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Show LITERARY NOTES. "Manchu and Muscovite." "Manchu and Muscovite" is the title of Mr. Putnam Weale's important new book on Manchuria, which has just appeared. It consists largely in letters let-ters written to a leading English journal jour-nal during the last autumn, popular in character, and packed with interesting inter-esting facts about the country and the people. A historical sketch entitled "Prologue to the Crisis" gives a complete com-plete account of the Manchurlan frontiers fron-tiers and their history from the earliest ear-liest days, and of the growth and final meeting of the Russian and Chinese empires in tho Amur regions. The book is fully illustrated from photographs. photo-graphs. The volume includes picturesque and graphic accounts of Port Arthur, Dalny, Harbin, and the whole region El flHB of the Far Eastern war. Tho author J M lived long and travelled much in Man- Jit 9H churia, and tells a good deal that has igjff jHi not before been known about the Chi- ffil ; H nese population and the Russian gov- ml flH erning classes, and relates some good ! ( fl stories showing how business Is car- 11 If9 ried on under the new regime. The 1 WM most significant portions of his book H are the descriptions of the administra- , j )H tion of affairs by Russian government I ( J H employees and bank officials, and how , . t I H it works out on the common people. j j H It is from the Macmillan Publishing I j H Co. ' 1 J & i H "Prosit" is the happy tlt.e of a Book H of Toasts to be published in the early I H fall by Paul Elder and Company, San jH Francisco. "Clotho," the compiler, Is i B the pen name of the Spinner's Club, f H a group of clever literary people in ) jH California, who have contributed j . jH many original toasts additional to those gathered from various sources, ' JH ancient and modern. Some of the slg jH natures to appear through the volume H are: The Hon. James G. Phelan, jjH Wallace Irwin, George Sterling, How- ( . JH ard V. Sutherland, Ernest Sylvester ff jM Simpson, Ambrose Blerce, Ednah Rob- ,'Mj Inson, John McNaught, Grace Luce Ir- r M win, John Vance Cheney, Gellett Bur- ,1 B gess, Will Irwin, and many others. s H The publishers promise an interest- M ing setting in the mechanical details, M the volume to contain decorations, ,JM frontispiece and cover design by Gor- t j l'H don Ross. j :H A selection of the Poems of John 1 j Boyle O'Reiley is to be published by j Paul Elder and Cn, San Francisco, in ' j: 2 their series of Impression Classics, JH Other additions to appear in the early tf J H fail are, "The Holy Grail" by Tenny- ' son, "Golden Wings" by William Mor- f ris, selections from Eplctetus and j Longfellow's "Evangeline." r |
