The San Francisco call., 1896-05-03
LITERARY NOTES,

DR.. David Starr Jordan, president of Le-
land Stanford Jr. University, has prepared
for publication series of chapters on the
Care and Culture of Men," This book is
now in press and will shortly be issued
by the Whitaker e. Ray Company. This
is the first book that the distinguished
educator has published on this coast.
A revolution has taken place in the firm
of Stone & Kimball, Chicago. The name,
business and goodwill of the corporation
have been purchased by the junior partner,
who will transfer its activities to New
York. The arrangement is an amicable
one, though 1T Is the result of some differ
ences of opinion on matters of policy be-
tween the two men. The Chap Book, pub
Hshed by the firm, now goes to New York.
Messrs. Harper d Brothers published on
May personal Recollections of Joan of
Are by Mark Twain; ''Madelon," a
novel by Mary E. Wilkins; and "For King
or Country" story of the American
| Revolution, by James Barnes. These will
be followed on May s by Mark Twain's
"Huckleberry Finn" (new edition.; 'The
Cavaliers, by S. r. Keightly, and MARK
Heffron," novel by Alice Ward Bailey.
A valuable article in the current Har-
per's Round Table is the first of series
| of five on practical Golf" by w. G.. Van
Tassel Sutphen. These articles describe
the game and tell in semi-instructiye
way many points not generally known. In
the same number there is hunting story,
entitled "An Adventure on Tamarack
Lake." by Francis Sterne Palmer, and "a
Mayday Play" Ia lawn entertainment in
| which the time-honored May-pole plays a
prominent part), by Caroline A. Creeyey
and Margaret e. Sangster.
"His Hearts Queer" is the latest story
| from the pen of Mrs. Georsie Sheldon. 1t
| &c Of ha 20 ~ o1a l..
affairs of a beautiful young girl. Street &
| Smith, New York, are the publishers.
A short treatise on 1.-THE Education of
Children at Rome," by George Clarke, Ph.
D., principal of Jarvis Hall Academy,
Montclair. Colo, is soon to be published
| Clarke in his little book has been to place
within the reach of teachers and others in
| terested in education a clear, and, so far
| as the limited sources of information al
low, full account of the methods used in
the moral and intellectual training of chill
dren at Rome in classical times.
The Outlook Company has engaged JUS
tin Mccarthy to write a popular life of Mr.
| Gladstone, which will be published in the
| Outlooks magazine mum bers during 1897.
| 1t will be profusely illustrated and the
personal and social sides of Mr. Glad
stones life will be brought out in strong
| relief.
"Clara Hopgood," Mark Rutherford 5
latest story, is said to be full of picture
of the spiritual and common life of the
English middle class of half q century ago.
The scenery is similar to that in "Cathe-
rine FurZe," and the heroine is the daugh-
ter of bank manager.
| Messrs. A. u. f. Randolph & Co. New
York; are issuing white Satin and Home
| spun," a short novel by Katrina Trask,
whose poem, Under King Constantine, !"
| is now in its fourth edition. With the ex-
| ception of stories which have appeared in
| magazines, this is Mrs. Trask's first prose
work. at touches the true phases of life