The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-11-18
LITERARY NOTES.

| Inc lie" euitioH OF Dr. BylnSton $ ufl-
tan in England and New England little,
Brown & Coz, is made noteworthy by a
| new chapter on "Witchcfaft in Now Eng
land After giving a general survey OF
| Witchcraft Dr. Byirgton considers the early
trials OF witches in New England. and then
enters into detailed and very interesting
account OF that epidemic of folly and cru
city which goes by the name of the Salem
Witchcraft. There is much testimony in
the BOOKS and letters that have come down
20 us, writes DIR. Byington. which shows
that the religious teachers of that time had
no sympathy with the methods that were
followed in the trials for witchcraft at Sa-
lem village. 1t is not just to hold the
Puritan leaders of New England RESPONSE
Bile for Salem witchcraft. They had out
grown the peculiar superstitions which led
to THESE trials, If they had ever held them. y
No such accurate statement has been
elsewhere given of the point of view of the
leading men OF China in the present crisis
as is contained in vfceroy Chang Chin
lungs book, "Chna's Only Hope" pub
lished by the Revel Company. Secretary
Hay was one of the first to get
a copy of this little volume. He writes
of it: Il have read it with very great in
terest. 1t gives a remarkable insight into
nese governing class. 1t deserves wide
circulation second edition of this book
was called for within a week Of its first
publication,
Col. Thomas Wentworth Higginson has
selected from his numerous writings those
papers which he most values, and these
Will be grouped in a new Riverside Edi
ton. by Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
inns VIII contain seven volumes: Cheer
fnl Yesterdays" Contemporaries"
Army Life in Black Regiment" "Wo-
men and the Alphabet" Studies in Ro-
NANCE" Outdoor Studies in POEMS"
and Studies in History and Letters"
The books will be brought out in hand
some style, and besides the regular River
side Edition there will be large-paper
edition limited to two hundred sets in
very attractive form. The work will con-
tain three portraits.
Little, Brown & Co. have in press 1.-THE
Spiritual Significance" by Lillian Whit
ing. author OF the three series of THE
World Beautiful" The argument pre-
sented in those volumes is continued in
plea that the future life is the continu-
alton and development of cur present life
in all its faculties and powers. and that
truer knowledge of the nature of man
and his relations to God tends to higher
morality and increasing happiness. The
title of the work is found in these lines
from Aurora Leigh"
"lf a man could feel,
Not one day in the artists ecstasy,
But every day, feast fast, and working day,
The spiritual significance burn through
The heroglyphic OF material shows
henceforward he would paint the globe with
wings
Joseph A. Altsheler, whose "In Hostile
Red has just been published by Double
day, Page C Co., belongs to the steadily
growing group of Southern writers whose
appearance has been one OF the notable lit
erary developments of recent yea.s. He
was born in southern Kentucky and re-
ceived his education In the common schools
and at Vanderbilt University, where he
vas awarded the Latin scholarship for
highest excellence in that study. Since
leaving college he has been a hardzwork-
ing journalist. first in Louisville and for
the last eight years in New York
A correspondent of The BookmaH'' says:
Cobb's Island is rot the island described as
the scene OF the pirate duel in TO Have and to
Hold" The scene OF this encounter is undoubt-
eddy Smiths Island. on which the Cape Charles
Lighthouse stands at the entrance OF the Chesa-
pe2ke Bay. This island has not suffered as
Cobb's, and Mr.. George Kitchens. the genial |
keeper Of the life-savny station. situated now on
the very spot Miss Johnston describes. will take /
pleasure in showing any visitor the beach sand. /
dunes, scrub trees. marshes. and mvriads Of gulls
Just as they were in tn, o!den days. Smiths !
Island is separated from the mainland but three
miles at its southern end and nine miles at its |
northern, and forms the crean beach eight miles 1
northward from the Cape Charles Lighthouse
Cobb's Island. where Mes Johnston spent her
summers and learned the language OF the waves
is of very much the same formation. but without
mil. gtt-fh . Lat
beach, separated from Smiths by many inter-
vening islands and inets The Virginia OF Miss
Johnston's books is not so completely lost as you
imagine.
Henry Demarest Lloyd, who IL Newest
England" published by Doubleday. Page &
Co., has done for Australia what James
Bryce did for our own institutions in his
Am rican Commonwealth, was born fifty
odd years ago in New York city, where his
mothers ancestors had lived for ten gener-
aticns. His father minister of the Dutch
Reformed Church, was a descendant of
Goffe, the regicide The younger Lloyd was
graduated at Columbia, studied law and was
July admitted TO the bar. However, he soon
tired of legal practice. and for thirteen
years following 1872 was a hard working
member of the editorial staff of the "Chi-
ago Tribune In 1ss; he retired from
hat paper because of ill-health and diverg-
ng opinions and five years later he issued
"A Strike of Millionaires Against Miners"
which at once brought him into prominence
Is an original and suggestive writer on
subjects. This was followed, in
1894. by Wealth Against Commonwealth"
me of the thought-moldinG books OF the
losing decade while more recently he has
Labor craftsmanship an
,ther contribution of the first Importance
% industrial discussion.
The wonderful vitality of the American
classic writer's is well indicated by he
variety of editions Of their works. which
must certainly find ready sale or the pub
fishers would not put them forth as they
DO Popular editions of Holmes and AID
rich are announced for early publication.
The editions will contain respectively
eight and seven volumes, and will COM
Prise the more important and notable eff
forts of these two delightful authors.
Little, Brown & Co. have in press The
Worlds DISCOVERIES. The Story of Bold
Voyages by Brave Navigators during
Thousand Years" by William Henry john
ION, author of The Kings Henchman."
Franklin Fyles, for many years the dra-
matte critic of the New York Sum-" las
written for outsiders complete descrip-
ion OF the story OF the theatre from the ,
inside. The average theatregoer. who has
nut hazy idea of the detail involved in
furnishing him with an evenings amuse-
nent. will find much to instruct him in Mr. |
ryles luminous and readable little book
Page & Co. publish it under the
title. 1.-THE Theatre and Its People"
Joel Chandler Harris, who has lately
;ithdrawn from journalism in order to give
lis entire time to creative work, lives in
Vest End, a pleasant suburb of Atlanta.
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