The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-05-23
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LITERARY NOTES.

| The ronte Museum at Haworth has been
| mally opened, Clement Shorter delivering
address entitled "Some More New Light
on the Brontes." 1.-THE Brontes in Fact and
| Fiction" is the name of still another book on
the family announced for early publication in
! London. 1t is by the Rev. Angus Mackay.
1t is stated that in the new novel on which
John oliver Hobbies is engaged she has intro
duced several prominent politicians among
the chief characters. Lord Beaconsfeld plays
a conspicuous part in the story, which is en-
titled "a School for Saints" The novel is
longer than "The Gods, Some Mortals and
Lord Wickenham."
Another volume is announced by the Mac.
milan Company in the uniform series of the
works of Friedrich Nietzsche. Two olumes
| have been published as follows: Volume XI,
containing "The Case of Wagner" 1.-The Twi-
light Idols" and "Nietzsche Contra Wagner"
and volume TX "Thus spake Zarathustra."
The new.voiume is entitled the "Genealogy of
Morals and i. justly considered scarcely less
| remarkable than the authors great prose
poem of Zarathustra.
'The Outgoing Turk: Impressions of
Journey Through the Western Balkans is the
title OF an important book by H. c. Thomson,
author OF "The Chitral Campaign" which is
to be ublished shortly by D. Appleton & Co.
| Mr.. Thomson has travelled over 500 miles
| through Bosnia and Herzegovina, and he pre-
sents graphic picture of the effect of twenty
years of Christian control He also discusses
! the problems offered by Armenia and Greece
aud the attitude OF Russia.
! Teachers OF natural science will find in Mrs
Wrights 'Citizen Bird" delightful book for
young people, written especially for those
who are making beginning in the study of
bird life. 1t will be fully illustrated with
| drawings Of
| Wrights larger ard more technical work on
birds will not need to be told of the interest
| ing style of the new work, and for those who
| have not yet read "Birdcraft" the associ alton
of DR.. Elliott Coues' name with that of Mrs.
Wright on the title-page will speak for its
accuracy and scientific value.
The Macmillan Company announces for
early publication book with the name Life
Histories of American Insects" There is no
book precisely like this in the field and the au-
thor OF this one is exceptionally we'll qualified
by previous experience both as an observer
and as an author. The work is by Clarence
NJ. Weed. professor OF zoology and entomol-
ogy in the New Hampshire College of Agricul-
ture and Mechanic Arts, entomologist OF the
New Hampshire Experiment Station, and as
sociate editor of the American Naturalist
The German Emperor has just published the
whole of the military correspondence and
memoranda of his grandfather the Emperor
William !, including his latest pr oposals re-
specting the defensive power of the country,
which have been printed verbatim from his
late Majesty's Ms. These papers are pub
lished with elucidatory notes, and 1t is be-
l1eved at Berlin that they will tend greatly to
raise the first German Emperor in the opin-
ion OF Europe, judging him from an intellec-
tual point OF view and as tactcian.
Tha Dodo
San Francisco has announced for immediate
publication new revised edition of their re-
print of the "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam,"
which had such large sale last year. The new
edition will be bound In soft fiber paper COW
ers and printed on fine imported deckle edge
paper. Price Csc. The in terest in this famous
Persian poem has greatly increased during
the past few years, and Omar Khayyam climbs
are being formed in various parts of this
country and England. 1t was this fact that
led to the issuing of the poem in the new edi.
ton.
Mrs. John Sherwood, whose autobiography
the Harpers are soon to publish, is one of the
most interesting of living American women,
She has long occupied a prominent social posi-
ton in New York, and both in this country
and in Europe, where she has travelled ex-
tensively, she has met nearly every one of dis
tinction during considerably more than the
y.
Mrs Sherwood has devoted much OF her time
to charitable work. After the panic of 1893
she organized the Kind Word Society which
has secured situations in the country for
thousands of girls.
Some new announcements OF D. Annle.
ton & Co. are woman and the Re-
public" by Helen Kendrck Johnson; "Beauty
and Art" by Adam Heaton; "The Story of
Germ Life" new vol me in the Useful Story
series, by Professor H. w. Conn; "Some I'm.
recognized Laws of Nature" by 1. Singer and
L. H. Berens; England" by Frances E. Cooke,
and Germany" by Kate F. Krocker-two
volumes in new series called History for
Young Readers; "Fierceheart, the Soldier"
historical romance, by ]. c. Snaith, author of
mistress Dorothy Marvin; sNulma,n an
Australian romance, by Mrs. Campbell Praed;
ana 1.-THE Folly of Pen Harrington" a novel
by Julian Sturgis :
Miss jeanette L. Glider of the New York
Critic, who contributes a column of s.Ameri-
can Book Notes" to the London Daily Mail,
writes as follows: Mr. Anthony Hopes
'Phroso' is making success over here, as all
of his stories have done. 1t has been pub
lished in book form by the I. A. Stokes Com
pany, who have advertised it in rather an
: amusing way. The title has suggested to
more than one person patent medicine
rather than a novel, and the publishers have
advertised it as though it were the former.
For instance, Take PHROSO for the blues, ,
/ and so on. Of course only light and airy
, novel could be advertised in this manner.
, | Publishers are about the only advertisers who
stick to old lines in their manner of adyertis-
ing. The most they do is to put in an illustra-
(! ton or a decorative border. but sensational
advertising OF books, thank goodness! has not
yet come" a8
DR.. Robertson Nicoll, who has been eliciting
facts as 10 the rate at which books are read,
5 makes some interesting statements on the
subject in the British Weekly. The vast m ajority
OF his cores pondents read an ordinary story
I at the rate of from 5000 to 5000 words In half
an hour. Some fall considerably below this
as low as 1000 words in half an hour. Others
go slightly above il, but in no case has ne had
more than IL, 900 words entioned. DR. Mic
oil made various personal experiments, and
found that he could read where there was no
occasion for hating about 20. 900 words in
. half an hour. at that rate, of course, vast
. amount of reading could soon be got through,
! but few we imagine could go on reading
at such speed with very much advantage to
, themselves. There is no doubt great art in
reading even novels, but the wise rule would
seem to be fewer and better books and more
D careful perusal. tits possible, of course, to
train ones self to read very rapidly, but what
? then becomes of the marking, learning and
inwardly digesting, which ought surely to be
the aim Of considerable proportion of all