The herald., 1896-07-26
Little did my mother think
That day she Graded me.
What land l was to travel in.
Or what death [ should dee.

On, 1oollSh thee.
Mr.. F. w. Bourdillon, in revising his
edition of Aucassin and Nicolette has
collated the text with the unique MS. 1t
Paris besides revising the translation
and rewriting the introduction In this
edition there will be fourteen additions
to the photography
The German empress has betrayed the
expense of a trip to Italy undertaken
by Johanna Ambrosius, the now famous
peasant poet, for the benefit of her
health. 1t is announced that the sale
of her volume of verses continues un-
abated.
The Rev. DR.. William Elliott Griffis.
who is preparing biography of the late
Charles Carleton Coffin, requests all who
knew the dead writer to aid him in his
work by sending him all material, such
as anecdotes. "reminiscences, sayings,
etc, at Ithaca. n. Y.
Mr.. Adds Wright is engaged says the
Athenaeum on a new edition of Bur
tons Anatomy of Melancholy. in which
the authors references will be traced
and his quotations verified.
exhibits is the name of a new quarter
ly magazine, the first number of which
will be published in July by the Ex-
Libris society of Washington, D c. The
edition will be limited to 800 copies, and
each number will be illustrated.
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Statistics an English book authors
editors and journalists furnish larger
proportion of criminals than any other
profession.
A new monthly of the Chap Book or
der only a little more so, is announced
in Boston, The Red Letter, very good
name, by the way.
There was recently sold in London a
very finely painted miniature of Byron
n gold hplpa1lt hot T.,
fetched 80 guineas.
Queen Margherita of Italy is about to
publish book about her Alpine expe-
riences
The July Bachelor Of Arts contains an
interesting interview with Mr Robert j
Cook the famous Yale coach, and an ar
ticle on College Men in Journalism, by L.
j. Vance.
An exhibition Of portraits, MSS. and
other Burns relics will be held in Glas-
gov during July-October
DR.. Eugene Coleman Savidge, author
of The American in Paris, will spend his
summep in Europe, where he will seek
European perspective for his new work
on the American Revolution.
The London Times announces that the
earl of Ashburnham will sell the we'll
known library Of printed books and
manuscripts formed by his predecessor.
Some parts Of this library have of late
years peeH SOId 10 the British and Ital-
ian governments
Mr.. j. II. Boner has resigned the edi-
torship of Funk &s Wagnalrs Literary
Digest.
The death of Mrs stowe naturally
causes Il demand for her remarkab bic
writings, which rank her among the
great American authors of all time.
Fortunately her publishers, Messrs.
Houghton, Mifllin & Co., have for some
time been engaged in preparing an en-
tirely new and detinitive edition of her
works. 1t will be in the general style of
their Riverside Editions of Standard
authors, to consist of sixteen volumes.
which will include her phenomenal I'm
Gle Toms Cabin and other novels. Short
Stories, Poems, Household Papers, and
Stories for Young People. The first vol
ume will have biographical sketch. and
all the volumes are to be thoroughly
edited and furnished with notes when
necessary. Each of the volumes will
have frontispiece and a Vignette. in
cluding several portraits, views of Mrs.
stoves homes, and other interesting de-
signs. The edition will, in short, be as
nearly perfect in all respects as it can
be made. There is to be limited large