The morning times., 1896-10-18
Literary Notes.

1t is said that Nordau is mere imtator
of Nietsche.
Longfellow once said, mo truly sensitive
man can be perfectly well.''
Bliss Carmen IS publishers have in prepara-
More Songs from Vagabondia."
silas uocking the author of such Is Life"
is designated as 1.-The E. T. Roe, OF Albion"
Edward Arnold's fall list shows the pros
pective publication OF nearly fifty new
books
| Paul Arene is being put forward as
candidate for the vacant seat In the French
Academy.
Travellers in Japan complain of the
scarcity of books and papers in English in
that country.
Daniel Vierge, although he contributes
| constantly To the French illustrated periodi-
| Gals, is a Spaniard.
Laird & Lee announce the immediate pub
| lication of Ope Reads new story, entitled
My Young Master"
Gabriel D'Annunzio, whose ''Epscopo &
Co" has created profound sensation, Is
| called the Zola OF Italy.
FouItney Bigelow's magazine papers on
The eGcrmanStrugglc for Liberty are soon
to be published III book form.
FaulLawrence dunbar the young coorcd
| poet, has until recently been an elevator
boy in Dayton, o ohio, his home.
prejudice exists in France against
women writers, hence most OF them wiite
under masculine pseudonyms.
II seems as if the name of Edmond de
| GoDcourt appears more often in the october
| magazines than any other name.
Paris paper recently printed DeGon-
courts will in its entirety. IL took up an
entire page of the four page paper.
"Barrabas,'' by Marie Correlli, is lead
ing Easternsales In the West Mrs. Phelps
"a Singular Life'' is especially strong.
Observation-Disclosures is the lat
| est acquisition to the German language. 1t
is the name applied to an antiseptic lately
| discovered.
| W. a. Whiteis one of the recent develop
ments of Western literature. A book of
| Kansas stories from his pen has recently
been issued.
Jules Lemaitre, generally considered
Frances leading critic, has left the Jour
| nal des Debats to go to tue Revue des
| DcuX Mondes.
stephen Crane goes abroad shortly for a
| few weeks vacation. He will return before
the holidays. His Dan Emmons' is said
to be but half written.
The claim which NorGau makes for Bret
fiction, is disputed by the friends of one
Dr. John w. Palmer.
a contemp porary, in writing the obituary
OF Charles Stanley Rcinhart, describes him
as the founder and pioneer of the mod
ern style OF illustrating
This year, for the first time, book stats
| ticianS age able To show that the sale of
books written by American authors exceeds
those written by foreigners.
| Anthony Hopes "Phroso" which was
recently concluded in serial form in Nc
| Clure's Magazine. will not be published in
| book form until after the first of the year.
| James Lane Allen has decided not TO
rewritc or republish John Gray" lie
has retained Il few incidents only and has
written j new story, The ChoirJnvisiblc.'
Those two interesting little tooks. The
Listener in tho Town" and ''The Listener
In the Country" are reprints from the
Listener column OF the Eoston Transcript
Mrs. Dante Gabriel Rosetti was the model
| of Sir John MillatS' famous ophclia
The author whose works are most in
evidence i'll the TduchEitz Library is Ian
! Maclarep.
The book of the season in Paris is "Aphro-
| dite," by Pierre Louys. 1t Is iD its
| thirty fifth edition. 1t is story Of u
GalileaD Courtesan In the Egypt of the
Fuoleuaists
Clement r. Shorter contributes liter
airy criticism to five London magazines
| and yet lie finds time 10 write books of
| critical value. His latest is The BIontcs
and Their Circle"
| An order for fifty-one public school Ii
| braries, which are soon to I've placed in the
| schools OF minneapolis, was given to a St
| Paul company short time ago by tie
| board of education.
The London Ghetto had its Zanquill the
New York Ghetto its Cahan. the Chicago
| Ghetto has its Friedman, young Hebre W
graduate oil the University of Michigan,
who shows signs of genius
THAT First Affair, and Other Stories, is
thetitle of u forthcoming volume of sketches
| by Mr.. j. a. Mitchell, the editor of Life
The title sketch is an amusing study of the
life of Adam and Eve in Eden.
Years ago when their genius was young
and their prices down, j. NJ. Barrie, jerome
| X. jerome and CoulSon Kernatan, author
of "A Dead Mans Diary" all contributed
to little paper called Home ChimcS.''
Fronde suppresses two of his books, The
Nemesis of Faith and Shadows OF the
| Clouds" The former has been republish-
ed in this country, but of the latter not a
copy can be found. If one could be found
it would bring large price.
Zola says he likes the bicycle for the for
getfulncss ii confers: 1T is all in vain for
me TO walk and walk; ! simply keep on
thinking. But on the wheel / go with
the wind. l no longer think, and nothing
else gives me such absolute repose.''
1t is proposed to erect in Paris n bust of
the dead poet, Paul Verlaine, the money to
| he raised by an international subscription
| Tic Chap-Book is the American representa-
| tive of the committee, and Solicits the aid
of the friends of Verlaine and his work
Jules Simon requested that he be told
when death approached. friend per
formed this duty for him. Unable TO
speak the dying man motioned for lead
pencil and wrote his own epitaph, Jules
Simon 1S14-1S96. God, Country, Lib
| erty."
Mrs. Amelia E. Barr has concluded an
| arrangement with Mr.. Daniel Frohman
under which Il dramatic version of "A Bow
| of Orange Ribbon" will be produced at the
| Lyceuin Theater. Mrs. Barr will collabo-
rate with some dramatic writer who has not
yet been chosen.
A few sets Of the new edition of Kip
| ling's works, in preparation by the Scrib-
ners, will be printed on Japanese paper dis
| tinguished by two new features, a water
mark and deckel edge. The water mark
CONSISTS of the novelist's initials in fac
siinile of autoGraphic letters.
Tue London Bookman publishes a list of
tile sales Of new books for the month of
August, In England. Corelli's "Cameos''
comes in first, taking tue country over; but
in London the place of honor belongs to
WaltWhitman's Leaves of Grass, y of which
Cheap edition mas been issued.
Two admiral serial stories will be pub
liShed in Harper's Weekly in the course of
The year 1879. One. New England story
by Mary E. wilkins. will begin III January,
and the other, tale Of Greek uprising
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