The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-08
OTES AND NEWS OF THE LITERARY WORLD.
LITERARY NOIES.


| Longmans, Green & Co. will publish shortly
the fourth and last volume of the Life of DR..
Pusey." by the late Canon Liddon.
Barrie's margaret Ogilvy'' the Messrs. scrlb-
ner report as in its twentieth thousand and
his Sentimental Tommy" as in its thirty-ffth.
| Macmillan & Co. will publish late in the fall
| the biography of Tennyson, by his son. The
statement recently made mat Harper & Bros.
! had secured the American rights was incor-
! rect.
1t will be remembered that "The Fourth
| Napoleon" was held over from last spring TO
the coming autumn for publication. Its now
announced that certain chapters OF the work
have been suppressed in It's present form.
These would probably have been interesting
reading to the followers OF current Conti-
neatal diplomacy and the histories OF royal
! families.
C. A. Murdoch & Co., 532 Clay street. San
| Francisco, CAL, and Lemeke & Buechner OF
| New York will ISSUE in limited edition. the
| Memorials OF William Crauch Bond, Director
of the Harvard Observatory, 1S40.59, and OF
His Son and Successor, George Phillips BOND"
drawn from the family papers, with illustra-
lions by Professor Edward S. Holden OF the
| Lick Observatory.
edition at a popular price of Lieutenant-Col-
onel 7. A. Dodge's "a Birds Eye View OF the
Civil War" All the important campaigns and
the leading characteristics of army command
ers contrasted. In this new edition the
| latest War Department publications have been
carefully studied, and there are not less than
forty-seven maps and battle charts with
glossary of military terms.
The New Amsterdam Book Company of
New York announces the publication OF
"Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's
Reign" The late Mrs. Oiphant contributed
to this volume, and the other writer's
Mrs. Lynn Linton. Mrs. Alexander, Mrs. Mac
quoid Mrs Parr, Mrs Marshall, Charlotte M.
Yonge, Adeline Sargent and Edna Lyall. An
important book to be issued by the same pub
fishers is Lady Hamilton and Lord Nelson"
by John Cardy Jefferson.
In the current issue of the Chap-Book is to
be found the conclusion of Henry James
novel, what Maisie Knew" TIE story was
originally planned novelette,, but the
possibilities of his subject were only fully dis
closed to Mr.. James after he began the work of
composition. The hook, which will be issued
in the autumn, is likely to be considered one
of his most important works and one of the
notable contributions of recent years to the
study of child life.
Inc eQltOr OF the American MOntnly review
OF Reviews, in his department entitled "The
Progress of the World discusses harvest
and trade prospects, the new tariff, the
coal strike, American annexation policies,
our diplomacy on the seal ques-
ton, Japan and Hawaii, British interests
in Canada, European politics, and many other
timely topics. In connection with matters
on the K!ondyke goldfields an excellent map
of Alaska is published. In the same depart
| VII 0f
British colonial capitals.
Many will be terested in the announce
ment that an authoritative Life OF the late
Charles Haddon Sturgeon Is now in course OF
preparation. 1t should be an interesting book.
Mr. Spurgeon himself had made some progress
with an autobiography and this will form the
basis of the book. For many years before his
; death Mr.. Spurgeon was accompanied on
many occasions by an amanuensis who made
it his duty to take shorthand note OF casual
conversations in which the great preacher en-
: gagged. These will furnish much racy mate
rial for the new book.
. Mrs. Oliphant has left behind her some lit
. erary remains, mainly autobiogr phical,
: which Messrs- Blackwood intend to publish at
o suitable time According to the Athen9um,
she had finally revised for the press the whole
of the first volume of the history OF the famous
pu blishing firm and magazine for which she
wrote so much, and she had in hand the
proofs OF the second volume when her last ill
ness overlook her. Since Aytoun's death
Blaekwoods Magazine has lost no contributor
J so regular and indefatigab'e. personal life
of her Ma jesty which Mrs. Oliphant had COM
pleted shortly before her death Will be issued
by Messrs Cassell.
Students aud lovers of Omar Khayyam will
receive with interest the announcement that
, H. S. Nichols, 8 Soho square, London, will
shortly publish a Photographic fac-simile of
the Rubaiyat in the Bodleian library, from
which Edward Fitzgerald made his earliest
studies of the subject. The photographs Will
be accom- panied by transcript OF the manu-
script into modern Persian type, and by lit
eral translation and copious notes by Edward
Heron-Alen. The decoration of the volume
will be executed by Miss Ella Hailward, whose
edition de luxe of Coleridge's Raven" is now
: being issued by the same publisher.
: The Macmillan Company announces an
other important contribution 10 the history
, of France in "The Household OF the Lafay.
cites" by Edith Slchel. 1t consists of series
of papers, with illustrations, dealing with
such topics as Before the Revolution" 'The
Eve of the Terror" ARREST" "The Prisons of
the Revolution" "Emigres and Captives,"
..Lafaye tie and Napoleon" and "Bsfore the
End" number OF portraits illustrate the
book and aid in making real the characters
which pass across its pages 1t is one OF the
most entertaining and probably more in
structive than most OF the volumes of
memoirs which through a personal interest
} throw side lights on history, strong If some
times somewhat colored with prejudice.
Brentano's of New York announce for i'm
!, mediate publication Letters to an Unknown"
by Prosper Merimee; translated. with pref
ace. BIZ Henri Peue du Bots The translator
; writes: s.If knew the name of the Unknown
would not tell it; but do not know. am
not deprived of the charm OF the mystery
which these letters make one appreciate in
tensely. They are like life. .or the best gift of
, life is the idea which it gives of something
not in life. Prosper Merimee was a
l familiar of the court of Napoleon III. He
wrote for the Empress tales which he signed
with her name as her jester. Six
mont this after his death the rioters among the
Communists set fire to his apartments
t This is why there are no letters of the
Unknown" This is the most complete trans
f lation OF these charming letters, which have
! evoked the admiration OF so many readers,
a / to, ba Oil al nd in 0ua