| Show LITERATURE An account of Dr Livingstons life and labors by H H Johnston the Africa traveler travel-er has been written lor the great explorers series It is announced that the author of Thoth Toxar etc published anonymously anony-mously is J Shields Nicholson professor of political economy in the University of Edinburgh The eleventh annual conference of the American Library association will be held at the Fabyan house White mountains September 913 There are indications of an unusually large gathering The autobiography of Secretary Seward is to be supplemented by a volume by Frederick W Seward dealing with the statesmans career in Washington It will be entitled Seward at Washington The Humane Education Society of Boston Bos-ton offers 250 for the best essay in favor of vivisection and 250 for the best essay against it President Angell 19 Milk street Boston will furnish particulars Mrs Mary Darmester Robinson has in contemplation the preparation of an historical his-torical work on The Trench in Italy The ladys friends believe she will be successful suc-cessful in this province as she has been in fiction Talleyrands Memoirs are at last to be published and the longdeferred hope of a multitude of readers in all parts of the world is at the point of being realized Two volumes of the memoirs will be published pub-lished before the end of the present year by Calmann Levy and three more will soon follow completing the work Another volume of hitherto unpublished writing of De Quincoy is in preparation compiled from the work of Do Quincey during dur-ing the time he was editor or the West moreland Gazette Philosophical political and literary tonics are discussed in these essays now dug out of the files of a long forgotten journal Mrs Mary E Wilkins author of that very genuine American book An Humble Romance and Other Stories has written a play called Giles Corey Yeoman which has been read at the JDeerfleld summer school and is to be published A Humble Romance is in a fair way of becoming a classic as the phrase goes it is a very real literary achievement Messrs Macmillan propose to complete their cheap reissue of Charles Kin sleys works by the addition of nine volumes of sermons to appear at monthly intervals between be-tween now and February nrxt The entire series will thus consist of twentynine volumes vol-umes Wo doubt says the Academy whether there is any other author recently re-cently dead novelist or not whose popularity popu-larity can be attested by such evidence THE RAG PJCKEIt OF PARIS by Felix Pyat Translated from the French by Benjamin R Tucker Boston Benjamin R Tucker price 1 The RagPicker of Paris was originally origi-nally written as a play and was one of the most thrilling successes of the modern French stage Just before his death the author elaborated his work into a novel into which have been woven many incidents inci-dents not In the play and which give greater intensity to the story It is a realistic picture of low life in Paris Mr Tucker gives an excellent translation Our Little Men and Women Is especially suitable for children just beginning be-ginning read The August number is filled with short stories verses and pretty pictures D Lothrop Co publishers Boston The Pansy Edited by Pansy has several contributions contribu-tions from the pen of its famous editor In the August number Children from eight to twelve will enjoy this magazine The publishers D Lothrop Co Boston offer to send a specimen to every reader of our paper The Forum The Forum for August contains an article ar-ticle on the possibilities of agriculture by Prince Kropotkin who has made a thorough investigation of the greatest yields in the most densely settled sections of Europe It is not a matter of tho future but an accomplished fact that by agricultural agri-cultural methods already in use the portion por-tion of the earth that is now under cultivation culti-vation can bo made to sustain perhaps ten times as many people as are now alive not only with the bettor food but at lower cost than now The series of autobiographical autobiographi-cal essays is continued by Prof A P Peabody Pea-body of Harvard Senator William E Chandler explains the provisions of the pending bills for national control of con gressional elections and makes an argument argu-ment in favor of such control The Rev Dr Xiyman Abbott in an essay on Industrial In-dustrial Democracy gives his reasons purely from a Christian point of view for believeing that the wages system must soon yield to a system of cooperation and in part also of State control Prof Gold win Smith writes a critical review of socialistic plans for revolutionizing society James Sully the English critic contributes contri-butes a hopeful critical essay on the novel of the future Dr Brown Sequard explains his exptr nients to show that wo havo two S brains iIr Donald Morison explains the discontent in Newfoundland and Mr Robert J