The morning times., 1896-11-15
Literary Notes.

Gabriel setoun's real name is Gabriel
Hepburn.
hops's "Phroso' will take book form
In January.
kpling is the author of twenty five
published volumes.
Winter wares are beginning to engage the
publishers attention.
Du Maurieris buried in tn C village church
yard in Hampstead.
Someone suggests C. D. Gibson as a
successor to Du Maurier on Punch.
Roy L. McCardell, the Puck hum orist,
was once Cum berland, Nd, boy.
Dan Beard Is confirmed sportsman
as well as an artist OF just renown.
John kendricls Bangs has "a recorG If 2T.-
900 words between Queenstown and New
York.
Howells claimed pre-eminence for Kip
| things.
| w. II. Shelton. the author OF "A Man
without Memory" is at work on a war
drama.
Anthony Hope next story is OF the time
of Nell Gwyn. Mcclure will publish it
serially.
IL delighted Dickens when George VIII.
IAN Curtis called him the prince Of re-
| porterS.
A coming Scotch writer is a young man
| VINO writes under the pseudOnym of Ben
| JaInin swift
The assistant English editor of the Re-
| view OF Reviews is going into the pub
| fishing business.
The first life OF Line oln was u cam
paign biography ritten by W. Dean
| Howells in 1860
The entire first edition Of King Noanett''
is exhausted and second and larger
edition Is now In press.
The first edition of 10000 copies of
| Sentiment al tommy was exhst listed IN
| advance OF Its publication day.
| Uniform with the chap book volume of
essays, IL: s. Stone Co. are issuing
| volume OF chap book stories.
| Dick Davis recent trip to South America
| Is said to have furnished him with the
| local color for his next story.
There Is prevailing fad in England for
the publication OF plays Many of the
EizaDethan dramas are being reprinted
The November issue presents the Book
buyer in a new cover The lady with the
classic robe and outstretched arms has
disappeared. plain black letter an
nouncement of the name and contents is
| The only ornamentation.
j. NJ. Barrie has outlined two new books
on which he is working leisurely. He
may have an American woman in one OF
| them. o
Peter Macarthur, the editor Of Truth, is
| probably the IL 0st prolific writer Of Jokes
In the world. He has a record Of 125
| day.
An exhibition of the book and printing
trades was held in London during Octo-
Der with artistic success and financial
profit.
Social problems will have no place in
Mr.. Howell's "Story of Play" This is
a orthcoming six part serial on q theme
theatrical.
The identity of Martin J. Pritchard,"
who wrote without Sin," has been re-
ve5ied- She Is Mrs. Augustus Moore, sister
in-law to George Moore.
Three posters by Edward Penrield dra wn
especially for Bradley's Book VIII be
q feature or that superiatively fine naga-
zine Christmas number
novel has made sensation In London
Wnlcn mas not yet been published. 1t is by
Charles Harper and takes fling at q
wcil-known womans club.
The Penny Magazine has contracted itself
In size and price, 1t is now a two cent
pocket mem orandum book.
Paul Potter has let it out that the Har-
peIs generously gave up any claim to
ROYALTIES on mTriIhy,' in dramatic form to
himself and Mr.. Du Mauricr.
Copeland and Day are preparing an
exquisite art catalogue OF Their publca-
Liuns which, Will eclipse any other per
formance OF this character.
WIN Brady says that between O'Clock
and he has made as many eight
iuil page designs. and his record for one
evening is twelve border designs.
The Sign OF the Cross Wilson Bar
rett's successful play, has been turned into
an entertaining novel. Meantime The Sor-
"ssS OI satan mas been TUNED into play
form.
Barrie has written a new play which
he places above The Professors Love
story He began II for willard, out
the wornan's part developed snto the prin-
Clpal role.
..Soldiersof Fortune is the title chosen by
Richard Harding Davis for his new story
Before II goes between covers in its en-
tirety IL Will he given to the public piece
. meal in Scribner's.
Edward Everett Hale has written an
Nr,..N fnfl 2. NJ
try" telling the occasion of his writing
! the story, the extent or its basis in fact
and many curious circumstances connected
with Its history.
per's with a new seriel for next year
Stockton has turned historian of New
Jersey and Harris accepts the same com
mission FOR Georgia.
Sir John Millais, Edmond de Goncourt,
Jules Simon pnno Paul verIaine: II H. Boy
Morris.
Former numbers of Bradley's Book have
exhausted e.4iG,a sEt our stock OF eompimentary
repeat. Yet the November number comes
double IN SIZE, ana unlike many magazines
which divide their merits as they double
their size, this periodical is deserving of |
any complimentary phrases which VIC have |
overlooked. |
The Book Buyer for the present month |
has sketch of Rudyard Kipling, a Kip |
ling. biography, and a criticism of Kip |
linG's poetry by Z. c. Steadman. There is |
a talk with Barrie and review of Sen |
timental Tommy by Joel Chandler Harris |
Addit ionnl sketches of Du Maurier, |
William Morris, ~. Il. Wenzell, and Alice |
Brown are features of an enlarged number. |
stephen Fiske recalls the Gad's Hill |
library which Dickens fixed up. One |
volume was on The Virtues of Our |
Ancestors" and was so thin that the |
title had to be printed lengthwise. Two
huge volumes bore the satirical legend, |
Five Minutes in India, by a British |
Tourist while fifteen portly volumes |
were required to record and describe THE |
Statues erected to Wellington"
Tie chief character in Victor Cherbu-
lieZ's new novel Is a native Of Provence,
who comes to the United States in search |
of n fortune, which he makes in Western |
mines. The struggle of strong char |
the best OF things regardless of prin-
clple, affords good background for a |
thorough presentation of the contemporary |
eagernesS for moncy-gettinS that seems |
To make nearly everything today bow
down TO commercial motives.
Mr.. Whistler is to bring out new
edition of The Gentle Art of Making
the first and now famous publication, |
but Il considerably enlarged cole ction
of his witticisms. The book has been criti-
scZed, OF course, and especially by those
whose scalps the author SO gieefully has
captured, but the cries of those who have
dirninish the effect of his incUrsionS among
.'the serious ones of the earth" That
its wit is genuine is provcG by the fact
that ii is as fresh now aS when 1t was