The times., 1899-12-03
LITERARY NOTES

LITERARY NOTES
The Lippincotts announce new edition
OF Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes, with
by T B. Opper.
"A New Race Dlplomatist," just issued
by the Lippincotts. is a novel by Mrs. Jen-
ME Bullard Waterbury. the scene laid il
New York. Washington, and Paris.
L. Frank Baum, author of a new work
for children called Father Goose: His
Book, has had an extremely varied ca
reer. He has been grave-digger. editor.
playwright, actor, speculator, axle grease
manufacturer, opera house manager re-
porter, and writer of juvenile stories, and
he is only forty three eyars old. This is
another instance OF the "hideous versa
tility" of the American.
new two-volume edition of the works
of Dante Gabriel ROssetu has been issued
by Little, Brown & Co.
The December number of "Harper's Maga-
zine" will contain a short story by Mark
Twain, entitled The Man that Corrupted
Hadleyburg.''
feature of the Popular Science Month
ly' for December win be an article on the
development of the American newspaper.
by Walter Hawley.
A book by William Archer has just ap
peared, under the title America Today:
Observations and Reflections" Mr.. Arch
er is a very clever Englishman, but it viii
be Just as well not to attach too much i'm
pOrtance to the conclusions of a man who
is, after all, obviously an outsider.
Blanche Willis Howard's last novel, is
sued in this country under the name "Di-
onysius The Weaver's Hearts Dearest,
a title clumsy enough to make one wonder
how it originated. is known In London by
the simple designation Of 'Vroni, the
name of the heroine.
There IS an interesting article on gold
mining in the Transyaal, in the Engineer
ing Magazine" for December.
The Colossus: A Drama of Today" by
Morley Roberts, is announced among the
December publications of Harper & Broth
ers.
There is a story of a girl who. when ask
ed what three things she would choose to
have with her if cast upon the traditional
desert island, replied: The Bible, tooth
brush, and 'Vesty of the Basins This
anecdote suggests two things; first. query
as to the especial merit of Mrs. Greene's
story which led TO such a choice and, sec
ond reflections on the selection of the BIZ
BILE as a companion just at that time. Why
is it that people who never read either the
Bible or Shakespeare in ordinary circum-
stances always choose these two books for
their companions in supposititious soli-
tude?
Ernest Seton Thompson's charming
sketch, The Trail OF the Sandhill Stag, .
has been published in book form.
Another contribution to the rapidly
growing collection Of books by former sail
ors is The Shellback" the story of the
seattle of a common sailor in the American
merchant service in the COS. 1t has an in
PRODUCTION by Morgan Robertson.
Madame Blanc, otherwise TIL. Benton,
has translated into French 7. B. Aldrich's
Story of a Bad Boy"
The Appletons have published a book by
Frank Vincent, called actual Africa,
which will have its interest at this par
ticular time.
Paul Laurence Dunbar has a new novel
nearly completed. 1t viii be called COP
perheads of the Civil War"
"An Hours Promise" by Annie Eliot
TrumbulI, formerly published by Cassell &
Co. has for some time been out of print,
and a new edition is shortly TO be issued
by A 5. Barnes & Co.
The new volume in the series Of Beacon
Biographies is a sketch Of Hawthorne by
Annie Fields
A new novel by Tolstoy will appear be-
fore very long 1t is entitled Resurrec-
ton"