The San Francisco call., 1897-03-28
HERE AND THERE.

DR.. Nansen has been unanimously nomi-
mated as professor of zoology at the Christiania
University.
The Churchman has lost its editor, the Rev.
Dr.. George s. Mallory, who had built up the
paper from small beginnings.
The life OF the late Lord Tennyson, by his
son, the present Lord Tennyson is finished
and on the press of the Macmillan Company.
1t will be published on October g, in two
largo volumes. illustrated.
A new one-volume edition of Boswelps
johnson" now preparing in London under
he editorship of Percy Fitzgerald, is to have
feature unknown hitherto in the literature
of the subject. There is to be biographical
dictionary of all the names mentioned In the
Life"
NJ Osiris has announced that on the occasion
of the Paris Exposition in 1900 he will give a
prize of 100000 francs for the best book
which treats on arts, industry or public util-
ity. The Partisan Press Syndicate is to be the
Judge. Have the gods Of the Egyptians come
to life again?
OF books recently issued by the Century
Company Quotations for Occasions" by
Katherine b. Wood, and '.Sonny," by Ruth
McEnery Stuart, have gone into third edi-
tions. Second editions of "Without Preju-
dicen and of "The Cat and the Cherub" have
Just been issued.
The Russian authorities have placed upon
their list OF prohibited books Leroy Beaulieu's
Empire of the TsRrs and the Russians" As a
consequence the complimentary copies for
warded to certain officials connected with the
ST. Petersburg Library and with the Depart
ment of Education have been returned by the
St. Petersburg Postoffice, the delivery being
forbidden. The authorized English transla-
ton of the work, by Nine. Ragozin, Is pub
lished in this country by Messrs. G. P. Put
nam's Sons.
Max Nordau, the latter-day Schopenhauer,
is not lacking in the caustic wit which distin-
guished that other eminent pessimist. He
lso eyinces the N ost marked trait of inmates
of bedlam in regarding himself as the only
sound mind and every one else In sight as
being more or less cracked. The author Of
Degeneration" having shown that the great
men of our time are merely so many mani
festations of the human mind diseased, was
bluntly asked by critic to define the differ
ence between genius and insanity. "Well," !"
replied the incorrigible Max. "the lunatic is
at least sure OF his board and clothes."-Les
lies Weekly.
The London Morning Advertiser uses the
following ingenious poster to attract public
attention. 1t Will be noticed that the idea is q
play on the names of the leading papers OF the
English metropolis:
THE MORNING ADVERTISER,
Never behind the Times
Always up to the Standard,
Most readable Daily Ne,os by Telegraph and
Post.
Daily Graphic, Chronicle OF Truth all over the
World
Sportsn,an's Record of Sporting Life.
The poster is well displayed all around Lon
don and attracts considerable attention.
Andrew Lang gives new instance of the
deadly literalness with which composirors
sometimes follow what they take TO be the
authors intentions:
"Lately, in q magazine article OF my own,
found this mystic phrase, the want OF histori-
cal perspective. which makes the moment
hide the great Shakespeare of time Can you
suggest meaning, or an emendation? was
baffied. Then I remembered that wrote the
great abysm OF. time The printer, or proof
reader, or editor, or somebody queried
'abysm.' / wrote on the margin, Shake
speare,' as my authority for 'abysm of time,'
and 'abysm' was taken out, and Shakespeare
was inserted. Probably no mortal could have
conjecturally emended the passage correctly
or shown how Shakespeare came in."
"The most expensive book ever published in
the world is said to be the official history of
the War OF the Rebellion, which is now being
Issued by the Government OF the United States
at cost up to date OF about f477 900. OF this
amount f236, ,S5S has been paid for printing
and binding. The remainder was expended
for salaries, rent, stationery and other con-
tingent and miscellaneous expenses, and for
the purchase OF records from private individ-
uals. 1t will require at least three years
longer to complete the work, and the
total cost is expected to reach nearly f6OO,-
600. 1t will consist of 112 volumes, including
an index and an atlas, which contains
178 plates and maps illustrating the impor-
tant battles of the war, campaigns, routes OF
march, plans Of forts and photographs of in
teresting scenes, places and persons. Only
81 900 copies Of the book have yet been sold"
We clip this news from the London Westmin-
ster Gazette.
LITERARY NOTES.