The San Francisco call., 1897-06-13

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Rider Haggard has finished a new novel
dealing with Boer life entitled The Swallow
Houghton, Mifflin & Co. have been obliged
/ TO postpone publication of the second volume
OF Victor Hugo's correspondence. 1t will not
appear until the fall.
E. L. Godkin's papers on Democratic Govern
ment now appearing in the Atlantic Monthly,
are parts OF a system Itc work on the subject,
to be pu blished in book form at an early date.
An interesting new addition to Browning
literature will appear from the press of the
Mscmillans during June. Its title, ''The Bos-
ton Browning Society Papers," speaks tor it,
self. The book Will include many noteworthy
articles contributed by well-known writers.
The Philistine for June has eleven short
articles besides the ''Side Talks with Girls
and Others" There is thought and feeling
and good humor on every page. But if a
Is afraid OF plain living ana high thinking he
had better let the little "Phn" alone.
! F. Marion Crawiord's new novel, "a Rose of
Yesterday" is to be published in book
io"m. His readers will recollect a scene in an
earlier novel where his feeling toward divorce
Is shown, and Will feel special interest in a
book in which divorce has become the main
motif.
Carlyle's earliest writings were contributions
TO Brewster's Edinburgh Encyclopedias, and
consisted OF biographical notices These pa
pers are TO be published by James Gowan &
Son under the title OF ''Montaigne and Other
Essays" These writings have never before
this been issued in book form.
volcanoes of North America, a Reading
Lesson for Students OF Geography and GeoI-
ogy, by Israel C. Russell, professor OF geology
in the University OF Michigan, is announced
by the Macmillans, who are bringing out also
the work on ''Ancient Volcanoes of Great
Britain by Sir Archibald Geikie.
Mr.. Ruskin spends several hours day gar
dening in little green cultivated place in tho
middle of a nut wood, which in spring is full
| OF daffodils and cherry blossoms. Here the
! professor admits other toll but his own,
| and is as proud of his garden as OF the great
| books which bear his name on their title-pa
The letters on the United States which G,
/ W. Stevens of the London Morning Post
wrote to his journal during the recen t politi-
cal campaign have been republished in Eng
! land, where they have been received with
some enthusiasm. Dodd, Mead & Co. an
nounce the book for immediate publication
here. 1t is incisive enough, and may give
! offense, but it has much truth in it. TOO and
/ is worth reading.
T. B. Mosher is just bringing out the fourth
! edition of his cold World" edition of the
| Rubaiyat of Omar KhayYam By the way.
| the July and August numbers of the Cosmo-
( polltan will contain 140 of the quatrains
translated by Richard lie Gallienne. General
Walker writes that they are very different
from Fitz Gerald's, but sufficiently great to
put the erowning seal on the literary achieve
ments OF the century.
The friends of "Mr. Bill Williams" of little
Ike Templin," of tBilly Downs and His Likes"
OF primes and Their Neighbors,' viii well
come the announcement OF a new book by the
author of 'Dulesborough Tales etc. under
the title cold Times ia Middle Georgia" by
R. Malcolm Johnston, which is 10 be published
shortly by the Macmillan Company. It is a
volume of short stories illustrating phase of
life in Middle Georgia now almos entirely Of
the past.
Paul Lawrence Dunbar's Lyrics of the
Lowly," with Mr.. Howels' capital introduce
tion, is to be published by Chapman & Hall of
London. May our English cousins appreciate
Dunbars clever verses, and as he is TO lecture
we trust he will be successful To understand
the dialect is not, however, so easy, but, then,
Mr.. Dunbar in his speech is precise and ele-
CANT, and so the contrast between the recital
of his dialect verses ana his ordinary talk Will
be the more effective.
The Critics London correspondent writes
that in England, ut least. Mr.. Crcckett's new
story, lads Love-" has been received with
lukewarm interest, remsrking by the way
that "the slight rebuff ito a novelist who is
under contract to write well into the next
century, may we'll be the very best thing pos
sioe for its author" From this London let
ter we learn, also, that Stevenson's unfinished
story, ''St. Ives" is to be completed by another
hand. The name of the daring writer who
wou undertake 10 complete the work of the
master is not given, but we doubt the result.
remarkably well-prepared and fpraeticaI
article on THE Military Value of the ship
yard" by Lewis Nixon, the designer of the
oa ttle-ships Indiana Massachu setts and ORE
gon, is published in the June number OF the
North American Review. Every shipyard,p
writes Mr.. Nixon, that can build war vessels
capable OF sustaining the armor using the
guns and proiectiles of such forgeS against
any common enemy becomes a public shield
against any and all possible foreign agrees
sion, the value of which to the nation a large
and in the long run cannot be computed by
the formulas OF trade"
After many mistaken reports as to the date
of publication of James Lane Aliens new
novel, THE Choir Invisible it was published
a few days since by the Macmillan Company.
The first large edition of the WORK was en-
tirely sold on the day of publica tion, and q
second is being hurried through the press as
rapidly as possible. Curiously enough at the
same time that they are publishing this story
OF John Gray's life they issuing also a new
edition OF book which, according to the
novelist story, exerted strong influence on
his hero at a critical moment in the story.
The reference is TO Mallorys "Morte d'Ar.
thur" which is, perhaps, scarcely so well
known as it should b..
The Macmillan Company announces a new
edition, with new stories of little book en-.
titled The Flower That Grew in the Sand, !" by
Mrs. Ella Higgnsou. The new tiIle will Re-
f rom the Land OF the Snow Pearls, Tales of
Puget Sound" The book is another OF those
collections OF studies of life and character
which are OF such value in helping one to a
comprehension OF the special atmosphere of
given locality. What r. NJ Johnston's
stories do for Middle Georgia, Mrs Higgin.
sons do for the far Northwest as "Q's" Stories
have done for Cornwall. Many of the re-
viewers OF the first edition of these stories
likened them 10 Miss Wilkins work, which is
easily understood when one recalls how MANY
of the settlers Of that region are from New
England ard cherish the memory of New
England homes. Indeed, it is exceedingly
interesting to read these tales beside Miss
wilkins, and note how the original New Eng
land types have been modified in the process
OF removal. AT all events, in this volume we
have book which deserves a place among
the best collections of short stories OF the
year.