The morning times., 1896-07-12
Literary Notes.

Mr. Hackmore is now past three score and
| ten.
James L. Ford is in London Sufficiently
| near, thanks.
Zoia is charged with extensive plagiarism
| in his 'ROme."
Edinburg is making neat aiority of the
| English books.
DR.. Edward Eggleston is at his summer
home on Lake George
| Justin Mccarthy was resident OF Amer
| lea from 1868 TO 1871.
The authoress ora Yellow Aster"is the
| wife OF London physician.
Prof Joseph Prestwich. an eminent Eng
| lish geological writer, Is dead.
| English naga zine readers want quantity.
| not quality, III their illustrations.
| John Jacob Astor is Harvard man. He
| contributed frequently TO school papers.
| Three famos.s English noveiists announce
| that they are to prepare lives of Christ.
1t is a long time since so many American
writers have A-aGe substantial successes in
London.
| Beatrice Harraden has suffered a relapse
into invaiidisili, and Is Obliged iosive up her
| literary labors.
George Ebers is now fifty-nine years old.
He wrote his first romance wien but
| twentythree years old.
Over 100, 900 copies of The Mighty
| Atom have been exchanged for the price
marked in the fly leaf.
A magazine announces an article by Mrs.
Whitney on Marriage Her own, her daugh-
ter's or other peoples?
In recent vote in Russia the three most
popular authors Were voted Ruskin, Tur-
genief and Shakespeare.
Critics regard il rs a great feat that
Mark Twain has made the Beers laugh.
They are a staid and stolid set.
Kate Sanborn is a rrandniece of Daninel
Webster. From the titles OF her books she
may be said TO be Il literary farmer.
James Barnes, the author of For King
| or Country is a Princeton man. ami son
OF Capt John S Barnes Of the navy.
Brains, the thrifty Journal devoted to
the art of advertising, does Just exactly
what it is intended TO do, 1t gives ideas.
Julian Hawthorne Will again bid for
popularity this ran IN a novel, Love is a
SPIRIT in Which the West Indies is the
setting.
The News and Hotel Reporter OF Ashe-
vile, n. c., is now the Skyland News,
WIN A. u. V. Tayior as editor and pro
prietor.
James NJ. Barrie has named new edition
OF his work which the Scribners are to pub
lish the Margaret UEhoy ediucB after his
mother.
Amos judd is now in its sixth edition
l.. L. Mclntire, OF Washington, stood
third in the Bookbuyers contest in solving
literary problems.
The Landlord of Lions Head" W. d.
Howell's last story winch opens in last
week Harper's, Will rGn for nve months.
Smedley illustrates.
Rudyard kipling pays his literary agent
10 per cent or the pr,ce received for piac-
ing MS manuscripts. His price for the last
novel is % cents the word.
Prof Joseph Wrightor Oxford is bringing
out the first part of his great dialect die
tlonary, Il work which has meant for him
most exact and fatguing devotion.
Chicago has been honored with visit from
Joel Chandler Harris, who seldom leaves
Ills Georgia home. He does not like Chi
cago, there are too many people there
A statue is suggested, a literary NAL
thus, to limit the number OF intellectual
Offspring to at least sixty per caput.
These are indeed days or overproduction.
Ine first number or the eleventn volume
or the Typographical Journal is a model:
IL is iuii "a ittlact.Nr Ieaulng matter,
and its advertising pages exhibit substan-
uai fuliness.
The most valuable works OF the late
Capt. Bourke are "On the Border with
Crook IAN Apache Campaign" The
Snake Danceof tine MUGuis' ana ms scholar
ly monographs.
DR.. Eugene Coleman Savidge, author of
THE Anne riGan in Paris Will spend his
summer in Europe, where lie will seek
European perspective for his new work ON
the American Revolution.
LoLs is frantically pursuing new poet.
He is only fifteen years old and a factory
boy. This is probably to get even with
Germany for her present poetess. We still
have, and before the foreign fads, our
Sweet Singer of Michigan.
Some of the leading articles in Gunton's
Magazine of American Economics and Po-
litical Science are on state Ownership of
Railroads. French Labor Question :"
Land Taxation in Japan, anu the Eco
nomic Effects of Tipping"
Bookbuyer for July is particularly at
tractive. There is an interesting article
oDGilbert Parker, who has discovered Canada
Runners flyleaf verses and sketches of John
Fox, jr., and Paul Verlaine.
Alphonse Daudet is a southeruer and the
cold winds of Paris annoy him greatly. In
his study in his house in the Faubourg Saint
German large fire is burning, even when
the weathe, is comparatively warm. Dau-
det is unable to work unless the tempera-
ture of the room is to his liking.
The only magazine in the country which
may be looked upon as the organ Of
public men is the Public OFFICIAL, published
monthly in Chicago. Its numerous arti-
ccles or various interest appeal directly
20 the class for which it is intended.
Col. Thomas Wentworth Higgenson comes
out fIatfooted for Stephen Crane. Col.
Tom formerly made the grievous error OF
not discovering Miss Emily Dickinson until
she was sixty, or therea bouts. and he is
reSoNeu noJ 10 slip up on stephen.
Two beautiful songs and two piano
pieces, supplemented by a number OF Illus |
trated articles on Chevalier, New York
society, women, decorative and the
modiste's art are features or the excel-
lent magazine, Every Month, for July.
Richard LIE Galliene's new novel will be |
called THE Quest OF the Golden Girl" |
He is said to have written the story with a |
view to creating talk, and following up |
with a lecturing tour. Who says business |
is not instinct In writers-some writers?
When the executors OF the late Guy de
Naupassant examined his library they |
found that nearly all OF the modern books |
contained therein were presentation copies |
from the writer's. In nearly every in |
stance the leaves OF the book were uncut. |
An unpublished volume Of poems by Mar |
guerite Of Navarro, the famous author of the |
Heptameron, has recently heen discovered |
and published in Paris. The collection in |
ciudes two pastoral dramas and many YER |
sified epsitles, songs, elegies and lyrics.
The novels of Leon de Tinseau are a |
reigning sensation in France. They have |
passed into numberless editions In view |
OF which the Messrs. Lppincott are doing |
American readers an excellent service in |
publishing translation of some OF this |
n0vQlistsS most nnuular hnoka from thc |