleven; Crockett follows with six, Edna
Lyall with five, Hall Caine with four, and the
next six writer's of fiction with three each
Conan Doyle, Du Maurier, Rider Haggard, A.
c. Gunter Mrs. Burnett and G. A. Henty. In
the next group of per cents are: Dick Dom
oyan, Annie S. Swan. John Strange Winter R.
N. Carey, G. Grifiths, Fl. G. Hutchinson, R.
Louis Stevenson, ]. K. spender and Mrs. H.
Wood. The two most popular novels were
Hall Gaines "Manxman" and Du Maurier's
"Trilby."