LOST TREASURES OF LITERATURE. William Shepard. Lippincott's for May.

LITERARY DYNAMICS. Francis Howard Williams. Lippincott's for May.

PRACTICAL TALKS ON WRITING ENGLISH. Professor William Minto, M. A. Chautauquan for May.

LITERARY ENGLAND UNDER THE GUELFS. James A. Harrison, LL. D. Chautauquan for May.

RICHARD G. MOULTON. Book News for May.

SPANISH LITERATURE. Reprinted from Revue des Deux Mondes in Newsdealer for May.

AMERICA'S LITERARY FUTURE. Reprinted from Louisville Courier-Journal in Newsdealer for May.

MARRIED WOMEN IN FICTION. Review of Reviews for May.

NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW AND ITS EDITOR. Review of Reviews for May.

S. W. Foss. (Editor of the Yankee Blade.) W. A. Parcelle. Chicago Herald for May 3.

TALLEYRAND'S MEMOIRS. Nation for May 14.

LOUIS J. JENNINGS. E. J. Edwards. Philadelphia North American for May 13.

MARY KYLE DALLAS. Harryot Holt Cahoon. Troy (N. Y.) Telegram for May 21.

ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUer. Reprinted from London Telegraph in St. Louis Globe-Democrat for May 18.

WOMEN AS BOOK LOVERS. W. Roberts. Reprinted from London Queen in New York Home Journal for May 20. EMMA L. TRAPPER. Brooklyn Eagle for May 17. EMILE ZOLA AT HOME. Henry Haynie. Boston Herald for May 3.

ED. MOTT. Tom Masson. May 1.

Portland (Me.) Argus for

Emile Zola has no chance of obtaining a majority at the next academy elections, and Pierre Loti is most likely to be the fortunate candidate.

The eighty-third volume of Harper's Magazine will begin with the number for June.

Round about Dorking, near which picturesque town the great novelist, George Meredith lives, he is greatly liked, and one man who does much work for him said of him the other day, "Ah! sir, Mr. Meredith is clever, I dare say, but I don't think so much about that, 'cause he's always so pleasant."

Edgar Fawcett contributes to Lippincott's for June a capital character sketch of a literary man, under the title of "A Literary Pet." The series of "Familiar Letters," by Horace Greeley, is concluded in this number. The last letter is a very touching and pathetic one, written but a few days after the writer was defeated at the polls. "So many of my old friends," writes Mr. Greeley, "hate me for what I have done, that life seems too hard to bear."

A. C. Cameron, for a long time editor of the Inland Printer, has become editor and proprietor of the Artist Printer, and has removed the publication office from St. Louis to Chicago. The Artist Printer is sure to prosper under his management.

A charming little poem, probably by Chaucer, has just been discovered by Walter W. Skeat, the English scholar, in a manuscript in the Bodleian Library. It is a playful love-poem addressed to a lady, and consists of three stanzas of eight-line, ten-foot, iambic verse, such as Dr. Guest calls the "ballet-stave." Guest says that Chaucer was the first to use this metre; it is the same as that employed in "The Monk's Tale." The verses are picturesque and bright, and have a strong Chaucerian flavor.

According to the usual plan, the Theatre Magazine (New York) will be published only once a month during this summer, from May until October, when the weekly issues will be resumed. The magazine is now in its sixth year, and thoroughly deserves all the success it has attained.

The late James Redpath believed himself to have been the first person to put the verb "to boycott" in print. One night, during one of his visits to Ireland, he sat writing a despatch to a New York paper, when suddenly he found himself at a loss for a word to express what was then happening to Captain Boycott. "Use Boycott's name as a verb," said a priest at his elbow, and Redpath accepted the suggestion. Next day Redpath met the Irish speakers, then just starting out upon a series of campaign meetings, and suggested to them the use of the verb "to boycott." The suggestion was accepted, and shortly after the word had wide currency in both Ireland and America. The story, by all researches, seems true. At any rate, there is no trace of the word "boycott" in literary use previous to Redpath's letter to the Tribune of New York.

