Show WITH THE WRITERS I The Great Authors and the Woili They arc Doing PLAINTIVE PESSIMISM OF POET The Latest MaaiincsAalt Whitman to b < Introduced In German Literary holes From AH Quarters works oft A folio edition de line of the t kopu th is about to be published in Vienna An Episcopal chapel has just been dedi cat d in Georgia to the memory of the poet Paul H Hayne It is close by the house in which Hayne spent his last years Sarah C V oolsej known better as Susan Coolidge will publish through Roberts Brothers in the autumn Ii new volume ol poems entitled A Few More Verses Mrs Fraser widow of the late bishop ol Manchester is assisting in compiling a life of hex famous husband which is designed for the working men and women of L inta shire Mr H Hitler Haggard has made publishing publish-ing arrangements for new story in which Queen Esther prominently figure The author has gone to Asia Minor and Pe sia to study local color A new translation of The Imitation of Christ in English rhythm is announced I by Mi Elliot Stock as to be published immediately im-mediately It will contain a preface bi Canon Liddon A biography of Uiehaid Hen Dana is in I preparation The author of Two Years Before the Mast was a remarkable man and the story of his career should bo in tciestmt and valuable It is curious to note the role which Euro I lean btitcsuien now playas promoters of the fortunes of books Mr Gladstone in particular and Uismiuk also as in the I I case of the IJuchhoUlamih The public printer of Vermont has in press catalogue with names and records of C onuei tu ut soldiers mill sailors engaged Hcolulion the war of Il the war of the 112 the Mexican war uiiJ the civil war A copy of the first edition of Ch tries Levers works lately sold in England foi 1i5 The craze for first editions is now at its height and absurd prices are uen for man modern boks which have little yalue as literature America publishes me i papers than ill 4 lll test of the world combined Last jcar rilu 1 j 10i jiciiodnils punted the enounous iiumbii of J II5tiliiIlU i i copies cnounh to suppH every soul I on earth with two news iptls fl I dtimoie A li lent in The memoir of Richard Henry Dana nitiousi lefcried to is to be written by Charles rnncis Adams at the request o f tit Nc England historical societ Mr nanas family has entrusted Mr Adams with a variety of personal material The Methodist Hook Concern declared last year a dividend of 100 000 and is in proportion to its capital the most piohtable of the publishing concerns of America The prohts po largely to the support of meant ers in uou supporting neighborhoods It is said that Mi Howclls is desiuous of writing a novel which will take in all kinds I characters to be found in New York an idea based upon Balzals Co III trild nuinntnc Like BaU e he will piobibh ho obliged to male a large numbei of s ines to illustrate his designs The English society of authors his issued tie following idue to literary aspirants Never when a Mb has been refused by I tie wellknown houses piy houses fort for-t 11 production of the work Never eutir into any eouespon leiue with publishers who are not itc omtuended bj experience tends or by this soeiet There is said to be in the library of the if atu an 55 5sO MSS a large propoi tioii of win h are Greek and Oriental The famous MS of the Greek Bible tin Codex been jealously ati anus has hitherto so larded that even professed scho ushao not been allowed really to examine it It accessible IS 005W however more acces > An effort is being made bv the commissioners commis-sioners of the District Columbia towards leasing the size and pel fcttnv the i liai actor of the city library of the national metropolis It is pioposcnl to give it the distinctive character a municipal librnn and to have in its keeping 11 fit local publIcations pub-lIcations of an oflicul character lonnected with the 500 cities in the nited States The assertion ie enth made that A Valt Whitman is about to be ntrodat for the lirst time to reader in t cnnanj is a ie tnmdii that Ferdinand iciliiath twenty number of the years ago translated qUite < a poems of the ougiual edition of the Leaves of Grass which lniMiistic feat he pi efai ed in the hnal edition of his works with an ex pllent critical ml appreciative Inogiaph teal notice of W hitui in Speaking i of the plamtic pessimism cOf r which i is tire prevailing tone of the minor poets of the present tiny the London All en rta calls them a lot of golden mouthed but lugubrious snivels hose bane fumes are iedrl > nt of cultivated melan chol Amid all fie biihtest scenes of earth with laughter rippling around them and sunlight glinting upou their yellow turls they persist in being wretehcdlj miserable Mr George O Scilb miei of Philadelphia Philadel-phia has just ready a second volume of his Historv of the Auieru an Theatre The first volunre of this work treating oft of-t he American stage before the revolution students of the was a surprise to many drama because of the fullness of its record and its evident aceuraiy The second olume will cover the period of the revolution revolu-tion and carry tho record up to the time of the dissolution and reor anization of the old American company in 1792 An evidence that the popular demand for ie igious i works of importance is not on the 1 wane comes from the Scribners in the sue ess which has attended their most recent theological books Dr Shedd Dogmatic Theology has reached its second edition while a fourth edition of Dr Uosw ell Hitch oeks Eternal Atonement has been iod for The first volume of Dr Yin tuts Word Studies in the New Testament Testa-ment has also gone into its second edition md Dr Ladds What is the Bible has sold through two printings with a third edition just ready A volume which promises to be of in te rest to Scotchmen md Weir descendants m this country will shortly be issued from the office of the icotli 7i Imtifcan New York It contains a series of essays illus tr itiv e of Scottish life history and char rater fathered together under the title of Scotland and the Sots The author Mi Peter Ross has long been a diligent strident of the history of the Scottish race on this side of the Atlantic and in the j opening essay The Scot in America is 1 of how the people given a succinct account of that natioaalit have aided in ill the natioaaity ielifious military educ itional national political and other movements i u eh makeup make-up the history of North Amen a |