The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-06-13

artists or the Old quarter Latin are very
comical, if for no other reason than their
reI1oteness from anything possibly suggestive
OF Britain or the Quarter Latin or art.
revived the Jubilee" lives of the queen and
stories of the queens reign, but little: that is
new has appeared. The exception is Sixty
Years a; Queen" issued in parts. Tens of
thousands of the first number have sold. A
curiosity of the. former class of book was
published a week two since, which
riously states on the title page that it is re-
yised to June, 1897. Rather prophetic this!-
The Booknlan. &c. ''- >'i.T- .-'.+f
F. F. Hopk!nsoa Smith has just finished a
Diver 1t will begin to appear serially in
the Atlantic Monthly, probably in October,
and be published as book in the spring of
next year. Two Of Mr. S. mith,s former char
acters, both heroes in their way, play i'm
portant parts in this story: Captain Joe, the
man who saved, as- Hoboken ferry boat from
sinking in midst1'eams by forcing his body
into CASH left IN ethe beat s Iside by a
collidsng tug; and Major Tom SIocombe Of
Poconoke, already, known TO US in "a Gentle
man VagabOnd."
Two collections of American dialect stories
are announced by the Macmillan company,
one IS Col R. NJ Johnsten's .'.o1d Times in
ginson's From the Land of the Snow Pearls:
Tales of Puget Sound" the latter being
reissue, with additions, of The Flower that
GIeW III Iile Sdl1.
Stevenson st. Ives is 70 be completed
before it's publication in volume form, but
the name OF the author who has been an
trusted with the work has not yet TRANSFERRED.
Ian Maciaren" is resting on his Iaurels as
novelist. He announces his intention Of re-
framing from writing any more fiction This
year, and is devotIng himself to the Life of
Christ, on which he has been engaged for
some time.
t. B. Mosher is just bringing cut the fourth
edition Of his "Old World edition of the
Rubfayat of Omar Khayyam The July and
August numbers of theCosmopolitan will con-
tain 140 of the Guatrains translated by Mr.
Richard LIE Galliene. Gen. Walker writes
that they are very different from Fitzger-
AIDS, but sufficiently great to put the crown
ing seal on the literary achievement Of the
century.
1t is told by the wayward lips Of Runanr
that Paul Leicester Ford once set himself the
formidable task of producing three distinct
works in suceesSion-a historical novel a.
novel of adventure, and love. story. The
novel of adventure is The Great K and A.
Train Robbery, which appeared in Lippin-
colts Magazine, and is now published In a.
volume by Dodd, Mead & Co. The love story
is. yet to find its way into covers.
Another interesting posthumous publication
TO be brought out soon by William DoXey of
San Francisee, is the: Letters of Canova
the Sculptor, and Madame Reeamier -
never before printed, and now translated FROM
the original manuscript by j. w. Laing NJ. A
OXen, with an introduction. by Prof W. Fl
Hudson. of Stanford uniae ST y. In he letters.
it is said, absorbing passion on the part
of Canova- is betrayed, so intense as to seri-
ously interfere with his work. This passion
the famous woman met cordially and kindly
attempting to give It the flavor Of beautiful
but unsentimental friendship.
Still another posthumous publication comes
from the press of Herbert s. Stone G. Co.
Among Christina Roset;fs literary remains
was a story which She wrote when a young
girl entirely unknown to the world of letters
The matter of it is largely autebiographic,
and the heroine, Maude, writes verse, which
transcribed into the story, form no small part
/ Of it. Miss Rosetti's brother, William, has
decided to bring out the story, and has writ
ten an explanatory Introduction to it. and the
American rights. have been secured, by the
Chicago. publishers mentioned above
| James R. Randall. whose stirring lyric,
Maryland, My Maryland" was pronounced
! by Dr.. Oliver Wendell Holmes the best Of all
the songs produced on either side during the
| Civil war, has in contemplation, it is said.
| the collecting Of his poems for publication in
! book FORM They would make. q volume about
the size Of Gray's poems.