The herald., 1898-01-09
Notes and News

| A. G. Armstrong & Son announce for
immediate publication "Music for the
Soul" from the writings of Rev. Alex
ander Maclaren, D. D., in one volume
12mo, deckle-edge paper.
Mrs. Hugh Fraser's novel, "a Chapter
of Accidents" which the Macmillan Co.
are to publish, is largely a story of So
ciety life.
Mr.. John Lane will publish Mr.. Will
liam Watson's new volume, 1.-THE Hope
of the World, and Other Poems," which
will include several hitherto unpub-
lished things.
The learned Psychologist and popular
novelist, Georg Ebers. this year will pre-
sent to his readers a novel entitled
"Arachne," the scene of the action OF
which will again be Egypt.
Mr.. Bensons memoir of his father the
late archbishop of Canterbury, will prob
ably appear in about a year under the
imprint of Macmillan. 1t will contain
both "reminiscences as well as letters
and diaries.
Lamson, Wolfe & Co. will publish at
once Mademoiselle de Berry, story of
Valley Forge, by Pauline Bradford
Mackie; and "Vivian of Virginia." by
Hubert Fuller, both of them attempts
at historical novels.
The book upon which Henry George
spent the last six years of his life is now
passing through the press of Doubleday
& Mcclure Co., and will be issued imme-
diately after the holidays in a large oc-
tavo volume, entitled 1.-THE Science of
Political Economy"
A collection of pictures and poems by
the late George du Maurier is published
today by Messrs. Harper under the
general title, "a Legend of Camelot."
The contents of the volume were Sc
lected from old numbers of Punch"
which are now very scarce.
Many of the poems of Joaquin Mil
Ter do not appear in collected editions,
so before his departure for Klondike he
finished the work of compiling and cor
recting the material for an edition to be
brought out by the Whitaker & Ray Co.
1t is claimed that this will contain many
things of which the general reader
knows nothing, and will have his latest
revision.
The same men who have built up Nc
Clure's Magazine to a circulation of
300,O 900 a month have entered upon the
work of book publishing under the title
name of Doubleday & Mcclure Co.
With the January Magazine Number
of The outlook will begin the series of
papers by Edward Everett Hale on
James Russell Lowell and His
Friends" These papers will constitute
the leading feature of The Outlook for
1898, and will be illustrated by many
scores of pictures, including not few
portraits of famous American authors
never before printed.
The new edition of Mr.. Gilbert Parker's
novels published by D. Appleton & Co.
includes thus far "The Trespasser' and
1.-The Trail of the Sword" which are uni
form with 1.-The Seats of the Mighty"
"The Translation of a Savage" which
will be materially enlarged, and Mrs.
Falchion' will shortly be added to the
uniform edition.
'The Disaster" new French story of
the Metz campaign, is another of the
new things promised from this house.
The Macmillan company announces
the publication of the fourth volume of
"The History of the Decline and Fall of
the Roman Empire" by Edward Gibbon,
with introductions, notes, appendices
and index, by ]. b. Bury, Ma, professor
of modern history in Dublin university.
Also the third and fourth volumes of
Gossip of the Century" are announced
for early publication, under the title of
Social Hours With Celebrities" by the
late Mrs. W. Pitt Byrne These two VOL
umes are edited by the authors sister,
Miss r. HI. Busk, and contain sixty-six
whose range from Renan
to Zola, and from Louis Philippe to Car
touche, gives some idea of the scope of
the text.
Kalee, the goddess of the Thugs, fur
nishes the motif of Grant Aliens latest
book, entitled "Kalee's Shrine"
Aspirants for journalistic honors will
read with interest William Farquhar
Payson's new novel, "The Copy Maker"
descriptive of journalistic life in New
York, with side views of literary Bo-
hemia in the great city.
Dodd. Mead & Company announce