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INTERNATIONAL MARRIAGE IN AMERICAN FICTION. A. Schade Van Westrum. Bookman (28 c.) for December.

THE DETECTIVE STORY IN GERMANY AND SCANDINAVIA. Grace Isabel Colbron. Bookman (28 c.) for December.

MACAULAY FIFTY YEARS AFTER. William R. Thayer. North American Review (38 c.) for December.

THE MODERN SHORT STORY. W. J. Dawson. North American Review ( 38 c.) for December.

STEVENSON AND HENLEY. Beatrice Post Candler. Putnam's Magazine (28 c.) for December.

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THE GREAT AMERICAN DRAMA. Illustrated. Emmett C. King. Metropolitan (18 c.) for December. THE ROMANCE OF COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY. J. Horace McFarland. Suburban Life (28 c.) for December. CLYDE FITCH AS COLLABORATOR. Willis Steele. Theatre for December.

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BROWNING'S SAUL." B. O. Flower. Editor's Quiet Hour, Twentieth Century Magazine (28 c.) for December.

BURNS THE DEMOCRAT. C. A. G. Jackson. Twentieth Century Magazine (28 c.) for December.

THE PRACTICAL EDUCATION OF NEWSPAPER MEN. (With sketch and portraits of J. Newton Nind.) National Printer-Journalist (23 c.) for December. SOME CHINESE POETRY. Harper's Weekly (13 c.) for November 20.

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ON BOOKWORMS. Harper's Weekly (13 c.) for November 27.

MR. CHESTERTON ON MR. SHAW. Outlook (8 c.) for November 13.

RICHARD WATSON GILDER. With full-page por trait. H. M. Alden. Harper's Weekly (13 c.) for November 27.

РОЕТ AND PATRIOT (Richard Watson Gilder). Outlook (18 c.) for November 27.

EDMOND ROSTAND. With portrait. Outlook (18 c.) for November 27.

THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS. Illustrated with photographs. Brander Matthews. Outlook (18 c.) for November 27.

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John Bigelow's "Retrospections of Active Life" was published November 24, the day before the author's ninety-second birthday.

Charles Scribner's Sons regard "American Prose Masters," by W. C. Brownell, which they have just published, as the most important volume of American literary criticism published in many years. It deals with Cooper, Hawthorne, Poe, Henry James, Emerson, and Lowell.

Frank Harris's book on "The Man Shakespeare and His Tragic Life Story" is founded on the articles published in the Saturday Review, when Mr. Harris was editor of that journal, establishing that Shakespeare "in his plays and poems has painted himself twenty times over from youth to age at full length."

Of two new books relating to Sir Walter Scott, the most important is "The Skene Papers Memories of Sir Walter Scott," by James Skene, that Laird of Rubislaw who was one of the novelist's oldest and closest friends. The other volume contains, under the title of "Sir Walter Scott's Friends," chapters on Old Ladies of Sir Walter's Youth, Makers of the Minstrelsy, Literary Ladies, Abbotsford Household, and Scott's Relation to Other Poets. Mrs. Florence MacCunn is the author of this volume.

Caroline Norton, whose biography by Jane Grey Perkins has just been issued by Henry Holt & Co., under the title, "The Life of the Honorable Mrs. Norton," was the author of some well-known songs, including "Bingen on the Rhine," "We Have Been Friends Together," and "Juanita : Soft O'er the Fountain." Mrs. Norton is probably best known as the author of "The Lady of La Garaye."

"Woman's Work in English Fiction," by Clara H. Whitmore, is announced by G. P. Putnam's Sons.

"The Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley," edited in two volumes by Roger Ingpen, just published by Charles Scribner's Sons, include about 480 letters, of which thirty-eight have not been printed before.

Professor C. W. Wallace, the American who has been discovering in London some records explanatory of the life and business of Shakspere in that great city, has been writing various articles on his "finds" for Harper's Magazine. They are to be published therein under the general title of "Shakspere the Man in His Everyday Life.”

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Mrs. Anna Robeson Burr has just published (Houghton Mifflin Company) critical and comparative study of "The Autobiography." For more than four years she has been engaged on the work, in the course of which she has read some 800 separate autobiographies in several languages. She has tabulated and arranged those deemed worthy, and studied them both his torically and psychologically.

The Houghton Mifflin Company publishes "Commercialism and Journalism," by Hamilton Holt, editor of the Independent, an analysis of the methods of present-day journalism, with discussion of the influence of advertising on the independence and policy of the press.

The Putnams say that A. Clutton-Brock's "Shelley, the Man and the Poet," which they. publish, is written with singular impartiality.

G. M. Godden has written a new book on Henry Fielding, which will soon be published in England.

A new magazine for girls and boys entitled Everyland is published by the Everyland Publishing Company, West Medford, Mass.

The first number of the Forerunner, a magazine edited and published by Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and also written entirely by her, has been published in New York.

The twice-a-month policy introduced experimentally in October by the Popular Magazine has been successful, and the publishers announce that the Popular will continue to be issued every two weeks. The stories in this magazine, which now prints only fiction, are the stirring kind-detective stories, adventure stories, mystery stories, football stories, sea stories - but no love stories! There is love interest in many of the yarns, but it is kept in the background.

The Burr McIntosh Monthly will be greatly enlarged, beginning with the January number, and will print special and general articles, and some fiction.

The size of the pages of Harper's Bazar has been increased to that of Collier's Weekly. A new department has been added dealing with the "woman movement" on both sides of the Atlantic.

Gardner Teall has been made the associate editor of House and Garden, under the management of the magazine's new owners, McBride, Winston, & Co., who now publish it in New York.

The editors of the Technical World (Chicago) invite submission of photographs and articles. The magazine is a popular illustrated record of progress in science, invention, and industry.

The promised "Japanese Correspondence of Lafcadio Hearn" begins in the December Atlantic.

James G. Blaine spent a year in getting the material and dictating the first volume of his "Twenty Years," and then sat down and re-wrote it with his own hand in order to perfect the literary style.

Dr. William Torrey Harris Providence, R. I., November seventy-four.

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Richard Watson Gilder died in New York November 18, aged sixty-five.

William M. Laffan died in New York November 19, aged sixty-one.

John Bannister Tabb died at Ellicott City, Md., November 19, aged sixty-four.

William Dexter Smith died in Boston November 28, aged seventy years.

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