| Show LITERATURE Mr Rudyard Kipling is writing a series of Barrack Room Ballads A monument to Richard Jeffenes the English naturalist Is to be placen in Salisbury Salis-bury cathedral Mrs Burnetts Sara Crewe has just been published in Paris following an adaptation adap-tation in French of liLe Petit Lord Sir William Frazer is making a collec ion lot publication of anecdotes of Lord Beaconsfield of which ho has a large number num-ber J S Jeans secretary of the English Iron and Steel Institute has a book in press in London dealing with the great canals of I the world Mr R L Stevenson is expected in London Lon-don in October He intends after making t various arrangements there to fix his home u u < on CM permanently on ms ibiana estate in aamoa At the annual dinner in London a few weeks ago in concection with the newspaper news-paper press fund Sir Algernon Bothwick president of the fund announced that the institution had doubled its membership during the past year and that it now had more than 100000 invested Mr Leslie Stephen has come to this country in hope that a sea voyage will restore re-store his health He sailed for Boston and is to make a short stay in Cambridge before he returns Mr Stephen is to contribute the lives of Hume and Dr Johnson to the coming volumes of the Dictionary of National Biography SirMorell Mackenzie the English laryn gologist is to lecture in the United States in the autumn under the management of Mr Pond of the Boston Lyceum bureau He is to give fifteen lectures for which he will receive 2000 over E130 a lecture Such terms are unheard of in Europe The Shakespeare society of New York will immediately begin the publication of a second series to consist of unpxpur gated reprints of the old English miracle plays mysteries and moralities as illustrating illus-trating the growth of the drama up to Shakespeare besides the least known and edited English plays contemporary with Shakespeares own work These and all other publications of the society will hereafter here-after appear in the scholarly and attractive style of the Bankside Shakespeare During the year 18S9 nearly 17000 different dif-ferent books were punted in Germany According to the popular impression it would be expected that France or England would as respects the number of books published rank second to the German Em pire and with closely approximating figures fig-ures As a matter of fact howeverSta Hcfinc r vr > l1 1 flip ciirnvicincr ti nth tVinf > < v q lU f Italy is second with 10803 publications Even more astonishing is the fact that Russia exclusive of Finland is third with 7427 publications England is fourth with 05Jl The United States shows only 4631 The always interesting Magazine of American Amer-ican IIMory opens its twentyfourth volume with a brilliant July number A fine portrait I por-trait pf Sir William Blackstone serves as rontispiece its pertinence apparent to whosoever who-soeVer reads the leading article The Golden Age of Colonial New York Following Fol-lowing this Roy Singleton writas briefly of Sir William Blackstone and His Work The Indian College at Cambridge by Andrew MoFarlane Davis follows with valuable information on a subject little known Burgoyncs Uefeat and Surrender Sur-render an Inquiry Irbm an English Standpoint Stand-point II by Percy Cross Standish is vastly interesting A Curious and Important Discovery in India by ExLieutcnant Governor Robertson gives a picturesque view of the links connecting the days of chivalry in France with those of adventure among the savago tribes of America and then cornea President Lincolns Humor by David R Locke 74SJ Broadway New York |
