The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-05-14
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Within the Hedge" is the title of a
first book of poetry by Martha Gill
bert Dickinson, to be published short
~. Miss Dickinson's poems have been
attracting a good deal of attention in
the leading magazines, and both Rich
ard Burton and Edmund Clarence Sted-
man have expressed enthusiasm for her
work.
Lieutenant Lucien Young. u. S. N,
who commanded the Hist during the
Spanish war, is about to publish,
through the Doubleday & Mcclure Com
pany, The Real Hawaii This is
really revised and enlarged edition Of
the authors privately issued 1.-The Bos-
ton at Hawaii which was put into
type upon the last change of admins
tration, the author having been unable
to obtain permission to put it before
the public during President Cleveland $
term of office. The book now is a COM
plete handbook to our new possessions,
giving reliable information regarding
the present and past of the Hawaiian
Islands and relating from PERSONAL OBJ
servation the facts about the revolution
which overthrow the monarchy.
F. Frankfort Moore has made a
dramatization of his very successful
novel, The Jessamy Bride" and it is
now in the hands of prominent actor,
who is considering the production of
it in the fall The subject of the book
is an excellent one for a play, bring
ing in, as it does, the brilliant crowd
OF men which surrounded Goldsmith.
The popularity of 1.-The Open CUES
tion,'' by Miss Elizabeth Robins. has
called attention to her earlier book.
THE Fatal Gift of Beauty and Other
Stories" 1t was published several
years ago by Messrs. Herbert S. Stone
q Co., but the name of the author
which appeared upon the title page was
c. E RAYMOND. Miss. Robins succeed
ed in concealing her identity until it
leaked out after the publication of her
latest book, but these earlier stories
had much success in spite of their
anonymity. They have rich qualities of
humor and keen observation. and the
style of them has a most unusual
charm. They have caught perhaps a
bit of the grace of the author herself,
who is one of the most original and de-
Eghtful personalities in London
The London Spectator which has
always been more or less particular
about its English, has been using a
queer word, apparently of its own in
vention-it talks about Mr. Stead's
''screaminess.
Sir George Otto Trevelyan is about to
publish a book entitled The American
Revolution" a practical continuation
of his EARLY History Of Charles James
Fox" THE story of Fox between LIZA
and 1882" he says, sis inextricably in
terWoven with the story of the Ameri-
can revolution That immense event
filled his mind, and consumed his activi-
ties; While every circumstance about
him worth relating may find a natural
place in the course of the narrative
which bears upon it. During that part
of the great drama which was enacted
within the walls of Parliament. Fox
was never off the stage; and, when
there, he played a conspicuous and (as
time went on) confessedly the leading
part. What was done and spoken at
Westminster cannot be rightly explain
ed, nor the conduct of British public
men fairly judged without a clear and
reasonably detailed account of that
which occurred contemporaneously be-
You'd the Atlantic
New York Tribune: We have already
seen o-cent magazines in this country,
and are not over much impressed.
therefore, by the announcement that
the English publisher, c. A. Pearson.
intends to bring out here in March an
Scent monthly on popular lines.
Jules Claretfe in The Athenaeum Two
years ago at Berlin I was struck by the
vogue of these brasseries-mecaniq
in which customers can find always
ready, by pressing a button, various
forms Of pork and beer At the time
when people leave the theaters the slot
that gives you sausage for few
pfennigs is literally taken by storm.
TIE automatic restaurant was one of
the successes of the Brussels exhibition:
it ought certainly to be acclimatized in
Paris. And Paris herself has given it
an exquisite form, turning out these
novel bars with decorations on white
ground which seem to suggest some
Trlanon for eating. Gamache at Nine.
de PompadOur's, This is all very well,
but [ want in automatic refreshers of
this sort center of information for the
mind. The stomach of Paris is inter-
esting certainly, but it's brain is more
so. We want bureaux d'esprit in which
We can keep up with the events of the
day while we turn over a book hot from
the press and skim with a rapid finger
the first pages of it's contents Every
body cannot climb up the steps of the
Temps" office or go into the Figaro
newspaper to get the news A book
department where one could talk would
make a delightful salon on the same
floor in which any one. provided that ne
was anybody, might keep up with the
news of the day and supply his quota
of it,
| have known such places and the
Iibrairie. Nouvelle was one. of them. 1t
revolutionized the Boulevard des Ital-
lens when Bourdiliiat opened it toward
1888 or 1854, publishing with much
taste and care little books at a franc or
30 centfmes, which were well printed on
good paper, and selected with judgment
small masterpi ces Ike the Graz e Ia"
of Lamartine or the 'Larme du Diable"
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