The times., 1898-07-10

years When he bought his house 1t
stood In the midst OF a village; now
railway station Is at his door, and the
life of London is all around him.
Miss Rose Kingsley, the daughter of
Charles kingsley. Is preparing for publi-
cation a handbook on French art.
Two war poems by Richard Mansfield,
entitled "The Eagles Song and The
Charge of Dargai Cap" are published in
pamphlet form by d. Appleton & Co.
One of the most useful of the socio-
logical experiments in London is Rob
ert Browning Hail." which is somewhat
on the line of Toynbee Hall, but in some
respects even wider in its influence Mr..
F. Herbert Stead brother of w.
Stead, is at the head of it.
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The house in which Frank r. Stockton
lives. at Convent Station, n. j., was the
boyhood home of Theodore Roosevelt.
Mr. Stockton has made it his home for
eight years.
A series of articles on the war Is to
appear in the Century, under the title,
Battles and Leaders, Places and Prob
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During the coming autumn a life OF
Robert Louis Stevenson, by Sidney Col
vim. is likely to appear.
Sir Walter Besant says that he can
conceive of no better way of making
circle of readers tired of a writer than
for him TO bring out a new book three or
four times year. Some authors on this
side the water would do well to notice
this.
Mrs Craigie, otherwise John Oliver
Hobbies. one of the most popular novel
lists in England at present, was born in
Boston, and her maiden name was Pearl
Mary Teresa Richards.
Mr.. Phil May is making the illustra-
tions for new edition of David Cop
perfield,'' and the book will appear in Oc-
tober.
The British Museum Reading Room
owns a facsimile of the original manu-
script of Bret Hartes Heather Chi
nee" and an Englishman makes the
comment that it looks as II in those days
Bret Harte rubbed into his work what
Trollope. writing of Thackeray, called
mental elbow w-grease."
There has been movement in Eng
land in favor of a Chaucer memorial, in
commemoration of the ffve-hundredth
anniversary of the poets death. Arch
bishop Vaughan, when asked for his
opinion. wrote, Tired to death with an
niversaries-spare me-"
A new book in the "Criminology Series"
issued by ID. Appleton q Co, is 'Politi-
cal Crime" by Louis Proal, with an in
PRODUCTION by Professor Franklin II.
Giddings, of Columbia University
Thomas a Janvier mas written a new
novel. which will be published by Harper
K Bros. The title is I'm the Sargasso
Sea" and it said to be entirely different
from anything that Mr.. Janvier has
written before, and to be full of excite
ment and adventure and almost ghostly
Incident
Prof H. Graetz's History of the
Jews has been translated into English,
and IS issued. in five volumes. by the
Jewish Publication Society of America.
The Isles and shrines of Greece"
is a picturesque book by Hon. Samuel
J. Barrows, illustrated by half-tone re-
productions of photographs taken by the
author, and issued by Roberts Brothers.
"Sangre de Cristo; a Roman of Span
ish America, by Mary Bradford Crown
inshield, author of Where the Trade
Winds Blow is a story of the cruelty
inflicted by South American dictator,
and will be a feature of the Century for
August The author is the wife of Ma
val Constructor Crowninshield and the
story is said to be based on fact.
A new book about birds is "Our Feath-
cred Friends. by Elizabeth and Joseph
Grinnell. It will be published by D. c.
Heath & Co, of Boston.
Among the Autumn publications of C.
u Putnams Sons is a two-volume work
by Alethea Wiel. entitled The Romance
of the House of Savoy. 1003-l5l9." Miss
Wiel is the author OF The Story of Ven
Ice, Two Doges of Venice" and Wit
toFia Celonna."
The second and final volume of The
Encyclopaedia of Sport" published by
&. p. Putnam's Sons, will be ready early
in October.
THE Nations Navy" a book shortly
TO be published by the Lippincotts. is
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and includes all notable naval events
down to the victory of Dewey.
Among the features of the August Cen
tury is an illustrated article called Gu
ba, as Seen from the Inside" by Osgood
Welsh, an American sugar grower.
One of the men concerned in the Brook
Farm experiment and other forms of
that movement quantity called The
Newness," was Orestes A Brownson.
whose life has just been written by his
son, Henry F. Brownson. 1t is a most
interesting contribution to the history of
the intellectual life of this country du-
ring its formative period. 1t is published
by the author, who lives in Detroit.
Mr. David Williamson, editor of the
Windsor Magazine. has prepared non
political life of Gladstone which he calls
Gladstone the Man" and which VIII be
published by NJ. F. Mansfield.
1t has been something like six months
now since Mr.. Poultney BigeIow was
moved TO insist upon his intimate per-
SoDaI aColaint9uce with the German EY1-