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Kansas University Weekly.
Library.
The department of English Literature is being enlarged and enriched by the addition of many valuable new books and new editions.
Fiction is receiving a share of attention. There is a new set of George Eliot's works, the Standard edition, in twenty-one volumes, and the works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Author's edition, issued by Charles Scribner's Sons, in twenty-one volumes.
In poetry the following are some of the additions:
Three volumes by George Meredith entitled Ballads and Poems, Poems and Lyrics, and Modern Love.
The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, the text newly collated and revised and edited with a memoir and notes by George Edward Woodberry, of Columbia University. This is the Centenary edition, in four volnmes.
The Poetical Works of James Thompson, edited by Bertram Dobell, with a memoir of the author; two volumes. This poet is sometimes called the "Poet of Despair." Mr. Howells, in a recent story, mentions him as "City-of-Dreadful-Night Thompson," from the name of his best known poem.
In Russet and Silver, by Edmund Gosse. This is a pretty book, containing many pretty verses. There is a particular interest, now, in the dedication in verse to Robert Louis Stevenson, with whom Mr. Gosse had a long friendship. It begins:
"To
Tusitala in Vailima. Clearest voice in Britain's chorus Tusitala! Years ago, years four and twenty, Grey the cloudland drifted o'er us, When these ears first heard you talking, When these eyes first saw you smiling."
A new book in Coleridge bibliography is Anima Poetae, selections from the unpublished note-books of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, edited by his grandson, Earnest Hartley Coleridge.
Tennyson literature has received two new
books: Poets and Problems, by George Willis Cooke, containing studies of Tennyson, Ruskin, and Browning; and Tennyson, Poet, Philosopher, Idealist, by J. Cuming Walters.
The Miltoniana has received two books-A Concordance to the Poetical Works of John Milton, by John Bradshaw, and The Astronomy of Miltons' Paradise Lost,' by Thomas N. Orchard, member of the British Astronomical Society.
To the Shakespeariana have been added English History in Shakespeare's Plays, by Beverle. Warner; The Plays of Shakespeare Founded on Literary Forms, by Henry J. Ruggles; and A Midsummer Night's Dream, tenth volume in the Variorum Shakespeare, edited by Horace Howard Furness.
Material for the study of the later periods of our literature is becoming more plentiful. We have The Beginnings of the English Romantic Movement, a study of eighteenth century literature, by Prof. Phelps, of Yale College; Eighteenth Century Vignettes, second series, by Austin Dobson; Corrected Impressions, essays on Victorian writers, by George Saintsbury; Studies in Early Victorian Literature, by Fred eric Harrison; The Life of the Spirit in the Modern English Poets, by Miss Vida D. Scudder, of Wellesley College.
Miss Mary A. Lindsay, aged 18 years, died at her home at 1331 Kentucky street, Sunday, Oct. 4th., of hemorrhage of the lungs. She had been ill for nine weeks. She was loved by her circle of friends and her sweet ways have left their influence with them. She was a Sophomore in the Music School last year and the music students, to show their sympathy for the bereaved and their love for Mary, sent a lyre of flowers, and attended the funeral in a body. The funeral services were held on Tuesday and were conducted by Dr. Cordley.
A subscription party is being promulgated for Saturday night.
If people hate you, you probably deserve it.
—Atchison Globe.