The times., 1898-07-31
LITERARY NOTES.

Werner Company, Akron, Ohio.)
LITERARY NOTES.
The Bookman inquiries with innocent
gravity whether Capt. Robley d. Evans
evey says anything without swearing
The Bookman has been reading the yell
low correspondence of yellow journals.
An interesting book ON the modern his
tory of Formosa is being printed in To-
kio, Japan, by Messrs. Kelly and Walsh.
The author is Mr.. James w. Davidson,
United States consular agent on that ISL
and. He has been a newspaper corre-
spondent in the Far East for three years,
was with tile Chinese army during the re-
bellion for three months. and with the
Japanese army of occupation for SIX
months. He had the delight of making
unlimited scoops" being the only news
paper correspondent on the island. His
book Will be an extra octave OF some
four hundred pages with numerous Illus
trations.
by the Aurelian Wall and Other Ele-
gies' by Bliss Carman, Is announced
among the forthcoming publications OF
I.amson, Wolfe & Co 1t is said TO be "A
book of greater merit than anything Mr..
Carman has yet published, and that Is
high praise.
The Century Company will publish in
the autumn a book of adventure on sea
and land. entitled The World 5 Rough
Hand" by II. Phelps Whitmarsh. Mr..
Whftmarsh has been a foremast sailor,
beach comber," pearl diver and an
Australian ''sun downer." He has thus
had the opportunity TO gather much in
Iy.,D f,n IN
handle it.
The news comes from Chicago that The
Dial has swallowed the Chap-Book. both
of that city. The Chap-Book was chiefly
remarkable for the number OF its ml-
tators Within six months after its ap-
pearance a hundred and fifty or more
small and Decent magazines of bizarre
appearance sprang up in different parts
of the country and most of them died
natural death within a year.
A little story which appeared in the
July Atlantic and al tracted much at
tentIon was The Wife OF His Youth. -
by Charles w Chestnut Ii was the
story of a slave husband and wife, sep
arated in days before the war, and OF
the appearance of the wife, many years
afterward, in a town where the husband
had risen to a position of some money
and influence. The story had some small
faults of treatment, but was. as whole,
marvelously simple. touching and fasci-
mating 1t now appears that Mr.. Ches-
mutt is colored man, a lawyer of Cieve-
land, and that he is likely to publish
either novel or a volume of short sto-
ries before very long. Most of mis- Sto-
ries have appeared in the Atlantic.
A new book by Paul Leicester Ford
called "Tattle Tales of Cupid is to be
published in the autumn. 1t will con-
tain. besides several short stories. two
plays for the benefit of amateurs, entitled
1.-The Best Laid Plans,' and Man Pro-
poses
The stories of English as She IS
Taught are not yet exhausted. One OF
the latest comes from London. Two SEN
tences were given out to be corrected by
the scholars. One was to be corrected in
its subject-matter, the other in its syn
tax. The sentences were these:
The hen has three legs.
Who done 1t?
And one of the answers came in as fol-
lows:
The hen didn't done it; God done it.
A volume of stories by Henry Harland
(Sidney Luska) has been published by
John Lane The title is Comedies and
Errors" For the last few years Mr..
Harland has been editor of The Yellow
Book.
Not every one knows that an English
edition of the Bigelow Papers, illustrated
by Cruikshank was published in 1883 by
John Camden Hotten, of Piccadilly. One
of the illustrations has a particular inz
terest in view of reports from Cuba 1t
accompanies one of the many lines about
the "alarmin' kinds of varmin" which
are to be found in Mexico, and pictured
a crab about the size of a horse, walk
ing up to a group of terrified natives.
"The Eye of Istar: A Romance of the
Land of No Return by William lie
Queux, is announced among the pubh-
cations of Frederick A. Stokes Company.
Mr. LIE Queux is the author of 'Zoraida,''
a story of the harem and the Great Sa-
hara, and the present story deals with
like fascinating themes.
John Oliver Hobbies IS writing two
comedies one for Ellen Terry and one
for Charles Wyndham.
1.-The Romance of a Midshipman'' is to
appear in the autumn.
Prof Knight, of st. Andrews, has CIV
en- to Dove Cottage. the old home of
Wordsworth, now the property of the
British nation, a valuable collection of
his own. 1t includes a number of edi-
tions of Wordsworth's poems. some por-
traits, sketches and engravings, original
manuscript, letters of the poet and more
than 1000 letters from men of note con-
cerning Wordsworth and his work.
The late Sir Richard Burton is said to
have left behind him some twenty manu-
scripts, large and small. 1t was his Gus
tom to work at four or five different
books at a time. Among the manuscripts
are the Lyrics of Camoens.' transla-
ton from the Hindostsnee of Pilpay's fa-
bles after the manner of the Arabian
Nights, an chronological study of the Ak
kas, the pygmy Eace OF. Central Africa,
and some West African and Syrian trav-
els.