The morning times., 1896-04-19
LITERARY NOTES.

Olive Schreincr is preparing more South |
African articles.
A Biographies study OF Emelio Castear
Is about 10 ue published.
The late Eugene Field called Chica go the |
modern Atllcns of contcmporaneous htera-
lure
The first edition or Robert Bars novel, !
"A Woman lntcrveiIes,' was sold out be
fore publication.
o. Adam Johnstones Son is Marion
Crawforfs latest novel. II was issued
during the week.
Mauc Wilder Goodwin's Wits Aprons"
is a story of tidewater Virginia during
the Bacon rebellion.
For King aad Country Il story OF tie
Revolution, py James barnes, is Announced
for early publication
Boston has large central pusic library
on Coplry Square an nine brancI libraries
IN various parts OF the city.
Rey Tillotson's The Wind MIL" a col
lege story, is spoken of rs The American
TON Browns School Days.
Richard Harding Davis next volume OF.
short stories Is 10 take its name from the
Van Bibber story, "Cindcrela.
AS Il boy Julian Hawtho:ue won greater
Icnowu by his bodily tiian by his mental
alta ainmcnJs. He WAS IA fine athlete.
Du Maurier's new novel. The Marian
will begin in the October Harper s. The IL
Illustrations arein the bands of tie publishers
Lotable ny TWO Ecw books by Bret Harte.
One of these il Il new story; the other Is i
volume OF poems.
John AmeS Mitchell studied TO be an
architect. lie lS The publisher or Lie
Stephen Cranes Forthcoming novel VIII
be called Dan Emmonds.
John Oliver Hobbies tMrs. Csaigiel viii
presently produce in London in dramatic
ar. narrative form Il new piece oI nctlon
ya..ed "A schOu! Tor SAINTS.
Sir Johhn Milais has been elected presi-
dent OF The Royal Academy, 10 succeed the
late Lord Leighton, and the choice gives
much satisfaction in England.
on the occasion Ui The tHlrd century or
the death OF Tasso. bibiiology or The
works OF the author has been punished, III
Guiding not less than 200 titles.
II seems the real reason OF withdra wal OF
hacoursf in oderu novels al Yale was this:
The success of Prof. Phelps disturbed the
days and the nights OF olner Inetuucrs ol tic
faculty.
Sixteen volumes OF Harriet Beecher
Stoves works are TO be published SHORTLY.
The volume Will contain bibliograpnicnl
nIroducUions, and Il certain number Will b.
autograph copies
This flower of rhetoric is contributed to
the collection OF the Spectator: Looking
back along the traCklesS pathways OF the
future. he deserted the Footsteps or an IN
visible hand.
ZoIas Rome" is being published ST.
multaneously in two Roman papers. The
rC1lGE- upN IkhC II anu SHY Ats tIlililiS
and gosslpy. IL viii come 10 Us III BOOK
form shortly.
Robert Litlell, the publisher OF ''Littells
Living \ ge,'' died the 1tn Instant at hls
home in Brookline, Mass. He was born IN
Philadelphia in 1881. He was the sou or
Eiakm LIuell, the founder OF this pID
neer American Magazine. He has been
resident OF Boston since early boyhnOd.
Baudct has always protested that he does
not care TO become a mcnhcr OF the French
Academy. His friends propose 10 e.ect hlm
ia spite of himself, ana believe lie will aC-
| Cept the honor. OF course, NJ. Zoia is
candidate for the chair. THIS goes without
| saying.
The Chap Book now asks ten cents for
! itself. II there hc a reaction against the
! cheanenng OF the periodicals no publication
Gan better afford TO leave the lowly plane
! on the nickel Tor tie frosty attitude or the
! dime, says the Book Buyer. than this ambI-
| tiouS miniature ma gaZine.
| Henry James is probably the one native
author living of more than national repuUl
tion who was born ia New York city. And,
though American by BIRTH ne WAS educated
| abroad. ana has lived there so many years
tnaU America Is To blm virtually i IOreIgn
land.
A Russian authors copyright lasts until
| fiTTy years after death. But publishers say
/ this is rarely OF value TO the heirs as The
| lie OF production only survives lis Gre
| ator Il lew years. tDe e&IepuUn being rare.
AN effort VIII be made al The forthcoming
| Berne copyright convention 10 snorIen tnis
| period.
Amelia Barr addressed Sorcsis the other
| day on The present status OI literature dnu
| Came 10 this encouraging CONCLUSION: we
| 90 not write verse now us Shakespeare
| wrote, but We wTltc better prose, anu prose
! is wnaU We neeu. verse cannot descend
| below a certain lcNel WITHOUT aegrduatIon
| but prose can concern ltscil win the tIIIIes
| OF our daily ilre.'
| A very tineIy paper will be enc by Prof
| Henry HaEDy. "Hr,n Will bc puDHsneu III
AIlN-
| IL HOW " " cnj 20 Europe Il Sa IIuS 81
| Cents Day Surely the good professor
| vii! prove a wonnerll he can Tunnse US tbs
| Accomplishment. But on what ngure as
| baSls does lie promise this marginal saw
| ing?
Miss Frances Courtney Ba ylor, well
| known 10 the literary world is 10 supervise
| the work 1T Virginia started Uy the
| trustees OF the Jonu + Slater Tund Tor the
| education OF the freedmen. The purpose
| Is 10 supply al the various ccnters in every
Southern state thorough courses OF in
| uusltiiu education Tor coloreu women and
| girls OF fourteen aDu upward, ana TO give
thein also moral training and help in
| home Improvement.
Sons ana Daughters OF the Revolution are
| making historic spots with SuCn ass.autI,
| al Harvard thaI bronze taDitts stare at one
| from all uirectious. "A correspondent says.
with The leaves or Tie coming spring
we are led already 10 Inspect three III
scriptlons on Old Massachusetts Hail! aud
III all seriousness, ii may truly be a good
thing for The undergraduates who now
pass in and out Of lis doors to know that
when the building was Il dOmitory two
| Signers OF the Declaration Of Independence,
various presidents Of the university, and
men famous in the outer world OF states
manshIp and war, and, nearer our own
lime, George Bancroft, Francis Parkman,
and Phillips Brooks, lived through their
student days In the ancient hail.
The unpublished correspondence OF Victor
Hugo, which will be published in English
after The French edition viii
be divided into five sections. The first will
include the letters written TO the elder
Hugo at Biois in 1920: The second is sdevoted
10 the poets love letters, those written
just before and Just after his marriage,
and the third Will be filled with epistes
10 the &" A cademy OF Floral Games In
the fourth section is the bulk of the CORE
| spondence referring 10 "Herna AMI ma
lion Delorme,'' and lie Rois' Amuse.'
Lastly, there are some letters to Lacretelle
and Victor Pavie, with about fifty ad
dressed to Sante Beuve. 1t is claimed that
the series reads like u novel, and there IS
no deabt that it will contain a great deal
of readable matter. 1t begins to look as
If the author of Les Mserables'' was as
prolific with his pen as the author of
that other great masterpiece, The Three
MusketeerS," and that the end of the
century even may not see all of his un-
published work in press.