The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-05-02


English critics.
Austin Dohson is preparing volume of his
selected poems, and in 1t will be inc uded the
poem written by him for the Johnson COL
lection at Oxford.
Tolstois 'Ivan the Fool'' has been drama
tized by DR.. Arnold Eiloart, and will be pub
lished in book form. 1t has, we believe, had
one performance in London.
Messrs. Dodd. Mead g. Co. will publish Glenn
ent Shorter's Lives of Sir Walter scott and
Lord Byron in the series of works on English
literature in the Victorian era.
B. o. Flower, recently the editor of The
Arena, has published q prospectus for new
review. 1t will be Fan exponent of the new
political and social uprising"
The late Edmond de Goncourt left important
additions to the famous Journal des Con-
court. According to his instructions. this
supplementary matter is to be published in
1916.
Mrs. Flora Annie Steel has dram affixed her
famous story, "On the Face of the Waters" at
the request of an eminent London manager.
If the play is as successful as the book has
been Mrs. Steel need ask nothing more.
service on the French warship Jayelot, has
produced new book, "Ramuntcho"-a study
of Biscayan landscape and manners. CASTOR
Deschamps declares it to be "the true Lott.
the Lott of the old manner"
Mark Twain is still living in retirement in
England. He can be cached only through
his publishers, Chatto e. W1ndus. "My book
will soon be fms he'd" he wrote few weeks
i,f TO rfo will no iScn
by his publishers in Hartford.
With the idea of making a truly patriotic
his DRY OF the United States, Professor J. B.
McMaster of the University of Pennsylvania
has prepared such work. 1t was written at
the suggestion of the Grand Army of the Re-
pubic. "My Country, Right or Wrong" ma y
want adjusting when history has to be written.
The Kelmscott Press announces in circular
dated February that the "Sigurd," which Mr..
Morris was keenly anxious about. is to be pub
lished. 1t will not, however, take the sump-
tuous form its anthor intended for it. The
edition is to be limited to 100 copies at six
guineas, and six copies on vellum at twenty
guineas.
What chance there will be now for the EN-
bassador to the court of st. James TO sell his
Pike County Ballads" The Messrs. Rout
ledge announce in London Colonel Hays
Ballads" Little Brooches" will thus ap
pear, but the United States ambassador does
not disfigure himself, even OF Queens levee,
in small clothes.
biography of that very remarkable man,
Cecil Rhodes, is to be published. DR.. Jameson
will contribute "reminiscences. Mr.. Rhodes
charac teristics can be better understood when
it is remembered that he has for objective
idea the building of a railroad from the Ca pc
of Good Hope to Cairo, with, say, 500 miles OF
British territory on each side OF the track.
The funds for the oliver Goldsmith Memo
rial Window. to be placed in the church at his
native place, Pallas, County Long ford, Ire
land, have been fully subscribed. The ma
jority of the subscribers are Englishmen o
letters. The design sent in by south of Ire
land firm has been selected. The window is
to be placed in the church near "Swee
Auburn"
monument to Guy de Maupassant will BIZ
placed in the Pare Morceaux after the closing
of the Champs lysees Salon, where it is a
present exhibited. 1t is the work of NJ Raou
Verlet, and represents young woman seated
on a circular bench, and leaning against col
umn on which is placed bust of Maupassant
In her hand she holds a half-closed book
.sNotre Coeur" The likeness of the bust i:
said to be striking.
Tourgueneffs letters to George Sand are
being prepared for publication. The bulk o.
the CORES pondence runs on questions o.
literary history and criticism, but the Russian
novelist also sets forth his views on senti.
mental subjects. His letters to Emile lola are
shortly to see the light. but it is proba BILE thai
they will be extensively edited as the judg
ments they con tain on many famous contem
porary men of letters are believed to be mos
outspoken.
According to the English University Exten
sion a list has been published OF hat, in theil
estimation, are the best historical novels
Kingsley's "Hereward the Wake" is men
toned as the best picture of the eleventh cen
fury, Scott's "1vanhoe'' as the best of the
twelfth, Kingsley's "Westward "and SCOTS
"Kenilworth," are given for the sixteenth
Shorthouse's "John Inglesant," SCOTS "Old
Mortality" and Blackmore's Lorna Doone''
for the seventeenth, and Thackeray's LES
mond" for the eighteenth.
There has been some discussion as to
whether great find had or had not been
made in small four-leaf pamphlet which
some thought was the original issue of Gray's
"Elegy." Edmund Gosse writes in the
Athen@um that the work is only ''an ex
tremely early piracy of the 'Elegy. probably
struck off within few days of the publica ton
OF the first quarto, since it bears several of the
familiar stigmata of that edition. But its tex,
is wholly without independent value, and we
must look at it merely as a litersry curiosity
of no intrinsic Importance"
We all know who it is who quotes the Bible
for his own purposes, and also that "any ex
cuse is better than none" But a New YorE
drunk and disorderly'' in his defense stated
that she obeyed the teachings of the Bible ;
and requested the loan of the Bible which was
ordinarily used for administering oaths
Without a moments hesitation the prisoner
turned to Proverbs xxi and read the sixth
and seventh verses to the astonished magis
trate: "Give strong drink unto him that i.
ready to perish, and wine unto those that be O.
heavy hearts. Let him drink and forget hi,
poverty, and remem Der his misery no more.
The magistrate listened and uttered the one
word "Discharged."
Hall Caine arrived in London for his annua
holiday in Easter week. 1t may be presumed
therefore, that he has brought 1.-THE Christian
to conclusion, says the New York Critic. 1
is strange how little notice a story attracts
during its serial course; but one energetic
critic, who reals every paper on the stalls
assures me that '.The Christian" is likely t.
prove more popular and to attract more atten
ton than any of its authors former stories
1t seems that Mr.. Game has collected an i'm
mense amount of ''copy" for this work, which
reflects almost every side OF London life, and
the chapters yet to appear are said 10 be by
far the most striking in the work. The title is
in itself enough to make the fortune Of the
book with the circulating libraries.