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the fall Winston Spencer ChurchrTs book,
The River War; An Account of the Re-
! coVery OF the Soudan." The author will de-
| scribe in exact military detail Lord Kitch-
eners campaigns from 1886 to 1898. Sixty
drawings will be contributed by Lieuten-
ant Mcneil. of the Seaforth Highlanders.
| The work will be edited by Col. F. Rhodes.
| The last two chapters will deal with the
military lessons of the campaign and with
the imperial aspect of the recovery Of the
/, Soudan.
1t is said that in the heroine of THE
Brushwood Boy Kipling gave to the pub
lie portrait of his wife.
State Trials" is condensed edition of
the evidence in the state trials OF Mary,
| Queen of Scots, Sir Walter Raleigh. and
Captain Kidd II should prove interesting
to students of history. Chicago: Cal
laghan G Coz
Winston Churchill was practically an un-
| known man just one year ago this month.
/ His first novel, THE Celebrity" was
written during holiday interval while
| Richard Carvel' was on the stocks.
He was graduated from the Naval
| Academy at Annapolis in 1894 and re-
signed from the Navy almost at once. He
was then employed for a time on the Ar
my and Navy Journal" and afterward as
managing editor OF the Cosmopolitan
| Magazine" For the past two years he has
spent his time wholly in the writing of fic-
ton. Simu taneous publication OF editions of
Richard Carvel'' have appeared in New
York, London. San Francisco, and Toronto
while negotiations have just been con-
cluded for special edition in India and
for one also in the British colonies.
| - IN,
Thomas Hardy's Country appears in the
June Bookman. There are fourteen illus
trations. besides a frontispiece showing
| Thomas Hardy's house in Dorchester, all
| reproduced from photographs taken ex-
pressly for this article by the well-known
| English writer and novelist, Give Hol-
land. Mr. Holland had the cooperation
of Mr.. Hardy in identifying the various
scenes of his novels. There will be three
papers in all. The instaliment in the July
number will be wholly devoted to what
is perhaps the most popular of all Thomas
Hardy's novels, Tess of the D'Urber-
yilles."
Mrs Flora Annie Steel has written a new
novel OF life in India-one which is ex-
pected to rival "On the Face of the Wa
ters." 1t is mentioned as a powerful story,
and it is to be published as a serial in the
Pail Mall Magazine.
Mr.. l. Zangwill has written two short
Ghetto Tragedies" for "Harper's Maga-
zine" called respectively, Transitional
and ''BethuIah," and one for "Lippin-
cott's." called ''Noahs Ark" all three OF
which viii appear this year. His next long
novel will run serially through 'Harpers
Magazine" beginning in July, 1900 In Au-
gust Mr. Zangwill comes to the United
States to superintend the production of
his play, Children of the Ghetto which
will have a preliminary canter in Washing
ton, Baltimore, and Philadelphia, prior to
its production in New York in October. Mr..
Zangwill is of the opinion that American
managers have keener eyes than their
English compeers.
Young Lewis" the latest work of Rich
ard lie Gallienne, concerns the career of
one Henry Mesurier, a poet. also a clerk.
According to Life" Mr.. LIE Mesurier
wrote poems on lace and lingerie and
from a general knowledge of Mr.. LIE Gal
lienne this seems quite probable.
Atlanta University has bestowed the de-
gree of master of arts upon Paul Laurence
Dunbar.
Mr.. Pett Ridges new story is entitled "A
Son of the State" and. as in by Order OF
the Magistrate" deals with Cockneydom.
With the June issue the art Amateur"
celebrates its twentieth anniversary.
Charles w Chestnut, author of that
clever book of plantation tales, THE Con-
jure Woman, was born in Ohio, but lived
for many years in North Carolina, where
he was principal of a State normal school.
Later he was engaged in newspaper work
in New York, and he is now well known
| Iav- m
land, Ohio.
Mr. Hamlin Garland has written a new
book, 10 be entitled The Trail of the Gold
Seekers" II is a record in prose and verse
of thousand-mile journey made with a
pack train during the summer of 1885,
starting from the Canadian Pacific Railway
in British Columbia. A large part Of the
trail ran through unsurveyed country.
wild and grand and the struggles Of the
| prospectors with mud, rain, insects, and
poisonous plants are recorded with much
fullness.
Robert Bars new novel will be publish
ed by the Frederick A. Stokes Company.
1t is called The Strong Arm"
Prof Albert Bushnell Hart, of Harvard,
| has written a Source Book of American
History" which will be published imme-
diately. The book is made up of l3y eX-
tracts from writers contemporary with the
events which they describe. The extracts
are chosen chiefly from letters, diaries,
"reminiscences, travels, speeches, and mar
ratives; the purpose being to collect ma
terial interesting in itself, as well as il
Illustrative of national history. Most OF
the great man of American history are rep
resented.
The tent-making ascribed to Omar
Khayyam disturbs the equanimity of the
Scotsman" The idea that the Persian
astronomer royal was a tentmaker, it says,
has now got so fairly well started down
the hill of mythology that it is probably
too late TO stop it; but the Oriental philol-
ogers have demonstrated that, although
Khayyam' means tentmaker, it was ap-
piled to Omar as a family name only; so
that 1t would be as absurd to argue that
Sir Samuel Baker made buns, or that the
late DR.. Gotham Brewer made bitter beer,
=, or that Sir Henry Campbell -Bannerman
has really any rag of a flag to carry, as
= to say that Omar did in very deed make
tents"
: OF w Clark Russell's Immediately forth
coming novel IAN Atlantic Tragedy" 1,10O
5 copies have been sold in advance of publi-
cation.
r A pleasant reminiscence OF William Nor
I ris, at oxford. in 1858, is furnished by the
. Rev R. W. Dixon: At first Morris was
i regarded by the Pembroke men simply as
! a very pleasant boy (the least of us was
S senior by a term TO him) who was fond
s of talking which he did in a husky shout
and fond OF going down the river with