New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-06-06
LITERARY NOTES.

Nothing definite has yet been done in regard
TO the memoir of the late Professor Drummond.
1t Is also made known that a volume OF hitherto
unpublished essays and articles will be printed
| before long.
The Warehouses OF CRANKY Is said to be pre-
pairing for publication a number of the portraits
she has drawn of eminent persons They will
probably be printed in a Christmas book. pub
! lished in rather luxurious fashion. They deserve
a handsome form because the Warehouses Of
CRANKY is an artist OF great delicacy of touch
and a certain originality of style. Her work has
been valued in England as being OF an elegant
and even distinguished character. and there will
be a warm welcome for the forthcoming collec
ton 1t is said. also. that Mr. Will Rohenstein is
rary celebrities. He. too. has a certain vogue in
this field. and his drawings will take conspicu-
Gus rank
Mr. Edward Arnold has made very attractive
volume out of his new edition of the Rev. DR..
Henry Ellacombe's PLANT Lore and Garden
Craft of Shakespeare" This book. well known
to Shakespearian students. is delightful COM
bination OF botanical literary lore. and the
numerous illustrations provided for the edi-
ton are in exactly the right style. They present
with much accuracy and sympathy the numerous
flowers treated in the text and there are a great
many sketches of scenes about Stratford. Pref
tily bound this is a welcome addition to the
libraries of those readers who fond OF trav-
eliing in the bypaths of Shakespearian study.
Some one has been after" Mr. lie Gallienne's
scalp His quest of the Golden Girl has in
Spired an amiable enemy to write the Quest of
the Gilt Edged Girl" Mr. John Lane who pub
lished the first book. will also publish the sec
ond. He has already shown that he does
mind printing parodies of his authors. He pub
shed Grant Aliens British Barbarians' and
brought out not long after. the exquisite trav-
csty by Mr.. Trail called The Barbarous Brit
ishers." AS the publisher of The Yellow Book"
too. he gladly published the Battle of the Bays"
that little collection of parodies in which Mr.
Owen Seaman has immortalized more than one
OF MIR. Lanes protes4s-
oil r. %
Mr.. Blackmores new book. "Dariel: a Romance
OF Surrey, that has been running for some time
through "Blackwoods Magazine" In the
tumn also. will appear Mr.. Hall Gaines novel.
The Christian The publishers name in this
country has not been announced.
work OF fiction this ear When his next volume
OF stories does appear it is expected that it will
lea. His Life of Christ" which is to be printed
in "McClure's Magazine" is being carried stead
lily toward completion.
The volume OF "reminiscences called "A Chat
About Celebrities" which Lee & Sheppard have
recently published for Mr.. Curtis Guild. is rich
in anecdotes of English and American authors
One note on the Editor of the Easy Chair will be
ing writer. Mr. Guild says. How we'll re-
member my first interview with George William
Curtis. He was then employed 10y Putnam on
Putnani's Magazine about forty years ago
had a letter of Introduction to him from n mutual
friend and on entering the Office where 1 mad
been directed found a tall thin gentleman seated
upon table piled with books swinging his long
legs and with pen in one hand and a pair OF
scissors in the other. earnestly laying down n
case To Mr. G. Il. Putnam who sat quietly before
him. CHANGING al ms letter he said Il will be u
thousand times obliged if YOU will excuse for
an hour. Don't fail to return if you do. l will
never forgive YOU! he shouted when 1 went out
When l returned il to receive a cordial
greeting and his apologies for what he styled
his rudcness. But said he. Il was just making
"Putnams Magazine"'" Mr. Guilds book is in
the last degree discursive and fragmentary. but
there is so much good talk in it that the reader
does not mind passing hurredly from theme
II another. The author has known many distn-
guished people and has collected good stories of
many more whom he has not known.
The Macmillan Company will publish a
new volume under the title of THE Boston
Browning Society Papers selected to represent
the work Of the society from 1854; to 1891 The
book will contain abundance of papers by
various writer's. including Josiah Roy ce, Perry
Grant. William ]. Rolfe. Thomas Wentworth
Higginson and others.
New novels announced by the Appetons in
clUde Fierce Heart. the Soldier historical
romance by j. G. Snaith, author of Mistress
Dorothy Marvin: "Nulma," an Australian story
by Mrs. Campbell Praed, and THE Folly of
Penn Harrington novel by Julian Sturgis.