Show LITERARY NOTES One of the many Interesting contributions contribu-tions to the history of the Louisiana Purchase Pur-chase Is the chapter with that title In American History and Us Geographic Conditions announced for publication by Houghton MIfllin Co in October An advance reading of Mr G W Og dons forthcoming novel of steamboat life on the Mississippi entitled Tennessee Todd bus called out the comment that It Is the best story of the Mississippi since Mark Twains Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Huck-leberry Finn A S Barnen Co wilt publish tills dramatic romance early In October A now scries of dainty JCmo volumes bound In limp lambskin with gilt top Is Issued by Newncp under the title of Pocket Classics The firsl volume The Cavalier In Exile being the Lives of the First Duke and Duchess of Newcastle by Margaret Duchess of Newcastle appears ap-pears among the September list of Scrlb ncrpn Importations II shows a tine photogravure pho-togravure frontispiece reproducing a celebrated cele-brated picture of tine Duke and Duchess Announcement of ant editions of Mr Wlpgs of the Cabbage Patch and Lovey Mary The Century Co In time for holiday buying revives Intercut In the unflagging un-flagging popularity of these two books Mrs Wlggs began modestly with three small editions In five months it was being be-ing printed by the ten thousand In a year by the twenty thousand and the sale has been over sixty thousand In a single month When Lovey Mary was issued a year and a half after Mrs Wlggs the advance sale before publication was over one hundred thousand v A factor of unusual Importance In our present and future Immigration Is tine growth of irrigation In the Vumdt matter mat-ter Limit Is admirably treated by tho author au-thor of American History and Its Geographic Geo-graphic Conditions anounccd for publication publi-cation by i Houghton Mlffiln Co in October Oc-tober All persons fond of English poetry know that tIne nature worship of recent years can be strikingly paralleled la many lyric poets of the sixteenth and Fovcutccnth Geniuilep The Shepherds Pipe Fox Duffkld ard Company a volume of verso collcclcd by Fltzroy Carrlngton Is bused upon this principle of Hdcctlon with what should bo happy results Mr Carrlngton who Is manager of one of the loading print shops of New York and a connoisseur connois-seur of engravings has found Inttrostlng and unusual portraits of Milton Cowlcy Faiislmwe Raleigh and Sir Philip Sidney with which the publishers have Illustrated his volume Seville will be tire subject of the new volume in the Mediaeval Towns Series published by the Mncmlllun company The bulk of tire volume has hcon written by Mr Walter M Gnlllclmn who Is better bet-ter known under his pen name of Goef fray Mortlmor Mine C Guaquolno Hartley Hart-ley has added thruo chapters on tire ar lists of Seville In tins section are ro produced several of the towns paintings Miss Elizabeth Hartley has Illustrated the rest of tire volume with sketches John Luther Longs new volume of short stories Sixty Jane will be ready In Oc labor There arc nine stories in all some humorous several pathetic some thrill u ing all tenderly human Another book of short stories which the Century company i Ifl about lo JHBUO Is Chester Bailey Per nalds Under the Jackstaff the first ki volume which Mr Fcrnald has published since The Cat and the Cherub some iii years ago b I Jack Londons novel Tire Call of the Wild The Macmlllan company has scoied u great HUCCCBS everywhere Be fore Its publication London ins not one of the bIg alert A great popular SUCCCHH cculd not be predicted for the book as It could bu In time case of The Mettle of the Pasture The books merit caused It to I take hold ai once however and in less than two months from Its Issue It had gone Into Its fiftieth thousand S t Ernest Thompson Scion la lo contribute a series of articles to the coming year nt the Country which he calls Fable and WoodMyth consisting of a number of quaint and fuggcstlve little sketches which will remind the reader somewhat of Aesops Fables Mr Scion has the advantage ad-vantage of Aesop In that he can lllua iraio his own work No woman would ever have accepted a man who courted her as Charles Lamb courted Fanny Kelly In the letters now S first published In the September Harpers t avers a writer In an English periodical u r But that literature warn the gainer by tho womans refusal the same writer inns no i doubt Could anybody but a bachelor t have written Ella S Keith Boyco author of The Forerunner J Forerun-ner announced by Fox Dufflold Co Inns so odd a name that It has actually 4 been transported into fiction A writer of a short story In a recent magazine has appropriated It ns the name of her hero Inc Since the real Ntlth Boyce and the I writer of the short story arc both natives p i of California the process must have been less coincidence than a cape of unconscious uncon-scious assimilation It Is said that Pinoio bIgot bI-got the name of The Second Mrs Tan queray from a London tombstone It might be well If all authors confined them hclves to hIke sources for her publishers assure us that Nclth Boyce Is very much alive