The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-04-18

| citing novels with praiseworthy energy and
diligence. His latest, 1.-THE Last Entry" will
be published by Chatto & Windus, London, in
May.
One Of the two romances left by the late
| William Morris will be published very shortly
! by the Kelmscott Press. 1t is entitled "The
Water of the Wondrous Isles" while the other,
"The Sundering of the Flood" is in prepare
| ton.
Robert Barrett Browning is establishing a
school at Asolo, Italy, for the benefit of girls
employed in the silkmills the1e. The memory
OF Robert Browning will thus be linked more
closely than ever to the place.
Henry Labouchere, Mp. the proprietor OF
Truth, has spent 100000 in successfully de-
Tending vexatious actions for libel brought
against him. He is entitled to the thanks of
the English-speaking world for having exposed
SO many abuses.
Before Rider Haggard took to novel-writing
he kept a farm with a Mr.. Cochrane in Natal.
The original of his Jess is said to be a lady of
| Pretoria, whose husband, once wealthy N an,
| ran through his money and lived on the earn
! ings OF his wife, she havin AIKEN a position in
a South African opera company.
Mrs. Sala is about TO edit the much-talked-oi
Commonplace Book OF her husband, the ''G.
A. s." of the Telegraph. When the work is
| published the original volumes are to be pre-
sented to the British Museum. George Angus
| tus Sala was in the habit of entering any news
he wished to preserve in this book.
Edwin A. Abbey, the American artist, says
that just before Du Maurier wrote "Trilby" he
had fallen into disfavor in the Punch Office,
and his drawings had actually been omitted
| from Punch's Almanac. This depressed him
greatly, as his eyesight was failing him. The
rT-.lk
thing.
On the Index Expurgatorius, as far Rus
| STA is concerned, has been slated Leroy Beau
| lieu's Empire of the Tsars and the Russians"
| Nothing daunted the Messrs. g. P. Putnam's
Sons publish Leroy Beaulieu's notable work,
and Nine. Ragozln has supplemented 1t with
new and important notes, and SO the informa
| ton is up to date.
Mr.. Barrie, since his return from America,
has not been doing much literary work. He
| has been engaged in the dramatization OF
| "The Little Minister" with which he has
| made good progress. He did not at first in
tend 10 do the work himself but has now
taken 1t in hand, and it may be expected
without very long delay.
+, Fifty thousand copies of Marie C0rellrs
'.Ziska" have been sold. Mr.. Arrowsmith her
| English publisher, bought the novel outright
| for $1,000 ($5000). The book sells for shil.
| lngs (S1 SOY, and the cost of its production is
| about % cents per copy. OF course there is a
| discount to the trade, but there must be a
profit to Mr.. Arrowsmith of at least $4,000
| Voltaire's 'Ia Pucelle." translated into Eng.
| lish verse by Austin Dobson, ]. W. Bouton
! will have ready some time in May. There
| have been several so-called translations of La
| Pucelle d'Orleans" in English before this one
| OF Austin Dobson's, but they have been poor
and worthless. For good or for bad the Phil
| osopher of Ferney wrote about Jeanne dare,
and in France the heroism OF the girl has
/ always been belittled.
1t is said by friends of Rudyard Kipling in
| Vermont that he has been hired by the Lon
| don Times to go to Crete as war correspond
ent and Miss Hnldah Pettigrew-Warren-Fo s-
! ter, an ardent admirer of the writer, makes
the following remark about the bargain
| Five thousand dollars a month will lead Kip
! ling to hope that the Cretan difficulty may be
indefinitely prolonged" Which is considered
very nloodthirsty for a feminine literary
! person.
IA Swindle" is the name that appears over
the office door of a struggling lawyer in the
| city o. Stratford, Ont A friend OF the unfor-
! tunate gentleman suggested the advisability
of his writing out his first name in full, think
| ing that Arthur or Andrew Swindle, as the
| case might be, would sound better and look
better than the significant "a. Swindle.''
| When the lawyer, with tears in his eyes, whis-
| pered that his name was ADAM the friend
understood and was silent.--Wisconsin Blade.
In recent letter William E. Gladstone says
! az have been purchaser in nv time of about
| 35 900 books. A book collector ought to pos
! sess six qualifications-an appetite, leisure
| m N
| severance. OF these have only the first two
| and the last is restricted my visual power
| seriously disables me. Speaking generally, !
| have retired from the list of purchasers and
| am gradually transferring the bulk of my
| library to an insti ution, st. Deniols, Hawar.
| den. The book longest in my possession is
| Sacred Bramas,' presented to me by the
authoress, Hannah More, inscribed; AS you
have just come into the world and 1 am just
going out of it, allow me- ETC."
/ The Lark, or, as Mr.. Burgess was pleased to
call 1t, 1.-THE Bird" is to suspend publication
| with the Aprii issue.
| The poor Lark did she soar too high or did
| she sing to deaf ears?
| remember a certain little book stall which
| l used to visit daily for my papers. Upon q
crude shelf the enterprising proprietor deity
| rearranged each morning his stock. In the
| midst of this collection of dino novel Htera-
ture, Police GaZettes, fireSlde companions, etc.
| was one solitary copy of the Lark. For
| months it lay there. growing each day dingier
| until one day missed it and the shopkeeper
told me he had scid it to young girl who h ad
afterward tired to return it because, as she
explained, "the poetry didn't thyme and when
the leaves were cut lots of the pages were
blank From the Clack Book.
DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes once made an
| address in his native town to q medical asso-
| citation. The president of the association was
| the son of a man who had been the druggis;
| of the village when DR.. Holmes had studied
| medicine there. sit is good to look at this
young man." said the genial autocrat, "and
! trace his fathers liniments in his face" On
another occasion, at a country charitable fair
| DR.. Holmes was entreated to furnish letter
| for the postoffice. He took a sheet of pa per,
and between its folds placed 81 bank note
turning to the first page he wrote the follow
/ ing:
Dear lady, whosoeer thou art,
/ Turn this poor page with trembling care;
| But hush, oh hush thy beating heart,
| The one thou lowest will be there
The page turned disclosed the attractive
greenback. On the third page, opposite the
! banknote:
Fair lady, lift thine eyes and tell
| If this is not a truthful letter;
! This is the one tnou lowest we'll,
And naught (0) would make thee love ii
| better.