The herald., 1897-05-09

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!, Announcements
T. Y Crowell & Co. announce man,
, excellent publications, among them be
: ing DANES and Daughters Of Colonia
Days" Kate Holiday Claghorn'e "Col
, lege Training for Women" THE Evo
luton of France under the Third Re
public;" THE Divine Comedy" mel
, Have known" (Dean Farrar): an,
THE Coming People," by Rev
Charles F. Dole. This latte
volume promises to be of great popu
lar interest. Judging from the following
table Of contents: The prophecy: certain
clear facts; the iron in the blood; tn,
point of view; the divine universe; shor
cuts to success; the problems Of tn,
future; temperance in the broader
sense; prayer and what good 1t does
the presence Of God; values; life in its
highest terms.
THE Romance Of Isabel. LadyBurton
will be published in America by Messrs
Dodd, Mead & Co. One interesting por-
tion of the book will be number Of let
ters written by General Gordon. which
have never yet been printed.
If word from Washington can be cred
tied, Mrs. Grant has written the home
story of her life with her illustrious hus-
band. But whether the matter is to be
published at once or after her death is
not known.
Notes on Nicaragua" is to be publish.
ed by A. c. McClurg & Co.. Chicago. The
work Is written by Mr.. Henry I. Sheldon,
who is familiar with the Suez, Kiel and
Manchester canals. The volume contains
excellent maps and many photographers.
Herbert s. Stone & Co. of Chicago will
publish story Of Christina Rossettis,
entitled "Maude," and written when she
was unknown. The matter is largely
photographed.
In honor Of the queens diamond jubi-
| lee, Messrs. Karslake & Co. Of London
will publish not less than twenty-five
portraits of the queen. beginning with
her majesty as princess and conclud-
ing with the last official one of 1855. The
nv .f,1css,,.: -. 4s-,.s will be written
to be limited to 1000 sets. and must be
subscribed for. The prints will be ready
for delivery at the end of this month,
and the cost is reasonable.
| The czar-like rule exercised by
Speaker Reed has been the occasion of
much comment and criticism Of late.
Endowed with a plenitude Of power,
beside which the president of the United
States seems mean and insignificant, Mr..
Reed is today the autocrat Of congress.
The threatening danger of this one man
power is clearly and forcibly indicated
in an article which appears in the May
Forum from the pen of Mr.. Henry Litch-
field West, an authority on national
politics.
The story of General Grants rebufis
and disappointments in his first efforts
to get employment in the war-a story
as romantic as anything invented by the
fertile fancy Of the elder Dumas-is told
by Hamlin Garland, from new docu-
ments and material in the May Nc
Clure's.
Special features in Current Literature
for May are illustrated articles in addi-
ton to the presence Of pictures in some
of the regular departments.
In the Editors Symposium in the May
number of Current Literature Mr.. Gable
gives his readers more of patriotism
than of mere literature--"Crete and
Cuba" 1.-THE Patriotism of Ideas" and
Cosmopolitan Patriotism being some
of the subjects he discusses. Hamilton
W. Mabie continues his series of literary
essays with an interesting paper on "The
Growth of Historical Study" and F. M
Hopkins, in his department of American
Poets of Today, writes this month o.
Louise Imogen Quincy. and quotes from
her works.
Literary men, and especially journal
lists, will appreciate the new Year Boo}
which the Macmillan company an
nounces. We say new, since 1t is the frs
issue in a new form thoroughly remod
eled and a great improvement upon thu
earlier editions, although it retains it
original title, who's Who?" Formerl.
a little more than collection Of table
of the peerage, with the army, navy ant
law lists, and various political tables, !
is in its enlarged form a biographical
dictionary of living celebrities, an
especially those who are prominent II
literature, arts and sciences. OF tn
brief notices the vast majority are auto
biographical and the information thu
placed so conveniently in the hands 0
the public in Who's Who?" 1897 is sim
ply invaluable.
! The Macmillan comnay has score
another success in their new book en-
titled THE Port of Missing Ships an
Other Stories of the Sea-" of which sec
ond edition is already on the press. Th
= first in the book is the strange story tol
!; in hospital by the only survivor of mid
ocean collision between the Atlantic.
: big steam packet and the Nucleus,
S full-rigged ship Neither vessel was eve
! heard from until through the broke
= revelations of this dying sailor. In stron
] contrast is the tale of the racing shir
q whose captains were rivals in the eye
t of their owners daughter, her fave
+, promised to the winning man. No lie:
interesting. yet different from either
a "The Story of a Second Mate" III
o cover design is also worthy a word
n notice. being quite out of the ordinary.
e Opportunities to gauge the relati'
( popularity of contemporary books a
d rare, and the device of the New Vol
e state library furnishes clue which
: therefore invaluable. This institute
i recently secured an official vote of 2
n librarians throughout the country on Il
t fifty books most read. The result civ