The herald., 1896-09-06
full. index make the plan of the work

were published last May, will consist of
series of fifty books of permanent
value, carefully chosen, thoroughly ed
tied, clearly printed, durably bound in
| half leather, prepared with special re-
1 gard for American schools. Among
these fifteen volumes may be mentioned
| DR.. John Browns Rab and His Friends,
Dana's Two Years Before the Mast, De-
foes Robinson Crusoe, George Eliot $
/ Silas Mariner, Hawthofne's Wonder
! Book and Tanglewood Tales and The
| House of the Seven Gables, Hughes
| lows Tales of a Wayside Inn, Swift s
Gulliver's Voyages to Lilliput and
| Brobdingnag, and Milton's Minor Po-
| ems and Three Books of Paradise Lost
Other publications will be The Coming
! OF Arthur and other Idylls of the King.
The same firm also announce new edi-
| items of LongfelloW's s,Eyangeline. Haw-
thorne's Grandfather's Chair, Lowells
| Vision of Sir Launfal and Other Poems,
and "A Pioneer of AmericanLiterature" 3"
In fact, this old house has in no season
put out more popular literature than is
now furnished.
Houghton, Mifflin & Co make an in
teresting fall announcement of publi-
cations. The list contains 100 volumes,
including a new Riverside edition of
Mrs. Stoves works in sixteen volumes
and new standard literary edition OF
Bret Harte in fourteen. Attention is in
vited to the variety of the holiday
and Illustrated books, especially to
Fiske's American Revolution and
Thoreaus Cape Cod" the latter of
which is a new departure in the line of
holiday illustration.
Among the more important books
promised in the department of biogra-
ply are the unpublished letters of Vic
tor Hugo, Miss Phelps Chapters From
Life" and Mrs. Fields Authors and
Friends" The names of Lowell, Aid
rich, Mrs Thaxter and Miss Reese in
poetry; Henry James, Miss Jewett, Mrs.
Virgins. Joel Chandler Harris and Bret
Harte in fiction; Dr. Abbott, Woodrow
Wilson, John Burroughs in essays; and
Mr.. Camp and Mr.. Deland on football
these and other features seem to JUS
t1fy asking your attention te the list
and requesting you to commend it to
your readers as shall appear best.
Now and then some writer gives us
a vivid picture of some phase of life
about which we have heard much and
really know little, and the picture comes
as revelation. Mrs. Lille Chase wy,
man has done this in a series of short
tales of life experiences in a Massachu-
setts factory valley which will appear
In the September Atlantic. The life con-
ditions and surrounding of factory
clearly set forth.
Mr.. Henry S. Salt, socialist, vegeta-
Ran, anti-vivisectionist and philosoph-
ical radical, has always been one of the
stoutest champions of Shelley's memory
against the many attacks that have
been directed against it on personal
and critical grounds. He made the poet
the subject of two monographs some
years ago, and now adds a third to the
Pioneer (Scribner) is the title of the
new volume, which is not content with
the apologetic attitude assumed by most
of Shelley's admirers, but is boldly ag-
gressive defending both the poets char
acter and principles in the most posi-
tive way.
Bjornstjerne Biornson is about to leave
Norway, to take up his permanent resi-
dence in Germany. In recent issue of
the Verdens Gang he states that the con-
tinued attacks upon him at home are
the cause of this decision, and that he
believes that he will find a more con-
genial field for his literary labors in Ger
many, where he will have fewer tempta-
tions to take part in politics.
We gather these items from the London
Bookman for September: Mr.. William
Norris, his health greatly improved, is
| cruising in the north The scene of the
| novel on which Miss Harraden has been
at work for two years is laid entirely
in England. The story is longer than
Ships, and in a moN cheerful vein. In
October Mr.. Norman Gale will give to
the public volume of Little Poems for
Little People, with over a hundred
drawings by Miss Helen Stratton. Mr..
Kenneth Grahame, whose Golden Age
is so greatly admired by Mr.. Swinburne
and many others, holds a post in the
Bank of England.
1k- v.fC n ~ k@I
in the Chicago Bookseller about the
proprietor Of a circulating library who
made his patrons pay for all wear and
tear of his books. See here" he ex-
claimed, "there is hole on page 10 of
my beautiful book. And see here" he
went on, turning over the leaf, there is
another on page 90"
Mr.. Kiplings new volume Of ballads,
The Seven Seas. to be published in Oc-
as well as many which have appeared
in periodicals since the publication of
his last book of verse.
DR.. Weir MitchelPs new novel, Hugh
Wynne, Free Quaker, will appear as a
serial In the Century magazine, begin
ming with November.
Tolstoi recently told French inter-
viewer that "Alphonse Daudet has a
certain talent; Paul Bourget is a bril-
liant essayist, but a poor novelist, his
head being too crammed with facts;
Marcel Provost Is worth more than his
books. which are 'inqualifiables.' Guy
de Maupassant knew how to see and
tell what he had seen. His style was as
pure as precious metal. He was miles
ahead of Flaubert, Zola, and everybody.
Zola is diligent and plodding writer.
1 liked his Germinal, and La Terre is
a novel Of pleasant humanity. AS for
Lourdes, 1 stopped at the hundredth
page, and Rome never opened"
Il trust there has been some exaggera-
ton in the reports of Miss Beatrice Har-
raden's ill-health. The Publishers
Weekly says that she kent from Ell Cajon
to San Francisco, early in the present
month"; in search of change of air, from
which she hopes soon to derive strength
sufficient to enable her to go to her home
in London. Friends of the novelist
fear her days are numbered. Four
months ago she was compelled to stop
wofk on her latest romance when 1t was
nearly completed. A frail constitution
and overwork are the cause.
doner" in The Critic.
Frau Blanche Willis Howard Won
Teuffel has been spending the summer
in London, resting after spring of un-
usual literary activity. She has two
books almost finished; a collection of
short stories and full-length novel.
The short stories will, some Of them,
! nuke an initial appearance in serial
form. the publication of the novel is