The San Francisco call., 1896-04-26
LITERARY NOTES.

E. III. Woodward Company, Baltimore,
Md, announces a new book. "Story of
Spain and Cuba" This book is written
by Nathan C. Green, the well-known au-
thor and former resident of Cuba. It is
beautifully illustrated with nearly 100 en-
cravings and is sold by subscription.
The Merriam Company (New York;
will shortly publish new novel, "Apples
of Sodom,' by Marie ST. Felix, author of
1.-TWO Bad Brown Eyes" patricia" and
"a Little Game With Destiny
A book of historical interest is "The
Courtships of Queen Elizabeth" by Mar
tin A. S. Hume, the editor of the calendar
of Spanish state papers in the Public
Record Office. Mr.. Hume says in his
preface that he has often been struck by
the failure of historians of the time to ac-
count adequately for what seems merely
perverse fickleness on the part of perhaps
the greatest sovereign that ever occupied
the English throne, and that he has un-
dertaken in this book to show how a
strong modern England was rendered pos
sible by the tixity OF purpose and cor
summate statecraft that underlay the p
parent levity and capriciousness of the
Queens actions.
Macmillan & Co. will publish IN the
early autumn another volume in the
American edition of their Elementary
Classic Series, Selections from Cornelius
Nepos," by J. Edmund Barss of the Hotch-
kiss School, LakeyiIle, Conn. 1t will con-
tain, besides seven Lives" and the "Pr@-
fatio," notes, maps, special vocabulary,
word groups, and exercises based on the
text for translation into Latin.
Clarence Urmy, the poetic San Josean,
has the following lines ITO Singer in
May Lippincott's:
Thou hast gift of gifts; go seek for bliss
In far strange lands, through long and weary
Thou wilt not find a sweeter boon than this.
The power to move thy listeners to tears.
The first of series OF papers on South
Africa which Professor James Brice, M. P,
is to contribute to The Century appears in
the May number.
Maurice Maeterlinck, .sthe Belgian
Shakespeare" is putting the finishing
touches to piece in five acts. entitled
"Aglavaine ct Selysette." 1t will be pro-
duced in Paris in the course of the spring.
A new novel by George Ohnet is in the
press. 1t has not appeared in serial form.
The title is ''L' 'Inutile Richesse." The
book, whose theme is the inability of
wealth to insure happiness was suggested
to the author by the unhappy career of
poor young Max Lebaudy, but it is in no
sense roman clef.
An exhaustive history and description
of Caen. one of the oldest and most pictur-
esque towns In Normandy, has been writ
ten by Eugene de Robillard de Beaure-
paire. The volume, which is the result of
the labor of many years, will be issued in
Paris. 1t has been very copiously Illus
trated by Paulin Carbonnier.
A French version, revised by the author,
is about to appear of three essays by Count
Leo Tolstoy ON Zola. Dumas and Guy de
Maupassant. In the guise of preface the
volume will contain letters by Dumas fills
and Emile Zola.
An important work dealing with French
colonization in Western Africa will shortly
be published in Paris. The author is NJ. A
Yerdier. who for many years was French
Resident at Grand Bassam. "Trente-cinq
Annees de Lutte aux Colonies" is the title
of the volume.
The second volume of Henri Rochefort's
memoirs is ready. 1t deals with the great
pamphleter's first exile from France,
with the death of Victor Noir, the Franco
German War, the fall of the Empire and
the Commune.
A waltz arrangement of Paul Dresser's
song, "Just Tell Them That You Saw Me-"
has been made by Theodore f. Morse, the
well-known composer, and will appear in
the May number of Ev'ry Month
Miss Barlow is engaged upon new vol
ume OF Irish stories, which will be pub
lished in the Iris Library as a companion
volume to her "Maureen's Fairing."
Macmillan d Co. will commence imme-
diately the publication of their translation
of the works of Friedrich Nietzche. The
first volume will be 1.-The Case of Wag-
ner"
William Canton's new volume, "W. ",
Her Book, and Various Verses" will be
published in London next month 1t IS
somewhat on the same lines as his tender
story, "rhe Invisible Playmate"
The next volume in Heinemann's Inter-
national Library is tO hp a translation
which Miss Ethel Robertson has made
from the Danish of Jacobson. The vol
ume is entitled "Siren Voices" Follow