The San Francisco call., 1901-11-03

experience as a newspaper writer NA
theatrical man and has managed 5an1
A. Herne's play Shore Acres for
past eight years.
Two little books just issued by n
Century Company bid fair to run ed
other a lively race for popularity-"Mf
Wigs of the Cabbage Patch" by All
c. Hogan. and tom Beauling" by Cod
erneur Morris. They are both first bod
and they rival each other i'm brevity !
well as in brightness, Mr.. Morris std
containing less than 80 900 words and M
Hegan's less than 25,0OO tom BeauliTt
was sponsored by Richard Harding Dan
and Mrs Wigs" by Edwin Asa II
author of Deacon Bradbury"
Famous Sayings of Famous Amet
cans" is the title of a work that will
Issued by Frederick Fl. Johnson on
Courier Printing Company Syracus
n. Y. James j. Neville. a Syracuse neVA
paper editor. has gathered all of the N
table sayings of President Roosevelt,
late President Mckinley. former Pret
dent Grover Cleveland James G.. BIairl
Roscoe Conkling. William Fl. Seward 4
late President Benjamin Harrison WI
liam NJ. Evarts and General Grant. an
they will be placed before the public
an attractive form.
Mcclure. Phillips & Co. announcsk
publication about November 1 a secor
volume of Edwin Markhams poems ThI
will be the first collection of the poet
verse since the appearance of THE Ma
With the Hoe and Other Poems" and /
will test the lasting power of his genius
Conspicuous among the contents will bI
Lincoln, the Great COmmoner." which
gives the book its title: "The Muse of La
bOr'; "The Sower" and '1he Angelus. \
the last two being inspired. as was 18th,
Man With the Hoe by Mnlet's paintings
The editors of the series entitled eth,
Messages OF the Bible" published BY
Charles Scribners Sens. have received
letter from the Rev. Timothy Richard o
Shanghai, the secretary of the Society 70
the Diffusion of Christian and Genera
Knowledge among the Chinese, makins
proposals for a rendering of some of tn,
volumes, if not all. into Chinese for cir
culatiOn among the intelligent Christian
population of the empire. The fact tha
the volumes of this series put into an in
teresting and Ineligible form the sub
stance of Scripture as interpreted by tn,
reverent scholarship Of to-day make
them not only widely useful for all read
ers of the Bible but peculiarly suitable
for rendition into missionary verRaculaIs
Professor Henry A. Beers 3 has .tht
happy and not too frequent combinaLtoI
of literary charm and scholarly accuracy
Three years ago his History of Englisi
Romanticisn OF the Eighteenth Century
appeared. The reviewers were almOs
unanimous in their praise Of it. 1t Wa.
reprinted several times here, and also az
peared in an English edition. Messt'
Henry Holt & CO. viii now bring out "a
once the authors History of Englisl
Romanticism IN the Nineteenth Century
with chapters on the movements in Gec
many and France. Professor Been
writes, in his preface, that romantic lit
erature in the nineteenth century was "a
least twenty times as great as that o
the eighteenth. both in bulk and value
This should indicate that the attractive
ness of the new volume should be severd
times as great even as that Of the earlier
one.
Book World for November opens wit
a beautifully Illustrated and timely artt
Gle on ''The ObseQUies of a President.
There is an account of Mrs. Ellis Rowan
the famous painter of wild flowers illus
trated by photographs of her finest pic
lures. WaldOn Fawcett supplies a we
written paper on the manufacture @.
American steel and witty photographs o.
the more spectacular processes. The Sc
rics of papers by Mrs. Tfldsley on 10
a Child to Books will Prov
of great value 10 mothers. being the re-
suit of actual experiment The depare
ment recently opened under the caption
Books for the Children is an excellent
guide to those who endeavOr to supply
the wants of the little folks in this dlrec-
ton. Historic Ghosts is the name of a
paper we'll ADAPTED for Halloween read
ing, and short stories, literary reviews and
news of the stage and literary PERSONAL
ties make the number replete with inte~-
est and entertainments.