erable distinction, and her time is fully occupied at present with work engaged for these several periodicals. Miss Laut was not only the first woman at many of these distant points, but was the first correspondent of any paper to reach them. Her report of these people is particularly interesting. She says: "It was here I first came in contact with man in the rough and learned to appreciate the chivalry and courtesy of a class receiving small credit for such grace, and this though I was entirely alone, without one experience of disrespect or annoyance." Her book, which is a workmanlike piece of writing, takes the reader to that country so marvelously described by Parkman. She has succeeded in adding something to his very attractive description of the place.

Mr. F. G. Kitton will contribute a new volume on "The Minor Writings of Charles Dickens," to the Book Lover's Library. This volume will contain a complete bibliographical history of Dickens's minor writings, and a full list of his contributions to periodical literature.

A timely and interesting contribution to the bibliography of China, which is growing so rapidly, is the Rev. S. I Woodbridge's translation of the book written by Chang Chi Tung, the Viceroy of Liang Hu, which was published in China shortly after the war between China. and Japan, with the Emperor's commendation, and which is said to have had a sale in China of over a million copies. The present version in English is issued by Messrs. Fleming H. Revell Co., under the rather sensational title, " China's Only Hope," and has an introduction by the Rev. Dr. Griffith John. Viceroy Chang is one of the most 66 progressive" of China's statesmen, and his pro-foreign influence has been very considerable in the

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councils of the empire. His book contains a strong appeal to the ruling classes to assimilate the Western learning, and turn it to China's advantage.

Mr. Arthur Heming, the young artist who has made twelve remarkable pictures illustrating W. A. Fraser's new American animal book, entitled "Mooswa: and Others of the Boundaries," knows by personal experience almost every portion of the wilds of Canada, and has traveled thousands of miles by canoe, snow-shoes, prairie schooner and horseback. He has hunted and made sketches of all the great wild dwellers of the wilderness, and enjoyed the rather exciting experience of patrolling with the Northwest mounted police, as well as working among river drivers, with rafting crews, cow-punchers and wood-choppers. We reprint herewith Mr. Heming's latest photograph.

Through the courtesy of her publishers we are able to present this month the latest portrait of Mrs. Eva Emery

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Dye, the author of "McLoughlin and Old Oregon," a new story published by A. C. McClurg & Co., which is already in its second edition, and the notices of which are highly flattering. Mrs. Dye is a native of Illinois and a graduate of Oberlin College. She has made a systematic study of the pioneer and pioneer times in the Northwest, besides consulting every old book, letter and document she could find in the course of her work on this unusual bit of fiction. Mrs. Dye at present lives in Oregon City, Oregon.

A correspondent asks the significance of the title of Robert Grant's novel, "Unleavened Bread." When the book was first published, a critic in Boston went to some pains to find a special significance in the words by tracing them back to the prayer-book sentence: "Not with the old leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and

truth." This might be thought a proper enough keynote for a realistic novel, but when the matter was brought to Judge Grant's attention, he said that he had not intended any deeper significance than the ordinary connotation of something "halfbaked," and therefore unwholesome. Selma White might be said to be the modern feminine complement of Ephraim, who, Scripture saith, was a cake not turned.

Among privately printed books we have seen nothing more finely made than the "Memoir" of Virginia Isabel Forbes, who died in January, 1899. She was the wife of Mr. Francis W. Halsey, the editor of the Times "Saturday Review," who has compiled the book for presentation to friends. The volume has 190 pages, with headbands, end pieces, title-page in colors, and two illustrations in photogravure. One is a portrait of Mrs. Halsey, and the other shows a corner in her library. Only Press), ten of them on imperial Japanese seventy copies were printed (at the Gilliss vellum. The memoir is an intimate personal sketch of Mrs. Halsey, who was born in New York and came of an old New York family, who lived in Barclay Street at the end of the Revolutionary War.

Besides writing and illustrating two or three volumes of verse this autumn, Mr. Oliver Herford has completed the book of a three-act musical fantasy called " McAdam and Eve, or, Two in a Garden." The music for the piece has been written by Mr. Henry Waller, who wrote the music for "The Ogalallas," and "Fra Francesco," the only opera by an American ever produced in the Berlin opera house. The scene of the action is alternately Paris and the Garden of Eden, and contains most elaborate and beautiful ballets. The libretto is as excellently clever as are

all Mr. Herford's achievements. Here are

a few lines from one of Eve's songs:

Many million years gone, maybe,
When Old Time was but a baby.
And this world was in its A B
C, I first saw light of day.

I was then the charming Missis
Of a garden such as this is,
'Twas a paradise of blisses,
And my life was light and gay.

But it chanced one fatal morning-
It was early in the Fall,

That I disobeyed the warning

And my joy was turned to mourning,
For, they banished me with scorning
Far outside the Garden wall.

The libretto has been printed and copyrighted for Mr. Herford by the Scribners, with a view to publication later. It is hoped that we shall see the piece properly staged and taking the town by storm before the winter is over.

An almost inseparable accompaniment to our fall elections is the appearance of a new impression of Mr. P. L. Ford's vivid novel of New York politics, " The Honorable Peter Stirling." Messrs. Henry Holt & Co. are just sending this book to press for the fortieth time.

With the exception of John Quincy Adams, whose term of service was longer, but not so varied, ex-Secretary of State John W. Foster, has been longer attached to the diplomatic corps of his country than any other man. His opportunities and experiences peculiarly qualify him for writing a history of the diplomatic service of the United States. His new volume, called "A Century of American Diplomacy Being a Brief Review of the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1776-1876," has just been published by Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. It is

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popularly written and contains a large fund of interesting personal sketches, anecdotes, and many hitherto unrelated versions of important international negotiations.

