The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-09
LITERARY NOTES.

Edmund Clarence stedman's "Ameri-
can Anthology" has been expected ever
since the publication Of his Victorian
Anthology" FIVE years ago. It's appear
ance is now impending from the press of
Houghton, Mifflin G. Co. There will be
two editions. The large paper edition
will be in two volumes, limited to 300
copies. 1t has photogravure frontis-
piece to each volume-a group of Ameri-
can poets and a portrait of Mr.. Stedman.
The other edition will be in one large
volume of $50 pages. Mr.. Stedman has
written an introduction, which includes a
survey Of American poetry to the end of
the century, and there are, as in the
Victorian Anthology" brief biographies
of the writer's quoted.
It is not only human pedestrians, 1t ap-
pears, who fear the bicycle. According
to a writer in the September number of
"Cassells Little Folks" ii strikes ter
ror into the heart of the king of beasts
Few men can ever have been placed in
the awful situation in which Mr.. A. B.
Lloyd, the African missionary and trav-
eler. once found himself, he says. He
was "biking" one day on the main road,
five feet wide, leading to Uganda, when
turning a corner suddenly, he saw, not
twenty yards ahead. a big lion crouclting
down and facing him. To his left was a
steep rock, twenty feet high, hard II not
impossible to climb. To his right lay a
ravine a hundred feet deep. at the bot
tom OF which ran river. He had to
make up his mind what to do right there
Taking his courage in both hands, like
the brave man he was, he determined to
ride straight on. Ringing his bell and
shouting at the pitch of his voice, he
drove on at his fastest. The lion, dis
mayed at this weird figure. gave one hid
eous yell and turned tail, flying panic
stricken into the jungle.
Little. Brown G. Co. will publish. early
in October. James Martineau: A Study
and Biography" by Rev. A. w. Jackson.
The work was nearly completed at the
time of Dr. Martineau's death. and since
then has been read and approved by his
nearest relatives. who have rendered the
author valuable assistance. The volume
is not only life of the great theologian.
but also a study of the movement In
thought of which he was the leader.
The first uniform edition of George Bor-
rows works to appear In America will be
| issued this autumn Dy u. 4. putnam
Sons. W. ]. Knapp, the biogrIpher of Bor.
row. will be the editor and annOtator of
these volumes-there will be four-and
will faithfully follow the text of the first
issues. and, in the case of 'Lavengro."
restore certain suppressed incidents. Each
volume will be illustrated with etcniugs
and other pictures of places mentioned in
the text.
Among the earliest fall publications of
Harper & Bros. will be two novels. THE
Dishonor of Frank Scott" by NJ. Hamil
| ton. a writer whose work is much better
known in England than in this country.
and The Lost Continent by Cutciiffe
Hyne. said to be a romance in Rider Hag-
| CARDS style dealing with adventures in
| the lost island of Atlantis. These will
both appear next week. month later
will be published the first attempt al Il
novel by Simon Neweomb. the famous as
trcncmer. who al the age of sixty-iivc has
turned his scientific knowledge to the SER
vice of fiction His story Will be called
| His Wisdom the Defender" and mingles
romance with scientific possibilities in
the way made familiar by II. G. Wells.
THE Expatriates,,' by Lillian Bell, also