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THE AMERICAN CATALOGUE, 59 Duane Street (P. O. Box 943), New York. NOTES IN SEASON. HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & Co. have nearly ready a volume of short stories by the late Edward Bellamy, which will be prefaced by a biographical sketch of the author by Sylvester Baxter. HARPER & BROTHERS will publish next month a new novel by Miss Ellen Glasgow, entitled "Phases of an Inferior Planet," a story of New York's so-called Bohemia; "Roden's Corner," a story of London and the Hague, by Henry Seton Merriman; also, a new and greatly revised edition of William Blaikie's How to Get Strong," which will hereafter be entitled "How to Get Strong and How to Stay So." HENRY HOLT & Co. will shortly issue "A Concise Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities," edited by F. Warre Cornish, viceprovost of Eton College. 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DILLINGHAM COMPANY announce that they have leased from Robert Bonner's Sons the plates and rights of publishing seventy books of their Ledger Library, embracing many popular books by Sylvanus Cobb, Jr., Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth, Mrs. Harriet Lewis, Honoré de Balzac, Amelia E. Barr, Laura Jean Libbey, Leon Lewis, Robert Grant, Anna Katharine Green, and other popular writers, and that they will begin issuing new editions in September, which will run through the coming year in the Madison Square and other paper-covered libraries. W. A. WILDE & Co., Boston, will publish at once "A Romance of American Colonization," by Dr. William Elliot Griffis, which follows the author's "Romance of Discovery," and in its turn will be followed by a third volume, "A Romance of Conquest," covering the results achieved in our war with Spain. They will publish shortly a story of the closing days of the Revolution, entitled "A Soldier of the Legion," by Col. Charles Ledyard Norton. Wm. Henry Harrison forms an important figure in the history, which in a large measure deals with the historical events in which Harrison took a large part. They CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS have just published an American edition of Heron-Allen's "Some Sidelights Upon Edward Fitzgerald's Poem, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam."" have secured the American rights to W. H. White's "Manual of Naval Architecture--for the use of the officers of the Royal Navy, officers of the mercantile marine, yachtsmen, shipowners, and shipbuilders." They have in preparation a new series to be known as The Music Lovers' Library. The volumes to be included in it are "The Orchestra and Orchestral Music," by W. Music," by H. E. Krehbiel; "Songs and SongHenderson; J.. "The Pianoforte and its Writers," by Henry T. Finck; The Opera, Past and Present," by W. F. Apthorp, and "Choir and Choral Singing," of which author series to instruct lovers of music who have no has not yet been selected. It is the aim of the technical knowledge of the subject by presenting it in a simple and entertaining manner. They have also in preparation a history in narrative form of the manners and customs of social life in New York City from the time it was founded until the death of the last of the Dutch matrons. It has been written by Mrs. John King Van Rensselaer, and is entitled "The Goede Vrouw of Mana-ha-ta, at home and in society." |