The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1897-05-08
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LOru hODerts fascinating book nm II
dia has already run into several ed,.
tons in England.
DR.. Henry Sweet, an author,tr
Anglo-Saxon, is preparing students,
Dictionary of Anglo-saxon.e
Sir Martin Conway has COMPLETED ,ha
larger part Of his forthcoming boot On
the recent expedition to spitzbergep
Irving Browne, for many years editor
Of the Albany Law Journal. is about 10
bring out volume Of his lyrics and hal
lads under the title, ''The House Of tba
Heart"
Charles Day Lanier son of the noet
Sidney Lanier, formerly assistant edit
or Of the Cosmopolitan Magazine Ia
now business and editorial manager ~
the Review of Reviews.
Du Mauriers Marian" has some
passages concerning the hero's loss Of
an eye which are doubly pathetic t.
the reader who remembers that the an
thor was in like evil case, and that
these passages are instinct with a sor-
row once cruelty real.
Now that Marion Crawford's novel;
cite, "a Rose of Yesterday" has finish
ed its serial course, we may expect to
see 1t soon in book form. The story is
one of the strongest and most satlsfac-
tory pieces of work Mr.. Crawford has
done since "Saracinesca."
Eden Phillips Is opening up n vein
which is new to him in his forthcoming
novel, Lying Prophets" 1t is Il tile
of Cornish life, which is said to bear
certain resemblance to ''Tess," and It
departs entirely from the light method
which has formerly characterized his
stories. 1t has occupied him two years.
Commenting on a Dickens bookplate
Miss Glider says: 81 have so many
favorites among the authors that I
should have to get a composite photo
graph made to do justice to my tastes.
l think l have as many literary pas
sions as Mr.. Howells, and have some
that he has not, and without which he
is the poorer"
A popular edition of "The Peoples
Bible History" for which Mr.. Gladstone
wrote the general Introduction, and
whose contributors include Dean Far
rar, Prof Sayce, DIR. Munroe Gibson,
Prof. Agar Beet, Dr. Lorimer and 9TH
ers, is about to be brought out in Lon
don. The work was published in Chi
cago over year ago.
An important art publication entitled
THE Masterpieces of the Museo del
Prado at Madrid" is announced for is
sue in ten parts during the year by the
Berlin Photographic Company. 1t will
consist of upwards OF one hundred
photogravure reproductions of original
paintings by Raphael, Velasquez, TIL
tan, Rubens, and other old masters In
the before mentioned museum, with de-
scriptive text.
Prof. Max Muller's book, "Contribu-
lions to the Science of Mythology" will
now be ready very soon. 1t is Intended
to fill the gap between his Science OF
Language" and the Science Of Reli-
gion." The literary work of his life,
which he had planned long ago, is thus
carried through and finished. Moro
than thirty years back he published his
inquiry into the facts Of language con-
sidered as documents for the historical
development of the human mind.
There has been much curiosity as to
the identity of the young Scotchman
who calls himself Benjamin Swift anu
who is the author Of "Nancy Noon. =
The critic is authority for the statement
that his name is William r. Patterson.
This latter accession to the kailyard
school saws that short stories don't IN
terest him. and that he will never Wrils
anything but novels. His next one Is
already on the way. 1t is called "Ihs
Tormentor."
The most luxurious volume Of the sea
son in France viii be work, dedicltee
by special permission to Queen victoria
dealing with Raphaers designs ior zap
estries. The Illustrations which are 70
number over $50. reproduce the primer
pal drawings preserved at the Vatican
Hamnton Court Windsor Castle, the
Pitt Palace. oxford University ano
other public galleries ana private coiiec
tons. The volume. Of folio size Il
printed in red and black on tinted pa
per. The text, in French, consists OF
historical and critical notice by husen'
Muntz of the French Institute.
An English visitor in Christianla' wn'
, has been seeing a good deal OF the ms
anthrope Ibsen, says that the author D
, John Gabriel Borkman' was source i
by early derision of his work ana ina
, his domestic life has not been HAPPY
! one. He says that. as Norwegian i .
, tunes go. Ibsen is rich man. oei PEN,
worth perhaps 100000 kroners; but 'n l
, money has come too late TO eompensa''
, him for the real privations OF his youu
, and middle age. one does not wonue
/ at the somberness Of lbsen's dramas
after this English visitor goes on e
? state that Ibsen's chief recreation !
I in reading Kant and taking al'erla .,
: sips from glasses Of beer anu aqu'
I vitae. The mixed drinks wouiu ac0ou"
5 for almost anything.
Great Weight.
The Editor-There, feel oetter' v
:, anisbed a tbree-column editorial!