The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23

and literary notes, by Alexander Tile,
Ph.D.. lecturer on the German language
and literature in the University of Glas-
gov.
The twenty-seventh bound volume of
the Critic for July-Decem ber, 1885, COM
pleting the papers fifteenth year, reviews
81 books, American, English and foreign,
the total for 1895 being 1873, which would
seem to cover the field pretty thoroughly.
a new literary magazine to be published
In New York is entitled 1.-The Parisians."
Its scope will be to present compendium
OF 9, the best literature OF the France OF TO-
day without confining itself to this sphere.
The sale of the Oxford Bible for teachers
has reached the enormous number of over
2,0O0,O00. The Oxford Press publishes
seventy. .eleht editions of the Bible and
ninety editions of the prayer book.
The Clarendon Press is about to issue
collection of the traditional hymns of
the ancient Gaelic church in Scotland, by
Mr.. Alexander Carmichael of Edinburgh.
Under the title Congressional Cur
rency" A. G. Gordon has presented an
outline of the Federal money system of
the United States and statement of the
important acts OF legislation concerning 1t.
Many persons are still living who re-
member the widely scattered Autographs
representing the Arkansaw Settler, whose
lack of hospitality to Traveller is trans
formed by his visitors ability to play the
famous backwoods tune. These crudely
drawn Autographs confront the reader
of the March Century, in which Professor
III. G. Mercer of the University of Penn
sylvania gives an account of his researches
Son the Track OF The Arkansas Trav-
eIer.'"
DR.. lie Bon, author of several works on
psychology, is about to publish n impor-
tant work entitled "The Psychology of
Socialism" dealing with the subject under
three heads: first as q faith, second as an
economic conception, and thirdly as
| philosophic conception.
Justin Mccarthy has a three-volume
novel and collection of short stories in
hand, both books being promised for this
| year.
Professor Gamers name has become
| familiar in connection with his study of
| the monkey tribe and their Language"
He has just finished a book on his last
| visit to West Africa, and it will be pubs
| lished in London this spring.
6. B. GrinnelPs 'Story of an Indian" is
| to be published in England soon. The
| Britons are developing taste for Ameri-
| can literature.
Mrs. Emily Crawford, the well-known
Paris correspondent, contributes to the
| March Century a biographical sketch Of
Alexandra Dumas the elder.
Sunrise Stories is the title OF book
| that makes the elevated pretension of en-
abling the reader 10 obtain view Of
japanese habits OF thought, and OF the
principles of philosophy and religion en-
bodied in their literature. 1t was col
| laborated by Tozo Takayanagi and Roger
Riordan, and will be issued by Scribner's.
Bret Harte has just completed a manu-
script of new story, to which he has
given the title of "Two Americans. He
will soon publish new volume of poems.
Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. will issue
both volumes.
Professor I. Zangwill, in the Critic, says
that ithe most striking feature of the
American humorist is his sameness; he
| serves up daily the same old Jokes, and his
merit chiefly consists in his inexhaustible
ingenuity in dressing them UP afresh.
England, according to Voltaire, has many
religions, but only one sauce. America
has only one joke, but many sauces. This
one joke is the tenacity of the young mans
attentions to the daughter OF the reluctant
father. England has several leading Jokes
all equally frequent and equally un-
amusing-the masher. the mother-In-l law,
| and the endless epic of the latch key"