New-York tribune., 1898-10-16

tn first inctamcnt Of Mr. Langs History
OF Scotland Is nearly ready for publication
The forthcoming book of Major Esterh41y is
I" appear simultaneously in England France
and America 1t Is a curious thing that any
body should care to print book written by this
man.
Count Toistois son, L. l. Tolstoi, has pub
lished IN "a Russian magazine a story entitled
"A Prelude OF Chopin which is in some sort
an answer to his fathers famous "Kreutzer-
sonata.
Mr. Lo GaIlIenne seems to have taker up
unnecessary task IN his forthcoming book of
verse entitled "Th, Nindication Of Eve"
Mr Sidney g. Grer the British Iovelist. Offers
a piteous plea in extenuation OF charge OF
wholesale plagiarism brought against him.
MY first novel, he writes. dealing with affairs
IN Thracia An UncrOwned King, which was
suggested by well-known passage in letter
of Lord Beaconsfied's respecting the offer OF
the crown OF Greece TO Lord Stanley,
planned before the publication of The Prisoner
OF Zenda, but unfortunately, appeared after II.
In consequence was greeted on every side with
the remark, This book would not have been
written but for the success of The Prisoner Of
Zenda,"' although my Ms. had been in Messrs.
BIackwoods hands for three months when
FIRST Teac Mr. Hopes romance. The cast is even
harder with respect to the book AT present under
discussion. A Crowned Queen OF which tho
complete Ms. was forwarded TO Messrs Black
wood SIN months before Rupert of 1entzau
began TO appear n serial form Ii is true that
il concerns the viCissituics OF a foreign queen
and OF EngIisbman on foreign soil U think
this will be found to b. the whole extent Of ths
resemblance TO which your reviewer refers SO
sCathingly). but IL would have required pro-
phetic powers to AVOID this at the time the book
was written, when Mr. Hopes sequel vas not
even announced The concluding story Of the
series, on which an al present engaged, deals
with subject which has not. so far as l am
aware, been tou he'd upon III English fiction, but
am quite prepared to hear before long that MY.
Hope is treating II in "a novel which will appear
Just month before mine"
1.-TWO Ends Of Women" is the title Of Mr..
BarIIes new play-whCh was written, hy no
way. before 'Tae Little Minister"
"A History Of American Literature" viii be
contributed by Professor Moses Cot Tyler to
| the nov English series OF "Literatures Of tho
World" hlr w. g. Aston has written "A His
tory Of Japanese Literature " and Dr. Biandes
| A History Ol Modern Scandinavian 1terdture.'
Mr. Frank Harris the Editor Of The Saturday
Review introduces his book on Shakespeare
| H. a strange way l have sought he says, TO
do this book for Shakespeare the same !ahOr
! OF love that Strauss and kenan did for Jesus.
! one OF the most eminent critics Of Europe. DR..
Geore Brandes. has reached THE SATURDAY
Review reminds as. the dlsenchantec age OK
tfty-SX Years without having dlNuiSed 10 MS
nearest friends t. the most conhdt ntiaI or
/ IntervicWers that he had ever written poetry.
| His volume of 'Ungdomsvers' CJuvenue
Verses has this autumn been a bolt from the
6, ,andnayian blue .Ln1 a leading nteraf! event
! III Copenhagen. Nothing can be more modest
| than the way IN which the author introduces MS
verses to us He has just recovered from pro-
longed and severe Illness, IN the course of Whch
he frequently reflected with anxiety that among
! his papers were TO be found quantity OF copies
| uPpI H. III
died might come INTO the HANDS or some uh-
scrupulOus editor " ~ would PRINT them without
hesitation. 1t true the author might burn
them all but this he unwilling 10 do, ana
( II would even nave been faliacious, for many
cxs, in other copies. ard what survived would
very likely prove to bc the worst or all fer-
maps tuo-aIthough he does not say so-he
thought of the incident Of Tane's cycle of SON
nots ahout cats which were stolen in 1893 and
surreptItiousiy printed. only 10 he as instantly
suppressed by the family. All SUCH provoking
conretemps ar, avoided by an authors Hankiy
taking n hand the disposition or ms own Wrlt"
incs during ms lifetime Dr brardess volume
~ edited with as much discretion as u II con-.
tanned tho relies Of a stranger AS II proposes
no NOR, than L. show the progressive exercises
Of a mind IL art foreign I" its central pur-
pose ITS contents al. very property arranged III
chronological groups.
Among III, books 10 re illustrated ID co'ors
for th. Christmas scasoi-and ioi auuits' nos
"Th. Vicar of Wakefield.
IN the me-, rdltion of his writings joaquin
Miller dcVot,s some attention to tn literary
habits Of divers cci"hritltS "'"H ahu aIEs'
| "AnthoiV Trollop' ponderoUS man. NJ sd! =
/ .alvaNS wrote standing straight as a posi- to -
high desk hls watch before hirn beginning al
ways al certain minute ara "nulnt thdcuy
th, Same Thai watch would nave iandcd me
~ :. ,uadhnuse Whittier and l. L'nGf"ioW wrote
on thcir desks with cv"rythlne at hand and IN