The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-06
LITERARY NOTES.

the Rev. ]. B. Thomson.
The complete novel which WilliAzH Carleton,
! the Irish novelist, left among his papers is to
be published shortly in London.
new and complete edition, in eight vol
umes, of the works of j. NJ Barrie, including
the latest books, Margaret Ogilvie' and "sen-
timental Tommy is announced by the Messrs.
| Scribner.
Andrew Lang's Iong-expected biography OF
| John Lockhart will be published by the Messrs.'
! Scribner in the fall. 1t will be interesting to
| see if the biography of Lockhart will be as alb
sorbing work as Lockhart's own biogra ply
of Scott.
Barring Gould b as finished the personal life
| OF Napoleon Bonaparte upon which he has
been working for long time In his leisure
! moments Barring Gould has made something
OF hobby of the study of Napoleon, and this
! volume is the result.
novelette, by Richard Wagner, the great
musical composer, entitled ga Pilgrimage to
Beethoven" is announced to begin with No.
40 OF the Open Court. 1t is a sketch of
great literary power and depth of thought,
full OF humor and varied artistic interest.
1t had been thought that the exhaustive
biography OF Murat, which Comte Murat is
preparing, chiefly from documents in the pos
session OF the family, would have been ready
by the autumn. The issue OF the work, how
light until the beginning of next year.
A book entitled "The Shadow Christ" soon
to be published by the Century Company, is
said TO treat an old subject with an eloquence
and force unusual in religious writings OF the
present day. II IS a study OF Christ's fore
runner i'll the Old Testament, written by a
young minister, the Rev. Gerald Stanley Lee.
SISTER jane is the title of Joel Chandler
Harris most ambitious novel, which is an
fcr HI sIIO,, in
d Co. 1t treats OF life in the South before
the war, and those who have read ii believe
that 'Sister Jane" will stand side by side with
Uncle Remus' original creation.
The Joseph Knight Company of Boston an
! nounces for publication on September 10
| "Bacon VS.. Shakespeare" by Edwin Reed, with
illustrations and facsimile of the cover Of
one of Bacon's Ms. volumes recently discoV-
cred. Nj. Reed is a member of the New York
Shakespeare Society and well-known sup
| porter of the Bacon theory.
Blackmore's new story, Darrell" which he
has VIII item for Blackwood's Magazine, is his
fourteenth large story. "Dariel" will follow
| can Uncrowned King: Romance of High
| Politics" which is concluded in the Septem-
Der number of the magazine, ana is announced
| to be by the author of "His Excellency's Eng
fish Governess. Sydney Grier.
W. j. Stiuman is editing an art volume de-
vo,ed to Venus and Apollo in Painting and
Sculpture" IL will consist of forty-one large
sized photographers. 4Orty of these being in
duplicate, and one in colors as a frontispiece.
The work viii contain all the best examples
of Venus and Apollo by the most famous old
masters and soul ptors. Messrs. Bliss, Sands &
Foster of London are the publishers.
General Horace Porter's personal recolIec-
lions OF General Grant, which the Century win
publish, beginning in November, are to be
|
Porter first met General Grant at Chattanooga.
He soon became attached to his staff, and was
with him constantly from that time until the
close OF General Grants first term as Presi-
dent during which he was Grants private sec
rotary.
There is no end to the issuing of books con-
corning Dante. A first series of ''Studies in
Dante by the Rev. DR., E. Moore, editor OF the
| "Oxford DANTE" will be published imme-
diately by the Clarendon Press. DR.. Moore
gives in this volume list of direct quotations
from Scripture and from classical authors ex-
ceeding 600 in number, and also OF illusions
and forms of expression which more or less
certainly imply reference to some previous
writer.
The Messrs. Harper will publish in Septem-
Der new edition of 'Harper's Dictionary of
Classical Literature and Antiquities" edited
by Professor Harry Thurston Peck. The first
edition of the Dictionary was published fifty
years ago, and was not, we need scarcely say,
edited by Professor Peck. DR.. Charles Anthem
was the first editor, and, excellent as was the
work when it left his hand, the Importance of
recent archaeological researches has made a
new edition necessary.
The noyel-reading world is in flutter Of ex-
pectation over the forthcoming publication of
Mr.. Du Maurier's new novel, 1.-THE Marian, -
which Will begin in the October Harper's. 1t
is said that, notwithstanding the fame and
fortune that "Trilby" has brought to him, Mr..
| Du Maurier will not allow that book to be
named in his presence. Not that he despises
his fascinating heroine, but because he is
weary and Disguised with unpleasant features
connected with the story's popularity.
Bright, seasonable, full of wholesome read
ing and artistic illus STATIONS, Outing for Sep
TENDER is worthy of its foremost position in
the field OF sport The contents include: "The
Secret of the Pines" by H. NJ. Hoke; 1.-THE
Thirty-Foot Glass; by R. B. Burchard "The
Courtship of Jack Curtis" by George GLADDEN.
Grail and Reedbird," by Ed w. Sandys; with
the Upland Plover," by James K. Benton, and
"Tenting in the Arid Lands" by John w.
Hays.
The celebrated "Hoyt-ward. Cyclopedia OF
Practical Quota tions," which obtained such a
deservedly high reputation when first pub
lished some years ago, has just been thoroughly
revised, greatly enlarged and entirely reset
and will be issued this fall by the Funk &
Wagnalls Company, New York, London and
Toronto. 1t will be practically a brand-new
work, with elegant cover design by George
Wharton Edwards, and fabricated title page
There will be nearly 1900 pages, containing
80, 600 choice quotations embracing a com
PROGRESSIVELY broad field of subjects with
10000 lines of concordance.
The Dodge Book and Stationery Company OF
this City have in press for immediate publiea-
tioE an edition de luxe of the famous Persian
poem of Omar Khayyam, the Rubaiyat, as
translated into English by Edward Fitzgerald
Copious notes have been appended to the
work, together with brief life of the author.
The edition dc luxe will be printed on fine
paper and bound in boards with white cloth
backs. The edition VIII be limited to fifty
copies; five copies, however. will be bound in
white calf and printed on much finer paper
The same house has also in preparation q
che zap edition of the Rubaiyat which they viii
issue in paper covers at a low figure to meet
the demand for popular priced edition for