The San Francisco call., 1897-10-03

verse LOT cnloren, whlcn Will De puDusned
Immediately. under the title of ''Once Upon
Time" by the Lothrop hing Company
OF Bos ton.
Harper & Brothers to publish in the
near future ''Marehesi and Music," by Ma
thilde Marehesi, which viii contain remi-
| nfscences of many OF the great composers and
singers in the past fifty years.
When 7. Y. Crowell & Co. publish Dean Far
rar's book of recollecuons, "Men 1 Have
Known" in a short time, they will reproduce
In the work, in facsimile, letters written by
IennySon, Browning, Lowell, Holmes, Dean
Stanley and others.
charming parlor game called "Going to
Kiondike" is now all the rage. 1t is as in.
structive as it is amusing and should prove
! fayorite with children, and also their elders.
| For sale by Hartwell. Mitchell & Willis, 225
! Post street. Price, so cents
The Murray edition of Lord Byron will be
ready this fall, or at least important part of
1t Will be publis he'd. Lord Lovelace, Mr., Muir.
ray and Mr.. Prothero have been hard at work
az it. A novel portrait in the edition will be
| that OF Mary Chatworth, Byron's first sweet
heart
The Harpers will publish shortly biography
| of Marie Bashkirtsef by NJ. c. A. Healy. The
artist will be described from the point OF view
| OF her professors and fellow students. mum.
| Der of letters written to NJ. Julian, NJ. Tony
| Robert Fleury, NJ. Lefebvre and NJ. Theuriet
are to be Included.
"Whitelaw's Improved Interest Tables and
| Charts" is the title of handy little book that
should be appreciated by business men and
| bankers. By it one is enabled to find out in a
| few seconds the amount of interest on any
| sum at given rate and for q specified time
The book is ublished by Laird & Lee, Chicago
1 a. 10 xuj1
| month new novel by Mrs. Walford, entitled
! Iva Kildare" They announce for immediate
publication volume of stories by Mr.. Watson,
editor OF the Badminton Magazine; and a
study on the Falklands of the seventeenth GEN.
tury by the author OF THE Life of Sir Kenelm
Dlgby."
The handiest little volume vet out about
the Klondike is called "The Klondike Mug.
get" compiled by Max Maury and published
| by Laird d Lee, Chicago. What this little
book does not contain about Alaska is not
worth knowing. The United States and
Canadian mining laws are given in full and
the maps are thoroughly authentic.
Thomas Whitaker, New York, has in prepara.
| tion new edition de luxe of the classic poets.
| The volumes are TO be octave, printed from
| type and bound in two styles-one for the
| library and the other for presentation The
| works OF Burns, Byron, Milton, Scott and
v.
lowed later in the autumn by Moore aud
| Shelley.
The novel on which John Oliver Hobbies has
| Tor the past two years been engaged is now
| completed. In this new work Mrs Craipie
deals with political life in the early ffties one
| OF the chief characters in her story being
| modelled on wellknown political leader of
| that period. Mr.. Unwin of London will pub
| lish the volume, the title of which is 'The
I M fnr Soir1 re 5fr,r H.
| To the average person life of three score
years and ten is long enough. There ara
some, however, who would like to live even
longer, and they will find pleasure in perus-
| ing little book entitled THE Possibility of
| Living Two Hundred Years" The volume ia
| compiled from the best authorities and fur
| nishes interes ting reading. For sale by Hart
well, Mitchell G. Willis, 225 Post street. Price.
| paper, 90 cents; cloth, 81.
Some two dozen unrhymed verses by Laura
| ID. Smith collected together under the title
Mother Soul" are well worth perusal, al
| though owing to the shape in which they are
| offered to the reading public there is not
| likely to be much demand for them. There is
nothing so sacred in all the world as the
mother nor so wholesome the young child,
These verses are written in praise of both, and
are as healthy as the subjects of WHICH they
| treat.
Dodd Mead & Co. announce in the line of
fiction for the coming fall R. D. Blackmore's
Daniel, Henry Seton Merriman's "In
Kedar's Tents" w. Clark Russelrs "Tne
Two Captains" Amelia E. Bars ''The Kings
Highway" Max Pemberton's s'The Queen of
the Testers" and Joseph Hockings "The Birth
right" In theological literature the same
house will publish "The Potter's Wheel by
Ian Maclaren; DR.. W. Robertson NicolPs .sEx-
positor's Greek Testament and the ''Poly-
chrome Bible" edited by Professor Paul Haupt
Of the Johns Hopkins University.
Few writer's of boys books have turned out
so many capital stories as Jules Verne.
Translations of two new works from his pen
are to appear during the autumn through
Messrs Sampson Low of London, under the
respective titles 'For the Flag" and "Cloyis
Dardentor." 1t was in the former story that
NJ. Turpin, the celebrated inventor and
chemist, declared that he had been hbeled,
but failed to establish his case in the Paris
law courts. The second story tells of some ex-
citing adventures of holiday party in Tunis-
Both books will be profuseiy illus strated.
The New Amsterdam Book Company has in
preparation "The Works of Edward Bulwer,
Lord Lytton," to be issued in twenty-eight
volumes each volume TO have frontispiece
photogravure reproduction from painting
| by J. Streple Davis. "Rienzi" in one volume;
and "The Caxtons," in one volume, are now
ready and are handsomely bound in maroon
ribbed silk cloth stamped in gold. The firm
viii also have ready in October a new edition
of Austin Dobson's Life OF Hogarth,'' illus
| trated by reproductions of Hogarths MASTER
piece. and containing full biography of his
| pictures.
| Mum Co., 36l Broadway, New York,
have just published work entitled Magic
| Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions In
| Guiding Trick Photography" compiled and
edited by Albert A. Hopkins, editor of the
Scientific American Cyclopedia of Receipts"
etc. The work, which is composed of entirely
new material, is intended quite as much for
| the professional as for the amateur prestidigi-
| tator. The illusions are carefully illustrated
| by engravings which in nearly every
were executed specially for the work. The in
PRODUCTION by Henry Ridgely Evans, author of
| "Hours With the Ghosts gives the history of
the great necromancers and conjurers of mod
ern times, with special reference to amusing
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