The San Francisco call., 1896-04-05
Renan and his sister Henriette during the
IL .i<,l lreD L.. E.

Renan and his sister Henriette during the
crucial period of Remains life.
| The April number OF the magazine
| Romance contains articles upon the
mysterious New Ray, and one upon Man
| Flight, the latter giving interesting pho
tographs of Lilienthal as he appears while
soaring through the air with his duplicate
| set of WINGS
Max Nordau has in the April number of
| Book Reviews" an article on Alfred
Austin, whom he declares to be the most
| perfect incarnation of Anglo-Saxonism in
! literature
Albert Tournier, librarian of the Ministry
OF Public Instruction in France, has
written book on Vadier, president of the
committee of public safety. arch-enemy of
Robespierre.
An extended history of the British navy,
under the editorship Of w. Laird Cloves,
is announced by Sampson, Low & Co.
American writers will contribute to it.
The first volume will bring the record
down to Elizabeth.
Stephen Cranes first book, "Maggie,
Girl OF the Streets" was never refused by
publisher, because it was never offered
to one, says the New York Critic. He
printed 1t himself. and had no thought at
any time of asking any one to publish it
for him.
The May Harper's will open with an
article on Mark Twain by his old friend
and neighbor, the Rev. Joseph Il. Twichell.
1t abounds in anecdote, and is embellished
with frontispiece portrait, engraved by
t!orlan from the latest photograph of Mr..
Clemens, and with pictures of his Hartford
and Elmira homes by Childe Hassam.
The London Athenaum has this to say
of the author of 1.-The Raven: Ad-
dicted as Poe was to mystery and to mys-
tlfying his audience, for himself he at
tempted to demonstrate there was no
mystery. He, he would prove to us, had
gauged the universe and could assay its
value. Calmly and scientifically, if we
will only submit to the glamour of his
wizardry, he will explain the inexplicable.
Creation is a riddle which he can ex-
pound. Death and eternity are but prob
lens he will solve for us-but cryptograms
he can unriddle for our benefit. Only
though he lead US through the Valley of
the Shadow, it will be as a guide who
knows the route and with whom we can
not go astray.
Questions have always been raised as to
the discoveries made by Sebastian Cabot,
son OF John Cabot. In Henry Harrison's
John and Sebastian Ca bot" the work
performed by each is distinctly traced.
The volume is described as "a chapter of
the maritime history of England under
the Tudors. 14971557."
According to Zangwill, the "new men of
1857 are Grant Allen and George du Mau-
rier. ITO wind up" he saws, lit is not at
all improbable that the new man of '95
may have been altogether omitted from
this or any other catalogue, for without
friends on the press new writer may in
the rush and crush of books escape the
notice OF even the most impartial spec
| tator."
1t is announced that the first volume of
Victor Hugos still unpublished CORE
spondence will come out June /. The let
ters will be ~ those written to his father at
Blois in 1920; (2) the poets love-letters to
his fiancee and to his young wife; (3) the
epistles to Academy of Floral Games; (4)
Herman" Marion Delorme" and lie
Roi s'Amuse"; (5)a big bundle of letters
to Lacretelle and Victor Pavie, with fifty
to Sainte- Beuve. The series, which reads
like a novel, is edited by NJ. Theodore
Michaelis, who intends eventually to give
them the form Of an English translation.
Macmillan d Co. announce that ninth
volume will be added to the new edition of
Pepys' Diary, which they are now pub
! fishing under the editorship of II. B.
Wheatley, containing various appendices,
additional illustrations and a copious in
| dex. The seventh volume has just been
| issued.
The next volume in the Century Science
Series will deal with the work of James
Clerk Maxwell.
| England is not as bad off in material for
| future poet laureates as one might think.
/ Mr.. Zangwili writes: "We have plethora
OF poets able to give every satisfaction ill
their work and ready to celebrate any,
thing and everything with neatness and
dispatch"
According to reports the effect of bad
literature, the smut school, on juveniles in
France is shown by an increase of 5000
| criminals in thirty years. The criminol-
ogist refers this increase to "bad books
and journals"
James Whitcomb Riley, the Hooser
poet, is now editing a semi-religious
monthly journal known as the Orphans
| Bouquet.
Shortly before his death Alexandra Du-
a short novel by M. Henry Rougon. The
| book is to appear in April. 1t has been IL
lustrated by M. G. Mendez.
| An photographed paper, by Elizabeth
| Stuart Phelps, in McClure's for April, re-
wives the tragic history of the burning of
| Pemberton Mills-a casualty that fur
nished the basis of one of Miss Phelps
most effective stories; and also tells how,
moved by the mourning that filled the
| land at the close of the war; she wrote
that epoch making book The Gates A jar"
! William Morris the English poet,
dramatist and socialist, has pa per in the
April Forum on "The Present Outlook of
| Socialism in England" In the same num-
| Der Brander Matthews, the critic, novel;
ist and dramatist, has a delightfully."- enter
| tanning essay entitled ION Pleasing the
Taste of the Public.
FAIR WILL CASE.