The San Francisco call., 1897-08-15

The Roxburghe (England) press is spending
nearly $50, 900 on its new edition OF Dickens.
Messrs Downey & Co. will publish James
Payn's new novel, another Burtheu," in
London.
Alexander Gardener of London has just pub
ished american Humorists, Recent and
Living" by Robert Ford.
Mr.. F. Anstey has new book, which has for
title "Baboo Jabberjes." 1t will be pub
| ished in London by Dent.
There will be a new biography of Charles
! Dickens, written by George Gissing. The ub-
fishers are Messrs. Blackie q Son, London.
LA Fedor," Alphonse Daudets new novel.
! is just published in Paris. NJ. Daudet is ter
rible sufferer from nervous rheum atsm. but
this book is said TO show no evidence OF weak
ness.
NJ. Maeterlinck's latest volume TO be pub
| lished shortly by Dodd, Mead & Coz presents
/ him in the character OF a philosopher and
esthetician. "The Treasury OF the Humble
| is its ii tie.
Lamson, Wolfe & Co. announce that they
! have just secured for publication, in book
form only, the serial rights being withheld, a
! new historical novel of about 80 900 words,
by Mrs Burton Harrison, entitled "a Son OF
the Old Dominion"
| The Macmillan Company announces The
| Household OF the Lafayettes," by Edith Sichel,
series of papers, with illustrations, dealing
with the period of the Revolution. The same
! house has in press translation of DR.. C.
| Selma beps dbook of Me tallurgy," brought
J up to date.
The American Book Company has in press q
series of volumes of stories relating to various
States of the Union. Mr.. Howells contributes
a collection OF Ohio stories, Mr.. Stockton one
for New Jersey and Mr.. Joel Chandler Harris
one for Georgia. There will presumably be
| other volumes forthcoming.
The Roxburghe Press has just issued the
| first of a series of works on Historical
Women" This initial volume of course con-
Germs Victoria, Queen and Empress" and is
written by Richard Davoy, author of that curi-
Gus collection OF short stories entitled "The
Sand Sea-" and of several other books.
The Home Publishing Company, New York
City, have nearly ready a new novel by Archi-
bald Clavering Gunter, entitled "The Power
of Woman 1t will be issued in two parts,
| bearing the separate titles, Susan Turn bull"
and ''Ballyho Bey.' These parts will follow
each other al an interval of two weeks.
"Autour de Honore de Balzac," by the
! Vicomte de Spool berch de Lovenjoul, is the
latest contribu tion TO the life history OF the
greatest of all modern romance writer's. NJ.
de Lopenjoul was well acquainted with Balzae,
| and he shows the close intimacy between
Theophile Gautier and the subject of his
memoir Calman Levy OF Paris is The pub
Usher.
Dodd, Mead & Co., New York, have in prepa-
alton Ian Maclaren's new religious book,
THE Potters Wheel" They have also in pre-
paration an "Ian Maclaren Year Book aud
| liSh
Romance of Civilization in the United States,"
by g. Barnett Smith. which covers the period
from the earliest times TO the landing OF the
| Pilgrim Fathers.
Zangwill is an earnest and conscientious
worker, as his books testify, and no reviewer
is quite as critical or quite difficult to please
as he is where his own work is concerned.
TINS being so it is not surprising to hear that
"Dreamers of the Ghetto" is not nearly ready
and instead of appearing in the autumn, as
first intended, its publication will very proba-
bly, be deferred until the spring.
Colonel John Hay, our British ambassador,
delivered q speech a few weeks back upon the
unveiing in Westminster Abbey of a bust of
Sir Walter Scott This speech Will shoEtly be
issued as little book by John Lane, the au-
thor's English publisher. Its publication will
| bring to mind Colonel Hays volume of
Poems" and "Castillian Days" a book of
essays, both published in this country by
Houghton, Mlfflln & Co.
An interesting volume will be "Chronicles
of the Bank of England" written by B. B.
| Turner, of the officials. The book will
have for illustrations copies of rare old prints
in which the bank figures. The various COM
mercial storms the Old Lady of 1hreadneedle
street has weathered accurately de-
scribed. That old lady started in 1884 with q
| "a nil al 0f he En-
are the Messrs. Sonnenschein.
/ The late William Morris new romance,
''The Water OF the Won ndrous Isles" will
be ready very shortly for English readers.
1t is now at the binders, who is dressing it
| in limp vellum, with silk ties. 1t is in
dou BILE columns, with red shoulder notes. Two
hundred and fifty paper copies are to be is
sued by the Kelmscott Press at guineas
each OF these only seventy paper copies and
one vellum remain, says the London Tele-
graph.
Brentano's announce for immediate publi-
cation Colonial Verses-Mount Vernon" by
| Ruth Lawrence. A series of verses, with ac-
companying illustrations, of the home of
Washington, showing the drawing-room, the
banquet-room, the music-room, the stairway,
the garden, the splnning-house and Washing.
toms tomb. These verses Will appeal to all
who have read of or visited the home of WASH
ington. They most happily portray the spirit
of colonial manners.
In McClures Magazine for September will be
reproduc a superb life-cast of the face of
Henry Clay, made by John H. l. Browere in
1925, when Clay was 4S years old. 1t is prob
ably the most real and vivid likeness OF Clay
in existence, and it has never been published.
In the same number OF McClure's will be re-
produced the only portrait ever painted of
Mrs. Henry Clay. This also has never been
published. Notes by Charles Henry Hart will
relate the history OF the portraits and the cir
cumstances under which they were produced.
]. B. Lippincott Company have ready "Mon-
taigne, and Other Essays, Chiefly Biographi-
CAL" by Thomas Carlyle, collection OF
tributions to Brewster's Edinburgh Encyclo-
psedla, written between 1920 and 1928. and
not hitherto published in book form. Among
the subjects of these biographies are Lady
Mary Wortley Moutagu, Montesquieu, Eecker.
Nelson, Mungo Park, the two William Pitts
and others of less note. S. r. Crockett INTRO
duces the essays with a sympathetic foreword.
There are also just out "Cabots Discovery of
North America bv G. f. Weave, and new