Charles A. Dana finishes his day's work earlier than most New York editors, because the editorial system of the Sun is different from that of other newspapers. Most of the Metropolitan dailies endeavor to give editorial expression and opinion on the news as it comes into the office. But Mr. Dana's plan is to give the news time to digest, as it were, and to comment upon it the next day. All the editorials are revised by him in proof; and if he has a few moments to wait while an article is being put into type, he wheels around his chair and takes down a volume in some foreign language to study.

"A remarkable biography of a remarkable man" is what is said of Mrs. M. O. W. Oliphant's "Memoir of the Life of Laurence Oliphant," published by Harper & Brothers. The work is in two volumes, and includes, besides an interesting narrative of the life of Mr. Oliphant, and of Alice Oliphant, his wife — with portraits of each-numerous extracts from his letters and from some of his other writings.

Secretary Proctor is erecting a building for the library in the village of Proctor, Vt. The nucleus of the collection of books was originally given by him for the benefit of the hands and employees of the marble company there. In giving it he agreed that for every dollar they would give to it, he would add a book and give a dollar. It has gone on increasing under this arrangement, which has been faithfully carried out by Governor Proctor, till now it numbers some four thousand volumes; and the Burlington Free Press believes that it will grow still faster, and be still more useful in its new build. ing. This is a neat little structure of stone, with marble steps ascending to a porch supported by round marble columns. It contains a good-sized book-room above, and on the lower floor a room for the cabinet of curiosities which belongs to the library.

Maurice Thompson, writing of "Virility in Fiction," makes this keen hit at the erotic literature furnished by women. "I have noticed that when a woman writes one of these so-called 'virile' novels, she immediately sends her photograph to the engraver, and a little later she appears in a magazine with the upper limit of her corsage nearly coinciding with her waist-band."

A correspondent of the Leeds (England) Mercury, remarking that "if one were asked to guess the name of the person who was least likely to turn agriculture to profitable account, one would be tempted to suggest that of the Poet Laureate,” adds that, nevertheless, "on the west side of the Isle of Wight milk carts may be frequently met bearing the name and style of Alfred, Lord Tennyson.""

The $200 offered by the Cosmopolitan Magazine for the best essay on "The Needs of the Farmer, His Hours of Labor, and the National Legislation Necessary to His Prosperity," was awarded to Abner L. Frazer, of Milford, Ohio, and appears in the Cosmopolitan for June.

An English publisher is bringing out an elaborate work on "The Poets and Poetry of the Century." Vols. I. and VI. are nearly ready. A. H. Miles is the editor, and in Vol. I., which is devoted to the Georgian poets, he writes the critical articles. Vols. II. and III., dealing with later Georgian poets, are not yet ready, nor are Vols. IV. and V., which deal with Tennyson, Browning, Rossetti, and others. The special aim of the work is said to be an anthology of unusual magnitude, the text of which shall be strictly accurate. Among the poets treated in Vol. VI. are William Morris, Swinburne, Robert Buchanan, Alfred Austin, Theodore Watts, Austin Dobson, and Mr. Monkhouse. The critical articles upon these are written by J. A. Symonds, Buxton Forman, Mackenzie Bell, Arthur Symons, Havelock Ellis, and others. This volume will be followed by others on later Victorian poets.

S. L. Clemens (“Mark Twain ") and family will sail for Europe on June 6, and will probably reside abroad for several years.

The house in which Thomas Buchanan Read wrote "Sheridan's Ride" is still standing at 59 West Eighth street, Cincinnati. It is a plain, three-story structure, with an old-fashioned porch in front. The residence is in a pretty fair state of preservation. The room in which Read wrote the poem which made him famous is rather a large one, light and airy, and has acquired a local name as a bridal chamber, several romantic weddings having taken place in it since the war. It now rents to "roomers" for sixteen dollars a month.

