Auburn; Mr. J. V. Cheney writes interestingly liam Henry Hurlbert, the former editor of the
of "Music or the Tone Poetry," and the other New York World, begins a series on the present
contributions show the surprising variety of liter-political condition of France, entitled "The Out-
ary talent on the Pacific Coast.
look in France." Dr. Edward Berdoe has a
The January Forum opens with a review of the valuable and timely article on "Dr. Koch's
colonization and division of Africa down to date, Consumption Cure." The late financial crisis
accompanied with a map, by Prof. Émile de Lave- in London furnishes the text for two articles
leye. This is a thorough record of the most one on "An Averted Crisis in the City," by
gigantic work of colonization ever undertaken, W. B. Lawson, and the other by A. J. Wilson
the influence of which on the future of civilization on "English Bankers and the Bank of England."
cannot yet be reckoned. Mr. Thomas G. Shear- Mr. Tree's innovation in theatrical matters in
man writes an essay on "The Coming Billion-setting aside one night each week for the pro-
aire," to show that under the present system of duction of plays of a high order, but such as are
federal taxation our present two hundred million- not likely to please a general audience, is dis-
aires would necessarily become billionaires in forty cussed at some length; and the number closes
years; but he does not expect a billionaire at all, with fresh chapters of George Meredith's re-
because he regards the present system of indirect markable novel, "One of Our Conquerors,"
taxation as doomed, and the early coming of di- which is one of the strong features of the Fort-
rect federal taxation as inevitable. President J. nightly.
C. Price of Livingston College, N. C., himself a
colored man, discusses the question whether the
negroes seek social equality with the whites.
Maintaining that his race does not seek social
equality, he argues that to seek it or to expect it
through legislation would be futile and absurd.
The biographical essay this month is by President
Dwight of Yale, who points out the relative ad-
vantages from his point of view of the commer-
cial life and the life of a teacher. Eliza Lynn
Linton, after showing the inadequacy of marriage
in certain ways, argues the necessity of maintain
ing it as a necessity to the very preservation of
society. W. S. Lilly discusses the nature of real
liberty. Edmund Gosse writes of the future of
poetry as one of the great arts, and Mr. Oberlin
Smith, in a striking article, shows how the con-
struction and service of railways might be im-
proved, and even revolutionized. Dr. Austin
Flint's article on "The Revolution in Medicine"
explains Professor Koch's discovery, and closes
thus:

"It is possible, in the light of what has recently been accomplished by Koch, that in the near future many curative lymphs will be discovered, each produced by the special micro-organism of each disease. It would then be not too much to expect that these agents would promptly arrest the different diseases to which they are applicable. For example: The typhoid lymph, the diphtheric lymph, the lymph for measles, scarlet fever, etc., would promptly arrest these diseases and save patients from the degenerations and the accidents which are liable to occur when these diseases are allowed to run their course; and that convalescence will be prompt because the diseases have not produced damage which can only be repaired by time. Truly this would be a revolution in medicine, and it now seems to be impending."

In the Fortnightly Review for December, J. Ross Troup writes on "Mr. Stanley's Rear Guard," reviewing the great explorer's plans and the reasons which prevented their being carried out. Captain Pembroke Marshall has an important article on "Child-Life Insurance," in which he combats the statement that there are thousands of murders yearly in order to obtain the insurance money of children. An address by Walter Pater, delivered in Oxford and London, reviews the life of Prosper Merimée and his place in the history of literary art. Madame Darmesteter's papers on “Rural Life in France in the Fourteenth Century " come to a conclusion, the present paper telling of foods and medicines. Commander Lovett Cameron writes of "Burton as I Knew Him," giving his reminiscences of the dead leader with many interesting notes of his opinions and religious ideas. Wil

In the November number of Mr. Stead's use-
ful Review of Reviews, the "Character Sketch ".
a long one is of John Morley, and the "Book
of the Month" is "General" Booth's "In Dark-
est London," of which a full abstract is given.
The photographs are not the least important
things in this digest of the periodical literature
of the world. The Queen, Mr. Morley, the
Booths, Father Mathew, Dr. Jewett, Dr. Carl
Peters, Von Moltke and Isaac Pitman are here
pictured-to name no others. The convenience
of Mr. Stead's Review for many purposes is as
great as its bad effect would be in producing in-
digestion if read consecutively.

