The San Francisco call., 1897-04-04

sian Jews, py Kew. Henry HOW'LL.
Lamson, Wolfe & Co., ton have just
ready "a History OF Canada" by Charles G.
D. Roberts; also "Ex-Libris, Essays of Co..
lector," by Charles Dexter Allen, empellished
with twenty-one copper-plate prints.
General Greedy, the noted Arctic explorer,
now chief signal officer of the United States
army, has written appreciative review of
Nansen's "Farthest North" for the April num-
Der IN The Month. The article is illustrated.
The April issue of the Bookman is a splen-
did humber, ana we take occasion 10 cali the
attention of readers OF these columns to its
value as an index to matters literary, which
character it ably sustains from month TO
month.
The Harpers are soon to bring out in new
and beautiful edition Miss Muloch's novel,
John Halifax, Gentleman" which made one
OF the greatest literary succe of the time
OF its first publication, and has since had many
thousands of readers.
small book, beautifully bound in red
morocco. is called "a Satchel Guide 10
Europe" and is issued by Hougkton, Miflin
& Co. This is the twenty-sixth annual edi-
tioI, and the present volume contains revi-
sions bringing it up to date.
William Clark Russell's new novel, to be
published by K. f. Fenno & Co.. under the
tit.e, "The Romance of Midshipman," will
be partly autobiographic. The story plays
during the transition period when steam was
taking the place OF sails and iron the place of
timber
Mrs Margaret E. Sangster is to publish this
month through the harpers d new volume of
poems, entitled "Easter Bells" The work is
said to treat OF the comm on things of Lie in
the thatic nd i'm ri hot ba.
made Mrs. Sangster one OF the most popular of
our women writers.
Mrs Caroline A. Creevey is soon to publish
through the Harpers volume entitled
FLOWERS OF Field. Hill and swamp" which is
said 10 be written in SO popular style, and TO
be accompanied by illustrations so volumin-
Gus and attractive, that it will appeal to the
mere lover OF wild flowers as well as to the
amateur botanist
Beginning with the April number McClure's
Magazine will hereafter be published on the
first day OF each month. April the April mum.
Der Will be on sale at all newsstands and de-
livered to all su bscri bers from the Atlantic 10
the Pacific: and thereafter exactly on the first
day of each month a new number will be pub
lished. Heretofore, publication has been
made on the 28th of each month, but it is
believed that the change to the 1st will be to
the general convenience.
The New Amsterdam Book Company of New
York wial issue during the present month
"Death-and Afterward," by Sir Edwin Ar
mold; 1.-The Diary of a Resurrec zionist, 1911
1872" by James Blake Bailey; premature Bur-
lal, and How 1t May Be Prevented" by william
Tebp and Colonel E. P. Voium, United States
army; "On the Nile With Camera" by
Anthony Wilkin, profusely lustrated, and
"The Devil Tree OF FL Dorado" a novel by
Frank Aubrey.
Richard Harding Davis is to write for an
early number of Harper's Magazine an
article describing president McKinley's
Inauguration" Mr.. Davis recently pub
lished article on the Coronation of the Car,
was so admirable as complete and vivid pic
ture of one of the greatest spectac.es of mod
ern times that his forthcoming paper on what
is perhaps the most interesting and characters
istic spectacle of our own National life is sure
to be eagerly anticipated and widely read. 1t
is to be illustrated by C. D. Gibson and T. de
Thulstrup.
The hundred copies of the $50 edition
OF the Queen Victoria book and the 600 copies
of the SIS edition, which the Century Com
pany have secured for the American market
are being rapidly subscribed for. The
subscription price of the SIS edition will be
raised in London after the 18th of March to
an equivalent of $18. AS both editions are
printed from type and are strictly limited,
they will be apt TO increase in value very rap
idly. All copies of tho $50 edition were sub
scrlbed for IN London at once, and not many
are left in America
The Whitaker & Ray Company of this City
have in press "a Story of tho Seal in the
Far North by David Starr Jordan. pres!-
dent of Leland Stanford Jr. University,
an allegory touchingly told and elaborately
illustrated with half-tone and pen designs:
Heart Culture" by Emma F. Page, q text
book for inculcating kindness to animals
adapted for use in private and public schools:
and Joaquin Miller's Complete PoeticaI
Works." with autobiograp phical sketch. with
portraits of tine author and views of his home.
This is the only complete edition of Joaquin
Miller's works.
Dodd, Mead & Co. of Boston have Just ready
several volumes of new fiction, including
"The Dominant Note," by Mrs. W. K. Clifford
1.-The Sign OF the Spider by Bertram
Milford; "Chin Ti-Kung," by C. A.
Rees; and "a Pearl of the Realm"
by Anna L. Glynn. They have also
ready "Modern Methods in Church Work" by
George Whitefleld Mead, and Literary Year
book for 1897" an exhaustive book of refer
ences for all writers of books, edited by Fred
erick G. Afalo. Among the books to be ready
shortly are "Hilda Strefford," by Beatrice Har-
raden, and "The Great K. and A. Train Rob-
berry," by Paul Leicester Ford.
A book which in some sense su ggests Mr.
Bryce's american Comm onwealth'' is
about to be published in London by
Messrs Macmillan. Its title is .The Eng
lish Constitution" and its author an
American, Professor Macy of Iowa COL
lege. Professor Macy has had the counsel of
Mr.. Bryce and of other English authorities,
including Sir Frederick Pollock and Pro-
fessor Kirkpatrick. He mentions that his
basis OF information has been twofold-
firstly, study of the standard his
torical writings secondly two periods of resi-
dence in England. He states with effect
fact sometimes forgotten, that up to the end
of the last century The history of the English
constitution is also the history of America.
The Peter Paul Book Company of Buffalo an
nounce that they are at work on the collected
poems of the Rev. Dominic Brennan. C. p.
now at Dunk;rk, n. Y, which have appeared
in many current publications under
the pen names of I'D. O'Kelly Brauden"
and Harlow Howe" These names have be-
come familiar TO thousands, and the many ap-
plications flowing in from all sioes for COL
lected edition of the poems bespeak large
and rapid sale. The longest of the poems.
''The Visions of Saint Paul. appeared in
book form q few years ago, and in a few weeks
the entire edition was exhausted. The writer
is man of depth OF thought and possesses a
rare delicacv of sentiment, while in the do
main of patriotism and religion his verses rise
very high. One of the best poems in the Feb
ruary Philistine. "Imaginaion," is from his