Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1896 — The Library corner [ARTICLE]

The Library corner

Paul Bourget is writing a one-act plflQF In prose for the Comedle-Francaise. Th> title is “The Screen * Edmund C. Stedman has declined offer of the new Billings thalr in English literature at Yale University., In the Macmillan’6 new edition of Dickens, edited by his eldest son, thereare many interesting reminiscences of the novelist and bits of bis correspondence in the prefaces. Tbe American Economic Association will publish very shortly, “Letters of Ricardo to McCulloch,” lately discovered, edited and annotated by J. Hi Hollander, Ph. D., of Johns Hopkins University, and “Race Traits and Tendencies of the American Negro,” by F. L. Hoffman. Mrs. D. F. Verdenal, formerly of San Francisco, but now living in New; York, where her husband is a correspondent of the San Francisco Chronicle, has written a novel. *lt is entitled. “Ladies First,” and deals with the experiences of a well-known mine'promoter of early days. i_ Richard Harding Davis Is said to have been paid five hundred dollars by W. R. Hearst’s New York paper, tbe Journal, for writing the introduction to the Yale-Priqceton football match; Heffelfinger, the egiant football player/ received a like amount from tbe same newspaper for publishing a technical description of the game. T. B. Aldrich has sent the following letter to the Boston Transcript: “Some verses called ‘The Ideal Husband/ and having my name attached to them as the author, are being extensively reprinted by the newspapers. I beg leave to say—and it gives me great pleasure to say it- that I am not the author of those verses.” n Douglas Sladen’s new book, “A Japanese Marriage,” wbicn has had an immense run in England, has just been issued In America. In it Mr. Sladen declares himself a strong advocate of the New Woman movement. The book Is dedicated to the Earl of Dunraven, “the most eloquent advocate of ths rights of the deceased wife’s sister.” In speaking of a passage in “Vailima Letters,” Andrew Lang says: “• • • Mr. Stevenson was ‘crazy’ over M. Bourget’s ‘Sensations d’ltalie,’ and fired a dedication at him. It hit M. Bourget In a book-seller’s shop in Paris (he informed me), a bolt out of the blue, and sorely puzzled he was as to how to communicate with his remote admirer.”