The San Francisco call., 1896-11-15
LITERARY NOTES.


LITERARY NOTES.
Jules Verne has been sued by man who
claims $4,000 damages for being introduced
as one of the characters in his new novel.
Cape Cod folks, as rule, viii sympathizs
with him.
list of the private libraries in the world,
with description of their contents, is about
to be published in Leipzig. The first part de-
scribes over 500 libraries in the United States
and Canada; the second part will take up the
private Libraries of Great Britain.
William Allen Whites book of Kansas stor-
les, '' The Real Issue," is announced for pub
ication by Way & Williams ON November 15
Mr.. Whites editorial, whats Wrong With
KansasT which was reprinted from his paper,
the Emporia (Kans.) Gazette, and used as a
campaign document, has already introduced
him to a large circle of readers. His stories
are original and sincere and interesting.
T. Y. Crowell Co. of New York and Boston
have republished in attractive form George
Sands "Fa1ette." ia Petite Fadette' was
written about the time of the Revolution of
1S4S when the state of Europe seemed most
gloomy and uncertain. The gifted author set
herself to work to create little circle OF cheer
light in darkness. This charming story was
the result. The translation has been done by
Mrs. James NJ. Lancaster, who has rendered
the authors French into unexceptional Eng
lish.
The value of the new Century Science
Series" is more str ongly marked with every
new volume which the Macmillan Company
publishes In compact form most welcome to
those who have not time to read long
biographies, they contain interesting
narratives of the lives of the men who
have done most to develop modem
sciences. The writer of each book is an
authority OF the science whose history is
traced; for example, Sir Henry Roscoe writes
of John Dalton and the Rise of Modern
Chemistry r. T. Glazebrook of "James Clark
Maxwell and Modern Physics" and Professor
Sylvanus P. Thompson is preparing michael
Faraday, His Life and Work" The most recent
issue is Edward B. Poulton's '.Charles Darwin
and the Theory of Natural Selection"
Outing for November is superbly illustrated
and contains the following excellent articles:
prominent Trotters and PAGERS of the Sea-
son," by E. B. Abercrombie; "The Story of
Penny Pencil'' (complete), by Sarah Addison
Wedderburn; "In the City of the White Dove, -
! by Annetta Halliday-Antona; "Over Decoys on
the Mississippi" by F. E. Kellogg; "The Canoe
Camp at Grindstone," by R. B. Burchard; IAN
Adventure with African Lions,' by Traher
Genone; 'Lenz's World Tour Awheep'; "Tur-
key Tracking" by Ed W. Sandys; "a Gossip on
Coli" by Horace 6. Hutchinson; "American
Amateur Athletes in 1885," by W. B. Curtis;
Racing Schooners,' by r. B. Burchard; 'Foot-
ball OF '96,' by Walter Camp; and the "Na-
tional Guard OF Maine" by Captain C. f. Hail.
The editorial and record departments are very
interesting
! The Critic of October 81 contains half
hundred book reviews. account of the ses-
quleentenary at Princeton. with list of those
| = n
! the six men of letters who received the title
! of doctors of letters honoris causa professor
| Baird, Richard Watson Glider, Professors
Lounsbury and March and Messrs. Horace E.
Scudder and Charles Dudley Warner; a
view of George du Maurier's new house at IT
| Oxford Square, London, which he purchased
when "Trilby'' had brought him wealth, only
| to die there; a portrait of the late Cyrus W.
Field, accompanying a review of his daugh-
ter's biography of him; and an interesting ae-
count by DR.. Howard Horace Furness of s'The
Town of Trilby,' in Florida, which has been
named after Du Mauriers heroine, and haslts
! streets, squares, etc., named after the princi-
| pal characters of the novel.
| Another book of which it is said that its first
edition Tin this case fifteen hundred) was sold
on the day of publication, is volume of "Old
/ English Ballads" illustrated by George Whar-
/ ton Edwards, with an introduction by Hamil-
ton w. MaDfe. surely this is an instance to
| comfort the hearts of those who croak that the
genuine love of literature is dying out,
for here we have simply the old familiar
ballads beginning with Chevy Chaee,
closing with Sir Patrick Spens, with Mr..
! Mabie's scholarly introduction and Mr. Ed
wards sympathetic artistic Interpretation;
and the book receives such a reception as is
rarely granted to anything else than new
book from that novelist who happens for the
| time being to lead in the scale of popularity.
! The book referred to is one which collectors
| will soon value, and for these an edition on
! large paper has been specially prepared by the
| publishers, the Macmillan Company.
1t is a little whimsical perhaps to assume
that Mrs Mabel Osgood Wright, when she
| gave the beast and bird characters in her new
story, Tommy Anne" their Indian names,
knew that the book would come TO the chill
| dren on just such perfect Indian summer
day as greeted its publication last week, but
certainly nothing could have been more fit
ting 1t would seem tn at it was appreciated
also for the first edition mot a specially
j small one since the number of copies reached
more nearly two than the usual one thousand)
| scarcely outlived the day OF pu publication, and
| a second is being prepared as rapidly as pos
! sible Such report is precisely what one
| would look for and quite in the line OF the
| expectation voiced by this months Bookman,
that the story would be zone of the most at.
tractive books for children" 1t is published
| by the Macmillan Company.