The San Francisco call., 1897-03-21
HERE AND THERE.

HERE AND THERE.
The New York World and the New York
Journal will in future be excluded from the
files OF the Century Club
IFS said that the Marquis of Dufferin and
Ava will be the historian of the British en-
pire through the sixty years of the Queens
| reign.
Loyal British subjects may buy for q penny
''The Life of Queen Victoria" There are
fourteen pictures, and the paper and printing
are good.
"Admiral Guinea" melodrama by Robert
Louis Stevenson and william Ernest Henley,
is to be one of the first plays produced In
London next fall.
"Trilby" has had to be altered at Vienna on
account OF the anti-Semitic agitation. Sven
gall Is made up not as a Jew but as Hun
garian gypsy band leader.
Phil May has just made pictorial alphabet,
humorously treated, which is TO be published
by the Leadenhall Press. What q chance there
will be here to refresh ones memory.
In English Nansen's "Farthest North" what
may be called double crews were set to work.
There were six men translating, and William
Archer made the revision. 1t was work against
time.
MI Zangwilrs "Dreamers of the Ghetto" will
be ready this fail. His "Children OF the
| Ghetto" translated into Russian ana Hebrew,
has been admitted into Russia. and the book
has large circulation there.
In England, Miss Marie Corelli having her
| grievance with reviewers does not permit ner
publishers to send round her books, and SO
| they do not reach editorial tables. Fancy
what must be the depression OF reviewers at
| the slight.
| Asecond edition of Anthony Hopes "Phroso''
| is announced by the Frederick A. Stokes Co. 1t
will be superior to the frat in respect TO press
work and the quality of paper. The Greek
war cloud has made Its appearance as timely
: advertisement of this romance.
Austin Dobson is engaged in preparing
single-volume edition of his collected poems,
which will contain all the verse by which ne
elects to be known. The volume, which will
! contain some 400 pages, will, the Bookman
says, be published in the early autumn.
| Mr. Cellier has laid hold of good idea in
| his Soldiers Song Book" The book Is Eng
| lish and for the exclusive use of the British
| soldier Our American regulars might not
sing "Rule Britannia" but why does not some
publisher get up a similar compilation for
| Yankee use? Our catalogue of patriotic songs
might be collected and put in q neat and
| cheap form.
Saws Mr. Zangwill: "Review for arts sake
| and the books sake, not for your own sake
nor your authors sake, neither have regard for
your friend nor your enemy, nor your friends
friend, nor your enemy's friend, nor your
friends enemy, nor your paper, nor its pub
Usher nor its ass, nor anything that is your
papers," And don't think of $40, more or
less, per column.
Of Olive Shreiner's new novel the Athen@um
remarks: Though her scornful resentment Of
the policy and methods of the Chartered Com
pany in South Africa finds free vent here, and
though in coudemning them she makes bolder
use of Scriptural ass ociations than many may
like, she has achieved remarkable literary
success. Trooper Peter Halket' does not COM
pete with "The Story Of an African Farm,
either as q narrative or as a study of charac.
ters, but 1t is In our opinion superior In wo TX
manship.
Major Pond has engaged the following lee
turers for the lyceum season of 1S97-98: F.
Marion Crawford, 100 lectures on "The Early
Italian Artists" "Italian Home Life in the
Midd Ages and ''The Italy of Horace" for
colleges, etc.; W. D. Howeils fifty lectures on
"Novel-writing and Novel.reading; an Imper-
sonal Explanation; Hamilton w. Mabie, lite
IdEy leCkufcSI hhil Nhluc, AOl q tOuE VI VIC
United States and Canada; Lee Fairchild-"the
krtemus Ward Of the Pacific Coast" and Miss
Beatrice Herford, In her original monologues.
Negotiations are pending with Anthony Hope.
Rudyard Kipling has written . letter to
Christie Murray anent the literary criticisms
from the pen of the latter which are at present
appearing in various papers under the title of
"My Contemporaries in Fiction" Kipling
says he hopes the time will come when he will
bs able to write "a real novel-not Q one
volume or a two-volume, but real decent
three-decker." He considers that "no man
this side OF 40 at the earliest has secreted
enough observation-not to say thought-to
write a novel which. In spite of all they say
of the short story, is in his opinion, the real
vehicle. Independent firing by marKsmen is
a pretty thing, but it is the yolley- firing of .
full battalion that clears the 'front.'"
Poor Du Maurier is not here to defend him.
self, but his publishers are, and we presume
they will be heard from. The Hypnotic Maga-
zine claims that by issuing ''Trilby'' the pub
fishers have succeeded in strengthening the
hands of ali quacks and charlatans who are
finding their source of income in the credulity
and erroneous beliefs of others. 'It is, how.
ever, fact" says the writer, 'that this foolish
story, first by its publication IN book form and
afterward by its dramatization, has conf rmed
larly called the power of the hypnotist. 1t
should eventually prove disquieting to this
eminently respectable firm Of publishers to re-
member that by its indorsation of this nom
sense. by its dissemina alton of error, it has
placed itself in the position of an elder brother
to the ubiquitous impostor, and that 1t has
done its best TO raise vulgar ensationalism to
the rank of science"
The Cincinnati Enquirer has hit upon
novel device for saving the eyesight. 1t pro-
poses that all reading matter be set so that 1t
may be read from left to right and from right
to left. By this means the reader does not
have to jump his eyes from one side of the
column to the other. but merely drops them
as he reads. The following lines illustrate the
| Enquirer's meaning:
"Dr Brewer, in his Dictionary of Phrase
is 1t :story following the tells Fable and
said that Spurgeou used TO practice his stu
only text from reaching extempore in dents
disclosed in the pulpit, and that one OF his
opening and desk the reaching on men young
the note containing his text read the single
or minute for thought He ..Zaccheus' word
! two and then delivered himself thus: Zaccheus
| made Zaccheus Il am SO man little was
haste and came down. so did T. He suited
1 ".word the to action the