The times., 1898-09-25

OF oxford, and will soon be issued by the
University Press.
The second issue in the American ex-
plorer series, of which Francis p. Har-
per is the publisher, will be Forty Years
Fur Trader on the Upper Missouri"
the personal narrative of Charles Lar
penteur, edited by DR.. Elliot Coues from
hitherto unknown manuscript The
work will be In two volumes.
The American edition of Henry James
book. I'm the Cage" is to be brought out
in November.
Among future Lark Classics will be
Kipling's Departmental Ditties." pub
lished in the same volume with THE
Vampire" and other poems. The book
will be ready this month.
The National Library of Belgrade has
had most unfortunate experience, which
indicates that either the inhabitants of
Belgrade are very hungry for knowledge
or that their honesty is a missing article.
A few years ago the institution possessed
10000 volumes, but the borrowers have
run off with all of them, and the libra
ry is now closed
The Macmillans will publish History
of Philadelphia by Agnes Repplier,
written along the same lines as Grace
Kings charming book about New Orleans
The London ''Athenaeum' says that
Mr.. Collinwoods life of his uncle, Lew
is Carroll, will contain considerable ex-
tracts from a highly characteristic diary.
including a record of a Russian tour with
Canon Liddon Among Lewis Carrolls
effects were three albums filled with pho
tographs taken by himself They include
hitherto unpublished portraits of Mr..
Ruskin, Tennyson, Lord Salisbury and
his children. the Rossettis, the Duke of
Albany, Mr.. Holman Hunt, Mr.. George
Macdonald, etc. These will appear in
1.-The Life as well as several fac
SMILES from manuscript magazines edit
ed by Lewis Carroll.
William Archer contributes an article
on "Anglo-American Literature 10 the
Pail Mall Magazine for this month, in
which he maintains the identity of Eng.
lish and American literary expression.
Joseph Rodman Drake, author of THE
American Flag" is buried in a little out
of-the-way cemetery in Morrisania, bor-
ough of the Bronx. The cemetery is sit
uated in the midst of a copse OF about an
acre in extent, and would be easily
overlooked by the casual passer.
A descendant of Baron Munchausen-
the real, not the fictitious baron-is now
in New York and is trying TO restore his
ancestors reputation for veracity. The
book of travels bearing that name was
written by one Raspe, and has effectual-
ly damaged the name of Munchausen for
all time.
Miss Helen Hay, elder daughter of the
new Secretary of State, is about to pub
lish volume of poems in London under
the title of "Some Verses
Houghton, Mifflin & Co have in press
a book by w. II. Siebert. of Marysville,
Ohio, which will give the whole history
and operations OF the Underground
Railroad of ante-civil war times. Mr..
Siebert resided in Cambridge Mass. for
q year or two, but has now gone back
to his Ohio home.
The great bell of schaffhausen. froRl
which Schiller took the inscription. wi
vos voco; mortuos plango; fulgura fran
CO." as motto for his poem. Die
Glocke," has been cracked, and is ac-
cordngly useless for Ginning purposes. 1t
is not to be melted down, however, the
town council having decided 10 retain it
as q curiosity
The list of literary Americans now re-
siding abroad becomes somewhat formi-
dable when seriously considered. Is it
so utterly impossible for Americans to
have literary center that all our great
men must needs go to Europe? Lindley
Murray set the fashion. He was a New
York man, but lived in England on ac-
count of his health. Irving spent twenty
three years abroad. n. P. Willis was as
much in London as New York. Henry
James expatriated himself too long ago
to be considered as a real American, and
Bret Harte seems to be on the way TO the
same end. Marion Crawford was born
in Italy, and has lived there much of his
life. Harold Frederic, author of The
Damnation of Theron Ware" is q recent
recruit to the American colony IN Lon
don. Henry Harland, otherwise Sidney
Luska" is in London. Charles G.. Le-
land, Of Hans Breitman" and GYPSY"
fame. is in London. and so Is Gertrude
Atherton. while Blanche Willis Howard
has taken up her residence in Germany
and married a German of rank.
The fashion of cheap magazines. like
some other American fashions, has reach
ed England, and is said to be extremely
popular. >,
is said to have a circslatioin something
like that of the New-I % journal. and
the first issue of the RON Magazine,
at the same price. is said to have num-
bered a million copies. There are al
ready several siXpenny magazines in
England, and these new ventures are to
these what the Nickel Magazine and
the Black Cat are to the Cosmopolitan
and McClures.
Jane Austen is becoming fashionable in
France. A translation or "Northanger
Abbey is coming out in the Revue
Blanche and Emma" will probably fol-
low.
In Mr.. Arthur Patersons new novel
| of the civil war, 1.-THE Gospel Writ In
| Steel" the author describes the scenes in
| a Western town when the President first
| called for volunteers, and his pictures of
the home sentiment and the preparations
| are of extreme interest. The story af-
| fords a graphic account of Bull Run, and
| later the hero undergoes stirring ad-
ventures in Shermans march to the sea.
| Mr.. Paterson's romance, which Is to be
! issued soon by D. Appleton & Co., will
| be awaited with especial interest.
| The literary editor of the st. Louis
| Globe Democrat, in commenting on the
| new book by Mary E. Wilkins, Silence,
and Other Stories" takes occasion to
! revive some of the old reproaches against
| the puritans He says that the hard life
| of the New England colonist impelled
| him to treat the Indians as the Indians
! treated him. Perhaps he did, but it Is
not recorded that he ever scalped, tor