posted on the general questions of the day in which Americans and English are alike interested. I send him sundry papers and clippings. Returning thanks for all such, he adds: I am very glad to find that public opinion doesn't back up sense and native ability they are an overmatch the ill will of your Senate. Surely anything that tends to and libraries for the use of the students. The lessen the chances of a squabble between us should be wel comed, even though there may be a few drawbacks contingent. The greatest calamity mankind could possibly make for itself, by its own madness, would be as it seems to me a war between England and U. S. A. Our statesmen are well aware of this; but yours seem to treat the matter far too lightly, and so do your journals, or many of them. In answer to a question as to the meaning and pronunciation of the name of his forthcoming book, he says: Dariel the name of perhaps the finest pass on earth, through the center of Caucasus-is pronounced, I believe, as a tribrach; i. e., with all three syllables short. . . . I am sorry that D. M. & Co. intend to illustrate it, for never yet saw I any illustrations that helped to tell my stories. The last number of the tale is to be in the October Blackwood's; when the book is to appear I do not know. Although it has all been typewritten long ago, I am so dissatisfied with the last few chapters that I have rewritten them more than once, and they are not fairly settled now. But I am convinced more and more that there is a lot of luck, as well as skill, in the handling of every line, no less than in the plan and formation of the whole. Then follow these very interesting sentences: Nine people out of ten speak, with happy contempt, of a novel as a trumpery concoction. Some man, the other day -a leading reviewer- said to me, "Oh, I never care to review a novel! A work of history has some interest. Facts, facts are the things to deal with." I asked him if there was any occurrence, or any character in so-called his. tory, about which opinions diametrically opposite were not held by inquirers of equal intelligence; and I told him that I had been an eye-witness of two incidents, reported the very next day in the papers, and that I could hardly recog nize either as meant for an account of what I had seen. What then of narratives centuries after the events, and generally from pens made to fit into some pocket? But for generations yet to come fiction will be looked upon as a dolly for an infant. The foregoing quotations are decidedly Blackmoresque, as it seems to me, and, like “Cyrus the Younger," when I have a good thing I like to have my friends enjoy it with me. Hence this letter, of which the only good things in it are borrowed. Middletown Springs, Vt., C. R. R. KENTUCKY MOUNTAINEERS. EDITOR LITERARY WORLD: Dear Sir:- I have taken the Literary World for more than twenty years, and have never had occasion to criticise anything in its columns till in the last number, May the 29th, there is a quotation in your New York letter, from a literary gentleman by the name of Fox, that needs answering. He seems to get very indignant at being charged with having been born in the mountains of Kentucky, and goes on to declare what he has been doing in the past to refute the charge, and to show the difference between the two sections of the State, the blue grass and the mountains. . . . literary gentleman is not posted, or he is blind to the other side of this subject. If I am not mistaken, this part of Kentucky has furnished more than one governor and several judges of the Court of Appeals, and can boast of some of the ablest lawyers in the State.... The people of this part of Kentucky are patriots; they are liberty-loving people, and we want to say to Mr. Fox that when the eagle of American liberty has to take its flight from our country it will take it from some lofty peak of our own mountains. Yours very truly, BUCKMINSTER MCGUIRE. Beattyville, Ky., June 1, 1897. - Dr. George Birkbeck Hill's Johnsonian Miscellanies is about ready for publication in two volumes, aggregating upwards of a thousand pages. The first volume contains his prayers and meditations, his account of his childhood, a collection of anecdotes, and an essay; the second volume is made up of a great variety of anecdotes drawn from a wide range of sources. Altogether this work promises much of interest. England is rejoicing over a special assign ment of 300 copies of Mr. Eyre Crowe's Thackeray's Haunts and Homes reprinted from Scrib | ner's Magazine. - A fifth and supplemental volume is ready in London of Mr. Justin McCarthy's History of Our Own Times, covering the period from 1880 to the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria. Mr. Anthony Hope has been lecturing in London on Romance. The gist of his remarks would seem to be that "novel" is the generic and romance "the specific term. - Mr. George Allen, Mr. Ruskin's publisher, has in preparation a new and complete edition of Modern Painters, containing all the text and illustrations of the original, together with every thing added in subsequent additions. The XIXth and completing number of the WiseCrane édition de luxe of Spenser's Faërie Queene is also ready under the imprint of the same publisher. NEWS AND NOTES. -A. C. Armstrong & Son have nearly ready The Novels of Charles Dickens, a bibliography and sketch by E. G. Kitton, a handbook which will be appreciated by all lovers of Dickens. -The Overland Monthly, published in San Francisco, has reduced its price from $3 to $1 a year, thus boldly declaring its readiness to meet its cheapest Eastern competitors on their own ground. -The Fleming H. Revell Co. will publish immediately Strategic Points in the World's Conquest, by John S. Mott, a study of the relation of universities and colleges to the progress of Christianity; and The Culture of Christian Manhood, a collection of Sunday morning sermons preached to the students of Yale University in the Battell Chapel by a large company of American ministers of different religious bodies. - - James T. White & Co. of New York are the publishers of The National Cyclopædia of American Biography, to be completed in twelve royal octavo volumes, with upwards of a thousand portraits in each volume. We have not seen the work, but its field is a large and important one, and if the preparation of it is