The times., 1898-09-18


say of this list, as did the bookish and
omnivorous old German, when he took his
pipe out OF his mouth and remarked
glancing at his well-hlled shelves, 1T is
goot dot books cannot dalk, for if dose
DOCKS could dalk, mine gracious, how dey
would NIT each oder svear!"
me Scribners announce a new book by
octave Thanet, to be entitled "The Heart
OF Toll" 1t will deal with the labor uues-
ton in Miss French,s original and de-
iightfui way, and will be ready for pub
iicatlon on the 24th of this month
A new edition of the works of Sir Wal
Ter scott, profusely illustrated, IS an
nounced for early issue by the reorgan-
ized firm of Dana, Estes & Co. Each
Voiume Will contain an introduction and
notes by Andrew Lang.
Partisan paper sent out a lot of let
ten Its readers what were their ideals ar
the age of twenty The responses are
.aliier r interesting. Here are some of
them:
What was your ideal at twenty?"
II no longer know,
.H mas your rlper age realized it?'
| N b-.fhere is no contradiction between these
| two replies. UJLES LEMATTRE
AT twenty, my ideal was to travel. Since
was unable to realize this ideal except incom.
pletey j started to travel in imagination and
on the trail of Phineas Fogg, who made the
tour OF the world in fourscore days 1t will not
Dc iohs before | have made ii in fourscore vol
u'iies' DeheVe me, yours most faithfully.
JULES VERNE.
ihe greatest possible intensity physically intel
iectually, and morally.
have realized it to the best of my ability.
JEAN RICHEPIN.
II is a sort Of new edition of confessions dun
enfant du Steele which you ask from me- II !
were inclined to reply to you, | should have to
write volume of 300 pages on the most hate.
ful OF all subjects: The ~ But reassure your
sell; have no desire TO tell my dreams to the
public, which, for that matter cares little about
them and which is quite right My life has
been spent in work And | have done what |
could, IN the best way that ] could.
GEORGES OHNET.
My Dear Friend: Ny ideal at twenty? To see
my country grow, and to see it free. To do with
the aid OF my pen the greatest possible good.
RIPE age has come. Life has given me
than ! had hoped for. 1t has not given 10
Others as much ] had hoped for them. |
shall never be a satisfied regards the
needs of Others.
But it would take too much time to tell you
all, TO talk to you of those visions which were
the dream of a whole generations; and you ques-
ton me at moment when ! am no longer one
of those who have the right to complain of their
lot. Your aged friend. JULES CLARETIE.
At twenty, my ideal was made up Of all sorts
| OF phantasies; it was only in my hours Of mod
crate ambition that ] willing 10 become
merely Alexander the Great, Don Juan, Victor
Hugo, and Wagner. But do not complain OF
life, for il has left intact within that de-
lirious love OF poetry (which is the same thing
as beauty. and that alone would console me for
all my lost dreams. CATULLE MENDES.
What my ideal at twenty: To live in
Paris, to write plays and TO my dramas In
verse performed at the Theater Franeais at
the odeon.
lived in the provinces until my thr;ieth year.
have never written but one-act play
in verse-''Jean Marie'-and / have passed the
rest Of my time in publishing romanees, of
which j hardly dare to recall the names New,
ertheless, do not complain OF my lot and
am grateful to life for not having given me more
ANDRE THEURIET
Mr. William f. Doxey has in prepara-
ton, to add to his series OF Lark Clas-
sizes, Eric Macay's "A Lovers Litany,'
Richard Jeffries' THE Story of My
Heart" and Andrew Lang's Ballad in
Blue China"
The Macmillans will publish this au-
tUmn series of Representative English
Comedies under the general editorship
the chair of English Language and Lit
erature at the University of California.
The series will contain five volumes and
in all about forty plays will be treated.
The dramatists represented in the first
volume, which viii be ready early in the
fall, include John Haywood, edited by A.
w. Pollard, of ST. Johns College. Ok
ford; Nicholas Udall, by Prof. Ewald
Flugel, of Stanford University; John
LyIy by Prof. G. P Baker of Harvard:
George Peele, by Prof. f. B. Gummere,
of Haverford College, etc.
One book reviewer has started the
trouble, and the others are passing it
around. as usual. Somebody made the
remark in criticising "In the Sargasso
Sea-" by Thomas A. Janvier, that 1t
was rather unlikely that the captain of
ship should have stopped every few
minutes in a sea fight to enter record of
the fight in his log. This comment has
been echoed by three or four other re-
viewers, and nobody seems TO have taken
the pains TO look the thing up and dis
cover that Mr.. Janvier said nothing of
the kind. What he does say is that
somebody, in course of the fight, made
such record, but that it was not the
captain is obvious from the fact that the
| log records the captains death and sew
| eral other things that happened after
| spends months or years in writing
book, the critic might at least read it be-
fore passing Judgment, but this perform
ance indicates that some of them do not.
The Century Company will publish be-
fore long a new and beautiful edition of
''Pilgrim's Progress" illustrated by the
Brothers Rhead 1t is likely that the
work will be issued in two editions. one at
very low price.
A novel of atelier life in Paris, by H. de
We're Stacpoole, entitled The Rapin,' is
promised by Henry Holt & Co. among
their autumn publications.
DR.. S. Weir Mitchelrs novel of the
French revolution, 1.-The Adventures of
Francois" which has been a feature of
the Century Magazine will soon be issued
in book form. 1t is to have fifteen full
page illustrations by Andre Castaigne,
whose work as an illustrator is some
thing which deserves all sorts of admira-
| ton Few men can do as much with mere
black and white as Castaigne.
The Bookseller, Newsdealer and Sta
toner is moved to furnish a few interest
ing items concerning the history of Rich
ard Bentley & Son, the London publish
| ing firm which recently sold out 20 ire
/ Macmillans. The firm has been II eS;st-
ence since 1919, and Oliver Twist first
made his appearance through that medi-
um In 1919 Richard and Samuel Bert
| ley went into partnership. Samuel was
| an antiquarian of much learning, a skill
| full printer and musician. In 1929 Richard
Bentley went into partnership with Henry