The San Francisco call., 1896-11-08

acquainted with his department. The books
may be had in cloth and in leather separately
as well as in sets.
Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Co. will publish i'm
mediately "The Cure of Souls" by Ian Mac.
laren (the Rev. John Watson), being his Ly-
man Beecher Lectures on Preaching. RECENTLY
delivered at Yale University Among the con-
tents are: Chapters on 1.-The Genesis of the
sermon" "The Technique of the Sermon. -
Prooiems OF Preaching" Theology the
Theory of Religion" "The New Dogma" "The
Machinery of a Congregation .sThe Work OF
a Pastor" "The Public Worship of God" and
1.-The Minister'S Care of HIMSELF"
Henry 7. Coates & Co., Philadelphia, an
nounce for immediate publication "Fireside
| Stories Old and New" collected by Henry T.
Coates. This interesting series will be pub.
lished in three sedecimo volumes, with pho
tograyure frontispieces, in attractive binding.
1t has been the purpose OF the editor to make
collection OF short stories that will be repre-
sentative OF the best OF the new and old
schools OF story-writers. A number of mod
ern favorites will be met with in the volumes.
and there viii be many old classics that are
far too good to be forgotten.
series of articles of unique interest has
been undertaken by the Laiies' Home Jour-
nal 1t is to be called "Great Personal Events. -
and will sketch the most wonderful scenes of
popular enthusiasm and thrilling historic in
terest which have occurred in America during
the past fifty years. Each one will be graph.
ically detailed by eyewitness, while leading
artists have been employed to portray the
events in pictures made from old illustrative
material. The series has just been started in
the current number of the magazine.
ouida: Take one languid Greek god, with
Fof hosr ltl,<a che
him with ruined abbey, nothing a year. a
palace on the Bosphorus, and turquoise hair.
brushes. Take also several duchesses to
whom he makes love-very ianguidly, or he
will not do-a Dalmatiau gitana with a thirst
for r-e-e-venge. and one vivandiere After
these have been thoroughly mixed. intro
duce-carefully-a chapter on Ariadue at
Naxos, one little wooden shoe, a gifted dog
and a plain mister to give piquant flavor
Season with bouquet of choice misq uotations
and serve with supreme expiation.
Book News for November is q Du Maurier
number. five pages being devoted to sketches
of the dead artist-author and the reproduction
of many of his famous drawings But there is
still room for helpful word on $40 new books
and the showing of many pictures from them
Cleaning of the fields OF literature is done nv
writer's of special fitness at PHILADELPHIA. New
York, Boston, London, Chicago and San Fran
cisco, while the English reviews of several new
books are reprinted. page OF helps to bol,
day book buyers is also given, while the "list
OF bestselling books" is helpful to those who
would keep in touch with the most-talked-of
books of the day.
Aspiring young writer's who are seeking
fame by the magazine route will be interested
in this piece of information from the New
York Recorder:
Itcosts any frst-cass magazine from SbOOO tn
$500 o per year TO read, classify and accent or
reject uninvited contributions. In the course OF
year each magazine may find use, out Of tons of
matter, for eight or ten contributions, which NAV
thus cost $500 To $4,000 apiece, besides he small
paid TO the author. In one magazine office
the manuscripts have to be hauiei into a big safe
every night on a hand truck, the accumulations os
even few days are so heavy. In the hope of once
In five years or so discovering new writer the
magazine-tasters good-naturedly and al great
expense and Inconvenience wade through tons of
manuscript every year. And yet there is kick
A. c. Armstrong & Son, New York, announce
for publication in November (simuitaneouslv
with its issue in London) the important art
work, .'Meissouier: His Life and His Art.n by
Vallery c. o. Greard of the French Academy:
with extracts from the painters notebooks
and his opinions and impressions on art nd
artists, collected by Madame Meissonier. nm
der whose superintendent the book has been
prepsred. The work will be in one large
volume, royal octavo. with over 200 illus.
tratfons in The text, printed in black and tint,