Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-01-31
LITERARY NOTES.
LITERARY NOTES.

an expedition to the golden ophir of
the Bible
Paul Bourget, the talented French
writer. has wearied of the novel, and in
tends to return to criticism, 1t is report
ed.
The new volume Of stories by Rudyard
Kipling will not be published the COM
ing spring, as at first contemplated, but
next September or October Mr. Kip
ling is to spend four months in South
Africa the present year.
Early this year. Dodd, Mead & Co.,
of New York, will publish the corre-
spondence between the poet Burns and
Mrs. Frances Wallace Dunlop, who was
Burns friend and patron during. the
last ten years Of his life. The volume
will include many unpublished letters
which are extremely valuable and in
terest:ng.
Phil May is engaged on a series of
black-and- white studies to illustrate a
new edition of Dickens. The first vol
ume will be David Copperfeld.
Frank r. Stockton is writing a new
serial story, entitled 1.-THE Associate
Hermits."
The end Of ''Trilby" is evidently not
yet come. We hear that German pro-
fessor Of music has conceived the Idea
of making am opera out Of 1t. Not
bad idea, as II strikes us on reflection,
and we should not be surprised If
"Tr!lby'' were to enjoy triple success
if the idea materializes on the stage.
But why was it left to German mu-
slcian to think Of this? Where are our
musical wits? What deligntfu theme lem.
for Reginald de Koven or Victor Her
bert,-From Chronicle and comment"
In the Bookman.
The great work of Prof Child in col
lecting and editing English and scot
fish Popular Ballads" was fortunately
completed before his death. Prof. Kit
tredge of Harvard University mas car
red through the press the tenth ana
final part, to which he prefxed a DO
graphical sketch of Prof. Child. The
ten parts will now be grou2ed n five I'M
perial quarto volumes. the first OF which
will contain fine portrait of Prof Child
and will be published shortly by Hough-
ton, Miffiin & Co.
Houghton, Miffiin & Co. promise about
the middle of February the second Sc
ries of letters Of Victor Hugo, including
letters written while he was in exile to
Ledru-Rallin, Mazzini, Garibaldi and
Lamartine,
The biography of the Prince of Wales,
which Messrs. D. Appleton & Company
have had in preparation for some
months, will be published Immediately.
Prof. Robert Herrick, who occupies the
chair of English literature in the Uni
versity of Chicago, has written novel
which is to be published shortly by the
Macmillan Company under the title OF
THE Gospel Of Freedom.
France" by John Edward Courtenay
Bodley, is the title of an important work
on the constitutional and political his
tory of that country, to be published
early in February by the Macmillan
Company.
The Macmillan Company announce
the early publication of an English
translation of DR.. Kronenberg's Kant,
Sein Leben und seine Lehre," edited
with an introduction By Professor Mich
olas Murray Butler, of Columbia Uni
versity,
Prof B. A. Hinsdale, who holds
the chair Of the science and art of teach
ing in the University of Michigan, has
written an exhaustive biography of Hor-
ace Mann, the founder Of our present
public school system. The volume,
which viii be published by the Serb
ners, not only contains a complete ac-
count of Mann's life and labors, but pre-
- y,fo 81 l,a
mon school revival in this country, a
general idea Of which may be gathered
from a single item regarding Massachu-
setts; when Horace Mann laid down his
office fifty years ago, that state was
spending $749,943 year on her COM
mon schools-in 1896 the same item
to $11,S29,191.
w. j. Henderson, the well known mu-
steal critic, is to publish shortly through
the Scribners volume called What
is Good Mustc?"
Wilbur F. Gordy, principal of the
North school, Hartford, Conn, has
written a new History os the United
States for Schools just being published
by Charles scribners Sons.
Prof. David P. Todd Of Amherst Col
lege has written "a New Astronomy for
Beginners" The book is a wholly new
treatment OF the subject, and embodies
the latest results of astronomical re-
search. 1t is published by the Ameri-
can Book Company, New York.
Edmund Routledges Date Book is
one of the best and most comprehensive
fnK,,- to- 80
dates Of universal history. 1t is almost
up to date" and very practi-
cal In character, beginning with the Gre
alton in 1904 B. c., and closing with
August Is, 1897. Its great lack is want
of many dates of Importance to Ameri-
cans. There is a good index. Pub
lished by George RoutledSe & Sons
Omitted, New York
A useful pamphlet dealing with the
Coulter Genealogy," by Ephraim Mower
OF South Norualk, Conn, has appeared.
1t will be Of special interest to a num-
Der Of people in this part OF Massachu-
sets. The pamphlet includes a table
of generations.
No. 232 in Appleton's Town and Coun-
try Library is Sunset" by Beatrice
Whitby. II is an interesting story like
most by this author. Published by D.
Appleton & Co., New York.
Among the many interesting articles,
some Of them very handsomely illus
trated, in The Engineering Magazine for
February, are: 1.-THE Gold Mines of the
Witwatersrand South Africa" by John
Hays Hammond, first paper; 1.-THE Pos
sibilities and Limitations Of Electric
Traction" by F. j. Sprague; Ship
Building as Productive Industry in
Great Britain" by James McKechnie;
Equipment and Organization of a CITY