The San Francisco call., 1896-08-23

The Overland Monthly for September is
special number, devoted to good roads. 1t
will contain an interesting article on ''Munici-
pal Pavements and How They Are Laid" by
George w. Elder, official expert of the City
Street Department, followed by a compre-
hensive article on "Good Roads," by Charles
Freeman Johnson, well-known contribu-
tor to the cycling papers, and one by
Judge F. h. Kerrigan, chief consul OF the North
California Division, on the League of Amerl-
can Wheelmen in Politics." These articles
will be of interest to the general public as
well as to the wheelmen of the City and State.
Papers on "The Water Supply OF San Fran
CISCO" by Rounsevelle Wildman, on "Hum-
boldt County and It's Resources" and on the
mining Interests of California" by Senator
TREY L. Ford, together with the usual number
of stories, poems, etc., make it a notable issue.
The Macmillan Company announces "The
Life OF Richard Cobden," written by John
Morley, to be published in the autumn. After
q brief narrative of Cobden's early life, of his
commercial and mental progress, and OF his
early travels, special attention is given to his
life in Manchester, and the long fight against
the corn laws, which first gave him fame.
His life in Parliament his correspondence
with Sir Robert Peel. and later with Mr.
Bright and other public men, together with
his own intimate knowledge of all that was of
most importance in English history during
half century which saw the Crimean War, the
Indian Mutiny and the American Civil War,
furnish rich material for biography. In Mr..
Morley's hands the book will be of unusual i'm
portance as well as of supreme interest.
What is meant to be the standard Life OF
Napoleon Bonaparte is to be published by
Messrs. Macmillan, in arrangement with the
Century Company of New York. The writer is
wp1 Ann nf lot
Professor W. M. Sloane, of whom Taine
once said that he knew France better
than any other foreigner he had met. The
Life was undertaken because there has
hitherto been no complete and impartial Life
of the great Emperor. There was thought to
be more than call for work which should
present Napoleon thoroughly-his character
istics, his early environment, the influences
which bore on the formation of his character,
his faults, and his virtues. Parts of the Life
have been appearing in the Century, and have
been widely read.
A finely illustrated edition of the book on
Constantinople, by Edmondo de Amicis, the
Italian writer, is being prepared by Messrs.
Putnam. They have already issued this work
in English, but the present form is meant to be
harmonious with the same authors "Spain"
and his "Holland." The pictures include such
subjects as the interior of the Mosque of Santa
Sofia, the Tower OF Galata and Seraglio Point.
Amicis is keenly interested in his English
speaking readers, and he appeals to our race
as one of the most indefatigable wanderers of
the time. 1t has been said of him that he is at
home anywhere and ready to start on any
journey at an hours notice.
OF his friend II. G. Bunner, Brander Mat
thews says in the September Scribners: ITO
say that Bunner was wholly free from any
taint of Anglomania is to state the case mildly;
his Americanism was as sturdy as Lowelrs.
He was firmly rooted in the soil OF his nativ-
ity. He was glad that he was an American and
proud of being New Yorker. He saw that
creatures of the type that Lowell scorned still
fingered on, and if he were intolerant toward
any onei it was toward the renegade American,
the man without country"
George w. Smalley has gone abroad on a spe-
cial mission for the Ladies' home Journal. He
has engaged to prepare q short series of arti-
cles for that magazine, and is gathering the
material for them in Europe.
In October remarkable collection of giant
fossil remains of prehistoric animals, found in
the Rockies during the past few years. will be
exhibited for the first time to the public at the