The herald., 1898-03-27


tive health depends upon his being kept
from all UNNECESSARY work."
DR.. Max Noreau has been interviewed by
The Review OF Reviews on the Jewish situ-
alton In France. He says that that coun-
try is simply marching towards new
ST. Barthoiomew's eve. to massacre
which viii only be limited by the number of
Jews whom the Catholics can find to
knock on the head.
Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the Canadian pre-
mier. IS engaged. in collaboration with Mr..
Beckles Wilson, on history Of the Hud-
son Bay company. complied from the
archives of the company. The book cannot
help being of interest, since it will be the
record of two and a half centuries of hard
| ships, perils, court intrigues. English and
French and state secrets. 1t will probably
be ready for publication IN the spring.
'The Whist Reference Book" work of
nearly GOO pages, by William Mill Butler,
is in the press of John c. Yorston & Co. OF
Philadelphia. There will be two editions
one an edition de luxe. Mr.. Butler has
spent three years in the preparation of the
book, which contains sixty portraits OF
whist celebrities. including one Lord Folke-
stone, who was the first to lnculcate the
scientific study of whist in England In 1I2S.
NJ. Davis new serial, "The Kings jack
al, which is to begin In Scribner's in
April Illustrated by Mr.. Gibson, is full of
the characters Mr.. Davis particularly de-
lights ina banished king in need of funds.
who organizes a daring plot to get them;
a young American girl with great deal of
money, a modern prince with mediaeval
notions, an adventures and dashing
newspaper correspondent who has been
everywhere, knows everything and can
slap kings on the back. The scene is laid
in Tangier.
DR.. Karl Frey, professor of art history In
the University at Berlin, has just pub
lished an edition of Michael Angeio's poems
which is said to be the first that is wholly
authentic. He has been able to draw upon
the family archives of the famous Italian
and has introduced much new material into
his volume.
1.-THE Loves of the Lady Arabella" is the
title of Il new novel by Molie Elliott
seawelI, author of 1.-The Sprightly Ro-
nance of Marsac'' and 1.-THE History of
Lady Betty Stair" etc. 1t is to be pub
lished by the Macmillan company.
The same publishers also announce a new
9.irion of Gilbert Parker's novels, and a
new novel by James Newton Bakett, Il
Missouri story.
The comparative merits of American and
English passenger traffic, from the trav-
elers' point of view will be considered in
a series of articles, OF which the first, 'Ev-
olution OF Comfort in Railway Travelling
/, Gcl,on will
in the April number. The articles will be
copiuusly illustrated.
Henry Georges posthumous book. 1.-THE
Science of Political Economy will be pub
lished in London by Messrs. Kegan Paul
A volume of essays, entitled Wisdom
and Destiny" from the French of Maurice
Maetorlinck, is announced by Dodd. Mead
q Co.
A bi-monthly magazine devoted to "bibli-
ophiles interested in Americana" has just
made its appearance in Milwaukee, under
the title of american Book Lore The
editor is Henry e. Legler.
Messrs. l.. c. Page & Co. announce for
early publication Il Revolutionary novel,
10 be entitled THE Continental Dragon"
The author, Mr.. y. n. Stephens. has laid
the scene OF his story in the neighborhood
of the Philipse manor house, Yonkers,
and the time is 1771 when the mansion was
in neutral territory.
IAN the Worlds Fighting Ships" by T.
C. Jane. will shortly be issued by Little
Brown IL Co., in conjunction with Samp-
son, Low, Martin & Co. Of London. The
volume will be illustrated with portrait de-
tails of over 1000 warships, with notes and
other useful statistics. BY the same house
81,
of the History of the Royal Navy From
the Earliest Times to the Present Day."
edited by William Laird Cloves; also q
new edition of .1rcnclads in Action in
two volumes, b. II. W. Wilson, with 4
preface by Capt. y. It. Mahan.
The Macmillan company will publish
here in two volumes Sir Charles Gavan
Dufy's memoirs. My Life in Two Hemi-
spheres; also "A Handbook OF Nature
Study" by y. Large.
The new Boston firm of Richard G.
Badger g. Co. announces Rational Home
Gymnastics by Hartvig Nissen, and a
volume of "pocms," by Philip Becker
Goetz.
Francis; p. Harper, New York, has in
press, from the pen of Rev. j. +. O'Connor
S. j., former librarian of Georgetown col
lege, an illustrated work, entitled Facts
About Bookworms, Their History in Lit
erature and Work in Libraries
Once more Thomas y. Mosher OF Port
land, Me-, calls attention to three oQusces,
little chef doeuvres of Typography. The
tiny volumes are Walter Patcr's transla-
ton of "The Story of Cupid and Psyche, -
Lucie Pages Englishing of Maurice de
Ciuerins 1.-The Centaur and the Bacchante"
and Sarah Austin's English rendering OF
Carvoe's The Story Without an End"
Little, Brown & Co. announce for the
coming spring and summer memoirs of
Chancellor Kent; new edition Of Soule's
Dictionary of Euglish Synonyms; THE
Kings Henchman," historical novel of
the wars of Henry of Navarro; a musical
by Mrs Blundell;. and a romance of PsA-
ostine, by Henry Gilman, entitled Has
san. q Fellah." The present month will
see the completion of the new editions of
Parkman's works, and April the beginning
of the new edition of Dumas. The same
firm will also soor publish "All the World s
Fighting Ships" by +. G. Jane, a descrip-
tive book, profusely illustrated, and sew
eral other contributions to the study of
naval science and history.
A new periodical, to be called 1.-THE Town
Crier," anG TO be published weekly, is
soon to be started here. 1t will be con-
Quoted on lines not altogether unlike those
proposed for the abandoned L'Infant Ter
rible. and its contributions will consist
{ta -n,,Ir of i<nr