The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-04-18

the present holder OF the title. will be one of
he chief books of the autumn. 1t will be pub
lished by Macmillan IN two volumes.
Anna Katharine Green's "That Affair Next
Door" having been great success, its pub
fishers, Messrs. Putnam's Sons have ready
new story by the same author, "The Bronze
Head"
Besides his novel, when the Century Was
New" the J. 3. Lippincott Company has in
preparation volume of outdoor essays by DIR.
&. c. Abbott, with photogravure illustrations
OF some of the authors favorite localities.
Leslie's Weekly gives this week, in addition
| to its exclusive European matter, fully Illus
rated descriptions of the New York Aqua
rum, Mi Careme theatricals, society ladies of
San Francisco, with other timely topics, and q
number of portraits of interesting "People
! Talked About"
welcome will be accorded to the volume OF
Sir Lewis Morris poems, which Kegan Paul Il
GO. OF London will puolish this month. 1t will
consist OF a representative selection of poems
| chosen by the poet himself. Austin Dobson is
also forming collection of his poems for pub
LEGATION in the autumn.
The first number of the Expositor a etho-
logical magazine, of which the publishers are
Dodd, Mead q Co., has just made its appear
ance. The editors of the Expositor are The
Cuthbert Hall. The articles by the most
distinguished ecclesiastical writers in England
and the United States.
charming addition to the Canterbury
! Poets has just been made by Walter Scott in
the shape of three new Browning volumes.
The first contains "Pippa Passes and other
poetic dramas; the second, ga Blot on the
| 'Scutcheon" and other dramas, and the third
dramatic Romances and Lyrics and "Sar-
dello."
Thos Y. Crowell & Co. have completed
arrangements for the publication in the United
States and Canada of Dean Farrar's new book
Men Have Known" The volume will be
made up of the Deans "reminiscences of Rob
ert Browning, Tennyson, Arnold, Stanley. OAR
win, Tyndall, Lowell, Whittier, Holmes and
many other famous men CT England and
America. II will be illustrated with portraits
and fac-simile letters.
The Continental Publishing Company OF
New York announces tales of the Sun-Land,"
a new volume OF Indian stories by Werner L.
Reed, the author OF ''Lo-To-Kah," with illus
trauons by L. Maynard Dixon. The same
house announces a metricai tranlation by L.
q. Van Noppen of "Lucifer," the masterpiece
OF the great Dutch poet Vondel, whose influ.
ence on his conte mporary Milton is still one
OF the problems of the history Of letters.
The advance orders for Beatrice Harradeu's
"Htlda STAFFORD" in America have kept pace
with the demand that is reported to have been
felt for it in England. The English publish
ers are printing their eighth edition and
Dodd, Mead Il Co., the American publishers,
have felt a correspondingly large demand for
it in America. The advance orders for "The
Great K. & A. Train Robbery" Paul Leicester
Fords novel of adventure to be published by
Dodd, Mead & Co. next week, have also been
very heavy.
| General Grant, is the title of volume in
the Great Commanders Series, which will be
pu blisned shortly by d. Appleton e. Co. The
author, General James GRAFT Wilson, has had
exceptional opportunities for knowledge of
General Grants military career. An acauaint-
ance begun at Cairo in the summer of 1861
was continued for almost quarter of a CEN
tury. In addition to this, General Wilson has
had the advantage OF consulting war diary
containing MANY interesting conversations
and incidents of his service under General
Grant in the Vicksburg campaign and in the
West.
Charles Scribner's Sons announce in their
"Women of Colonial and Revolutionary
| Times" series a volume on Martha Washing
ton, by Annie Hollingswortn Wharton. 1t will
contain a fine portrait. DR.. Henry van Dykes
| 1.-THE Builders and Other Poems is to be is
sued shortly, and also Professor D. G.. Ho-
garth's philip and Alexander of Macedon."
Professor Hogarth of the Oxford University is
the author of most notable book, "a Wan
| dering Scholar in the Levant." The fine
paper, printing and binding OF the Messrs.
Scribner's Sons will be at their best in these
volumes
"Does Modern College Education Educate.
in the Broadest and Most Liberal Sense of the
Term?' is one of the most important inqui-
ries that could be set on foot. This discus
sion, which is 10 be taken part in by Presi-
dent Gilman OF Johns Hopkins President
| Dwight of Yale, President Scharman of Cor
nell, President Morton of the Stevens Insti-
tu:e, Henry Thurston Peck OF Colu mbia,
Bishop Potter and others of the most distin-
gushed men of both the United States and
| Europe, is begun in the April Cosmopolitan
by a radical inquiry into the educational
problem along the lines of Herbert Spencer.
President Gilman will follow in a direction all
most equally searching.
Mark Twain says The Critic, is in London,
writing an account of his lecturing trip to
Australia, India, South Africa, ETC. 1t will be
| in the style OF the immortal "Innoceuts
Abroad" and will be published in the fall
| by Chatto & Windus in England and by The
| American Publishing Company of Hartford in
this country. The book will be large octave,
illustrated and will be sold by subscription
only. The American Publishing Company is
! preparing uniform edition of ali of Mark
by the Messrs. Harper. 1; will be in fifteen
| volumes, and there will be an edition de luxe
of $50 copies, signed by the author. The Har-
pers will continue TO publish their own edi-
tions of Mr.. Clemens later writings.
| Edward Bellamy's new book, Equality"
the first which he has published since Look.
ing Backward" will be awaited with extraor-
binary interest. After years of preparation
the author now puts forward work which
will command universal attention. The new
book, VIII ch will be published in a few weeks
| by D. Appleton & Co., will be larger and m ore
comprehensive than Looking Backward"
The scene is the same-that is to say, the world
of the twentieth ceutury-and the same char
acters reappear. But while the new book tells
us m uSa that is fresh about the institutions Of
the world of tomorrow, its especial purpose.
as .s;-.- agrished from that of Looking Back.
| ward" is to account for those institutions by
explaining not only their righteousness and
reason. but likewise the course of historical
evolution by which they were born out of the
very different order of things existing to-day
In this part of his work the author has much
to say oil the meaning OF the events of our own
times, which he links with the future by pre-
dictions OF changes now close upon US. The
title, Equality" is well chosen, in view of
the general theme.