The San Francisco call., 1898-03-06

Professor Tyler has also in preparation
 a volume which will present the Liter 1 arv History of the American Republic During the First Half Century of It's
 Tndenendence. 17S3-1S33'' This work will 1 form a continuation of the volumes pre-,
 viously published on the literature of the
 colonial and revolutionary periods story about Tennyson, which is | little too perfect to be true, is told by the London Daily Telegraph. It is to the et- | feet that the poet one day entered l public reading-room and sat down m l large armchair before the fire. Mucn 10 | the amazement of the other occupants ol the room he then proceeded to elevate | his feet until they rested on the chimney piece, in the fashion we are led to believe is real American" No approximations on l the part of his friends respecting the ln- elegance of the position were or the 1 slightest avail Suddenly a brilliant 1n- l spiration seized one of them-the father of one of our leading actors Of to-day Going close to Lord Tennyson, he whls- pered in his ear: Take your feet down, or they'll mistake you for Longfellow. Tn an instant the poets boots were on the floor and he assumed the ordinary posi- | tion of an Englishman
 The interesting announcement comes by way of England that an authoritative Life of Guy Maupassant is at last in preparation, and that it is to be the work of French and English colaborators. namely: M Hughes Rebell and MT. R. H. Sherard.
 Mrs Annie Hurd Dyer is translating into Japanese the two novels by James Lane Allen entitled "A Kentucky Cardi- nal' and Aftermath" Both books dis play so fine feeling for nature and so delicate a sense of beauty that 1t IS thought they will appeal peculiarly to the Japanese mind.
 Daudet is said to have left behind him considerable amount of unfinished worK, including short stories, "reminiscences, novel which was to have borne the utle
 ''Quinze Ans de Marriage and a work of personal nature. containing an ac- count. of his sufferings during the past fifteen years which he called Ma Dou- leur" It is announced that biography of Daudet is now in preparation by ms son Leon.
 Daudet's widow and son intend to pub- fish collection of the late authors let ters.
 M. Jules Claretie says of Daudet;
 Singular as it may seem, Alphonse Dau- det who has been so often compared with the illustrious author of David Copperfeld," frequently declared that ne had read nothing or very little or Charles Dickens. So he often told me- and I expressed to him my surprise dl hearing it. His favorite reading was Chateaubriand, and the Chateaubr1and or the Memoirs d'Outretombe He had no need to read romances to write the TO- nance of life He had only to look before him. and this is what he did, Though he was short-sighted he saw and noted everything: the craving for truth carried him so far that he catalogued ana placed in his gallery portraits of the per- sons he jostled in everyday life. Il study even my relatives he remarked to me some time ago, and l can't help putting ! them in my books"
 1 The first issue of a new monthly for ad- vertisers. entitled Profitable Publicity, l is very handsomely gotten up, both as to
 typographical and artistic effect The ar
 ticles for the month are from well-knoWn
 advertising men of the Coast 1T this
 book is kept up to this standard it should
 be very valuable to up-to-date progressive
 business men; it's editor is Edgar Joha
 Arnold, whose former work, Just Be
 tween You and Me; Talk on Advertls-
 ing we reviewed some months ago.
 It will be remembered that some few
 months ago there was published in this
 country an ingenious and entertaining
 series of letters on America, under the
 title of "The Land of the Dollar" This
 work was by G. w. Stevens, who is cor
 respondent of the London Daily Mail, and
 perhaps the most entertaining correspon dent on the English press to-day IT IS
 now announced that the author of this | successful book, MT. G. w. stevens, IS to
 publish his letters on the Graeco-Iurklsh
 war, written from the scene Of the con
 f1ict under the title of '"The Conquering
 Turk" No more graphic and illuminat ting
 letters on this war have ever been writ
 len and if is predicted that there will be
 a considerable demand Tor the WorK Tn
 this country.