The times., 1899-11-19
LITERARY NOTES.

The Doxey Book Company. Of San Fran
cisco Che Sign of the Lark formerly Will
lam DoNey, announces several pubIica
uons to appear in time for the holiday sea
son and during the early part of next year.
William Harding has book on Africa
nearly ready, entitled, War in South Afri-
| ca: The Dark Continent from Savagery to
| Civilization" TO be published this month
| by The Dominion Company of Chicago.
An important event Of the fail publish
: ing season is the announcement by the J
B. Lippincott Company of The Shadow OF
! Quong Lung by DR. c. w Doyle The
| scene is laid in the Chinese quarter of
San Francisco, with which DR.. Doyle has
a wide acquaintance. The first part is
! The Illumination of Lee Moy," a pathetic
/ story, which was greeted with enthusiasm
upon its publication in a recent number
of the New Lippincott." The book is a
revelation of an almost Incredible state
Of affairs, particularly as regards the life
OF beautiful slave girls in the Chinatown
of San Francisco.
There are three notable stories in the
| November Cosmopolitan The first by
Lloyd Osbourne is one of those tales OF
the South Seas that this student OF Steven
son tells so well. The second is a Thanks
giving story by Howard Markle Hoke in
imtably illustrated by Peter Newella and the
third a tale Of reincarnation and ancient
and modern love by Saunders Norvell, a
new writer, and uniquely illustrated by
the "Cosmopoluan's" recent find in the
field OF art, Robert J. Campbell.
William Samuel Lilly, Honorary Fellow
of Peterhouse, Cambridge, has added TO his
long list OF standard works Of history a
new book, dealing with politics. The writ
er has taken a fresh and striking view of
his subject, based upon common sense. The
title of the book, which is to come from the
press of G. p Putnam's Sons, is First
Principles in Politics"
Another of Frank r. stockton's books
for boys comes to us in the shape of The
Young Master of Hyson Hall" from the
Lippincott Press. The scene is laid in
Pennsylvania, along the Delaware River,
some few years ago.
The Lippincotts announce for early pub
location The True William Penn, by Sgd
ney George Fisher. 1t is in line with The
True Benjamin Franklin" and The True
George Washington" with which it is to
be sold in sets, or in single volumes, as de-
sired.
Another golf story book entitled Drives
and Puts" has appeared. this time by two
authors in collaboration, Walter Camp and
Lillian Brooks. Golf romances make nice
gift books for those who share in the craze
for the game, but one would suppose that
that public would scarcely be very large in
this country. BY the way, why does not
some enterprising being write a baseball
romance? Such a story would be UNDER
stood as to its phraseology by the greater
part of the American people, and would be
thoroughly American in every way. Out
side of the field of juvenile literature, it
is not recorded that this was ever done.
Kipling has been studying Highland
character during his recent visit to Suth-
erlandshire. and declares that the folklore
Of that region is full of possibilities for
the fiction writer. When it is remembered
that until about $50 years ago the High
landers in general were regarded as little
better than savages, it will be seen that
earlier writer's have not nearly exhausted
these possibilities. The Gaelic is also not
an easy language to master and until re-
Gently it was impossible to know the COM
mon folk thoroughly without learning their
speech. The Anglo-Indian author may come
upon a new and unworked vein in that
country without much trouble He may
have a certain atavistic faculty Of getting
acquainted with the Highlander, for his
great-great- grandfather was a Skye man.
who went to Ireland in 1747. Some day we
may find that all the nations of the earth
of Kipling-