NEWS AND NOTES.

paratively limited) circles of readers, they find it more profitable to obtain from them the highest prices they are willing to pay. When foreign works are put on the same level as those of American writers, the publishers of the latter will find it to their interest to plan for the widest popular sale, and for this purpose will at once issue their books at popular prices. The selling price of books depends, not on the copyright, but on the requirements of the market and the extent of the market that is controlled by the author and his representative. American buyers are now accustomed to cheap books, and will not buy dear books, and the publishers are not likely to throw away their money by making dear books for which they could not find a sale. The wider the markets and the greater the number of editions between which the first outlays can be divided, the smaller the cost of each copy, and the lower the price at which each copy can be and will be supplied. With assured markets and an assured control to authors of the results of their literary undertakings, there will be a great increase in the publication of international series, which will provide for American readers, at the lowest prices, satisfactory editions of the works of the leading writers of the world, American, English, and Continental. As Brander Matthews has pointed out, the cheapest books to be bought today in the United States are mostly inferior stories by contemporary English novelists, while the cheapest books to be bought today in Europe are the best works by the best authors of all times. In France and Germany, countries fully under the control of copyright, both domestic and international, the first issues of standard and current publications, both copyright and noncopyright, are cheaper than anywhere else in the world. - George Haven Putnam, in New York Tribune.

'The

- HOW THE COPYRIGHT LAW WILL WORK. I think this bill will bring about a rapprochement between British and American publishers that will redound to the benefit of both. There will - Mr. George Saintsbury has collected into be a planning among them for the control of a volume, to be published shortly by Messrs. larger markets, which will help authors, publish- Percival & Co., the critical articles on various ers, and the reading public. Authors will re- English authors, from Crabbe to Borrow, which ceive higher remuneration, and will do better he has contributed during the past four years to work, because they can afford to devote more Macmillan's Magazine. The volume will be entime to the preparation of their manuscript; pub- titled Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860. lishers will sell 1,000 books where they now sell It will have an introductory paper on 100, and the public will get those books at a re- Kinds of Criticism; " and an appendix, discussduced price. Publications of all kinds will be ing some questions concerning De Quincey and better executed. Nowadays most of the cheap Lockhart which have presented themselves since We are the original publication. work turned out is only half done. obliged to hurry to beat the pirates who depend on our literary judgment — having none of their own- and try to get to the market with our own wares before we can reach it ourselves. The new law will put an end to all this scrambling; we shall see less of this "scramble material," and be enabled to turn out better work. Most of the cheap literature of the day is made up of reprints of works that the reputable houses have brought out and paid a royalty on. You would be surprised to know how many establishments there are which are without literary counsel. They cannot afford to employ it, so they use ours.

-During the past thirty years the Rev. Dr. H. M. Dexter had gathered a large collection of books and manuscripts bearing upon Pilgrim and early Colonial history. It contains many rare works, and, in its way, is believed to be unequaled. Dr. Dexter has bequeathed it to Yale University, his alma mater. He also had been occupied closely for many years upon a work to be entitled, A Study of the English and Dutch Life of the Plymouth Men. It is uncertain at present whether the manuscript of this work, which was left unfinished, is in such a condition as to be prepared for publication, but it is hoped that it may be given to the public in due time. - Messrs. Hutchinson & Co. have in the

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Under the new law a reduction may be looked for in the selling price of certain lines of American fiction and other current literature. Under press The Poets and Poetry of the Century, in ten the present cut-throat competition the publishers volumes, under the editorship of Mr. Alfred H. of the works of such authors as Howells, James, Miles. It will consist of selections from the Aldrich, Bret Harte, and other leading American British poets of the century, together with writers, have given up the attempt to compete signed critical articles on them. Volumes I., with the unpaid-for reprints of foreign writers. II, and IV will appear at once. They will conKnowing that they can depend on certain (com-tain articles on Bryon by Mr. Roden Noel; on

