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doubtedly been extraordinarily sue
cessful.

cessful.
'sZack," otherwise Miss Gwendolen
Keats, has written novel which is to
appear in "Blackwood." Her short
stories were clever if pessimistic-it re-
mains to be seen if she can conquer
the more imposing form of fiction.
Andrew Lang is writing a, mono
groph on Bonnie Prince Charlie" for
the Goupil art series. The Stuart pa
pers at Windsor Castle have been
placed at his disposal, and a number
Of extremely interesting pictures will
be available for illustration. Another
hook Of this series has Catherine de
Medicis for subject, the author being
NJ. Henri Bouchot. keeper of the prints
in the Bibliotheque Nationale at Paris.
Mr.. Warman, whose short stories of
railroad life and adventure have at
tracted pleased attention, has written
a novel which he calls 'Snow or the
Headlight This book, which is on
the press, is described as picturing the
dramatic phases of a great railroad
strike.
The publication by ''The London.
Daily News" of a new edition of
Charles Dickens works has brought
out a fact decidedly worth noting
that the novelist is as popular now
with readers as ever he was, and per-
haps more so. The edition has had
remarkable success, all the greater in
that it includes the Dickens Diction-
ary' and Forsters Life of Dickens.
Alas, poor Kipling! Here is another.
collection of anecdotes and biographi-
cal data of which he is the hero-com-
ing from an English hand this time,
so that his wrath may be temporarily
turned away from Americans. It is
published in Birmingham, it's compiler
is one W. Robertson, and it's title is
"The Kipling Guide Book; A Handy;
Guide to Rudyard Kipling: His Life
and Writings, with photography OF
His Works.
Some books from Mr.. Locker-Lamp-
sons famous library are just now on
sale in London These include a first
edition of George Meredith's Shaving
at Shagpat,' on the fly leaf Of which
is an autograph verse by the author OF
London Lyrics:
Who is this Wilde-this graceleSs Gus,
Who mutilates Meredith's (sic) pages
thus?
Who over his barber-tale can linger,
Who cleaves its leaves with his fat fore
finger?
Would, Q wilde, had the luck been mine
To stick knife in that fist of thine
+. L. l..
These lines refer to the careless man.
ne IN, xr-I in1, ic hoc
open by the original owner, Mr..
Wilde, whose name is on the fly leaf.
Maurice Hewlett, it is sadly said, is
about to waste his valuable time in
writing guide-b book But there are
guide books and guide books, and a
volume on Florence made as a COM
panion to Marion Crawford's "Ave
Roma Immortalis'' promises to be
something unusually attractive. For
Mr.. Hewlett has shown that he knows
Florence as no other foreigner knows
her, and the work should be one to de-
light and inspire him.
OF Mr.. Crawford's book, by the way,
it is said that it has had portentious
sale in spite of the high price at which
it was held.
Several of the Stevenson letters in the
next number of "Scribner' were ad-
dressed to Henry James and contain
we are told, dissertations on the art of
f1ction-an art concerning which the
two novelists did not at all agree.
The same number of the magazine
will present a short story entitled
Anne" from the pen of Stevenson's
widow.
It is reported that two unpublished
romances by Alexander Dumas pere
will be brought out in an English
translation this autumn. The original
MS, it is stated, is owned by NJ. Sty-
lianos Apostolides, wealthy Greek
gentleman, who will explain in a pre-
face to the coming volume how he OBJ
tanned the work, and why the elder
Dumas himself never published it. The
narratives are of course mentioned as
exciting.
Beecher's Theories Of Speaking.
Mr.. Beecher had many theories about
the art of public speaking and the way
of managing an audience. He used
to advise less experienced orators to
begin in rather a low tone, so as to