Plans for the establishment of a bibliographical research institute, the first in America, designed to furnish authoritative information and data on newspaper, magazine, periodical, and book publications, are being made by the Bibliographical Society of America, according to the president, Professor Adolph C. Von Noe, of the University of Chicago. According to the plans, the institute is intended to supply the deficiency in bibliographical data in modern libraries. All publications issued in this country and abroad will be recorded and described.

Willard Huntington Wright is preparing Richard Hovey and His Friends." It will appear rext spring.

"The Life of Edward Bulwer, First Lord Lytton," by his grandson, the Earl of Lytton, is published by the Macmillan ComDany.

Paul Verlaine," by Stefan Zweig, is published by John W. Luce & Co., Boston.

Gilbert K. Chesterton is preparing a volume on Charles Kingsley for the "English Men of Letters" series.

A critical study of Henry James is now in active preparation by the English critic, Ford Madox Hueffer.

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George Borrow and His Circle," by Clement K. Shorter, is published in London by Hodder & Stoughton.

For the encouragement of historical research the American Historical Association offers two prizes, each of $200 the Justin Winsor prize in American history and the Herbert Baxter Adams prize in European history. Each is awarded biennially (the Winsor prize in the even years and the Adams prize in the odd years for the best unpublished monograph submitted to the committee on awards on or before July 1 of the given year. The conditions of award can be learned by communicating with the respective chairmen of the committees Professor Claude H. Van Tyne (University of Michigan) as regards the Winsor prize; Professor George Lincoln Burr (Cornell) concerning the Adams prize.

The editors of Poetry (Chicago) will award $250 in one or two prizes for the best poem or poems published in the magazine in its second year, and a prize of $25 for the best epigram.

Rev. Dr. William Hayes Ward has resigned as editor of the Independent, after a service of forty-five years. He will remain a contributing editor, but will no longer go to the office regularly.

August Harold Hedge has relinquisherl the editorship of the London Saturday Review, and its chief proprietor, Hon. Gervase Beckett, M. P., has become editor-in-chief, with the assistance of George A. B. Dewar as literary editor.

Our Boys and Girls (New York) has suspended publication.

Munsey's Magazine hereafter will print no serials, but will have in each month's issue a complete book-length novel by a good writer. Mr. Munsey says that the newspapers have usurped the place of the monthly in the presentation of serial stories, that the novel is the great pulling force in periodical publication, and that without it normal circulation would drop perhaps eighty-five per cent.

Petitions in bankruptcy have been filed against the Pulitzer Publishing Company, publisher of the Welcome Guest magazine, No. 225 West Thirty-ninth street, and against the Pulitzer Magazine Company, publisher of Pulitzer's Magazine, No. 1036 Sixth avenue, New York.

Price Collier died on the island of Fünen, in the Baltic Sea, November 3, aged fiftythree.

Mrs. Emily Huntington Miller died November 3 in St. Paul, Minn., aged eighty

years.

Alfred Russel Wallace died in London November 7, aged ninety years.

James Carter Beard died in New Orleans November 16, aged seventy-six.

Sir Robert S. Ball died in Cambridge, England, November 25, aged seventy-three.