The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-01

castle of Kronborg and its neighborhood
The Critic prints a letter lately re-
! celved by a New York publishing house
from gentleman Of Havana. Here it is:
"Sir Y. Y and Co.
| My respectable sir:
u have one manuscript over Cuban Prchistolv.'
/ De nave 100 fourth Of paper writing made for my
/ II you please made OF the book f1nt stamp.
/ for those he soon the dominion pr8pertv oft fbc
| book if you by she in the question give me one
| price, don't you forget that the business it il
| very good, would some 100 book print made in
| his house
Direction streat in Havana city.
In the "Macmillan's Pocket American
| Classics series the following volumes will
appear this spring The Sketch Book. -
The Alhambra." Selections from Poe's
Prose Tales. "Frankltns Autobiography,
The Vision Of Sir Launfal, and The
Deerslayer." This series is 1Smo in size,
a handy shape. and each volume is proyd-
ed with notes, portraits and Introductory
aid for'the studious reader.
The death Of Mr.. II. D. Trail having left
the editorship OF Literature" vacant. his
assistant Mr. Dalton. has been appointed
to that office.
theme Of the volume entitled Notes on
the con-Shakespeare Question" by the
Hon. Charles Allen. which will shortly be
published by Messrs. HOughton, Miftin &
Co. The work purposes to be a digest Of
evidence direct and indirect bearing on the
authorship of the plays and poems attrib-
uted TO Shakespeare from every available
Shakespearisn student, commentator. and
editor. with a study OF the legal terms
f,s1g
writer's.
st. George Mivart. the eminent English
biologist has written his first novel. at
the age Of seventy three. The title is
Castle or Manor"
Diana Tempest" a novel which repre-
SCENTS some Of the best work OF Mary Chol-
mondeley. author of Red Pottage." is
shortly to appear in d new edition. with
portrait Of the author. and an introduction
which will give sketch Of the authors
life and methods.
Frank VI. Chapman, the well-known or
nithologist and writer. is completing
new work 10 be entitled Bird Studies
With a Camera Mr.. Chapmans success
in photographng live birds has not been
equaled, and the numerous illustrations
which he has obtained for his new book
are said TO be Of peculiar. interest and
value.
Ibsen's new play. When We Dead
Awake. is TO be published by Herbert 5
Stone d Co. The translation is made by
william Archer.
The announcement that the famous an
them Maryland Ny Maryland" was
written by "a Baltimore lawyer" is cal
culated to be misleading. Col. James r.
Randall, the author Of the poem. was d !
school teacher in Louisiana when he wrote I
the poem and it was originally published in /
Louisiana paper It was written at a
single sitting though afterward revised /
and elaborated. Colonel Randall is now d I
resident OF Washington. serving as Sec /
rotary 10 Congressman William H. Elem .
ing Of Georgia.
The wooing episode in "Cyrano de Ber- /
gorac' is now said to have been taken .
from Rostaud's own experience in aiding
one OF his friends to win a COY but lovely
young woman while he was a student at
Stanislas College Paris. The entire play
was developed with hat leisure which. as
Matthew Arnold says. is meat and drink"
TO authorship.
A curious piece Of literary information
quotes a poem. THE Song of the Camp"
usually ascrbed TO Bayard Taylor and
says in Introduction that it was written
by the late William Roberts. Of Knoxville.
Tenn" A thing which adds interest to this
plagiarism is that the poem is badly
mauled by misquotation.
William PETIT Ridges new novel. y
Breaker Of Laws" will be published in
&c hut Hg Ia { in s.
April. Many people will remember this
writer's clever work in story Of the East
End OF London. called "M0rd Emily lie
has already written four or FIVE other
novels among which "A Clever Wife" and
"The Second Opportunity Of Mr.. Staple
hurst" attracted some attention. A
Breaker Of Laws" takes its name from the
chief character in the book. cockuey
burglar
4 small boy has written to the School
Board of London complaining Of the prize
he received at school. He states that il is
Rigid Kipling's tumble Book 1t is a
lream about snakes and father says il is
only suitable for man who drinks"
The Immortal Garland is the title of
new American novel which is said 10 treat
certain phases Of social theatrical. and
literary life in a manner which is likely
10 attract attention. The author is Anna
Robson Brown. and the some is laid in
arge part in New York.
A. c. McClurg & Co.. Chicago. have in
press and will shortly publish The Prl-
.ate Memoirs of Madame Roland" edited
by Edward Gilpin Johnson. The editors
Introduction enables the reader to com
)rehend the whole situation and to appre-
.iate this intensely interesting book. The
PRESENT work is based upon a translation
made from Bosses original edition of the
Memoirs and published at London with
n two years after Madame Rolands death
~ the guillotine, and it will be the first
english translation TO be published since J
he above named, and now very scarce,
English edition.
d. G.. Heath & Co, Boston announce a
lew work upon school Sanitation and
Decoration by Prof Severance Burrage.
# the Department of Sanitary Science in
'erdue University, and Mr. Henry T.
Bailey. State Supervisor of Drawing in
Each Of these gentlemen
S a recognized authority in his depart
lent.
Undoubtedly the most valuable work on
he Boer side of The South African question
ill be The Story of the Beers " which