The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-05-27
LITERARY NOTES.

7 LITERARY NOTES.
D. Appleton & Co. announce for early
publication: In Circling Camps" ro-
nance of the American civil war, by J. A.
Altsheler; Pine Knot" story OF Ken
lucky life by william E. Barton, author Of
"a Hero in Homespun." and new novel
entitled 1.-THE Girl at the Halfway House,
by e. Hough, author OF The Story of the
| Cowboy" which is described as genuine
epic Of the West.
Little Brown Co. publish "a Dream Of
a Throne, the Story of Mexican Revolt. y
by Charles F. Embree. The events take
| place around the shores of Lake Chapala,
| with which a long residence in Mexico
| has made the author thoroughly familiar
| There are many descriptions OF the beau
ties of the lake and the surrounding noun
| tains, ruins are described. and one is given
| glimpses OF primitive peoples with simple
| customs. The period OF the story is 1S4o.
| Vicente. the son of the last daughter of an
| ancient royal house, leads the revolt. OPP
posed to him is Rodrigo, an American in
the service of the Mexican Government,
and among the other characters are Clarita,
Vicente's foster-sister. whose pure and
simple nature is clearly portrayed. and
| Pepa, his brilliant, faithless sweetheart;
| also Fortino, a character resembling Ur-
! sus in Quo Vadis.''
| During the autumn of the present year
and the spring of 1901 Frederick A. Stokes
Company will publish a new novel by each
| of the following distinguished authors
Robert Barr, Sir Walter Besant, F. T. Bull
len, Bernard Capes, Egerton Castle. Robert
W. Chambers. Stephen Crane, s. R. Crock
EFT, Robert S. Kitchens, John Oliver Hobbies
Anthony Hope, Cutcliffe Hyne. W. W. ia
| cobs. LevettYeats, Alfred Henry Lewis,
a. w. Marchmont. A. E. w. Mason, Max
Pemberton Elizabeth Robins, H. G. Wells,
and others.
Mr.. Frank NJ. Chapman's new book.
Bird Studies With a Camera is to be
published Immediately by d. Appleton G
Co. Several of the illustrations have been
described by experts as 1.-The most remark
able photographs of wild life we have ever
seem This book is practical as well as
descriptive, and in the opening chapters
the questions Of camera, lens, plates, blinds,
decoys, and other pertinent matters are
fully discussed.
Little Brown & Co. announce for imme- |
date publication "Balzac's Letters to Nine |
Hanska," translated by Katharine Pres |
colt Wormeley. Balzac's letters to Nine. |
Hanska, whom he married in 1850, three |
months before his death, extend over a pc |
Rod Of fifteen years. Besides throwing
much sidelight upon the "Comedie HUI |
maine,' they reveal the man himself and |
the inspiration which upheld him during |
the most trying period Of his life. To this |
volume are added all the letters to Nine. |
Hanska during the rest Of BalZac's life, |
which are contained in the volume OF cor
respondence in the Edition Defnitive' of
n I'll IL
pho," 20 which is added Between the
Flies and the Footlights. 1t is translated |
by George Burnham Ives. with an introduce
ton by James L. Ford. The frontispiece Is
by H. Laurent Desrousseaux.
Those who are interested in the literary
associations Of London will hear with re-
gret of the approaching disappearance of
another George Eliot house. The resi-
dence which is mainly associated with her
greatest prosperity, that in St. Johns
Wood has been destroyed through the
advent Of the Great Central Railway in
that district. The house at Richmond,
which is associated with her early strug-
giles as a novelist, is now about to disap-
pear.
Mr.. f. Marion Crawford is still at work
on his l'fe of Pope Leo XIII. 1t will
probably not get into type before the au-
tumn at the earliest. Mr. Crawford is hay
ing access to some important material.
A reviewer OF ITO Have and To Hold"
Mary Johnston's latest novel. thinks 'tha
characters are little too familiar with
plays. which had then been
published only in separate quartos." The
characters which in ITO Have and To
Hold speak of the plays as though they
were well acquainted with them were some
of them men of the court circle; others
men about town; and all OF them were men
of the class to whom the theatre was al
most the only intellectual amusement Of the
time. 1t is probable that none or few OF
them had ever read a play of Shakespeare,
and it is equally probable that each oas
Of them had many times heard the plays
referred to.
A new edition of Philip Gilbert Hamer-
.on's Paris in Old and Recent Times is
published by Little, Brown & Co. Ii traces
he early history of Paris, an account of
he origin and growth of the more impor-
ant buildings Notre Dame the Louvre,
he Tuileries. the Luxembourg the Hotel
lie Vile. etc New illustrations add to the |
of the volume.
"Acetylene" is the title and subject OF a
,rofusely illustrated work OF some 500
'dSeS WuiCH lue company Will
publish at an early date. The history of
he origin. properties. and application OF
his gas is very fully treated and the cuts,
# which there are upward of $50 add
greatly TO the descriptive value OF the
ext
life of Gen. Isaac ingalls, Stevens,
whose gallant charge upon Stonewall Jack
on at Chantilly saved Popes army and
he United States from a great disaster
will be brought out BY Houghton, Miffiin
Co. The Life of General Stevens is
he work of his son. Hazard Stevens. late
revet brgadier general United States
'olunteers. The elder Stevens rendered
otable service to his country as an engi-
eer officer on General SCOTS staff in the
iexican war, and from 1858 to the break
ng out OF the civil war as Governor of
Territory. He commanded the
urvey of the northern route for the Pacific
railroad. and made possible the settle
lent Of the now great State Of Washing
on by paciicating or subduing the Indians
he career of this brave and capable man 4
lakes not only an interesting biography, s.
ut constitutes valuable contribution to
he history of the extreme Northwest and A
0 the civil war. y
Gertrude Dix. the author of Image +,
,reakers," the new realistic study of "
,ouern socialism soon to be published
as lived for many years in socialistc
olonies, and has experimental with vari-
US communal ideas that she will expose
the story.
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