The San Francisco call., 1897-10-31
LITERARY NOTES AND NEWS.

E. z. Dutton & Co. will publish s. Barring
Gould's "Perpetua-A Tale of Mines, A. D.
2l3 The same firm announces Baby Days
Book OF Records in a Baby's Life.''
window has been put up in the church of
Pallas, or Pallasmore, in County Longford.
Ireland, where good oliver Goldsmith was
born, and the year OF that event was 1928.
There is to be monumental brass affixed to
the church.
"a Lie OF Ernest Renan," by Nine. Mary
Darmesteter, is to be published this fall by
Messrs. Methuen & Co, Nine. Psichari, who
is Renan's daughter, has revised the proofs.
This assures the accuracy OF the biography.
NJ. Zola will not come to America to lecture.
at least not yet-and never to reply to NJ.
Bruuetiere's criticisms. He holds out the
nope that he may come at some distant day,
and tell US how the nations love one another
a subject that suggests wide field for sarcas-
tic treatment
Shades of Fitzgerald What, for a title, is
thlsf Mr. James Whitcomb Riley has serial
poem, which has for name 1.-The Rubaiyat of
Doc Sifers." "Doc" if not of ShiraZ, but of
Indiana-a Persian Hoosier hero The poem
IS to appear in the Century, in the November
and December numbers.
Think of that Italian whose memory is so
Drodigious that he can re cite Dante's "Diviue
Comedy from beginning to end, and without
any prompting. The Academy tells of an Eng
lish gentleman who has his Milton by heart
and never halts in the entire recital of
paradise Lost" A performance of this kind
is Of course remarkable, but to listen 10 the
gentleman would be exceedingly tiresome.
The Academy quotes Canning's 'In matters
OF commerce the fault of the Dutch is giving
| too little and asking too much" The Dutch,
| A1yu
this literary freebC otter tackled Olive schrein-
er's Trooper Peter Halkett' and captured
him, and so when Mr.. Fisher Unwin wanted
to make Dutch copy OF the book he found he
had been too slow. The Dutch buccaneer had
done the business for the Trooper.
Messrs. Sampson Low & Co. OF London are
about to issue a sumptuous edition OF 'The
Life OF Our Lord Jesus Christ" illustrated
with over 500 pictures by Tissot. The work.
which is edited by Mrs. Arthur Bell IN
d. d'-Anvers) will be complete in twelve parts,
and the first part will appear in October This
is work upon which the French publishers
expended over 5000 600. The French edition
is published 1900 francs, but the English
will be only about fifth of that price.
Herbert E Hamblen, the engineer author,
| whose book OF adventure, ION Many Seas"
| created such a stir last year, has new book
! in press with the Macmillans of somewhat
| similar character. 1t will be entitled THE
| General Managers Story; or, Old-Time Remi-
niscences of Railroading in the United States"
! Mr.. hamben who is about so years of age
has led a remarkable life of rowing adventure
| on sea and on land. His "reminiscences of sea
| life were embodied in his former book. His
! forthcoming book will record his reminis-
| cences of adventure on land, especially as a
| railroad engineer.
| The Philadelphia Record thus explains the
origin of q well-es ia bltshe American word
"Out in San Francisco TWEEN ty-tive years ago,
! there was a notorlou character named Null
! doom, who was the leader of gang OF young
! Tufians. They were terror to the community
and about as tough lot OF citizens as you
! could find on the coast. reporter who had
| been assigned TO q story in which they had
| figured undertook to coin word designating
| the gang. He reversed the name of the leader
and referred to them as 'noodlums.' The COM
! position mistook the 'n' for an H. and as
| 'hoodlums the word passed the proofreader.
And now 'hoodlum' is recognized word"