The times., 1899-02-19

wilson Barrett and Robert HichenS, based |
upon Mr.. Barrett's play of the same name. |
CHM G Co. have in preparation an en-
tirely new translation of Saintine's Pic |
ciola."
Annie Eliot Trumbull has just publish !
ed through A. S. Barnes & Co. book deal |
ing with early New England life.
Mr.. Lecky the other day recounted an |
amusing little item about Carlyle as a |
reader. When in his reading the Chelsea |
Sage came upon passage OF high flown |
eloquence he would sometimes put mark |
against it-a pair CT small but ell-drawn |
doRkey's ears.
The Tanning of the Jungle" by DR.. |
Z. W. Doyle, is promised this month Dr. |
Doyle was born at Landour in the hills of |
the Himalayas. He lived in India for some |
years and then went to England to study
medicine. His father was killed in the
Sepoy war of 1S57-'5s, at the head of a
regiment of native cavalry.
Miss Florence Warden, the English nov
elist, has just finished a new novel, The
Love that Lasts" the scenes of which are
laid in Scotland. Miss Warden lives at
Ramsgate, on the English south coast, be-
cause she finds the invigorating sea air ab-
solutely essential TO her health the nerve
strain Of her sensational stories being ex-
hausting.
Rev. Stopford A. Brooke is now at work
upon browning" a companion to his
"TennysoD, which is sure to place the
studious readers OF that poet under great
obligations, for there is today no more ac-
complished and helpful interpreter of what
is best In English letters than Mr.. Brooke.
Houghton. Miffiin &c Co. announce for
early publication Carlyle's letters to his
younger sister, Mrs. Jane Hadding; Life
of Thaddeus Stevens" by Samuel W. Nc
Call; Life of Edwin NJ. Stanton by
George c. Gorham; Fields, Factories, and
Workshops" by Prince Peter Kropotkin;
"A Federation of the World by Dr. Ben
jamin f. Trueblood; "Papias. Study Of
the Second Century" by the Rev. Edward
II. Hall; Everyday Butterflies by Sam
uel H. Scudder, and Corn Plants by f.
L. Sargent.
Paris de 1900 1900" is the title of a
big work to be issued in weekly numbers
and finally in three volumes. When COM
pleted at the end of two years the work
will contain about 1000 pages and 1000
illustrations. Everything that has in
structed, amused. excited, and absorbed the
great city during the century will be dealt
with therein. About fifty of the leading
men OF letters and artists of France are
engaged upon the work, II Is SAID.
The Commercial Advertiser" says:
There used to be some satisfaction in Omar
Khayyam. when it was thought he was so
terribly cynical and all that. Omar always
struck Harvard men at the beginning Of
the sophomore years and stayed with them
pretty well until they graduated. They
looked coldiy at the world and squeiched
young girls with some pessimistic coupiet
from the old Persian Ihey even wrote
limitations themselves, and punished them
in the Harvard Monthly, which Is the
heavyweight OF harvard Undergraduate
publications. NOW now IS II omar Is no
longer the s"eetly cytiiCai InoraI%eT at
whoih young iauies CITY oh- put the heIo
Oh teas. ne mas colhe uown 10 ~ ceii's tne
daily papers. 1t is not in the least deviiish
or even literary 10 ike MIN. II you want
TO De orisniarSou nave u Say lha' you nave
never READ MIN
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An amusing fact is noticed In German
booksellers catalogue. in which King
| Solomen's Mines is classified under Old
Testament literature.
Mr.. Stephen Bonsal, author OF The Real
|
is about TO publish. through the Doubleday
& Mcclure Company, The Fight for San
tiago. This story or the Soldier IN the
Cuban Campaign from lampa 10 the sur
render is put torth as an unbiased sum
ming up OF the whole course OF military
operations from the STANDPOINT OF Train
eu correspondent VINO went lhioueh the
Mhoie u Sihs saHipaisn tiiiliSeh ~ Hei di VI
the readers pest quaiiheu 10 express an
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,ra,sanoins -, pussian cipi,iyation :" yas
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t;ra seams to Mr. Foulke opnor,una for
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war win opaih' mas iiinue p1SSinae .he
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