The San Francisco call., 1896-10-18
LITERARY NOTES.

In Appleton's Popular Science Monthly for
October Charles Howard Shinn has a very en-
pertaining as well as instructive article on
"Nevada Silver" tits handsomely illustrated,
and contains much valuable information and
soma very we'll told incidents and anecdotes
that are new to the types. The writer has
caught the spirit of the times when ION to
Washoe" was the cry. There are also some
choice bits of descriptive work in the article,
which is largely historical and entirely fascin-
ating to readers old and young alike.
Two more of the neat little Temple edition
volumes of Shakespeare are out, "Cymbeline'
and "Pericles." They are in uniform bind
ing. of course, with all the preceding volumes
of this edition, which is got up in the very
height of the book binders and typographer's
art by Macmillan & Co., the New York and Lon
don publishers. Each volume contains an
entire play, and each volume will fit very
nicely in ones coat pocket For sale by Will
liam Doxey; price 45 cents, bound in cloth.
A. C. McClurg & Co. have in the press "a
Short History of Italy," by Miss Kirkland, and
"Italy in the Nineteenth Century" by Mrs.
Latimer, uniform with that authors series of
popular rnineteenth-century histories.
An English edition of the letters of Victor
Hugo will be published by Messrs. Methuen at
the same time as the French one. The trans
lation is being made by F. Clarke. and the first
volume may be looked for within the next few
months 1t contains letters to Hugo's father,
to his young wife. TO his eonfessor, LamenDais,
an important set to Sainte-Beuve and letters
about his early books and plays. The CON-
plete correspondence ranges from Hugo's boy
hood TO his death, and nothing has been pub
lished of it before
volume of British "Songs for Soldiers and
Sailors is being edited by John Farmer fol
Messrs Cassell OF London. 1t is meant to be q
representative and comprehensive collection
| of all the best English national, naval and
| military songs That means that it will in.
clude "Tom Bowling, ""Ye Mariners of Eng.
! land" and s'Black-Eyed Susan" Other songs
which will be given are "Lovely Nan" "Sweet
Poll of Plymouth" and ''The Topsails Shiyer in
the Wind" The military songs will include
| "Primis in Indis," "The Union Brigade" and
Captain Burnaby."
A story of the time of Shakespeare, written
by John Bennett, will be the leading serial fol
| the new volume of st. Nicholas. 1t is called
sMaster Skylark," and will deal with the TO
mantle events of the Elizabethan age. The
great dramatist figures as one of the leading
characters, although the hero and heroine are
boy and girl Another serial, "The Last
/
| novel plot. 1t tells of three Union soldiers
who became veritable castaways in the Con
federacy. Both stories will begin In the No
yember st. Nicholas.
| The selections presented in the Library Of
| the Worlds Best Literature" have not only
been approved by such discriminating editors
as Charles Dudley Warner, Professor Mabie
| editor of the Outlook, and other critical
judges, but they have also been passed upon
by an advisory board fro m the leading Ameri
can universities. This would seem to argue
that the selections are thoroughly representa-
tive of different nations and periods. Besides
this the extracts are accompanied and ex.
planned by numerous critical and biographical
essays contributed by over 300 distinguished
writers in this country and Europe. The work
is in thirty volumes, the first two of which
will be ready for subscribers October 1.
Mrs. L. T. Meade and "Clifford Halifax
NJ. D." the authors of "The Diary of Doctor, -
have written novel entitled CDR. Rumsey's
Patient" 1t will be published at the begin
ming OF September by Messrs. Chatto and Win
dus of London, who promise about the same
time Robert Barr's group of stories, "Kevenge''
that word representing the motive on which
all the tales turn.