The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-01-07
I literary NOTES
- FOR JANUARY.

hA r. MARION CRAWFORD has
been writing about August
Mau's "Pompeii: Its Life and
n u Art" which has just been pub
lished by the Macmillan Com
pany. In alluding't to the points
especially worthy of notice, he says: II
would mention particularly the very clear
and concise yet simple and familiar def
nitions of the successive periods in the
development of artistic work found in the
excavated city; the extreme precision of
the descriptions where the construction and
uses of any building, or of any mechanical
contrivance are described; the wisdom and
tact with which the writer has avoided
points that might offend good taste, or
which have no value for the general pub
lis. and little or none for students; the ex-
traordinary, convincing reconstruction of
Pompeiian life, as. for instance, in tine
account of the procession which opened
the performances at the theater, and of
everything connected with baths and bath
ing; and lastly, though many others might
be mentioned, the abstention from social
ed learned notes and the insertion of all
learned references in the main text, nat
urally and easily, with an immediate trans
lation of such Latin or Greek words as 1t
is necessary to give in their ancient form.
Prof Mau had produced an.eminent-
ly scientific and trustworthy book, such
as scholar may use with full confidence;
it in such a way that the general reader
can understand it, profit by 1t, and enjoy
1t without having spent twenty years in
the study of the classics and half a dozen
more in an archaeological institute"
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BY special arrangement with Henryk
Sienkiewicz, Little Brown & Co., of Bos-
ton, are publishing his new and powerful
historical romance, THE knights of the
I'm nd
1t is translated with the authors sanction
and approval by jeremiah Curtin, whose
TRANSACTIONS of "Quo Vadis," with Fire
and Sword" 1.-THE Deluge." Pan
Michael" etc., have made the name CT
Sienkiewicz famous. The first half of the
ton and the complete story will be publish
ed as soon as the author has finished the
work.
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..Three Men on Four Wheels is Jerome
K. Jeromes rather eccentric title for the
series OF humorous stories which he has
Just completed for the Saturday Evening
Post, of Philadelphia. Everyone who has
read "Three Men in Boat will wish to
follow the misadventures of Mr.. Jerome
and his two companions on their tour
through Germany astride a tandem ana
safety. Mr.. Jeromes wit is no less keen,
nor his humor less kindly, than when he
scored his first great literary success ten
years ago. The first story of Mr.. Jerome's
series will appear in the Post of January
6. 1t has been superbly illustrated in half
tone by Mr.. Harrison Fisher.
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lie Pedant Joue." comedy by the
famous Cyrano de Bergerac, has Just
been given by the Cercle Francois of
Harvard university. To meet the very
deep interest the play has aroused in the
French literary public. Mr. Jean de Peif-
fer, the editor of the French Boston
weekly, L'Echo dc la Semaine, has pub
lished the acting edition of lie Pedant
Joue," illustrated with portrait OF
Cyrano de Bergerac. a view of his
chateau, etc. Prof. Ferdinand Bocher,
of Harvard. has written preface, and
Mr.. Fl. B. Stanton Oh. u. 1900 an intro
'duction On English). The Introduction
prepared BY Mr. Il B. stanton. on the