The herald., 1896-04-05

the Settlement to the Disruption of
the Kingdom, will be ready immedi-
ately.
Macmillan & Co. announce that a
ninth volume will be added to the new
edition to Pepys's Diary, which they
are now publishing under the editor
ship Of Mr.. H. B. Wheatley, containing
various appendices, additional illus
trations and a copious index. The
seventh volume has just been issued.
Other of their publications will be a
work on vocal culture by Hiram Cor
son, A. NJ, LII. D., professor of English
literature in Cornell university. While
it is the purpose Of this little book to
emphasize the Importance OF vocal
culture in Its relations to literary and
general culture, it is not its purpose,
except incidentally, to impart elocu-
tionary instruction.
The most recent numbers Of the fa-
nous Riverside literature series, pub.
lished by Messrs. Houghton, Miffiln &
Go. of Boston, New York and Chicago,
will be welcomed by all.
The numbers are: No. 81, Haw-
thorne's great novel, The House of the
Seven Gables, with an introductory
sketch-a quadruple number, at 30
cents net, paper; and at GO cents net,
cloth. No. 80, Burroughs A Bunch of
Herbs, and Other Papers. This book
is made up Of some Of the authors
most delightful essays, and it has been
prepared with special reference to the
study Of outdoor life during the
spring anl early summer. There is
also very interesting biographical
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paper covers at Is cents net.
The March issues of the Riverside
literature series are: No. 93, Shake
speare's As You Like 1t; and No. 81,
Millions Paradise Lost, books I'LL.
Both of these numbers have been espe-
cially edited for this series and are
equipped with material in the way of
notes, introductions, etc, which makes
them very valuable for school and COL
lege use. These books are each pub
lished in paper covers at Is cents net.
By an arrangement just completed
Mr.. Walter Blackburns Harte's Fly
Lsaf has been incorporated with The
Philistine. Under this arrangement
the services of Mr.. Harte will be re-
tanned by the publishers of The Phil.
istine.
Hszell's Apnual, marvellous as ever
for compactness, appears in 1895 with
the usual complement of new articles
upon timely subjects. It is imported
by Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons.
Mr.. ]. Norman Lockyer, the we'll
known writer on scientific subjects,
has, in conjunction with Mr.. w. Ruth.
erford, written handbook on golf for
beginners. 1t will bs published by the
Messrs. Macmillan.
Volume III. OF The Life and Corre-
spondence of Rufus King, edited by his
grandson, DIR. Charles r. King, has just
appeared from the press Of Messrs. G.
P. Putnam's Sons, It covers the years
1799.1801.
Colonial Danes and Good Wives
(Houghton) Is, as the reader may guess,
a new book by that indefatigable
student of early American manners,
Mrs. Alice Morse Earle.
M. Jusserand is already known to
American readers, and his new volume,
English Essays From a French Pen
(Putnams), will not diminish his repu-
tation.
Old Goriot, with a preface by Mr..
Saintsbury, is added to the Dent-M Mac
milan Balzac. Miss Ellen Marriage is
the translator.
A PRESIDENTIAL SUGGESTION
The booms that fow'r in the spring, ira la,
Some slight disappointment may cost;
For the buds that too hastily spring. ira la,
Are the ones that take chances on frost
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