The San Francisco call., 1897-05-09
LITERARY NOTES.

LITERARY NOTES.
Homely bits of human nature and philos-
ophy are EN- braced III "a Bundle of Rushes"
by Franklyn W. Lee, which has been issued
from the press Of the Rush City Post, Rush
City, MINI. Hearts," collection of love
rhymes, will follow.
Dodd. Mead Co. announce for early publi-
| cation "The Person al Life of Queen Victoria"
by Miss Tooley, to be fully illustrated. They
also have nearly ready a new book OF charades
to be entitled "The Green Guess Book: "The
Romance of Isabel Lady Burton" with por-
traits and other illustrations, and 'eThe Treas
ure of the Humble by Maurice Maeterlinck.
Oscar T. Shuck has in press valuable work
which he calls "The Historical Abstract of
San Francisco" but which is nothing less than
cyclopedia of the City, its arts, industries
and people. twill be printed on fine paper and
well illustrated. The first volume, covering the
letters to inclusive, will be issued about
Nav 1. The work will be in three volumes, at
So SO volume.
Messrs Charles Scribner's Sons will be the
American publishers of Mr.. Gladstone's La
ter Gleanings. Theological and Ecclesiastical,
and of the Concordance of the Greek Testa-
ment," adited by the Revs. w. F. Moulton and
A. s. Gedden. They announce also that Rich
ard Harding Davis SOLDIERS OF Fortune" will
be published in book form In the latter part of
May.
Ian Maclaren contributes to the May mum.
Der of the North American Review q most at
trsctive paper entitled simply "Henry Drum
mond.' As the fellow student of Professor
Drummond at Edinburgh University, and a
lifelong friend, these memoirs of one of the
most brilliant men of our day from the pen of
the author of BESIDE the Bonnie Brier Bush"
are invested with a charm and value peculiarly
and unapproachably their own.
Mrs. Hays Hammond's account of events at
Johannesburg during the Jameson raid will
be published shortly in this country and Eng
land by Messrs. Longmans, Green & Co. Mrs.
Hammond calls the volume "a Womans Part
i'll a Revolution" 1t consists mainly in ex-
tracts from diary which she kept with great
diligence during the period described. The
particular interest OF the book is that 1t will
give US woman's view of johannesburg dur
ing the rising and afterward.
On the question of how to save the fur seals
the Review of Reviews takes the ground that
President Jordan's recommends tions should
be needed at once, and that, without waiting
for England's sanction, the United States
should absolutely prohibit American citizens
from engaging at any season of the year in
the taking of seals in the open sea. The
Review also urges that, If other means fail, to
make pelagic sealing unprofi table, all the
young female seals on the Pribilof Islands
should be branded in such a manner as to
make their fur valueless. The females being
thus protected, the herd would main tain itself
The Macmillan Company have scored an.
other success in their new book entitled .'The
Port of Missing Ships and Other Stories of the
Sea-" of which a second edition is already on
q
story told in a hospital by the only survivor Of
a midocean collision between the Atlantic, q
big steam packet, and the Nucleus, q full
rigged ship. Neither vessel was ever heard
from until through the broken revelations of
this dying sailor. In strong contrast Is the
tale of the racing ships whose captains were
rivals in the eyes of their owners daughter
her favor promised to the winning man. No
less interesting, yet different from either, Is
'The Story of Second Nate" The cover de-
sign is also worthy a word of notice, being
quite out of the ordinary.
The May Month will contain portraits of Mr..
and Mrs. Richard Henry Stoddard and their
son, Lorimer Stoddard (the dramatizer of
"Tess"), Ferdinand Bruetiere Nine. Blanc,
Henry B. Fuller, the Chicago novelist; our
new ambassadors to England, France and Ger
many, John Hay, General Horace Porter and
DR.. Andrew D. White-a portrait of Embassa-
dor Hay, taken specially for The Month, form.
ing the frontispiece; Henry Drummond ex-
Postmaster-Ge General William L. Wilson, who
has been elected president of Washington
and Lee University; Oliver Optic, Nelson,
Captain Mahan (whose "Life OF Nelson" is re-
viewed by Admiral Luce, U. S. ny; Alfred
Austin, Robert Louis Stevenson, DR.. Dvorak,
Lafcadio Hearn, Austin Dobson, Maurus Jokai,
DR.. Bourinat and Frederick Walker (the origi-
nal of du Maurier's ''Little Billee''), besides
reproductions of the MAJ magazine posters
and other illustrations.
Special features in Current Literature for
May are illustrated articles in addition to the
presence of pictures in some of the regular de-
partments. In the Editors Symposium in the
May number OF Current Literature Mr.. Cable
gives his readers more of patriotism than of
mere literature, "Crete and Cuba" 'The
Patriotism of Ideas" and Cosmopolitan Patri.
otism" being some of the subjects he discusses.
Hamilton w. Mabie continues his series Of
literary essays with an interesting paper on
the "Growth of Historical Study" and +. M.
Hopkins. in his department of American
Poets of To-Day, writes this month of Louise
Imogen Quincy, and quotes from her works.
The fiction in the May number of Current Lit
erature, aside from the clever selections in the
Sketch Book, is represented by extracts from
the much h-talked-of recent publications, Ibsen's
Schreiner's Trooper Peter Halket of Mashona-
land" A special article has also been con-
tributed to the magazine on the political and
religious questions involved in Miss Schrei-
ner's book. Besides the many interesting spe-
cial articles the May number of Current Lit
erature has its regular departments filed as
usual with the best current verse and prose.
The May issue of Godey's Magazine is nota-
BILE for many special articles of timely inter.
est The leading contribution is "Washington
Favorites," by Carolyn Halstead, and gives q
brief sketch of the prominent society ladies
of the capital. The photographs which accom-
pany the article are very attractive. Follow.
ing this is an article on Power Boats" which
discusses the gas engine and electrtc-yacht
question in very interesting manner. This
article is illustrated with many pictures, and
is unique among m magazine papers. "a Eulogy
of the Vaudeville" covers the recent develop.
ments which have marked the dramatic stage
and calls attention to much that is worth COM
steering The article Is illustrated with pic.
lures of prominent actors.
"American Literary Diplomats" tells of lthe
prominent journalists and literary men who
have held foreign office under the Government
1t is illustrated fully and is quite sugges.
tive at this stage of our National and political
development. The leading fiction piece of the
issue is "a Florentine Rose" by Anna w.
Young, an intensely dramatic tale. There are
six other stories in the issue and five excel
lent poems. Among the noteworthy articles
of general interest are papers on american
Lscemaking, "'tMushroom Hunting" ""Church
Music" and "Amateur Bookmaking," all finely
illustrated and the first of Grace +. Draws