The times., 1901-06-16

| the Latin speaking countries of America
will undoubtedly receive a large share OF
the public attention. The announcement
of new book entitled Latin America, u
The Pagans, The Papists, The Patriots
The Protestants and The Present Prob
byterian Mission, Mexico, is therefore
timely.
In Far Bohemia" one of Mrs. Evelyn
Greenleaf Sutherlands one-act plays, was
recently performed with great success by
the students of the University of Califor-
MIA.
a reviewer in the Outlook" thinks he
has discovered that the author of The
Story of Eva" is a woman. To be sure,
the name of the author, VIII Payne, sug-
gests a pseudonym, and the extraordinary
understanding of feminine character the
book discloses suggests woman hand,
but the publishers offer positive assur-
ance that the author is masculine. MI
Payne was at one time city editor OF the
Chicago News one OF the editors of
the Economist of Chicago.
Ralph Connors new novel, THE Man
From GIengarry,'' is booked to arrive
early next fall The Man From Glen
garry" is a story of the East and the
Great Northwest The opening scenes are
laid in that intensely interesting district
lying between the Ottawa River and the
st. Lawrence, known as The Indian
Lands" where types of old Scottish High
landers, French Canadian, and American
character meet in pioneer settlement he
DIR. Azel Ames. a pilgrim antiquarian
and enthusiast, by study of the history,
model, rig, charter, officers, crew, passen-
ger lists, quarters, provisioning, lading
etc, of the Mayfower. has been enabled
to reconstruct the log of the famous
little vessels first voyage to America,
and has arranged for it's publication
through Messrs. HougEton, Miffiin & Co.
under the title The Mayfower and Her
Log This treatment of the voyage gives
to il a relshing flavor of reality and in
vests an old event with new interest and
Importance.
DR.. w. a. P. Martin, the President of
the Chinese Imperial University and
author of Cycle of Cathay," Siege in
Pekin," etc, who arrived here last fail
after being shut up in the British Lega-
tion during the siege, has returned to
Pekin to resume his duties. The manu-
script of his work TO be entitled, The
Lore of Cathay,' is now in the hands Of
his publishers, Fleming II. Revel Com
pany, to be issued in the early fall.
After completing the first four volumes
in the series of Historical Guides, Paris"
Venice, Florence" and THE Cities of
Belgium" Mr. Grant Aliens labors were
cut short by his death. He had. how
ever, sufficiently mapped out the plan of
the series for sympathetic hands to
carry on his work Mr.. G. c. Williamson
has been asked to continue the series
and had talked over the series with Mr..
Allen many times, thus he knows well
what were his ideas and with many of
them is in fullest accord. He has just
completed THE Cities Of Northern ItaIv
A. Vessels Company. New York, and Mr.
Grant Richards, London.
Mrs Olive Thorne Miller is one of the
most observant and best informed of
writer's about birds. while no one writes
with more unfeigned enthusiasm and
genuine feeling for the world of feather
ed creatures. She has completed The
Second Book of Birds" which supple
ments and extends her First Book of
Birds by delightful studies of such we'll
known bird families as the wren, crow,
sparrow. backhird. lark, swift. etc, to
the number of thirty. 1t is written in a
way to interest boys and girls in bird life
as wen as instruct them. and it contains
tWenty-four full-page ilustrati0ns-eigh
of which are colOred. The volume will be
published this spring by Messrs Hough-
ton, Mittlin q CO.
Among the features of Appleton's Die
of New York will be new illus
trations and a map showing the new
ranid transit route. The new edition Of
this practical guide-book is to be publish
ed immo ulately.
THE Bookman" says:
The roll Of foreign authors who visited America
during the quarter century lately closed opens
in brilliant fashion with the names OF Mines,
Huxley Black and Stanley. All his life Richard
Nouekt0n Mines first Lord Houghton displaved
an especial fOndness for Americans and when he
came To the United States in 1873 the warmth
of the welcome he found waiting him could not
have disappointed one who had long been counted
the most popular nobleman in London. Recoi-
lcctions Of Houghton's stay in this country are
generally unrecorded, but whenever they are told
they invariably pay homage to the poets really
fine nature. his generous and tolerant spirit,
his charm and ease OF manner, and his unrivalCd
gifts as a convcrsationalist. Few men," writes
John Bigeow, who knew him well, ever said
less they would have wished not to have said,
or said what they had to say in better manner,
and few men of so large an acquaintance have
ever lived all of whose talk was So well worth
preserving. He richly deserved a Boswell
A volume of history dealing with the
struggles for Catholic supremacy in the
last years of Queen Elizabeth is about to
be published by the Appletons under the
title, Treason and Plot" The book is
based to q considerable extent upon ma
terial now used for the first time, espe-
,ialIy the Spanish manuscripts transcrib-
ID at Simancas, and also manuscripts in
he possession of Lord Calthorpe, and un-
published papers in the Archives Nation
tles Paris. IL has been usually assumed
that with the defeat of the Armada the
attempts to secure Catholic supremacy in
England and an alliance with Spain came
TO an end. but DR.. Hume is able 10 show
the continuance of this effort from 1893
TO 1903.
There is a society somewhere i'm this
called THE Alice Society,"" in
which the ceremony of initiation requires
that the Following sentence shall be
learned in five minutes from verbal dicta-
ton: Never imagine g"nrself not to be
otherwise than what it might appear to
others that what you were or might have
been was not otherwise than what you
had been would have appeared to the IN
to be otherwise" We submit to The Al
Ice Society" by the way, the interesting
that Messrs. Harper " Bros.
have in preparation an edition of Alice
in Wonderland to he fully Illustrated nv