There Is no story better than a good sea story Such a one there Is In the October Oc-tober McClurcs by Colin McKny called The Mate From Maine simply tire story of how a consumptive looking young fellow Just out of the hospital but already al-ready n famous mate look the old Eliza Mae with her cargo of coal and hoi leaks and her cowardly master from Delaware Breakwater safe Into Halifax 1 harbor It Is tire last story in the num 4I h her Look It up and read It Mr Alexis Irencc dn Pont Coleman whone translation of Materllncks Marina Vnnno has Just been published by the Harpers is of French descent on his Lt mothers side and IH an accomplished French scholar During the last year or Augustin Dalys life he was official trans later at Dalys theater and since that time he has done all the play translating I for the chief agent in thin country for German dramatists Mr Coleman Is also the author of numerous IJterary articles J In the magazines and for the past three years has been an Instructor In the Eng l lish department of the College of the City of New York Mr Coleman Is a graduate i of Oxford JI4 4 How Mimic Thomas Antrim Our Lady t of Cleverness as she Is known In her u particular cenacle finds time amid time t round of her social duties to evolve her eternally fresh presentations ot the fads and follies of the day Is puzzling alike lo her Immediate friends and brat public But of one thing both may be assured t There IH no flavor of cither canned or i 4 vaudeville llleraturc about her latest book The Wisdom of the Foolish and the Folly of tine Wise Its epigrams arc as piquant as her earlier utterances which Is lo say she dissects men and women wo-men with a keenness which Is delightful handling tine mol jusU the happy figure I the pat allusion with the skill of one to whom It has been given lo look upon Ihe naked face of Truth Henry Allemus company com-pany publish time book p A London bookseller names In his catalogue tj cata-logue a copy of The Silverado Squatters ith In green wrappers for which ho asks 50 u He slates that only ten copies of lids l pamphlet were printed One of them belongs i be-longs to Mr C K Shorter who reproduces repro-duces in The Sphere the description I which Stevenson himself wrote Inside the i Iront wrapper It runs as loiiowsi I The Strange and Imperfect Publication one of an edition of ten copies only Issued for ulterior purposes on tho 17th day of n October In the year of grace 1SS3 Is now In Its character of a bibliographic rarity and candidate for the museums of the future fu-ture and ns a handy compendium of ails readings and errors of the press In which tit t-it far excels the most extensive compcti live collections Offered by the author to Walter A Powell the celebrated Scoto Wclshman of Ilyercs TIIH KMEUALD ISLE By John Grcenlcaf Whlltler The first poom of Whlltler ever printed m was The Exiles Departure which appeared ap-peared In Garrisons Free Press Juiv S IS2G The next was The Deity published June 22nd of the same year and both these are collected The third appeared in the Free Pros August 3 1 1S26 and vtB never collected lie was IS years old when hesi llneM were written and bad not yet lImo advantage of the academy nor of any library except that of the wsst old dm tor whom lie mentions in SnowBound Dr Elms WoldS T Pickard Brightly figure thy shores upon historys pages Where names dear to fame and 10 science jj sci-ence long Jcncnyn Like unsetilng stars through the lapse of fl iomrg ages From > h e scailrdel Isle ot lllbernla have shone I Fair Island thy vales mire embalmed In the story Which history tclleth of ages gone by When OsslanH proul xierooa strode onward on-ward n glory j And eeinr wave answered their loud I buitiocrv The wl U vims Is crc tiulng tine bhararjek h Iloblrjr Us foliage oer many t dimly seen pile Whore entombed on ilw fields of their m fame are reposing uI S The proud peerless chiefs of the Emerald Emer-ald Jsle 1 And In far later years with the purest devotion de-votion To the high cause of freedom full many a sonS P > son-S Of the green shores of Erin the Germ of K the Ocean I Ii Fair evergreen laurels of glory has won The martyred ONeal and Die gallant I Fitzgerald On the bright Hat of glory forever shall iitnnd S And fame circle Emmet the eloquent herald ilL Who wakened the spirit and pride of his l land They arc Ironic they arc gone but their memories that linger 1 On the ahorcd where they perish no wretch shall revile 1 No slavo urf a tyrant shall dare point tine II llnircr Of scorn at those sons of the Emerald 1 t isle S lllbernlu 1 tire tyrants may seek to degrade de-grade thoe Yet nrmul ons of science acknowledge u their birth On thy seagirded shores whose high ge niiiM has made three S The Gem of the Ocean the wonder of ortb I Long long has the halo of glory surrounded t sur-rounded LI The memory of Brian the pride of thy shore And oer thy dim bakes annul wide valleys have sounded Tim hearttouching strains of Corolan tv and Moore tt Oh soon may tire banners of rrcadom wave oer lice Grcim island of Erin may Liberty smnie > l To the luster of primitive ages restore thof I The Gem of the Ocean the EmcraM Isle From Independent N Y 1 |