frBOM OTJB OWN COBKESPONDENT.I London, August 18. " Sarah Grand " is merely a pseudonym. Mrs M'Phail is the matter-of-faot Scotch name which, reslly belongs to the clever authorees of "The Heavenly Twinß." Amongat immediately forthcoming books are W. E. Norris' " Countess Eadna," three volumea (next Tuesday); Edna Lyall'a "To Bight the Wrong" (Sept. 30); and Clark Bußsell'a "British Seaß" (Sept.l). "Catriona," the sequel to "Kidnapped," better known to you as "David Balfour," is definitely promised for publication, "in one volumne with two maps," on Sept. 1, price six shillings. It has been entirely revised by the author since it appeared in the magazines and newspapers. Mrs Oliphant's next novel, "A House in Bloomabury," will appear serially in the serious threepenny monthly called The Young Woman. Mrs Oliphant is just Bixty five years of age, and has written more •ii.6velß.iOj-. consistently high class character than any lining author or authoress. Sir Herbert Maxwell, Bart., the author of two semi.successf ul novels and a volume tof. capable ea?ays, is now engaged on a jijiography of Mr W. H. Smith. It will be "published by Blackwood in the autumn, and contain a number of illustrations of Greenlandß (Mr Smith's home at Henley), of W aimer Castle, and of the Strand, specially drawn by Herbert Bailton. Mr W. K. Clifford has just " signed and B'ealed"'for a new story,' to run serially through the Illustrated. London News, commencing next July. " Aunt Anne " has been translated into German, and had a large sale both in Prussia and Austria. It ia now running serially through the Paris Bibats. The <jjfctraordinary success of this book has also revived the demand for tho lugubrious " Mrs Keith's Crime," which, nf its shilling form, now stands, in piles on the railway bookstalls. What would poor Charles Beade have felt had he liv^d to see " It is Never Too Late to Mend" dismissed in a single line by an influential evening paper, as " & tale of prison abuses and life in Australia, pub lished nearly Softy years ago." Never theless, wethinks the capital sixpenny edition, just now the feature of the cheap bookstalls, will sell well. Even though Australians laugh a little at Beade's imaginative up-country scenes, they cannot fail to be interested in the vigorous story.. 