A new magazine of Southern literature will start this month in Sheffield, Ala., with the excellent title, the American Present. The South has had no good literary organ since the Southern Literary Messenger of ante-bellum days.

Frank Dempster Sherman's "Lyrics of a Lute" has gone into its third edition.

Against the proposed removal of the house in which Hawthorne was born, from Salem to the Chicago Fair site, the Boston Herald utters an earnest protest. The paper says: "Interesting as it might be to the people of the country as one of the side shows of the great Fair, it would be a sickening spectacle to those who value the shrines and birthplaces of our great authors."

Mrs. Susan Teackle Moore, sister of F. Hopkinson Smith, is the author of "Ryle's Open Gate," a novel just published by Houghton, Mifflin, & Co.

Especially interesting to writers is an article in the June Cosmopolitan by Frank Howard Howe, for some time one of the editors of a New York monthly. Mr. Howe gives his personal experiences of the manuscripts of the "Great Unpublished," and offers much advice that will be found useful.

An attempt at summer novelty by the New York Herald is announced. That journal will have a series of summer letters by American women writers, each contributor describing the place and manner of her summer outing. The list of writers consists of Octave Thanet, Edna Dean Proctor, Anna Katharine Green, Susan Hale, Marion Harland, Rose Terry Cooke, Emma V. Sheridan, Jeannette L. Gilder, Elaine Goodale, Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, Julia Dorr, Kate Field, Mary Hartwell Catherwood, Olive Thorne, Amanda M. Douglas.

The authorized life of Robert Browning, by Mrs. Sutherland Orr, is announced by Houghton. Mifflin, & Co. It will be in two volumes, which will contain a new portrait, and a picture of Browning's study. In the preface to the book Mrs. Orr says: "Such letters of Mr. Browning's as appear, whole or in part, in the present volume, have been in most cases given to me by the persons to whom they were addressed, or copied by Miss Browning from the originals under her

care.

For my general material I have been largely indebted to Miss Browning. Her memory was the only existing record of her brother's boyhood and youth. It has been to me an unfailing as well as always accessible authority for that subsequent period of his life which I could only know in disconnected facts or his own fragmentary reminiscences. It is less true, indeed, to say that she has greatly helped me in writing this short biography than that without her help it could never have been undertaken."

Captain King talks his stories into a phonograph, from which a typewriter prepares the copy for the press.

An English clergyman no American divine would ever have found the time to do it — has written a book which he calls "The Marvellous Budget," and which is the Odyssey of Jack and Jill. The first four pages are numbered one, the next four are numbered two, as many more are numbered three, and so on up to "page 8" and last. These pages are so arranged that any page marked two will read consecutively with any page marked one, and so on. "Now," says the clergyman, "if you will inquire of your clever cousin, Miss Girton, who has been in for mathematics at Cambridge, and so knows all about figures, you will learn that there are no less than 65,536 tales in this book about Jack and Jill, not two of which are exactly alike."

H. C. Bunner, author, and editor of Puck, lives at Nutley, N. J., where he has a pretty cottage nearly buried in the woods. He is a great pedestrian and something of an amateur photographer. He has a wife and a little daughter named Nancy.

Miss May Angela Dickens, eldest granddaughter of Charles Dickens, has just begun a serial story in All the Year Round, entitled "Cross Currents."

Mrs. Stowe will be eighty years old June 14. The new Boston correspondent of the Critic, succeeding the lamented Alexander Young, is Charles Edgar Lewis Wingate, of the Boston Journal, author of "An Impossible Possibility" and "Can Such Things Be?" Mr. Wingate is a Harvard A. B. (1883), and a contributor to Lippincott's, Belford's, Our Little Ones, etc. He continues his sketches of Shakespeare's heroines on the stage by following his article on Famous Hermiones," published in the January Cosmopolitan, with an article in the May issue on "The Cleopatras of the Stage."

