The age-herald., 1900-11-11
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One of the most interesting Calendars for the new year will be "Calendar of Old New York" which has been arranged by Charles Hemstreet, author of "Nooks and Corners of Old New York" It pie lures the city when it was 200 years young CT than it is at present.
 John Kendrick Bangs's "The Idiot at Home" which was published the first week in October, is already almost through it's fourth edition. Possibly this is the authors most popular book since "The Houseboat on the Styx."
 Apropas of MT. Bangs, word comes that he has written new volume of humor ous adventure which will make it's appear ance as a serial in Harper's Weekly. It will be called "The Olympian Nights" and deals with the adventures of an American Newspaper correspondent strand ed on Mount Olympusr-where he meets the without saying that MT. Bangs in these stories will give plenty of what the late Horace Greeley used to call Mighty in- teresting reading"
 By some inaccountable means the news recently got into print that MT. Frank R. Stockton was very Ill: 1t has not only been contradicted but is stated upon good au- thority that the popular outhor is enjoy ing unusually good health. At present he is very busy at his home in Charlestewn West Virginia completing the manuscript on which he has been at work for some time The latter part of each winter MT. Stockton spends in New York.
 Readers of Miss Mary Johnston's former books who may be anticipating with eag- erness the publication of her third work will regret to learn that 1t will not appear until June 1901 when it will begin as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly. The new work will be entitled Audrey" and is con- sidered by the author to be her best writ ten work. It will contain less fighting and less of the rapidly recurring incident so it is said. However, we will have to wait to decide if the new work is improved there- by for with these characteristics ITO Have and to Hold' has sold up to date to the number of some thing like two hundred and seventy thousand.
 Prof Edward Dowden, who Is Professor of English Literature In the university of Dublin and Clark Lecturer in English and who has written some excellent works bearing upon literature. proposes that the opening of the Twentieth century should be celebrated by an "adequate history of English literature The suggestion has met with encouragement and enthusiasm and Sir Walter BeSant, suggests that coHl- pany might be formed to produce the work Sir Walter goes further and calculates that he believes the whole expense would amount to less than 200O pounds volume and Is of the opinion that there Is great need for just such monumental piece or work.
 A recent reviewer in New York paper enters a very timely protest against the pronounced habit of publishers in reprint ing old books under new conditions as IT it were something new from the pen.
 London publishers claim that If they an- nounced a work as published ten or fifteen years ago there would be no call for 1t no matter how entertaining 1t might be. But it certainly seems only justice to tne general unsophistocated reader to say noth- ing of the "unsophistocated reviewer that the publisher should desst from this misleading practice. For, In one known in stance in London 8 reviewer of the Pail Mall Gazette goes into ecstacies over the news that a certain firm will shortly pre- sent a new book by Henry James, entitled "A Little Tour in France" whereas in re- ality it had been some twenty odd years since MT. James wandered in Touralne, and