The times., 1899-10-01
LITERARY NOTES.

The Doubleday & Mcclure Co. have
| ready for immediate publication John Al
exander Hills Stories of the Railroad
These stories, all based upon the expert
ences of the author, who has risen from a
locomotive engineer to be the chief of a
large technical publishing house. appeared
originally in an engineering magazine of
| small circulation. They proved OF such
Quality that they were republished in ''Mc-
| cures Magazine with striking success
Mr.. Hill not only knows thoroughly the
life of the railroad man, but he knows also
how to write a thrilling story
The attention attracted by recsnt ex-
| periments in liquid air gives timey in err
est to a book on 'Liquefaction of Gases,
Its Rise and Development" by Willett
Lepley Hardin, Harrison senior fel ow in
chemistry in the University of Peansyl-
vania. The same publishers the Macmil-
Ian Company, announce another timely
book on Tropical Colonization" by AL
leyne Ireland, who examines in detail the
commercial and other aspects of the Eng
lish, French, and Dutch colonial systems,
"A Text Book of Graphic Shorthand" is
the title of a new book by C. r. Lippmann,
from the Lippincott press. The system is
an adaptation of that invented by +. Y.
Gabelsberger about eighty years ago, based
upon simplification of the ordinary hand
writing of the period 1t has been phe-
nomenally successful in Europe, but has
never been successfully introduced in
America, owing to the fact that none who
knew the system was competent to perform
the adaptation.
Mr. Stanley Waterloo is undertaking
ont ho 0F ri
tian Science and it threatens to be the
theme for much discussion He is going
into the subject of the many vagaries and
beliefs of this day and generation with a
theroughness which they have not yet re-
ceived at the hands of writer of fiction.
Kate Field A Record by Lillian Whit
ing, is not only personal biography, but
the author has also endeavored to invest
the narrative with the local atmosphere of
the cities and periods in which Miss Field
was an active and vital factor The poetic
and imaginative life in Italy, when, as a
young girl, she was favorite and enchanf-
ing figure in the choice circle that gathered
about the Brownings; her first sojourn in
Rome, when Charlotte Cushman and Har-
riet Hosmer welcomed her; the brilliancy OF
London seasons when she was stepped in
their social charm; her visits TO Paris, Ger
many, Switzerland, and Spain; the idyllic
summers in Newport; the Golden Age in
Boston life, when Lowell and Longfellow,
Emerson and the Alcotts Wendell Phillips
and the great Agassiz gathered at Mrs
Whippe's evenings the breadth and full
ness of her life as lecturer, with a de-
scription of the days of the lyceum freight
ed with allusion and incident, and galvaniz-
ing into vitality again the enthusiasm that
followed Mrs. Livermore, and Phillips, Cur
tbs, Beecher, and Anna Dickinson; the
pathos of her mothers death at sea- as they
were sailing for Europe; the piquancy and
power of her famous press letters to the
Herald and the Tribune" of New York;
Miss Fields later political work influencing
Mormon legislation her services to art; her
distinguished work, in early life. as the
dramatic critic OF Ristori and Fechter; her
later experiences i'm the nations Capital.
editing her own review, and mingling in
the rich and varied social life; and the
touching close of her career in her sudden
death in Hawaii in the midst of important
research and study-all these the author has
endeayored to depict with the special at
mosphere of the moment in the varying Pc
riods. The volume is rich in letters from
many of the most famous people of this
century.
lie bdTTyS, Dy SQdn r. BULLOCK, is a
novel of Irish country life which will be
published this month by the Doubleday &
Mcclure Company. In Nan, the heroine.
the reader will find a character whose
strong, wholesome personality will cause
her TO be remembered.
DR.. Horace Howard Furness's distin-
guished literary abilities and pre- eminence
as Shakespearean authority resolved rec
ognition by Cambridge University Eng
land, which recently conferred on him the
degree of D. Lit, an honor shared by only
two other American scholars, Oliver Wen
dell Holmes and Charles Eliot Norton He
has just returned TO America; and an ad-
dition to his Yarierum Edition OF Shakes
peare'S plays is announced for publication
this fall by the j. B. Lippincott Company.
the new volume to be Much Ado About
Nothing
Capt Jasper Ewing Brady draws largely
from his own exciting career in Tales of
the Telegraph" which the Doub eday G
Mcclure Company will publish this month
Starting as a student in the ham fac
tory, where young men learn te,egraphy
he became an operator, a dispatcher and
then entered the Signal Service of the
United States Army, rising ultimately to
captainey. The book sets forth in lively
FASHION the HeTNe-SlTunS existence or
man who jumps from the frying pan of a
train despatchers office into the fire of a
wartime signal corps.
1t is a new idea for an eminent man to
superintend the preparation of his own
biography, and its very novelty promises
to make a particularly interesting book
of the Life of Sir Arthur Sullivan. which
is to be published this fall by Messrs.
Herbert S. Stone & Co.. Mr.. Arthur Law
renee is the author, and he has had access
to the letters of the great composer and
the additional advantage of personal inter
course and consultation with him. The
"reminiscences of the men with whom Sir
Arthur Sullivan has come in contact have
a special charm, and the personality Of the
musician himself is one that will bear
the most searching scrutiny.
I'VE VIM (''The Life and Adventures of
a Young Railroader") is new railroad /
story from the pen of Mr. Herbert E.
Hamblen to appear this month, and it will
not disappoint those who have followed
his earlier work 1t is a wholesome and
thoroughly American story. which will in
terest the older readers as well as the
boys for whom it is primarily intended.
Doubleday & Mcclure Co. are the pub
fishers.
Averages, a novel of New York life
by Eleanor Stuart is announced by the
Appletons.
In October the Lippincotts will bring
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