The times., 1898-05-01

Bret Harte has written new short
story called "Under the Eaves.''
A book relating to the settlement of
Manitoba has appeared, and is said 10 be
most interesting. 1t is by Mr.. William
Briggs, of Toronto, and is entitled, the
Making of the Canadian West" a form
er book by Mr.. Briggs. The Selkirk
Settlers in Real Life" met with a warm
reception.
One Of the innumerabIe new books on
journalism is Journalism for Women: A
Practical Guide" by e. A. Bennett Mr.
Bennett is the editor of an English paper
called Woman.
Dodd Mead & Co, will publish in the
Autumn "Glimpses of Modern German
Culture" by Prof KunO Francke, of
Harvard University, and Modern French
Fiction" by Prof. Benjamin W. Wells,
Of Sewanee University.
George W. Gable has gone to England,
where he will give readings. new edi-
tion of his novel. 1.-The Grandissimes" is
about TO be published by Messrs. Holder
& Stoughton.
Mr.. Grant Allen has turned his versa
tile mind to the writing of a Guide Book
for Americans visiting Europe. Success
to his efforts. Such a book is needed.
A late English book is by w P Ryan.
a brilliant journalist connected with the
London Sun. 1t is called Literary Lon
don; Its Lights and Comedies" The
Bookman says that a great deal of the
work is intended to be humorous, and
is rather naturally puzzled by such pas
sages as these:
Never" said the spirit above the still
wilder din, ''and your face shall be on
dusty days even as Paul Dunbars poet
~, and your locks shall be as Walt
Whtman's philosophy. Even in the sight
of your golden girls of all girls YOU must
be what the Celts call holy show: in
other words as ugly as the literary moral
ity of George Egerton."
The bewilderment of the Bookman is
eXcuSable.
Phil Mays Illustrations of David Cop
perfield" are likely TO be published first in
portfolio. which seems 10 be an excel
lent idea, for many people do not care
for their Dickens illustrated by any one
but the immortal Leech and Cruikshank
Stephen Crane is coming home He in
tends to be in the midst of this war as
Il correspondent.
The current number of the Bookman
reproduces as an Illustration the window
exhibit which a Washington dry goods
firm made of The Bonnie Brier Bush
during the week of it's presentation here.
| Ian Maclaren has recently spent some
! time with DR. George Macdonald in his
| home on the Riviera, and predicts that
| ihe gentle and venerable Scotch novelist
will give US before he dies some such
| swan song as Tennyson's Crossing the
| Bar"
William Canton's two little classics
The Invisible Playmate" and w. V. Hel
Book are to be bound in one volume
| and published in the Autumn by Dodd
Mead & Co. They are the most winsomt
| and tender little books for children thai
were ever written. Without the plot OF
"Fauntleroy," the grotesqueness of 'Aict
! in Wonderland or the human nature o
the Alcott books. they have an airy anC
dainty imaginative quality that is al
| their own.
1t seems to be generally admitted tina
| Gertrude Atherton'S american WiVe,
| and English Husbands" IS the best thins
she has yet done.
The Atlantic Monthly heads its list o.
contributions with paper by Richard
Olney, on international Isolation of the
United States" which Is particularly
timely and valuable. There is another
of Hugo Munsterberg's psychological ar
ticles, this time called Psychology an,
the Real Life A series of washington
"reminiscences" by AinswOrth r. Spot
ford is begun in this number. In fiction
there is a story called Her Last Ap
pearance," by Ellen Olney Kirk. Twt
remarkably fine poems are to be foun'
in this number, also Gillespie" b.
Henry Newbolt, and Song of the Wan
dering Dust" by Anna Hampstead
Branch The May number of the Allan
| Tic rnn,. he nasilN cnllel nnn of It's hest.