Mr. Frederic G. Kitton is preparing a centenary memoir of the late Dr. Zechariah Buck, the organist and choirmaster of Norwich Cathedral. Many of Dr. Buck's pupils, now in distinguished positions in the musical world, contribute reminiscences of him, and the family give their assistance. The work will be issued in a limited edition shortly. A biography of the late Professor Calderwood, who occupied the chair of Moral Philosophy in Edinburgh University for twenty years, is being written by his son and the Rev. D. Woodside of Glasgow. Principal Fairbairn has written a book entitled "Catholicism-Roman and Anglican," which will be brought out immediately. The Rev. Leighton Pullan is general editor of a new series of Church Text Books which has been projected by Messrs. Rivington. The volumes will be written by Oxford scholars, and are not intended only for scholars, but also for the general readers who are desirous of information on church history, forms of worship, criticism, &c. Robert Browning destroyed all his letters and papers with the exception of the letters that had passed between Mrs. Browning and himself before their marriage. These letters were carefully preserved, and while still in vigorous health Mr. Browning said concerning them: "There they are-do with them as you please when I am dead and gone." The Athenæum makes the interesting announcement that the letters will shortly be published. The Rev. H. C. Beeching is reprinting his "Pages from a Private Diary," papers which for a time were a conspicuous and entertaining feature of Cornhill Magazine. The volume will be published soon by Messrs. Smith, Elder, and Co. Mr. John Halsham is the author of "Idlehurst: A Journal Kept in the Country," which Messrs. Smith, Elder, and Co. will publish this autumn. The identity of the Mr. W. H. of Shakespeare's Sonnets having given rise again to some discussion, à propos of the article by Mr. Sidney Lee on Thomas Thorpe in the "Dictionary of National Biography," Mr. Lee has now asked the critics of his theory to await, before passing further censure, the appearance of his forthcoming biography of Shakespeare. Mr. Alfred Whitman, of the British Museum, has written a work on "The Masters of Mezzotint," which Messrs. Bell will publish, with sixty illustrations. A new novel by Mr. W. C. Scully, author of "Between Sun and Sand," and other tales of the South African desert, is being published by Messrs. Methuen, under the title "A Vendetta of the Desert." Mr. William Westall's new novel, "A Red Bridal," is to be published by Messrs. Chatto and Windus, who will also issue soon a volume entitled "Slum Silhouettes," by Mr. J. D. Brayshaw. 66 Mr. F. G. Aflalo is editing a book on the cost of sport, with practical information contributed by a number of the specialists who wrote for the Encyclopædia of Sport," of which splendid work Mr. Aflalo was one of the editors. The actual expenditure involved in angling, shooting, hunting, and other sports will be estimated for various incomes, and the scope of the work will be comprehensive. Those rights in Mr. William Watson's works hitherto held by Messrs. Macmillan have been purchased by Mr. John Lane, who is preparing a collected edition of Mr. Watson's poems in a single volume, which will appear this season. Mrs. Pender, an Irish lady, some time ago wrote an Ulster story of the '98 period entitled "The Green Cockade." The book was printed in Ireland, and the other day the London firm, Messrs. Downey, received a consignment of 100 copies. Since then, however, a fire at the printers has destroyed not only the other sheets of the book that had been printed, but the type as well. "The Gospel Writ in Steel" is the title of Mr. Arthur Paterson's new novel. It is about the American Civil War, but the interest is romantic rather than historical. Messrs. Innes are the publishers. One of the chapters of Mr. Justin McCarthy's reminiscences, to be published shortly by Messrs. Chatto and Windus, is entitled "The Princes of Literature," and contains Mr. McCarthy's recollections of Dickens and Thackeray, Carlyle, Tennyson, Browning. Another chapter deals with his acquaintanceship with John Stuart Mill. This week the third volume of the Blackwood Annals will appear. Mrs. Oliphant, of course, edited the two already published, and this one, which brings the story of the publishing house down to John Blackwood's death in 1879, has been compiled by Mrs. Gerald Porter. Mr. Bennet Burleigh, the war correspondont of the Daily Telegraph, who has distinguished himself so greatly in the Soudan, is writing an account of the campaign down to its close at Omdurman. The Christmas issue of the Portfolio will be a monograph on "George Morland and the Evolution from him of some later Painters," by Mr. J. T. Nettleship. The latest of new magazines is a penny one, that aims at being fully equal to the sixpenny monthlies. It is published by Messrs. Cassell, and its title, the New Penny Magazine is after the periodical "originated by Charles Knight, and dear to the reading public in the days of our fathers." There are sixty pages, with numerous illustrations, and the character of the contents is the same as that of the popular magazines of to-day. "The Lays of the Knights," a book of poems by the Rev. C. W. Barraud, will be published by Messrs. Longman. Mr. J. H. Adeane has edited a work entitled "The Early Married Life of Maria Josepha, Lady Stanley, from 1796," which Messrs. Longman will publish shortly. The letters given in Mrs. Richmond Ritchie's introduction to the