The herald., 1897-08-01

Ruth Ogden, whose books TOR younO
people include "A Loyal Red-Coat." "A
Little Queen of Hearts," Courage" ana
His Little Royal Hdghness" ]" IL the nom
de plume Of Mrs. Charles W. IdA. of
Brooklyn.
Mr.. Grant Allen has new novel, but
Mr. Aliens popularity as writer Of ro-
mances Is not remarkable in the United
States, though his scientific papers are
much esteemed. Mr.. Hall Gaines "Ths
Christian" is to be published at once, and
the first edition Is Of $500
The Messrs. Methuen will issue In the
early fall the first volume Of Mr.. Oman'a
History of the Art of War;" This vol
ume will cover the period from the close
of the Roman Empire to the use Of gum
powder in western Europe. Subsequent
volumes are to be published covering the
art of war in the fifteenth, sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries.
Little, Brown & Co. will publish In this
country, in conjunction with the London
publishers, Sampson Low, MarBton &
Co., Mr.. William Laird Cloves History
of the Royal Navy" from the earliest
times to the present day. This exhaus-
tive work, the way for which has been
well prepared by recent political events,
not to speak of accompanying literary
ventures, will make five large volumes,
profusely illustrated, and its completion
will require several years.
The most northern paper in the world
Is printed at Godthaab, in Greenland,
and Is called "Laesestof." 1t IS a mis-
sionary sheet, made for the Eskimos.
and has been the means Of teaching
many of them to read the Danish lam
guage.
Count Lyof N. Tolstoi has crowned his
literary works with one which, though
condensation of a larger work, should
be entitled my Gospel in Brief" It II
fusion of the four New Test stament Cos
pels into one, but into the one that the
author conceives to be the true one. He
omits ''all passages relating to the life
of John the Baptist Christ's birth and
lgenealogy, his miracles, his resurrection
and the references to prophecies fulfilled
| in his life With these expunged, Chr rist's
teaching Is, according to Count Tolstoi,
the most conventional presentment OF
metaphysics and morals, the purest and
most complete doctrine of life and the
highest light which the human mind has
ever reached. published by Messrs.
T. Y. Crowell & Coz
Mrs. johnson, in Woman ana the
Republic" declares, in relation to the
home, that 'the suffrage movement
strikes blow squarely at the home and
the marriage relation" and. to sum
up all: "The greatest danger with
which this land is threatened comes
from the ignorant and persistent zeal
Of some of its women. They abuse the
freedom under which they live, and to
gain an impossible power would fain
destroy the government that alone can
protect them The majority Of women
have no sympathy with this movement;
and in their enlightenment and in the
consistent wisdom of our men, lies our
hope of defeating this vnpatriotic. unin-
telligent and unjustifiable assault upon
the integrity of the American republics"
From the newly told stories OF DR..
johnson we have this one: HE fed
heartily but not voraciously and was
extremely courteous in his commenda-
lions of any dish which pleased his pal
ate; he suffered his next neighbor to
squeeze the China oranges into his wire-
glass after dinner, which else. perchances
had gone aside and trickled into his
shoes, for the good man had neither
straight sight nor steady nerves AT
the tea table he had considerable de-
mands upon his favorite beverage, and
1 remember when Sir Joshua Reynolds
at my house reminded him that he had
drunk eleven cups. he replied: Sir,
did not count your glasses of tea and
then laughing in perfect good humor
he added: Sir, should have released
the lady from any further trouble If 1t
had not been for your remark; but you
| ;,,J JeA We nj n
the dozen, and 1 must request Mrs. Cum
berland to round up my number"
genuine right to the name.
| Miss Lombroso, the daughter OF the
Italian professor, has written volume.
the title of which IS, "On the Happiness
of Women" The lady has made the
study of hundred women, married and
unmarried, and comes to the conclusion
that women generally are happier than
men. There are two phases in womenis
lives the lady believes she has deter
mined-one is that love-making and ma
ternity are the essential and decisive
elements of happiness; the other is that
moderate means are more conducive to
happiness than riches.
Mr.. Frank A. Munsey will establish
his magazine in England, and the inter-
ests of his publication will be taken care
of in London. There are to be sixty
pages devoted entirely to English mat
ter in the foreign Munsey's Magazine.
Barrie'S Margaret Ogilvy' the
Messrs. Scribner report as in its twenti-
eth thousand, and his Sentimental
Tommy" as in its thirty-f1fth
Two valuable works are to be issued
soon by the Century company. One is
John La Farges IAN Artists Letters
from Japan" which will be fully illus
trated, and the other, the Hon. James
Bryce's impressions of South Africa"
The Macmillan company announces
still another valuable hand book under
the title IAN Outline for the Study OF
City Government" by Delos H. Wilcox,
Ph, D., of Columbia college. The author
holds that the city problem is the key to
the immediate future of social progress
in this country, and he offers for the first
time systematic outline for the study
of the whole municipal field, ating
the chief problems in order with facts
and Illustrations sufficient as basis for
intelligent interest and a guide to the
sources of further information. He dis
cusses in turn problems of function. of
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