The San Francisco call., 1897-04-11
HERE AND THERE.

HERE AND THERE.
his Impressions of America which will ap-
pear exclusively in the Outlook.
Some CORES pondence between Burns and
Mrs. Dunlop, which discovered not long
ago, is expected 10 appear in print tnis year.
Messrs. E. p Dutton IL Co. will issue The
Life and Letters of Benjamin Jowett, NJ A.,
Master OF Balliol College. Oxford" by Evelyn
Abbott and Lewis Campbell
A Byronic revival seems to be coming Sew
eral complete editions of the poet are an
nounced, of which the one edited by Mr..
Henley is receiving much attention for its
scholarly notes.
The following advertisement, which is
copied from an Australian paper, published
III sydney, reveals curious multiple want:
Wanted-A man abe 10 teach French and
the piano and look after bull"
Horace Walpole died on March. 2, 1897
Some regret has been felt in England because
nobody thought it worth while TO commemo-
ate the day in any manner. 1t passed almost
unnoticed. This is odd, too, for in all English
social and semiliterary history there is no
more picturesque figure than WalpoIe.
I. Zangwill left England in February to ex-
plore some of the sites of the historic ro-
I mdHCeS OF MS new DOOk, 'DreamerS OF the
Ghetto" which cannot be ready before the au-
tumn, if then. He will ultimately go on TO
. | Egypt and Palestine and will lecture at Jeru-
salem on Easter Sunday, which is also Pass
over.
Paul Laurence Dunbar, the negro poet, is in
London, and the London Figaro very ILL
natrredly remarks: "There is nothing re-
markable about Mr.. Dun bars poetry, except
the color of his skin. And, after ALL it is only
| OF q dan tchO ho.ya
ments of exaltation." Dunbar was an elevator
boy, hence the biting sarcasm of the last SEN
tence.
1t is understood that successor to 'Looking
Backward" may be expected before very long.
Edward Bellamy has published no book in the
ten years since Looking Backward ap-
peared, and in view OF the careful attention
given to the new work and the increased IN.
!. terest in the subjects which he treats, the ap-
pearance of new book is likely TO De the
event of the year.
The largest sales during the past month
' were realized by Lord Roberts "Forty-one
Years in India,'' and among novels the list is
headed by ''On the Face of the Waters" ana
Mcleod OF the Camerons" The only other
novels that are selling freely are ''Peter Hal
ket' and Anthony Hopes "Phroso," which
young people are reading with ayidtty; it is
, excellent literary pabulum for them. q
5 One of the latest schemes in periodical liter
ature is magazine that publishes articles on
, the promise OF the writer to buy 200 copies at
cents each. "This will bring your name as
a magazine writer says the publishers in
their letter to aspiring writers, ''direct to the
attention of your friends, together with the
opportuni of submitting to publications of
more pretentious character already published
; contributions of which you are the author"
Vanity OF vanities, satin the preacherl
The following advertisement taken from the
New York Critic is sself-explanatory:
MRS. STEEL'S NOVEL OF THE NIU-
: TINY "ON The FACE OF HE
WArERS."
First edition published January, 1897; second,
January 20; thiro, January %; fourth,
January 30; fifth, February 8; sixth, Feb
ruary Is; seventh, February 81; eighth,
March II. Ninth edition now in press.
The Macmillan Company are welcome to
our congratulations.
Raymond Blathwayt writes to the Gentle
woman that native bootblack who was
blacking his boots in Japan asked hi.n If he
had read Wa ,hington Irving's ''Sketch Book"
The boy said that he not only reading it.
but that he reading 1t in English. This
certainly shows more intelligence tnan is
possessed by the average New York boot
black, who probably mas never heard the
name of Washington Irving, and usually does
he has heard OF his books.
Only the other day we were wondering why
Austin Dobson so persstently silent
News arrives of his resolution to break that
silence, not with new work, to be sure, but
with new arrangement of some old things.
He is preparing a single volume edition
of his poems which, it said, he will send forth
as the one he to be remembered by. 1t
viii preserve most all of the contents of
COL IlcJ AVID 40 Ar tba of
Lyre," and there will be included number
OF fugitive pieces composed siEee the publica-
ton of those volumes.
An amusing story OF encounter with
Thomas Hardy has recently been credited to
DR.. Weir Mitchell. "While travelling in Eng
land" he is quoted saying, 81 fell into
conversation with a stranger, who proved to
be OF great intelligence and culture.
We discussed recent novels, which we
spoke with much freedom. l expressed my
opinion of Tess some parts OF which 1
thought were very me .odramatic, especial en-
phasis being laid on the first part of the COM
pound word. In fact L SAID, they are so
mellow that they approach the stage of rot
tenness.' AS were parting the gentleman
said: You may be interested to know that
my name is Thomas Hardy.'''
1t is stated that Beatrice Hsrraden's "Hilda
Strafford," whicn was recently published, has
N.
The explanation is that the first edition was
three or tour times subscribed, and the
demand since has been so large that Messrs.
Blackwood now forced to go TO press again.
at would be interesting" says the Academy
"by the way, to know of how many copies
each edition consisted. The same publishers
will shortly publish long novel by Miss
Harraden, called Il, Too, Have Come Through
WinJry Terrors, title that should take the
popular taste as effectualy as ships That Pass
in the Night" Messrs. Dodd, Mead & CO. are
the American publishers of Miss Harradens
stories.
Mr.. Laurence Hutton has for years made
specially of the collection of death-masks OF
prominent men. His collection OF some sixty
such masks has just been contributed 10
Princeton University ana includes those of
Napoleon, Washing ton Lincoln, Thackeray,
Daniel Webster. Queen Elizabeth, Dean Swift,
Coleridge. Laurence Sterne. Keats, Professor
Richard Owen, Richard Brinsley Sheridau Sir
Isaac Newton, Dion Boucicault, John Nc
Cullough, General Sherman, Harry Edwards,
Lawrence Barrett, Mary Queen of Scots, Henry
Clay, John c. Calhoun, Walter Scott, Edmund
Burke, Sir Thomas More, Oliver Cromwell,
Robert Burns, Robert Bruce, Aaron Burr, Ed
mund Kean, David Garrick, Frederick the
Great, Robespierre, Murat. Mirabeau, Beeth-
oven, Mendelssohn, Haydn, Wordsworth,
Charles ii, Napoleon Ill, Goethe, Luther and
Dante.