The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-02-24
LITERARY NOTES.


LITERARY NOTES.
In connection with Chatto & Windus,
the A. Vessels Company will publish ear
ly in March Robert Louis Stevenson: A
Life Study in Criticism" by Mr.. II. y.
Baildon- at present lecturer on English
literature in the University of Vienna,
VINO was an old schoolmate of Stevenson.
A very pretty valentine volume of love
stories has just been issued by Mcclure,
Phillips & Co, under the title Love
The stories are selected from McClure's
Magazine and this volume will form one OF
a series of five TO be issued this spring
The other titles are Comedy Politics,
Youth, and The Railroad"
The imperative demands of commerce
and its iconoclastic spirit are rapidly de-
stroying the old landmarks of New York.
and had 1t not been for the worthy efforts
of various patriotic societies many of the
historic spots of old Manhattan wouie
have been obliterated and left unmarked.
In his Landmark history of New York
Mr.. Ulmann conducts party or lnquls.-
tive young people through the city visit
ing all places that have historic interest,
and examining the many commemorative
tablets with appropriate inscriptions that
have fortunately been erected at various
points. To make clear the full significance
of these tablet-marked sites, the author
weaves around these reminders of the
city's early days some very interesting and
graphic stories, not only OF important
events, but of the characteristics and ca
reers of these individuals that have fig
ured prominently in the development.
from little Dutch town, of our metropo-
lis. 1t Is a book that the old New Yorker
as well as the young New Yorker VIII
read with profit and enjoyment. The va
ne of the book is much enhanced by the
addition of a comprehensive bibiiography,
list of references and explanation of the
origins of street names.
D. Appleton & co. will publish THE
Private Life OF King Edward VII" by a
member of the royal household. uniform
with The Private Life of the Queen
Pleasures of the Telescope a descrip-
tive guide for amateur astronomers, by
Garrett p. Serviss, of Brooklyn; Some
Ill-used Words. a manual for those who
desire to acquire correct use of the Eng
fish language, by Mr.. Alfred Ayres;
Betsy Ross, Romance Of the Flag" ny
{. c. Hotchkiss, author of I'm Defiance of
the King" a new and practically rewrit-
ten edition of General James Harrison
Wilson's China" "A Textbook of As
tronomy,' by Prof. George c. Comstock,
of Washburn Observatory; The Elemen-
tary Principles of Chemistry" by Abram
Van Fps Young, Phi. B., professor of
Chemistry in the Northwestern Universe
y. Evanston, Ill; Tables of Weights.
Measures, Coins, etc, of the United
States and England. with their Equiv
alents in the Metric System" by T. Egles-
ton. Phi. D.; and "A Royal Exchange
by J. MacLaren Cobban.
Brentanos will publish early in the
spring My Ocean Trip work appeal
ing especially to tourists and travellers
being a volume arranged for the record to
be kept of an ocean voyage. In addition
to the pages for the record. there are
many items of interest, such as complete
code of signals series Of games for ship
board, entertainments. pages for the auto
graphs OF fellow passengers, and many
other specialties which will appeal at once
to the ocean traveller The plates In the
book will he printed in appropriate colors,
and the volume will be issued in n form
calculated to satisfy the most refined
taste. 1t will be found in every way su-
periOr to anything of the kind hitherto
published.
F NJ. Lupton Publishing Company will
issue at an early date "Gwynett of Thorn
haugh," a romance by Frederick W
Hayes. author Of a Kent Squire to
which this book forms sequel.
D. Appleton & Co have ready manual
Alfred Ayres It is levcled especially ut
some half dozen errors that are made BY
well nigh every writer and speaker
friend of Mr.. Ayres recently perpetrated
the following epigram, which has been
utilized on "A boOkmark by Mr.. Ayres' pub
fishers:
BE Won poor or be you rich,
You may misuse that for which.
Many, with no thought Of i'll,
When they should say shah, say will.
All these common hltndcrs grow
In the field IT speech, like tareS;
lou can root them out YOU knOs
II you follow Alfred Ayresi
Brentanos are about issuing work OF
unique value entitled Lessons in Law for
Women" by Walter S. Cox. retired Jus
tice, Supreme Court. District Of Columbia
The author in his profession has been
often impressed with the helpIessness of
bility to be imposed upon. and their entire
ignorance Of the simplest rules and princi-
pies of law.
The immediate and continuous success
of THE Joy Of Capt. Ribot." from the
Spanish master Of fiction. Valdes pub
lished last year, has encouraged Brenta-
nos to follow with still more powerful:
work from this author. entitled, The
Fourth Estate The story as in the case
Of the former. is of Spanish provincial
life, but with a complicated and singularly
effective plot involving the different politi-
cal factions of a small city. The character
sketching is most mastery. and the whole
written in the crisp. clear style for which
this author is so justly famed The can
vas on which this is drawn is larger than
any of his previous efforts, and his char
acterS stand out with viVidness and dis
tinctiOn comparable only with Thomas
Hardy at his best. Valdes has done for
the prov nc al SDauish rnidl @ classes yybat
Hardy has achieved for the English of
Wessex. The translation is in itself
worthy Of the mastery original.
Frederic Harrison says Of the style of
Maurice Hewlett:
Mr.. lcTlett's style is at any rate his own;
1t Is part Of his very skin and bone as complete
ly part u his nature a. were the STYLES Of
Carlyle or Macaulay. There is no trace of tricl
or imitation about it. It Is style Of singular
tcrsgncsS Of bold imagery, Of keen stroke II
admits phrases artificial harsh obscure. if Won
please forced metaphors obsolete and new-coined
words not few. ] cannot deny that this consti.
tutes manncrism; and As | have said
lnathe mauncrism do the reck of stale to-
bacco. But that mInncrism which is real
part Of the mans brain. bred from lac0nic
temper, native turn for imagery, and Il persona
SAVIOUR III the touth>onc phrase-this We have
10 take a. We find 1t, even a. we take the epi-
grams OF Taciius, The euphuiSm OF Sir Thomas
Browne or the tropcs and nicknames of CARLYLE
| do not pretend that Maurice Hewlett has earn
ed the right Of these great masters Of language
To force upon rs his linguistic fances; but
ind, even in many OF them which l frankly
regret, and almost personally rcsen: being asked
to unriddc, a scholarship. wealth OF dctiou.
and picturesque personality which ! am forced
to admit are rXtenuatinS cirDumstduc even 1t
The bar Of an average jury with conventional
canons Of English prose.
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