66 The Young Author" should be published at cost price, the profit from advertisements, writers' fees, and the sale of copies being arranged to balance the cost of production. I would suggest, as another feature of the paper, an "Answers to Contributors page, where readers' opinions on short stories or articles, poems, &c., should be published on payment by the writer of a small fee, thus adopting the present system of the Society in retail, instead of wholesale. I am aware that this sketch of the scheme is crude, and requires considerable working out. have refrained from all argument in favour of my ideas, and from any elaboration of them, out of respect for your valuable space. H. A. SPUrr. VIII. JANE AUSTEN. The following letter appeared recently in the Times-Among the distinguished natives of Hampshire who are buried in Winchester Cathedral there are few names more worthy of record than that of Jane Austen; yet the only memorial of her (beyond the stone slab which marks the site of her grave) is a brass tablet let into the wall, which was placed there by her nephew and biographer, the late Rev. J. E. Austen Leigh, in 1870. We feel that we shall be appealing to a large circle of warm admirers, who have been charmed and cheered by her work, if we ask for subscriptions to enable us to fill one of the windows in the Cathedral with painted glass in her memory. The selection of the window will depend upon the amount of support that we may receive. The cost of a window in the Lady Chapel is estimated at £600, one in the nave £300. We may add that our proposal has the cordial approval of the Dean of Winchester. Contributions not exceeding five guineas may be paid to Messrs. Hoare, 37, Fleet-street, London, who have kindly consented to act as treasurers of the fund. Mr. Barrie has written an introduction for the posthumous volume by Mrs. Oliphant, "A Widow's Tale and Other Stories." It takes the form of an appreciation of the author and her works. Mrs. Humphry Ward's new book is to be published on June 10. Its title is " Helbeck of Bannisdale." A story of Cornish life, by Mr. J. H. Pearce, will be published shortly by Mr. Heinemann. "Ezekiel's Sin" is the title. A translation of M. Rostand's "Cyrano de Bergerac" is being brought out by Mr. Heine mann. Owen Rhoscomyl has written a Welsh story, entitled "The Shrouded Face," which Messrs. Pearson will issue immediately. Maxwell Gray's new book, to be out immediately, is called "The House of Hidden Treasure." Mr. Joseph Hocking has been to Ireland collecting materials for a romance based upon certain aspects of monastic life. The story will be called "The Scarlet Woman," and will first run serially. Mr. Hocking regards it as the most important he has undertaken. Mr. Richard Davey has written a book on Cuba, entitled "Cuba, Past and Present," which will be issued by the firm of Chapman and Hall in a short time. The author has travelled in the island, and discusses its history from the beginning up to the present day of its difficulties. A work on the taking of Khartoum is already promised from the pen of Mr. G. W. Steevens, the special correspondent of the Daily Mail, and author of "The Land of the Dollar" and "Egypt in 1898." Mr. Henry James's new volume of fiction is to be called "The Two Magics." It will be published by Mr. Heinemann in the autumn. Mr. Henry Savage Landor has in great measure recovered from the terrible injuries inflicted upon him by the Tibetans, and the experiences of the journey will be told in his book which Mr. Heinemann will publish in the autumn. It will be translated for simultaneous publication in French, German, Hungarian, Bohemian, and probably Russian and Italian editions. Mr. Leslie Stephen's "Essays" will be published in the autumn. Mr. Stephen Gwynn has written a volume entitled "Tennyson: a Critical Study," which Messrs. Blackie will publish in their Victorian Era series. Other works in this series will be "Ireland during the Victorian Era," which will be written by Mr. J. A. R. Marriott: "Prudential Societies and Industrial Welfare," by Mr. E. W. Brabrook; and "Gold Discoveries and their Influence on Commerce," by Mr. Moreton Frewen. New biographies are also in preparation by Messrs. James Nisbet and Co. They include, by Major Sharp Hume, "The Great Lord Burghley : a Study in Elizabethan Statecraft," which is based largely upon public records, and on family papers at Hatfield and Burghley; by Mr. Hillaire Belloc, "Danton"; and by Mr. J. A. Hobson, "Ruskin as a Social Reformer." A monograph of Mont Blanc has been written by Mr. Charles Edward Mathews, who has climbed the mountain eleven times and by five different routes. Mr. Mathews is a former president of the Alpine Club, and has made a special study of literature on the subject of his work. It will contain illustrations by Signor Sella and others, and be published by Mr. Unwin under the title "The Annals of Mont Blanc." Two volumes of the definitive edition of Byron have been published by Mr. Murray-the first of the Poetry, edited by Mr. Hartley Coleridge, and the first of the Letters and Journals, which Mr. Rowland Prothero has edited. The latter contains 168 letters down to Aug. 22, 