The San Francisco call., 1898-02-06
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 Rudyard Kipling has given permission to Miss Olga Nethersole to dramatize his novel, The Light That Failed"
 The series of papers on "The Unquet Sex by Helen Watterson Moody, VIII De concluded in the February Scribner's with discussion of the domestic service prob lem.
 Rupert of Hentzau," which is now ap- bearing serially in McClure's and the Pail Mall will be published in book form, | probably some time In April, by MesSrs. Henry Holt & Co.
 MT. ZangwilPs "Dreamers of the Ghet- 1 to" will be published during the present month. Some of the stories have not ap-
 peared anywhere, and those that have are revised and changed.
 A volume of short stories by Mir. Thomas Hardy may be expected from the press of Messrs. Harper & Bros. in the spring. MT. Hardy is said to be well ad- vanced with novel.
 Dr. Thomas Dunn English, besides working occasionally at His Memories l or Men ana InlnBS DuTlnS SlXty ears of Active Life,'' has been writing new Irish play in conjunction with another dramatist.
 1 Miss Adeline Knapp, whose Upland Pastures has been so favorably received is preparing for publication another vol- ume along the same line. She is also editing a version of some of the Arabian Nights Entertainments for children.
 R. F. Fenno & Co., New York. have ready W. T. Stead's "Satan's Invisible World Displayed; or, Despairing De- mocracy" Curiosity exists as to the 'Despairing Democracy" which the editor of the Review of Reviews de- scribes.
 Messrs Appleton will publish immedi- ately Mr. Edmund Gosse's "Short History of Modern English Literature from Chaucer to Walter Pater. But few living writers are mentioned in this book, the aim of which Is to show the movement of English letters.
 Mark Twain's new humorous story. which he is now writing in Vienna, is to go to the Ladies' Home Journal, which magazine has also secured F. Marion Crawford's new story, which is tale of the unreal, with the strikingly uncanny title of ''The Dead Smile"
 Little, Brown & CO., bOStOn, VIII pup fish the entire series of Dumas romances. They have now ready "The Horoscope" Monsieur de Chauveln's Will" and ''The Woman with the Velvet Necklace, and there will appear very shortly Age nor de Mauleon," "The Brigand," and "Sylvandire."
 Colonel Richard Malcolm Johnston's "Old Times in Middle Georgia" seems to be pleasing English readers and is at tracting considerable notice in their re- views. A second English edition has just been announced by the publishers, and the Macmillan Company also are now putting a second American edition l through the press.
 One of the latest modes of illustrating novels is by the simple process of pho | tography. This can hardly be agreeable | to the "black-and-white men," and is not | likely to further the cause of art; but it is welcomed by authors who have suffered at the hands of faulty illustrators-more common ten years ago than they are to- day. AS a social satirist said of a fash ionable class of song, 'It's very inartistic, but the public like it best" and we shall probably see more of 1t in the future. Three monthly parts of Progress is- sued by the University Association in the interests of University and Worlds Con- gress extension, give respectively courses in universal history, universal religion, and universal literature. They should be of great value to the student. The same | educational body has also issued, in book | form, a lengthy course of lessons on the | literature of the world, prepared for the
 association by a corps of specialists in Flu
 rope and America. The volume is finely illustrated and has been carefully edited by Samuel Fellows, D. D., and Elizabeth | A. Reed, A. M.
 The sixth part of Fifty Years of Ma sorry in California" just issued by Messrs. G. Spaulding & Go. of this city, | Is fully up to the high standard set by | previous numbers of this publication. The | part gives the history of subordinate | lodges founded after the organization of | the Grand Lodge of California. Amongst the lodges dealt with is the well-known l Golden Gate, No. 30, of this city. There is also a sympathetic biographical notice of the late c. F. Crocker, who was Mason of high degree. His portrait, which occu- pies a whole page of the volume is a beautifully executed piece of artistic work.
 Messrs. Houghton,s Miff1in & Co. recent ly received a communication of interest from Miss Alice M. Longfellow, with re- gard to the correct pronunciation of Hi- awatha, which they furnish for publica- tion:
 CRAIGIE HOUSE, Cambridge, Nov. 12, 1897. | Messrs. Houghton, Miff1in & Co.,. | Dear Sirs: The pronunciation used by my father was "He-a-wa-tha," the ac- cent on the first syllable being slighter than on the wa the "a'' in mar" not 1 war;" as sometimes used. I should be glad to have this impressed on the pub lie. Yours sincerely,
 ALICE M. LONGFELLOW. | Mrs. Annie Fields, the author of the
 admirable Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe.' just published by Houghton, Mfr | fin & Co.,, says concerning her new book: My personal friendship and sym | pathetic relation with Mrs. Stowe dur
 ing many years caused her publishers
 and some members of her family to feel
 that I was the proper person to do this l work. I hope this confidence will not
 be misplaced. Possibly the world will begin to recognize the true greatness of | the woman when they see the story at
 last unfolded. trust the book will be