New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-07-07
LITERARY NOTES.

Among the books announced by Holt Is
Krausses Russia in Asia" publication which
promises to be of particular value TO students OF
politics and history.
There are great dramatic possibilities In the
careers Of the Italian secret societies. ana II MI
Marion Crawford makes the best of them IN ms
new novel, The Anarchists should be one OF
his successes.
Mr. f. T. Jane, who during the last season
mas had exceptional facilities for visiting 'he
Imperial dockyards and arsenals in RUSSIA mas
prepared a work the Russian Navy wh'ch
will appear in the early autumn. II VIII nave
over 40 illustrations and will be an exhaustive
book of reference.
What is announced as "a concise handbook TO
the complete writings Of Rudyard Kipling has
been prepared by Mr.. F. L. Knowles and Is TO
no nuhlished by Brown & Co. Of Boston. under
the title OF "A Kipling Primer" This will in
c,ude. we are told photographers of first editions
and Of reference articles biography, a critical
ANALYSIS of his works and a complete adpha-
betical index 10 the plots Of all stories and
ballads Imagination staggers before the pros
pect of what the bookshops of the future VIII
be II this writing Of primers and handbooks ana
''kens" about every popular author continues
Sir Thomas Urquhart. whose translation OF
Rabelais has been called zone Of the most per-
feet transfusions of an author from one language
10 another that ever man accomplished, Is the
subject OF a biography which is 10 be issued IN a
few months A great deal of good material has
been collected from Society transactions state
papers and biographical collections. 1t should
how had adj n al
for universal language, as absurd as the "Vo-
lapuk" Of our day.
Eleanor" Mrs. Humphry Wards new novel;
is in course of preparation for publication in
-Harpers Magazine"
A poet who allows circumstances to turn him
from his ideals and make him a man OF fashion
As the hero Of the new novel by Ernest Dowson
and Arthur Moore. II is called Adrian Rome:
A Contemporary Portrait" and 1t will be pub
1ished shortly by Holt
Miss Francesca Alexander. the American lady
whose books dealing with italy have been partic-
ular favorites with Ruskin, is about TO publish
"a new volume under the title of Saints Stories
for Children"
Mr.. #. Frankfort Moore has completed a
,ser,es Of Nell Gwyn" stories. and is now at
work upon a long novel TO be published next
year.
An interesting Stevenson MS. will be sold In
London Tomorrow THE Athen9um says THAI
st extends to thirty small quarto pages, is all IN
The novelists handwriting and is signed in full
by him at the end. 1t bears simply the title
.Markhein"; it appeared originally In an an
nual and seems 70 be the first shape which "Dr.
,Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde" took In Stevenson's MIND
Mr. Maarten Martens is seriously Ill IN Eng
land in consequence of the sting of some KIND
of fy-parhaps a relative of the bug which has
lately been ravaging Washington. d. C., and
Paterson, n. j.
reprint of the sonnets Of Mary Queen or
Scots is coming out in London.
A collection of state Trials. Political and
Social" selected and edited by II. L. Stephen, Of
the Inner Temple. is the Macmillan press In
two-volume for a. The work is full Of pictur-
esque interest.
Mrs Frances Hodgson Burnett is working on
a new novel in her English home. Maytham
Hall, in Kent.