Show y LITERATURE Mrs Oliphant is engaged on a topographical topogra-phical account of Edinburgh A memoir of Richard Henry Lee is being prepared by his great grandson C H Lee of Lcesburg Va CLEOPATHA being an account of the fall and vengeance of Harmachis the royal Egyptian as set forth by his own hand By Rider Haggard Chicago and New York Rand McNally A CoIr Co-Ir Naake of the British museum has discovered some printing in Polish which is the earliest known specimen of work of that kind it is a hymn addressed to tho irgin Mary and was sung by Polish troops before going into battle Mr William OBrien MP has not been idle since his sojourn in prison He has occupied his time by writinir a novel on which he has given the title When We Are Through It is a picture of social t life not concerned with politics The second part of Mr George O Soil hamers History of the American Theatre t Thea-tre is nearly ready It bears the tittle Tt Dnring the Revolution and After The p third and last part is in preparation with the title Last Years of the Eighteenth Century Dr Hugo Winckler has in press in London Lon-don an important work on the early history his-tory of the f ancient inhabitants of Mesopo tomia entitled Untersuchungen zur Alt orientalischen Geschichte in which he arrives ar-rives at some new and important conclusions conclu-sions Among tho texts published in this work are revised copies of the Babylonian Canon and of the Chronicle of Kaboni dusMrs John Sherwood author of A Transplanted Rose and Manners and Social Usages has been decorated with the insignia of Ofiicier dAcademie honor conferred by the French minister of I public instruction on persons who have distinguished themselves in literary pursuits pur-suits It is said to be the first time tho decoration has been conferred upon an American woman The following is a list of some of the principal prin-cipal new books which may be looked for in the autumn publishing season J B Du Chaillu The Viking Ace W J Courthopc Life of Pope LadyDufferin Our Viceregal Life in India Life of Harriet Bcecher Stowe J Cotter Mori son Collected Essays with preface by Tohn Morley G Sfrharf Portraits of Mary Queen uof Scots Spencer Walpole Life of Lord John RusselL Two gift books which are likely to be r very popular will appear in London I shortly One is a Fairy Book edited by Mr Andrew Lang and illustrated by Mr t Jacomb Hood The other is a variation on the birthday book idea which i after so long a success is now pretty well exhausted This is a Book of Wedding Days with nearly one hundred illustrations by Mr Walter Crane It is to be dedicated a poem by the Earl of Rosslyn to the Princess Prin-cess of Wales It is said that Mr J F Farmer the compiler com-piler of Americanisms Old and New is making a slang dictionary which both by its comprehensiveness and by its historical his-torical treatment is intended to supersede all previous works of the kind It is described de-scribed as a dictionary of the heterodox speech of all classes from the middle of the sixteenth century to the present time The unwritten colloquialisms of society and tho jargon sportsmen criminals of artists d f f i will of workmen and of professional men will all be given The unities have been preserved in bringing out Cleopatra at this season when the mercury bubbling around the hundred point and there hasnt beena refreshing S re-freshing rain for these many weeks The t book has been published in various shapes l and forms which indicates its popularity fV and now it comes as No 101 of the Globe Library And let the critics and the fastidious fas-tidious say what they will regarding it the story will be read and enjoyed for while it is somewhat broad and suggestive in places it is vigorously written and the characters are artistically drawn while the scenes are well portrayed All of Haggards stories are made pleasing by their satisfactory termination Cleopo tra being no exception to the authors happy rule |