The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-02-06
CURRENT LITERARY GOSSIP.

andrew Lang Is engaged In writing
new series OF Letters to Dad Authors
which are to appear dnrisg the coming
year In the Chap-Book
The Macmillan Company announces the
early publication OF an English transIa-
ton or Or. kronenherg's Kant, Sein
Leoen and Seine Lehre" edited with an In
PRODUCTION by Professor Nicholas Murray
Butter, OF Columbia University.
In private letter Miss Julia Marruaer
says OF the title Of her new novel. "A
Realized Ideal. 1T seems to me enc of
the happiest have ever had. I've heard
several people say, I'd read any story
that had that title, and think the idea
Is that people are tired OF pessimis,1 and
disappointment in novels"
Mr.. +. Frankfort Moore Is at present
engaged in the work of dramatizing his
novel, The Jessamy Bride" In which the
hero Is Oliver Goldsmith. The book Itself
has had a considerable success i'm Eng
land. and in America. while II made no
sensation Its sale, like that Of THE Hon.
Peter Stirling" Is greater now than when
IL was first published.
The editors monthly resume of Tho
Progress OF the World'' In the American
Monthly Review of Reviews for February
opens with a presentation of the Cuhan
situation at the present moment. An
Il
shift. which deceives nobody and only
serves 10 irritate both parties In Cuba
the insurgents and the Spanish Conserva-
tives
what two novels have been selling beg.
In the year? The answer to this question.
addressed 10y the Daily Chronicle n sey-
erll I.ordon booksellers, was uranimops
In kedars Tents" by Seton Merrim1n.
and 1.-THE Christian" By Hall Caire The
former hn -t,rfg4
and has gone quite out OF print. Hun
ar ds. nay. thousands OF orders. for II.
had to go untitled.
The London Spectator devotcs 4 lending
article TO Mrs. Hearst's plan for the Uni
vcrsity OF California. which it pronounces,
on its face, to be grand scheme. -.
m.nGing one. Of those famous competitions
In Italy, wherein Bruneleschi and Mi
chsel Angelo participated. The Spectator
acos: This is sign OF TIE ldealism
which, as Lowell said, lay hii In the
American character
Wise advice IS given on .sThe Mother
in-Law In the Home" I'm the February
Ladies' Home Journal. The writer details
the proper course for the mother-in-law
10 pursue in order TO make her presence
In the home OF her son a delight and d.
reefs the daughter-in-iaw as to her duties
IN the case. The advice carefully followed
will make the mother-in-iaw a welcome
acquisition To the family. The article VIII
commend Itself for its common-sense.
Constant +. Allure" by Jean Richepln.
Is perhaps the cleverest thing in the Feb
ruary International. The translator de-
serves quite as much credit as the author
In this case. for wit Is A Ih!n-. that mist
he carefully handled. IN changing from
one language TO another. and Gordon
Sutherland has proven himself canahle a
fss, ~. -.
10 convey the original mean,ag Of the
Jokes in Constant +. Attire in his own
words.
THE Little Journeys Series for ISas
VIII be 10 the Homes Of American States
men. edited by Ebert Hubbard and pub
ltshed monthly. Each number will con-
tain portrait. The numbers will com
ton Benz. Franklin" Alex Harail-
ton" 'Sam'l Adams" John Hancock"
John Quincy Adams '-Tbos. jefferson"
Daniel Webster" Henry Clay" John
Jay" "Wm. III. Seward" Abraham
Lincoln"
NoT Il Is rumorcd that +. !. Voynlch
the author or The Gladly" f. a woman
II this Is true, then one woman ar least
has put mascuilnity tato her work which
the most masculine Of men might envy
The Gladly" is nothing more nor less
than one OF the most powerful novels 81
The decade. There are some things in ft
50 stern. so savage. that. good and
healthy as they are. they almost CRATE
upon the imagination as coming from a
wcman's pen.
Mr.. Edmund GoSse. IA writing of the
late Alphonse naucst in the 81. James
Gazette. speaks thus OF the ronancer's
Ignorance Of things outside OF France:
When he projected r vis!t 70 England.
he took farewell Of all his friends before
Aariirg on so peTi,ous an Arctic voyage,
n IL be had been Franklin or Nauser.
| He coala not understand a PARAGRAPH IN
"a English newspaper. He dia not know