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These include a fair proportion of new editions and a number of single addresses, pamphlets, &c. In mere number of catalogue entri s Dr. Martineau does not compare with Dean Farrar, who has more than two hundred to his credit, or with the late Mr. Spurgeon, who has a still larger number. WE hope that some effort will be made to compile a worthy and representative volume in which Dr. Martineau's ethical teachings, and the grace of his spiritual life, may be made easily available to readers to whom his works are still unknown. THE public will soon have an opportunity of reading English translations of two further plays by Ibsen. To one of them, his latest work, "When We Who Are Dead Awaken," we have already made reference. The other, "Love's Comedy," begun forty-five years ago, and not completed till seven years later, has been translated by Prof. Herford, and will be published by Messrs. Duckworth in their "Modern Plays" series. Asked by the Daily Mail for a specimen of his translation, Prof. Herford obliged with the following: Nay, Swanhild, do not jest! Behind your scoff Tears glitter. O, I see them well enough. And I see more; when you to dust are fray'd And kneaded to a shapeless lump of clay, Each bungling dilettante's scalpel-blade On you his dull devices shall display. THE ill-luck of authorship takes many forms. One of them is for a writer to discover, when he is approaching the end of a laborious task, that a fellow author has been working at the same subject. It sometimes happens that Price Threepence. [Registered as a Newspaper.] the two books are published in the same week. Three recent instances occur to us. During the past six months, at intervals of a few days, two books on Danton were published, two on Greek Terra-Cotta Figures, and two on Pompeii. And publishers are not exempt from this form of ill-luck. Messrs. Methuen, who had begun to prepare a series of Classical Texts, have just discovered that the Clarendon Press has a similar series in hand. After some negotiations it has been decided that the existence of two rival series would be unfortunate, and Messrs. Methuen have agreed to abandon their series and cooperate with the Clarendon Press in the issue of the Oxford Classical Texts. Unfortunately such a combination is not possible to authors. So many conflicting reports have been published as to arrangements that have been made in regard to Mr. Stephen Phillips's Paolo and Francesca, that it may be well to state just how the matter stands. Mr. Phillips has had three offers for Paolo from American managers, among them being Mr. Richard Mansfield. Mr. Alexander, however. declined to surrender the American rights, as he proposes to make the play a feature of his American tour. Mr. Mansfield thereupon commissioned Mr. Phillips to write a poetic play, with no restrictions as to subject, which he will produce in New York in the autumn. Mr. Phillips has also had a proposal to translate and produce Paolo in Paris; and it may be seen in Vienna. HARDLY a week passes but there is some change to announce in the journalistic world. The news of the week is that Mr. Mudford has retired from the editorship of the Standard. He is succeeded by Mr. G. Byron-Curtis, who for the last twenty years has been assistant editor. Then we are to have another sixpenny weekly. It will be conducted by Mr. Lathbury, late editor of the Guardian. We understand that the Tribune-that is the name of the new paper-will carry on the policy in ecclesiastical matters which the Guardian followed during Mr. Lathbury's sixteen years of editorship. With four new weekly sixpenny papers, the first month of the new year opens luxuriantly. THERE is much talk about the forthcoming rivalry between the Sphere, conducted by Mr. Clement K. Shorter, and the Spear, which will be launched, or shall we say hurled, by Sir William Ingram. The clashing of names is unfortunate, to say the least. Mr. Shorter's title was first in the field, and we should not have supposed that competition would have been carried so far as to confound the public ear. Folk will have to take their choice, and enunciate their words plainly at the bookstalls. We have heard only one objection raised to the title the Sphere. It was made by a grave young man in a railway carriage, who, being asked what he thought of this title, said he disapproved of it on the ground that it clashed with-the Globe! we THE American Book Buyer's summary of Transatlantic literature in 1898 takes the form of a comparison between English and American achievements. Admitting that "we have produced nothing to set beside the Letters of Stevenson or the Life and Letters of Mrs. Oliphant," that " have no Mr. Lecky to write for us," and that “ we have no poet's work to rank with Mr. Swinburne's tragedy," the Book Buyer takes courage to make a few comparisons against us. "We can offset Stephen Phillips's 'Paolo and Francesca' with Mr. Fenollosa's 'Lucifer,' and feel that we have done well. In fiction we have been sufficient unto ourselves. . . . For Mr. Churchill's Richard Carvel and Mr. Ford's Janice Meredith English fiction during the last twelve months offers no parallels. . . . Mr. Anthony Hope's The King's Mirror is best compared, so far as exquisite workmanship is concerned, with Mrs. Wharton's The Greater Inclination." . THERE WAS some excellent work in The Greater Inclination, but we knew nothing about the life of its author, Mrs. Wharton, till, turning to the Book Buyer's "Literary Querist" pages, we found this choice specimen of a literary reputation in the making according to modern methods: Who is Edith Wharton? Has she not written poems as well as The Greater Inclination? Where does she live, and what does she do besides writing ?