Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1895 — BITS FOR BOOKWORMS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BITS FOR BOOKWORMS

They say that J. B. Walker, of the Cosmopolitan, is going to publish an illustrated weekly. Friends and admirers of Frederick Locker-Lampson will be glad to know that the report of his death, cabled to this country a few days ago, is unfounded. Hans Breitmann, otherwise Charles Godfrey Leland, has collected from the people and retold a quantity of “Legends of Florence,” and proposes to bring them out in a book Immediately The title of Miss Winnie Davis’ novel*which is soon to be issued, is “The Veiled Doctor.” It is described as telling the stary of an over-sensitive man, whose mwrrted life with a not very sensitive young woman was a tragedy to both. Max Nordau says, In reference to the requests of American magazines asking him-t© contribute articles, that he has no intention of publishing additional work on degeneration. He is at present writing a novel, also a drama for the I.esing Theater in Berlin. Rudyard Kipllhg’s "Many Inventions,” seems to have taken its place as the strongest volume of stories which he has issued. It contains examples of his best work in various fields, pnd the range of subjects imparts to this volume a special value. John Hollingshead’s autobiography, soon to be issued in Loudon, will have the title, “My Life Time.” The frontispiece will be a portrait of the author, who is now a manager in Liverpool. Among the famous men of whom the author writes is Diekens s Thackeray, Charles Mathews, and Phelps. Jerome K. Jerome, the author of “Three Men in a Boat,” etc., has sold Ills weekly paper, To-Day, to a syndicate for one hundred thousand dollars. To-Day was started about a year ago, directly after Mr. Jerome’s retirement from the Idler, which lie launched a year before. The sale of his paper will leave him free to take up regular literary work once more. Inspired, doubtless, by the tremendous success of Edward W. Townsend’s: “Chimmie Fadden,” which is now in Its twenty-seventh thousand, James L. Ford, the author of that lively little book, “The Literary Shop,” Is preparing to publish a volume of sketches and stories of New York life—presumably Including “Little Eva Swallowtail; or, The Society Reporter’s Christmas,” and other sketches. Alphonse Daudet has invented a new form of authorship. He is to put forth a volume of reminiscences—the story of his youth—without, however, setting pen to a paper. He is to talk of these things in French to Robert H. Sherard, who will take notes and then write the matter down in English. The reason for this arrangement is a desire that the book shall appear first in the English language, with which M. Daudet is unacquainted.