The times., 1898-09-04
THE TIMES, WASHINGTON. SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 4 1898

THE TIMES, WASH
in book form by the Harpers in the near
future.
Dodd, Mead & Co. announce new vol
ume of essays on Jane Austen, Gold
smith and other writers of the eighteenth
century, by Austin Dobson. The same
publishers have already presented a uni
form edition Of seven of Mr.. Dobsons
books. s7---1
Houghton. Mifflin & Co. have been try
ing 10 make good literature popular
through cheap editions. Some OF the
books published by them have been rec
commended for use in schools. While TINS
plan has proved a happy one In some
school districts there are others in which
the trustees express themselves In this
way Ghe letters, written to the firm, are
reproduced verbatim):
Mr.. - have baught all fables Story Books
and Novels | am Coin TO shal see the Board
aboit il first. i have Bought all School BOOKS
Requiard am Citing tieard OF Bying Novels
yours
Dear Sir
Can not get no mobiles Inovelsl book for scool
Book, he can reed Out of his Reeders and not
Out of the Fairtail Stories Books
Yours Truley
A little learning is sometimes hardly
an advantage to the possessor.
The Bookman will publish this season
series of four articles on "A Century of
American Book Illustration" by Arthur
Hoeber, art editor and critic. The pa
pers will be fully illustrated.
The Macmilans have bought the pub
fishing business of Richard Bentley &
Son. of London, and all the BENTLEY pres
ent publications and those heretofore is
sued will be published by the Macmillan
Company.
Dodd, Mead & Co., announce three par
ticularly interesting books to be issued
this fall, two of them books of travel.
They are THE Wonderrui Century" by
the veteran a. r. Wallace; Egypt in
1885," by the lively newspaper correspond
ent, G. W. Stevens, and a very taking
volume by John Thompson, F. r. q. S.,
''Through China with Camera"
| Sydney Grundy has finished his dramati-
| zation of The Three Musketeers." 1t is
/ said that Beerbohm Tree will produce ii
| in London in November
Longmans, Greene e. Co. will publish in
October a work by Lord Ashbourne, en-
| titled Pitt: Some Chapters Of His Life
| and Times The author has been al
work on this book at odd times for several
years.
How to Know the Ferns" an elabo-
rately illustrated book on the ferns Oh
| North America. by Mrs. William Starr
| Dana is soon to be published by Charles
| Scribner's Sons.
L. C. Page & Co. are still at work or
editions of Omar Khayyam. Book News
says:
They bring out the splendid Heron Allen fac
| smile and literal prose translation and a stand
ard edition OF FitzGerald's rendering, containing
| all the five variants the first, second and fftl
| printed in extenso, that it is absolutely com
! plete. They also announce romance founded OF
the life of the old Persian poet-astronomer. Som
| interesting information regarding Omar has beer
! recently discovered by Prof Zhukovsky, OF St
| Petersburg, and this has been utilized for en-
richment The author hss kindly shown me on'
! OF two OF the quatrains which he has translated
into Persian meters. One Of them, poem whcl
| lows:
The breath of the carly Spring in the face of tn
Rose is sweet!
The face of my Love in the shade of the Gardei
close is sweet
| Naught thou canst say of the day that has van
+ ished forever away is sweet
Be happy Think not of the Past, for today as
glows is sweet.
A complete edition of Browning, witt
notes, is to be issued by T. Y. Crowell (
Co. The editors are Miss Charlotte Por
ter and Miss Helen Clarke. 1t is sal
that the edition Is line numbered, an
that each poem is provided with a de
scriptive synopsis for the benefit of tn
reader who needs it. Query: Why shoul
any one wish TO read Browning who can
not understand him without a synopsis
What the Philistine will doubtless ca
"Gladstoniana" is likely to food the mar
ket The best work on the great ma
which has appeared thus far is said to b
1.-The Real Gladstone" by Ritchie. Ii
to be hoped that this work is better tha
its title. To assume calmly that one
own view of a man is the only real
view savors of egotism, and no reall
fine writer, of course, Is an egotist.
} Chatto & Windus announce a "SteS
enson Reader" TO be composed Of e1
, tracts from the writings of Robert Lou
Stevenson, arranged for the benefit {
| the young mind. 1t is too bad to thro
cold water on so beneficent an under
taking, but from observations of the o.
$ binary youngster one feels moved to sus
gest that that Is not the way to max
: him appreciate Stevenson. The swifte:
, means to that end would be to provit
him with Treasure Island" and let hi
S read it by snatches, when he ought to /
doing something else.
Alexander Black, author of Miss Je
q ry'' and "A Capital Courtship," is writir
5 a new novel, entitled Miss America
: which will be published by Charles Scri
ner's Sons
. Marion Crawford's new book on Ron
!. will be called Ave Roma Immortalis
: | and is a selection of studies from Il
chronicles of Rome, in two volumes. NJ
| Crawford was born in Italy, and is pro
> | ably as well fitted to deal with this su
+, | ject as any other man in America. II
information contained in these volum
| will be very useful in connection wi
the authors series of Roman novels.
Some interesting papyri were discover
last year in the rubbish heaps of an a
), cient Egyptian city by Messrs. Grenf
Y & Hunt, and subsequently brought
e England One hundred and fifty of {
o | most important fragments have just be