The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-11

"iS Heeith.- his next NOiHfne OF stories,
The Strength of Gideon" will appear
among the early spring publications.
Among new publications by the Mac
milan Company is Cyclopedia OF Ameri-
can Horticulture, comprising suggestions
for cultivation OF horticultural plants, de-
scriptions of the species of fruits, vegeta-
bles, flowers, and ornamental plants sold
in the United States and Canada, together
with geographical and biographical
sketches, by L. II. Bailey, professor OF
horticulture in Cornell University. assist
ed by Wilhelm Miller. associate editor.
and many expert cultivators and bota-
nists.
Notes on the Bacon Shakespeare
Question" by the Hon. Charles Allen,
soon to be published by Houghton. Mifiiin
G. Co. is a digest OF the evidence, direct
and indirect, bearing on the authorship
of the plays and poems attributed TO
Shakespeare, from every available
Shakespearean student commentator, and
editor, and minute study of the legal
terms used by Shakespeare and by con-
temporary writer's. 1t is shown by the
study of the terms that so learned jurist
as Bacon could not have written into plays
and poems such poor legal knowledge as
Shakespeare displays. AS Judge Allen
sums up, Shakespeare was a great dram
atist, but an ordinary, not to say very
poor, lawyer, while Bacon. great in the
law, was, as shown by his own works,
great jurist, but no poet.
The first important book on the Anglo
Boer war from the standpoint OF an Eng
lishman strongly opposed to the policy OF
the English Government will be published
Immediately by the Macmillan Company.
1t will be called THE War in South Africa;
Its Causes and Effects, and is by ]. A.
Hobson, who was recently the correspond
ent in South Africa Of the Manchester
Guardian"
Leon II. Vincent. whose "Bibliotaph" has
become dear TO many book lovers, will soon
publish through Houghton, Mifflin & Co. Z
bright and entertaining account of the
establishment and influence of the Hotel
de Rambouillet, in the first part of the
seventeenth century. The little volume
will be known as THE Hotel de Ram
bouillet and the Precieuses." and VIII con-
tain some description OF the famous men
and women who were among the COM
panions of the Marquise de Rambouillet.
It is said that many of the most striking
episodes of Mr.. John Uri Lloyd's story,
"Stringtown on the Pike now running
serially IN THE Bookman,'' are being
played cut amid the curious complications
which prevail in Kentucky at the present
time.
knights in Fustian," by Caroline
Brown, is a story of a most interesting ep-
ISOLDE occurring in Indiana during the war
for the Union, its theme being plot by the
Knights of the Golden Circle, as alleged
h. Al
cussed, to assist the COnfederacy to victory
and then force a separation of the North
western States from the Union.
Richard Carvel'' is being translated into
German for immediate publication in Ber-
lin. II is said to be the rage among the
Americans and English in the Philippines.
and, according to the English papers in
Hongkong, Bombay, and Calcutta, it is also
popular there.
"As the Light Led is the title of new
novel by James Newton Basket, the au-
thor of AT You-Al1's House" and. like
his first novel its scene is in northeastern
Missouri, though it is not nature story
in the sense that the first book was. 1t is
a country love story of the late sixties,
when the political issues of that part OF
Missouri were deeply swayed by the dis
putes OF the ImmersiOnists and the Paedo
Baptists.
Ethan Allen is one OF the most conspic-
uous figures in "A Danyis Pioneer by
Rowland E. Robinson.
BY the Closest Ties" by Jessie Mac
gregor Shaw, is would be religious story
book Of the worst type. stuffed with quota
tons from the Moody and Sankey hymn
Iii i
several varieties OF idiocy besides. II
seems incredible that in this generation
anyone can be induced to read a book in
which the Creator Of heaven and earth is
represented as drowning a party of young
people for the offence Of going boating on
Sunday. In fact, the work ought to be sup
pressed as an irritating and irreligious flu
tility. philadelphia: The Union Press.)
Unlike many other writer's Of railroad
stories, Mr.. F. H. Spearman, whose re-
Gently published collection THE Nerve of
Foley has met with a favorable recep
ton. makes no claim to have gone
through the actual experiences which he
describes so wildly. Mr.. Spearman's con-
nection with railrOading has been purely
a business one of his acquaintance with
railroad men, he says in a recent let err
Il have soaked in railroad color by being
way with railroad men. l have known
them in sleeping cars and baggage cars,
in cabooses and cabs, at home and on the
run, in roundhouses and headquarters.
know them from bottom to top, from in
side to out, and that's the whole OF it."
The McWilliams Special" from Chi
cago TO Denver, was in fact the Mahan
special. which made the famous run 10
take a capitalist TO the bedside Of his dy-
ing son.
4 did not know" says Mr.. Spearman,
how near / had run 70 the real nam, I'M
til Bucks, the dispatcheT of the stories.
told Lie. After had made up my original
schedule for the McWilliams and sub
mitted it to Bucks, it was so nearly iden-
teal with his own that he declined to
change it a figure. l was originally five
minutes slow on run of ops miles"
1t adds to the effect of the tales to know
that Bucks" actually did save train NJ.
So and that he is still alive and train
dispatching in the West.
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