careful, accurate, thorough, and independent, it will certainly meet a distinct want in American libraries. - Under the title of Stories of Long Ago Miss Grace H. Kupfer has re-written about forty of the Greek myths and legends in a style suited for children of from eight to twelve years of age. D. C. Heath & Co. will publish it. - The Macmillan Co. announce a new edition, under a new title, of a little book by Mrs. Ella Higginson. The old title was The Flower that Grew in the Sand; the new one is From the Land of the Snow Pearls, Tales of Puget Sound. The stories here collected light up the far northwest. The Gadfly, a novel by a new author, to be issued shortly by Henry Holt & Co., has its scene laid in Italy during the political conspiracies against the Austrians in the first half of the present century. -D. Appleton & Co. have become the American publishers of the interesting work entitled The Outgoing Turk, which was reviewed, as it first appeared, under its London imprint a few weeks ago, on page 140 of the present volume. Those who are reading up the Eastern question, and wish the freshest and clearest light on the complicated situation of which Constantinople is the center and the Sultan the leading figure, should not overlook Mr. Thompson's volume. -T. Y. Crowell & Co. have in press for early publication Isaiah; A Study of Chapters I-XII, by Prof. H. G. Mitchell of Boston University; and will add to their series of booklets The Soul's Quest After God, by Dr. Lyman Abbott. Mrs. D. H. R. Goodale and her daughter, Miss Dora Read Goodale, have met with very serious loss in the destruction of literary work and material at the burning of their home in Amherst. The pecuniary loss, including books, paintings, and household effects, was also a disastrous one. I think the literary gentleman is off his base when he attempts to cast a slur upon us whom he calls the mountaineers, and when he insinuates that the people of this part of Kentucky are not as intelligent, as a general rule, as any people in the Union. They will compare favorably | last survivor of the immediate friends of Charles | çaise,” the president of which society is M. Jules with other people of the State, and for common Lamb. - Mrs. Julia Davies of Clifton, near Bristol, England, who died a few weeks since, at the great age of ninety-four, is believed to be the Claretie, member of the French Academy. - Mr. R. N. Stephens will soon bring out the historical romance, An Enemy to the King, based upon his drama of the same name, which was presented by E. H. Sothern. The book will be published by Messrs. L. C. 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Here is one bit from the chapter called 203 "On Women," a bit which we find quite 203 beautiful: 204 205 With reverence must we draw near to them, 205 be they lowly or arrogant, inattentive or lost in dreams, be they smiling still or plunged in tears; for they know the things we do not know, and 205 have a lamp that we have lost. Their abiding 206 place is at the foot itself of the Inevitable, whose well-worn paths are visible to them more clearly than to us. And thence it is that their 207 strange intuitions have come to them, their gravity at which we wonder; and we feel that, even in their most trifling actions, they are conscious of being upheld by the strong, unerring hands of the gods. 207 207 210 210 210 211 211 211 211 Those who do not know you, who are merely told of your acts of goodness and deeds of love if you be not good according to the invisible goodness, these, even, will feel that something is lacking, and they will never be touched in the 211 depths of their being. One might almost believe 211 that there exists somewhere a place where all is 211 weighed in the presence of the spirits, or perhaps out yonder, the other side of the night, a reservoir of certitudes whither the silent herd of souls flock every morning to slake their thirst. 211 211 The story is only an ordinary one, and its real value consists in presenting us a picture of life in old New York. Having read a dozen or so of such books, our longing grows and our impatience increases for the advent of a writer who will show us the "storied windows richly dight" of early Dutch life in the new world, from the inside. Stained glass windows are much more enjoyable when you see them not from the street, but from the chancel. THE FALL OF THE CONGO ARABS.* THERE HERE seems to be no end to the books on Africa. The one before us is a contribution to the history of the opening of the great basin of the Congo. Its author is a medical officer, attached to the Belgian army, the experiences of an expedition with which he has here written; the narrative belongs to the last six years, and relates almost exclusively to the military campaign in which the European forces of the Congo Free State contended with a BEYOND THE CITY GATES.* mass of Mohammedan Arabs for the conHIS is another of the many stories of trol of the country, and which ended in the life on Manhattan Island, after the defeat of the Arabs and the assertion of traitorous Duke of York in a time of pro- European supremacy. This is the region 212 found peace had swooped down from the of Central Africa which was made known little Dutch settlement and added New by the explorations and exploits of Stanley, 213 Netherland to the possessions of England. and the book places before the mind a sec213 The scene is laid in the old days when tion of the course of that mighty river, 213 Wall Street was the boundary of the city whose navigable waters are destined to proper and beyond were the woods and play so important a part in the opening of 207 pastures, with occasional farmhouses, the the interior of Africa to European civili208 village of Harlem in the distance, with zation. 209 tinkling cow bells, grain fields, and hunt210 ing grounds in between, and with white 213 sails on either river and adown the bay. These were also the days of Captain Kidd, who was but one of many pirates, only he happened to get caught. It was quite easy, too, for quarrels and murders to take place beyond the city walls (or wooden palisades). With such facts for background, together with the rich bric-a-brac and costumes from the Netherlands, and an endless field for adventure in the bay and ocean beyond, the author has constructed a fairly good story. Frieda Van Dycke is the heroine |