Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-01

Report of the state Superintendent of
! Public Schools Of the state of Maine, by
! w. w. Stetson, state superintendent Of
! schools. Augusta, Me
Literary Notes.
Houghton Miffin & Co. will issue in the
| near future a second edition of THE Magic
! of the Horse Shoe" with other folklore
/ notes. by Robert Means Lawrence.
All lovers of the woods and fields will hail
with delight the appearance OF How 10
Know the Ferns" by Mrs. Frances 7. Par
sons. a companion volume to the same au-
thors How to Know the Wild Flowers,
which, during the few years that have
elapsed since its appearance has reached
the extraordinary sale of 10000 copies.
Mrs. Spoffords Hester Stanley at st.
Marks" lately issued in new edition by
Little, Brown Co., contains the whole
| story of Samoa, together with facts about
! the islands not to be found elsewhere. They
were all told to Mrs. Spofford personally by
! the Chief Mamea, who negotiated the exist
! ing treaty. The heroine Of the book, 1t Will
/ be remembered, was child sent from
! Samoa to be educated.
| The next volume in Messrs. Houghton,
Miftlin & Co.'S Cambridge edition of the
4 poets will be devoted to Milton. Its editor
is Mr. William Vaughn Moody of the Uni
versity of Chicago, a comparatively recent
! graduate of Harvard and 1t is said that his
work has been done with rare success. This
volume will be followed shortly by an edi-
tion of Keats, prepared by the general editor
of the Cambridge series, Mr.. Horace e.
| Scudder.
MIR. Frederic Palmer, who is well known
/ journalist, has written book on the klon-
dixie which includes the account of a winter
journey, as well as of a winter residence, in
that famous mining field. Mr.. Palmer has
told the interesting story of his adventurous
trip in a capital manner and has succeeded
in, Twin hn hnG mir
been drawn of a Klondike mining town. His
book which is to be thoroughly illustrated,
/ will be published by the Scribners.
! Following the Memoirs Of Alphonse Dau-
! det," issued last fall, Little, Brown & Co.
! continue their edition of Daudet's works,
with "The Nabob," translated by George
! Burnham Ives with introduction by Brander
! Matthews. The novel is accounted one OF
Daudet's masterpieces ranking with "Numa
Roumestan." 1t is a brilliant picture of
| Partisan life under the second empire. The
work was first issued in 1873 and has since
reached a sale in France of over 100000
| copies.
work which will be awaited with great
| interest is Mrs. Flach's translation of Selma
| Lagerof's, The Miracles of Antichrist,"
soon to be issued by Little, Brown Co.
| The work is said to surpass the authors
first book The Story of Costa Berlng."
| The story has already been eXtolled to En-
| glish readers by Mr.. E. Nesbit Balm in a re-
| cent nufnDeT Oh oOSluOpOliS. II 10 MOitu
while to learn Swedish, Mr.. Balm says, 'in
order to read this one astonishing book in
| the original
The new volumes announced for publica-
| tion in the spring in Macmillan's Classical
Series are Selections from Plato" edited
by Lewis L. Forman, Ph.D., instructor in
Greek at Cornell university; Selected Let
! ters of Pliny," edited by Elmer Truesdell
! Merrill NJ. A., professor of Latin language
| and literature at Wesleyan university; Sc
!
The Melic Poets" edited by Herbert Weir
Smyth, PhD., professor of Greek at Bryn
Mawr college.
Prof Leo Wiener, the instructor in the
Slavic languages at Harvard, has written
THE History of Yiddish Literature in the
| Nineteenth Century" This book is es-
say in entirely new field. Yiddish,
Judisch, or udeoGerman, the language,
though in a baser form, of the New York
! Ghetto, grew up originally among the Jews,
who, driven out Of Germany in the middle
| ages, settled in Russia, Poland and Lith-
uania. 1t is still the language of nearly
half a million people in the United States,
most of these in New York City.
'On the South African Frontier" is the
title of book by William Harvey Brown,
| which Charles Scribner's Sons have now in
press. 1t is the narrative of the adventures
! and observations of an American in Mashon-
! aland and Matbeleland during the critical
period of that colony. Mr. Brown spent
seven years as collector, big game hunter,
gold seeker, farmer and soldier and the story
of his adventurous experiences is absorb
ingly interesting, atfording the reader a
vivid series of pictures of life on the African
frontier.
A notable contribution to the literature of
| the recent war, and one which is sure TO be
accepted as authoritative, is an account OF
the Santiago campaign by Lieutenant Colonel
John d. Miley, entitled I'm Cuba with
Shafter," which will be published immedi-
ately by the Scribners. Lieutenant Colonel
Miley, who by the way, has recently sailed
for Manila, was General Skaters chief OF
stan, and Is thus peculiarly qualified to be
the historian Of the Santiago campaign. The
authors story achieves, through diIectness
and simplicity an interest wholly foreign tc
expressly picturesque writing and his pages
set yiyidly before us the scene at Santiago
and furnish those details which make posi-
BILE just estimate of the campaign.
An even dozen of notable features COM
prise the March menu of McClures. Two
of these are exceptionally attractive to art
lovers. These are reproductions of Tissot
paintings of scenes in the Holy Land, ac-
companied by a short sketch of the famous
French artist, and Charles Dana Gibson's
sketches Of life in Egypt. An instructive
description Of Liquid Air. the new won
der, is copiously illustrated. The Amer
icanizing of Santiago under General Wood
is breezily sketched and Lieutenant Peary's
projected Arctic campaign is outlined. Kip
ing 3 story or 'SIalRy d. Co.. Ida Nj. Tar
bells sketches of Lincoln and his generals
and Captain Mahan's fourth instalment OF
the War on Sea and Its Lessons" complete
the number.
"The Story of the Princess des Ursins in
Spain" by Constance Hill (Camarera-
Mayor, will be published at once by r. II
Russell. This book presents the picture OF
brilliant French woman of the early
eighteenth century, who is a central ant
dominant figure during tho turmoil and
chaos of the wars of the Spanish succession
Her history presents scenes of ever-yaryine
fortune and adventure and affords glimpses
of Spanish and French court life, the work
of the Holy lnquisition and the intrigues
of the time and forms live and vital chap
ter in a period OF history of never ending
value and interest. Amusing scenes of do
mestic life and character are not wanting
revealed in unreserved correspondence
with intimate friends, which shows that the
woman who could stand alone against Eu-
rope and save dynasty could also delight
in all that was bright and charming in soca
life. number of reproductions of admira.
BILE contemporary portraits further enrich 6
work which throughout is most Interestingly