The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-26
Literary Notes


The Bookman publishes photo of Land
seer's painting of Sir Walter Scott and a
FULL page view Of Abbotsford.
Miss Ellen NJ. Stones narrative OF her six
months captivity among Macedonian brigands
will be published by Mcclure, Phillips & Co.
in the autumn.
George Allen, London publisher. is ar
ranging to bring out thirty volume edi-
ton of Ruskin's works. to be edited by Alex
ander Wedderburn, one of Ruskn's executors.
G. p. Putnam's Sons have issued Labor
and Capital: A Discussion of the Relation Of
Employers and Employed by labor leaders
and master employers. edited by Rev. John
p. Peters.
The Macmillan company will publish
Charles Majors new novel, Dorothy Yer
non Of Haddon Hall" in few days. The
story Is of the period OF the close Of the six
tenth century.
The Methuens of London, are publishing a
new edition of Miss Susan Ferriers novels.
The lady has been dead a half century, but 1t
Is said her Marriage and 1.-THE Inheri-
lance are still hungered for.
w. D. Howells bitterly complains OF annoy
ances by inquisitive young authors who both
er him with manuscripts and ask for advice.
and by autograph hunters He has to pay
Miss Jane Adams OF Hull House distinc-
ton has been honored by the publication Of
her book, Democracy and Social Ethcs' in
THE Citizens Library of Economies, Politics
and Sociology" edited by Professor Richard
T. Ely.
Mrs. Humphry Wards husband is jour
nalist and author and his edition of 1.-The
English Poets Is standard work of its class
Mrs. Ward was Mary Augusta Arnold and she
married him in 1872. In 1881 she had her
first book "Milly and Oily" published.
In the series of American Men OF Letters, .
Professor Woodberrys Hawthorne" and
Thomas Wentworth Higginson's 'Longfel-
low will be published soon and Professor
Bourne's Motley and Professor Carpenter
whittier" will be issued within this year.
Many lives of King Edward VII are issu-
ing in London now, in view Of the approach
ing coronation pageant. One Of them is in
four volumes, written by Penderel Brodhurst.
a newspaper man and a descendant OF the
Penderel who saved King Charles life at
Boscobel.
l.. G. Page & Co., Boston, announce ..The
Historical Memoirs OF John Heneage Jesse, -
complete in thirty volumes. These memoirs
cover the period beginning with the reign CT
James l. and extend to the time of George
III. The work contains 200 etchings and pho
to-etchings. printed on etching paper.
Miss A. c. uaut, author of Lords of the
North has written another story, "Heralds
of Empire which the Appletons will publish.
Readers of T he Journ al will be inter
ested in the forthcoming book having taken
much pleasure and profit in reading her for
mer great story as serial in this paper.
The Book Buyer for April is well-illus-
trated Among the portraits are those of Ger
trude Atherton, Henry B. Fuller, H. C.
Chatfeld Taylor with very cynical express
sion), Marion Crawford, in new pose; John
Bigelow at work: Glstave Dore, Eugene Sue,
Rembrandt, Peale, Hiram Powers and Henry
Beers.
The best authority on Finland and the Films
is said to be NJ c. Fredericksen's FINLAND"
which contains all desirable information on
the country's history and inhabitants, hith-
erto comparatively little known. The iron
hand of Russian restraint upon Finnish lib
critics has brought the little country into con-
spicuity.
Doubleday, Page & Co., announce new
book by Dr. w. S. Rainsford, rector of st.
Georges Church, New York, entitled 1.-THE
Reasonahleness OF Faith They will also
issue in book form 1.-The Misdemeanors of
Nancy by, Eleanor Heyt, the story having
been great success as serial in Every
body's Magazine.
j. NJ Bulloch, in a London letter to the
Book Buyer, says: "Only the other day The
Times called attention to the large number of
books now appearing in England which seem
to be of purely American interest. These
facts, added to the six American managed
theaters in London show how readily we are
becoming Americanized."
The University of Chicago will publish a
series of ten volumes in oommemoration of
the results and achievements of the first ten
years of the corporate existence of the insti-
tuition Eight of the volumes will represent
original research by members of the faculty,
beginning with 1.-The Velocity of Light by
Professor Albert A. Nicholson.
Voynich, the we'll known London dealer in
early printed books is Pole of noble family,
who was banshed to Siberia by the Russian
government, and, after much tribulation.
escaped to England, where he started as a
bookseller with about five dollars. He has
now large business in medieval books. His
wife is the author of ''The Gahily" and 'Jack
Raymond.
Minna Smith in the Book Buyer makes the
statement that the late Elizabeth Peabody
loved Nathaniel Hawthorne devotedly but
he fell in love with her sister Sophia. This
has been published some time ago, but 1t
seems that Elizabeth worked hard to get
Hawthorne's earlier manuscripts published,
when he was struggling for recognition and
was poor.
j. F. Taylor & Co., New York, announce a
new illustrated edition of that always pop
ular book, Elizabeth Prentiss Stepping
Heavenward.'' 1t will be read when all the
popular boom novels of to-day are buried
in oblivion. They also announce The Log
Of the Gloucester" compiled by Commander
Wainwright of that vessel, who did such va
liant work in the naval battle of Santiago.
Mrs. Craik's John Halifax, Gentleman, .
first published in 1857, Is still in demand. 1t
has been published in French, German, Greek,
Italian and Russian versions. 1t has recently
been ISSUED in the Coronation series OF
novels by the London publishing house OF
Treherne. Mrs. Craik wrote forty-six books.
Her first novel was "The Ogilvies,' published
in 1s49. Her last novel. ."rhe Little Lame
Prince appeared in 1874.
In the "Self and Sex series, published by
the vir Publishing company of Philadelphia
(price sly has been issued What a Woman
of Forty five Ought to Know by Mrs. Emma
F. II. Drake, NJ D., author of the 81, 600 prize
book, What a Young Wife Ought to Know
The books Of this series are written with the
honest, serious intention to give proper infor-
nation to the thoughtless or ignorant of both
sexes touching the maintenance of personal
purity and health.
Their is pleasing passage in Mr.. sping-
ain s poem .Prothalamion, in the April At
lantic:
"No time is this for peril or for pain.
When bright-eyed April plays her happiess
part,
Smiling through dewy lashes; no time this,
When youth meets youth, and bridegroom
takes his bride,
And love and living seem single bliss.
rapture in the twilight clasp of arms,
melody, o joy of virgin charms,