The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-01
Literary Notes


The Century company announces 'HUniver-
sty Problems by DR.. Daniel c.. Gilman.
Benjamin Kids Social Evolution" has
been translated into seven foreign languages.
Edgar Saltus the novelist. is suing his
wife for separation on the ground OF aoan-
Comment
A. c. McClurg & Co., Chicago, announce
a new edition of Professor James Baldwin's
Book Lover"
The interstate commerce commission is pre-
barring s'Ten-Year Book on Railways in the
United States
Kipling's kim" is now appearing seria1ly
in the Paris LIE Matin. The authorized trans
lator is M. Fabulet.
Funk e Wagnalls will publish this month
''The Standard Primary School Dictionary,
containing $4,000 words.
Dodd, Mead & Co. announce Paul Laurence
Dunbar's new novel, 1.-THE Sport Of the Gods,
a story Of negro life in the south.
Dr. Henry Van Dykes volume of short
stories, 1.-The Ruling Passion has achieved
its sixty-fifth thousand since it appeared, in
October -
Doubleday, Page & Co. have received res
quest for the right of translating and pub
fishing Booker Washington's autobiography
into Arabic.
edition Of General j. H. Wilson'S valuable
work, China, Travels and Investigations IN
the Middle Kingdom"
Mrs Craige C'John oliver Hobbes'') writes
three or four books simultaneously; that is.
she writes some on each every day or Two
She is now writing a comedy.
In England there were 6,044 books published
last year, Of which 1900 were new editions.
The record shows that the issues were 1000
less than those Of last year and 1900.
DR.. Herbert "A Giles, who has been ap-
pointed first lecturer on Chinese literature
at Columbia University, is the foremost au-
has written many valuable books on China
Hilaire Belize, author of '.Robespierre y
which the Scribner's have just published.
says he knows Robespierre has been written
up to exhaustion, but, as nobody has tried
to explain him, he has undertaken to do So
Dodd Mead & Co., New York. announce
the publication Of the full text of Lewis
and Clark's journals of their famous expedi-
ton across the continent. The manuscript
is owned by the American Philosophical So
ciety Of Philadelphia.
The complete edition OF Tolstoy's works
has sold to the extent of 100000. There have
been 200 German translations of his works,
$50 French, Is English, 80 Danish, rs Swed-
ish, several Tartar, Japanese, Hindustanee
and Turkish editions.
An original poem by Mary Lamb, the sis
| ter of Charles Lamb, hitherto unpublished,
addressed to Emma Isola and transcribed in
| the handwriting Of Charles Lamb is in the
hands of the Hodgsons Of London, to DO SOTO
| at their next book sale.
| The international congress of historical sci
ences will meet at Rome in April. An Amerl-
| can committee has been added to the section
! on medieval and modern Nteratures, consist
| ing of Professor Gayley Of the University OF
California, Professor Beers Of Yale, DR.. F. L
/ Carpenter of Chicago, DR.. ]. b. Spingam OF
| Columbia and Professor Rennert OF the Uni
| versity OF Pennsylvania
/ Miss Elizabeth Robbins, who wrote s"The
| Open Question:" few years ago, and showed
I that she could write we'll as well as act vel
on the stage, is to play Luerezin at st
l James theater, London, in Stephen Phillips
I drama, "Paola and Francesca Miss Rob
bins, like Mary Anderson and some othel
recognized dramatic talent, came from Louis
| Vile, KY, appearing at hrst under the stage
l name Claude Raymond.
The Oldest map on which the name Americs
| appears has recently been found in the library
Of Prince Waldbourg, at his castle in Wur
4 temburg. The map was made by German
photographer, Martin Waldseemuller, and pub
! lished In 1907, together with book iI
| which he proposed to call the new world after
Amerigo Vespucci, believing him to have been
| the disccverer. He later discovered his error
! and his later maps do not bear the name
Aaerigo, but it stuck and will stick doubt
| less until time shall end.
Our new acquisition the Danish West India
Islands. present 4 fresh field for the writer's