The times., 1898-04-10

nee, Will appear III the AuiuiHu
Brander Matthews has written n serial
which the Harpers will publish in the Ba-
zar next year. It deals with New York
life and is called Confident Tomor-
rows The title was suggested by
phrase of Col Thomas Wentworth Hig-
ginson, who once called himself "a man
OF cheerful yesterdays and confident to
morrows."
Laird & Lee viii soon publish a dction
airy of considerable Importance at the
present crisis 1t is the Saliva Webster
Spanish English and English-Spanish
Dictionary" The first copies have been
presented to the commanding officers of
the United States Navy. The book will
contain a geographical and biographical
cyclopaedia of all English speaking coun-
tries, with maps from official sources and
lists of consulates
Caleb West Master Diver" is a new
story by +. Hopldnson Smith, which is
about to be published in book form. after
appearing serially in the Atlantic Month
ly. Mr. Smith has had professional eX-
perience as a contracting engineer, which
particularly fits him TO write such a book
as this. 1t is said to be even finer than
TON Grogan," which, in it's way, was
one of the finest bits OF work in the last
ten years. Captain joe" who is known
20 the public in a delightful little sketch,
is one of the characters in the story 1t
is illustrated by Malcolm Fraser and Ar
thur |. Keller.
Boston: Houghton, MifHin & Coz
Paris the third book of Zola's
Lourdes" trelogy, has just appeared.
The chief actor In the story is the young
Able Froment. AS is apt for some reas-
on to be the case with some books which
appear in groups of three, the third is
least valuable of all. The translation is
a fairly good one. 1t is made by E. A.
Yizetelly.
A new edition of Edmund Clarence
Stedmans poems has just appeared, and
il causes the book-lover to wish that
Mr.. Stedman wrote more verse.
Joaquin Miller's poetical works. com
plete, have been published. The volume
is big one and contains six portraits OF
the author taken at different stages of
his development. This is a feature which
nobody but Walt Whitman ever yet dar-
ed to introduce into literature, and il
was hardly safe for him. But Whitman
never wrote two lines like these-the last
lines in the book:
The new moon rocks the child Christ in
Her silver rocking chair!
| ing the verse: 1.-THE meaning of this or
| phic utterance we confess ourselves un-
| able to conceive" We should think so.
Across the Country of the Little
| King" is another book of travels in
| SPAIN and its author is William Bement
Lent. All ye authors who have been in
| Spain, this IS a good time TO write a
| book.
"The Green Guess Book" by Susan
| Hayes Ward and Mary L. Mel. Watson,
| is a book which will be a delight to
| young folk At the end there is a key
to all the puzzles, only to be disclosed by
| cutting the leaf. 1t is issued by Dodd.
Meaed & Co.
'The Brothers of the Book" at Gouy-
erneur, n. Y. have reprinted as an Eas-
ter souvenir LIE Gallienne's sonnet, Con
fessio Amantis.
A new poet is James Riley-not James
Whitcomb Riley. His first book, entitled
Songs of Two Peoples will be published
by Estes & Lauriat.
THE Imported Bridegroom, and Other
| Stories of the New York Ghetto is
| new book by that brilliant young Rus
sian Hebrew, Abraham Cahan. The
| book is issued by Houghton. Miffiin &
Co.
THE History of South Carolina by
| Edward McCrady, is long-desired book
There is no State in the Union whose ear
ly history Is more interesting than that
| of South Carolina, and there is no State
| to whose history less attention has been
| paid from literary point of view. There
| is material in the Palmetto State for al
| most any kind of q book or poem, and 1t
| is good to see that Mr.. McCrady, who is
| a prominent lawyer of Charleston, and
| vice-president of the State Historical So
| ciety has made beginning.
judge Tourgee's new book THE Man
| Who Outlived Himself" is a collection
| of three short stories, and the motto of
| the first, which gives its name TO the
| book, is Beware of the Stock Ticker
Some of the new designs which are to
| be used for book-covers by Scribners
| have d very interesting history. One day
| not long ago a Syrian boy of sixteen or
| so walked into the office with a port
| folio of drawings, modestly asking If
| any of the designs were worth using
| After glancing through the portfolio the
| firm decided to take ali the designs and
| ask for more.
y
| Peabody formerly chaplain of Harvard
| University is to the effect that heslearn-
ed to read when he was three years old
| from book that was placed before him
upside down so that he was ever after
ward able to peruse a book in that fash
ion. This is rather a large story, but it
is told on the authority of Edward J.
| Young.
The Doubleday & Mcclure Company an
| nounces a new volume of short stories
by kiplng. including The Ships Stores, "
The Brushwood Boy, The Maltese
| Cat and No. 007.'
My Life in Two Hemispheres; the
autobiography of Sir Charles Gavan Duff
fy. is a book of great interest to students
| of the political history of this century.
| silent Amyciae.