The herald., 1897-04-11

With mission bells and vesper song
The dreams where Joy and Peace enfold
The happy Argonauts and gold.
The volume is a very tasteful bit Of
the publishers art, and is still another
evidence that Mr.. Doxey is not only a
famous bookseller, but ie fast coming to
be known as bookmaker.
Notes
The Macmillan company announces q
new volume by Smaller Matthews enti-
tied "The Social Teachings of Jesus: An
Essay in Christian Sociology"
The Lark will die with next months
Issue, which will make just twenty-four
numbers. 1t was started as freak and
goes down rejoicing that 1t has made the
public laugh at small cost to itself.
The same publishers also are putting
out great mass of general literature
for the use of schools, like Macauley's
Essays" Shakespeare, Grimm's Ger
man Household Tales" De Quincey's S
and Carlyle's works. ETC. Some of these
are now required for admission to col
lege in the next coming years.
Beginning with the April number, Nc
Clure's Magazine will hereafter be pub
lished on the first day of each month.
April 1 the April number was on sale
on all news stands and delivered to all
subscribers, from the Atlantic to the
Pacific; and hereafter exactly on the
first day of each npnth a new number
will be published. Heretofore publica-
tion has been made on the 2Sth of each
month.
1t Is understood that a successor to
Looking Backward" may be expected
before long. Mr.. Edward Bellamy has
published no book in the ten years since
Looking Backward" appeared, and in
view of the careful attention given to
the new work, and the increased inter-
est in the subjects which he treats, the
appearance of new book is likely to be
the event of the year. The Appletons
are the publishers.
The same publishers also announce a
new book by Mrs. Steel, whose recent
novel of the great mutiny, "On the Face
Of the Waters" has had such phenome-
nal success. The new book ie a Scotch
story entitled 'In the Tideway," and will
meet warm welcome from those who
remember the authors "Red Rowans,"
which the Boston Evening Transcript
describes as wholesome and sweet and
fresh as the moorland air itself"
According to the Academy, the books
having the largest sales in London just
now are Anthony Hopes "Phroso," Mr..
LIE Gallienne's "The Quest of the Golden
Girl" Benson's 1.-THE Babe" Marie Co.
rellis Sorrows of Satan" Lord Roberts
"Forty-one Years in India,'' Gibbons
Toft MI NJ II;
Kingsley's Travels in West Africa" &"
Mr.. Barrie's Margaret Ogilvy." Mrs.
SteePg ION the Face of the Waters"
Nanssn's "Farthest North" Bourinot's s
Canada" and Dean Church's Cocoa
sional' Papers"
Four O'clock Is the costly suggestive
name of another new magazine pub
lished in Chicago, and edited by Charles
Fletcher Scott. With a novel and bright
little cover, and most original scrap
book method of illustration, this debu-
tante makes its bow to the book world.
Works on Cuba are in request, and in
quiries are constantly being made at the
book stores for Something that will tell
all about the island and the trouble
there" Cuban literal ture is rather scan
ty, both in quantity and quality, being
limited to half-dozen or so of books
The best from a general standpoint are,
perhaps, Rowan & Ramsey's Island of
Cuba" and Murat Halstead'S STORY of
Cuba"
G. p. Putnam's Sons spring announce
ments include Authors and Publish
ers," a manual of practical suggestions;
Life of Abby Foster Gibbons" throw
ing light on the anti-slavery contest;
the eighth volume of the writings of
Jefferson" and the fourth of the Life
and Correspondence of Rufus King" a
new series of sketches by Ebert Hub
bard entitled Little Journeys to the
Homes of Famous Women;" "Nippur," "
a narrative of explorations and adven-
lures on the Euphrates by DR.. John p
Peters; the Life and Correspondence of
Charles Carroll of Carrollton;" trans
lation, by Anne G. Brinton, of Pellis-
sier's Literary Movement in France
During the Nineteenth Century," an
anonymous work on THE Revolution
ary Tendencies of the Age" and num-
Der of books of minor interest.
Messrs. Houghton, Miffiin & Co. OF
Boston, New York and Chicago, have
just published revised students edi-
tion of "A Bird's-Eye View of Our Civil
War" by Col. Theodore Ayrault Dodge,
U. s. A. The book is equipped with AZ
maps and battle charts, glossary of
military terms and an index. 12mo, 34S
pages. 81. net, postpaid. This is
new edition at a popular price,
Of book which has been accept
ed as. perhaps, the only single-volume
history of the war for the union which
can be relied on as an accurate, clear
and impartial narrative of that tre-
mendous struggle. 1t. describes all the
important campaigns and the leading
characteristics of every army command
er of both the northern and the south
ern armies. The Southern Historical
Papers commended it as "the work Of
an able, painstaking soldier, who has
honestly endeavored to ascertain and
frankly to tell the truth about the war;"