The record-union., 1896-04-19

prose will consist of all the letters pub
! lie and private) and the diaries, re-
| moved from their environment in
Moore's narrative, together with what
ever new material the editor has been
able to obtain, and annotated to ex-
| plain illusions originally obscure or
| veiled of set purpose. Besides the ordi-
| nary edition, there is to be limited
| issue on handmade paper, with proofs
Of the portraits.
Spalding's Lawn Tennis Guide for
1896 is out. The book is more complete
| than ever, contains the new official
playing rules complete, pictures of all
the leading players, including such men
as Hovey, Larned, Chace, PIN, Hobart,
| Paret, Mahoney and others. 1t con-
| tains the official ranking for 1895 and
| also a complete list of prize winners for
| last year. A valuable article On hints
to beginners is also to be found in the
book, as well as a report OF all the
| leading tournaments of last season. il
will be sent by mail to any address by
the American Sports Publishing Com
pany. Price, ten cents.
"The Overland" (San Francisco) an
nounces for it's May number the first
of an important series Of eight papers
on ''Unexplored Regions Of the High
Sierra" by Theodore S. Solomons. The
opening paper, THE Sources of the
| San Joaquin" contains a remarkable
| group of photos of peaks and valleys
that have never been known before ex-
| cept to prospectors and sheepherders.
Mr.. Solomons is practically the first
white man" that has ever Travelled
from the Yosemite to Kings River in
| the high Sierra region. A notable
sketch map made by him with many
newly named peaks is a feature of the
article. 1.-The Overland" is doing good
work on the financial problems of the
| day. 1t gives a fair field to all Opin-
ions, only taking care that the con-
| tributor shall be a man whose name
| carries weight. Irving M. Scott, John
| j. Valentine, John P. Irish, William H.
Mills are among these. The May num-
ber has papers by Mr.. Scott and Colo
mel Irish on opposite sides of the silver
| question.
| Macmillan & Co. announce a volume
of Mathematical Papers," read at the
| International Mathematical Congress
held in connection with the Worlds
| Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1898
and edited by the committee of the con-
gress, E. Hasting Moore, Oscar Bolza
Heinrich Maschke and Henry S. White
A romance is announced by them with
| the curious title, 1.-The Courtship OF
Morrice Buckler," being record of the
| y Itch,
the years 16S5-16S7, under strange and
difficult circumstances, written some
while afterward in his own hand and
now edited by A. F. w. Mason.
|
| Barring Edgar Allan Poe, doubtless
| the two best known American writers
the world over are ]. FennimOre Cooper
and Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Lit
tie boys in France who have no more
idea whether New York is the capital
of San Francisco, or vice versa, can
glibly recount to you the wonderful ad-
ventures of Natty Bumpo and Leather
Stocking, and Uncle Toms Cabin has
| been translated into almost every
| tongue ON the face of the globe Two
new, fine and complete editions of their
| works are soon to be placed on the
market-a literary duty that has been
delayed far too long.
| The American Academy of Political
and Social Science Philadelphia) has
| just issued a critical essay on the life
and work Of Rudolf Won Gneist,"* the
great German political scientist and
jurist. The author is DR.. Conrad Born
hak, of the University Of Berlin. AS
| DR.. Bornhak says of Gneist: More for
| tunate than his great predecessor,
Montesquieu, he was able to see the
realization of his ideals, though he
| was forced to admit also their partial
| inadequacy. And in the heaven of po-
| litical science his star will blaze near
| Montesquieu's, the great Frenchman
near the memorable German, both filled
with the most lofty political ideals, both
great in what they achieved of this
ideal for the modern State"
| From Macmillan Co, New York we
have THE Rules of Golf" by J. Norma II
I.ockyer and w. Rutherford. 1t Is a
compact volume, stoutly bound and sells
at 20 cents. 1t appears to be exhaus-
tive, and its explanations are certainly
elaborate.
At a recent meeting of the Omar
Khayyam Club in London a letter from
Swinburne was read detailing his earli-
est acquaintance with the poets works
as translated by Fitzgerald. The first
edition of the translation was unstable
at shilling a copy, and Swinburne
with his friend Rosetti, bought six
copies at a penny apiece. On returning
to the bookstall the next day they found
that they had doomed the price to two
pence. The edition is now very valu-
able.
In the newly published autobiography
ical Condolences" of the late Frederick
ocker-Lampson the poet says his uncle
used to say that you could not widen
fthe mouth of a Locker without injury to
his ears" One day at Malta this frank
old gentleman asked a stranger who had
Just landed to take wine with him, and
expressed his obligation for the favor
by saying, Yesterday, sir, l was the
ugliest man in all Malta
| AN EVERYDAY EVENT.
| I've a letter in my pocket
| That / would not, could not show,
| For it's dainty superscription
/ Was indited long ago.
| And the dimpled hand that penned it,
| Was a hand / used to hold,