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nistorica romance laid in Venice and
In village of Northern England.
d. G. Heath & Co. promise to solve
the puzzle of the tangled relations Of
the various British royal houses by
means of u chart showing "The De-
scent of England's Sovereigns."
Paul Bourgeois dispute with his pub
Usher has had the effect of stirring up
one Of the French Deputies to propose
bill compelling publishers to place q
one centime stamp on each copy Of ev-
cry book they print.
The much-discussed Freytag monu-
ment is not to be erected at Wiesbaden
after all, but probably at Leipsic.
Freytag's library is shortly to be sold
for 10000 marks, and 1t is expected
that some American institution will be
the purchaser.
The first volume of Social England"
edited by II. d. Traill, is about to ap-
pear In London. 1t is the work Of half
dozen writer's of note, including
Saintsbury and Prothero, and covers
the period from the accession of George
I. to the battle Of Waterloo.
Godey's Magazine begins the 1891
volume Of the famous old periodical
that interested the mothers Of the pres
INT generation under the title of God
ty's Ladies' Book. 1t has lost none Of
lis individuality as ladies book"
though 1t has, wisely or unwisely,
widened its field
The third annual report of the John
Crerar legacy to the American Sunday
School Union shows that in the three
years 155 new Sunday schools have
been organized and 500 teachers and
5,22S pupils brought into them. About
16 per cent. Of the schools have already
0sadss2ad claMrakes.
Une more volume of the "Journal of
Edmond de Goncourt' is announced,
covering the years from 1892 to 1895.
Lies Goncourt' have at least achieved
the distinction of being the most persist
ent and artistic gossips and chroniclers
of small beer in the century. Though
Jules died in 1870 it has always been
lies Goncourt" with the two brothers,
and always will be.
Gladstone has written to Kenyon
West, the author of 1.-The Laureates of
England" thus: 81 appreciate the
honor you do the country in taking
literary notice of the curious subject
of the laureateship. There is much
history connected with it. 1t seems al
ways to have been difficulty. de-
clined to advise filling it up. Yet Lord
Salisbury has done otherwise"
DIR. Stodart Walker has written an
introduction to the new volume of Sc
lected poems by his uncle, Prof.
Blackie, in which he tells an anecdote
of time when Blackie visited an Ed
inburg editor and mentioned that he
had lectured the previous night on
Scottish home rule. Il am astonished,"
said the publisher, .at your fondness
for making an exhibition of yourself"
Prof. Blackie turned on his heel and
slammed the door after him. Present
ly he came back, thrust his head in, and
said: "Do you know, that's just what
my wife tells me-"
Andrew w. Tuer has finally complet-
ed his exhaustive History of the Horn
Book" which appears in two splendid
volumes. Mr.. Tuer's indefatigable re-
searches have succeeded in tracing 150
horn-books in place of the eight or ten
previously supposed to remain in ex-
istence. The earliest record Mr.. Tuer
has found of real horn-book faced
with sheet Of iron Is about 145O.
though this torment of the British child
was not generally used until the close
OF the sixteenth century. Two or three
years ago an imperfect specimen of this
species Of textbook was sold in Eng
land for 1926.
And now come even the booksellers
also and depose, saying: Cursed be the
bicycle craze. AS the book trade de-
pends upon sedentary rather than ON
perambulatOry habits, the wailing is
probably not altogether of the imagina-
ton. But it is just as we'll to look on
the bright side and to believe that
when the present fad has passed it's
acute stage it will have built up such IL
general increase of vigor as to cause u
demand for more books than ever be-
fore. But they will not be books of
the George Egerton or Grant Allep
brand.
George Haven Putnam propounds Il
curious explanation for the poor quail
ity of the paper used in recent Euro
pean books. He says it is due to the
decline of NIoslem fanaticism on the
eastern shores of the Mediterranean.
Myriads of pilgrims used to cross those
dreary deserts on their way to Mecca,
every one clothed in fine linen. Thou
sands died by the wayside, and it was
profitable business to strip the
bodies of their linen for the use of
European paper mills. Now the Mos.
lem is losing faith and the publishers
are losing their supply of the best
grade of paper.
An American vindicatcd.
The British medical trust that is con-