The San Francisco call., 1898-03-27

ings of Christ in a graphic, consecutive manner.
 Helpful Thoughts" Is compilation of the best passages in Robert Brownings 8 '"The Ring and Book" A remarkable feature about this pretty little booklet Is that from beginning to end it is the work of Nevada hands, pictures and all.
 Edmund Routledge's date book gives a chronological list of leading events from the creation of the world down to the year 1897. It will be useful to the student. All these volumes are for sale at Doxey's. Mir Doxey has now in press the first of a series of booklets which he proposes to issue under the caption of "The Lark Classics
 This will be The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. It will give Fitzgerald's text first and fourth editions-with notes, tkld in addition will publish the following, by Porter Garnett, who. with Mir. Gelet Bur- gess, edited the lively little Lark of fam ous memory.
 A CLOSE UPON THE ETH RUBAI OF
 OMAR KHAYYAM
 A Book of Verses underneath the Rough,
 A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread-and Thou
 Beside me singing in the Wilderness
 O, Wilderness Paradise enow! Oft have the footsteps of my Soul been led
 By thee sweet Omar. far from hum of toll To where the Chenar trees their plumage
 spread
 And tangly wild grape-vines the thickest
 coll;
 Where distant fields, scarce glimpsed in Noon
 content,
 Are lush with verdure quick. unon the
 Plough.
 Where trills the Nightingale beneath the Tent or Heaven. uttering her soft lament;
 There have l sat with Thee and conned ere
 
 book of Verses underneath the Bough When from the Citys raucous din new-freed. 1 quan thy Wisdom from the clearing Cup Of Rubaiyat then, as I read.
 I seem with Thee in Persian groves to sup On Bread of Yezdakhast and Shiraz Wine.
 That lifts the Net of Care from of the Brow. These Words, that tongue the Spirit of the
 Vine.
 Speak from the ven and To! the voice Is
 Thine:
 Then is my wish-wouId Fate that Wish A Jug of Wine, Loaf of Bread-and Thou. Volume II of this series will be Kip ling's "Barrack-room Ballads and Other Poems,' and this will be followed by Departmental Ditties."
 New books to be shortly published by Messrs. Harper & Brothers are the fol- lowing: The first volume of the Bio-
 
 plete Works. with additional material and hitherto unpublished Letters, Sketches and Drawings; Social Pictorial Satire, "Reminiscences and Expectations of Eng fish Illustrators of the past generation, by George du Maurier; Thirty Strange Stories" and "The Invisible Man., by H. G. Wells. author of "The War of the Worlds" etc: "Through the Gold Fields of Alaska to Boring Straits" by Harry de Windt; Ghosts l Have Met. and Some Others" by John Kendrick Bangs; -Four for a Fortune" by Albert Lee; Gods or Our Fathers a Study of Saxon Mythol- ogy, by Herman l. Stern; silence, and Other Stories, by Mary E. "ilhlns' III the Sargasso Sea-" by Thomas A. Jan yier: ..The Hundred. and Other Stor1es. by Gertrude Hall; "A Manual or Exper1- ments in Physics by Professor Joseph s. Ames. and "A Constitutional History of the American People" by Professor Francis Newton Thorpe
 A. M. Robertson, publisher. of this city, has issued a handy edition of Dante Ali ghieri's La Vita Nuova," from the trans Iation of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The book is tastefully printed on rou paper in clear type, and is of a convenient size for the pocket. The issue is particularly timely at the present, in view of lectures that are being delivered dealing with the works or the Italian poet. MT. Robertson is evidently one of those publishers who believes in taking time by the forelock, for we are informed that the book was set up. printed and bound in the short space of thirty-Six hours. Sa In recent newspaper interview An thony Hope expressed his preference for "The God in the Car'' among all his books. A new edition of this novel has just been issued by Messrs. D. Appleton & Co.,. uniform with MT. Hopes "Chroni- cles of Count Antonio"