The herald., 1897-10-17
N otes


| Estes & Lauriat have just issued their
annual volume of "Chatterbox," and
have decided to follow out the plan
which they originated last year, of in
serting six handsome colored plates in
the volume, instead of one, as hereto
| fore. The book will this year be sewed
throughout, instead of being wired
which will be an advantage easily recog-
nized.
The same firm will shortly publish a
very interesting boys book on Cuba, en-
titled Under the Cuban. Flag" by Fred
erick A. Ober, the we'll knows author
and lecturer. 1t is a we'll illustrated
and thrilling story of adventures with
the Cuban insurgents, and as the au-
thor has Travelled over nearly every fool
of the ground in Cuba he is thoroughly
posted on the subject.
They have also just published "The
Heart Of Old Hickory" and six other
stories of Tennessee, by Will Allen
Dromgoole. 1t is collection Of six
short stories by this gifted southern. au-
thor. The stories are written with d
great deal Of fidelity ard rare pathos
and humor.
| Among the announcements by the
Macmillan company for October is Prof
James Mark Baldwin's book on "Socia
ard Ethical Interpretation in Menta
Development" This work( as is stated
on the title page, is a study in socia
psychology and is a continua ton of the
authors studies in genetic psychology
begun in his Mental Development in th'
Child and the Race" In order, however
to obtain unity of treatment In this vol
ume and render it quite Independent O.
the former work, Prof. Baldwin ha'
omitted the educational matter, excep
| in so far as the natural connection re
quires reference to it.
A mplimentary issue Of the Mod
ern Readers Bible Series" is announced
for publication in December. 1t viii
consist of double number, which will
contain the whole of the Psalms, an,
will also include the Book of Lame rita
tions.
From the hand of the same editor, il
the same series, the publica ton of tn
books of the New Testament is also an
nourced. The writings of st. Luke AM
st. Paul, in two volumes the content
of which will be the Gospel of ST. Luke
|
Epistles. These latter will be irtr
duced at the several poirts of the his
tory to which they are usually re
ferred.
This double number will be issued i,
February, 1898
In March, "The Gospel, Epistles anC
Revelations of st. john will - Issued
St.Matthew, ST. Mark, and ~ Genera
Epistles are promised for April. Th'
title OF this last volume suggests The
contents, and it will include the Epistlt
to the Hebrews.
In two things Prof. John Fiske refuse.
to believe; the early Welsh migration tt
America, and what he calls the Bacon
Shakespearean nonsense, and he will re-
view the latter topic in the November
Atlantic Monthly under the head "a
Forty Years Folly"
"All indications point to heavy out
put of books this winter" remarked {
veteran book reviewer this week, ant
the activity already to be observed
among the publishers certainly seems tt
support his prophecy. The separa.f
houses have out their earliest announce
ments. and among them are books by
several favorite authors.
Mrs. Humphry Ward is writing a new
novel, and for this purpose has rented
the country house where the action Of
the story takes place.
M. F. Mansfield Of New York an
nounces sumptuous annual to b
called "The Pageant" in which will o.
reproduced the masterpieces of the fore
most authors and artists of the presen
cay. The writer's will sc Austin Dob
son, Edmund Gosse, Max Beerbohm
Maurice Maeterlinck and Laurence
Housman, Sir Edward Burne-Jones
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Walter Crane
Puvis de Chavanres and George Fred
ericl1 Watts contribute to the art sec
tion.
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