George Macdonald's new novel, "There and Back," has just appeared in Boston. His first romance was issued some thirty-three years ago, and almost every year since then has seen a novel or poems from his pen. He still spends his winters in Italy, coming to England with the early summer, and flying south again before the advent of the November fogs.

Joseph Hatton has frequently been seen lately upon Boston streets in company with Mr. Willard, and the two are frequently heard discussing points concerning "The Scarlet Letter," in regard to which Mr. Hatton is collecting matter for an historical article - and, gentle rumor says, a play.

D. Appleton & Company have begun publishing a summer series of light reading, each volume to be of a small, convenient size, daintily bound in half cloth, with specially designed cover. The first volume of the series is "Tourmalin's Time Cheques," the new story by F. Anstey, author of "Vice Versa" This will be followed by a novelette by the Marquis of Lorne, entitled "From Shadow to Sunlight." Miss Beatrice Whitby, author of "The Awakening of Mary Fenwick," and Miss Kate Sanborn are among the other authors who will be represented in this series.

Thomas Nelson Page's first novel, "On Newfound River," a Virginia story, is announced by the Scribners.

"The Lounger" of the Critic explains that Mrs. Danske Dandridge, the poet, is not, as Mr. Howells seems to think, 66 one of those Scandinavians." She was born in Denmark, but is of American parentage, her father, Henry Bedinger, having been United States minister at Copenhagen from 1854 to 1858. She now lives in West Virginia.

Walter Besant writes to say: "I am informed by an American correspondent that it has been stated in a leading New York paper that I am about to start a company or a business for the purpose of publishing English books in New York. I do not know if you have seen this announcement. If you have, permit me to inform you that there is not a word of truth in it. I am unconnected with any such scheme, and have no intention whatever of meddling with business of any kind. Nor, to my knowledge, have any of those literary men in this country

whom I know."

Heinemann & Balestier (limited) is the name of an English firm which is about to issue on the continent the works of American and British authors in a style similar to that of the Tauchnitz edition.

B. L. Farjeon, the novelist, is an expert stenographer. He carries a note-book with him at all times, and when an idea strikes him he jots it down for future use.

In the New England Magazine for June Mrs. Elizabeth Akers Allen writes an appreciative and bright account of B. P. Shillaber ("Mrs. Partington ").

William Allen Butler has been elected vicepresident of the council of the University of the City of New York, in place of the late Dr. Howard Crosby. Mr. Butler is that always surprising paradox · surprising paradoxa distinguished business. lawyer. More than twenty-five years ago his topical satire upon "Miss Flora McFlimsey," who had "nothing to wear," was published. Some few years ago Mr. Butler issued a novel, which did not attain great success.

"Historical Storms" is the title of a new book soon to be published by Sidney Perley, of Providence, R. I.

"The Philadelphian," a novel by Louis J. Jennings, M. P., is the latest addition to "Harper's Franklin-square Library." Mr. Jennings was a resident of New York from 1863 to 1876, and during a part of that time was editor of the New York Times. He is remembered in this country chiefly for the active part taken by him in promoting the overthrow of the Tweed conspiracy. He has been a member of Parliament since 1885. He is the author of a successful novel, "The Millionaire," published some years. ago by Harper & Brothers.

The first number of the Photo-American Review, that for May, has just been issued. It is the official organ of the American Photographic Conference and of the Society of Amateur Photographers of New York, and is suited to the tastes of literary and artistic people. It contains many excellent half tone pictures and a review of new books and magazines, which the editor intends to make as nearly as possible complete each month. In the May number there are nine pages of titles of recent books. arranged alphabetically, and forty pages are given to short reviews of these books.

E. L. Burlingame, editor of Scribner's Magazine, has sailed for Europe with his wife. He goes for a brief holiday.