The herald., 1896-05-31
Los ANGELES HERALD: SUNDAY MORNING. 81, 1895.

And through green boughs of apple trees
While from the quivering leaves down flows
stream Of sleep and soft repose.
The Arena comes out strong for free
silver and declares that Mckinley is a
tool OF the goldbugs and the artful dodg-
er OF American politics. By the way,
one OF our citizens, Judge Utley, has a
long paper in the current issue of this
magazine on bimetallism
The Pocket Magazine for June is most
excellent. In substance, as well as in
form, this is one of the most satisfac-
tory of all the little monthlies.
Again we call attention to The Land
of Sunshine. This periodical is one of
which Southern California should justly
feel pride. The June number is rich
in variety and quality.
In his last London letter Arthur
Waugh writes the following entertaining
gossip:
Mr.. Gordon Craig, the son of Miss
Ellen Terry, has been playing Macbeth
in the provinces, and the other night,
SO the report runs, his energy was fol-
lowed by disastrous results. In the COM
and, before he had noticed the accident,
had wounded his opponent with no stage
wound Of the imagination, but palpably
upon his solid flesh Macduff was not
seriously hurt, but. the audience was
greatly and naturally alarmed. Young
Mr. Irving. by the by, is playing Svengali
upon tour. so that the younger genera
tion may be said to be knocking at the
door with a will"
|. In his forthcoming volume. With the
Fathers. Prof. John Bach McMaster will
show with extracts from English papers
of 1924, that England generally APPROX
ed of the Monroe doctrine when it was
first enunciated. There will be, also.
study of The Third Term Tradition. The
book will be published by Messrs. D.
Appelt0n & Co.
His College Life. a story by President
William De Witt Hyde of Bowdoin
college, in the June Scr:bner's, will give
an insight into the intellectual and spir-
itual side of the life of an average col
lege boy who is intensely interested, not
only in the athletics, but also in the So
cial and studious pursuits of his college.
1t should interest certain Americans
to know that Bret Harte is writing a
serial for publication in an English peri
odical, and that Henry James is writing
a love story for The Illustrated London
News
The British Weekly says that Miss
Harraden has not quite fixed on title
for her new novel, but has thought of
striking one-I. Too, Have Passed
Trough Wintry Terrors
Under the general name of the River
ct ab0N t1ror oh
Mitf1in & Co. announce that they will
issue in attractive style and at moderate
prices a series of fifty books peculiarly
suited for school libraries. These books
have been chosen largely from the best
literature which has stood the test of the
worlds judgment, and yet Is as fresh
and inviting today as when first pub
lished. The suggestions of more than
100 prominent educators of this country
have aided the publishers in their choice.
The volumes will be edited with great
care and will contain portraits and bio
graphical sketches of the authors also
notes and glossaries wherever needed.
This firm will also publish on June 9Th
The Coming of Arthur and Other Idylls
of the King, as volume of Rolfe's Stu
dent Series. This edition of the Idylls
of the King, which will tS- completed in
August by the publication of Lancelot
and Elaine and Other Idylls of the King
as volume of the same series, will be
the first annotated edition of the entire
series of Idylls published in this country
or in Europe. 1t may be added that DIR.
Rplfe's editions of Tennyson's Poems
are made with the consent and approval
of the author and of the present Lord
Tennyson, both of whom have furnished
him with valuable helps and sugges-
tions.
1t is now feared that if the great Eng
1ish dictionary of the London Philologi-
cal society is completed it must be in
more condensed form than the first vol
umes indicated. In twelve years time
the editors have finished only four let
ters of the alphabet, and the expenses
of the undertaking have grown to enor-
nous proportions.
The London Literary World says that
"the author of The Heavenly Twins has
another book on the stocks which may
possibly see the light in the autumn.