The herald., 1898-10-30
Literary Notes

II the mother of the Gracchi was rich in
her two sons. the Widow O'Callaghan pos
sessed a fortune in seven. The story of her
management of them is graphically told In
| a book just announced in press by a. c.
McClurg & Co. of Chicago.
| Miss Eleanor Talbot Kinkead Is gen.
| uine southern girl who writes of places and
people in the south as one who loves them.
She won considerable renown a few years
| ago by her stories Young Greer of Ken
lucky" and "'Ganst Wind and Tide" and
| has now written a tale of Lexington life
| that is full of charm. McClurg & Co.
Messrs. T. Y. Crowel & Co announce
| for immediate publication THE Land of
| the Pigmies,' by Captain Guy Barrows.
The author who is now captain command
| ant in the service of the Congo Free State,
spent many months In the hitherto uneX
pored regions now known as the district
| of the Upper Uelle. between tn M'Boon-
| er and the Aruwimi rivers. No white man
had ever before visited the cannibal tribes
| that dwell there. and little was ktown
about the pigmies except that their exist
ence was definitely proved. Captain Bur-
rows lived among them and had unique
| opportunity of studying their manners and
| customs.
Miss Grace Kings new book, DE Soto
| and His Men in the Land of Florida" will
| be published Immediately by the Macmil-
Ian company. The period of adventure in
| the history of our country with which this
book deals is in line with the authors study
| of the early Spanish and French settlement
of New Orleans. When writing in Litera-
| ture last week on THE Southern States in
| Recent American Literature" Mr.. W. D.
| Howell classed Miss Grace King with "the
| naturaists who inspire the greatest hope
and the greatest regard" He goes on to
say that while she has written some sto-
ries in what l may call without offense
| the elder manner" she has also written
| a history of her city which is most interest
ing and most delightful.
| James Eugene Farmer. new author
| has written novel for Dodd, Mead & Co
| 1t is entitled THE Grenadier" and the
scene is laid in the time of the Great Ma
| poleon.
The standard History of Switzerland" :"
| by Carl Dandliker. has been translated into
| English, and will be published shortly by
| the Macmillan company.
| a new edition is announced by the Mac
milan company of "A History of English
| Dramatic Literature" by A. w. Ward,
| Lift. D., in three volumes. 1t will he re-
membered that previous editions of this
work went out of print some time ago
| Thomas b. Mosher of Portland, Me-. an
nounces five new volumes in his Old World
Series: THE House of Life, Sonnet Sc
quence." by Dante Gabriel Rosetti: Mod
| tII Love anu OIner POemS, by George
| Meredith; The Story of My Heart; NV
Autobiograp ply" by Richard Jeffres; I'm
derneath the Bough," book of verses by
| Michael Field.
| For some years there has been demand
| for manual of etiquette which should be
written by some one of authority and be
brought directly up to date. Messrs. Her
| bert S. Stone & Co. of Chicago announce
| that etiquette for Americans" by "A
of Eo sbi IlS
| a sensible book and does not try to force
| ultra fashionable rules on every one but
| it is still adequate for those who wish to
know fashions last edict. The identity of
, the writer is naturally not disclosed A
woman whose position made her an au-
| thority on the subject would naturally wish
to avoid the notoriety of her own name on
the title page.
Are We Losing Shakespeare ?-I would
| not say that we have already lost Shake
| speare, or that we shall lose Shakespeare
within the space of a generation, writes
| Mark Fl. Liddell in the Atlantic What I
would say is that we can lose Shakespeare
and more easily, too, than we think We
English-speaking people have already been
advised to abandon Chaucer-in a iournat
| 1t is true, whose advice Is not usually worth
| the taking, but such straws show the way
the current sets. Perhaps it will be some
time before any one will boldly tell us to
give up Shakespeare and thus show that
Shakespeare Is already practically given
| up. But if it is true that we have lost
Chaucer as popular literature, that we have
lost Spenser as popular literature, that we
are losing Milton as popular literature.
how shall we ultimately escape losing
Shakespeare? OF course, we can selfishIv
say that Shakespeare will last our time
ana the future can take care of itself: or
we can fail back on a narrow ideal of cul-
ture, and say that there will always be
enough scholars among Engish-speaking
people to keep the light burning before
Shakespeare's shrine; or we can ignore the
facts and grandiloquently say that Shake
speare Is for all time. But the day may
come when Shakespeare will be added TO
Chaucer and we shall have in Literature
Rachel weeping for her children, and not
to be comforted.