The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-05-06


/ liam Penn. Twenty years ago Robert
| Louis Stevenson picked up a copy OF this
| little book at a bookstall in san Fran
! CISCO Some time later he sent it to a
/ friend, Horatio W. Brown, with this note:
| If ever in all my human conduct l have
| done better thing to any fellow creature
! than handing on to you this sweet, digni-
/ fed, and wholesome book, l know I shall
hear Of it on the last day. There
| is not a man living, no, nor recently dead,
! that could put with so lovely a spirit so
much honest, kind wisdom into words
The June Truth" will contain some re-
markable color reproductions of Dolph' s
famous Cat and Dog" pictures.
R. II. Russell has in press and will issue
shortly another book of clever drawings
! by Frank VeTbeck. The title will be "A
/ Handbook Of Golf for Bears, and to
those acquainted with Mr.. Verbeeks hui
NOR it is suggestive.
Dodd, Mead & Co. announce the publ
cation early in May, Of The international
Year Book, a compendium of the worlds
progress for the year 1899. This Year
/ Book, like the one for 1898, issued by the
same firm. has been edited by Frank
Moore Colby, NJ. A, professor Of economics
/ in New York University.
| The volume covers the worlds history
for the year 1898, one Of the most import
ant in the century as it has fixed the
colonial policy Of our own country; tested
England's national strength; determined
very largely the future of Africa; settled
in a measure the problem of the Jew in
France; and has enabled Russia to COM
plete the most stupendOus business and
military enterprise which has ever been
attempted.
The volume contains 800 pages. with
maps and illustrations and treats, among
| other subjects. such questions as; The
War in the Transvaal; The Hague Confer
ence; Aerial Navigation; Trusts; Tire
Drama; Experimental Psychology; Recon-
struetion in Cuba; Motive Power; Gen.
Leonard Wood Lydditei Education;
Paris Exposition; Liquid Air; Wire
less Telegraphy; and Automobiles, etc,
etc.
Rand, McNally & Co.. Chicago and New
York. have in press and will issue during
April Uncle Sam Abroad by ]. E. Con-
ner. This is a book, prepared in the form
of a series of University Extension lee
lures on the diplomatic and consular ser
vice Of the United States.
The Putnams announce South
Africa and the Transyaal War"
by Louis Creswicke, to be writ
ten on somewhat original plan.
Il will be issued in six volumes sold sep
arately. The first volume includes full &C
counts Of the early struggles of the Beers,
the Zulu war. the first Transvaal war
CLaing's Mex and Majuba HID, the Ma
tabele campaigns. the settlement Of Rho
series of events eliminating in the pres
ent war. The second volume viii contain
the first portion of the narrative Of the
war down to the battle of COlenso, Deem
Der 10. 1899 Volume three will deal with
the colonial contingents engaged in the
war In volume four the thread of the
wars narrative will be resumed, and so
on, further volumes being presented as
history is made for them.
In the May number of "Casselrs Little
Folks" a quaint Chinese fairy tale appears
1t is quite genuine tbeing written by a
Chinese gentlemen resident in Englandl,
and is full Of interest. Here is an extract.
Tan Eng was overcome with grief: lie was
alone in the world lie had no friends, and was
as poor as a church mouse His father must nc
buried in order that his soul might have peace.
But he had no money. and no one would trust
him with q loan. Whatever il cost him, TIC
would do his duty. Drying his tears. he made
himself ring Of grass which he fixed on a pole,
and carried it through the streets, calling out
Il win sell myself in order to bury my father.
Who'll buy. who'll buy2" rich man named 10
tdok pity on him and bought him for forty tlels.
Tan Eng was delighted. He did not care if ne re-
manned a slave all his life. 50 long he could
DO his duty by his father. lie bought a nice
coffin and Il suitable plot OF ground and buried
his father. After the funeral he gave himself
up to 10 aud became slave.
Little, Brown & Co. publish Empress
Octavia.' a romance of the reign of Nero,
by Wilhelm Walloth, author of The
King Treasure House" etc. The work is
translated from the German by Mary J.
Stafford. Nero and the various members OF
his court PetrOnius Seneca, Tigellinus.
POppaea Sabina, and Others-are intro
duced. and also the Empress Octayia,
whose love for young Greek sculptor
forms the theme Of the story.
Doubleday. Page G Co.. New York, have
in press The Hearts Highway" rO-
nance of Virginia in the seventeenth cen
fury by Mary E. wilkins
Mr. Henry IIarlands forthcoming book
is entitled The Cardinals SNUFF Box
In the course of an article on Cowper, on
the centenary of his death, the London
Tines says:
What We would point out is that those WHO /
sneak only OF Cowper as the exponent OF meagre /
and narrow ideas. who lived and died within the /
pale Of an aesthetic community, are bind 10 The /
larger halt Of a gifted, comprehensive, mmuie /
shirt able 20 pass swiftly from one region 10 /
another. an Engli,hman OF Englishmen, who /
clothed in manly verse the ideas Of his race IS T
TO civic duty. a poet with lucompdably WIDER {
ideas of the range OF his art than many OF those
q he ali and