The herald., 1897-03-14


| as to the real name OF the author OF
Nancy Noon" He signs himself Ben
jamin Swift, yet his name is w. J. Patter-
son. He is the son of Glasgow ply
| sician. st
Ouida's new novel, 'The Massarenes.' ,
follows the fortunes of an emigrant to
America, who accumulates4 fortune
returns to England and tries tc buy his
way with 1t into good society.
The publication of Modern Art
which for the past two years has been
isued by Messrs. L. Prang & Co. of Bos-
ton. has passed into the hands OF Mr.
]. M. Bowles. who has been the editos
| of this excellent magazine from the
beginning. Boston will continue to be
| the place OF publication.
The Duchess of Reggie, who followed
| her husband, Marshal Oudinot, to Rus
sia, and took part in the retreat from
Moscow, wrote down the many incidents
occurring during the life of her husband
The Messrs. d. Appleton & Co. have
almost ready Memoirs of Marshal Ou-
| dinot, Due de Reggie" derived from thc
hitherto unpublished notes of the duch-
! ess.
| DR.. w. H. Toman, secretary Of a
mayors committee of New York city,
has issued an admirable Report or.
| Public Baths and Public Comfort sta
tions." He gives the history of the
movement to establish and maintain
public lighthouses. laundries, lavato-
ries and comfort stations in Europe
and at home. The report should be in
every public library, and in the hands
of advocates of sanitation and morality
in towns. rs
Nansen's new book, "Farthest North
is ready in London from the press OF
Archibald Constable & Co., with num-
erous Illustrations, in and out of the
text, sixteen of which are colored plates.
1t is in two volumes.
MIR. Crocketts new novel, Lads
Love, VIII be ready the middle of next
month, illustrated.
A first edition of $4,000 copies of Marie
Corelli's new novel, "Ziska," has been
exhausted before publication, and Sec
ond large edition is already in the press.
Prof. Israel Abrahams point of view in
Jewish Life in the Middle Ages (Mac-
millan), makes his exhaustive study of
the structure of medieval society
among the Jews remarkably profitable
reading. His thesis is that civilization
is responsible for the Jews as seen to-
day; that the Ghetto transformed him.
He shows that in the early mediaeval
epoch the Jew was creature of consid-
cradle privilege and showed tendency
to cast in his lot with the life of the new
nations then in process of formation
But the tolerance OF the church from
the twelfth century onward, and the
avarice of the strong monarchies which
had grown up in France and England.
finally drove him to defensive organiza-
ton. He became a pariah in society;
and the Ghetto, with its intricate combi-
nation of social, economic, and religious
elements, was the result, out of which,
as out of a crucible, the Jew came forth
different creature.
THE SOCIALIST IN KANSAS. Mr..
William Allen White, in the March
Forum.
Nowhere else is the American Social
ist SO earnest, so outspoken, and so un-
hampered by scruples as in Kansas.
That is because the Kansas man is an
American, with no guiding motive, save
his desire to kick. When the American
does get off the track he goes farther
than any one. His good sense, how
ever, always brings him back; but while
he is away from the reservation. he is
very bad Indian. There are indications
that the ghost-dancing in Kansas is
done; yet the state remains an excellent
field wherein to study existing conditions
of American socialism. For in this state
men-average men, plain, everyday
living in social AMI
economic atmosphere rarely to be met
with.
The first draft of Poe's poem. "The
Bells" given to John Sartain, friend of
the poet, when Poe was in wild mood
and wanted money to buy a dinner, was
as follows:
The bells, hear the bells,
The merry wedding bells,
The little silver bells,
How fairy-like monody there swells
From the silver tinkling cells of the bells
The bells, ah, the bells,
The heavy iron bells,
Hear the tolling of the bells;
Hear the knells.
How horrible a monody there floats
From their throats.
From their deep-toned throats;
How l shudder at the notes
From the melancholy throats
OF the bells. of the bellsi
Sartain withheld the poem from publi-
cation, and Poe elaborated 1t. A second
time it was refused, and Poe then wrote
the poem as it is now known.