The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-12-06

Miss Marie Corelli's sorrows of Satan
has been dramatized and Will be played
in England very shortly.
George Pastor is a woman, relative OF
the late George Addington Symonds. Her
next novel is to be THE Career OF Can
dida"
Messrs. Gelett Burgess & Porter Gar
nett San Francisco. Will publish early in
Dece moer Seen and Unseen volume
of poems by Yone Noguchi, the japanese
poet.
The first English edition of Rudyard
Kipling's The Seven Seas" consisting
OF %, 900 copies, was sold out several days
before the day of publication set by
Messrs. Methuen.
Conspicuous among the notable contri-
buttons 10 the literature of the past year
are the memoirs of Henri Rochefort, the
concluding volume of which was but late
~ received from Paris.
Zola threatens a novel on cycling. In
two or three years. when he has disposed
OF some other tasks. the cycling world
he thinks may be ripe for his method of
romantic observation disguised as real
ism.
Mr. Whistler is about TO issue a new
edition of THE Gentle Art OF Making
Enemies 1t Will not be a reprint of the
first and now famous publication, but a
considerably enlarged collection of his
witticisms.
Mr.. Gladstone remarks that "his expert
ence leads him TO believe that the supply
or poetry. OF or verse assuming TO be
poetry. is more egregiously in excess of
the demand than any other description of
literature"
Zola says he likes the bicycle for the
forgetfulness IL confers- 1T is all in vain
for me TO walk and walk: | simply keep
on thinking But on the wheel | go with
the wind. / no longer think and nothing
else gives me such absolute repose.'
II is proposed 10 erect In Paris a bust of
the dead poet. Paul Verlaine, the money
IN ha raj ed nv an int s4Ti
ton. The Chap-Book is the American
representative of the committee, and So
licits the aid Of the friends of Nerlaine
and his work,
Stone" will be published Immediately by
Messrs. ID. Appleton & Co. The Prince
and Beau Brummel. the dandies OF
Brighton and the heroes OF the prizering
appear in the pages of this romance of
the paimy days OF the coach. and OF the
amateur whip The tale il said To be full
of movement and adventure.
I. zangwilPs new volume. Without
Prejudice, VIII not consist OF the liter
airy criticisms which have been such
brilliant and familiar feature OF the Pail
Mall Magazine. He Is simply using the
admirable title by which he has deStgnat-
ume of original essays and pleasantr1eS.
which no one can write better than he.
James Lane Aliens new novel. '~The
Choir Invisible" Is Toy far his most pre-
~
pioneer Kentucky days. when the nery
English Virginians began their epoch
making across the Alleghanies. Under
Mr. Aliens exquisite literary workman
ship this new material cannot fail 10 be
productive Of a novel OF supreme interest.
Gen. Horace Porter says In his Cam
paignlng with Grant" in the December
Century, that during the battle OF the
Wilderness. even at the most critical mo-
fneuts. Gen. Grant manifested no percep-
tIhle anxiety. but that he was visihiy az
fetsted 10y the sight OF blood during the
second day Of the battle Grant smoked
bout twenty strong cigars, ms highest
record In the Use OF tobacco.
Rosa Bonheur leads the life or a recluse
in her chateau In the depths Of the forest
OF FoBtainhIeaH. near Paris she sec3udes
herself from all. and X was with greatest
difficulty that she could he brought TO
consent to write her autobiography. which
appears ia the Ladies' Home journal Tor
December. Once started on the WORK,
however the great painter became 50 in-
terested that she made over dozen spe-
cEal studies and pictures OF animals 10
accompany the text There are alSo Por-
traits Of the famous woman As she works
ia her studio and home.
MessrS. Harper & Bros. VIII publish ear
Is IN December In Bohemia Win bu
Maurice by Felix Moscheies, illustrated
with slxty-fbTee original drawings ~
George On Maur{er. In cnaTactertziug
this m English critic has written: The
author takes as 20 the Antwerp Academy.
who're ne AtfteA met ttG NaA3tttAt Ftttt@fttA
their fellow-sfudents were TadeHla. Mario
and others since become famous. Char
arfer sketches of these are Interpreted
with lively descriptions % life IN Bone
mia. and with many quota s10nS an prose
and IN verse from Du MaurteT+s letters.
while the text - companiNG by some of
hts drawings One feels ihe atmosphere
OF TrNby Throughout these recollection.
There was Moscheles VINO was. 40 mean
hvpnotiSf- amd OaHaVie L. die Carry,
Who might have served for the uiauchts-
seuSe Sc Gu We sire shown the three
friends kaE TAE and B0htatA and learn
who are me originals Of StT Lewis cor
rellvs fTlariaH aud others 'Tumblluzs
with Whistler are mentioned. and Ar
taur Sullivan writes the part % cox IN
Madison Mort0n's famous duologRle Tor
ri Maurier's voice. TIE volume puts us
ga personal f0uch win the artists. and
~ a4a tse fs-sf unite ~ home in EonsEnta 20