New-York tribune., 1896-10-18

Master OF, the Stationers COMPANY ana was IN me
full tide az prosperity. He had large es3apihA'
meut IN Salisbury Square, place. Dy-the'~ay
which he employed Goldsmith as prooireader !"
about twelve months after that writer had come up
20 London. The house was torn down the other
aav end thus one more OF the literary monuments
I, tho English capital goes into oblivion. Ta'
march OF such possessions Is unceasing. sydnS
smi,h's house fell under the ban a short TINE ago.
Scarcely "A month passes without tne ra@'ns o' ''"'
more or less celebrated home.
sevoral now novels about which one may @y
hs curious are announced for publication during The
coming season. Nine. Sarah Grand has neass az.
Tho, , hook: Mr. Henry James has one In Man,
d ., has Mr. w T.. Norris. Miss Brooke tFM
,hor a, ,ba, odd book, "A Superfuous Woman,
about 10 bring out long Story ""o'' - NV w.
81 20 ,ho Accuser": the author OF TIE "reen ,s'
nation" Is making ready pooS ~ " ~,
"r,ares" and Stevenson's saint Ives anu y"
,,.u c,,,o,s 9Th. Christian are expected soon'
The novel By DR.. s. Weir Mitchell winch y ~
,r,r,ed in ..The Century during the coming yea.
viii deal with Philadsphian society ""'ms ~, Wv
Revolutionary War. II Is said. ana. P''s'"F,
will have a Philadcphian hero IL - 70 oe ee
"uurh wynne. Free Quaker ana VIII ps I"Ss
. . ,rc,, exten, on documents in Phadelpnsa
archives.
Gonna ono has arisen to demand. in starving eager
u,ss tJat Mr.. Zangwill shall make pook ON.
his so ocalled epigrams. Perish the thousht' NV
,s ono Of the samples quoted by the wistful sar
n,,o,, for more Zangwill: "Iiumor may always
nrured but where II Is not already II canno'
planted" Shades OF all that's marvellous
Tho Arpe;ons announce the first volume OF ID
historical work upon which Mr.. Edward Egses''.
{. said to have been In aborins for sixteen years.
80 gto n Life
aud will bc composed OF several volumes groups
under this title. with separate titles OF thelr OWE
Thus the first volume will be 'Th" Beginners cI
Nation" an account OF the development OF N"
region OF the earth in the seventeenth century
The Harpers will publish Immediately n"
edition OF Under the Greenwood Tiee. thus COM
,,,,uS the uniform library edition of Mr.. Hardy
novels II has been wise enterprise. carrfu oS'
with admirable tas'e. The print and fern OF .' w
volumes are excellent. the binding IL ser''cea'
and artistic and altogether the handsome sci :"
hook. pays the tribute TO the novels; that II shoo"
lie has waited much longer for such tribute shsi
ought 10 have been the case. Lesser men have ''s
their collected editions" while Mr.. Hardy mas pe's
scattered through an unsymmc,ricsl series oi '~
umes Now that he is in the best poSs'h'e io'
those who have treasured him In uneven ss'S ""
turn to tn. new books with delight and others W..
have never possessed him In any shape VI" ', ~
as eagerly He is a man to have on one sne''
somewhere near Thackeray. Th" earliest oi '
works wears as we'll as his more mature "n'is.
Early and late re has been animated ny "''"
ideal
The admirable Life OF William OF o'a~~
which Miss Ruth Putnam wrote fornc t"e y.
has achieved a deserved distinction IN ho"a". ~.
D. c. Nithof Of The Hague. has traIs'a'''
book, and 1t is being brought out in thai CITY
carefully made edition.
,,,or. ,s "a no n new edition Of Swift. In esh'" -"
nine volumes 1t Is said that there will be a. H.
annexation as possible, but a long cri'ical AZ" ~.
yronhical Introduction will be provideo " -,
Iecky The Macmillan Company. when a""o a,,.
,his work. has also In preparation u" Nv, w ,,r,s
book on The Castles Of England p' ." ..r.ys
Mackenzie Bart. II Is TO be the most oo''r -. corL
volume or the subject yet printed. and VIII ~
ously illustrated.
The first two volumes OF Mr. Hanleys t"c, .,,,..
ume edition Of Byron are nearly READY 10, p II
,on. One of these contains the poets .n,,,ns
dates running from 1894 to 1913; the o'ne'
noens Each volume has a portr'i' o' p''
Charles Egbrrt Craddocks new nov" -. called
printed serialiy IN ''The Atlantic WIS ,uisc
.rhe Juxgler" The title would seem 10 ~" .'. tals
aanar,ure from her familiar ground but w. .,ru.
will be- as usual. OF life in the reh"e''
tains.
There are some anecdotes about the - him
fessor Freeman In Temple Bar whrn r.rry
I'm anything but an attractive guise "'' .s., vel
AS q writer and public disputant mas hssu 10
known. but his private gauchere haS "s cour-
familiar lie would not dress for dinner .,.raL h.
try house Il seems. That was TOO 'o"' .r,Irtr
said and once he came TO the table dse - stretch
in white In the drawing room he Vo''" .., ss i.
himself at full length upon the sofa an" "a trcF
itors with a sncrt II would b" intersS ,'.,,abew
why a man of brains SHOULD think u s'"