The San Francisco call., 1897-11-14
LITERARY NOTES AND NEWS.

Mrs Emily Crawford the wellknown Paris
| correspondent of the London Daily News, tells
Lorna" of the British Weekly that there is no
| opening at all for women journalists III Paris.
"The manners of the coun try" she says, "are
| entirely against it, The French press is at
| present in the hands of rough, pushing,
scrambling set OF men, who guard their own
! rights most jealously against any intrusion OF
women. Ii girl tried to force her way into
| Paris newspaper office. she would meet with
| scant courtesy, and would be looked upon as
| an interloper who deserved mercy" Ii
this is the way Frenchmen treat women who
| in nterfere with their earnings, 1t is not dim
| cult to believe that they would show
even less mercy to women who stood
in the way OF their lives. "Worse stories
are believed in Paris about the con-
duct of the men at the Charity Bazaar
fire." says Mrs. Crawford, "thap any which
have appeared in print. The men at the
bazaar were not OF good type-they were the
idle loafers and hangers-on of society"
"Apropos of the candidacy of d'Annunzio
! TOR the Italian Parliament" says the New
York Evening Post, "a French writer has
been taking a survey of the literary men of
Europe who are in publ life who at least
! aspire to political influence. IN Italy Car
| ouccl s name comes first. OF course, and Verdi,
| though not strictly man of letters, is a
Senator. Spain still honors literary achieve
| ment with political rewards; Canovas him self
was a distinguished historian; CASTELAR,
Galdos, Martos have been at once academi-
| clans and members of the Cortes. Seven
writer's OF more or less prominence are in the
! German Reichstag, Professor VirchoW being
! the most distinguished. Maurus Jckai is a
| member OF the Hungarian Parliament In
England the well-known names are thicker
Morley, Lecky, Bryce being all members of
the present Parliament, to say nothing OF Mr..
| Balfour."
The Hartford Courant thinks that ii Hall
| Gaines 1.-The Christian" is worth $4,000 o
its author Thackeray should have received
| 81 ,000,00 for Vanity Fair" The Sun raises
| the Courants figures, and says that If the
merit of the work is considered vanity FAIR
must have been worth So, 100000. This is
quite true, but merit is not the basis of pay
ment; If it were a dozen authors could be
named who would be starving in their garrets
to-day instead OF living on the fat of the land.
| Mr.. Kipling is one of the few authors who is
paid for his worth and not for his popularity.
| There many authors whose books outsell
| his by thousands, but who are not so well
| paid. 1t is doubtful If more than $4,000
copies of any OF his books have been sold in
this try, yet he is paid higher rate than
| authors whose stories sell twice as well.
| The Century Company will publish the fol-
! lowing books in November: James w Whitcomb
! Riey's "Rubaiyat OF Doc Sfers,' long poem,
the story OF q country doctor, with fifty illus
trations by Rslyea; General Schofeld's
| biography, "For:y-six Years in the Army;
/ the Hon. James Bryce's impressions OF South
Africa; Tine Story OF Marie An toinette," by
Anna L. Bicknell, who wrote Life in the
| Tuilleries Under the Second Empire; Java
the Garden of the East" by Eliza Ruhameh
! Scidmore, author of "Jinrikisha Days.; and
new volume OF poems, Songs of Liberty" by
! Robert Underwood Johnson.
! There is certain minister in Kansas who
has an eye to the physical as well as the spir-
1tual welfare of his congregation. He brought
| one of his recent Sunday sermons to a sudden
| close with the following words: Brethren,
| will now close. for l see that we are going to
have thunderstorm. The congregation will
please follow me to Brother soandso's field and
help him stack his wheat" And they went.
| The peasant on the shores of the Solway Firth
! that Froude tells about in his Life of Car
| lyle" held it may be remembered, an alto
! gether different opinion of what was necessary
under similar circumstances.
The new gift edition of Tennyson's 'In
Memoriam," with descriptive and anay tical
preface by DR.. Henry Van Dyke, the volume
| lavishly illus trated with drawings made for
! it by Harry Fem, will be issued by Fords,
! Howard & Hubert on Wednesday, November
| II. Printed with great care on heavy coated
paper of extra strength, bound in Silk with
| gilt top, uncut edges, this book will supply
! something hitherto unattaina ble-an edition
of this great poem, by itself, in beauty and
| elegance suitab BILE for presentation.
There is to be new translation of the
! "Roubaiyat made by Mr. Edward Heron-Allen
Fitz Gerald's translation was made from a
/ copy of the Persian verse found in the Bodleian
| Library. A feature OF tae new translation
will be an exact copy of the original Persian.
| AS all members of the Omar Khayyam Club
are quite fluent with their Persian Mr.
Nichols, the publisher, will give English and
American Roubaiyatists the fullest facilities
NJ. Taine left volume in m manuscript which
has just been published in Paris, and Fisher
Unwin will issue an English translation.
Some favored few in New York had the oppor-
tunity of reading this book of NJ, Taine's be-
fore its publication and were loud in their
praise of it. The title OF the volume is
Journeys Through France" and is the work
of an art critic. Taine appears in new light.
His descriptions of French scenery are charm
ingly written.
A handy little book aoout the Klondike
gold fields ha S just been publishe by Edward
Holland, proprietor of the Commercial Hotel.
Most of the miners who came down from
Alaska stayed at Mr.. Hollands hotel and
from them he has gathered all the informa-
tion and statistics given in his book. The
maps are accurately drawn and no miner who
intends leaving for those parts in the spring
should overlook it. Price % cents.
We have received from the Smith Premier
Typewriter Company of Syracuse, N. Y, a
charming little pamphlet entitled "Our Juve-
nile Glass;" wherein a score of tots are de-
picted using this well-known machine. Their
opinions. as expressed their copy" are
unanimous as to the excellence of the Smith
Premier. The pamphlet is also splendid
specimen of fine half-tone work.
The granddaughter of the naturalist John
James Audubon Miss Maria Audubon, of Sa-
/ lem, n. Y, has worked for twelve years in the
translation of her grandfathers unpub-
! lished journals, which were written in French,
the letters being small that magnifying-
| glass was necessary to decpher many OF them.
Number z of the American Colonial Tract
series consists of concise history of the early
life in Virginia, published in 1872 These
pamphlets are of considerable interest to the