The San Francisco call., 1896-03-29
der Jeffrey; "LiEes," Stephen Crane;
LITERARY NOTES.


A popular edition OF w. w. Reads can
nails of Cricket is in preparation in Lon
don. A limited edition de luxe will ap-
pear at the same time.
Henry BalIantine, lately American Con-
sui at Bombay, has written and illustrated
a book on Nepal. 1t is called "On 1ndia's
Frontier; or Nepal, the Gurkha's Myste-
rious Land" and is being published IN
London by George Redway.
Baron Ferdinand Rothschild, whose
literary tastes are well known, has written
series OF anecdotal sketches relating to
French history. They are being published
by Messrs Macmillan under the title,
personal characteristics From French
History" Some of the people dealt with
are Louis XIV, Louis Xl, Francis L,
Nine de Pompadour, Cardinal Mazarin,
Voltaire, Marie Leczinska and Cardinal
Richelieu.
The coming publications of Messrs.
Routledge include a book entitled "Dr.
Jameson's Raid: Its Cause and Conse-
quences.' The volume, which is almost
ready, is written by the Rev. Mr.. King,
and is an impartial account of all the cir
cumstances connected with this affair.
William Blacks new novel, "Brisels,"
will be published by Messrs. Sampson Low
about the end of April. Almost immedl-
ately the same firm will have ready
r. D. Blackmores volume of stories,
Tales From the Telling House" There
are four stories.
Clement Scott, the leading dramatic
critic of the London Daily Telegraph.
wrote his first criticism on "Romeo and
Juliet" in 1868. Some of his notable
| ssCape Mail'' and Peril" The Midship-
mi io ono NJ hiS nonular SOnpS
A marble statue to Lord Byron has been
unveiled at Athens, presented to the city
| by Mr.. Demetrius Stefanovlc SchcyllzZl.
| The suggestion has been made that a
miniature of the work might appropriately
| be presented to any one who can pro-
nounce the donors name without sneez-
ing.
With the April number ends the first
book of the Lark. The price of single
copies of the Lark will be hereafter 10
cents. Wings will be added in the form of
an extra cover sheet to contain advertise.
ments and announcements, by which
financial aid the Lark may fly another
year. All business letters and orders
should be addressed to William Doxey,
631 Market street, and personal communl-
cations and manuscripts to Gelett Burgess,
sos Sutter street, San Francisco.
Bangs & Co., New York auctioneers,
have issued a forty-page catalogue OF
choice lot of original manuscripts and au-
tograph letters of celebrated American au-
thors. including what is claimed to be an
unsurpassed series of letters and MSS.
from the pen of Edgar Allan Poe, all
of which will be sold at auction on Satur-
day, April IL. 1t will be interesting to see
whether Americans can be counted On to
pay as literally for American literary
relics as Britons do for similar treasures OF
British origin.
=
Ladies' Home Journal is series of hith-
erto unpublished letters from Louisa NJ.
Alcott to five little girls residing in
Pennsylvania. In these epistleS the
author of Little Women" is said to have
most delightfully."- revealed her extraor-
binary nature. She takes her young cor
respondents into her closest confidence,
and writes them of her work. her re-
muneratiop, her daily life and cares, of the
influences that directed her to literature.
of her spiritual belief and faith, her views
upon Immortality, with passing reference
to spiritualism and kindred topics. They
begin in 1873 and continue at intervals un-
til short time preceding Miss Alcott's
death. One epistle, in which the beloved
author deals at length with religious mat
tiers, is of singular interest, as it presents
her view upon the Immortality of the SOUL
Womankind for April is a creditable
number, containing a great variety of in
teresting matters that will prove enter
tanning and instructive to the reader.
AS ''Lounger." in the New York Critic,
observes, Miss Harriet Munroe must look
upon the Worlds publication of her
Columbian Ode before the appointed time
with somewhat mixed sentiments. An
ode that can earn for its writer $4,000 is an
ode worth writing. and that is just what
Miss Munroe's ode has done for her. She
was paid $1,000 by the Columbian commit
tee, and now the United States Circuit
Court of Appeals has Just ordered the New
York World to pay her $4,000 for printing
the ode before it became public property.
writer on scientific subjects, has, in con-
junction with w. Rutherford written
handbook OF golf for beginners. 1t will be
published by the Messrs. Macmillan.
In IA Few Memories" the autobiog-
raphy of Nine. de Navarro. better known
as Miss Mary Anderson, will be included
portraits by G. F. Watts, G.. 81. Boughton
publish the book toward the end of the
month.
According to the Westminster Budget,
Mrs. Craigie has announced her decision
not to write any more stories of the type
of .'The Gods, Some Mortals and Lord
Wickenham." Her next novel, THE
Herb Moon, " is of very different stamp,
womanhood. A correspondent who has
read the greater part of the story expects
that it will add considerably to Mrs.
Craigie's reputation.
The effects of Paul Verlaine consist of
some papers in table drawer, bundle
Of MSS in a handbag, another-the work
he was engaged on last IN the portman-
teau which was presented to him the day
before ne went to London in 1893, half a
dozen clay pipes and a clay cigarette
holder, two pairs of eyeglasses, a hat and
nightcap.
Matthew Arnold's early poems, "The
Strayed Reveller'' and "Empedocles on
Etna," with some other verse by him, are
to be issued in Walter Scott's Canterbury
series.
The announcement is made that the So
ciety of the Philistines has arranged with
Walter Blackburn Harte. the editor and
publisher of the Fly Leaf, Boston, Mass,
to acquire and incorporate the Fly Leaf