seventh volume in the valu able Biographical Edition of Thackeray's Works which she is editing, deal chiefly with the novelist's experiences as a lecturer. At a time when all the relations of the home country with America are so much discussed, an extract from one of the letters from Thackeray during a tour in the States may be found interesting. He is writing from Boston on Dec. 22, 1852, to Mrs. Proctor : As for writing about this country-about Goshen, about Canada, flowing with milk and honey, about the friends I have found here, and who are helping me to procure independence for my children, if I cut jokes against them may I choke on the instant. If I can say anything to show that my name is really Makepeace, and to increase the source of love between the two countries, then, please God, I will. The laugh dies out as we get old, you see, but the love and the truth don't, praised be God! And I begin to think of the responsibilities of this here pen now writing to you with a feeling of no small awe. Mr. Wheatley's edition of Pepys will be completed by the issue of the ninth and tenth volumes in January. The former will contain an exhaustive index; the latter, a supplementary volume, will contain appendices and Pepysian miscellanea. Bismarck's memoirs will be published in English this month by Messrs. Smith, Elder, and Co. in this country and Messrs. Harper and Brothers in the United States. A small album presented by Tennyson to a fellow-undergraduate when at Cambridge has just been sold at Messrs. Hodgson and Co.'s sale-room in Chancery-lane. It contained the original MS. of St. Agnes' Eve and two other poems, in the poet's own handwriting. The little volume realised the high price of £32. "The History of a Man," by the Man, will be published shortly by Mr. Burleigh. It deals with that aspect of human nature which Mr. Balfour declared the most interesting - the development of character. A hitherto unpublished series of historical studies of the Stuart period by Thomas Carlyle is being brought out by Messrs. Chapman and Hall. the first two Stuart Kings of England, and they These were for a projected history of are printed from a MS. left under the author's will to his niece, and edited by her husband, Mr. Alexander Carlyle. Alexander Carlyle. The volume will be published under the title "Historical Sketches of Noted Persons and Events in the Reigns of James I. and Charles I." The portion devoted to James I. contains chapters on Elizabeth's Funeral, Shakespeare, the Gunpowder Plot, the Hampton Court Conference, &c. A new Irish story by "Rita" will be published shortly by Messrs. Hutchinson. Miss L. S. Tiddeman has just brought out two new stories. The first, called " Reine's Kingdom," is published at the National Society's Depository. The second, "Rosa's Repentance," by Messrs. Blackie. A new work by Mr. Fred Reynolds, author of "A Tangled Garden," will be published at once by James Bowden, under the title of "An Idyll of the Dawn." Mrs. Aylmer Gowing's new book, entitled "A Touch of the Sun," will be published early in this month by Mr. Burleigh. "The Genius" (6d.), by Lessey Beard, will be published on the 5th Nov. Another book by the same author, comprising a collection of short stories, sketches, &c., will also be ready in November. Mrs. Edith E. Cuthell's new children's book is just published by the S.P.C.K., under the title of "A Bad Little Girl and her Good Little Brother," illustrated by Mrs. Farmiloe. A new novel, entitled "Uncle Jack from America," by Edith C. Kenyon and R. G. Soans, is being published by Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. The story has been very successful as a serial in England and America. M OBITUARY. R. HAROLD FREDERIC died at his residence at Kenley, Surrey, from syncope, on Oct. 19. He was in his forty-third year, and had been prostrated since Aug. 12, on which day he had a stroke of paralysis. Journalist and author, he was a native of Utica, and, before becoming a member of the staff of the New York Times, he edited for brief periods-first, the Utica Observer, and afterwards the Albany Evening Journal. In 1884 he came to England as the special correspondent of the New York Times, for which he did much brilliant work, and travelled over Europe. His first novel to appear was "Seth's Brother's Wife" (1887), a study of American rural life. "In the Valley" and several others followed, but Mr. Frederic's most striking success was achieved with "Illumination," published in the spring of 1896-a novel which, by the way, had the somewhat exceptional distinction of being published under another title in America, namely, "The Damnation of Theron Ware.' "March Hares," which followed, appeared under a nom de guerre, and was a slighter work on Londou life; and the one which will be compared with Illumination " is his "Gloria Mundi," a romance of English social life, which will be published to-day. Just before his death he had revised his last work of fiction, which is called "The Market Place." 66 The late Mr. Gleeson White, the editor of the Studio, was one of the best-known writers on art subjects in the metropolis, and connoisseur of woodcuts and rare prints. His works include "English Illustration in the Sixties," "Practical Designing," "Salisbury Cathedral," "Master Painters of Great Britain." He published anonymously a series of rather notable prose parodies of well-known authors, under the title "Letters to Eminent Hands," and another series, "Letters to Living Artists." 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