The herald., 1897-10-31

entertaining than the same authors "On
Many Seas" Mr.. Hamblen has had an
adventurous life. For fifteen years he was
a sailor, and for twelve railroad engi-
neer.
Mrs. Oliphant's posthumous work. "The
Annals Of a Publishing House: The Life
and Work of William Blackwood and His
sons, Including a History of Their Maga-
zine and Friends" will be published by
Messrs Scribner. The volume abounds in
letters from, and anecdotes of, the most
famous literary men of the beginning of
the century,.
Estes & Lauriat will shortly publish a
new volume in their Gift Book Series" on
cairo and the Nile entitled "The City of
the Caliphs,' by a. e. Reynolds Ball, au-
thor of Mediterranean Winter Resorts"
etc. illustrated with twenty full-page pho
togravure plates from original photo
graphs secured in Alexandria and Cairo;
small Svo., cloth, with handsome cover de-
sign IN gilt and.colors, gilt top. uncut edges,
ana slip covers and cloth backs
select Documents Illustrative of the
History of the United States, 1776-1SG1,"
edited, with notes, by William Macdonald,
professor of history and political science
at Bowdoin college, is the title OF book
announced by the Macmillan company
This work is designed to meet the needs
| Of teachers and students who desire 10
have, in single volume of moderate size
and cost, an accurately printed collection
OF important documents illustrative of the
constitutional history of the United States.
| The selections, ninety in number cover
the period from lI16 to 1S6l-from the Dec
| laration of Independence to the outbreak
| of the civil war. The documents are given
either in full or in significant extracts, as
their nature and Importance seemed to
| indicate, and follow in each case an Of
| fieial or authoritative text. Each doc,l-
ment is preIaced by brief Introduction
| and select photography.
Messrs. Houghton Miffiin &. Co. of Bos-
ton, New York and Chicago have Just pub
| lished STORIES from the Arabian Night 81
| (Nos. III and us Of their Riverside Litera-
| ture series) in two parts each. paper. Is
cents; the two parts also, bound in one VOL
uine, linen, 40 cents. This collection of
about dozen of the better known stories
from this famous book has been made
with particular regard to its use by school
children. Among the stories may be men,
TONED The Fisherman and the Genie"
THE Story of Prince Ahmed" "The story
OF Aladdin" ''The History OF Ali Baba,"
and "Sindbad the Salor'' The stories have
been rewritten for this edition, and are
| accompanied by an interesting introduce
tory sketch which tells the history of the
! Arabian Nights Entertainments. This
book has also been issued In the Riverside
school library, half leather, 60 cents, COM
pleting the fifty volumes of which this most
| excellent library is composed.
w. S. Gilbert has given the Daily Mail
some interesting information in regard to
the "Bab Ballads" Of which q. new edition
is forthcoming. He wrote these deligh full
ballads nearly thirty years ago for Fun,
Il wrote them in a great hurry" he said
'and L drew the accompanying sketches in
hurry, having no idea that they would
ever be called for again. The sket Aes were
FOR the most part caricatures and were
done crudely, without that chastened sense
of humor that one acquires with the lapse
of years. l was rather ashamed of Them
and L acted on Messrs. Routledge's sugges-
gestion that L should re-edit the ballads
which in some cases We're q little slangy
and contained expressions of which / am
not particularly proud today I also
thought [ would draw fresh Illustrations
from my more mature point of view."
Songs of a Savoyard" will be incorporated
with the "Ballads.'' 'As to the illustra-
tions," continued Mr.. Gilbert, about 200
are new, and 100 have appeared before,
principally in the 'Savoyard volume. The
original Ballads have gone through about
twenty editions, varying in price for Cd.
to Is. Cd. q copy. Yes, think you are right
in saying that it is an almost unique thing
for an old man to do again the work of his
youth and send it forth to the public"