The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-02-17
LITERARY NOTES.

| Room" The club celebrated the first
| Twelfth Night of the new century by
frolic, in which Mr. Henry B. Fullers
| latest novel, THE Last Refuge, was the
| target for their fun-making. The cnar-
| acters of the book were impersonated oy
| hungry poets disguised as lovers ana
| loveresses,' some of whom were Hobart
| Chatfeld-Taylor, Sam It. Clover, manag.
| ing editor of the Chicago Evening Post.
who is believed to be the last white man
who saw Sitting Bull alive; f. Hough.
author of The Girl at the halfway
House" Franklin I: Head, and Harriet
was Master of the Revels,'' the nature of
which is limited at In the statement on
| the programme that the management Is
not responsible for the poems and cos
| tunes used in this production.
When the Bowen-Merrill Company were
getting out PATRON Van Valkenberg,
| Henry Thew Stephenson's story of old
New York, one of their editors wrote the
author a personal letter, in which he
asked in the hope of learning whether or
| not the professor would make good COM
| panion, IL he preferred Lamb or Milton
! Now as a compliment, the editor discard
| ed the typewriter and scratched his la
| borious note with stub pen; so when the
| author came to answer the enquiry, he
| wrote: Il do not know whether you ask
| if / Ike Lamb or mutton. or Lamb or
| Milton best; but in either case It's Lamb.
| The editor catalogued the professor as
good man to know.
| Cassell & Co. are publishing Chinese
Pictures by Mrs. ]. F. Bishop. 1t is
collection of some sixty photographs taken
by intelligent observer while travelling
through China and Illustrating most of
the phases of the social life and customs
OF that Interesting country. The photo
graphs are accompanied by explanatory
notes.
John Uri Lloyd has offered a reward for
| Information as to the authorship of the
old Confederate ballad. THE Southern
Girl"
The publication of the Riverside Bio
graphical Series, begun with the work of
William CARROT Brown on Andrew Jack
son. followed almost Immediately by lit
tie volumes on ''Eads'' and Franklin.
is to be continued about the middle OF
Houghton. Miffiin & Co., OF like volumes
on Peter Cooper" by Rossiter w. Ray
mond; Thomas Jefferson" by III. c. Mer-
win: and William Penn" by the Rev.
George Hodges, dean of the Episcopal
Theological School, Cambridge, Mass. The
Penn" volume receives curious interest
from its frontispiece, which is portrait
of the peaceful Quaker In military uni
form. painted in 1866. The portrait of JEFF
ferson is from the Saint Memin painting.
made in 1906 The Cooper portrait is from
photograph taken In the philanthropist's
ninety-third year. The object sought in
the Biographies is to present general es-
innate OF the subjects powers and
achievements, rather than a minute ap-
praisal of them.
Jonathan Edwards: A Retrospect" is
the title OF volume of addresses deliv-
cred last year at the unwilling of
memorial in commemoration of the great
theologian's dismissal from the First
Church of Christ Northampton, Mass
which will be published by Houghton, Milf
fin q Co. The addresses were not mere
eulogieS, but attempts toward a Just esti-
mate of a man who is still considered by
scholars to be the greatest theologian and
metaphysician this country has produced
and the book will be valuable therefore TO
students of American religious develop
ment and to serious readers generally.
Delivered by such men as DIR. George A.
Gordon. Prof. A. V. G. Allen, DR.. George
7. Fisher, DR.. Alexander T. Ormond. DR..
Henry 7. Rose, President E. c. Smith
and DR.. II. Norman Gardiner the ad-
dresses present an informing picture of
the man and his times and careful APP
probation of his work and its influence.
The volume Will contain portraits of Ed
wards and of his wife. and view of the
memorial tablet.
ne INiNeTsiue Art series Will shortly re-
ceive two additions in volumes on 'MurilIo
and Greek Sculpture" Each of these has
sixteen full-page illustrations of paintings
and sculptures reproduced in the best
form Photographic printing processes can
give them. They are wholly untechnical
and are calculated to introduce their re-
spectiVe subjects in the simplest manner
TO young people and to older persons de- |
string art information.
From the countless books upon native |
flowers that have been issued during the |
past half dozen years, it would seem that
BILE side, yet Mrs. Mabel Osgood Wright
In her forthcoming book The Flowers |
and Ferns in Their Haunts'' (Macmillan), |
treats them from wholly new standpoint |
The Hover is not considered merely as an |
aggregation of calyX. Corolla, stamens
and pistil that leads to its correct naming. |
or from the complex mechanism that calls |
for the aid of insects to ensure its fertili- |
cation. but for its value a part of the |
landscape.
The book is divided into twelve sections: |
The Coming of Spring" Along the |
Waterways Escaped from Gardens" |
In Silent Woods" Humble Orchids" |
Poisonous Plants" The Triumph of the |
farers.' The Fantasies of Ferns The |
open Fields and Aftermath"
A novel by a new writer will be The |
Heritage of Unrest by Gwendolen Over |
ton. which the Macmillan Company will |
publish in a few weeks. II is a novel of |
frontier and army life, the scene of which |
is laid in the Southwest at the time of the |
serious Indian troubles under Geronimo in |
the late seventies and early eighties.
New Books Received.