The times., 1899-08-27

Guarulng the Highways OF the Sea-
'fScribner's'' for September contains an
illustrated article on "Aguinaldo's Capt.
tai. by Lieut. Col j. d. Miley, and an
| other called Where the Water Runs Both
Ways, by Frederic Irland. An interesting
| illustrated article is 1.-THE Painting of
| George Butler" by w. c. Brownell,
winch is accompanied by reproductions of
| Buffers work. THE Chronicles of Aunt
Minervy Ann" by Joel Chandler Harris,
are continued, the present number being
called How Jess Went A -Fiddlin'" ''The
| Education of Praed" is an Arctic story by
Albert White Worse. 1t is tale of rather
an original type. Other stories in this num-
Der are "A Copley Boy" by Charles War
ren, and francisco and Francisco" by
Grace Ellery Charming.
| The Cosmopolitan for September. con-
| tains much fresh and original matter on
unhackneyed subjects. J. Stoddard John
| ston writes of THE Romance and Tragedy
of Kentucky Feuds,' and l. Saint-Just, for
| merly chief of division in the French
| secret service, of ''The Inner Organization
of the French Spy System" Vance Thomp-
son is represented by a finely illustrated
article on "The Roof Gardens of New
| York. There are two Household col
| umn" papers, one, THE Delightful Art of
Cooking" by Anna Leach. the other, The
Art of Buying Food for Family. by Mary
| Graham. Elton SHADES Auction Habit, =
is a quaint little story by Annie Hamilton
Donnell. A poem of striking quality is
THE Eternal Me- by Charlotte Perkins
Stetson.
The "Pall Mall Magazine for September
mentions in its table of contents the fol-
lowing features: "One Day" by Ella
Wheeler Wilcox: while the Lamp Holds
| Out to Burn" by Gilbert Parker; "Ameri-
ca Today; the Republic and the Empire, !"
by William Archer, and Among the
Tombs," by Henry Newbolt. The frontis-
piece is fine reproduction of Romney's S
portrait of Lady Hamilton.
''Everybody's Magazine is a new 10
cent magazine. somewhat after the pattern
of "Munsey's." One of the most interest
| ing features of its first number is a col
| lection Of portraits of over twenty college
presidents.
The next issue OF the "Bookman," be-
| ginning a. new volume, will contain the
| first of an illustrated series of articles
entitled New York in Fiction This Is
an attempt to do for the New York fiction
what has been done from time to time
for the London of Dickens and Thacke-
ray. The work is to be done by Arthur
| todI llctt 40dulitE, WHO LIDS tAS
subject for many years, and who has en-
joyed the cooperation of Richard Hard
| ing Davis, T. Hopkinson Smith, Brander
Matthews, Julian Ralph, Abraham Cahan,
| Paul Leicester Ford and Others In the
| September "Bookman," also, will appear
an article on the first books of the Brown
ings. with hitherto unpublished auto
graphs and fac-similes.
/ Mr. oil Do hoo naI tI,Oa n
torship of the Atlantic Monthly" and has
accepted an invitation to take a prominent
post in the direction of the literary work
OF the allied houses of Harper & Bros. and
the Doubleday e Mcclure Company. His
| successor in the editorship of the Atlantic"
is Mr.. Bliss Perry, known in literature as
| the author Of two novels and number of
essays and stories. Since his graduation
from Williams College, in 1881, Mr.. Perry
has been in the department of English, first
at Williams, and afterward at Princeton
University, where he was lately appointed
to the Holmes professorship Of English
literature.
1t is said that William D. Howells sub
scribes intermittently to a clipping bureau
for incidents In real life bearing upon
| whatever theme he may be treating in
novel form.
A volume of short stories from the pen
of Joseph Conrad will be published by the
| Doubleday & Mcclure Company under the
title OF 'The Heart of Darkness
President Sharpless, of Haverford Col
| lege, will issue early in September the Sec
ond and concluding volume of his History
of Quaker Government in Pennsylvania, :"
on which he has been actively at work for
| some years The first volume was issued
in the spring of 1898, under the title of
"A Quaker Experiment in Government"
and reviewed the first seventy-five years
of the government of Penns Common
wealth. In the present volume, which is
| entitled The Quakers IN the Revolution, -
the story is carried into the more stirring
| and better-known scenes of the Reyolu-
| tionary war, and crosses the track of sew
eral Of the most popular of recent histori-
| cal romances. The book will be publish
| ed by I. S. Leach & Co., of Philadelphia
Among the books soon to be published
by Houghton. Mifiin & Co., is ''The Little
Fig Tree Stories" collection of tales
for children, by Mary Hallock Foote
the Almond and Fruit of the Fig 1.-The
Lamb that Couldn't Keep Up +" Dream
| horses "An Idaho Picnic'' "A Visit to
Johns Camp, November in the Cam
on, " 1.-THE Gates on Grandfathers Farm"
THE Garret at Grandfather's'' ''The
Spare Bedroom at Grandfather's.'
r. H. Russell announces for early publi-
cation the Maude Adams edition Of &c
meo and Juliet" The book Will be beau
tifully illustrated by pictures OF Miss
Adams and her company, by Gilbert, Has
kell and others, and attractively bound
Lafcadio Hearns latest work is to be
published this fall with the title 'In Ghost
ly Japan" writer who has recently been
in Japan writes that when walking on the
/ figure of man in a curious mixtur, of
Japanese al d American dress He was
scarcely more than five feet tall and his
clothing hung over his shrunken figure with
the grace of a blanket on a horse rack
| Huge spectacles straddled mis- nose and
under his arm he carried half dozen
books 1t was Lafcadio Hearn, who is
professor of foreign literature in the Uni
versity of Japan and the only foreigner
| left in any educational institution in the
whole empire
Miss Alice Browns famous Meadow
Grass" and her volume of poems. THE
| Road to Castaly," formerly published by
Copeland & Day, have been added TO the
list of Houghton, Miffiin & Co.
Mr.. Edward McCrady has completed his
| interesting history of South Carolina. The
concluding volume, South Carolina Under
| the ROyal Government 171Q-1776 has iust