The times., 1898-05-15


staid Springfield Republican is moved 10
observe that FL Captain would look like
Sunday school superintendent beside Mr..
Davis and the Cincinnati Commercial
peacefully remarks, He has had his
picter tooken in all his new togs, and is
filled with determination and courage, so
that there is no room for bullets,
1t is said that Mark Twain IS going TO
make plays, not from his own books, but
from the German. The result viii doubt
less amuse the American, but will cause
the German hair TO stand straight up.
Clinton Scollard has written a romance
dealing with Italian life in the fourteenth
century which Will be published by Lam
son, Wolfe & Co. The title is "A Man
at Arms; a Romance of the Days of
Gaingalzao Visconu, the Great Viper"
Princeton, Old and New" by Mr.
James w. Alexander, vice-president of
the Equitable Life Assurance Society, Is
said TO be one of the most interesting Of
college books.
Messrs. Cassen & Co. Limited have
again added the word New York 10 their
imprint, which will stand in future as
London, Paris, New York and Melbourne.
1t viii be remembered that some years
ago the company disposed of their busi-
ness in America 10 a separate concern
known as the Cassen Publishing Com
pany. The agreement under which this
arrangement was made has now lapsed,
and Messrs. Cassell & Co. have
appointed to take charge of the branch
Mr.. w. II. Belding, who held an import
ant position under Messrs. CasseN &
Co. at New York prior TO the trans
fer of the American company, and who
had a wide and varied experience which
will fit him for the important post TO
which he has succeeded Mr.. Belding.
who viii be the sole representative of
Cassell & Co. in this city, recently re-
turned from London, and has secured
offices at Nos. and 9 West Eighteenth
Street, whence will also be issued the
four magazines published by this house
The Magazine of Art, Casselfs Maga-
zine, The CULVER and Little Folks.
The Forester. a monthly magazine de-
voted to the care and use of forests, forest
trees and related subjects, is printing a
most interesting series of articles on the
financial result of forest administration.
The article in the current number deals
with forestry in India. The magazine is
published at 40 Wyatt building, this city.
H. ]. Whigham, author of a book which
recently appeared, How to Play Golf"
has been in Cuba as a war correspondent.
and there was rumor that he had been
slain His friends on the Chicago Trib-
une, which he represented in Cuba, have
lately been informed that he is all right.
Walter A. Wyckoff, as part of his So
Geological experiment, worked fof seven
weeks in a great reaper factory in Chi
cago. In the June Scribner's he shows
what a great Improvement is made in men
by steady work and steady wages. Mr..
Wyckoffs job was the loading of reaper !
tongues on cars.
The June number of the Pail Mall Mag |
azine contains, among other interesting I
features, an article by Gen. Hugh Cough, /
v c., the keeper of the queens jewels. |
on the last Afghan war. The article will |
describe the famous march of Lord Rob |
erts.
The latest number of Little Master
pieces, edited by Bliss Perry, has as its
subject Abraham Lincoln. Not the least
interesting part of it's contents is the re-
production of what was long known as
ct inrOJn'C