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Show The Appletons have in preparation a volume of personal reminiscences of Bismarck written by Sidney Whitman, whose long friendship with the German statesman gave him many opportunities for observing and noting his personal characteristics. character-istics. In the last seven years of Bismarck's life Mr. Whitman visited him ten times, and frequently fre-quently enjoyed his confidence. Mr. Whitman's "Imperial Germany" has been translated into German, and some chapters have been used in German school text books. Two more volumes are ready in the Athenian Drama series which Longmans, Green & Co. am publishing. The "Oedipus Tyrannus" and the "Coloneus" of Sophocles have been translated in verse by Professor J. S. Phillimore. The author of "The Martyrdom of an EmpresB" and "Tribulations of a Princess" has written an account of the conditions in Cairo, Egypt, following follow-ing the rebellion of Arabi Pacha. The book, which the Harpers will issue this month, is called "A Doffed Coronet." The coronet is the heroine's, and the doffing occurs when she and her husband are compelled to abdicate and join the foreign colony in free America. In imitation of the English practice of the English En-glish Christmas annual, but of course, with the American intention to go one better, Doubleday, Page & Co. are preparing a special isssije of their periodical "Country Life in America." Rudyard il'i lltfl Kipling contributes a poem called "Pan in Ver- m m zt mont." III'M |