The herald., 1898-07-10

monthly magazines. If true, 1t Is certainly
a change which will be appreciated by its
readers.
Lord Ashbourne Is reported In London to
be engaged in writing Life of Pitt.
| which will contain much appropriate mat
ter hitherto unpublished, including several
original letters.
The Scientific Publishing company an
nounces the sixth volume of 1.-THE Mineral
Industry" edited by Richard P. Rothwell.
The Macmillan company will publish i'm
mediately Questions and Answers In the
Theory and Practice of Military Topog-
raphy." by Major ]. H. Bowhill.
1t is reported that Major Pond has at last
succeeded in persuadng John Oliver Hobbies
| (Mrs. Craigie) to come to this country on
lecturing tour, in which she will read from
her own works.
| Partisan paper says that Mr.. Gladstone
was paid higher price for ms magazine
articles than any other author. His mini
mum price was usually E200, and they
sometimes reached five times that figure.
| His large returns from this sort OF literature
| form a strange contrast with that he re-
| ceived from his books, which was not large.
| Robert Barr is now back in his home, in
Surrey. having passed, he tells his friends.
very pleasant and not altogether unre-
| munerative sojourn in the United States
and Canada. "Tekla," his forthcoming
novel, which the Frederick A. Stokes COM
pany will Issue I'M the fail, was typewriter
by the author within the walls of an old
castle on the Mosele.
Z. P. Dutton e. Co! have secured the
American rights to a magnificent art work
published by Bliss Sands & Co. of London.
The book is large folio and is entitled
"Christ and His Mother in italian Art"
The work consists Of reproductions Of the
paintings of the italian masters dealing
with the above title, and there is an ade-
quate explanatory text.
HOW MRS. KIPLING SAVED THE
| Professionalism of the newspaper
men who interviewed Rudyard Kipling dur
ing his recent visit to South Africa writes
of him in the Cape Times: "He takes his
work hard. He is tremendously in earnest
about it; anxious to give of his best; often
dissatisfied with his best. He is quite COM
lcally dissatisfied with success; quite
tragically haunted by the fear that this or
| that piece of work, felt intensely by himself
In writing, and applauded even by high and
mighty critics. is in reality cheap and shod-
dy in execution, and will be cast in damages
before the higher court of posteri.y. When
Rudyard Kipling had written THE Recess
sonal,' which two hemispheres felt to be
one of the very truest and soundest pieces Of
work done by any writing man in our day
and generation, he was so depressed by its
shortcomings Of his private conception that
! he threw the rough copy in the wastepaper
basket. Thence Mrs. Kipling rescued it.
But for Mrs Kiplng we should have had no
i occasional! For his best patriotic poems
he has declined to accept any pay"
The Relations Of Britain and America
| AS complement to ex-Secretary Olney's
Atlantic plea for an Anglo-American alli-
ance, the July Atlantic prints an earnest
and weighty paper upon our relations with
Britain, by the Hon. James Bryce, M. p,
who is admittedly the wisest and most SYM
pathetic foreign observer and critic of
American affairs. Mr.. Bryce points out
| that the five great nations of the world rep
resent really but four world races, that
| Britain and America are one people by race,
| habits, beliefs and deals. He points out
the various ways in which the two nations
have become better acquainted of late years,
and dwells upon the fact that the English
masses sympathized with us In 1861 but
were then politically helpless, while today
| they hold the political power and their will
controls. In concluding his able and appre-
ciative paper he affirms that frank and
cordial friendship between the two peoples
| is the best and surest future policy for BOTH
o O o
How the People of Manila Are Taxed
Both natives and foreigners are oppressed
| by the elaborate system of taxation. Every
male pays what is known as a head tax
(cedula personaD, which ranges from 80
cents for young clerk to 800 year for a
man engaged in an Independent business.
Then there is a tax for the privilege of doing
business, called the patente, which Is
gagged by the volume and amount of the
business, and every merchant is compelled
to show his books. AS an illustration of