The times., 1898-01-30

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| from his eyes as he exclaims: 'Unhant
me, villaini 'Tis not meet for a person
| of my rank to do this menial laborn
| No, there is nothing dangerous in Mr.
| CaStlemon's book: nothing at all. But
one wonders how he managed to write
! 415 pages without putting at least one
or two live boys into the story. Mr.
Castlemon has the sympathy of at least
one of his readers His story must
/ have bored him fearfully before he
made up the allotted number of chap
ry Coates & Co. Washington: AL
| booksellers.)
LITERARY NUl'ES.
Senor Don Matias Romero, Mexican
Minister to the United States, has
written book on Coffee and India
/ Rubber Culture in Mexico; Together
| with Historical and Geographical
| Notes on the Country which is in
! press and Will be published this spring
| by G. z. Putnam's Sons.
| H. c. Wells, author of THE War OF
| the Worlds, says that his idea OF
| work is to spend year on q book,
| burn 1t at the end, and devote another
year to rewriting it. That is what he
is said TO be doing with his present
! novel.
Mr.. William Waldorf Astor will con-
tribute an article to the Pail Mall Mag
azine before long, on John Jacob Astor.
Louis Pendleton will publish a new
novel this month, called "Carita: a Gu
ban Romance" II will be issued by
Lamson, Wolfe & Co.
Colonel Richard Malcolm Johnston's
book, "Old Times in Middle Georgia. +"
has had a decided success in England.
1T has reached its second edition both
there and here
The last volume of the Thistle Edi-
ton" of Stevenson, the twenty-second,
VIII contain The Great North Road. -
two fragments called The Heather
cat and The Young Chevalier." and
all hitherto unpublished sketches and
critical papers: also an index to the
set.
e. C. Stedman will publish another
anthology similar to that which con-
cerned the poets of the Victorian era
but dealing with American verse.
An American author. who has made
England his home for some time. saws
that he likes that country because peo-
pie seek him for his own sake and for
what he has accomplished, not because
of his money. At home, he says his
publisher. being richer. holds the bet
Ter social position. People who do not
like to have American authors live
abroad can hardly accuse them of
snobbishness after this.
In the olden times teachers were paid
in country districts in whatever com
modify happened to be the medium of
trade. On Cape Cod it was whale oil
and fish. and in Salem one scholar had
to sit in the window to hail passers-by
and endeavor to sell to them the gro
ceries paid TO the teacher.
One of the interesting books lately
issued is Bishop Winners "Reminis-
cences of the South in Anti Slavery
Times" Bishop Wilmer has never been
reconstructed. and u thoroughly loyaI
to his own land as it was and is.
Octave Thanet has written "a Foo1.
of True Lovers which is made up of
the tender and beautiful love stories
of common people, and of other peonIe
The range of these stories is wide hrt
all are of interest
First editions of the books of Lewis
Carroll are especially scarce and bava
brought extraordinary prices. The 1896
edition of Alice in Wonderland - with
Tenniefs Illustrations, has sold for $50
and s15 copy
Mark Twain's new book, Following
theEquator, has sold over 10000 COPIES
ia england, and seems to be more pop
ular there than here.
Brunetiere, the French critic and ed
itor of the Revue des Deux Mondes
has retired from that post and gone
into politics. He is expected to be-
come one of the leaders of the Ultra
mortanes.
The original drawings for "Kemble's
Coons," the inimitable, have been on
exhibition in New York for a week. and
will continue on view till February ).
at the Avery Art Galleries There
are thirty sketches in all, covering
every kind of subject in color from
Uncle Remus to demure, wee damsel
in white sunbonnet.
The Free Circulating Library for the
Blind in New York, has issued a re-
port of it's first years work. The Ii
brary contains some 500 volumes. and
it is said that poetry and religious
works are the favorites among the
readers.
A distinguished New York theolo-
gian has taken occasion to criticfse
quite severely Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
latest book, The Story of Christ The
only real trouble with this book is
that it was not written by a theologian
Geikie, Farrar and good many other
people have tried their hands at this
task, none of them succeeding very
well. but it has never before been done
by a novelist.
Queen Liliuokalani. in her book,
"Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen
had prepared biographies of some OF
the leading lights in the American
Hawaiian colony, but they were sup
pressed by the publishers.
Keats was once medical student.
upon his studies at the age of
fifteen. He says of his student days:
"a sunbeam came into the room, and
with it a whole troop of creatures float
ing in the ray, and / was off with them
to Oberon and Fairyland.''
An interesting little monograph is
.Slayery in New York" by Edwin V.
Morgan. 1t is one of the Half Moon
Series, for 1898 and is a dainty pamph-