The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-09-12

Houghton, Miff1in & Co., have nearly ready
volume of short stories by the late Ed
ward Bellamy, which will be prefaced by
biographical sketch of the author by Syl-
vester Baxter.-Publishers' Weekly.
The interesting and valuable collection Of
papyri discovered last year in the rubbish
heaps Of an ancient Egyptian city by Messrs
Grenfell and Hunt. and subsequently brought
over to England, has now been carefully ex-
amined. Some hundred and fifty of the most
important fragments have just been Issued in
book form, with notes and comments 1t Will
be remembered that the Logia fragments, CT
sayings" Of Jesus, were published last " ar
These Dapyri cover many subjects. Some of
them represent well known classical au h RS
such as Homer, Demosthenes, Sophocl s,
Herodotus. Thucydides and Plato; oths rs
contain "Logia" One fragment preserve tie
genealogy as recorded in St, Matthew's Gcs-
pei. This portion, in the opinion OF the edi-
tors, is older than any manuscript Of the
New Testament known to be in existence.
Messrs. Little. Brown & Co. announce
a new volume Of short stories by Henryk
Sienkiewicz in their uniform library edit On
of his works. which will make this edition the
only complete set of his works in Eng ish.
The volume consists OF coo pages, and is en-
titled ''Sielanka, a Forest Picture and o her
Stories" The publishers report that "Quo
Vadis" has reached a sale Of more than
GOO, 900 copies.
One of the most tragic accounts we have
read since the war began is that related by
Correspondent Edward Marshall, who was on
the field with the rough riders at Las Guas-
imas at the opening of the Santiago cam
paign. 1t is not only tragic in it's thrilling
intensity Of relation, its visual realism, and
still, inevitable power OF description, but in
the fact that it is written by one to whom
the word was passed, His wound IS mOrta,."
1t seems almost a ma aCle that he still lives.
This marvellous bit of description Will go on
record as human document Of the that
seems now to be past and over. We have
q
the current number of Scribner's Magazine,
which contains MarshalPs story, and to re-
print the following incident with which he
closes his narrative:
There is one incident of the day which
shines out in my memory above all others
now as 1 lie in a New York hospital writing.
1t occurred at the field hospital. About
dozen OF us we're lying there. A continual
chorus of means rose through the tree
branches overhead The surgeons, with
hands and barred arms dripping, and clothes
literally saturated with blood, were strain
ing every nerve to prepare the wounded for
the journey down to Siboney. Behind me
bones literally ground to powder. He bore
his pain CALAMITY he had led his men,
and that is saying much. think MAJ Brodie
was also there. 1t was doleful group. Ampu-
tation and death stared its members in their
gloomy faces.
Suddenly voice started softly,
My country. tits of thee.
Sweet land of liberty,
OF thee 1 sing.
Other voices took it up:
Land where my fathers died.
Land Of the pilgrims pride
The qulvering, quavering chorus, punctu-
ated by groans and made spaSmodic by pain,
trembled up from that little group of wounded
Americans in the midst of the Cuban soil
tude-the pluckiest, most heartfelt song that
human being ever sang.
There was one voice that did not quite
keep up with the othera.> 1t was so weak that
Of hoo. 1olI COST od o
with the line.
Let Freedom ring.
Then, hating, struggling, faint, 1t repeated.
slowly.
--of-the-pilgrim
Let Freedom
The last word was a. woful cry One more
son had died as died the fathers.-The Book
man.
The long expected volume by stopford A.
Brooke, on English Literature. From the Be-
ginning to the Norman Conquest" will short
ly be published by the Mcmillan company
This is the first volume Of the series of which
Saintshury's "Elizabethan Literature" and
Gosse's English Literature in the Eighteenth
Century are already so widely known.
r. T. Fenno & Co. will publish in Septem-
Der 1.-THE Real Bismarck translated from
the French Of Jules Hoche by Mrs. Charles
~ No5elS' LIS book IS an aHecuotl dc-
count of the intimate life of Bismarck from
a Frenchman's point Of view. 1t will contain
some seventy-hve Observation-Disclosures
Weekly.
THE Philippine Islands, and Their Peo-
PIE Is the title Of book by Prof Dean @.
Worcester, which the Mcmillan company will
publish next month The book is a record Of
personal observation apd experience. with
general account Of the archipelago, and q
short summary Of the more important facts
in It's history.
The author, who Is professor of zoology at
the University Of Michigan, and his compan-
lon, DR.. +. S. Bourns, have twice visited the
Philippine archipelago to study It's zoology,
and have Travelled more widely there than any
other English-speakng men, working on
every important island in the group. and
pushing into the widest and least explored
portions Of the country.