The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-05-24

used to lodge within sound of the traf-
fic of Charing Cross railway station.
Her many frineds and admirers will
hear with keen regret that Miss Mary E.
Wilkins has been obliged to suspend all
work owing to ill health. Her condi
ton is not at all serious, but it has been
thought advisable that she lay aside her
pen and take a good long rest. Her
novel, Jerome; A Poor Man, which was
to have been commenced in Harper's
Bazaar in July, will not appear before
January. Three-fo urths of the book is
written, but it will now be laid aside.
SHAMELESS PUBLISHING.-The
is a custom which prevails among GER
tain publishers which cannot be too
strongly condemned by all right think
ing men-towit the grubbing up out of
forgotten newspaper files. and else
where. of the earlier writings of an au-
thor after he has become famous, and
reprinting them without the leave or Ii
cense from the author, and with his
name on the cover.
| Here are the latest lines on Youth
| 1t comes from over the water in new
book of verse:
From tavern to tavern
Youth passes along,
With an armful of girl
And heart full of song.
The lines beginning
20, that mine eye might closed be
10 what becomes me not to see,
That deafness might possess my ear
To what concerns me not to hear"
We're by one Thomas Ellwood. one Of
the early apostles of the Society of
Friends; he was secretary for some
time to John Milton.
OF Hawthorne, his daughter Rose
Hawthorne Lathrop says: "Those
who thought him too silent were the
bores whom he desired not to attract"
In the May Bachelor of Arts is
sketch of Father Tabb by a close friend.
and this new poem by the Baltimore
poet, entitled Hazard:
lone step ''twixt loss and gain!
The summit to attain
So near the brink of Pain
EEgw
So steep the precpice
So frail the footing is.
~ tn were death to painting bliss
j. II. w. writes to the Critic: Or.
Rolfe's mention of his grievances at the
hands of intelligent compositors must
! remind every writer of similar expert
neces. Once in reviewing Songs from
| the Old Dramatists, ventured to quote
Ben Jonson's pretty verses To Celia, be-
ginning. Drink to me only with thine
| eyes Such request being quite beyond
the comprehension of the typo, the line
| appeared in print thus: Wink to me-
only with thine eyes,"
A short treatise on the Education of
| Children at Home, by George Clarke,
Ph. d., principal of Jarvis hall acad-
| envy, Montclair, Col, Is soon to be pub
lished by Macmillan & Co. The subject
one which has not hitherto had special
treatment by English or American
writers, the work on Pre- Christian Ed
ucation, by S. S.Laurie. published last
year, being so far the only attempt in
English to deal adequately with this pc
| riod in the history of pedagogy.
| Women in English Life From Med
iaeval Times, by Georgiana Hill, gives
most interesting account of the place
/ held by women in the days of the Saxon
! race down to the present time.
| An important collection of letters is
| to be published in Cosmopolis. 1t is
made up of the correspondence of Tour
| gueneff. and includes letters to Nine. vi
ardot, Flaubert, Dumas fills, Guy de
| Maupassant, M. lola and others.
Houghton. Miffiin & Co. have ar
! ranged for the American publication of
| the unpublished letters of Victor Hugo.
These will probably be comprised in two
| volumes. the first containing "a Hugos
| letters to his father while studying in
Paris; ca charming group written to
his young WIFE. (3) an interesting series
! to his confessor, Lamennias: 4) letters
about some of his volumes, Hermann, lie
| Roi s'amuse etc; 90 to his little daugh-
| ter Leopoldine; and CO. very interest
| ing series to Sainte- Beuve, who was in
| love with Nine. Hugo The SECOND will
| include his letters in exile to Ledru- Roll
| lin. Mazzini, Garibaldi and Lamartine.
with many of curious photographed
| and literary interest.
! The correspondence is arranged by M.
| Paul Meurice, the executor of Victor
Hugo. 1t is generally chronological. eX-
cept in cases where there is an inerest-
ing set of letters to one person, these are
| kept together.
The first volume, perhaps the entire
collection, will be published in the au-
! tumn. and it cannot fail to be one of the
most interesting and distinctive fea-
| lures of the literary season.
| Mr.. Swinburne's new poem, The Tale
of Balen, will be published in this coun-
| try by Messrs. Scribner toward the end
of the month. 1t is founded on Sir Thorn
| as Malory's story of Balen.
| Corleone is the title of Mr.. Marion
Crawfords new serial for the Century.
1t is a tale of Sicilian bandits and be-
longs to the Saracinesca series. Don
Orsino plays the leading part.
| Brentano's announce for immediate
publication Bicycling for Ladies, by
Maria e. Ward.