The times., 1898-09-11

is entitled Letters to Child; or, The
story or Alice In Wonderland" The
Doubleday & Mcclure Company have
secured a posthumous work of the same
pairing an edition de luxe of "Aice in
Wonderland"
MISS Frances Forbes Robertson, sis
ter of the eminent English actor who has
long been associated with Mrs. Patrick
Campbell, has made distinct h t With
her book. "The Potentate,' which was
recently published in London. She comes
OF remarkable family. Her brothers,
Johnston, Ian and Norman, are first-rate
actors. Leonard is violinist and Eric
painter, while one of her sisters is a
miniature painter
Among the announcements of G. p.
Putnam's publications Is "a Manual of
Cheirosophy. Being a complete Practical
Handbook of the Twin Sciences of Chef
rognomy and Cheiromancy, by means
whereof the Past the Present and the
Future may be read in the Formations
of the Hands, preceded by an 1ntroducto-
ry Argument upon the Science of Chef
rosophy and its claims to rank as Phys
tcal Science by Ed. Heron-Allen, author
OF "Codex Chiromantiae," etc. with full
page and other illustrations by Rosamund
Brunei Horsley
According to Mr. Wemyss Reid. the
original of Rochester in LANE Eyre was
the brother of one of Charlotte Bronte's
friends, Ellen Nussey.. and was West
Riding merchant. Charlotte, Mr.. Reid
says, 'idealiZed him into Rochester and
planted him in the midst of circumstances
of which his own life knew nothing.
Contrary to the experience of most
transiators, whose fate 1t Is to reap little
of honor and less of pay for their pains
taking work. jeremiah Curtin, the trans
lator of Quo Vadis'' Is said to have
realized s25. 600 as his share of the un-
precedented sales of Sienkiewicz's mas
terpiece.
A quotation from an English book cata-
Iogue shows the unwisdom of abbrevia-
tions:
Lot 599: Binney's Is it possible to make
the best of both worlds, and five others.
PHASES of an Inferior Planet is the
queer title of the new novel by Miss Ell
len Glasgow, author of The Descend
ant which the Harpers are about to
bring out. 1t is a story of Bohemian lie
in New York.
Mother Song and Child Song" edited
by Charlotte Brewster Jordon, is an
nounced for early publication. 1t will
contain the best poems of motherhood
and childhood by the favorite American
and English poets. with special atten-
ton given to our own writers of the day
Most people have heard the story how
Joseph Jefferson was caught in small
Western town once with no money, and
could not find any one TO identify him
TO the paying teller of the town bank. At
ter some pleading he turned away, re-
marking sadly: We'll, If my dog Schnei-
der was here he would know me- The
clerk knew that there was only one man
VITO could say that thing in that way
and Jefferson got his money. story
somewhat Ike this is going the rounds
in regard TO r. X. Munkittrick. the hu-
morist and editor. The cashier of an up
town bank refused to cash his check
WITHOUT Identification, and Munkittrick
calculated pensively: "Weil, now, that's
too bad Everybody I know is down
town, and the only pair of socks | have
with my strawberry birthmark on them
are in the wash this week" That's all
right, said the cashier. you're Nun
kittrick. Here's your money"
The English Elizabethan Stage Society
has been at work for three seasons and
has in that time revived IN the ancient
manner nine plays, five of them being
Shakespeare's. There were twenty-seven
representations, the expenditures were
$13,0o0 and the receipts We're $3.50.
The New York Herald recently contain
ed several nonsense verses Illustrated
in colors by Henry Bradford Simmons In
a manner so new and fresh as to attract
the attention of artists. Mr.. Simmons
has followed up his success by making
a series of humorous rhymes and pictures
In his Herald manner, and these will be
published as THE Jingle Jangle Rhyme
Book The broad and strong treatment
of the original drawings in coiored cray
ons VIII be closely adhered to In the lith-
ography Of the work.
A man recently wrote and announced
for publication book on Ease in Cy-
cling" The book did not come out on
time. Tt was not the fault of the pub
Usher He explained that to the public
He informed them, as gently as possible.
that the book was delayed because the
author had been pitched off his wheel,
| broken his collar bone and lain insensi-
BILE for sixty hours.
Among the historical books announced
by the Macmillans is THE Story of Old
Fort Loudon." a tale of the Cherokees
and the pioneers of Tennessee, l760. by
Charles Egbert Craddock, author of The
Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountain,
where the Battle Was Fought" etc.
1t is illustrated by e. C. Pircotto, and is a
narrative of the life or the pioneers of
Tennessee and their fortunes at the hands
of the Cherokees in the uprising of 1860
The brilliant Tennessee landscape and the
old frontier fort serve as background to
this picture of Indian craft and guile and
pioneer hardships and pleasures
Concerning Mr.. Ruskin correspondent
of Poet-Lore writes that, though he is
living in retirement and nothing has
come from his pen for some time, the de-
rnand for his books is increasing. The
Ruskin society which fiourishes in Bir-
mingham-it calls itself THE Society of
the Rose" by the way-iS now publishing
a quarterly journal under the title of the
Saint George.
The second volume of the Heroes of
the Reformation Series, published by
G. P. Putnam's Sons, will be Phillip Me-
lanchthon" Q497-15so), the Protestant pre-
ceptor of Germany, by James William
Richard D. D., professor of homiletics.