The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-09-19
Book Notes.

Messrs. HOughton, Mifiin & Co. announce
for the autumn publications.: 1.-The Life and
Letters Of Paul the Apostle" by the Rev.
Or. Lyman Abbott; Salmon P. Chase" by
Prof, Albert Bushnell Hart; Charles Sum
ner' by Moorfeld Storey; "Thaddeus Stew
ems by Samuel w. Mccall; and Charles
a new edition of Mr.. Bellamy's Looking
Backward" with a biographical sketch. bY
sylvester Baxter; an illustrated edition of
Mr.. Fiskes beginnings Of New England
James Russell Lowell and His Friends''3
DR.. Edward Everett Hales Outlook papers.
In which the early biographical features are
blended with recOlections Of Boston Cam
bridge and Harvard college; "Reminiscences,
by Mrs. Julia Ward Howe in which, besides
anecdotes and illusions concerning her IL
lustrious contemporaries. the facts and men,
cries of her life which have left the deepest
impression on her mind, her views of liter
allure and life, her aspirations for woman
kind and for the race, will all be chronicled;
also, a volume of Poems. Old and New" Sc
lected by Mrs. Howe from her vo' umes of
poems already published; "A ScUlpl or's Ad-
ventures in the Sunset Land" by Edward
bert Parker; and Social Ideals in English
Letters" from "Piers Powman" to William
Norris, Vida D. scuudder.
From the many publications from the Mac
millans we select the following: "The Lie
and Letters of Archbishop Benson" edited
by his son; Cardinal Newman as Anglican
and Catholic by Edmund Sheridan Purcell:
The Biography of Shakespeare" by Sidney
Lee; THE Two Magis" by Henry James;
''The Great Salt Lake Trail" by Col. Henry
Inman and Buffalo Bill; buccaneers and
Pirates of Our Coast" by F. R. Stockton;
Japan" by Mrs. Hugh Fraser; "PhiIadel-
phia," by Agnes Repplier; The Philippine
Islands and Their People" by Prof. Dean @.
Worcester; Fitzgerald's "Rubaiyat of Omar
Khayyam," decorated by w. B. MacdougalI:
Mrs. GaskelIs Crawford" introduced by
Mrs. Richie and illustrated by Hugh Thorn
son; "The New England Poets" by w. G.
Lawton; ''FOur-Footed Americans and Their
Kin by Mabel Osgcod Wright; and last. but
not least, The Control Of the Tropics" by
Benjamin Kidd. author of Social Evolu-
ton
News comes from England that the pub
fishing firm Of MeSsrs. Bentley has just been
absorbed by that of MeSsrs Macmillan G
Co. Messrs Bentley, publishers in ordinary
to the queen" come third on the list of Eng
lish publishers in point of age, only Messrs.
Longmans and Messrs. Murray antedating
them. The Bentleys were the publishers OF
Pepys' Diaries Bentleys Miscellany was
founded the year that the queen assembled
the throne, Dickens being It's first editor.
The story of "Oliver Twist" ran serialy in
it's pages. BY this change Messrs. Macmillan
& Co. become the publishers of Temple Bar
and The Argosy.
John Lane will send out "The Califor-
mans" by Mrs. Gertrude Atherton; "a New
Book of Golden Age Stories," by Kenneth
Graham; "A New Book of Essays" by Mrs.
Alice Meynell; ''Volpme," by Ben Jonson.
illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley, who was
engaged upon this work at the time of his
Davidson; "Pierette Her Book" by H. De
We're Stoepoole, illustrated by Charles Robin
son; and "A Man From the North" by e.
A. Bennett.