The Washington herald., 1913-04-27

Long Island. A description Of 1t has been
issued In booklet which makes inter-
esting reading.
| The centenary of the birth Of the
great explorer, David Livingstone, has
| aroused a lively interest in recent Afri-
: can explorations. One of the most noted
has been that of Mr.. E. To-day, whose
experiences are set forth in his new
book, Camp and Tramp In African
Wflds" 0ippincotts). The fact that Mr..
to-day travelled over the same route
| taken by Livingstone makes this account
of unique interest.
All students of Shakespeare will be inv
| terested to learn that "Cymbeline," the
eighteenth volume in the new variorum
edition Of Shakespeare's works, Is now
| In the press The entire work was conn
pleted before DIR. Horace Howard Fur
ness died In August. 1912. 1t will be- pub
| lished in the early summer by the Lip
pincotts. DR.. Horace Howard Furness
whose scholarship and industry made
| this monumental edition possible. DEM
| onstrated his wisdom in associatine his
| son with the work. This spring will see
| the publication of Julius Caesar" the
seventeenth volume in the set and the
| third play edited by Horace Howard
Furness, jr.
| The directors of the Robert Appleton
| Company, New York. have elected
Condo B. Pallen president In place Of
Robert Appleton, who held that office
| since the formation of the company In
with the sole publication of this con-
! Germ. the Catholic Encyclopedia, as
| managing editor. The encyclopedias was
completed in December. An additional
| index volume will appear in the course
of few months. Mr. Appleton win re-
| main as director. Arthur j. Kennedy was
elected vice president and treasurer, and
Walter j. Magee. secretary.
New facts regarding the personal side
of the members of President Wilson's
Cabinet are contributed to the May issue
I of the National Waterways Magazine.
published by the National Rivers and
Harbors Congress. by Edgar C. Snyder,
| who for almost twenty years has held
! an honorable place among the newspa-
per correspondents assigned to the Ma
| tional Capital. "Thumb-naiP' sketches
of the men who form the new Cabinet,
with a sympathetic touch of their "hu-
manness'' and nothing extenuate nor
aught set down in malice" are present
ed in the course Of the article, which
.
| graphs of the Chief Executives official
| family, together with portraits of the
| ladies of the Cabinet. who, by reason
, of the positions of their husbands and
| fathers, will play almost equally i'm
| portant roles during the coming four
years, are featured with Mr.. Snyder's
terse, well-tod description of the home
| life of the Presidential advisers The
| personal element is to the fore in the
4 90 Hal 9Th L~L
| bies. of the Cabinet members, and Mr..
| Snyder has caught the most intimate
4 phase of the life of each Of the ten pub
| lie men upon whom the white light of
| the nation falls
William Dean Howells, in his just
published novel. New Leaf Mills" has
| drawn fashion plate of an American
| dandy of the early SOS. BLACK broad
| cloth coat and black cashmere panta-
| looms, covered to the knees with green
baize leggings. A silk velvet waistcoat
with a gold watch chain crossing it; the
peak of a fiat oilcloth cap came over
| his forehead; his dark hair fell from the
sides in locks, carefully turned in at
| the ends
THE Hippodrome,'' by Rachel Hay
ward. In view of the recent attack on
tie King of Spain this remarkable first
novel of Miss Hayward's is of double IN
terest. The scene of it Is laid in BARGE
Iona and the actors are band of terror
| lists and a young girl from the circus.
The novel is intensely dramatic. In order
| to attain realism and atmosphere the
author actually lived in a colony of an
archists in the North of France wfi!e
writing the book George H. Doran Com
pany)