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average not less than 500 copies day.
so that the half million mark will be
shortly reached. II is said that the new
illustrated edition has been received with
an exceptional favor, which shows that
MIR. Cfinedinst's pictures have obtained
the stamp OF approval. 1t is evident that
David Harum' has become a type %
appeal to all classes of American read
ers.
BY arrangement with Harper & Bros.
the Macmillan Company has taken over
the publication OF James Ford Rhodes
History of the United States from the
Compromise of 1859" The four volumes
which have already appeared bring this
great work down to the year 1852 and thus
embrace the causes and the actual prose-
cution of the most momentous event of
the nations political growth A new edi-
ton is on the press and win be published
before the Christmas holidays are over.
The complete poeticaI works of John
Keats will be issued by Messrs. Hough-
ton, Mifflin & Co., as volume of the
Cabinet edition of famous British and
American poets The Keats" follows the
Burns and Scott" issued in Septem-
Der. They are complete, accurate and
we'll edited, with indexes to titles and
first lines, and with the lines of the longer
poems numbered, and offer to the general
reader or student OF poetry light, small
single volumes at a low price.
Coineident with the production of the
dramatization of Janice Meredith" comes
the announcement of the publication OF
a Mary Mannering edition of the novel.
The volume will be very fully illustrated
with Illustrations in color. and with half
tone reproductions of scenes from the play
as produced by Miss Mannering The
-&1 fx, - Is. okA <r1 earA
among theater-goers as well as among
noyel-readers.
A second edition OF Mr.. Hamilton w.
Mabie's work on Shakespeare. Poet,
Dramatist and Man" has Just been issued
by the Macmillan Company. This well
known and deservedly popular writer has
tried to make Shakespeare living per-
son. moving in his own surroundings,
working at his plays and giving to the
world a body OF poetry which has truly
made him the contemporary Of all men
for all time. $3.50,
We have had China galore on the war.
missionary. pictorial side. but little about
its women The simple and truthful mar
ration OF Lilly Howard, In the January
New Lippincott, Talks With Chinese
Women" gives in a nutshell the pathos.
vacancy and often tragedy Of the lowly
woman y lie IN tHina. lHdt the Off-
entail has sensibilities and emotions not
uncommon to her sex is here made lucidly
plain.
In variety and worth o. contents Nc
Cures Magazine for January Is notable.
as well for literary merit and art. The
first in series of memoirs by Miss Clara
Morris appears in this number. and by
the graces of her writing the famous
actress gives added value to a narrative
full of interest In this is told the story
of her trials and triumphs on the occasion
of her first appearance in New York.
Ex-President Cleveland is writing for
the Saturday Evening Post series of
strong articles which will appear In the
magazine during the winter months.
Some of these papers will deal with po-
litical affairs. and othefs with the per-
sonal problems OF young men. They will
be Mr.. C1eveiands first utterances in any
magazine on the questions OF the day
since he left the White House.
The Abbey Press publishes q volume Of
verses by Lischen NJ. Miller, sister of
Joaquin Miller. under the title "A Hand
full of Rhymes"