The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-16
LITERARY NOTES.


Edna Dean Proctor, whose Poems
chiefly of New England subjects have won
for her an enviable reputation, has in press
with the Messrs. Houghton. Miff1in & Co
new volume of verse which relates en-
| tirely to New Hampshire, her native State
The book will be issued under the title
"A Mountain Maid, and Other Poems OF
New Hampshire 1t will be illustrated by
number Of reproductions of photographs
Of some of the romantic mountain and 9TH
or scenery of the "Old Granite State"
Ancestral Worship in China" is the IT,
tie of timely article in the September
number Of the American illustrated Meth
odist Magazine" contributed by the Rey.
G. NJ. Wilcox. Phi. D., editor Of the Chi
nese Christian advocate" published at
Fcochow. The article is illustrated from
Chinese photographs.
Miss A. G. Plymrton, the author of
number OF popular books for the young,
has written new story, entitled "A Child
of Giee." 1t deals with the adventures of
little American girl in the imaginary
Kingdom Of Avaril, where a child queen
has been crowned. aittle, Brown & Co.
will issue the booss at an early date.
Inc publication II THIS time OF the
United States Governments history of the
civil war in 1913 volumes OF narrative, and
81 volumes OF maps makes very timely the
publication of Col. Thomas L. Liver
moreis Numbers and Losses in the Civil
War" The work is based upon official in
formation contained in permanent de-
partment records of both sides in the
struggle, and gives the numbers engaged
and the losses sustained in the long con-
test between the North and the South
Aessrs. Houghton, Mifiiin & Co. will pub
l,sh the work.
The publishers of Monsieur Beaucaire"
announce another edition of the book
which will not be from the press for ten
days owing to the time required in color
printing.
The Life of Parkman" to be issued by
Little. Brown & Co.. is the work OF
Charles Haight Farnham. personal
friend of the historian. In 1885, writes
Mr,~Farnham in one passage, ''he eamped
with NE month on the Batiscan River
the first time this lover of wild life had
beento the woods in forty years. de-
lightful companion he was, interested in
all the labors and pleasures of camp life,
cheerful and patient under all eircum-
stances. The most interesting
mute approaches to nature after so many
years of separation. Ie would look up at
bold bluff that arcse several hundred
feet above the river, as II fam to scale
once more such lofty cliffs. Often he
would get into the canoe and float down
the river for a glimpse of our neighbors,
a family of beaver / recall most wildly
his expectant look of into the depths of
the forest as | once took my rod and pad
m civ inn do nf itt,fe
"
1.-The Marble Faun'' can be had in va
iiety of forms to an extent true Of al
most no other modern work. But a new
edition is announced by Messrs. Houghton,
iii ffiin e Co. for publication. 1t is in a
single volume printed from large type, and
-5ill have sixteen full-page half-tone il
Illustrations of views and statues and
buildings that most attract visitors in
Rome
Henry T. Coates Co., of Philadelphia,
a5;ncunce for early publication, q new is
sue of In the Pale: Stories and Legends
of the Russian Jews, by Henry Iliowizi,
b0e:' dealing with the life within what is
csiiGillly known as 'The Pale of Jewish
Settlement in Russia, and of which the
author speaks with the authority of per-
son3l knowledge.
In addition to a Life of ''Parkman," Lit
tie, Brown d Co. viii publish new edi-
ton of Parkman's Oregon Trail" with
seyenty-five illustrations by Frederic
Remington.
Lafcadio Hearn's recent writings on Jap
an, "Exotics and Retropectives" and In
Ghost!y Japan" will be followed by a new
volume entitled Shadowings. Little,
Brown & Co. are the publishers
books Received.