1811; while for the same period Moore's edition contains sixty-one, Halleck's seventy-eight, and Mr. Henley's of eighteen months ago, eighty-eight. A mass of material dealing more or less directly with Byron's life has for the first time been accessible to Mr. Prothero, it having been accumulated by Mr. Murray's father and grandfather. "Through the letters," says Mr. Prothero, truer conception of Byron can be formed than any impression which is derived from Dallas, Leigh Hunt, Medwin, or even Moore." In his preface the editor quotes the following letter of Byron's father, written to his sister Mrs. Leigh when the poet was but three years old. It is dated from Valenciennes, Feb. 16, 1791, and the only reference to his son throughout a whole bundle of letters to the same correspondent is contained in it: 66 a Have you never received any letters from me by way of Bologne? I have sent two. For God's sake send me some, as I have a great deal to pay. With regard to Mrs. Byron, I am glad she writes to you. She is very amiable at a distance; but I defy you and all the Apostles to live with her two months, for, if any body could live with her, it was me. Mais jeu de Mains, jeu de Vilains. For my son, I am happy to hear he is well; but for his walking, 'tis impossible, as he is club-footed. Jane Austen's works are being published, in a Winchester edition of ten volumes, by Mr. Grant Richards. A feature is to be made of the production, and the printers, Constable, of Edinburgh, will use the same type as they did for the Edinburgh edition of Stevenson. 66 Mr. Zangwill's separate volumes, 'The Bachelors' Club" and "The Old Maids' Club," will be published in one by Mr. Heinemann under the title "The Celibates' Club." 66 George Egerton's" first long story is about ready. It deals with women's life and work, both in this country and in America, is called "The Wheel of God," and will be published by Mr. Grant Richards. Mr. Conan Doyle is publishing through Messrs. Smith Elder a volume of poems under the title, "Songs of Action." Simultaneously with the opening of the Wagner cycle at Covent Garden this month, when so many of the Bayreuth methods and appliances will be in use, Mr. Edwin O. Sachs is issuing a large folio volume entitled "Stage Construction." It will contain two hundred drawings, photographs, and diagrams of the great stages of Europe and London, and in his introduction the author of the monumental "Modern Opera Houses and Theatres" will deal with scenic art and the various developments of stage equipment. The book will be published by Mr. Batsford. "Cycling for Everybody," by the well-known authority Mr. Lacy Hillier, is a new book which Messrs. Chapman and Hall are to issue immediately. Professor George Henslow has written a book, to which Professor Skeat contributes an introduction and notes, on "Medical Works of the Fourteenth Century." This consists of transcripts from four manuscripts of the time of Wiclif and Chaucer, three of which are in the British Museum, and the fourth in the possession of Professor Henslow himself. They illustrate the crudeness of the medieval conceptions of the value of plants as drugs, and the recipes are remarkable for the general absence of any mention of the nauseous substances recommended by some apothecaries of a later day. The work will be published by Messrs. Chapman and Hall. Mr. Lawrence Binyon is issuing a "Second Book of London Visions" soon in the Shilling Garland series published by Mr. Mathew. The "First Book" appeared two years ago. Mr. R. Lydekker is following his work on "The Deer of all Lands" with a companion sumptuous volume on "Wild Oxen, Sheep, and Goats of all Lands." It will contain, like the earlier work, a number of photographs by the Duchess of Bedford, who possesses at Woburn a fine collection of deer and wild animals. Mr. Cunninghame Graham is writing a book on his recent adventures in the south of Morocco. Disguised as an Arab, he attempted to reach the "sacred city" of Tarudant, the capital of the Sus province; but, while crossing the Atlas mountains, he was recognised as a European and taken prisoner. His book will be called "Mogreb El Acksa." The first volume of the "English Dialect Dictionary," edited by Professor Joseph Wright, and published by Mr. Henry Frowde, is now completed. It contains 17,519 simple and compound words and 2248 phrases, illustrated by 42,915 quotations, with the exact sources from which they have been obtained. Mrs. Richmond Ritchie gives some further interesting details of Thackeray in the second volume of the biographical edition of his works, namely, "Pendennis," which was published a fortnight ago. Thackeray wrote to his mother in the summer of 1848, proposing that they should take a house at Brighton, " or somewhere where I can work upon Pendennis,' which is to be the name of the new book." He suggested a house at £60 a year: 66 As for the dignity, I don't believe it matters a pinch of snuff. Tom Carlyle lives in perfect dignity in a little £40 house at Chelsea, with a snuffy Scotch maid to open the door, and the best company in England ringing at it. It is only the second or third chop great folks who care about show. "And why