Show WITH THE WRITERS Some of the Important Work Recently Published THE AMERICAN STATE REPORTS Anwlla B Edwards to be HonoredGrady Forthcoming WorkScottish Newspaper EnterpriseGeneral Notes The literary remains of Emperor Fred trick + of Germany which his widow has bejun to edit will fill four large volumes Mrs Amelie Rives Chandler has underway under-way a novel to be called The Whit SlaVC3 study of life in factories and tenements Mrs Frye wife of the United States Senator Sen-ator from Maine is writing a novel dealing I with society life The lady has literary tastes and frequently revises her husbands speeches for publication The leading newspaper of Scotland lately contained in one issue over five columns of reports of Burns dinners concerts and club meetings held in more than fifty towns and villages of that land in celebration celebra-tion of the poets birthday Baron Grancy will shortly issue in Paris a volume American customs in the shape of a novel to be called A French Ranch in Dakota The author is the founder of a settlement of French horsebreeders in that state That Miss Amelia B Edwards shoe lecture before the Lowell Institute in Boston Bos-ton on GrjecoEgjptian subjects is naturally nat-urally the desire of Bostonians but no woman has ever spoken from that rostram The Peabody Institute of Baltimore has invited in-vited Miss Edwards to open next seasons lectures with a course of four lectures She will be the first woman to lecture at that institution Henry W Grady editcr and proprietor of the Atlanta Constitution is engaged upon a history of the southern portion of the Union from which much is expected that soctlom Mr Grady is assisted by various competent r ersons and the book is to be illustrated il-lustrated Mr George Gatfield of the Brisish museum mu-seum proposes to publish a Guide to Books relating to Heraldry and Genealogy The work will coasist of upwards of 13000 titles and is intended to supplement such works as Sims Manual and Marshalls Genealogists Guide How to be Successful on the Road as a Commercial Traveler is the title of a little volume written by an old drummer and published by the Fowler Wells company 775 Broadway New York It gives the experience ex-perience and observation of an old commercial com-mercial traveler and contains much advice to those who follow the road The price is only 20 cents Justin McCarthy the younger is about to publish a novel with the title of Dolly Sir Spencer St John is revising his book on Hayti and adding now chapters en Voodoo worship Tnn AUERICAV STXTB HBPOHTS By A C Freeman Vol IT Saa Francisco Bancroft Whitney company The fourth volume of these valuable reports re-ports has been issued aid it is a mammoth work of nearly one thousand pages sea taming decisions of tho ceurts of last resort of twelve states There is a new feature in this volume which consists the noting of other decisions from the current stat reports upon the point involved in the same taVtte and will result sooner or later incomplete in-complete memoranda of all the decisions which are not purely local in character and effect Thus to Knawlton vs Keenan page 283 from 140 Mass on admissibility of parol evidence to vary orexplaia written instruments reference is made to note to McFarland vs Sikes 1 Am St Rep and the later cases of French vs Williams 82 Va 463 and Looney vs Rankin 15 Or 017 which hold that parol evidence is inadmissible inadmis-sible to vary or add to written instrument These references are not repeated in one case after another but having heel once inserted future reference is made not to these cases in detail but to the note in this cries in which they aro grouped together So when looking back a year or ten years hence there will be found in this series the really important cases in cxttnto and careful care-ful notes of all others not purely local which the courts deemed worthy of reporting re-porting The value of such references will at once bs understood by the attorney who has been compelled to follow the course of decisions de-cisions on every point These reports are necessarily of great value to the fraternity and especially to those members of the bar who have not access to tie free law libraries to be found in the large cities DR RAMCAU by George Ohnet Translated from the French by J C Curtin Illustrated Chicago and New York Rand Me Nally to Co Price 50 cents Those who have read the novel or seen the play Maitre des Forges by the same author will find in Dr Rameau the same hysterical power and wierdness of imagination imagina-tion whieh made the first named so popular This is a domestic story and cleverly narrates how through heavy trials character char-acter progressed from irreligion to faith The translation is excellent aid the velume is illustrated with rood effect It comes as No 9 of the Rialto series JACK DUDLEYS WIn By E M Dary Chicago Chi-cago and New York Rand Me Nally ft Co Price 35 cents Mr Davy AU written other tales with more or leas merit and strength but nothing that will live This is no exception though it is perhaps more clever than some of his fiction It is correctly woven and some of the situations are artistically drawn while the characters are fair FTVB LrrrLE Parries Ann How THST Gnaw By Margaret Sidney Illustrated Boston D Lothrop k Co Price 15 cents Child life is w rarely appreciated at its true worth oy the hosts of writers who dabble in juveline literature socalled that no story doing full justice to tAe temperament temper-ament of childhood is ia danger ef being soon displaced by new issues from the press It is several years since Margaret Sidney wrote Five Little Peppers and How They Grew During these years the story has lost not a whit of its original brightness and freshness Its continuous popularity has unquestionably earned for it the right to an honored place on the small and not overloaded shelf of child classics Its success suc-cess has been phenomenal from the very first edition after edition has been exhausted ex-hausted and still the reading public are not satisfied The publishers resolved to meet this persistent demand if possible have brought out a new illustrated quarto editicn of one hundred thousand copies bound in richly illuminated board covers and sold at a low price After the printing of this monster edition the plates will be destroyed |