The San Francisco call., 1898-01-16

" NHeH ille 6LoctI' yOu hllo"r SllS pdcK
 James Whitcomb Riley. one-quarter were novels. Probably by the end of the year these figures will be in creased by nearly one-half
 Archibald Forbes Life of Louis Napo- leon" will be published early next year by the Messrs. Chatto. The volume will be profusely illustrated
 An effort is to be made to adapt for the stage w. w. Jacobs delightful book of sea stories, Many Cargoes." The one thing that is to be said for this scheme is that there will be plenty of characters to select from Where the unity of action is to be found is another matter.
 MT. Henry s. Pancoast has followed up his recent 'Introduction to English Literature" by similar work on Ameri- can literature, where he intends to show the close relation of both countries in the matter of letters. The work will be published shortly by Henry Holt & Co.
 A new book of stories by David Starr Jordan is announced for early publication. President Jordan is capital story-teller, and this new volume is to be a book of queer stories told by children; selected. corrected and illustrated by children. It is to be called ''The Book of Knight and Barbara
 Sixty and Six is the unique title of a collection of "Chips From Literary Workshops" issued by the New Amster- dam Book Company and edited by Will M. Clemens. The selections cover the whole literary field, from the humorous to the tragic, the book being bound in a handsome poster cover" emblematt- cal of the art of the day. Price. 75 cents.
 It is announced by the Frederick A. Stokes Company that it will issue the earlier books of John Oliver Hobbs (drs. Craigte) in a single volume. Hitherto Some Emotions and a Moral" "The Sinners Comedy "A Study in Tempta- tions' and "A Bundle of Life" have only appeared in small separate editions To- gether they will form volume about the size of '"The School for Saints"
 The third and fourth volumes of Cos sip of the Century" are announced for early publication by the Macmillan Com pany, under the title of Social Hours With Celebrities" by the late Mrs. w. Pitt Byrne. These two volumes are ed- ited by the authors sister, Miss R. H. Busk, and contain sixty-sfX Illustrations whose range from Renan to Zola, and from Louis Philippe to Cartouche, gives some idea of the scope of the text.
 
 People interested in the lumber indus try of California, redwood especially, will find much interesting information in a handsome souvenir prepared by MT Gray of the firm of Gray & Mitchell lumber dealers of this city. The lumber is traced from the forest to the mills and the treatment it receives Is de- l scribed by one who Is not only convers- ant with the handling of timber, but is also a writer of no mean ability and de- Scriptive power. Numerous beautiful half-tones are scattered throughout the | book.
 | Fifteen of the choicest poems in Stew enson's "A Child's Garden of Verses | have been set to music by William Arms | Fisher, and the booklet has been pub lished by the Oliver Ditson Company of | Boston and New York. The dedication l is veritable poem in prose. and reads as follows: '"Fo the singing children and l those who love them; to those whose bairns are only Dream Children and to all who, in spite of time, have kept l the child heart" The songs will un- doubtedly become popular.
 The success of Paul laurence Dun bars poems is not to be gainsaid. AL though the book has been published but short while, Dodd. Mead & Co.,, the | publishers, announce that the fourth | thousand is nearly exhausted. This book
 by the young negro poet has probably
 attained wider circulation than falls
 to the lot of most of the better known
 poets of the day. We understand that.
 not content with his work in verse MT
 Dunbar is at present engaged In writing
 a novel which is to be issued shortly
 It is described as a reahs,4c picture of
 lie in a small Ohio town, in which
 State it will be remembered, Dunbar l ,,,oe horn and edI1ca ted
 It isannounced, as though it were of im-
 portance to any one, that Ira Nelson Nor
 ris. son of a Chicago millionaire pork
 packer. has abandoned literature to enter
 his fathers firm. "A million men can
 write books" declared the elder Morris ''but few have the opportunity my son enjoys to become great in the business
 world A book is read by few; large commercial or manufacturing enterprise, well conducted, is a blessing to the world
 at large" Wise elder Morris! There are
 indeed more people who eat than read. = When he says that a book is read by few f he speaks by the card, for 1 will venture ? to say that his sons book. With the
 Trade Winds: a JaUnt in Venezuela and
 inc West Indies,' was read by very few. f Nr Morris Jr stayed in literature long 7 enough to find out that there is more ? money in pork-packing. To work in the line of ones sympathies is it's own re-
 ward. Very often 1t has no other; but
 there are those who prefer the joys of f literature unremunerative though they f may be- to the emoluments of the pack n fnR-houSe