The herald., 1897-03-21

lectors and booksellers. The size Is to
be a small quarto, printed on antique
laid paper, Chiswick press. and the
edition is limited.
Town Topics issues a new volume OF
tales, the chief bearing the title, "A
Martyr to Love-" There is some wit
and some pathos in the opening story
1t treats OF some saints but more sin
ners, and is what most folks would be
compelled to call spicy" for want OF a
better word
William Doxey Of San Francisco an
nouncesl AncItinerant House and Other
Stories, by Emma Frances Dawson; A
Vantage of Verse, by Clarence Urmy,
California poet whose merit has\beer
recognized; Blodgett of Mariposa, by
e. H. Clough, story Of the Sierras;
Wild Flowers of California, by Miss
Parsons, amply illustrated; a new edi-
tion of the Story of the Old Missions OF
California, by Laura Bride Powers;
Doxey's Guide to San Francisco and the
Health and Pleasure Resorts of Cali
fornia: and a special edition of Wild
Flowers of California in preparation for
subscribers in advance of publication,
to contain six plates, colored by hand.
by Margaret Warmer Buck.
Anna Katherine GREEN'S 'That Affair
Next Door" having been great sue
cess its publishers, Messrs. Putnams
Sons. have ready new story by the
same author. "The Bronze Head"
The Joseph Knight company of Bos-
ton is succeeded by L. c. Page & Co..
and the new firm will publish April 1st
cap and Gown" a second series of
college poetry Of the past five years,
selected and arranged by #. L. Knowles.
Abraham Lincoln" a poem, IS the
work of Lyman Whitney Allen, and the
poem received from the New York Her
aid the $1,000 prize. The volume is now
in its second edition and is published by
the Messrs. G. p. Putnam's Sons.
Mr.. Edward Whymper the noted
Alpine climber. has in press with John
Murray work. entitled "Zermatt and
the Matterhorn," which will have seven
ty illustrations and maps. Please, Mr..
Murray send US an early copy.
Charles Scribner's Sons announce in
their Women OF Colonial and Revolu-
tionary Times" series volume OH Mar
tina Washington by Annie Hollingsworth
Wharton. 1t will contain fine portrait.
DIR. Henry van Dykes The Builders
and Other Poems is to be issued short
ly, and also Prof. G. D. Hogarth's
Phillip and Alexander of Macedon."
Prof. Hogarth OF the Oxford university
is the author of a most notable book
"A Wandering Scholar in the Levant."
The fine paper, printing and binding of
the Messrs. Scribner's Sons will be at
their best in these volumes.
Andrew Lang revives a bit of savage
criticism of Coventry Patmore, which
appeared in Blackwod's in 1874, when
the poets first volume of verse ap-
peared. Here is the way the critic be-
gan: I'm the days of the knout we be-
lieve that no such volume az Mr.. Cow
entry Patmore's could have ventured to
crawl out of manuscript into print
Our deliberate judgment is that
the weakest inanity ever perpetrated
in rhyme by the vilest pcetaster of any
former generation becomes masculine
verse when contrasted with the nau-
seous pulings of Mr.. Patmore's muse"
Several stories are told about the trou-
BILE in the Arena office, which sent that
periodical into the hands of a receiver
about two months ago. Mr.. B. 0. Flow
er, hitherto the editor. sends out an
explanation, charging that few stock
holders, holding not more than $50On
out of 100000 worth of stock, secured
temporary control by false promises of
captalistic support for the magazine,
and thus buncoed him out of his position.
The magazine was sold for s13400 to
William Craig of New York, who was
simply acting for other parties. John
c. Redpath and Helen H. Gardener are
now conducting It,