The San Francisco call., 1897-09-26

Mrs. James 7. Fields has completed her BIZ
ograDhy of Mrs Stowe, and her publis shers are
preparing to issue it in October.
Mrs. Craigie John Oliver Hobbes) has fin
ished her novel "a school for Saints" 1t will
make Its appearance this autumn.
Messrs. Laird d Lee OF Chicago will publish
this month Opie Reads new novel, "Old Ebe-
nezer," and somewhat later "The Jueklins."
George Meredith has written long poem on
the French Revolution, which will probably
be pu blished very soon in volume by itself.
The scribners are 10 follow up their special
uniform editions OF Stevenson, Barrie and
Kipling with a set of the works OF James Whit.
! comb Riley
Herbert s Stone & Co. have almost ready
'For the Love OF Tonita and Other Tales From
the Mesas," by Charles Fleming Embree
new writer.
The memoir of the late Sir Henry Rawlin.
son. written by his brother, Canon Rawlin-
son, will be issued shortly by the Messrs.
Longmans g. Co.
Some of Oliver schreiner's studies of South
Africa have already attracted attention. These
| essays are De collected and will be printed in
! a single volume,
phyllis in Bohemia is the title of fanc-
ful story by l. H. Bickford and Richard Still
man Powell, which will be published immedi-
ately by H. S. Stone d Co. OF Chicago.
"The Bookman" announces that '.the title
of Mr. Barres conclusion of Sentimental
Tommy will probably be The Celebrated
Tommy :" So we are 10 have 'Tammas' as a
man after ALL
A new edition of 'fverdant Green" is always
something to be thankful for, and Messrs.
| Little, Brown & Co. the benefactors who
! announce such a volume. 1t is to have
etched frontispece. and all OF the authors
engaging pictures-neariy 200-aIe to be in
| cluded.
"Wellington-His Comrades, His Contempo-
| raries, is the title of Ma jor Arthur Grifiths
| new volume. 1t is a companion volume to
| Professor Laughton's ''Nelson and His Com
| panions in Arms" The wellington" to be
published by Mr.. George Allen, will be hand
Somely illustrated.
Laird & Lee announce the immediate publ
! cation of Hermann .he Magician; His Life;
His Secrets" by H. J. Burlingame, and "Hours
| With the Ghosts or Ninetee nth Century Witch
craft" by H. R. Evans. The authors are men
versed in the subjects treated and the vol
umes are to be properly tllustra ed.
A new book by Pierre Lott will make its ap-
pearance in October. 1t will consist o. a num-
Der OF short stories, articles already published
in periodicals and newspapers, and several
new essays. The collection VIII be called
| souvenirs d'Annam." The author is now
| correcting the last proofs at Hendaye, where
he is spending the summer.
The memoirs of Tennyson, written by his
son, which the Macmillan Company viii! pub
lish in October, will comprise two volumes,
and besides photogravure portraits will have
numerous other illustrations. A note from
l. 1,-L1
poems.never before published and of letters to
friends of the poet, to which a less closely re-
lated bographer could not have access, will
make this life OF Lord Tennyson finally
authori tatlve."
The interesting announcement is made by
the Macmillan Company that in October they
will publish two volumes containing the let
tiers OF Elizabeth Barrett Browning, with por-
traits and other illustrations. The earliest
part OF the correspondence took place when
the writer was young girl but every period
of her life is represented in the letters. Tho
an thor in Paris during the coup d'etat in
1851, and made her home in Florence during
a time oil great excitement in Italy. She gives
a sketch of George Sand, whom she met sew
eral times
E. P. Dutton & Co. will publish in book
form "Perpetua, a Tale of Mines in A. D.
213, by S. Barring now running in the
Churchman serial The same publishers
announce BABY Days" book for records in
baby's life, illustrated in color. The pub
! fishers also promise two-volume biography
! of Phillips Brooks, written by A. V. G. Allen
| 1t will include considerable correspondence
and will be illustrated. They will also bring
| out, under the title of 1.-The New Book of the
Fairies collection of fairy-tales by Beatri
! Harraden, published in England some five
years ago.
There has been q funny little tempest in
| teapot in England over the manner in which
the publishers recently brought out Mrs.
Steele's novelette,, "In the Tideway." 1t is not
a very long story, only 20, 900 words it seems,
! but it has been printed in England as six
| shilling volume, and there have been bitter
words on the subject Just why is mystery.
! II the story is a good one does it make any diff
ference whether it has 26,00O OF 20 600. 600
words, Or whether it is sold at 6 shillings or
! 16? Is the public defrauded because it gets
| only $4,000 words for its money? This sheds
| a new light on the modern book market
The University Publishing Company, Chi.
! cago, have just added to their Standard Liter
ature Series Longfellow's ''EvangeIine," ed
! tied by Edward Everett Hale Jr, with his
torical and critical introduction and sugges-
| tions for study of the characters and for
textual study, and also giving accurate maps
! of Nova Scotia and Louisiana. Other volumes
! in this excellent series just issued INCLUDE
! Def1e's Robinson Crusoe,'' Scotts "Ivanhoe'
! and Poems of Kuightly Adventure, =" includ-
| ing Tennyson's ''Gareth and Lynette," Mac
aulays "Horatius," Lowells "Vfsion of Sir
Launfap' and Matthew ArnoId's "sohrab ana
Rustun."
The articles and poems in the September
Quarter Latin are of finer quality than those
| generally to be found in the smaller maya
! zines. IT'LL the Night Pass short story by
| Samuel Reid, is well told and shows that,
! though lovers may be parted by fate and even
married to people they do not care for, they
will ultimately find happiness in one an
! others arms. The descriptive article by L
/ Herbert, entitled ga French Holiday" is in
| teresting TO people who know what fair at
I st. Cloud is like, and will also be enjoyed by
! others who are strangers to such sights. The
/ little rondeau by ST. George Best, called 20
! Mistress Fair" is the most charming thing in
the magazine.
| The Frederick A. Stokes Company announces
| Love Affairs OF Some Famous Men," by the
Rev. E. j. Hardy; "The Son of the Cars" by
James Graham; Lying Prophets" by Eden
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