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THE Oldest Code of Laws In the
World imported by the Messrs. Serb
ner, is a translation by @. II. w.
Johns of the recently discovered Ham
murabi code.
#. S. Dellenbaugh, author Of THE
Romance Of the Colorado River" pub
lished by G. p. Putnam's Sons, is now
travelling in Utah and Arizona collect
ing material for forthcoming books.
Russell Sturgis has just handed In
to Dodd, Mead & Co. the manuscript
Of his rewritten, paraphrased, aug.
mented and translated version of VIII.
helm Lubke's Outlines of the History
of Art"
"The Moth Book" by w. j. Holland
Is to be u companion volume to the
authors work on butterflies. 1t will
appear in the fall with the imprint Of
Doubleday, Page & Co. DR.. Holland
has been at work on the book for sew
eral years.
The author Of His Daughter First"
Arthur Sherburne Hardy, was United
| 1901, but those were less exciting
times there than the present. He is
now at the head of the American en-
| bassy at Madrid.
Professor Percival Lowell, head of
the Lowell Observatory at Flagstaff,
Ari., has just published a book of six
popular lectures on The Solar Sys-
tenn" in which he has much to say
about Mars, having made q special
study of this planet for some years.
Jean Webster, a girl whose first
book, when Patty Went to College,"
has been favorably received, is
grandniece of Mark Twain Her IA
Their, Charles Webster, was one of the
partners of the Inflated publishing
firm of which Mark Twain was a
member.
Ainsworth's "Old st. Pauls" Is i'm
ported by the Messrs. Scribner in the
"CaXton" thin paper reprints of ia
nous English novels. We have also
Evelyn's "Diary" in similar form.
Both volumes have flexible leather
covers and are exceedingly attractive
in execution.
Street & Smith, New York, mas is
sued in attractive paper cover, "Wee
Macgregor," the widely read story Of
the canny Scotch youngster who dip
lomatically wins over his parents to
his way of thinking. Parents will get
many a good laugh from this little
book, which can be had for % cents.
l feel like saying TO any young girl
who inclines to rhyme, Don't senu-
mentalize! Write more of what you
see than of what you feel, and let your
feelings realize themselves. to others
in the shape of worthy actions. Then
they will be natural, and will furnish
you with something worth writing."-
Lucy Larcom.
Charles Battell LOOMS, in, addition
to Cheerful Americans" expects to
weeks through the Lothrop Publish
ing Company. 1t is entitled "a Part
nership in Magic" you see," he adds
in a recent communication to a friend,
lit is three years since my last book
came out and so | feel justified In
coming out double"
The Novels and Poems of Charles
Kingsley" are being reissued in a I'll
brary edition" by j. Il. Taylor & Co.
Four volumes are now at hand, two
of them being 'Hereward the Wake"
> and the other Alton Locke" The
special feature of this edition Is found
in the introductions to the several
! works. prepared by Maurice Kingsley.
, the eldest son of the author
{ Here are some of the gifts showered
< upon Anthony Hope the other day
when he welded his American bride,
r Miss Elizabeth Sheldon; Edmund
D Gosse, liquor set; Mrs. Humphry
5 Ward, set of Matthew Arnold's po-
ems; Mr.. and Mrs. j. NJ. Barrie, an
5 antique cabinet; Mr.. and Mrs. w. L.
e Courtney, a coal box, and the Authors
= Society, a silver punch bowl