Burdette in an article entitled Are Vo a Frivolous People gives his reasons for thinking that we are to much given to the serious consideration of life leaving the funny man a conparatively small Jield for activityThe Forum Publishing Pub-lishing company 255 Fifth Avenue New York Magazine American History The August Magazine of American His torn is filled with a pleasing variety of able and popular papers The opening illustrated S illus-trated paper Historic Houses and Revolutionary S Revo-lutionary Letters is written in felicitous style by Mr Robert Ludlow Fowler It contains extracts from hitherto unpublished unpub-lished letters and documents relating to stormy scenes in the most exciting period of our countrys annals The second article I arti-cle Glimpses of Logcabin Life in Early Ohio from the pen of Emanuel Spencer is wonderfully realistic and delightfully I picturesque bringing the logcabin home to us in earnest with nil limitations and I ambitions Following this Clement I Ferguion writes of the historic associa I I tions of The Blue and Beautiful Narra gansett Richard Selden Harvy recites The True Story of an Appointment and a very readable and significant story it is the editor contributes a concise and most welcome epitome of the career of Major General Ebenezer Stevens the subject of the frontispiece and Dr Prosper Bender discusses in an elaborate and wellconsid ered study The French Canadian Peasantry Peas-antry The several departments are richly diversified 743 Broadway New York City THE KKErriyER SONATA By Count Lyof V Tolstoi Translated from the original manuscript manu-script by Frederick Lyster New York The Pollard Publishing company IS Barclay street Price 25 cents This little volume which lias called forth so much popular and newspaper criticism because of its antagonism to the institution of marriage comes in paper covers among the Pollard Popular publications While the morals of tho story may not be in harmony har-mony with the standard of today the work will be found interesting and will repay perusal THE PREACHERS By a Monk New York The Minerva Publishing company 10 West Twenty third street Price SO cents Like all the works comprised in the Minerva Min-erva series this is radical and vigorous It is an assault upon preachers if not upon Christianity the author displaying remarkable remark-able familiarity with the ways methods and utterances of the cloth LOOKING FURTHER FORWARD By Richard Mlchaclis An Answer to Looking Backward Back-ward Chicago Rand McNally Co The literary editor of the Chicago Tribune Trib-une says of this work Michaelis Looking Look-ing Forward is as wise Bellamys LoQk ng Backward is foolish The former is a fit antidote to the latter and Michaelis should be read by every one who has read Bellamy Perhaps it would not be effectual perhaps there would still exist people who think natures law repealable by legislative enactments and that the unfit may and should be made to survive at the expense of the fit that natural selection should be swamped in slough where all shall be selected se-lected and smothered alike Though you bray a fool in mortar yet will not his folly depart from him RIGHTS REMEDIES AND PRACTICE at law inequity in-equity and under the codes by John D Lawson Law-son in seven volumes Vol VI San Francisco Fran-cisco BancroftWhitney company This the sixth volume of the valuable work of Mr Lawson treats of property rights and remedies under the titles Real Property Easements Landlord and Tenant Ten-ant Fixtures Watercourses Nuisances Mortgages Liens Descent and distribution and Wills Arbitration and Award are also treated and the title of Remedies and Procedure As the set draws to a close it I is seen that the work is most thorough and exhaustive being perhaps the most complete com-plete yet issued It will be found useful in any law library f Atlantic Monthly For the sake of the American author who is now robbed for the sake of the foreign for-eign author who is now plundered for the sake of that vast body of people who read books in the United States and upon whom we now force all the worst and cheapest stuff that the presses of the world pour forth a Dill for international copyright ought to be passed Most of all it ought to be passed for the sake of the countrys honor and good name So writes Henry Cabot Lodge on International Copyright in the August Atlantic His article is worth studvintr The Use and Limits of Aca demic Culture a paper by Professor N S Shaler which shows the manner in which Professor Shaler believes the college could be brought into closer touch with the aims of the ordinary student namely the gaining of a living is a noticeable paper of the number It is followed by a sketch of Madame Cornuel and Madame do Coulanges Miss Murfrees Felicia and Mrs Delands Sidneycontinue their course Mrs Deland has we fancy reached the turning point in her heroines history Houghton Mifilin Co Boston |
