Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-03-19

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LES Meres," by Alphonse Daudet. lie
announced for immediate publication In
Paris.
Lord Roberts Fascinating book on In
dia has already into several edi-
tions in England.
DIR. Henry Sweet, an authority on
Anglo-Saxon, is preparing a students
Dictionary of Anglo-SaXon."
Sir Martin Conway has completed the
larger part of his forthcoming book ON
the recent expedition to Spitzbergen.
Irving Browne. for many years editor
of the Albany Law Journal. is about to
bring out a volume of his lyrics and bal
lads under the title. .The House of the
Heart"
Charles Day I4anier. son of the poet
Sidney I4anier. formerly assistant edit
or of the Cosmopolitan Magazine, is
now business and editorial manager of
the Review of Reviews.
Du Maurier's "Martian' has some
passages concerning the hero's loss of
an eye which are doubly pathetic to
the reader who remembers that the au-
thor was in like evil case, and that
these passages are instinct with a sor-
row once cruelty real.
Now that Marion Crawford's mover
cite, "a Rose of Yesterday" has finish
ed Its serial course. we may expect to
see 1t soon in book form. The story is
n Of the strongest and most satisfac-
tory pieces OF work Mr.. Crawford has
done since "Saracinesca."
Eden Phillips is opening up n vein
novel, Lying Prophets" 1t is IL tale
of Cornish life, which is said to bear
certain r~esemblances to Tess" and it
departs entirely from the light method
which has formerly characterized his
stories. 1t has occupied him two years.
Commenting on a Dickens bookplatc
Miss Glider says: 81 have SO many
favorites among the authors that 1
should have to get a composite photo
graph made to do justice to my tastes.
I think l have as many literary pas
sions as Mr.. Howells, and l have some
that he has not, and without which la
is the poorer"
a popular edition of THE Peoples
Bible History,"for which Mr.. Gladstone
wrote the general Introduction, and
whose contributors include Dean Far
ar, Prof. Sayce, DIR. Munroe Gibson,
Prof. Agar Beet. DIR. Iorimer and 9TH
ers. is about to he brought out in Lon
don. The work was published in Chi.
cago over a year ago
An important art publication entitled
"The Masterpieces of the Museo del
Prndo at Madrid" is announced for is
IL in ten parts during the year by the
Rerlin Photographic Company. 1t will
consist of upwards of one hundred
photogravure reproductions of original
paintings by Raphael. velasquez. III
tian. Rubens, and other old masters in
the aforementioned museum, with de-
scriptive text.
Prof. Max Muller's book. "Contribu-
tions to the Science of Mythology" will
now be ready very soon. 1t is intended
to fill the gap between his Science of
Language" and the "Science of Reli-
gfon." The literary work of his life.
which he had planned long ago. is thus
carried through and finished. More
than thirty years back lie published his
inquiry into the facts of language con-
sidered MS documents for the historical!
development of the human mind.
There has been much curiosity as to
the identity of the young Scotchman
who calls himself Benjamin Swift and
who is the author of Nancy Noon.''
The critic is authority for the statement
that his name is William r. Patterson.
This latter accession to the kailyard
school says that short stories don't in
terest him, and thar he will never write
anything hut novels. His next one is
already OH the way. 1t is called ..The
Tormentor."
The most luxurious volume of the )
son in France will be a work, dedicated
byspecial permission to Queen Victoria,
dealing with Raphael's designs for tap
e%stlies. The illustrations which are to
number over 1870. reproduce the princi-
pal drawings preserved at the Vatican.
Hampton Court, Windsor Castle, the
Pitt Palace. Oxford University, and
other public galleries and private collec-
lions. The volume, of folio size, is
printed in red and black on tinted pa
per. The text, in French, consists of a
historical and critical notice by Eugene
Muntz of the French Institute.
An English visitor in Christiania. who
has been seeing a good deal of the mis-
anthrope Ibsen. says that the author of
"John Gabriel Borkman' was soured
by early derdsion of his work. and that
his domestic life has not been a happy
ont. He says that, as Norwegian for
tunes go. Ibsen is a rich man, being
worth perhaps 100000 krOners: but this