The San Francisco call., 1896-08-23
in THE LITERARY FIELD
A San Francisco Lady Has a New Novel on
"The Joys Of Life
Proof That Woman Caused One of Most Brilliant Military
Movements of the Late Civil War

American Museum of Natural History in New
York. Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn, cura-
tor OF the museum, has written popular &C.
count of these strange beasts, and the article
will appear in the September Century. The
illustrations accompanying the article are
striking reproductions of the animals as they
probably appeared in life.
A new series devoted to the great figures OF
the Reformation will be begun in the au-
tumn by Messrs. Putnam. 1t will be ed
tied by DR.. Macauley Jackson, and the tone
will be fairly critical, not merely eulogy.
DR.. Emerton of Harvard will write on
Erasmus; DR.. Jacobs of Philadelphia on Luz
ther, and Professor Griswold Allen, on Gram
mer. The monograph on Calvin will be by
Professor Williston Walker of Hartford, and
that on Beza the French reformer. by Profess
sor Martyr Baird of New York. 1t is uncer-
tain as yet who will write on Knox.
Woman in war no longer refers, it would
seem. merely to nurses or to Amazons in dis
guise. The sex is hereafter to be credited
with great strategic abilities, according to
Godey's Magazine, which presents in its Seps
tember number an amazing mass of evidence
to prove that it was woman-Anna Ella Car
roll-that caused the military movement up
the Tennessee River, and instituted what was
in some respects the most brilliant and most
important campaign of the Civil War.
McClure's Magazine for September will con.
tain a paper on Dr. w. 7. G. Morton, the dis
coverer of anesthesia, by his wife. DR..
Morton's discovery established painless sur
gerry, and Mrs. Morton's paper is the intimate
personal history OF a heroic battle for new
idea. 1t has special interest at this time, be-
cause in October there is to be a public jubilee
in honor of DR.. Morton's priceless service to
humanity. The paper will be fully illustrated.
Mr. Hobart Chatfeld Chatfield-Taylor's
series on Spain, which he is printing in the
Cosmopolitan, is to be issued in book form this
coming autumn, together with several addi-
tional articles which have not beer published.
There will be some changes in the book which
will be called '"rhe Land of the Castanet.''
Messrs. Herbert S. Stone & Co. of Chicago are
to be the publishers.
Justin Mccarthy has arranged to write an
other volume, bringing his History of Our
Own Times down to date. The hope is that
it will be ready next autumn, when the Queen
will have completed sixty years reign. At
present the history stops at the general elec-
ton of 1880, so that Mr.. Mccarthy has period
of singular interest to cover.
Bret Harte is preparing a new volume OF
poems. He also promises, under the title of
"Barker's Luck, and Other Stories" group of
tales which have appeared serially in different
quarters Further, several of his complete
tales in paper-covered form are being gathered
into a single volume, which will have the title
Devils Ford.'
Ian Maclaren's new short story. the last he
will write until after his American visit, has
been secured by the Ladies' Home Journal, for
publication in the October and November
issues. 1t is called "The Minister of st.
Bebes," and is said to be in his brightest and
cleyerest vein.
Miss Emma Wolf of San Francisco, who will
be remembered as the author of "Other Things
Being Equal" and GA Prodigal in Love-" has
written third novel entitled "The Joy of
Life, !" which is now in the press of A. G. Nc
Clurg & Co. of Chicago, the publishers of Miss
VOLTS first work.
Early IN October the Century Company will
issue Chester Baily Fernald's first book, ''The
Cat and the Cherub and other Stories," and
forthcoming numbers of the Century Magazine
are to contain short stories from his pen.
A new novel by Harold Frederic is to be
published Immediately by D. Appleton & Co.
The title is March Hares," and the story is
said to be one of much originality and interest.