The publication of Mr. Edmund Clarence Stedman's "American Anthology" is one of the most important purely literary events of the present publishing season. It is a work upon which he has been long engaged, and from the completion of which he has been for some time held back by ill-health. The publication of the volume completes the series to which the "Nature and Elements of Poetry," "Victorian Poets," the "Victorian Anthology," and the "Poets of America," belong. The "American Anthology" con

tains sketches of all American poets, with representative poems by them, and Mr. Stedman has written for it a very careful introduction which is a bird's-eye view of the wide field of American poetical literature. The publishers, Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., announce that the limited large-paper edition was almost wholly subscribed for in advance of its publication, and that the few remaining copies have now been sold. Thus this edition is already out of print.

Mrs. Helen R. Albee, the author of "Mountain Playmates," a story announced for immediate publication, was born in Dayton, Ohio, and is a graduate of the Dayton High School. Her family later moved to Indianapolis, and she finally undertook the study of designing under John Ward Stimson, in New York City. In 1894 she married Mr. John Albee, of Newcastle, N. H., and from this time on her life has been spent wholly in the country, either at the coast or in the White Mountains. The "playmates" of her story had their home and playground on a hill-top near Mount Chocorua, in New Hampshire.

Maurice Hewlett's next novel, "Richard Yea and Nay," is to be published very shortly by the Macmillan Co. The subject of the story will be the life, adventures, imprisonment, and death of Richard the Lion Hearted. Mr. Hewlett

stands alone in his field; whatever he writes commands equal respect for his erudition and admiration for his literary style.

Major Pond has written a book of his reminiscences which the G. W. Dillingham Co. are about to publish in a large illustrated octavo volume. Under the title "Eccentricities of Genius," Major

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Pond has arranged hundreds of anecdotes of the many noted men and women whom he has brought before the public on the lecture platform, and the narrative is enlivened with its author's shrewd comments upon the striking individualities whom he has "managed." Nobody has met a greater number of distinguished personages. It goes without saying that the book will contain plenty of what the late Horace Greeley used to call "mighty interesting reading."

In his biography of " William Shakespeare: Poet, Dramatist and Man," which The Macmillan Co. will publish immediately, Mr. Hamilton W. Mabie has endeavored to tell the story of Shakespeare's life in the same spirit in which the biographies of contemporaries are written; to set the man clearly in his own age by reproducing its atmosphere; to trace his education and growth in the light of the facts as these have been ascertained, and in the light thrown upon the poet's development by the chronology of the plays; to bring into view the stages of development in mind and art indicated by the plays; to make clear the large lines of

Shakespeare's thought; for the purpose and in the hope of realizing the face, form, temper, speech and character of Shakespeare. Mr. Mabie, making good use of the great mass of existing material, has endeavored to portray Shakespeare as a man living in an intensely interesting age and among an active and growing race; a man first and foremost, as his contemporaries knew him, and a man who, by reason of his genius, personified and interpreted in a splendid way, the spirit and temper of his age and race. The volume will be profusely illustrated with portraits of his contemporaries, views of places connected with the drama in his time and with beautiful reproductions of the landscape of Shakespeare's country.

Miss Martha Bockée Flint, whose new volume of essays upon the legendary lore of plants and flowers, called "A Garden of Simples," is now in press, died on October 16, at the home of her brother in Dutchess County. She was the daughter of the late Augustus Flint and Catherine Bockée, who was a daughter of was a daughter of Judge Bockée, a jurist and patriot of Revolutionary times. Miss Bockée was the author of "Early Long Island: a Colonial Study," published some years ago. Of late she had divided her study between history, genealogy, and certain aspects of gardening. Her latest work grew out of this interest.

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A new series of handy volumes of selections of the best writings of American authors is inaugurated by Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., by the issue of the first five volumes of the Riverside Aldine Classics. These volumes include selections by Mr. H. E. Scudder, formerly of the Atlantic Monthly, from the work of Hawthorne, Lowell, Longfellow, Holmes and Whittier. In every case Mr. Scudder

has added a preface and introductory notes to the many selections which in several instances are the most popular of the shorter writings of these authors. The volumes have each a photogravure frontispiece and are attractively bound in blue cloth.

Messrs. Little, Brown & Co. have just published an edition of "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám," comprising the metrical translations of Edward Fitzgerald and E. H. Whinfield, and the prose version of Justin Huntly McCarthy. The volume contains an appendix showing the variations in the first three editions of the Fitzgerald rendering, and also a comparative table of the three translations on the basis of Fitzgerald's arrangement. The Whinfield version has not been issued before in this country.

In the New York Times "Saturday Review" there is a column filled with the recorded desires of people who want to sell or exchange books. The following paragraph appeared a week or two agowe omit the name, which was printed in full, as a guarantee of good faith, probably:

"C. R. K., 000 West Twenty-third Street, New York City I want to sell or exchange a carefully selected library of thirty volumes, all in good condition, for a boy from fourteen to nineteen years of age."

We should think a good boy ought to be worth more.

The Lark is going to sing again. In other words Mr. Gelett Burgess, at one time editor of that blithe periodical, is about to retune his harp and sing the old songs over again to a public that has never ceased to listen. This fall a volume of his verse is to appear entitled "A Sage of Youth, Lyrics from the Lark." This little volume will contain almost all of those fascinating