The times., 1899-04-09

IIesiueHtidi once nave given rise. From
the beginning of the electoral system down
to the free silver campaign. Mr.. Stanwooi
has endeavored in every way to make the
book thoroughly up to date.
The Doubleday & Mcclure Company will
publish Immediately, under the title of
From Sea to Sea-" an authorized edition
of the collected letters Of travel which Mr.
Rudyard Kipling has written at different
times between 1890 and 1898.
Reuen Thomas new book, 1.-The Knship
of Souls" gives an account of trip made
by philosophical professor, his intellec-
tual daughter. and young theological stu
dent, including descriptions of various por-
tions of England and Germany visited by
the persons of the narrative.
1.-The Development of the English Novel"
is the title of a book by W. l.. Cross, As
sistant Professor of English Literature at
Yale, which will be published in April.
1t is generally surmised that the EN-
press of Austria's memoirs. which have
made so profound snsation, and are inter-
dicted in Austria, must have been written
by an already exiled parsonage, for no one
could have brought them out and continued
TO live in that country. And no one but an
ingly.
II. G. Wells is no longer Sixty years
old" as he represented himself the other
day to an interviewer. but has resumed
his normal age of thirty-ive or SO, having
fully recovered his health.
"The Quest of Faith is the title of the
latest book by Thomas Bailey Saunders.
author of THE Life and Letters OF James
Macpherson" 1t consists of about eight
chapters upon the current philosophy OF
religion.
s. G. Quiller-Couch is said to have done
for the rugged west coast of England and
its quaint characters and romantic history
what Thomas Nelson Page has done for
Virginia and Miss Mary E. Wilkins for
New England. He is so devoted to his
native Cornwall that he prefers to live
there in comparative retirement despite
the attractions of London.
Prof. Angelo Heilprin's high rank as
geographical student and scientist will
give a peculiarly authoritative character
to his forthcoming book, Alaska and the
Klondike,' which will be published this
spring by D. Appleton & Co., with elab-
crate Illustrations
IL is OF interest 10 note that one OF the
best selling books in the market at pres
ent Is David Harum,'' the first and in
deed the only book of previously un-
known American author, the late Edward
Noyes Westcott
Edouard Rods new novel, Pastor Nau
dies Young Wife, is a study of French
Professionalism, and its scene is laid In La
Rochelle and Montauban, the two Hugue-
not strongholds 1t was first published in
the Revue des Deux Mondes," and at once
achieved success. M. Rods work" says
Edmund Gosse in the Contemporary
Review, whether in criticism or fiction,
always demands attention. THE Catho-
lics," says writer in Literature
praise the book because they find in it
arguments against their adversaries; the
Protestants, while protesting that the au-
thor, because he writes in the clerical
Gaulois. is none of theirs, read it TO dis
cover personal allusons TO their spiritual
guides"
General Sherman" is the title of the
newest book in the Great Commanders
Series, published by ID. Appleton & Co.
The author of this volume. Gen. NJ. F.
Force. practiced writer and one OF Sher-
mans division commanders. accompanied
him in the Atlanta campaign and in the
march to the sea.
The second volume in DR.. Hales pub
lished works contains. besides I'm His
Name" a number of Christmas stories.
all Of which have appeared before. In His
Name was originally a Christmas story,
and was first published in the year 1873 in
the monthly magazine, "Oid and New" OF
which he was the editor. 1t grew out of
a much shorter story which he told to the
children of his own Sunday school on
Christmas Day in 1872, and that little
sketch was reprinted in the Ten Times
One Record"
THE Heart of Man is the title OF Prof.
George E. Woodberry's new book. 1t is
collection of papers dealing with idealism
and its application in poetry and art in
politics and religion.
Rider Haggard has gone back to his be-
loved South Africa but not without leav-
ing parting romance behind him. 'Swal-
low is a story of the great Trek" a
young Scotchman is the hero. The Beers
figure largely, however, and the story is
founded on the historic exodus of that peo-
pie in 1886 from their first abiding places
to their establishing in the Orange Free
State.
lished poems by the late Edward Rowland
Sill have lately been got together to make
new volume has interest for what is at
least a very devoted If not large public.
Sill died twelve years ago at the age OF
forty-fve.
Joel Chandler Harris says that he is EN-
gagged on some animal autobiographies 10
be embodied in a successor TO the Thimble-
finger Books"
A book that cannot fail to be helpful to
workers in charitable societies, settlements
and other organizations whose object is
the improvement of the condition of the
poor. is The Development of Thrift by
Mary Wilcox Brown.
L. C. Page G. Co. have in press another
novel by r. n Stephens, called "A Gentle
man Player"
A complete edition of Daudet is an
nounced by the Croscup e. Sterling COM
pany, New York, and by Little, Brown G
Co., Boston.
The Russian government, it is
said, has set its seal of disap
proval on the Iron Chancellors book, pub
llshed in the United States by Harper &
Bros. and the official censor has refused
booksellers permission to put the work on
sale Thousands of copies are hidden
throughout the Empire, waiting to be dis
posed of secretly or for relaxation of the
censorship.
fac simile reprint of the Benares edi-
tion of Sir Richard Burton's Book of the
Thousand Nights and a Night" is an
nounced by the Burton Society of Denver
The price of the set OF sixteen volumes is
TO be 500.