The San Francisco call., 1897-04-25

correspondent of the London Times appears to
be confirmed
The JEWS h Publication Society of America
(Ph1laoeiph1a) announces work to be en-
titled "ln the Pale-Stories and Legends of the
Russian Jews" by Rev. Henry Iliowizi-
1t is said that Professor Drummond left
plenty of biographical material behind him.
and II is thought that mis- old friend, DR.. james
Stalker, will write "Life" in the near future
Alphonse Daudets next novel, "Soutien de
Famiile," is almost finished. Apopuiar edi-
tion OF his works in parts is coming out in
Paris just now. Each part costs only cents
new one-volume edition of BoswelPs
johnson" now preparing in London under
the editorshtp of Percy Fitzgerald, is TO have a
feature unknown hitherto in the literature of
the subject. There is TO be biographical die
tionarY of all the names mentioned in the
Life
The demand for copies of the Queen Vic
toria book, the Century Company. who are
the agents for it, states, is an eager one in the
UniIed States. There are two editions, and as
they are printed in special type and the
number of each is limited, copies are likely to
have an enhanced value.
fine library edition of the Spectator of
Addison and Steele is announced in London. 1t
is to be reprinted from the rst edition and in
eight volumes, and it is to bs edited by Mr.. G.
A. Aiken. who is known as the author of an in
teresting biography of steele. He will supply
q general Introduction and notes.
Harold Frederic in q recen letter says that
his sketches, published in book form under
the title of "Mrs Albert Grundy," were writ
ten long before the dolly Dialogues" TO
which they have been compared. Most of
them were contributed to the National OBJ
server in Mr.. Henley's time, and they ended
there Just about the time the "Dolly Dia-
logues'' began in the Westminster Gazette
In May DR.. Fritz HummePs work on
Ancient Hebrew Tradition will be published
simultaneously in the United States, England
and Germany. DR.. Huumel controverts the
method employ ed by the higher critics of the
Old Testament. He attacks the Graf Well
hansen hypothesis E. & ]. B. Young e. Co.
OF New York will be the American publishers
In reference to lately published auecdote
of Campbell one is reminded of Wali er SCOTS
story. "When l repeated 'Hohenlinden' to
Leyden he said: Dash il, man; tell the fellow
that hate him; but, dash him, he has written
the finest verses that have been published
these fifty years l did mine errand as faith
fully as one of Homer's messengers, and had
for answer: Tell Leyden that detest him,
but know the value OF his critical approba-
tion.'"
In ANSWERS to I'm beciles," a sarcastic con-
temporary endeavors TO caricature the an
swers to correspondents of q certain journal
1t is 1.-THE Chump," as he styles himself who
writes these answers. OF course, the questions
never existed, but the sarcasm is well aimed
Here is an answer which readers of literature
will appreciate:
''The poem, Nothing to Drink BIT Cock
tails is from 'Pommes de Terre and Other
Poems,' by woodward Kindling. George Egg
n0gg Haddock' is the nom de bloomer OF Miss
McFee, author of How TO Eat Food"
new biographer of IDsen says the dramatist
spends an hour twice day at a Christiania
hotel reading the papers. On his right hand
he has a glass of brandy and on his left a
glass of beer, and from them he takes alter
nate sips as he rea DIS. Another hour of the
day he passes walking, clad ell in black, on
the main street. He is rarely seen in any
mans company, and never at the theater
Bjornstjerne Bjornson is furious with Ibsen
for writing his last play John Gabriel Bork-
mann" which he asserts is full of bitter at
tacks on his own family life. Ibsens son is
married to Biornson's daughter, and the re-
lations between n the fathers-in-law have been
StralneC IOr some time. bJOlnSOn proposes to
retaliate soon in a book.
The Saturday Review will go around dis
tributing siaps and punches..and listen to
what II inflicts on Zangwill: "Mr. Zangwill
shuffles around his shop, unlocking from its
peg this one or that of the greasy, thread dbare
garments in which he deals. He is the true out
come of a cheaply educational age. Despe-
rately anxious to make a show of
hA
ture. of any tact In culture. He bedecks his
pages with such flowers of learning as
quorum pars magma fui, floreat. auri sacra
flames, hinc ili@ lachryma, solvitur ambu-
lando, facilis descendus Averni, o fortunatos
minimum, ex hypothesi, ad nauseam, and va
victis. Eureka is thrown in to show his love
of Greek. Wahlverwandschaft, Gott sci Dank
and the rest of it proclaim his interest in
phiiosophic systems" Mr. Zangwil, If not
too busy in Jerusalem in search of the local
coloring for his new story, will certainly in
duIge in q good laugh at the Cen serious
Saturday.
Rubinstein wrote lot Of smart things
and slowed them away in his desk, where
they were found after his death. Some of
these, with ar introduction by Herr Hermann
Wolff, have been published. Here are some Of
the epigrams:
There used to be small concert halls and
great artists. Now there are great concert
halls, but
What is poetry? 1t rhymes. but it is not So
What II truth? 1t does not rhy mo, but it is So
For many years wanted to compose a work
entitled Love Theme, With Variations" but
gave it up. When 1 was young 1 had the
theme, but not sufficient experience for the
variations. When was old could write the
tions, but could not find theme
When the stream of musical thought runs
dry, then is the time to introduce the lett
motif.
People send me poems to set to music They
Nigh just as we'll send me q girl to fall in
love with.
In his letter on book collecting, written to
Mr.. Quaritch some time ago. Mr.. Gladstone
entered a protest against the binding of books
says .Lounger" in the Critic. The modern
English book he denounced as being very
badly bound Sin that viteily important par
cular, easy opening" This, is quite true
also of a great many American books; but
while was looking over some cheap reprints
By an American publisher the other day, the
bookseller called my attention to the strength
of the bindings He took volume in his
hands and opened it in the middle, bending
the covers back SO that they lay fat against
each other. The pages creaked and groaned a
little but there wes no breaking. and the book
would stay open at any place. If this can be
done with cheap books why not with more
expensive ones7 Nothing, certainly, il more
Irritating than 10 have to hold q book tightly
in your hands to prevent the pages from
closing in your very face.