Birmingham state herald., 1897-03-06

has given the titlef Of slave or the 1 Lamp"
 Anna Katharine Green has just com pleted an arrangement for the serial pub lication of lhenrnew story, "The Bronze | Hand.f 7af sc' ,e
 Mir. D. J. Rice, representing the pub l fishing house of T. Fisher Unwin, has just arrived from London on visit which will Include. several of our princi- p"i 'O'''''- 1'.1- 1'.is .-a7
 1 Charles Reade once gave recipe for writing novels to a young novelist now well known. It ran thus: Make lem laugh; make-'em cry. make 'em wait"
 Liberal donations are expected from America for the Robert Louis Stevenson l memorial fund. If people subscribe to | such funds in proportion to their admira- l tion for an author, very large part of the money should come from this coun- | try. .sl .-1i s.s a.sr1r @
 The Peter Paul Book O., of Buffalo, | has in press The House of the Heart" a volume of poems by MT. Irving Browne, l who was for many years editor of the 1 Albany Law Journal The edition will be limited to 300 copies, printed from 1 type. a.,
 Crane is about 25; Kiphng, 32; Davis, S2; Barrie, 36; Haggard, 40; Barr. about l Anstey Guthrie), 40; Daudet, 56; Harris, 48 Stevenson died Dec. B. 1894, at the age of 44.-Book Buyer.
 The Rev. Dr. Henry vanDyke's first volume of poetry, "The Builders and Other Poems" will be published soon by | the Messrs Scribner, who announce, also "A Storyteller's Pack" by Frank | R. Stockton. being the popular writer's | first new volume of short stories after | laDSe of four years.
 Most of the frontiSpieces to Scribner's l Magazine for the current year will be en- | graved by Florian, the leading wood en- l grayer of France. Scribners does not l intend to abandon wood engravings. It will use the best of all processes for re- l producing pictures. l <
 It is with feeling of sadness that we welcome the publication of "St, IIiss' In | March McClure's. Not that the plot Is | at all melancholy, but because it is the l last work from the pen of that great i good man. Robert Louis Stevenson, and nothing else remains to be published.
 MT Barrie since his return from Amer | ica, has not been doing much literary i work He has been engaged in the l Identification of 'gThe Little Minis ter''- 1 with which he has made good progress He did not at first intend to do the work | himself, but has now taken 1t in hand, | and 1t may be expected without very long | delay.
 The North American Review for March contains timely and elaborate paper on "The Famine in India," from the pen of Sir Edwin Arnold The thorough and long | familiarity of Sir Edwin with East In- 1 dian affairs and customs renders him a | high authority upon this important sub Ject, and its various aspects are described in most graphic and systematic style.
 
 The proposed Francis Scott Key nnonu- | ment at Frederick, Md, will become a reality before June IA, 1898, when it will be unveiled The committee having the. matter in charge has accepted the de-, | sign of MT. Alexander Doyle, of this city. The Maryland legislature appropriated $5,000 for the monument and the rest of the money was raised by popular sub scription in all parts of the country, | many pennies and nickels being given by school children.
 l The announcement of the book-form l publication of the novelette, by Edgar l Fawcett which won the Herald's prize i of $2,000 and other strong tales by Flaw l cett, will be agreeable news to the read l CTS of Douglas Duane" "A Romance of Old New York falls in with the new "ancestor worship adopted by all good | Americans as national religion. It deals | with times and men the most fascinating | in our annals. In it will appear Aaron Burr, gallant in all his vcssitudes, and many of his contemporaries.
 It is curious as we'll as entertaining to note how critics will discuss every possi- | ble point in the writings of famous au- | thor, in hopes of finding some fault, whether real or imaginary. which will | give rise to criticism. The question has | been sprung as to whether MT. Kipling's pen pictures of life in India are really correct, and whether the names which he uses belong to their language at all. But | so far any proof, except in his favor, has failed to materialize.
 MT. H. N. Hagemann, of this city, re- | gently sold a set of the Halliwell-Phil- | Iipps edition of Shakespeare (only 20 cop 1 ies printeD, published in 1S53-65, by sub- scription, at $1,O00. The set consists of | sixteen volumes, with seventeenth containing "A Descriptive Calendar of | the Ancient MSS. and Records in Posses | sion of the Corporation of Stratford- upon-Aron, including notices of Shakes peare and his Foundry" etc., by James | Orchard Halliwen Phillipps), of which only seventy-five copies were printed.
 Godey's for March has a splendid l write up, by Helen M Winslow, of Some | Handsome Newspaper Women," among whom is included "Maude Andrews who is so we'll known through the wo- l mans page of the Atlanta Constitution.
 She began work on this paper before | she was out of her teens, under Henry Grady, with "Joe"-Ohl as editor.
 In year or two this beautiful Georgia girl became Mrs. Joseph K Ohl and they now occupy their elegant Washing ton home, where her husband represents the Constitution, while she engages in | magazine and book work.
 Mrs. Ballington Booth, of Salvation i Army fame, will shortly appear as an authoress, she having embodied one of | her numerous experiences among con victs into story entitled, Did the Par | don Come Too Later" to be published by | Fleming H. Revell & Go. Those whoH have heard Mrs. Booth preach or talk of her work among fallen humanity are | loud in their praises of her easy, grace-5 ful flow of words and the sympathy she l always arouses in her auditors. and it is | their opinion that the new book must be- l written, as Mrs. Booth talks, in a very | charming style.
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