The herald., 1897-02-28
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EDITED BY ENocH KNIGHT

| only four real actors in the drama he
| presents, but they are enough to make
| it a very lively and engrossing one. Mr..
| James always scorns a large company
| of performers. Mrs. Gereth Is remark
| able character, as Is F'leda Vetch; and
| the wonderful things gathered at the
| formers home, Poynton, are fought for
| by her as against her son. Owen, and his
| cold and calculating fiancee, Mona Brig
stock, in a battle royal Fleda, Mrs
Gereth's young friend and champion, Is
put forward to win not only the ''spoils'
Of Poynton, but the only son himself,
and this is missed only by hair-sim-
ply because Fleda didn't let herseil
go" as she was capable of doing. 1t is
a strong and satisfactory story, AMI
will do much to help on the awakening
interest in Mr.. James literary work.
which is always of very high standard
of excellence, both in purpose and style
Once or twice in this volume our fas-
tidious author-a purist II there be one
among us-makes daring use OF WORDS
Mrs Brigstock hurried back to OBTAIN
the letter to be written" Now, why did
he say this? His action was an appeal
to Fleda to legitimate that" And why
did he write it thus? 1t must have been
deliberate; but why fly in the face or
Providence?
MT, Bret f1dTlc - LII &C -
The Strike on Heavy Tree HILL" will
be published by Chatto & Windus In
March
About the middle of last month Lord
Roberts Forty Years in India had
entered its eighth edition.
1t is understood that DR.. Nansen has
decided on the title "Farthest North"
for his forthcoming book. 1t is to nave
an appendix by Captain Sverdrup, VINO
was in sole charge of the Fran after
Nansen left her.
Zola doubts whether he will write
book about London. He says: IF
were to do anything in that way II
would be based on what I saw of Lon
don's great waterway, the Thames,
which has been the source Of all the
wealth, power and granduer of the
city"
Queen victora's book will be pub
lished in America by the Century
company. There will be 100 copies on
Japanese paper, at $50 and 600 on fine
paper at SIS. Both editions are strictly
limited and no more will be printed.
Mr.. Samuel H. Howe Of Boston has
purchased Longfellow's "Wayside Inn"
at Sudbury, Mass, and will convert it
into a permanent memorial of the poet.
restoring It as nearly as possible to the
condition 1t was in when Longfellow
wrote the Tales" Mr.. Howe Is de-
scendant of the original owners of the
inn.
The exclusive right of serial publica-
tion in America of the last of Robert
Louis Stevenson's masterpieces in ro-
mantle fiction-"St. Ives: The Adven-
lures Of a French Prisoner in England"
was purchased shortly after Steven
sons death of his executor by McClure's
Magazine, and the first installment will
appear in the March number of that pc
riodical. This installment has already
appeared in England, and has met with
the widest and warmest approval.
Captain Mahan's Life Of Nelson" is
now in the printers hands and will be
published in the spring by Little, Brown
& Co.. Boston, in two volumes, uniform
with the authors Influence of Sea Pow
er Upon History" and will be illustrated
with about twenty photogravure por-
traits. The same house has begun the
publication of an entirely new edition
of the writings of Francis Parkman. 1t
will include more than 100 full-page por-
traits and plates from original paintings
and rare prints, together with a number
of pictures made especially for the works
by noted artists. The sixth edition of
Quo Vadis, a Narrative of the Time of
Nero" by Henry Sienkiewicz, has just
been issued and Mrs. Almon Goodwin's
romance of Virginia in 1876, white
Aprons" is now in its fourth edition.
Literary World.
The immense difference between a sea
story told at second hand, however ably,
and the story of the life and exploits of
|sailor who is spinning his own yarn is
demonstrated in most telling way by
the reception given "On Many Seas,
published few days since by the Mac
MILAN company The book was sent
out in It's second edition within a week
of publication, and there is every indi-
cation that third will be speedily called
for. The book is as critic in the New
York Tribune says, destined to be re-
membered. 1t Is throughout equally
unaffected and forcible. equally pictur-
esque and Enthusiastically genuine
Another popular new book is "On the
Face of the Waters" by Mrs. Steel, of
which the fourth edition is in prepara-
tion within week of its issue.
John Howard Bryant, an only surviv-
ing brother OF William Cullen Bryant,
aged about 80 years, resides in Prince
ton, Ill. He is unknown to fame, but not
for the want of native ability which,
judging from the following freshly writ
ten gem, might have made him as illus
trious as his brother. The lines are
entitled, "Close to Ninety" and were
evoked by the action of Bellefontaine,
Ohio, Bryant literary society, it making
him an honorary member:
Here now stand upon life's outer verge.
Close at my feet an ocean wide and deep,
Dark, sullen, silent and without surge,
Where earths past myriads lie in dream
less sleep.
'Tis here l stand without thrill of fear,
In loneliness allied to the sublime;
The broken links of love that bound me
here,
time.
But still I cling to friends who yet remain,
Cling to the glorious scenes that round
me lie,
Striving to stay the haste of years in vain
AS swifter yet the winged moments fly.
Idly, I seek the future to explore,
l partly know what is. but naught that
is before.
The Boston Bacchante.-No thought
full patriot can fail to be interested in
the conflict that is going on in Massa-
chusetts over the Bacchante of the Bos-
ton public library. If the sculptor and
the donor had been actuated by malice
and determined to brow into the clas-