Messrs. Henry Holt & Co. are about to bring out, in an ornamental 16mo edition, "Familiar Quotations from the Divine. Comedy of Dante Alighieri," edited by Mr. R. J. Cross, with English translations and notes. The editor says he has endeavored to make " a selection of passages that appeared to breathe more of the Modern than the Mediæval spirit, and to avoid those which cannot retain their spirit in translation, or which express subtle dissertations on Aristotelian philosophy or Florentine politics. The Italian and English text will appear on opposite pages."

A new book by the noted literary and Shakespearean critic, Edward Dowden, entitled "Puritan and Anglican," is to be issued in January by Messrs. Henry Holt & Co. Professor Dowden treats of Puritanism and English Literature, Sir Thomas Browne, Hooker, Herbert, Vaughan, Milton, Jeremy Taylor, Baxter, Bunyan, Butler, the transition to the eighteenth century, etc. He gives a peculiarly vivid personal tone to the book, though he often

uses the thoughts and phrases of the authors treated.

The portrait of Mr. John Uri Lloyd is furnished us by his publishers, Messrs. Dodd, Mead and Co. A recent number of the Louisville Courier Journal contained a page article, with many photographs, identifying the town of "Stringtown on the Pike," with Florence, Kentucky. It is a hamlet in Boone County, near Covington.

An anonymous book called "An Englishwoman's Love Letters" has been issue

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about a month by Mr. John Murray in England, and by Messrs. Doubleday, Page and Co. in this country. During these few weeks the book has leaped into tremendous popularity, and interminable discussions have begun in the papers as to its verity. It purports to be a collection of genuine love letters written by a woman, who loved him to a man who could not love her. This is the theme of Mrs. Wharton's "The Touchstone," published last spring, but of course these letters have no connection with Mrs. Wharton's book.

Messrs. Harper & Brothers make the announcement that they will publish during 1901 twelve new novels by American authors, one each month. The first of the series, to appear at once, is "Eastover Court House," by Kenneth Brown, a story of rural life in Virginia to-day.

General George Washington's original manuscript genealogy is to be sold at auction in Boston by Messrs. C. F. Libbie & Co. on January 15. The announcement is certainly of the greatest bibliographical interest, for the authenticity of the MS. is unquestioned, and as a unique historical document it will doubtless fetch a very high price. The circular adds that to the original manuscript genealogy of six and one-half pages is attached his correspondence with with Sir Isaac Heard, Garter King-at-Arms of the Heralds' College in London, written in 1792, during Washington's first term

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president of the United States. This correspondence includes a manuscript pedigree and a two-page letter, all in the handwriting of General Washington, and a MS. genealogy of the family of Washington, covering fourteen pages folio compiled by Sir Isaac Heard. It includes seven finely colored coats-of-arms, and many details of the deepest interest.

A correspondent writes to THE BOOK BUYER that Sally Pratt McLean Green's poem of "De Sheepfol'," reprinted in the November number from Mr. Stedman's anthology, was a favorite of John Greenleaf Whittier. Mr. Whittier had cut it from the newspaper when it first appeared anonymously, and used to repeat it with great

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delight. He was especially fond of the phrase "the gloomerin' meadows." We believe the poem was also a special favorite of the late Charles A. Dana, who had a share in definitely settling its authorship, which was at one time in dispute.

Mr. Frederic Lawrence Knowles, from whose volume of poems, called "On Life's Stairway," just published by Messrs. L. C. Page & Co.-we make extracts elsewhere is still a young man, having taken his bachelor's degree at Harvard in 1896. His compilations, "Cap and Gown," and "Golden Treasury of American Lyrics," are widely known. Of the new book, Mr. Knowles' first volume of original work, Mr. John Burroughs has written in a letter to the publishers, "It is the most fresh

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and original book of verse which has come to my hand in many a year."

Mr. Leon Vincent is not a Frenchman, whatever his name, his books or his face may seem to say to the contrary. The genealogist has dug up a Huguenot somewhere about the roots of the Vincent family tree, but the author of " Hôtel de Rambouillet" and its charming sequence of essays in French literature has a half-dozen generations of Americans behind him, a good share of them Methodist preachers. Mr. Vincent was a child of the parsonage, grew up in central New York, took his bachelor's degree at Syracuse University, taught a little, tried book-selling, traveled in Europe, and about fifteen years ago settled down to business as a lecturer upon literary topics. His "Personal Studies in Literature"

have been very popular. His first book, now not easily found, was an earnest plea for a popular recognition of Browning's poetry. Half a dozen years ago the Atlantic published the first of the essays which afterward appeared in The Bibliotaph. There was a fine individuality in the author's portrayal of the unique personality of his friend, the " mighty collector of books." Mr. Vincent's post-office address is Philadelphia, but his lecturing itinerary seldom takes him thither. From September to January his epistles are dated at Boston-"not heaven, but near it," in his estimation. From New Year until Easter his engagements keep him in or near New York, and in midsummer he ranges through the summer assembly belt. New volumes by Mr. Vincent announced by Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. are monographs upon "The

French Academy" and "Corneille," to be published during the spring.

Mr. Frederick Dellenbaugh, whose book on the American Indians is to be published early in the month by Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons, under the title "The North Americans of Yesterday," has made a life-long study of the subject, and his book is said to be the best and most comprehensive review of Indian civilization yet presented in a single volume.

The author made his first extended study of the Cliff-dwellers and the western tribes with Major Powell in the exploration of the cañons of the Colorado, traveling for over a thousand miles in small boats. Mr. Dellenbaugh was also a member of the Harriman Expedition of last summer to Alaska, when he completed his studies of the Alaskan Indians.