The herald., 1898-02-06

| for want of fpatronage-which Is shame.
Mr.. George Meredith has finished
three "Odes in Contribution to the Song
of French History" ',rhe Revolution" :"
Napoleon" "Alsace-Lorraine" They
will appear in Cosmopolis in March,
April and May.
! An American author, who has made
England his home for some time past.
was bound to confess that he did so be-
cause his social position was so much
better there than in America. Here"
he said, 81 am sought for for my own
sake, for what I have accomplished as a
| writer, and not for what have earned.
At home my publisher held a better So
| cial position than /, not because he
was any more desirable personally, but
| because he was q man of wealth and
could entertin more lavishly than I
could. Not that there is any objection to
publishers but l like q country where
| there is no objection to authors"
Messrs. Fords Howard S5 Hurlbert will
soon publish '"rhe New Puritanism a
series of papers presented during the
mi-Centennial Celebration of Ply
mouth Church, Brooklyn, N. Y. GSF-
1S79)," by Rev. DR.. Lyman Abbott and
others.
1t is good news that Mr.. Bret Harte
will contribute to the Forthcoming num-
bers Of the Century. His next story will
be "The Passing of Enriquez," in which
he returns to his most successful field,
life on the frontier. Two new poems by
the same author are Lines to Por-
trait, by a Superior Person." and ''Her
Last Letter." completing the celebrated
series, "Her Letter" and His Answer
to Her Letter" The former appeared in
the November number.
The Doubleday and Mcclure company
will issue early this year an important
work on which the late Henry George
spent the last six years of his life. 1t
| is to be published in large octave vol
ume, and will contain about as much
matter as Progress and Poverty" The
title of the work is 'The Science OF Po-
litical Economy"
Rumors that II. Rider Haggard was at
work on a new novel are now confirmed.
The book is to be a historical romance
with the scene laid in Holland at the time
of William of Orange. 1t is also reported
that another story of his, to be called
Swallow" will be run as serial in the
London Graphic next fall. The theme
deals with Boer history in the days Of the
great trek of 1896, when the Dutch set
tiers of the South African colony mi
grated to the Transvaal and TO the Free
State.
| The next volume in Macmillan's Series
of Economic Glasses will be a translation
of Turgot's reflections on the Forma-
tion and Distribution of Riches Q710),'
by the editor of the series, Prof. w. j
Ashley of Harvard.
"The Storage Battery" by Augustus
1 Treadwel, jr., is the title of a theoretical
and practical work on this subject soon
to be published by the same company
The book contains complete history of
the development of the storage battery
and it's uses down to the present day. 4
unique feature of the book is the table
giving data for all storage batteries in
use today. and the great number of
charge and discharge curves for the most
prominent types.
Colonel Richard Malcolm Johnston
"Old Times in Middle Georgia" seems to
be pleasing English readers and is at
! tracing considerable notice in their re-
views. A second English edition has just
been announced by the publishers, and
the Macmillan company also are nov
putting a second American edition
through the press.
Zola's Paris" completing his trilogy
will appear next month from Macmil-
lan's press. Its relation to Rome ant
Lourdes will be as marked and intimats
as was that of Rome to Lourdes.
The Appletons have nearly ready Mr.
Edmund Gosse's Modern English Lit
erature," a work which he is easily
capable of preparing.
The Lippincott company intimate that
a new volume in DR.. Furness 'Vari-
Drum Shakespeare" may be ready the
ensuing year.
We have a new poet, it seems. j.
Gordon Coogler is his name, and Column
bia, S. c., is his home. mo cotton is
softer or gentler than his Arcadian
songs" the late c. a. Dana is quoted as
saying. Cottony poetry must be a new
| type.
The RoXburghe Press, London, an
nounces Il new edition of the Works
of Charles Dickens" which, it is prom
ised, shall be the daintiest edition even
issued from any press" That is prom
Using a good deal. Among its features
-
paper. appropriate binding, carefully ex-
ecuted facsmles of all the original illus
trations, and an average price of IS Cd a
volume. Mr.. I<itton will supply "chatty'
introductions to each volume, and many
portraits of Dickens will be inserted
Mr.. Charles f. Rideal is to be the general
editor.
An outline Sketch of Jewish History, y
translated from the German of DR.. Gus
tav Karpeles, has just been sent out by
the Jewish Publication society of Amer
| lea.
Mr.. Henry Frowde announces for early
publication in America THE Bible Ref
erences of John Ruskin," selected and
arranged by Misses Mary and Ellen
Gibbs.
The j. b. Lippincott company publish
"a History of the United States oi
America, It's People and It's Institu-
tions," a work by Mr.. Charles Morris, in
tended for use as a school text book.