Show LITERATURE A largo number of English printers have been osier to Faris to see the exposition but all seem to have returned disappointed Prof Huxley will have published early this fall a new volume of essays on the preparation pre-paration of which he has been for sometime some-time engaged Senator Ingalls is said to be engaged on a nocl of Washington life It is eagerly looked for In those who kno i his keen trenchant style Rev Chailes Edward Stowe has finished The Life of Mrs Harriet Beether Stowe and as tne subject of the biography is still living uiuci of the work is in the first person per-son Ma O Ktll has taken a turn at criticis ing his own countrvmen treating them much the same war that he did the English the Scotch aud the Americans Casstll Co are the publishers of his new work which is ciitiUi d Jacques Boiihouitne An effortis making to induce Dr Holmes to write his mtobiogranhi He refuses as he desires to spend his remaining years comparative idleness He says moreover more-over that his works tell as much of himself him-self as he cares to have the public learn The mostsingulai mateual for book making mak-ing is proposed by Prof Castagnatta and partially carried out bi Prof Burkham of Brunswick His idea was to make a book indestructible bi printing in gold 01 sil ei letters upon thin leaves of asbestos the binding beef a thicker sheet of asbestos Neithei time nor fire could have any effect upon a volume of this kind The recent appointment Miss Johanna Bakei to the chair of Greek at Simpson college Indianola Iowa is a significant fact as showing the progress of woman since it was firstpermitted to her to acquire the alphabet Miss Baker succeeds to the position filled bi her father Prof O H Baker seventeen years ago m the same nstitutioii Harper < t linear William Black says respecting his habits of composition that after breakfast he writes steadily for two hours and one hour after dinner which is all the time ho give literary work During the rest of the day he walks or reads or writes letters He writes rapidly and makes few erasures He is engaged upon a new story the serial I publication of which will begin next January Jan-uary uariAlaige A large number of famous men were once book agents Among them were George Washington Longfellow Diet Harte Jay Gould exPresident Hayes Daniel Webster General Grant Ralph Waldo Emerson and Prince Bismarck The latter sold a book called Blumen bachs Aufgeschichto die Wesselgung in der Spiegeleisen Nobody slammed the door in his face Doubts as to the truthfulness of the incident in-cident upon which AVhittiers poem of Barbara Frietchie was founded are in dignantli repudiated by a fellow townswoman towns-woman of the heroine Although a child at the time the Confederate troops entered Frederick she recollects perfectly the bravery Mrs Frietchie displayed on that occasion and asserts that Barbaias rein Lives denied the story for an object of their own ownUnfnyorable Unfavorable comments haying been recently re-cently made on the fact that Lord lennj sou still 1 draws his pension from the civil list although he is now a rich man and there ue many poor and een need authors the London correspondent of the Leeds Mercury writes Though the Poet Laureate receives the mone he does not use it for his own purposes but spends it entirely on the relief of members of tl e literary profession who arc in distress At the last meeting of the American Library association Miss Mari S Cutlet of the New Ycrk State library presented I the results of an inquiry into the practice of libraries having 10 OOJ olumes and upwards up-wards as to Sunday opening Out of fifti college libraries heard from is man as tw eh cue open on Sunday only three out of eleven theological seminary libra i sIn s-In Mount Holyoke semmaii and college onli religious books may be taken out An exchange says William D Howells believes with Anthony Tiollope that a novelist should no more wait for inspiration inspira-tion in his work than a shoemaker or a ta lowchandlei They both act upon th principle that writing novels is purely me chanieal work like writing lawyers briefs for instance or book keeping And Trol lopes humdrum platitudes and How ells protoplasmic yarns that remind one of the ountii road that wandered on from wagon track to bridle path faded to foot path iiid finally dwindled to a squirrel trad and ran up a tree are just what might be expected ex-pected of such a wooden theory Littells Living Age The numbers of the Living Age for September Sep-tember 7 and 14 contain The Papacy a Rev elation and a Prophecy Mr Wallace on Darwinism by Gorge J Romanes F R S and The Civil List and Grants to the Royal Family Contemporary The French in Germany Nineteenth Century Giordana Bruno lurtnialitlii Some Few Thackcrayana National In Macedonia William Cow pei Hippolytus Veiled and Orlando Bridgman Hyman Maeimllan Seen and Lost Lonjmano In Praise of the Carnots Murray The Papacy Spectator with instalments of Sir Charles Danvcrs A Modern Novelist and Patience and poetry Littell 5t Co Boston are publishers Ihe Writer The Writer and the Author the two helpful help-ful magazines for literary workers published pub-lished in Boston by William H Hills are meeting with deserved success The Writer I which will begin its fourth volume in January Janu-ary has long been regarded as an almost mdispensibleaid by those who write for publication and the IwJior which will close its first volume with tho December number has been received with equal favor Each number of the Writer is filled with valuable advice and suggestions regarding re-garding literary work contributed by experienced ex-perienced writers and everything that is printed in the magazine is practical value to its readers In the September number there are articles entitled Shorthand in Composition HomeMade Bookshelves Book-shelves Book Reviewing The Critic Musical The Critic of the Drama Newspaper Makers and Newspaper Grumblers Lettei Writing to Cultivate Style etc and three pages of Helpful Hints and Suggestions and answers to Queries about literary topics Address The Writer Box 190o Boston > Captain King new storj which will appear ap-pear in the October issue of the Cosmopolitan and marks an increase of that periodical bj twentyfour pages and will contain some features that have never before been pro sented in periodical literature When it became necessary to look up the subjects of illustrations for Captain Kings story tha suggestion was made to have them taken from life Some of the officers at West Point took kindly to the idea and with the assistance of some of the most charming young ladies then visiting at tho Summer hotels in the vicinity tableaux Wore formed and photographs taken to meet the requirements of the text Thece were reproduced bj photogravure so as to havo the illustrations as near to life as it is possible to present in a work of fiction |