The San Francisco call., 1897-08-22

ers," is in the Adirondacks working at his
new story.
Mr.. Meredith's volume of selected poems
will be issued shortly. In some cases the
author has revised his verse.
new and cheap edition OF Professor Drum
mond's THE Ascent of Man" has been pub
lished in England BY Messrs. Holder & Slough
| ton.
| Ouida is still hard at work We have had
fThe Masserenes." Now comes "Le Selve"
and in short time Ouida's ''AItruist" will
! appear.
| The Zola Publishing Company, Ironwood,
! Mich, announces a Dictionary of Classical
and Foreign Quotations, Words and Phrases"
| by F. Russell Harvey.
| J. B. Lippincott Company has secured the
American book rights of Conan Doyle's new
story now running serially in the Strand Mag
azine, entitled "The Tragedy of the Korosko."
Ginn & Co. have in preparation Specimens
| of the pre-Shakesperian Drama" edited, with
an introduction and notes, by John Matthew
| Manley, assistant professor in Brown Unver-
| sity.
John Lane has just published "Jubilea
! Greeting at Spithead to the men OF Greater
Britain" by Theodore Watts-Dunton, with its
dedication to our great contemporary writer
/ OF patriotic poetry, Algernon Charles SWIM
| burne.
! Under the editorship OF Percy Fitzgerald we
are 10 have a new edition of BoswelPs Life of
Johnson" " The volume will be royal octave.
A unique feature will be a biographical die
| tionary OF every person mentioned by Bos-
well. Thomas Whitaker announces the book
for the 1st of September.
The Book Buyer. published by Charles scrib-
ner's Sons, New York, has just completed it's
! fourteenth volume. 1t is an admirable maga-
zine for all who are desirous of keeping pace
with modern literature and are at the same
time capable OF appreciating well.written no
tees of books of the past.
1t is said that Hail Caine spert months in
studying what may be termed subterranean
London in order TO obtain material for a por-
{ tion OF his new romance, "The Christian"
/ The titles of the four parts into which the
story is divided are 1.-The Outer World" "The
Religious Life" "The Devils Acre and
! Sanctuary"
Boussod, valadon & Co. have just issued the
sixth and concluding fascicule of the 1897
Figaro Salon." with descriptive text by Phi
lippe Gille. The full-page colored plate ac-
companying this part is a reproduction OF
Francois Lafor's painting entitled "Declara-
tion de Guerre entire lie Roi de France Ell Fem
pereur d d'Autriche, en- 1922
A new collective edition OF the complete
works of James Whitcomb Riley will be issued
by the Scribner's in the autumn, similar in
form TO the editions OF Kipling, Barrie and
| Eugene Field. The first volume of this new
Homestead Edition. with a photogravure
portrait of the author for front1spiece, will be
published in October and the set will be COM
pleted in ten or twelve volumes
Me srs. Methuen will issue in October the
I Mr. Of ha
Art of War;" says the London Atheneum. 1t
will cover the period from the fall of the Ro-
! man Empire to the commencement of the gen.
eral use of gunpowder in Western Europe.
The first battle dealt with will be Adrianople
(37S) and the last Navarette Q367). There
will appear later a volume dealing with the
art OF war among the ancients, and another
covering the fifteenth, sixteenth and seven
| teenth centuries.
A. C. McClurg & Co. will publish in the fall
Miss Marguerite Bouvets new book, "a Little
| House in Pimlico"; a ne W book by Miss Eliza
beth Wormeley Latimer, "Spain the Nine
teenth Century" and q new book by Lieuten-
ant Herbert II. Sargent, entitled 'The Cam
paign OF Marengo." They have also in prepara-
tion a companion volume to the fine limited
edition of Nine. de Sevigne's letters, the title
of which the publishers are not yet prepared
to announce. Like its predecessor, the new
volume will be of very dainty character in all
points of manufacture, and embellished with
pho togravure portraits and views.
Andrew Lang's annual Christmas volume
will this year be entitled 1.-THE Pink Fairy
Book" 1t will have numerous illustrations
drawn by z. J. Ford. Mr.. Lang is editing for
Longmans Green & Co. series of selections
from the poets. Each volume will contain
"that portion of the works of the writer which
in critical opinion most deserves mortality"
The first volume will be Wordsworth" illus
| trated by Alfred Parsons, and subsequent
books will con tain selections from Scott, Cole
| ridge, Byron and other poets.
The announcement OF a new novel by Bret
| Harte has become familiar reading, but one
thing which should give his admirers as much
| satisfaction as Mr.. Harte and his publishers
doubtless derive from it is less generally
known. This is the fact that his popularity,
| as manifested in sgles, remains unbroken.
For each new book that he writes there is the
same sure demand as for the last. This time
the new story is to be called Three Partners;
! or The Big Strike on Heavy Tree Hill" IL
was announced for publication in the spring,
but has been unayoidably delayed, and is now
Just ready.
The Macmillan Company announces an at
tractive holiday book entitled 'Singing
/ Verses for Children" 1t will contain a group
of eighteen songs set TO music ana illustrated.
| lney are uesl lSEeu 10 De sung Dy ch1lQren as
well as to children, and will be brought out in
| way that will attract both musicians and
children, who will find in it beautiful picture
book with simple music and verse OF attractive
| rhythm. The verses are By Lydia Avery
Coonley.
The Macmillans have also in preparation
| the "Story OF Gadstone's Life," by justin
| Mccarthy. This has been running serially in
| the Outlook and will be ready for book publ-
cation within the coming month.
There is no man woman who does not re-
member .'The Night Before Christmas" but
| without knowing who wrote those famous
verses. The G. W. Dillingham; Company, New
| York announces for immediate publication
1.-THE Night Before Christmas" first issued in
1928, with a history of the origin OF the poem.
a facsimile of the original manuscript to-
gether with an Introductory sketch of the
author, DR.. Clement C. Moore, by William S.
Penetreau. The same company has also ready
Edward W. Townsend's "Near a Whole
City Full" with fifty drawings by F. A.
MAXWELL Any book by the author of "Chim-