The San Francisco call., 1897-09-19

and published.
Mrs. Bishops travels i'll Korea and the re-
mote East will form q remarkable volume. II
is now almost ready for publication.
Houghton, Miflin & Co. will add to their
list of Students Editions Thoreau's "walden"
and Cranch's translation of Vlrgirs "EneiG "
1t is announced that the title of Mark
Twain's book has been changed from The
Surviving Innocent Abroad 10 "Following the
Equator"
Mr.. Foultney Bigelow has brought together
the articles originally published in Harpers
Magazine under the general title OF "white
Mans Africa" and they win be issued in book
form early in October by the Harpers.
Readers of Sir Walter Scott will be glad to
know that Mrs. Maxwell Scott has written a
volume entitled ''The Making of AbbotsfoId,"
in which the whole history of Abbotsford is
| traced Black will publish the work this fall.
French caricaturist once drew Alexandra
Dumas the elder working with four pens.
There was quill in each hand and one in
each loot. Grant Allen is producing a library
OF his own. His last is the ~ Unrelated Bishop,
His productiveness is without limit.
Alphonse Daudet has just written six short
stories, which he has brought out in little
Volume emitted LA Fedor," published by
Flammarion, Paris. The text is illustrated
with pen sketches by NJ. Fabien. The themes
are all in a reminiscent vein and in the
authors best STYLE
| Under the name OF "Fleur-de-Lis Collection"
Laird q Lee are bringing out, in exquisite
bindings. four of the most famous French
novels of the century: ''Camors, " MADAME
| Eovary," "The Chouans' and duchess An.
nette," the masterpieces of Feuillet, Flaubert
Balzac and Dumas fills.
useful reference guide to the work of Cali
fornla authors and newspaper men is, "The
Story of the Files" by Ella Sterling Cummins.
The book is complete compendium of the
literary history of this State, besides furnish
ing examples of the styles of its more promi-
nent writers. 1t is for sale by J. G. Peton, who
has the sole agency.
The Putnams will have ready during Sen
tember dainty l:ttle book on Burns. 1t will
be entitled, 1.-The Ayrshire Homes and Haunts
! OF Burns" and it is written by H. c. Shelly
who has visited the localities associated with
the Scotch poets life, and who adds to his
familiarity with these places wide know-
edge OF Burns literature. and warm appre-
citation of his character and worth.
| The F. A. Stokes Company has in press a
! volume of drawing-room plays by Sir Walter
Besant and w. Pollock. The title of the book
is 'The Charm" Some of these plays have
already appeared in the English mag azines,
but they Will be fresh TO American readers,
| who Will find them readily adapted for pur.
poses OF entertainment The book will be
| illustrated.
Messrs. Harper & Bros. have sent out a
caution to the public to the effect that they
are the sole publishers in this country of 1.-THE
| only hook byy
which gives a complete and adequate
account of his north pole expedition. The
| publishers close their warning follows:
| "An action has been begun by US against cer-
tain persons who, as we claim, have infringed
our rights in Dr. Nansen's work, and those
who take part with them in such infringe
ment will also be prosecuted"
Professor Goldwin Smith has completed his
Political History of England" and is touch
| ing it up here and there before handing it 10
his publishers, the Macmillan Company. His
| "Guesses at the Riddles of Existence" has
called forth many criticisms. In reply he has
written an essay separately issued by the
Macmillan Company. Although in his sew
entysixth year, Professor Goldwin Smith is
hale and hearty, and finds time, in addition
to much literary activity, to contribute largely
| to the Weekly Sun of Toronto.
| IuIndm are preparing new kQick-
erbocker edition of Washington Irying's
works, to be complete in forty volumes. 1t was
| in 1913 that this house brought out its first
edition OF all the works OF Irving written up
! 10 that date, end its undertaking was consId.
cred foolhardy by many. The results have
| vindicated the wisdom of the founder of the
! house; for Washington Irving continues to
enjoy an undiminished popularity, shown in
the constant purchase of his works in many
/ "A tadi
also in preparation for the holiday season the
Tacoms edition of lrviug's Astoria to be
| uniform with the "Bracebridge Hall" brought
out last year.
Charles Scribners Sons will publish during
| Septem ber Thomas and Matthew Arnold and
Their Influence English Educauon," by ],
G. Fitch; 1.-The Sub-Conseious Self, in Its Rela-
! ton to Education and Health" by Louis
Waldstein; english Lands, Letters and
Kings" covering the later Georges to Queen
Victoria; and Selected Poems,' by George
Meredith, arranged by the author. OF histori-
cal interest are: 1.-The Battle of franklin"
by General Jacob D. Cox; Catherine schuy.
ler,'' by Mary Gay aumphries, the new volume
in the "Women of Colonial and Revolutionary
Times" which completes the set; and Social
Life in Old Virginia Before the War" by
Thomas Nelson Page. Various works of fiction
and the new juveniles for the holiday trade
VIII also be issued in September.
| Lady Dixie, in writing OF the late Due d'Au-
male, has some amusing things 10 say about
his characteristics as a book-lover Picturing
| him in the famous library at ChantIlly she
says: "H.s interest in his books was far from
! being confined to a superficial pleasure in
| their bindings, their beauty or their rarity;
one could not lay ones hand on a volume in
his superb and immense library with the con-
| tents of which he was not familiar. Unless,
| indeed, you were specially authorized
| to do so, touching his books was
| temptation that it was wiser to resist He
had jealous sense of their value, and could
| be angry with daring hand. On one oeca-
sion, when the glass doors before the shelves
at the end of the library had been unlocked
and some oil his most precious treasures-each
in its own locked glass case-had been brought
forth and opened, 1 heard him Cry ou per-
emptorily to a most distinguished French
academcan who had ventured to handle a
volume, Put ii down; put it down till come
to it. They should only be unlocked one by
one, as l show them 10 Lady Dilke.'"
In its list of fall publications the Funk &
Wagnslls Company, New York, announces:
sThe Studeuts' Standard Dictionaryn edited