The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-10-14
LITERARY NOTES.

A new edition OF "Old landmarks and
Historic Personages of Boston, by Samu-
ell Adams Drake, has just been issued. Mr..
Drake has been for several years accumu-
lating materials for a thorough revision
of the work. Besides numerous altera-
lions in the text. designed to keep pace
with the march of improvement. the OPP
portunity has been availed Of for the in
PRODUCTION OF new and interesting matter.
A number of full-page illustrations not
found in earlier editions have been added,
including rare picture of Boston in 1890:
the daring feat Of Isaac Harris in saving
the Old South from the flames; Boston
Common as COW pasture. with the Great
Elm; Old Concert Hall, the Almack's of
Boston; State Street in 1925, etc.
las 1t Is to Be-" by Cora Linn Daniels,
will appear In a new edition bearing the
imprint of Little, Brown C Co. The work
is in its sixth thousand. DR.. Richard
Hodgson. President OF the Society of Phys
ical Research, wrote to the author: Il
suppose 100 manuscripts have been handed
in to me treating of the science of life,
spirit, spiritual law, phenomena, and kin
dred topics, but yours is the most re-
markable l have ever seen. l spent
whole night studying it. unmindful of the
hours"
1.-THE Dream Fox Story Book" is the IT,
tie OF Mrs. Mabel Osgood Wright's new
holiday book for children, which will be IL
Illustrated with about eighty drawings by
Oliver Herford and published Immediately
by the Macmillan Company. Unlike Mrs
Wright's other books, the Dream Fox is
q M ba fffI nd
ventures of boy nicknamed Billy Button,
who, after sticking tongue pins" into his
mother and going to bed in disgrace, spent
the time between New Year Eve and the
next morning in the company Of Dream
Fox and Nightmare.
An important contribution from the
world of finance to the world of letters is
to be made by the well-known banker and
fnancier. Mr.. James G. Cannon, whose
books, Clearing Houses; their History,
Methods. and Administration" is to be
published Immediately by d. Appleton
& Co. This is the first book to give in a
single volume, a history of the clearing
houses of the United States and a de-
scription of theiD methods.
"a Little American Girl in India by
Harriet A. Cheevers, is history for chill
dren, giving valuable information about
Indian ways and customs. From India
the children make the long voyage to
England and thence to America.
Cyrus Townsend Brady disclaims at
tempting to write history in his "Ameri-
can Fights and Fighters" though he COW
ers the most heroic deeds of the first FIVE
wars of our country. He says that his
object has been merely to exhibit Ameri-
can valor by selecting a few of the most
interesting and romantic episodes in our
early history.
THE Sphinx and Other Poems" by Will
liam Henry Hudson, is announced by Elder
d Shepard, San Francisco. Mr.. Hudson is
professor of English literature at Stanford
University.
The Fl. NJ. Caldwell Company has added
to its well-known Illustrated Library OF
Famous Books by Famous Authors. which
| now comprises some 200 volumes of select
ed masterpieces in all branches of litera-
ture, "Prue and t. by George William
| Curtis; Mr.. Midshipman Easy" by Cap
tain Marryatt; "Tennyson's Poems;" The
Wonder Book" and True Stories" by Ma
thaniel Hawthorne; THE Virginians." by
William Makepeace Thackeray; THE Ore
gon Trail" by Francis Parkman; Kay
| anagh' and "Evangeline," by H. W. Long
| fellow; Sketch Book by Washington r.
wing