Mr. Swinburne, by Mr. Arthur Symons; on Mr. zil: its Condition and Prospects, with a carefully Moral Reform; The History of England from William Morris, by Mr. Buxton Forman; and prepared account of the recent revolution, and the year 1830, in three volumes, 1871-73; and on Sir Aubrey De Vere and Mr. Theodore Watts, of the present government, by C. C. Andrews, History of the Church of England from 1660, his by Mr. Mackenzie Bell. Among future contrib-ex-Consul-General to Brazil; a new edition of last book, published in 1882. Mr. Molesworth utors are the names of Mr. J. A. Symonds, Mr. The Evolution of Man and Christianity, by the held advanced ideas on all matters of national Austin Dobson, Mr. Joseph Knight, Mr. W. E. Rev. Howard MacQueary, with a preface reply- reform; he was deeply interested in social quesHenley, Mr. J. A. Noble, and Mr. R. Le Galli-ing to recent criticisms; and a new edition of tions, very influential in behalf of the coöperative movement, and a stanch liberal in politics. His father, Rev. Dr. Nassau Molesworth, was the tory vicar of Rochdale, with whom, about fifty years ago, John Bright waged his triumphant contest against the church rates. His son, who succeeded him as vicar in 1844, was one of Mr. Bright's allies.

enne.

-The notice of the two collections of American Sonnets, in our last issue, was at fault in one respect. The volume edited by Col. T. W. Higginson and Mrs. E. H. Bigelow, was intended to be more restricted in its scope than | that edited by Mr. Crandall, and it therefore includes but 250 sonnets by the side of some 450 in the Crandall collection.

The D. Lothrop Company published last week Songs of the Southland, by Miss S. F. Price; Songs of Life, by Francis E. Marston; and the new edition of Austin Phelps' book, The Stili Hour, with a new closing chapter added by Prof. Phelps just before his death. They announce among the first books of 1891, to appear early in January, Miss Dee Dunmore Bryant, by Pansy; Ways and Means, by Rev. F. E. Clark, D. D.; and A Modern Exodus, by Faye Huntington.

-The calendar issued by the Pope Manufacturing Company of Boston is in the form of a pad of 366 leaves, one for each day of the year, to be torn off daily, and one for the entire year. A good portion of each leaf is blank for memoranda. By an ingenious device, the leaves tear off independently, leaving no stub. The port able stand, which holds the pad, contains pen rack and pencil holder. Upon each slip appear quotations pertaining to cycling from leading publicatious and prominent writers, and although this is the fifth year of the calendar, the quotations are fresh.

-John Wiley & Sons have in preparation Engine Runners' Catechism, by Dr. Robert Grimshaw; Wooden Trestle Bridges, by Wolcott C. Foster, C.E.; and Wire; Its Use and Manufacture, by J. Bucknall Smith, C. E.

Appletons' Winter Resorts, revised for the season
of 1890-'91.

-The venerable Bishop of St. Andrews is
writing his autobiography. Messrs. Longmans
expect to issue in the spring, Annals of my
Early Life, 1806-1846, closing with Dr. Words-
worth's resignation of the headmastership of
Winchester College. This volume will be fol-
lowed in due course by Annals of my Later Life,
treating of the events of more recent years.

- A volume of Studies in Literature, by Mr. John Morley, will be published by Messrs. Macmillan & Co. within the next few weeks. It will be uniform with the collected edition of his writings, and will contain, among other papers, the address on the study of literature delivered at the Mansion House, and the address on aphorisms delivered at Edinburgh.

- "The great writers of modern English prose are falling all too rapidly for their numbers. The same year that takes Newman sees Kinglake smitten, and, by all accounts, desperately. He is an old man, but was strong and well until last autumn, when the beginnings of a cancer appeared. In the early spring he underwent an operation, but the disease has grown again. A finished and graceful talker, he has been master also of a written style that has few rivals in Victorian times. In spite of Matthew Arnold's strictures, he will remain a classic." The Speaker.

- The London Charterhouse has managed to secure a large proportion of the school sketches and MSS. by Thackeray which were recently sold by Messrs. Sotheby. The foundation was already in possession of many interesting relics of the great novelist. The school journal, the Greyfriar, promises some fac-simile reproductions from the newly acquired treasures.

