The San Francisco call., 1897-07-25

in Harvard University has published volume
of essays entitled ''The Will to Believe" The
author is a brother to Henry James, the
novelist.
Gilbert Parker's admirable long story, 'The
Pomp of the Lavilettes," and Charles G. D..
Roberts equally admirable romance OF old
Canada, 'The Forge in the Forest" have gone
each into second edition. Lamson, Wolfe
& Co., Boston, are the publishers.
A set of the works of Aristotle, printed on
vellum 14S3), brought $500 at the Ashburn-
ham sale on June 26. Two days later the
Mazarin or Gutenberg Bible, also on vellum,
fetched $4,000. The Tst Latin Bible, with the
date 1900, and several others, solo for over
$1,000 each.
The Bowen-M Merrill Company Of Indianapo-
lis iii bring out Mrs. Elizabeth Cady STAN
toms new volume of recollectlons, eighty
Years and More" The same firm is to publish
Miss Susan B. Anthony's "reminiscences,
speeches, etc., which will form two volumes
Of 500 pages each.
The Century Company has in preparation
child's book on Joan OF Arc, Illustrated in
color by Boutet de Monvel and printed IN
Paris by Boussod, Valadon & Co. Mary Hart
well Catherwood's novel, "The Days of Jeanne
d'Arc" now appearing in the Century, will
also be issued in the autumn.
"His Majesty's Greatest Subjec," is the title
| of dramatic romance in India, the scene OF
which is laii in the future. 1t is full of exc1t-
ing adventure. and possesses, at the same time,
some historical significance. is the work OF
new English author, S. S. Thorburn, and Will
be published shortly by the Appletons.
Under the direction OF Mr.. Russell Sturgis,
the Macmillan Company is to publish Die
tionary OF Architecture" in three large octsvo
volumes. 1t will include many special arti-
! cles by architects, sculptors, engineers. mural
painters and other authorities. 1t will be ex-
| tensiye in scope, and il will be generously
! illustrated.
| Little, Brown & Co. are bringing out sh ortly
| the first volume of the History of the Royal
Navy" an important work upon which
several English specialists have been engaged
! for some time. At the same time it is made
known that Commander Jerrold Kelley's
American Navy, Its Growth and Achieve
ments" is in press.
| The biography OF the late Lord Tennyson by
his son will be published in this country by
| the Macmillan Company, the authorized pub
fishers OF Tennyson's works. The book Will
| be brought out in the late autumn, and Will
contain a number OF hitherto unpublished
]
Messrs Harper d Bros had secured the Ameri-
can rights was incorrect.
"The Century Book of the American Reyo-
| luton" IS work bv Elbridge S. Brooks which
| the Century Company is to bring out in the
| autumn. 1t describes trip made by party
of young people to all the famous battlefield:
of the Revolution, and it is to be illustrated
with more than 200 pictures. This ought to
| be useful book for boys and girls, and one
into which their elders will not mind looking.
Dodd, Mead Co. announce new and uni
| form edition OF the works OF Hamilton w.
Msbie, each volume 10 contain frontispiece
in photograyure. They will also issue In
October "History OF American Book Clubs -
| work likely to be of interest to bibliophlles.
1t contains accounts of all known publishing
| book clubs which have been organized in
America, with descriptions and collations oi
| their various publications.
The Century Company will soon issue John
La Farge's can Artists Letters From Japan, u
| illustrated by himself. The same company
! has in prepsra tion impressions of South
Africa" by the Hon. James Bryce, Mp.
which was announced ior issue several m on tbs
| ago, but has been kept back by the author
during the changes that have been taking
place so rapidly in that country. Some of Mr..
Bryce's chapters were published in the Cen.
tury, but these have been rewritten and about
| twenty new chapters have been added.
Bishop Potter does not believe that 1t Is the
office OF a minister 10 organize parties, nor 10
devise policies, nor attempt 10 manipulate q
! caucus or q canvass. but he feels that the
minister may strive to lift local questions in to
higher atmosphere. The result of his en-
deavors will be found in a volume, "The
| Scholar and the State" which the Century
| Company Will issue in the autumn. The book
| takes Its title from the opening chapter, which
was Bishop Potter's Phi Beta Kappa oration
at Harvard in June. 1890.
translation of Stendhals "Rouge ct Noir''
| is announced for early publication by the
George II. Richmond Company. 1t VIII be
called "Red and Black" and will be issued in
handsome edition, with etched Illustrations
uniform with the ''Chartreuse de Parme,' u
published last year. Stendhal whose name
was Henri Boyle, was contemporary and
friend of Balzac, and predicted that BaIzac's
work-which had no vogue at the moment
would be highly appreciated forty years after
his death.
We have received from the publishers, the
Macmillan Company, New York, the third
volume of Gibbons decline and Fall of the
| Roman Empire" The volume starts with the
government and death of Jovian, and its last
chapter treats Of the invasion of Gaul by
Attila in 451 A. D., and Of Italy the following
year. The work under review will be COM
pleted in seven volumes at the price of So
per volume Notes and appendices are sup
piled by ]. B. Bury, NJ. A., editor of the
| Edition.
| Eugene Fields song book, published last
year by the Scrbners, with music by De
Koven and others, is to have companion vol.
ume this year In a book similarly planned
and made up of selections from Robert Louis
| Stevenson's "Chiid's Garden of Verse" The
book will contain twenty songs. The music
| for nine of these has been composed by Dr.
| Villiers Stanford, the composer of the opera
| "Shsmus o. Brien." The rest OF the N usic will
| be tho work of Ethelbert Nevfn and others
1t will be issued by the Scribners early in the
| fall.
Henry Frowde of the Oxford University
Press New York; announces that he is about
to publish for the Egyptian exploration fund
part OF o papyrus book OF the sayings of Christ
| found at Behnesa, the ancient Orynxhynchas
some 40 miles south of Cairo on the edge Of
the Libyan desert, by Bernard P. Grenfell oil
| Queens College aud A. 8. Hunt of Magdalen
| College, Oxford. There will be much contro
yersy as to the antiquity of the logia but liz 1,