The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-01
!. LITERARY .lNOIES.
/: L.&C. Page & Co., Boston, have just issued
Ouida,s latest novel entitled 'Muriella. =. !.

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:. L. G. Page & Co., Boston, have just issued
Ouida's latest novel entitled 'Muriella."
A new edition OF Richard Harding Davis
CUBA In Wartime is announced by R. b.
RUSSELL IT. -. r. FL: r.: =:
Mark Twain's forthcom ing book, due about
Christn as is to be called ''The Surviving Inno-
cent Abroad" Its true, he sags, that other
mem bers Of the party who left America in the
| Quaker City some twenty-eight years ago are
sin living, but he is the only one who has re
NAMED innocent ~ -.
| Mr.. Hall Caine's new novel, "The Chris
| tian,o win be published in England on Au-#
| gust z. The first. edition is to consist OF
! $4,000 copies. Messrs, Appleton have notyet
! announced the size OF their first edition, but
| there is no reason why it should not be as
large as that of THE Manxman.. III. +.
| Mr.. Edward Arnold's new. announcements
| include british Central Africa. by Sir Harry
, Johnston, with over 200 illustrations and six
| maps t.Old English Classes the account OF
! glass drinking-yessels in England from the
| early times to the end of the eighteenth GEN.
| tnfy: on which Mr.. Albert Hartshorne has
/ been at work for many years; and IAN
African millionaire new novel, by Graut
Allen. =: 7: T.:
! The London Athen@um in its issue for July
3 publishes series of articles on the literature
| of the Con tinent for the twelve months ending
| in June. Belgium is treated by Professor
Frederick Bohemia by Professor Tile. Den
| mark by Dr.. A. Ipsen. France by MI. Rein ach,
| Germany by Hofrath Zimmerman, Greece by
I Professor Lam bros, Holland by NJ. Crommelfn,
Hungary by NJ. L. Katscher, Italy by Com
mendatore Giaeosa. Poland by DR.. Belcikow-
ski. Russia by NJ. L. A. Bogdanoyitch and Spain
! by Don Rafael Altamfra. ~ il. -. =
Messrs. Longmans, Green & Co.'S recent
publications include "Cromwelrs Place in.
| History by S. R. Gardiner; tThe Victorian
Era -, by P. A Graham; and "Victoria, Queen
| and Empress: The Sixty Years. by Sir Edwi
Arnold, reprinted from the Daily Telegraph.
! They announce for Immediate publication,
| ,tWhat the Gunpowder Plot Was: A Reply to
Father Gerard and Vol. II of "A History OF
the Commonwealth and Proteetorate," by s..
r. Gardiner; and "Croquet: Its History, Rules
and Secrets" by Arthur Lille. II; I:
Mr., John Lane will publish another parody
of one of his own books. THE Quest of the
| Gilt Edged GIRL by Richard de Lyrienne,
/ Will be issued in the Bodiey Booklets, of which
| series Max Beeroohm's Happy Hypocrite"
was the original volume. The same publisher
Twill bring out in: his little BOOKLET Embassa-
dor John Hays speech atthe unwilling OF the
Scott bust In Westminster Abbey; "a Child in
the Temple" by Frank Mathew; ana "The
/ Ssepmother,h a novel, translated from the
modern Greek of Gregory Xenopoulos, By Mrs
EdmonGs. :. :. H.. 80 :, :: 1871,
F. Messrs. 6. P. Putnatn's Sons first announce
ments OF early fall publications include John
Marin aduke," q story of Ireland in the daysof
Cromwell, by s. H: Church; Life of Ambrose
Pare by Stephen Psget, with illustrations:
from Paresewn works and from contemporary
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Their Stories" by Marion Harland; '.Impres-
sions of Turkey During Twelve Years Wander
fings." by Professor w. NJ. Ramsey; "The Story.
of the Palatines," chapter of early American
/ history, by Rev. S. II. Cobb; "Chronicles OF
Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow history and
guide book, by E. NJ. Bacon; and ftThe Fall OF
the Sparrow" anovel, by NJ. 9. Baltour.
f The new Amsterdam Book Company an
nounces for immediate issue "The Story of an
/ African Crisis by +, E. Garrett IL 900
copies of which were sold in London on the
day Of its publica ton there ;; The Preaching
of ISLAM" by +. w. Arnold, an account OF the
i spread of Mohammedanism through mission-
/ airy methods; and Pacific Tales by Louis
i BecKe the well-known writer of South Sea
stories.3 This house has postponed till early
! fall the issue OF the volume OF heretofore
unpublished sketches and articles by Dickens,
i to which Frederick Kitton, the well-known
authority on Dickensiana, will contribute an
! introduction. ~ .'~.s4 =: -.
/ Henry Holt Co. announce for immediate
publication: Confessional THE Francaise,'' q
! French reader, with phonetic transcript tions,
/ and an introduction on the Phonetic
I Method" by Professor A. Rambeau OF Johns
I Hopkins, and Professor Jean Passy Of Paris;
/ also seven of Sainte-Beuve's "Causeries du
Lundi," including the famous "Qu'est-ce
/ qu,nn CLASSIC ue.', in one volume, with intro
duction and footnotes by Professor George III.
| Harper of Princeton They will issue at the
i same time new editions, with voca bularies of
| Goe ihe's "Hermann und Dorothea," edited by
/ Professor Calvin Thomas of Columbia, and of
Riehrs 'sDer Fluch der Schonheit," edited BY
| the late Professor +. i. Kendall Of Williams.
I G. P. Putnam's Sons have just ready the sew.
/ enth edition of the useful volume entitled "Au-
T thors and Publishers, Manual of suggestions
| for Beginners in Literature" comprising de-
/ scription O. publishing me thods and arrange
/ ments directions for the preparation OF manu-
! scripts for the press explanations OF the. de-
| tails of book manufacturing, instructions Tor
| prootreading, specimens OF ty typography the
| text OF the United States copyright law and
| Information concerning international copy
rights together with general hints for au-
| thors, by George Haven Putnam and j.. Bishop
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much new material has been added, so that.
the manual will be of use to the bookmakerss
we'll as author. They have also just ready q
| novel by Annette Lucille Noble, entitled 1.-THE
Professors Dilemma r.: ..s- .;
We see that the Macmillan Com pany Is con-
| tinuing its list of books of value to the stu
dent of geology, mineralogy, etc; for 1t an
! nounces as in press translation Of. DIR. C.
| sohnable,s Handbook of Metallursy, a work
| familiar to all students OF the subject AS the
/ best work on metallurgy at present extsnt. 1t
/ is fully up to date and thoroughly good, as
4 might be ex pected from the high reputation
/ of the author. The translator is Professor
Henry Louis. al thor of a work on Gold Mir
| ing, also published by the Macmillan Com
/ pany. His English version of DR.. sehnable's
| book will be looked for the moro eagerly as
there is at present only one treatise on metal
/ lurgy in our language which canat all COM
pare with this and it is both inferior and
somewhat out of date. Theiauthor has:visited
this country and pays very considerable at
/ tention to work which has been done in differ
j ent parts of the United States, :
The Frederick A. stokes Company have in
preparation sequel to Courage" an inter