The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-08-12
LITERARY NOTES.

LITERARY NOTES.
Mr.. Give Holland is writing a sequel to
the novel which first brought him promI-
ncntly before the public, MY japanese
Wife"
Dodd, Mead & Co. are preparing for pub
LEGATION new novel, THE Courtesy
Dome" by Murray Gilchrist, writer bet
ter known in England than in this coun-
try.
The September Atlantic Monthly" Will
contain two timely contributions In a pa
per by Mr.. Brooks Adams, on "Russia's
Interest in China" and Some Philippine
Sketches" BY Mr.. Phelps Whitmarsh.
The Putnams have been hurrying
through the press a work OF special in
terest at his time. "A Brief History of
Eastern Asia," by Mr.. l. c. Hannal, for
many years a Government instructor at
Tientsin.
new periodical of ambitious aim is to
be started in England early next year and
called THE Ladies Magazine" Some of
the more popular English writers will con-
tribute to its first number
The complete edition of the works OF
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, which
Houghton. Mifflin & Co are now prepar-
ing. will be in seven volumes. II will con-
tain three portraits OF the author taken at
different stages in his career.
The new novel by Mr.. Henry James
promised for the autumn bears the charac-
teristic title of THE Soft Side"
More than two hundred thousand copies
of ITO Have and to Hold have now been
sold. and the demand for the book still
continues. If the decentralization of the
work proves successful the story will
doubtless have a fresh boom" The writ
ing of the stage version is said to have
been entrusted to Mr.. Ernest Baddington,
dramatic critic Of the Brooklyn Eagle"
Mr.. Walter H Page. OF the firm of
Doubleday, Page & Co, succeeds Mr.. Henry
Tyrrell as editor of Frank Leslie's
Monthly"
In "QuisaEte" Anthony Hope Is report
ed to have turned from the romantic novel
to the treatment " English political and
social life, for which he showed a fond
ness early in his career. The book will
probably appear next month.
A volume OF articles by the late G.. w.
Stevens, entitled Things Seem" which
has been highly praised in England, will
soon be brought out in this country by
Dodd, Mead & Co., with long introduce
ton by Mr.. w. E. Henley.
As soon as Mr.. Hamlin Garldnds new
novel, THE Eagles Heart" completes its
serial course in THE Saturday Evening
Post" the Appletons will bring it out in
book form. 1t deals with those phases of
Western country life with which Mr.. Gar
land is thoroughly familiar. 1t is the
most ambitious work of fiction that the
author has undertaken in several years
in fact. since he began his Life of Grant"
which kept him from story writing for
two years.
Mcclure, Phillips e Co. are to bring cut
next month a volume entitled THE Jump
ing Kangaroo and the Apple Butter Cat"
by John W. Harrington, with nearly fifty
animal drawings by Condo.
"The Image Breakers" announced as
IAN important novel of Socialism" by Ger
trude Dix, which was to appear this sum
mer has been held back till the autumn.
Joel Chandler Harris will furnish the
introduction to Down South" book of
reproductions of Rudolf Eickemeyer, jrs
beautiful photographs of picturesque negro
life which will be published by r. H. Rus
sell early in the fall. Mr.. Eickemeyer,
who is a member of the Camera Club and
has won enviable fame with his artistic
photography, has also contributed a series
of remarkable pictures of truly children"
IN mako an attractive book called an and