The morning times., 1896-09-14
Literary Notes.

There is craze in London for books
OF South America.
Celluloid covers are becoming popular
Tor binding effects.
new novel by Mrs. Edward Kennard
will have the suggestive title. The Sorrows
OF a Golfers Wife,
1t is expected that the demand for "Tril
by will once again receive impetus when
,he authors new novel is published.
Speaking OF fantastic titles. Miss Bertha
Cpton's book, The Goliiwogg's Bicycle
Club" Is worth noting in this connection.
Women Journalists in England claim the
editor or vanity r air a : their favorite. His
paper is u society journal edited by a schoI
ar.
Three books are in circulation In this
Country under the supposed authorship
OF James NJ. Barrie, which were not wit
ten by him.
While Barrie was describing giving I'd
his last pipe ruefully i'll My Lady Nico-
tine, tie was In reality smoking his rirst
pipe ginger!y.
London journalism is abolishing the ini-
personal. Daily papers have their Te-
ports written III the first person, and signed
by the writers.
The Asciaepiad is an English Quarterly.
BENJAMIN Ward Richardson. II Is III this
respect unique.
Burns 'centenary vase Kite nsiyely Y C,lcbrat-
Ell In Germany. where many Of his works
have been translated aud are favurite dra "
ing room songs.
l. h. Friedman is a young Jewish writer
whu makes his entrance INTO the literary
world by way OF Chicago His little book
is said to be charming piece OF word
cOlOring-
The publishers are beginning to Announce
fall publications. After an unusually light
summer production there is to be per
feet shower OF new books of all sorts Ge-
fore the end OF next month.
Charles Reade stEl has steady hold Oh
the EngiIsb-sDeakiug public His "Cloister
and the Hearth" for which Sir Waite rBe-
SAINT has often expressed his admiration.
continues to have the widest sale
"A Dead Mans Diary and "A Book
of Strange Sins are TWO new books from
England. The campaign managers OF .alI
literature iii the tight little island ought
To invite NOrdau in Tor a few speeches.
French critic has the nerve to say that
the only poets America has produced are
Stuart Merrill aud another fellow both Of
whom write i'll the tongue of Gaul, if YOU
please. Probably this is merely an indi-
rect way of stating that the critic doesn't
read English.
AT an Australian sale recently a fine
copy OF Byron'S works. which contained the
signature OF the poets ''Ianthe," whose
real name was Lady Charlotte Bacon. and
to whom ''Childe Harold" was dedicated,
was knocked down for the equivalent Of
about Sl.S4, our money.
Mr.. Hobart Chatfield Chatfield- Tai ylor,s
Ser',.s on Spain. whicn ne Is pruning IN the
Cosmopolitan, is to be issued in book
fnr fl.sS
several additional articles, which have not
been publ shed There will be some
changes i'll the book, which will be called
The Land OF the Castanet." McSsrs. Her
bert S. Stone & Co., of Chicago. are to 10
the pu ubiishers.
The manuscript of ''Trlby'' is preserved
In a locked glass case in the rooms of the
London Fine Arts Society. 1t is said that
Du Maurier sold il for sum larger than
most authors get for the serial rights OF q
novel. The story is written in little eX-
erCise books, but in various handwritingS
Du Maurier has a pet theory that all
members OF his family must take part in
the production OF his works. and each one
wrote at his dictation portions OF the re-
markable story.
An interesting side light on tie worS-
inCs OF Congressional committees is shown
by GOdey's Magazine for September, in au
article advocating the claims of Anna Ella
Carroll TO being The Woman That Saved
the CniOD.'' She asked compensation for
secret services of vast Importance to Lin
coins Cabinet, and gave inCon,rovcrtibe
evidence thatit was she, not Grant. Buell. or
Halleck, that planned the !ll-impnrtant
Tennessee river campaign which brought
the Union cause its first victories at a
time when they were vitaliy necessary.
Her claim was never seriously disputed.
IL appeared time and again before Senate
and House committees; yet was she.ved,
delayed, and when reported with hcartiest
recommendations was backed up with no
serious attempts TO pass a bill for her
relief. II is hInted that if her claim
had been a bill for a postoffice instead
of pie "a for justice to woman, il n.ght
have received satisfactory attention.
a banquet in honor OF Mrs Hodgson Bur-
nett was given by the Authors Club, ot
London. recently. Among those rSesent
were the Earl Of Crewe, Sir Walter and
Lady Besant, Justin Mccarthy, Anthony
Hope and I. Zangwil The chairman, Os-
wald Crawford, expressed for the Company
the deep admiration Tor her genius" and
laimed her as English born and bred"
Mrs Burnett, according to the st. James
in replying, expressed some doubt
as to the proper course for her to pursue
as the first woman guest of a society OF
men, Was IL her duty to
draw compariso between the sexes?
Drawing comparisons never seemed to her
to advance matters much. Besides she
had never yet discovered n good or bad
quality which seemed to have a gender.
And she had found just as many men who
kept all the commandments at once, and
lived simply and truly. according TO the
teachings OF the Sermon on the Mount. Just
as many men as women. and just as many
women a smen. One e'sSuccesS in the world
was not n question OF gender either. The
big world settled that; and IL u man or
woma n had something to 81 y that it wanted
to hear, would stop to listen.