| Show LITERATURE Dr Grenfell Baker is writing a biography of his friend and prtient the late Sir Richard Rich-ard Burton Lord Tenneyson is to visit the Mediterranean Mediter-ranean this winter with his son Hallam The Laureates health is now excellent 1 Taine has just finished another volume vol-ume of his series on Origins of Contemporary Contem-porary France It deals with the Napoleon Na-poleon epoch Mr Murray of the British Museum is going to bring out a manual of Greek architecture archi-tecture He will treat of sculpture vases bronzes gems terracottas and mural paintings The London Athenaeum says that it is glad to hear that James Russell Lowells health has greatly improved and that he hopes to be able to visit his many friends in England next year A clever novelist it is reported has been discovered in St Paul Minn in the person per-son of Miss Lilly A Long The Appletons I I are about to publish a story by her called A Squire of Low Degree I Mr Rider Haggard is laying plans for a I winter visit to Mexico and we may expect i from him another romance of a forgotten civilization But Mr Janvier has been ahead of him with his Aztec Treasure House SonvcNin or TIE COSISTOCK Embracing the Principal Views of Virginia City Gold Hill Silver City and Sutro Photographed and Copyrighted IbOO by Jas H Crol wen Virginia Vir-ginia City Nevada For ale by C R Savage Salt Lake City All old Comstockers will be interested in this handsome souvenir album of scenes once familiar to them in and around tho famous silver mining camp The photographs photo-graphs arc reproduced in albertype and embrace most of those views which ara best known to the old inhabitants Dan Do Qttille introduces the pictures with a brief historical sketch of Virginia City and its mines A NEW VIEW OF THE TCMPEHANCE QUESTION By Edison Reed Chicago Rand McNally CoIn Co-In the opinion of the author temperance does not consist solely of refraining from intoxicating deverages but extends to other things He says that foodana drink have a common function and can no more be considered separately in their ultimate bearings than the two lobes of the brain in a mental act One is merely the com plement of tho other mutually interpenetrating interpene-trating and together contributing what is necessary to save the body from daily waste The evil and the cure are in the system itself This is the second edition and it comes as No 2 in the Popular Topics Top-ics series GIL11ltT ELGARS SONS T5y Harriet Riddle Davis New York G P Putnams Sons Price 6125 The author is new to the reading world but she begins well giving us a pretty and pure story It is notvery strong nor are the characters particularly distinctive but the tale is entertaining and will be found impressive The volume is issued in the splendid style which marks tho Putnams publications SIHUIUA AND TIlE NIHILISTS Why Kennan went t Siberia By Wm Jackson Armstrong Arm-strong With an introduction by Leigh H Irvine Illustrated Oakland Cal Pacillc Press Publishing Co Price 2 > cents Mr Armstrong was at one time inspector of Unitdd States consulates and then made 1 careful study of Russan affairs What ho learned has been embodied in the little volume which is a vigorous arraignment of the Russian autocracy and nn earnest appeal to the sympathies of mankind in behalf be-half of the nihilists and their cause The coming year of The Centuru will be unusually strong in fiction Edward Eg glestons novel the theme of which is the FaithCure will begin in February Frank R Stocktons The Squirrel Inn will follow F Hopkinson Smiths novelette novel-ette and a great number of short stories will be printed during theyear |
