The times., 1898-07-17

are Secretary Gage, Rev. Teunis Hamlin,
Dr.. Paul Carus, and many other prom
inent men, in and out of the pulpit The
book is published by the Woman's Edd-
catienai Union, Chicago.
A partnership has just been formed be-
tween Mr.. William B. Hadley, recently
president of the New Amsterdam Book
Company, and Mr.. e. Roscoe Matthews,
who has for some time been connected
with Charles Scribner's Sons They will
give their attention mainly to the i'm
porting of editions of English books and
the publication of the best class of litera-
ture.
Next August Count Tolstoi completes
his SEVENTEEN year. and the fiftieth year
of his literary activity. 1t is proposed
that the occasion be marked by gen.
eral celebration, the exact form of which
is not yet determined. The better known
of his dramas will probably be produced
at European theaters, and critical esti-
mates of his life and work published in
the leading periodicals. IN Russia the
celebration may take the form of endoW-
ments OF popular libraries, the establish
ing of schools, and other work which will
carry out the ideas of Tolstoi. In the St.
Petersburg Novosti a prominent critic, II.
Rok. writes:
Tolstoi the most intelligent Of our intelligent
classes, has, by some uncomfortable mystery, sue
ceeded in preserving in his own personality tie
original Russian characteristics in their pristine
purity Not only in the spirit of his writings
but by his very nature. mode of life, and moral
aims and endcavors Tolsto is the true son OF
the Russian people. That is why he understands
then so well; that is why the people are near
TO him
oh Il
zewa, has written review of Prof.
Brander Matthews new book, "Introduc-
ton to the Study of American Litera-
ture.' for the Revue des Deux Mondes.
In the course of this article he takes oc-
casion TO discuss the question whether or
not we have distinctive American lit
erature He compares Prof. Matthews
book with the English History of Amer
ican Literature" by John Nichol, and
says that MI. Nichol never for moment
considers the great writers of the United
States as, representatives of separate
nation, but considers them to be English
writer's born in America. Prof Mat
thews, on the contrary, contends that
there is the same difference between
English and American literature that
there Is between the life of the two coun-
tries. and that Americanism has stamp
ed with its seal our national authors"
NJ. de Wyzewa seems, however, to be
rather in the dark as TO the exact quail
ity which Prof. Matthews calls Ameri
canism.
One of the best stories that Richard
Harding Davis tells in the August Scrib-
| ners of the Rocking Chair Period of the
War at Tampa, is about a young ofticer
7 who, with long iced drink at his elbow
and. cigar betwe~1 his teeth, gaZed at
the colored electric lights, the palm trees,
the whirling figures in the ballroom and
remarked sententiously: Gentlemen, as
Gen. Sherman truly said: War is hell
One of the books shortly TO be pub
iished by G. p Putnam Sons is "a His
tory of the Art War; the Middle Ages,
from the Fourth to the Fourteenth Cen
tury. by Charles w. Oman. NJ. A, F. S.
A. fellow of All Souls College Oxford.
II is the second OF n series of four in
which the author intends to present
general sketch of the history of the art
of war from the Greek and Roman times
down TO the beginning or the nineteenth
century. The first volume in chronology
cal order, which will cover the classical
division of the subject, will be issued
shortly. The third volume VIII be deyot-
ed to the fifteenth, sixteenth and seven
teenth centuries while the fourth vol
ume VIII treat of the military history of
the eighteenth century. and the revolu-
| tionary and Napoleonic wars down TO
Waterloo.
The first monthly number of The Critic
will contain the eleventh Of the new Sc
ries of Authors al Home" the subject
being Mrs. Margaret Deland. Her house
is on Mount Vernon Street. Boston and
IS said to be an ideal authors home.
The article is accompanied with a like
ness OF Mrs DeIand and a reproduction
OF one of the pages of her book of
poems, The Old Garden with Walter
Cranes decorative drawing for it.
One of the manuscripts sold by sotheby.
Wilkinson & Hedge in London last
month was the original draft of the
charter OF New York.
Longmans, Green & Co are to bring out
new edition of Lord Macaulay's works,
which will be called n he Albany Edi-
non" 1t will appear IN twelve volumes.
! two of which a-e now ready, and eacE
volume will coagIin a specially prepared
portrait An edit N &c luxe of $50 copies
will contain thirty-six extra portraits.
| Haldame MacflH, the stepson of Sarah
/ Grand, has written novel called The
! Wooings of JezebeI Pettyfer," which is
said TO be very clever. 1t deals with the
/ negro popuidlioHn OIL baTDduOS ana Jd-
maica.
! A story of school life by Kipling is to
appear in the August number of Nc
! Clure,s, and it will contain some further
| episodes in the careers of those lively
| youths, Stalky, Beetle and McTurk
A new novel by William Sharp has ap-
/ peared. 1t is called Wives in Exile
! and describes the experiences of two
| charming women who undertake a
voyage in a yacht commanded by them
| selves, with a crew of women.
A new tale by Maarten Martens is
| Her Memory" the story of a widower
| and his daughter 1t is said to sustain
the reputation which the author has won
by his previous novels.
DR.. George Brandes has written work
| on modern Scandinavian literature which
will be brought out in English in Lon
| don.
One of the friends of Mrs. Flora Annie
Steel says that she frequently tells her
daughter the plots of stories which are in
her brain before she writes them down.
| One morning she related a story in this
| way and then went to her own room to
| work it ont After awhile she came
| back, having written tale quite unlike
the one she had planned She said, at
was most extraordinary. l thought that
| there was a man in the room named Ma