Show j 7 r I I WiTH THE WRITERS i Another Amelie Rives Hysterical Hyster-ical Productions A CURIOSITY IN JOURNALISM A forthcoming Work on Sir John Franklins Fate Popular Interest in French FIc > tlon Literary Notes i The venerable historian George Ban croft has been compelled by his Traninp mental powers to entirely cease his literary work It is reported that 1000 copies of Prof Bryces American Commonwealth have already been sold in England and 3000 in the United States Macmillan Company will issue soon in the Temple Library The Poems and Plays of Oliver Goldsmith edited by Austin Dobson and illustrated by Herbert Kailton The American Publishing Company announces an-nounces A Companion to the Holy Bible a concise and comprehensive concordance to the Scriptures It has been in careful preparation for several years An authorized translation of Garibaldis Autobiography as recently published in its final form will be issued in London this month with facsiinilcs of some of the generals gen-erals letters M Gaume the Catholic bookseller of Paris who recently died at the ape of eightynine was one of the last survivors of Napoleons armies and took part in the I expedition to Moscow The appearance of Matthew Arnolds letters let-ters seems to be awaited impatiently in London Tt is said that in the hands of another an-other Froude Arnolds letters might be found to vie even with Carlyles in frank criticism of his contemporaries 1 B P Shillaber Mrs Partington t while confined to his house near Boston by serious illness for a long time has been engaged en-gaged on a volume of personal reminiscences reminis-cences extending oer fifty years Thomas Seymour Denton has coined the word manuprint noun and adjective to describe the work of a typewriter He calls a typewritten manuscript a manu print and the pages are signaled as manupriut page 1 a 3 4 etc Mr F Marion Crawford is trying his hand at biography He is writing a volume for the series of English Men of Action on Sir John Hawkwood The series by the way promises very well Walter Be sant Clarke llussell and Archibald Forbes are writing for it His Fatal Success by Malcolm Bell is a startling story which purports to be a warning to those who are blindly groping in the specterhaunted gloom of spiritualism spiritual-ism and theosophy The story is wel written and the working out of the plot by the aid of supernatuia1 and occult means is extremely original Mr John Morleys Universal Library having reached the limit designed for it sixty volumesMr Morley has projected another scheme of similar kind called the Carisbrooko Library to be composed of standard books af all languages but in English Eng-lish versions Swifts Tale of a Tub and Other Works has just opened the series Routledge Sons are the publishers The Forum of May will contain an article by Mr E L Godkin editor of the New York Krcning Vast on The Republican Party and the Negro in which he points out the impracticability of any special southern policy and reaches the conclusion conclu-sion that the southern states are doing I more to elevate the negro and consequently make the corruption and intimidation of voters to difficult it impossible than the northern states A work will shortly appear on Sir John Franklins fate claiming to show that its discovery was through a revelation made to a little child seven years of age to whom was revealed the locality where the ships were found and how they could be reached and that after the great expeditions of the government extending over a period of seven years had proved fruitless the efforts ef-forts of Lady Franklin guided solely by the revelations of the little child were d th c nmnl late 111IC5S ITUWUUU It 11U lUlA4lrwlv The popular interest that is felt just now in French fiction will doubtless attract attention at-tention to the new edition of the Erck mannChatrian historical romances which the Scribners have in preparation for early publication The popularity of these stories has always been great and this new edition which will be made every way attractive will doubtless extend their popularity pop-ularity to a still larger circle of readers in this country The Witness of the Sun is another of Amelie Rives hysterical productions One must confess that it shows talent but the writer has not learned yet to put that talent to its highest and best use There is not so much of the verily and hushedly the flame and shame the bitter blisses and clinging kisses element as in some of her other works but it is still far from free from the objectionable features which characterize most of her writings One of the curiosities of New York journalism jour-nalism is a small sheet printed entirely in Russian for the dissemination of nihilism in the land of the Czar The people who read Russian in New York number no more than the readers of Sanskrit and this depends entirely for its usefulness paper secret entrance into Russia in horse collars upon sleighrunners and other ingenious devices A facsimile of this paper ynamia with its editors portrait and its modest illustrations in little office are part of the New York the articles oc The Nihilsts in the April Cosmopolitan John Ericsson desired that if any biog should be raphy of him was undertaken it intrusted to his friend Colonel William C Church editor of the Army and vary Journal and the executors of the estate accordingly ac-cordingly have turned over to Colonel Church all the papers which could be useful use-ful in such work While it is true th t Captain Ericsson destroyed his diary all his documents since 1800 were preserved In piirate letters and other papers has been hs found abundant material relative to youth and the influences which shaped his early career |