The times., 1899-08-06
LITERARY NOTES

Harper & Bros, New York, have in
preparation the new Haworth edition of
the Bronte novels, for which introductions
are being written by Mrs. Humphrey
Ward. The edition is being prepared un-
der the editorial supervision Of Clement X.
Shorter. author of Charlotte Bronte and
Her Circle" Uniform in size and binding
with this set of the novels there will be a /
new edition Of Mrs. Gaskell's Life OF
Charlotte Bronte," in which will be In
cluded certain heretofore unpublished let
ters of Miss Bronte to George Smith, her |
publisher, and to his mother.
Longmans, Green & Co., New York, have |
nearly ready 1.-THE River War;" a new |
book descriptive OF the Soudan, by Win
ston Spencer Churchill, the son of the late |
Lord Randolph Churchill; Outlines OF
Practical Sociology, with Special Reference |
to American Conditions" by DR.. Carroll d. |
Wright, being the first number in the |
American Citizen series edited by Prof. !
Hart of Harvard; "The Life and Cam |
paigns of Alexander Leslie, the first Earl I
of Leven," by C. s. Terry, of Aberdeen.
D. Appleton & Co., New York, have jus. |
brought out new enlarged edition OF Ger |
trude Lefferts Vanderbilt's Social His |
tory that curious story of the evolution |
of a Dutch into an English community.
Houghton Miffiin & Co., Boston, will |
bring out early in the coming autumn |
new volume of short stories by Bret Harte. |
Mr.. Cutcliffe Hyne, who is scarcely less
adventurous than his own Capt Kettle,
has been seeking new impressions of life
and scenery in the remote Hebridean ISL
ands of St Kilda. Mr.. Hyne has had good
sport among the fulmar petrels and other
sea birds that find their breeding places on
the wild, precipitous cliffs of the st. Kiida
group. His experiences will form the ma
terial of either a new book or a series OF
magazine articles.
Mr.. Gilbert Parker has gone to Carlsbad
as the natural sequence OF tweiye-year
malarial holiday in the South Seas. After
Carlsbad Mr.. Parker will test the COM
pleteness of his restoration to normal
good health by a series Of climbs among
the Dolomite mountains For the present,
| the author of 'eThe Seats of the Mighty"
has no very definite literary plans, or at
least his plans are without any startling
| elements.
| Sir Edwin Arnold has just completed a
| very important literary work, the transla-
| tion from the Persian of 1.-The Gulistan or
| Garden OF Roses one of the greatest OF
| the Persian classics. Its author, old
Sheikh Sa'di of Shiraz, who is generally
known as Muslih-uddin, was, from all ex-
| listing records, one of the most interesting
| and remarkable men of all time. Born
about 1854 A. d., at the age of twelve he
was sent to pursue his studies at the cele-
brated medreseh of Bagdad, the MIA
miyyah. Thirty years had passed before
! he felt that his education was completed
and that he was prepared TO go forth to
travel and teach throughout the world. He
entered upon a long series of wanderings
through Asia Minor. Barbary, Abyssinia.
Egypt, Syria, Palestine Armenia, Aratna,
| and India.
/ In Delhi he learned Hindustani. He
| lived as a renowned sheikh and teacher at
| Damascus. At Baalbec, in Palestine, he
delivered many addresses. some of which
are still preserved. At Jerusalem cru
sader drove a spear blade through his
shoulder. Rescued by wealthy lord OF
Aleppo, who gave him his daughter to
wife, Sa'di again resumed his wandering5,
and it was not until his seventeen year
that he came back to Shiraz, where he
made his home in little hermitage that
stood in charming garden outside the
gates of the city. Here he wrote his IA
nous works, and spent the days in con-
temptation, after the manner of Eastern
sages He died at Shiraz, in 1892, at the
age of one hundred and ten years, leaving
a name made immortal by one MASTER
piece. THE Gulistan' is prose work in
eight chapters, interspersed with numer-
Gus verses, and illustrated with many
clever tales and pointed anecdotes. OF
Sa'di Sir Edwin Arnold says: 1.-The
sheikh was really the Horace and Marco
Polo of the Far East combined into one
rich and gracious nature Ancient enough
to carry with him fine flavor of the Old
World, he is as modern and as much for
all time as the Roman poet himself or the
American Emerson" The book will be
published by Harper & Bros.
A forthcoming novel by Mr.. S. r. Crock
ett is to be entitled in this country THE
Isle of the Winds but in England it will
be called Little Anna Mark It Will be
published first serially in a number of
newspapers and then in book form. Mr..
Crockett says that he gathered the story
partly from records in Aberdeen, partly
from the hero's personal memoirs, and also
from recently discovered private sources.
Square Pegs a new novel, by Mrs. A.
D. T. Whitney, will be published in the
; autumn by Houghton, Mifflin G Co.
"The "reminiscences of Julia Ward
4 Howe" which have for some months form
2 ed an engaging feature of the Atlantic
Monthly" will be published in volume
| later by Houghton, Miffiin & Co.
Some of Mr.. Wolcott lie Clear Boards
Western stories that have been appearing
in various magazines will be published in
5 book form under the title of "Sand and
. | Cactus"
: An eight-vclume set of Kipling's works
: will be issued about the 1st of September
= by Rand, McNally & Co, Chicago, under
the following titles: "Barrack Room Bal
: lads" Departmental Ditties, and Other
: Verse;" Soldiers Three" "The Phantom
Rfckshaw and the City of Dreadful Night,
"Wee Willie Winkie, American Notes, anC
: Other Stories" Under the Deodars anC
the Story Of the Gadsbys." mine Owr
. People and In Black and White" 1.-THE
Light That Failed plain Tales from the
! Hills"
R. L. stevenson's Beach of Folesa" wa
rejected by an English editor on tn
ground of being immoral" and had to b.
!, altered into propriety before it was &C
a cepted. Stevenson wrote to Mr.. Colvin
q This is a poison bad world for the 70
" mancer. this Anglo-Saxon world. l usu
. ally get out of 1t by not having any womel
r In 1t at all
e 1t is not generally known that the i'm
i portant characters of Mrs. Henrietta Dan
y SINNERS recent novel, "Espiritu Santo,
u were al. well-known personages in rea
u life The character of Adriano, for in
u stance, is more or less drawn from that o
a famous painter who formerly lived Il
Paris.