Omaha daily bee., 1899-08-23

Rand, McNally G. Co, Chicago, win pub
ltsh about September l a novel by Frances
Aymar Mathews entitled "a Married Man"
The j. S. Ogilvie Publishing company
have in press a new religious novel Of rare
interest entitled when Shiloh Came by
Ambrose Lester Jackson.
The West Indian poisonous fishes are de-
scribed by James NJ. Rogers of the English
royal navy in an article in Appleton's Popu-
lar Science Monthly for September.
The Funk & Wagnalls company announce
The Funk & Wagnalls Standard Encyclo-
pedla, which Will be a companion work to
The Funk & Wagnalls Standard pic
tionary."
Rudyard Kipling's "Stalky G. Co." which
has been running in McClure's Magazine,
VIII be presented in book form early in
September by the Doubleday G. Mcclure
company.
! r. II. Russell announces for early pubri-
cation tie Maude Adams edition OF Romeo
and Juliet The book will be beautifully
illustrated by pictures of Miss Adams and
her company.
I'm Hampton Roads" a romantic novel
by Charles Eugene Banks and George Cram
Cook, Will be issued by Rand, McNally &
Co, Chicago, some time in the latter part
of September.
Edward Page CASTOR, the well known
traveler-lecturcr and author, has been APP
pointed European director of the Funk &
"''h "bd'u cue at AZ
London Branch.
"A Sketch Of Admiral George Dewey, the
' Man, by John Barrett, late United States
minister to Siam and ten months war CORE
spondent at Manila, is announced for publ
cation by Harper & Brothers about Octo-
Der 1.
The Century company has taken over from
its former publishers Charles F. Lummis'
THE Gold Fish of Gran Chimu,'' a tale OF
adventure in Peru. Some Strange Corners
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ried the Moon,' by the same author, were
already on its list.
Mrs. l.. c. Page & Co. viii publish i'm
mediately three novels entitled "Lally Of
the Brigade by l.. McManus; Deficient
Saints by Miss Marshall Saunders; Pretty
Michal," translated from the Magyar of
Mauras Jokai. They will also publish a vol
ume of short stories by Oscar Fay Adams.
Each year as fall approaches and political
unrest in the borough of Manhattan begins
to become acute THE Honorable Peter
Stirling" goes to press enc or more times.
Although 100 900 copies in paper were re-
Gently issued the cloth edition has just gone
to its thirty-third printing. 1t is published
by Henry Holt & Co.
The Century company will bring out in
book form in the fair Mrs. Burton Harri-
sons new novel, The Circle of a Century"
The same firm has acquired by purchase
from Messrs Lamson, Wolfe & Co. the
plates of six of Mrs. Harrison's recent
books, including the most popular of all her
novels, The Anglomaniacs."
Mr.. Seumas MacManus in his charming
magazine stories has lent impetus to the
movement for the revival of stories of Irish
life that his volume, Through the Turf
Smoke" published by the Doubleday & Nc
Clure company, did a great deal to bring
about. The same publishers will shortly
present THE Barrys,' by Shan F. Bullock.
Mr.. Walter H. Page has resigned the
editorship of the Atlantic Monthly and has
accepted an invitation to take a prominent
post in the direction Of the literary work
of the allied houses of Harper & Brothers
and the Doubleday G. Mcclure company.
His successor in the editorship of the At
lantic Is Mr.. Bliss Perry, known in litera-
ture as the author of two novels and a
number of essays and stories.
The publishers of the Riverside Litera-
ture' series, Messrs. Houghton, Miflin &
, Co., are continually trying to improve the
high standard set for it at its beginning.
1t is now, at the end of its thirteenth year,
made up Of 1874 regular numbers and sixteen
extra numbers, strongly and attractively
bound in paper, cloth and boards, at prices
} varying from Is to 60 cents, net, postpaid.
During the coming school year the pub
fishers hope to continue the work of i'm
proving the series. rHs
One of the most interesting publications
; of the winter win be a history Of Sir Mar
tin Conway's expedition to South America,
to be published by Harper & Brother. Mr.
Conway is we'll known as one Of the fore
most mountain climbers in the world and
his book will contain descriptions of his
aScents of many of the Andes almost mac.
cessible peaks. Mr.. Conway's work will not
be confined to his activities as a mountain
!, climber; he takes also a keen interest in
political and commercial problems.
r Among the books for boys and girls which
, The Century company wilT issue this au-
tumn are the following: A new Brownie
book entitled "The W Abroad" by
Palmer Cox; The Dozen from Lakerim,' {
3 story Of young athletes; "Quicksilver Sue
4 a wholesome tale for young girls; The
Story of Betty one of the most popular
serials published in st. Nicholas for a lont
time, and 1.-THE st. Nicholas Christmas
Book" a selection of some of the mos
striking stories, sketches. poems and pic
lures that have appeared in the pages of st
Nicholas Magazine in recent years.
, Messrs. Houghton, Mifiin & Co. are ou'
= with their fall announcement. 1t is consid
i erably longer than any previous similar an
+ nouncement of theirs and includes not {
few important new books and new editions
Among the former are John Fiske's "Dutcl
and Quaker Colonies in America" in TIVE
|, Volumes; Mrs. Julia Ward Howe's "Remin
. iscences;" Prince Krapotkin's Memoirs
DR.. Mungeris Life of Horace BUSHNELL ant
y three new volumes in the American States
men" series, on Chase, Sumner and G. +
Adams. New books of fiction are promised
by Miss johnson, author of Prisoners o
e Hope" F. Hopkinson Smith. Miss Jewett
Mrs. Whitney and Bret Harte; and man,
poets in new editions, notably Tennyson II
" a new and greatly improved Household
b Edition." Keats, Mrs. Browning and Scot
k in the Cambridge Edition." and Tennyson
Longfellow, Holmes, Whittier and Lowell Il
a new cabinet Edition." with nue.
larger type than that of the old cabinets.
{ Little, Brown G. Co.'S Fall Announce
ments and Recent Publications" Is at hand
y The majority of their recent publication
have been reviewed in these columns, Will
the volumes promised for the near tutur
are too numerous to be all mentioned a
one time. Among the volumes not alread'
mentioned in Literary Notes" are: 'Th
Art Life of William Morris Hunt -
Ghostly Japan" by Lafcadio Hearn; a
Of Fairygold," by Gertrude Hall; a
Field, a Record" by Lillian Whiting TN
" Puritan as a Colonist and a Reformeri
" From Kingdom to Colony" by Mary Dev
ereaux; "A Study of Elizabeth Barret
Browning" Lessons from the SPANS
" War and other Papers" by Captain A. I
" Mahan; 1.-THE Bronze Buddha," by Cora Lin
- Daniels; knights of the Cross" by Henr
y Sienkiewicz; Total Ecripses OF the sun,
y by Mabel LOOMS Todd, and others too nu
merous to mention. There are a number O
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