The San Francisco call., 1896-02-02
LITERARY NOTES.

There are some beautiful reproductions
of various paintings OF Cleopatra in the
February Nickel Magazine.
An Arabic translation of "Ben-Hur' was
the last work done by the late DIR. Van
Dyck, the American missionary in Syria.
Anthony Troflope in the course of thirty
five years wrote sixty novels and made
$3.50, 600 total profit from their sale. To-day
his works are almost unread.
Rhoda Broughton, the English novelist
is great lover OF roses, and her little old
house in an old street in Oxford Is overrun
with climbing roses of all varieties.
It took 10000 copies of Rudyard Kip
ing's new "Jungle Book to satisfy the
first demand in America and England. An
| other large edition is now on the presses.
Two Alfreds in one generation born
The laureateship of England did adorn:
But Nature found the first throes so exhausting
That after Tennyson She bore an Austin.
Westminster Gazette.
A volume of six dialogues by Anthony
Hope will be published by the Messrs.
Scribner, under the title OF Comedies OF
Courtship."
Mr.. Murray expects to have the first
portion of Gibbons unpublished works
ready about Easter. The works are being
edited by the present Earl of Sheffield,
who will also contribute a preface.
"The Evolution of Woman is the title
of book that Mr.. Harry McVickar has
made for the Messrs. Harper. 1t is largely
illustration, but there is some text, and
both illustration and text are said to be
very funny.
One of the new stories published by D.
Appleton & Co. is ga Self-Denying Or
story of considerable interest, and is issued
in the Town and County Library, paper
covers. Price, so cents; for sale by Doxey.
DIR. Conan Doyle has gone as far as the
pyramids in search of health for his wife.
When he got there he was informed by
his proud hotel-keeper that his sherlock
Holmes" had been translated into Arabic
and issued to the local police as text
book.
Sir Edwin Arnold has contributed to the
February Forum delightfully."- interesting
Queen and Empress. u This paper is the
first of series of studies of reigning Euro
pean sovereigns which will appear in fu-
ture numbers of the Forum.
forthcoming volume will contain a
translation of the memoirs of Bertrand
Barere, that notorious member of the COM
mittee of public safety who was called by
Macaulay the greatest liar, debauchee,
coward and brute that ever lived. The
memoirs are said to show that Macaulay
was wrong.
The output of fiction continues un-
QlInlulSucQ III AAOuB IuC luOIo
interesting announcements in this branch
of literature is very uncommon story,
which will shortly be published by
Messrs. Hutchinson & Co. under the
title "In Silent World" The authoress
has taken for her heroine deaf and dumb
girl.
The third aud fourth volumes of the
"Memoirs of Barras" will be published by
J the Messrs. Harper in the immediate
future-probably next month. Another
work, the publication of which will be
completed at the same time, is G. 7. Cur
tis' Constitutional History of the United
States" The second volume includes all
the material collected by Mr.. Curtis dur
ing the last twenty years of his life.
Don Estanislao Zeballos, late Minister
from the Argentine Republic at Washing
ton, is the author of number of novels of
Indian manners. Paine, Relma. La Din
astia de las Piedras, of essays on the Para
guayan war, of other historical works Of
value and OF two books of travel. the
English names of which are "a Visit to
the Araucanian Indians" and .sThe Con-
quest of Fifteen Thousand Leagues"