The times., 1898-06-12

| Henry Lewis. has been printed In Can
| ada. and is to be issued there in paper
covers. The Canadians are used to
cheap editions of English books, and
| are averse to buying cloth-bound vol
umes This has led to the issuing of spe-
cial Canadian editions of many popular
/ American books.
| Hopkinson Smith writes in Book News
for June concerning his latest book. "Ca-
! leb Vest: 'The note l have sounded
! Is the note of compassion. l have tried
TO review in Caleb West, Master Diver
| the memory of the almost-forgotten ad-
monition of the Master. Poor little Bet
! ty.' Calebs child-wife is a type of
! thousands of women. whose hearts were
! stronger than their heads II there were
more Captain Joes and Kate Leroys and
! Aunty Bells, the world would certainly
| be BETTER
A new book by Harold Frederic, author
| of The Damnation of Theron Ware" is
soon TO be published by the Lothrop Pub
! fishing Company. 1t will be called THE
| Deserter. and Other Stories and two of
the stories will deal with the civil war in
| America, while others are told of the
| War of the Roses. The book is to be IL
lustrated by Sanford Merrill. Gilbert
|
Among the many Cuban books now ap-
| pearing on the scene is Cuba at
! Glance" published by r. H Russell. and
| containing contributions from Estrada
| Palma, General Gomez, General Maceo
| President Masso and EvangeIina Cisneros
J The compilation is made by e. B. Kauf-
man and A O Hagen. who had access to
| the original documents.
small, new volume by Alice Morse
! Earle is In Old Narragansett," bound in
| the white and green of the Ivory Series,
! published by the Scribners. 1t is said to
| be delightful, and to sustain the authors
reputation for thorough knowledge and
| charm of style.
| Few people know anything about Fin
| land except that there is such a country
on the map. Some people know. or think
they know, that ii is a land of eternal
| Winter inhabited by barbarians: bur
there is a book lately published by the
Macmillan Company which affords con-
siderable enlightenment on the subject
of this out-of-the-way corner of the earth.
II is called Through Finland in Carts
and is by Mrs. Alec Tweedle. The au-
thor says that Finland is in its geogra-
phical extent larger than all of the Brit
ish Isles and the Netherlands thrown in,
cycles and telephones in Finland, and
that women are granted practical equality
with men. Teaching, she says, is consid-
cred one of the finest of employments
for either man or woman. And ali of
this will prove rather a surprise to the
average reader.
The story comes drifting by way Of
grapevine telegraph that there were two
McClures Magazines for June. One was
arranged edited and in type month or
more ago; the other was gotten up in
hurry after the declaration of war and
| is packed with articles stories and poems
of special interest. McCIure's Magazine
! has always been particularly careful 10
be up TO date, and in an emergency so
great as the present 1t was not likely to
be left out in the cold.
President William Dewitt Hyde. of
Bowdoin College has written a book
called The Evolution Of the College
Man" 1t purports TO show the college
man he is, from the moment of his in
PRODUCTION to his Alma Mater till he leaves
his four years home for the great and
busy world. President Hyde ought to
know all about college men, and boys
but the prevailing impression among the
critics of his book seems 10 be that if
that is a specimen of the college boy of
what Is the matter with him In q word
the person depicted by President Hyde IS
something of a pTig and very unnatural
Mr.. Funck-Brentano, the librarian of
the horary Of the Arsenal at Paris. has
published an article in which he posi-
lively states that he has discovered the
Identity Of the Man in the Iron Mask The
mask, by the way, was not of iron. but of
black velvet and according TO VI. Funck-
Brentano the name of the man was Her
cules Antoine Mattioh, and he was the
secretary of the Duke of Mantua. seized
on italian soil by order of Louis XIV. in
violation of international law. and
brought to Paris. where he was kept in
several prisons and finally in the Bastile
He was masked in order that he might
not be reclaimed by the Duke of Man
tua.
Sidney Colvin Is engaged on life of
Robert Louis Stevenson. which will he
ready about the end of the year. II will
De in three volumes. the first bio
graphical, and the second and third devot-
ed 10 the correspondence of Stevenson.
The June number of the Bibelot contains
a reprint of THE Flight of the Princess"
originally published in Longmans Maga-
zine in 1885.
Mr.. Nathan Haskell Dole has in prep
aration privately printed edition of the
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" which
will be ready early in this month.
'Hygienic Bicycling" by H. C. Clark of
Delaware City. Del, is little book in
tended for the use of those who have NOT
yet begun to ride the wheel 1t contains
great deal of information concisely civ
en-, but would be more attractive in an
pearance If the publisher had not feen
niggardly of the inside margins
Somebody lately made the assertion that
the autobiography of Gen Grant was the
only American book which would be read |
two centuries hence. The literary pres
ent of the United States is so full OF in
terest that few people stop to consider
what its future may be. One NAV take
exception to the statement quoted. but
nevertheless it sets one thinking.
Henry James has been writing a new
novel, and it bears the rather curious
title. THE Two Magics."
Mrs. Humphrey Wards new novel.
Helbeck of Bannisdale" deals partly
with social Catholic life in the north of
England. 1t will be published by Mac
milan & Co.
1t is always interesting to note the re-
ports in literary magazines concerning |
the sale of various books. The Bookman |
publishes quite an extensive list of best |
selling books and it appears that the |
only new book which has won place |