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visions. Of Browning's "Dramatis Personae"
QS6D brought $455,
Scribner & Sons secured copy Of the first
edition OF Milton's Paradise Lost" pub
lished in 1867, for $3.50, at a recent auction
sale OF books in New York. In 1881. the
widow of Milton sold out all her rights in
the book for $40 Milton himself sold his
manuscript OF Paradise Lost" in 1867. at G5
for the first 1SO0 copies.
d. Appleton & Co. announce a new three
volume edition OF Maclay's standard History
OF the United States Navy A new chapter
on blockade runners has been added to the
second volume and the account Of the con-
federate cruisers has been enlarged. This
firm has just issued ''The Luck OF the Walls,
by e. f. Benson, and "The Great war Trek, -
an account of the Anglo-Boer war, by James
Barnes, war correspondent
Houghton, Mifiin Co., Boston, announce
The Second Book of Birds, by Olive Thorne
Miller, who has had admirable success in
making science pleasant reading.
Houghton, Mifiin & Co. announce "Substi-
tutes for Saloons book giving the testi-
mony of labor leaders as to the attitude of
their organizations toward drinking places
and the drinking habit.
The London Chronicle tells this Thackeray
story: "Thackeray had written, in an early
chapter of Pendennis, that the wickedest
characters always found some one to love
them. and mentioned as probable cases in
point Bluebeard, Nero and Catherine Hayes
Now. the Catherine Hayes whom Thackeray
had in his mind had committed a murder of
there was another Catherine Hayes, an
amiable young lady of Irish origin who was
then singing in opera The Freeman's Jour
nal. OF Dublin, denounced him as guilty OF
unmanly grossness and cOwardly assault ;
Thackeray replied with a letter, headed Ca
pers and Anchovies in which he told the
story of an Irishman who called out a
stranger for questioning his assertion that
anchovies might be seen growing on the rock
of Gibraltar. He killed his opponent, who
sprung into the air as the bullet hit him, and
his second exclaimed: You're making him cut
capers' 'Bedad,' said the Irishman thought
fully. 1T was capers meant.
Every One His Own Way Is the interest
ing title OF a volume OF very bright interest
ing stories, by Edith Wyatt New York: Nc
Clure, Phillips & Co. Minneapolis: n. Nc
Carthy. Price $1.50), each Of which presents
some phase Of life in Chicago, and generally
depicts some act OF real heroism or kindness
on the part OF people in the humber walks
of life. The reader has glimpses of pretty
shop girls and shop men and clerks. their
joys, pleasures and sorrows and kindliness
and heroism. And there is a large element
of humor in these stories, like "a Question
Of Service" Two Citizens" "A Failure, :"
Stork," and ''The Parents Assistant" There
are twenty stories in the book Each is a
snap shot at somebody's Gown way" and
the result is interesting.
deserved reputation as literary artist
through her Concerning Isabel Curnaby, .
IA Double Thread, (" 1.-THE Farringdons" ETC.,
and, in her new volume of short stories enti-
tied Sirius (New York: D. Appleton &
Co., S1.5O) she exhibits a new phase of her
versatility. The title story, a very peculiar
love story, is one of twenty picturing differ
ent phases Of English life and some of them
reflect the strong religious faith Of the tall
ented author in a very attractive way. The
pages are bright with the fine humor of Miss
Fowler and epigrams brilliant and pungent
Miss Latimer's Lover" "The Witch's
Spell,' Lady Marion's Cruise" Phillip
Maysfeld's Wife" "a Miniature Moloch, -