The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-04-27

1 circulation, it having been copied in 1 various papers in different parts of the country
 Mrs H. M. Lothrop, better known by
 her pen-name of Margaret Sidney,
 dormerly in her girlhood days resided
 on Elm street, New Haven,) has plac-
 ed in the hands of her publishers, Lo- throp, Lee & Shepard, the manuscript for an 11th volume of the popular Pepper Books" to be entitled Five
 Little Peppers in the Little Brown House.
 George Cary EggIeston has just sent to his publishers, Lothrop, Lee & Shep- ard company, the manuscript for an historical story of unusual interest, en- titled Long Knives" based upon the famous George Rogers Clark. expedition from the hero of which Mr.. Eggleston is eollaterally descended.
 The latest work of fiction by Mir. Howells is entitled Through the Eye of the Needle" and 1t will be published at once by Harper & Bros It introduces us to those favorite Howellsisn types, she traveller from Altruria and the charming American woman. The title signifies that the heroine finds herself confronted by the alternative of re- her great fortune, which would be of no use In Altruria, or, of giving up the happiness of marrying the man she loves and the ideal land to which he would take her.
 Was. Ralph Waldo Emerson the orig nator of the Baconian theory? New Shakespeareana for April will contain the opening chapter of Dr. Appleton Morgan's autobiography in which he discusses the above question and gives many curious facts tending to prove that Mir. Emerson disbelieved in Shakespeare's authorship of the plays, and was the actual originator of all the anti i-Shakespearean theories. There | is also a sketch of the theory first an- inounced by MT. Greenstreet in 1885, that 1 the sixth Earl of Derby was the actual Shakespeare. Henry Pemberton, jr.,
 suggests that the gentleman of Nor mandy, Lamont, whose prowess as a beau sabreur was used by the king to incite Hamlet to fence with I.aertes, can be identified as an actual historical parsonage. Dr. Platt continues his In- teresting examination of the Northum- berland manuscript. Altogether this
 issue of New Shakespeareana
 should not be overlooked by readers in- terested in what is the most absorbing
 literary question of the ages-Who
 wrote the Shakespearean plays? New
 Shakespereana is published by the
 Shakespeare Press, Westfield, N. J.
 Just issued Is the first of the fifteen volumes of "The Catholic Encyclope-
 dia," which is described as "an inter-
 national work of reference on the con-
 stitutions, doctrine, discipline and his-
 tory of the Catholic church"
 The Catholic Encyclopedia (the pre- 1 face states), as it's name implies, pro- poses to give it's readers full and au- 1 thoritatlve information on the entire 1 cycle of Catholic interests, action and 1 doctrine. What the church teaches . and has taught; what she has done and
 is still doing for the highest welfare of mankind; her methods, past and pres
 ent; her struggles, her triumphs, and
 the achievements of her members, not
 only for her own immediate benefit, but for the broadening and deepening of all l true science, literature and art-all
 come within the scope of the Catholic Encyclopedia.
 The editors of the work, which bears
 the imprimatur of Archbishop Farley,
 are Charles c. Herbermann, Ph. D.,
 IL. D.; Edward A. Pace, Ph. D., D. D.;
 Thomas J. Shahan, D. D.; Condo B.
 Fallen, Ph. D., LL D., and John J. | Wynne s. J. They have been assisted by very large corps of contributors
 representing the best Catholic scholar
 ship in every part of the world. Every
 article was written solely for the en- i cyclopedia, and every article is signed,
 It is hardly necessary to emphasize the