The death of M. Octave Feuillet, one of the most distinguished novelists and dramatists of France, is announced. He is best known to | American play-goers through two of his dramas, Le Roman d'un Jeune Homme Pauvre (“The Romance of a Poor Young Man "), adapted by Lester Wallack, and La Tentation (“Led Astray ”), adapted by Dion Boucicault; but in the literary world he is more celebrated from his novels and his numerous plays than from the works mentioned. M. Feuillet was born in Saint Lo (Manche), August 11, 1812. Under the name of Désiré Hayard, he began to write in 1844. From that time on he was a constant contributor to newspapers and reviews. During the first decade of his life he dabbled now and then in play writing, but without success. He had been accepted as a contributor to the Revue des Deux Mondes, so that he was not without a certain distinction. A number of his earlier short novels and comedies were collected in two volumes, Scènes et Proverbes and Scènes et Comedies. In 1862 M. Feuillet was elected to the French Academy to fill the chair left vacant by the death of Eugene Scribe, and in the following year was made an officer of the Legion of Honor. Afterward he was appointed librarian of the imperial residences, which position he held until the revolution of September 4, 1870.

-The double New Year's number of the Youth's Companion comes to us in a dainty cover printed in shades of red and brown. This number is said to have the enormous circulation of 575,000 copies. It does not need praising.

- Mrs. Sutherland Orr's memoir of Robert Browning will be published shortly. The book has grown on her hands, but is now nearly com

Mr. Hall Caine's dramatic rendering of "Mahomet" is announced for early publication by Mr. W. Heinemann.

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The University of Bologna celebrated, last month, the thirtieth anniversary of the first lesson in literature, given there by the great poet and critic, Giosue Carducci.

An illustrated edition of Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare's Comedies, with copious notes by - Richard William Church, dean of St. Paul's Dr. William J. Rolfe, is announced as nearly Cathedral, died in London, last month, at the ready for publication by Harper & Brothers. It age of 75. He was an Oxford man, a fellow of forms the fourth volume of Dr. Rolfe's series Oriel, and after being rector of a country parish of English Classics for School Reading, and is from 1853 to 1871, he was appointed by Mr. designed to be of service not only as a supple- Gladstone, dean of St. Paul's. Dean Church pleted. mentary reading-book, but as an introduction to was a high church leader, and his erection of the study of Shakespeare for those who are old the magnificent reredos in the cathedral caused enough to begin that study in earnest. a long ecclesiastical litigation. He was a pro-D. Appleton & Co. have ready in the "Fic-lific writer, the list of his works comprising tion series for Young Readers," The Log School- volumes of sermons, lectures and treatises on House on the Columbia, a tale of the pioneers of theological and ecclesiastical history, an essay the Great Northwest, by Hezekiah Butterworth; on Dante, with a translation of De Monarchia, in the "Town and Country" series, A Flut- the lives of Spenser and Bacon in the “English tered Dovecote, by George Manville Fenn; and Men of Letters" series, The Beginnings of the Through Magic Glasses, a series of lectures on Middle Ages, being the initial volume of the the uses of the telescope, microscope, spectro-"Epochs of History" series, and a Life of St. scope, photocamera, etc., and the wonders re- Anselm. vealed through them, by Arabella B. Buckley (Mrs. Fisher). They announce for early publication, The Journal of William Maclay, United States Senator, 1789-1791, edited by Edgar S. Maclay; The Nugents of Carriconna, an Irish novel by Tighe Hopkins; Ring- Riding, by H. W. Struss of the New York Riding Club; Socialism, Old and New, by Professor William Graham, a new book in the "International Scientific" series; a new edition (the third) of Bra

- C. W. Bardeen, Syracuse, N. Y., has pub lished the first of a series of "School-Room Pictures," representing a typical German country school-room. It is to be followed by Geoffroy's picture, "En Classe," representing a Paris schoolroom.

Rev. William Nassau Molesworth, whose death in England at the age of 74 is announced, - Ticknor & Co., Boston, will publish shortly, devoted much of his time to authorship, writing by subscription, in six parts, folio, with numeron a variety of subjects, his books comprising ous plates, Architecture of the Renaissance in a treatise on The Religious Importance of Secular England, by J. Alfred Gotch and W. Talbot Instruction; Plain Lectures on Astronomy; Eng- Brown. land and France, a prize essay on the value of a close alliance between those countries, which appeared in 1860; A History of the Reform Bill of 1832, published in 1864; A New System of

- Mr. George Meredith's novel, One of Our Conquerors, at present appearing in an abridged form in The Fortnightly Review, is to be published in book form early next spring.

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- Friederich Spielhagen has fully recovered his health, and is preparing a drama, In eiserner Zeit, to be performed shortly at Frankfort, Vienna, and Berlin.

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