don't you live with a maid yourself ? ' I think I hear somebody saying. Well, I can't; I want a man to be going my own messages, which occupy him pretty well. There must be a cook, and a woman about the children, and that horse is the best doctor I get in London; in fine, there are a hundred good reasons for a lazy, liberal, not extravagant, but costly way of life. The third and final portion of the great Ashburnham Library was sold at Sotheby's during the past month. The bidding was keen, and the prices remarkable. Among the notable lots sold were a good copy of the First Folio Shakespeare (1623), £585, bought by Sir Arthur Hodgson for presentation to the Shakespeare Library at Stratford-on-Avon; a fine and perfect copy of the rare Third Folio Shakespeare (1664), £190; two books from the press of the first printer who set up in the City of London, William de Machlinia, namely, "Speculum Christiani" (about 1484), £230, and a Book of Sentences from Terence in Latin and English, thirty-two leaves, £201; a very rare example of Caxton's press, "Speculum Vitae Christi," one of three perfect copies known (about 1488), £510; an uncut copy of the first edition of Sir Walter Scott's 66 "Waverley" (1814), £78, a record price; a beautiful set of the first five editions of Walton's Compleat Angler" (1653 to 1676), £800; an imperfect copy of Chaucer's" Canterbury Tales," from Caxton's press (1478) wanting seventyseven leaves, £230; a fine and perfect copy of a very rare Caxton, "The XII. Proffites of Tribulacyon" (1490), a pamphlet of thirty-two pages, £310; a fine copy of the first edition of Valturius De Re Militari" (1472), remarkable as being the first book with woodcuts executed in Italy, £219; an imperfect copy of Gower's "Confessio Amantis," printed by Caxton (1483), wanting forty-one leaves, £100; Voraigne's La Legende Dorée les Saints et Saintes" (Paris, 1493), with 158 richly-painted and illuminated miniatures and figures of saints, £165. The whole collection took twenty days to disperse, and the sale first began in June last year. There were 4075 lots, which realised £62,712. 66 Mr. Martin A. Buckmaster has written a textbook on Elementary Architecture," which will certain thirty-eight full-page illustrations, and be published by the Clarendon Press. Mr. F. G. Kitton's work "Charles Dickens and His Illustrators," which is nearly ready, will contain a number of unpublished letters relating to the illustrations, by Dickens and the various artists engaged upon the novels. The principal contributors are of course Cruikshank and Phiz," wh between them illustrated seventeen of Dickens's books. About forty drawings in pen and ink, pencil, and wash by these artists are to be given for the first time in Mr. Kitton's work, which will be published by Mr. George Redway. 66 Geoffrey Mortimer has sold serial rights of a tale, "The Misanthrope of Mor Ynys," to the Weekly Times and Echo. The story is one of adventure among the fisherfolk of an island off the coast of Carnarvonshire, and the opening chapter will appear at the end of this month or early in July. Mrs. Edith E. Cuthell's new children's story, "When I was a Little Girl," will be published in the autumn by the S.P.C.K. It is partly autobiographical, the adventures of a naughty child. Mrs. Cuthell's soldier-children story, "Only a Guardroom Dog," is in a second edition. Mrs. Pennell is writing a volume on lithography, the invention of Aloys Senefelder. Mr. Joseph Pennell will contribute examples of, as he prefers to call it, the art of "poly-autography." He has often declared that the effects producible by an artist in lithography amount to a thorough vindication of the choice of those who use it. Professor Mahaffy responded for Literature at the Royal Academy banquet. In the course of his reply he said that when he tried to personify the literature of the present day, he seemed to behold a middle-aged dame who had grown so enormously stout with constant cramming that her extremities were becoming flabby and cold, and we began to fear a degeneration at the heart. If one was really solicitous for the health of this personage, it was obvious that one must seek to diminish the quantity and improve the quality of her tissues. He could, he thought, recommend some drastic treatment by which some improvement might be effected in her health, but that was not the place to discuss medical prescriptions, still less to describe to that august assembly the probable action of these remedies upon the human frame. Colonel Sir George Sydenham Clarke has written a short history on the very important subject of Russian Sea Power. It will be brought out by Mr. Murray in a few days. Mr. Sidney Colvin expects to have his biography of Robert Louis Stevenson ready for publication in the autumn. A new volume of poetry by Mr. Henry Rose, author of "Summer Dreams," &c., will be published by Messrs. Kegan Paul and Co., entitled Willow Vale." 66 Mr. William Black's new Highland novel "Wild Eelin," will be published early in the autumn by Messrs. Sampson Low. It is being dramatised in New York, where, and in Edinburgh, it has been running serially. 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