The morning times., 1896-11-01
Literary Notes.

MrS. humphrey NaroS Aihittih h"s
| reached It's seventicln thousand.
| Maupassant rs accorded first place among
modern French writers by Tolstol,
Prof. Garner has in press new BOOK
called .'Gorillas and Chimpanzees.
THE Eonnie Brer Bush sketches We're
| first contributed TO the British Weekly
"Boaemia" rs lie fci y-iittn vciin!e of
Putman's stories Of the Nation series.
George A. Henty writes his books of
| sea adventures for boys on the deck of his
| yacht
stephen Cranes grammatical errors pur-
| sue iIim with GGcnty equal only TO his
| fame.
| Robertson Nicoll IL was who discovered
David Lyall, author of Heather from
the Brae.''
The original of Mr.. Craw ford's Mr..
! Isaacs" is Mr.. Jacob, u curiosity mUnger
| of Simia.
| Scupners are publishing IA handsome new
pictorial edition OF Thomas Nelson Pages
in Ole Virginia."
| The substitution Of tho" for though
| is sanctioned by usage in some Of the CON
| servatiye agamZnies.
Percival Pollard, who originated and
| edited The Echo,' is writing press notices
| for Richard Mansfield. .
The author Of '.Is Life Worth Living"
| is to edit Il new high class London weekly
! called the British Review.
Lloyd Osborne, The stepSon of the late
| Robert Louis Stevenson, has been appointed
United States consul at Samoa.
The finest book ever published is now
being made by the Grolier Club Of New
| York. 1t is II catalogue of Mr.. Robert
Hoes library.
| Edna LyIil should sue the photographed
and publishers who are distributing
photograph OF her and vase OF ferns ana
| chrysantbemumS
Tulstoi recently confessed that he does
| not understand IbSen. He finds it impossi-
| bic to determine what he stands for and
what his purpose is.
| If You are caught up by the carpers who
| object to the word Booklet" rcmtni them
| that Thomas Arnold, masier of Rugby,
found it pretty good Anglo-saxon.
The lectures which Ian Maclaren deliv.
cred at Yale since his advent in this coun-
try will be published Immediately by Dodd
| Mead & Co., under the title, The Cure OF
| Souls"
Hector Malot, the French novelist, Is
| close upon siXty-siX, and he proposes TO
| publish a farewell volume, which is TO
serve as an autobiography and key TO his
| romances, which he declares were all drawn
| from life.
DIR. Hunt Of Princeton levels his shafts
| at Lord Byrons self-contradic,ions. Re
| gardleSS ui the condition of the balance OF
| his spiritual anatomy, Byron's left ear must
| have burned when the doctor snapped his
| bow.
Every MONTH ONES for November with
| Il Sapply Of pretty music, interesting reading
| matter and beautiful illustrations. Paul
| dresser contributes song of remarkable
| beauty: Il Wish That You We're Here To
| night"
| Its said that Mrs. Humphrey Ward wrote
| "Siriieursc TreSsad dy''fourtimcsover before
1t appeared rs a serial, and twice more be-
fore she allowed It 10 appear in book form.
1t is also stated that $4,000 is her price
| for serial rights in England
| 4 highly important publication is made
this month of ''one Hundred Mash Notes
| Received by an Actress on Tour. IL Is
| needless to say that the collection Is ficti.
| tious, andis made bya house who's. produce
| does not make even cleanly waste paper.
MesSrs. Copeland and Day of Boston an
| nUnnCe for publication on October 81 AN
outland Journey 10y Walter Leon Lawyer
| story satirizins some institutions and
| fads, and Songs of Exile" by Herbert
Rates. The latter volBme is the fifth OF
the oaten Top Series.
| In the November humber of the Atlantic
| Monthly. Thomas Wentworth Higcinsen
has 4 delightful paper ON "A Cambridge
| BOyhood," which is the first OF series
of Cheerful Yesterdays Charles Egberr
| Craddock begins The Juggler' and j.
Laurence Laughlin writes OF The Causes
| of Agricultural Unrest"
Seven complete stories are the features
of the Cosmopolitan for October, which is
designated IA fiction number The
| Stage and the Beauty Problem, Through
| Oriental Docrways.'' ''Bclles of Caracas >
ANA the departments conducted by Zang-
| VIII, FTanciSque Sarcey and Don Fiatt are
also Of interest
The last poems written by Robert Louis
| Stevenson, Songs of Travel, and Other
| Verses" Just published. We're sent to his
publishers in manuscript some time before
his death. and one of the titles suggested
by the author was "Posthumous Poems, -
! indicaltng clearly that Stevenson was
| conscious of his apidly-approachnS end.
john Lane, who sailed for England the
other day, has arranged for branch Of the
Bodley Head ut No. 40 Fifth avenue, where
lie Will In future publish the American edi-
tionS of his books, and also of the Studio
The American Bodlcy Head Will he presided
over by an American. Whether the custom
Of afternoon teas will he kept up, as in NiGO
street, is not known, hut Bodlcy Head
without O'Clock tea would he an anomaly.
| Scribner's Magazine FOR November has
an attractive array of new matter by new
| writer's. Most Interesting of the articles are
| Panther Shooting in India by Capt. Mel
lisS OF the Bombay Infantry: The .:GnaiS-
sance of Lithography,' by NJ. H. Spell
mann. ana Women Bachelors in New
YORK. By Mary Gay Humphreys. "Caven-
DISH writes on what America Has Done
for Whist Barrc'S Sentimental Tom
my" comes to an end and Julian Ralph
writes of Indian things.
On her dcathhcd Lady Tennyson left a
striking annUtationto he appended to future
editions of her husbands works. She was
well acquainted with the difference of
styles between THE Coming of Arthur
and The Passing of Arthur and the other
idyls, and she said TO her son to see to il
that in the new editions it was men.
toned that Tennyson said the two nance
idyls are purposely simpler in style than the
others as dealing with the awfulness OF
birth and death.
Sir Edwin Arnold has been vctimized b,
Il bold, bad advertising man A poem was
engaged from him md all rights purchased
for use, rs Mr.. Arnold supposed in the usual
way in a periodical. What was his horror
to find it in the London Times a day or two
Litter as the piece de resist tance of Il flam
ing advertisement of sewing machines,
brands of tobacco. bottled stout and VI rious
| other toiitno'i'lcs' Sir EuWin HIS hesuf
legal proceedings against the advertising
| man.
BalZac seems to be gaining in popularity
if one may judge of the amount of writ
ing about him that is being done. w. p
Trent, after reading fifty volumes by Bal
Zac, writes in the Atlantic that the French
man in question is the equal of Homer and
Shakespeare. As fair denial OF Mr
Trert's proposition can only he made by
some one who has given the fifty volumes
equal attention, he will remain uncon
tradcted. Balzac Is safe in his prodigious
numerical Qualifications.