The times., 1897-09-19

no reporter near to whom ne could unbur-
den that weight OF grief. There WASH none
not even poStman, not even the corre-
spondent OF Welsh Radical journal, To
whom in that thrilling hour between sunset
and ruoonrise hecouldfalter forthhis humble
aspiration. Yet to the night dews lie whis-
pered .t. All! hemurmtr ID, now that In ~
thak | am Shakespeare; now that all the
visit,.e earth IL filled With ny paragraphs.
now that l have valuable serial rights in
the parts of Lytia about Cyrene' now that
no sociological or theological or entono
logical or scartoIogical question can be
raised III the whole earth without niy Icing
first consulted as to my opinion about it,
what shall ] do next?'' -
MesSrs. Small, Maynard & Co, of Pos
ton, announce that they have acquired frOIn
the poets literary executors TIE sole right
TO Issue the works OF Walt Whitman, and
that tney viii bring out greatly Improved
editions OF Leaves Of Grass" and the
Complete Prose Works early in the
autumn Both volumes were finally ar
ranged by Whitman Just before his death
and this arrangement, Of course. will
never be altered bat the matter they con
tain viii be brought together in a NOR;
convenient form (sbe various supplements
TO Leaves of Grass" for example, being
added in a uniform page) and with mort
regard throughout 10 typographical excel
lencc. The paper and style OF binding, will
be greatly improved over all previous edi-
tons, though the price willnot he increased
1t may he of interest to note that the new
volume of Leaves OF Grass VIII be the
thi,d Boston edition, following the issues
uf Thayer and Eldridge and James r. os
good & Co., in 1S6o-'61 and I96l-'S2, re-
spoctiyely.
a new club has Just been founded in
Paris in the district of MontmartTe, where
the painters, the poets ana the dramatJs IS
come from. 1t S called the Royal
Boheme,' and its idea is 70 revive the
glories OF those days when the Bohemian
carried his sword and-paid nobody, says
London Sketch Among the fourteen
rules that permit You 70 become mem ber
are some Of the following gems: You must
be educated, and be either a painter,
writer. 5r :, sculptor, you must have been
thoroughly hard up and insoiyent during
at least five yeats. youMust have sue, eeded
in doing AZ least two landlords aud have
skipped by tho light of the moon; you must
also he honest (Which seems a COntradic-
tione you must like vine, tobacco, the
ladies ebsinthe. and. incidentally, work
aud oboye all, you must undertake to in
suit and fight any nan whom you may
fipd and whom you may think either Il
blackguard or fool There are only TO be
twenty members, aud each one haste swear
never TO accept a decoration from the
b.~.r
uLdoubted genius
william Doxey, San Francisco's pub
fisher, has an important list OF autumn pub
locations There is volume by Mary
Elizabeth Parsons ON The Wild Flow
ers OF California in which 500 spec-
mems are to be described and numerous il
lustrations given. This is the eirst work 70
be published on the flora OF California.
"Yermah the Dorado is story Of pre-
historic tineSin Mexico and Central America
Yermah was the A ztec Messiah. The bOOS
is by Frona Eunice Waite. The Voice Of
the Valley is book OF poems OF the
Yosemite, by Yom Noguchi the Homeless
S0aiD. William Henry Hudson tEnslish
literature, stanford University is repre-
sented 5y Idle Hours in the Library a
series of essays on writers and what they
have written. Butthe book most important
in promise is the "SonneUs from tie
Trophies of Maria Jose de Heredia, trans
lated from the French by Edward Robson
TAYLOR. NJ de Heredia is easily the fore
most poet Of France today. A member Of
the 4 cademy one OF whom, Edmund Gosse
has said; He would rather be benished
from bis country than allow a loose rhyme
to escape him CT commit a soleeism in
prosody." So far as is known, Dr.. Tay-
lor's work is the first translation Of his
poetry into English.