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Show m LITERARY NOTES. i A New Omar. K Paul Elder & Co., San Francispo, have a new h e'dlttom of "Omar" on their list for fall publication. To the text of Fitzgerald's flhal revision is to bo added "The Literal Omar," being a. version ot-the ot-the original Upon which. Fitzgerald's poem was. based, arranged in comparative quatrains. Edited, with biographical preface and. notes by; Arthur Quiterman and illustrated by Gilbert James, f J The edition is to he an example of the best book work of the Tomoye Press, done under the personal direction-; of $. H. Nash; with rubicated text and printed on fine papers the Naishapur edition of Italian hand-made paper, and the Text-maker's Text-maker's edition, two hundred numbered copies, on Arnold hand-made; a considerable portion of the later has alieady been subscribed for in advance of publication. BIBLE MOSAICS. This is the title of a volume of mosaics compiled com-piled .by Agnes Greene Foster, soon to be min-lished. min-lished. by Paul Elder & Co. The work Is completed com-pleted in five chapters or divisions entitle'd '"Blessings," '"Bless-ings," "Promises," "Commands," "AumpniUpn.s,",, and "Answers," each chapter being a mosaic, of Biblical selections, arranged without comment sc as to form coherent essays illustrative of vital truths of life. The work will be issued in an attractive manner and. illustrated with reproductions reproduc-tions of a number of well-loved pictures, such as Blashfield's 'The Angels of the Chimes," Plock-horst's Plock-horst's "Christ Blessing Little Children," Hof-mann's Hof-mann's "Christ," and others. The Works of Jesus. Of interest alike to the followers of the Emanuel Eman-uel movement and of Mrs. Eddy will be Edna S. Little's arrangement of the Bible narrative of Christ's acts of healing and other deeds 1n chronological chrono-logical order under the title of "The "Works of Jesus." No comment whatsoever is given, but "The Sexmon on the Mount" is appended as Christ's own summary of Hls'teachings The volume vol-ume is In press for publication by Paul Elder & Co., San Francisco, done in a dignified scheme of typography with Da Vinci's "Head of Uirist."' from "The Last Supper," as the frontispiece. "'' A Romantic Drama of Old Florence. - "The Tocsin," a diama of the Renaissance, .by Esther Brown Tiffany, is to be published in a limited lim-ited edition by Paul Elder & Co., San Francisco, with "The Dream of Life," by Michael Angelo, done j ' in photogiavure, for the frontispiece. This book ' is. to be printed on Arches' hand-made paper and bound in Italian boards. . Tj1Q Tocsin" is a, stirring romance of brisk action and heroic climax; a drama of fairwFloi ence In the picturesque days of the Mediqi. The press dispatches announce that "Newport women are entirely wrapped up in gamblings" Well, at all events, that's more modest than' a Newport bathing suit. From April 1 to Juy 9, 100 days, 3,200 automo-b'les automo-b'les were registered in Indiana. . |