The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-03-01
volume, treating OF Spanish poetry, is also

volume, treating OF Spanish poetry, is also
written.
A volume of charming personal recol.
lections of Sumner, Wilson, Clarke,
slavery movement has. been prepared by
Mary B. Claflin, called "Under the Old
Elms," which is description Of Governor
Clafin's estate at Newtonville, com bined
with recollections of those who have
visited it..
F. Tennyson Nicely, the publisher, an
nounces that he will immediately issue the
following works: "Bugler Fred" Captain
Charles King; "How Women Love-" Max
Nordau; 1.-THE Disciple" Paul Bourget;
"In the Day of BattIe,'J. A. Steuart;
1.-THE Captains Romance" ODie Read;
''The Spider of Truxillo," Richard Henry
Savage, and "The Adopted Daughter"
Edgar Fawcett. =:
| One of the industries of California which
has attracted least attention, but which
has grown to important proportions, is
bee culture. An article by Ninetta Eames
in. the March number of Harper's Maya
zine describes entertainingly 1'Arcadian
| Bee Ranching." with its accessories Of
noble landscape and perfect climate. The
paper is attractively illustrated by Guy
Rose.
"The Wood of the Bran bles" is the title
of new Irish novel by Frank Mathew,
granddaughter Of Father Mathew, "The
Apostle of Temperance" announced for
publication by Way 81 Williams, Chicago,
March,. 1.-The Wood of the Brambles" is
story of 1798, that most tragic period OF
Irish history, with all its lurid incidents OF
rapine and outrage, and deeds of daring
and self-sacr1hce.
Mr.. Austin, an assistant librarian in the
Cornell library, while cataloguing the fine
Dante collection presented to the univer-
sity by Professor Willard Fiske,. has
found some live bookworms in an edition
of the Divine Comedy" bearing the date
MDXXXVI. This is the third time only
that these rare insects have been found in
an American library. Professor Comstock
of the chronological department of Cor
| nell has succeeded in raising from the
| insects a number of eggs, worms and
| beetles for the university museum.
Several years ago William Sharp pre-
| pared, at the instance of the late Philip
Gilbert Hamerton. an illustrated mono
graph entitled "Fair Women" which APP
| peared in the Portfolio series. Such por-
ton of this monograph as the author cares
to preserve has been reworked and will
shortly appear in book form, with the:im-
print of Way & Williams, together with
his fragments from the lost Journals of
Piero di Cosimo," recaptured from The
Scottish Review, under the title of "Ecce
PueIla."
The Messrs. Scribner will publish this
month volume of "Vailima Table Talk"
by Mrs. Strong and Lloyd Osborne. Mrs.
Strong was Mr.. Stevenson's amanuensis,
and Mr.. Osborne, as is we'll known, collab-
Grated with him in several of his stories.
This "TabIe Talk" was taken down while
it was fresh in the memory of both and
with the consent of Mr.. Stevenson, who
submitted to being Boswellized, though he
rather made joke of it. The book is said
to be most interesting.
Readers of the Cosmopolitan may re-
member story entitled "Jim Lancy's
Waterloo" by Ella W. Peattie, which ap-
peared several years ago. It is q powerful
bit of realism founded in fact, and at
tracted much attention to the magazine,
and to the State of Nebraska, in which the
scene is laid. The author. who is an edi-
torial writer on the Omaha World-Herald.
is widely known in the middle West as
writer of a number of tales of Western life,
full of local color and characterized by
much finish and charm. A collection Of
these tales, with the title "a Mountain
Woman" is announced by Way & Will
liams (Chicago) for publication in April.