| Show LITER T EI V V Primavera a volumeof poems by Oxford Ox-ford undergraduates has made consIderable consider-able talk and haspassed into a second edition edi-tion Arthur Goddard is engaged upon a work dealing with the contemporary stage in England which is to be illustrated by leading lead-ing artists 1 The next volume of the Book Lovers I Library nearly ready for publicationwill be Studies in JocularTiiterature by i William C Hazlitt 1 George Meredith is taking a holiday after finishing nis novel The Journalist on whieh he has been engaged for several years This is the ordinary way of working work-ing of novelists A telegram from Ottawa states that Dayie Christie Murray the English novelist novel-ist who disappeared in Mexico some five months o and was supposed to have been murdered is living in Samoa and engaged in literary work The Emperors Book Eight Centuries in German History from Charles the 1 Great to Maximillian I by Dr Charles Herrig is the title of a new historical worn I to be published in ten monthly parts by I Muckenberger Berlin I A novelty in publishing is announced by Tnomas Nelson Ss S msan edition of the New Testament three and a half inches long one inch wide and a third of an inch thicK yet containing 550 pages and every word of the text A magnifying glass should go with each copy as tampering with toys of this sort may be damaging to j the eyes Charles Lamb like De Quincey after a period of unmerited neglect is again becoming fashionable with the result that enterprising persons have been trying to f foist on the public as his productions matter mat-ter which he did not write With a view of putting a stop to this system of imposition impo-sition a collection is being made of all his authentic articles however short Prof James Bryce M P author of I The American Commonwealth has arrived I ar-rived in New York For the present his time will be spent in visiting his friends I To a reporter he said that the British public pub-lic was woefully ignorant of the merits oi the Behring sea controversy and that even if there were anything new in connection with the Irish question he would not care to speak of it for tho raason that Ito discuss dis-cuss English politics away from home would not bo good form on the part of an English traveler In the August number of the Forum Senator Chandler of New Hampshire wrote an argument in favor of a law for the national control of elections directing his attention chiefly to political aff ans in the Southern States In the September num her of the Forum Senator Morgan of Alabama replies to Senator Chandler After pointing out what ho conceives to be the revolutionary character of the proposed law Senator Morgan presents u great mass of facts and opinions to prove that the federal control of elections is not desired in any section of the country by the masses of the people Ho defends the merchants and manufacturers of the border states against the accusation of Senator Chandler that their trade relations with the south have made them cowardly When Johnstown was overwhelmed by a disaster whose awful terrors have hardly a parallel iu history it was a common Sear that many of the survivors might be crazed by their afflictions But the percentage of lunatics among tho survivors has not been unusually large The secretary of the Pennsylvania state committee on lunacy commenting on the returns says In reviewing re-viewing this very small total the conviction i is strengthened that the great and overwhelming over-whelming trials of life arc much less liable to overthrow the reason than the continuous continu-ous worry and attrition of minor evils and unavoidable contact with depressing surroundings sur-roundings In fact tile presence in our midst of such unAmerican Americans as Mr Ward McAllister and such exasperating exasperat-ing fanatics as Mr Anthony Comstock is amore a-more imminentmenace to the sanity of tho community at large than a Johnstown flood or a Chicago fireThc Illustrated American LITTELLS LIVING AGE The number of The Inning Age for Au Lust 23d and 30th contain Tho Origin of > YLI IYM h I < l r w j Z t < C f wt f t r = = Alphabets EdJiilitro7t Western China its Products and Trade Quarterly The Shetland I Shet-land Isles in the Birdsnesting Season Contemporarjt A Voice from a Harem nineteenth Centum The Cession of Heligo I land Scottish Comedy in Fiction In sickness sick-ness and in Health and The Bamboo Blackwood Christmasttde at Tangier and Watteau his Life and work Temple Bar Chapters from some Unwritten Memoirs Macmillan Rural Reminiscences and Tho I Sea and Seaside Cornhill A Manual for Interior Souls and The Smart Way of Shaking Hands Spectator Tarantulas Saturday Review The Oxford Summer Meeting Speaker Hyacinth Culture in Holland Chambers1 with installments of Marcia and An Attractive Young Person Per-son and poetry |
