New-York tribune., 1899-06-11

trait. 1t is a young and attractive face, ana
the style Of the artist is fitted to 1t.
Mr. Frank T. Bulen tells Book News that
he began The Cruise Of the CaChalot" despair
ingly. Wanting any of those invaluable auxil-
iaries to good literary work that are possessed
by many hundreds Of present-day writer's. /
was driven by sore need to try and set down
some of the things | had seen and heard during
fifteen years at sea Various short articles Of
mlne had found their way into magazines. but
only after many rebuns, and al last feeling as If
| had shot my bolt, | thought that perhaps the
story Of a long whaling voyage from the sea
mans point of view might interest the great
American public. did not hope ii would find
much favor in England So | began the book
it took hold Of me- and in three months it
finished-wrtten in such odds and ends of spare
time remained to me after ter hours daily
office work as junior clerk"
Mr. Winston Spencer Churchill (son Of the
late Lord Randolph Churchill will publish in
the autumn two bulky volumes entitled The
River War: An Account Of the Recovery OF the
Soudan."
The serial publication of Zola's new novel
"Fecondt6" has just begun AS the title
vaguely indicates. the author deals i'm his plot
with the problem of large families among the
working classes and the small bOurgeOSie and
the social complications which result from
them. The conclusion of the novel is said 10
be happy and a hopeful one for the human
race. 'FcCOndltc' Is the tirSt OF a series OF four
novels To be entitled The Four Evangiles": the
second will be called ''TravaIi' CWork) the third
Justice" and the fourth "Verite" (Truth. II
Is predicted that the romancer will not be able
To keep the EreyfuS case out of the third and
fourth books.
The July Century" will present two articles
on Sir Walter Scott one of them tells the true
story of the nOvelist's early love. Such articles
could be charmngy illustrated. There is a sug-
geStOn of what might be done in the two en-
gaging pOrtraits-Of Scotts mother and his
daughter-Teproduced here from the two recent
volumes in the beautiful little Temple edition
Of TIE Waverley novels.
Sir Walter Besant is quoted by "The London
Chronicle" as relating a pleasing story OF
experience with some dealer in books in Amer
lea. He found this gentleman to be issuing,
over the signature Walter Besant,' a volume
which had not come from that pen at all. 1t
bad translation Of bad French novel.
and naturally Sir Walter entered vigorous pro-
test The pirate defended himself on various
grounds one being that. in any case. it was a
better book than Sir Walter had ever written.
Eventually the pirate had to give up his vent
ure. but his suppression cost Sir Walter $lOO
In law expenses"
The great oxford English Dictionary. when
completed viii consist of from twelve thousand
To thirteen thousand pages contained in ten vol
umes. Half Of the dictionary will be completed
in l9D-that is to say. Vols. | to V-and the
second half-Vos. VI to X-wl be produced
more rapidly than the first that the end of
the alphabet will be reached in 1903 Comment
ing upon this massive work. The London Spec
tator' pleasantly says: MANY hundreds Of in
dustrious persons have contributed to its perfec-
ton. and it is "A perfect record of our glorious
speech. But ii is a record Of nothing else You
cannot detect an old and curious scholar smiling
from it's page; and no man that comes after us
will ever detect within its boards anything be-
sides solid and magnificent history There are
unfolded all the documents necessary to the