The herald., 1898-03-06
Literary Notes

Like Zoa, Sir Walter Besant has also a
! trilogy called London" Westminster
and ''Soi: n London"
Alfred Clarks new romance, "The Find
ing OF Lots Wife" will be published in
the series of Modern Fiction" of the Fred
ericl A. Stokes company.
''rhe Tales of John Oliver Hobbies" (Mrs.
Craige) is the title of a new edition of this
popular authors works.
new writer, Joseph Conrad. has book
called "Tales of Unrest" which will lie
published by Charles Scribner's Sons.
THE Dull Miss Achfnard," by Anne
Douglas Sedgwick is in press at the Scrib-
ners'. Miss Sedgwick is an American. but
the scene of her novel is laid in England
and Paris.
London is to have three-penny weekly
journal devoted to the philosophy of life
as enunciated by Nietzsche, Emerson,
Thoreau, Goethe and Spencer 1t is to be
entitled. '"rhe Eagle and the Serpent" and
will be published by William Reeves.
The Frederick A. Stokes company has
just sold complete edition of Lieut.. Rob-
ert E. Peary's book, "Northward over the
Great lee" to the London publisher,
Methuen. The book will shortly appear
simultaneously in England and America.
1.-The Unquiet Sex" by Helen Watterson
Moody. is in press at the Scribners'. The
book contains chapters on THE College
Woman" 'Womens clubs" Women ana
Reform" and ''The Case of Maria" Mrs.
Moody is the wife of Winfield S. Moody,
the editor of The Book Buyer.
Worldly Ways and Byways" is a collec-
ton of papers on the philosophy of fash
ion and foibles. as exhibited in American
society at home and abroad. The author
is Eliot Gregory, who writes over the
pseudonym of IAN Adler" These sketches
are now collected for the first time by
Charles Scribner's Sons.
Robert w. Chambers new novel is called
1.-The Haunts of Men," published by Fred
erick A. Stokes company.
1t is announced by Lee G. Shepard of Bos-
ton that the firm has in press a new novel
by Henry Wood, author of Studies in the
Thought World" Ideal Suggestion"
Gods Image in Man" etc. The book is
called Victor Serenus," and is study of
the Pauline era.
THE Lyric Poems of John Keats" ed
tied by Ernest Rhys, forms new volume
in the exquisite Lyric Poets series pub
plished by Messrs. j. NJ. Dent & Co.
"A History of the United States for
Schools" by Wilbur F. Gordy, is the latest
candidate for the favor of grammar school
teachers. 1t is volume of nearly 500
abundantly illustrated pages, and is pub
lished by Messrs Charles Scribner's Sons
Mr.. w. j. Henderson, the musical critic
of the Times, has published through
Messrs. Scribner a volume called What
is Good MuSic?" These "SuggeStionS to
Persons Desiring to Cultivate a Taste in
Musical Art" are addressed to a popular
audience and are illustrated with anecdote
and citation.
Bret Harte has written for the Youths
Companion an photographed sketch
entitled How Went to the Mines''
The American Literary association will
hold its twentieth annual conference at
Lakewood -Chautauqua In July. This
association, now twenty-one years old, is
officially recognized as one of the great
educational forces of our country.
Messrs. G. P. Putnams Sons will publish
the authorized American edition of lie
Soutien de Famille," the last story, COM
pleted shortly before his death, of AL
phonse Daudet. The book will be issued
simultaneously in Paris, London and New
York. The American version will proba-
bly, be entitled 1.-The Wage Garner"
THE Far East" with fresh chapter
upon the present situation and the question
of the partition of China will also be is
sued. Two large editions have been sold
at high price.
The last unpublished work of Robert
Louis Stevenson, "a charming bit of Eng
lish literature, full of personal touches"
soon to be published in the outlook, new
three-penny review in London, will, it is