Show LITERATURE I Tales of the Pacific Slope is the title of Bret Hartos new book now nearly ready The now edition of Websters Unabridged Un-abridged prepared under the direction of exPrcsldent Porter of Yale will be called An International Dictionary The work on Psychology on which Prof William James of Harvard has been engaged en-gaged for many years and which is expected ex-pected to give the most complete statement state-ment yet made of that science will be published pub-lished very shortly Mr Gladstone said in a recent letter regarding re-garding his forthcoming book Landmarks of Homeric Study Please to bear in mind that this little work was planned for America the form of it seemed to me suited for the American public The Buccaneers and Marooners of America is the title of n book which Mr Howard Pyle has prepared for the Adventure Ad-venture Series of Mr Fisher Unwin London It is a compilation of famous adventures ad-ventures by freebooters on the Spanish main An edition will be brought o ut on this side in time for the holiday season A Russian professor lately discovered a treasure at the national library of Paris This is a Manchu manuscript which may prove of the greatest interest to Oriental ists and which ho declares to be of more ancient date than the recently discovered inscription at Corea The manuscript which numbers 161 leaves made of Chinese paper all fully covered with writing is said to have been acquired by the great I French library in some unknown way towards the end of the last century Captain Charles King who recently visited vis-ited St Paul and Minneapolis for the Cosmopolitan I Cos-mopolitan Magazine has prepared for that monthly an illustrated article entitled Twin Cities of Northwest which will prove interesting reading not only to the citizens of these two cities but also to a great number of readers scattered throughout through-out the country who have watched with astonishment the marvellous growth of these towns The United States Senate has voted to purchase at a cost not exceeding 30000 Thomas S Townsends extensive collection of data on the civil war known as his Library of National Records The library consists of a vast amount of material ma-terial illustrative of the war gathered from the leading newspapers northern and southern during the last thirty years Its purchase was strongly recommended by the librarian of Congress and early in the session ses-sion the joint committee on the library reported unanimously in favor of the bill A wise old saint once met a young man coming out of a questionable place and when the latter hung his head In shame the saint cried Nay my son do not blush to be seen coming out of such a place you should have blushed at going in Here is a good lesson for our days We hear continually con-tinually of embezzlers and forgers committing commit-ting suicide after their crime has found them out These gentle sensitive souls revolted re-volted at the public disgrace to which they were subjected they could not bear to face their open shame But if they had only committed suicidebefore instead of after the crime how much better it would have been for themselves for their families and for the public at large The Illustrated American |