-M. W. She is Mrs. Edward Wharton, and was Miss Edith Jones, of New York. She has lived abroad for several years. The June Book Buyer contained a reproduction of her portrait painted by Mr. Julian Story. Her writings include, beside her volume of stories, a book entitled The Decoration of Houses. She is the author of several poems which have appeared in Scribner's Magazine. Mrs. Wharton's rise is proceeding on lines the most normal, the most correct. MESSRS. MACMILLAN & Co. will publish early in January a work on Malay Religion, by Mr. W. W. Skeat. This is a minute study of folk-lore, ceremonial observances, and magic in the Malay Peninsula-a country where Mohammedanism only superficially overlays a mass of aboriginal beliefs and customs. From a discussion of the more general views which the Malay holds as to the Creation, man's place in it, his relations with the supernatural, and the number and attributes of the gods, the book proceeds to detail the charms and ceremonies by which man attempts to influence nature-weather, beasts, water, and fire; and then deals exhaustively with magic rites affecting the life of man, in birth, marriage, death, &c. The work is specially addressed to students of folk-lore, and more particularly of Oriental custom, but should have some interest also for the general reader who has welcomed such books as Frazer's Golden Bough and Spencer and Gillen's Native Tribes of Central Australia. MR. HENRY JAMES's article on Robert Louis Stevenson's Letters in the North American Review is as intimate and subtle as anything that has been written about Stevenson. The man, the author, and the friend are all touched on with a fine pen; yet the article, taken alone, leaves the impression that Stevenson is for the few, not for the many. Mr. James seems to speak in low tones to the elect. He concludes with the following valedictory classification of Stevenson : It has been his fortune (whether or no the greatest that can befall a man of letters) to have had t consent to become, by a process not purely mystic and not wholly untraceable-what shall we call it ?- -a Figure. Tracing is needless now, for the personality has acted and the incarnation is full. There he is he has passed ineffaceably into happy legend. This case of the figure is of the rarest, and the honour surely of the greatest. In all our literature we can count them, sometimes with the work and sometimes without. The work has often been great and yet the figure nil. Johnson was one, and Goldsmith and Byron; and the two former, moreover, not in any degree, like Stevenson, in virtue of the element of grace. Was it this element that settled the business even for Byron? It seems doubtful; and the list, at all events, as we approach our own day, shortens and stops. Stevenson has it at present-may we not say ?-pretty well to himself, and it is not one of the scrolls in which he least will live. IN that broad, sagacious book, Government and Democracy, and Other Essays, Mr. John Jay Chapman had something to say about literary naughtiness in high places. "The literary man," he wrote, "is concerned with what will go, like the reformer who is half-politician. The attention of every one in the United States is on some one else's opinion, not on truth." That such reflections dwell in Mr. Chapman's mind is shown by some remarks he makes, in the January Critic, on the fleeting, yet tyrannical, fashions of literary criticism. Mr. Chapman says: If any man doubts the hidebound character of our journals to-day let him try this experiment: Let him write down what he thinks upon any matter, write a story of any length, a poem, a prayer, a speech. Let him assume as he writes it that it cannot be published, and let him satisfy his individual taste in the subject, size, mood, and tenour of the whole composition. Then let him begin his peregrinations to find in which one of the ten thousand journals of America there is a place for his ideas as they stand. We have more journals than any other country. The whole field of ideas has been covered, every vehicle of opinion has its policy, its methods, its precedents. A hundred will receive him if he shaves this, pads that, cuts it in half; but not one of them will trust him as he stands. "Good, but eccentric." "Good, but too long." "Good, but new." In the January Macmillan Mr. Stephen Gwynn, who startled many by his onslaught on Jane Austen, writes with warmth and discrimination on Anthony Trollope. He says with justice that though Thackeray's and Scott's characters are more charming, and have more interesting traits than Trollope's, they are not more alive. In his truth to average English life Mr. Gwynn thinks that Trollope "immeasurably surpasses the novelists who are in fashion to-day." Mr. Gwynn then boldly compares Trollope's delineations of society with those to be found in Mr. Benson's Mammon & Co., Mr. Whiteing's No. 5, John Street, and Miss Fowler's Concerning Isabel Carnaby. His conclusion is that the notions of society conveyed by these novels are correct only as well-collected facts may be correct. They do not really supersede those which one might gather from the newspapers. Whereas Trollope, with less experience of society, but working from the essential to the accidental, produced dukes who live, financiers who breathe, and great ladies whose social power we understand. Hence, Mr. Gwynn concludes, Trollope can never be wholly out of date. Many things, indeed, would surprise us more than a revival of Trollope. Why has the sixpenny reprint passed him by? |