Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-27
Literary Notes.

Literary Notes.
I'm VAIN" by Henry Sienkiewicz has Just
been translated for Little Brown & Co. by
jeremiah Curtin. 1t is love story of mod
ern Polish life. The scene is laid in Kieff,
and the university life there is described.
The dramatization of Mr.. Majors novel,
When Knighthood Was in Flower" which
will be produced by Julia Marlowe in the
early fall will be done by an English dram
attst. The publishers announce the forty
seventh thousand of the book.
That many people have found Miss Sweet
ser's "One Way Round the World" pleas
ant way is evident for the first edition of
the book was exhausted in three weeks. A
second addition is just announced by the
publishers, the Bowen Merrill company.
A new edition of the "Rubaiyat" of Omar
| Khayyam, rendered into English verse by
| Fitzgerald, has been put out by the MacMil
| Ian company. The bulletin of the same COM
pany for the week ending April 10 also con-
tains the announcement of the fist volume Of
a history of Scotland by p. Hume Brown.
In the Life of Oliver p. Morton" the
great war governor of Indiana that has just
| been published by the Bowen Merrill COM
pany, is given much new history of the poll
| tics of the days of the war and of the re-
construction period afterward in which he
played so prominent and so fOrceful a part
| Alexander Belford & Co.. the Chicago pub
Fishers, are bringing out valuable historical
work in ten volumes which will cover both
ancient and modern history. Each volume
| is written by a specialist in his particular
department. which will make it most val
liable work for the student of general his
ltory.
| Perhaps the most important year book for
| the year 1898 is that published by Dodd,
Mead G. Co., entitled THE International
Year Book" 1t is, properly, companion
volume to their well known international
| lCVplOnplia recommended 9
admirable summing up of the records of, and
advance in, all branches of human activity
during the last year.
| An English paper recently attacked Mr..
Justin Mccarthy for his overt friendlness to
| America but this is fault which will ap-
peal with much force to the American pub
lie. 1t is apparent in THE Short History Of
the United States" which Messrs. Herbert
S. Stone & Co. have recently published, and
lit gives a kind of cordality to his comments
and to his general attitude which is most re-
lfreshing from an Englishman.
Mrs. Voynich, whose striking novel of the
IItaly of the first half of the century has Just
lpassed into its eighteenth impression at
Henry Holt & Co.'S. is said to be completing
la new novel, treating of Polish life of the
present day. 1t will be recalled that the
husband of Mrs Voynlch is a Pole who has
wrongs. Admirers of THE Gadhy" have often
wondered why the author did not write a
second novel, as her first has been so sue
cessful.
The second volume in the library edition
of Edward Everett Hale's works is in His
Name and Christmas Stories" The
tale which gives the title to The
volume was published originally il
Old and New, that queer old blue
covered magazine which those whose
memories run back for over twenty five
years will recall. Dr.. Hale was the editor
a Of
witnessed the great popularity of this story
which was at the foundation of the Kings
Daughters and it also saw the first appear
ance of the Ten Times One is Ten series