New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-08-11

Doubleday. Page & Co. pushing rapidly
forward their plans for their new magazine,
.The Worlds Work" The first number will be
issued within a few weeks A special feature
will be made of the illustrations.
! The last number of THE Cornhnl Booklet"
little magazine recently started in Boston.
| contains a collection of The occasional Poems
| of Rudyard Kipling" These include verses that
! have not been printed in any of Mr.. Kiplings
! volumes among others verses addressed to
| G. w. Stevens, Lord Roberts, Miss Julia Mar
lowe. James whitcomb Riley and to the Kphng
! Club of Yale University
/ Professor William James. of Harvard has
been Obliged to give up his literary and academic
work on account of i'll health He Is passing the
| summer in France. and he may remain abroad
| for the winter. In his absence his courses in
psychology will be conducted by Professor Hugo
| Munsterberg
| Miss Frances Courtenay Baylor has written a
new novel of Georgia life, entitled "A Georgian
Bungalow" 1t will be brought out next month
| by Houghton, Mfn Co.
G. w. Dillingham; & Co. have arranged to
bring out volume of "reminiscences of celebrities
by the we'll known manager. Major Pond. Some
of these have already appeared in the maya
zines.
Mr. Marion Wilcox is editing for early pubH-
cation by the Harpers book on the War in
the Philippines"
1t is likely that Mr.. Egerton Castles novel.
| THE Secret Orchard will not make its appear
ance in this country until next spring.
In addition to his new collection Of plays,
already announced. Mr.. George Bernard Shaw
has another volume in the -ess of H. S Stone
| & Co, entitled Love Among Artists" This
| firm will also bring out during the autumn a
| Life of Edward Fitzgerald by John Clyde,
with On introduction by Edward Clodd, the biog-
rapher of the late Grant Allen; Benjamin
swift's latest novel, Nude Souls" collection of
plays 'Po White Trash" by Mrs. f. G. Suth-
erland and More Fables" by George AIDE.
| Mr. Richard Burton. whose verse has fire.
quently appeared in the magazines of recent
| years. will soon bring out between covers a
long poem with the odd title of The Lay of the
| Unsuccessful
Should a woman writer change her pen name
after changing her condition? Does she not
owe it to her publisher to make the met - the
| benefit the name may carry? These questions,
| apparently of little moment, have been asked
more than once in all seriousness of late. They
were of decidedly large Importance when it was
| reported that Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett
| proposed to abandon the name by which she had
| long enjoyed popular favor Now another au-
| thoress has married and has had her name
changed in her publishers announcements from
Charlotte Perkins Stetson to Charlotte Perkins
| (Stetson) Gilman.
The collection OF short stories by Mr.. Oscar
| Fay Adams entitled The Archbshops I'm
guarded Moment" has been excluded from the
| Boston Public Library. Just why the volume
| should have been excluded is not made alto
gether clear. AS the action of the library will
| doubtless help the sale of the book Mr.. Adams
is not likely to feel very deep resentment.
A new life of George Eliot. by Clara Thorn
son. is included among the early volumes in the
series of Westminster Biographies lately
started in England and brought out simultane-
ousy in this country.
Mr. Vance Thompson is at work a novel
dealing with episodes in the career OF Aaron
Burr He is said 10 have discovered in Paris
some new and important material relating to
the subject Some time ago Mr.. Thompson COM
| pleted a volume of short stories. The Carnival
| of Destiny" which will probably make it's first
| appearance either during the coming winter or
in the spring. He has lately been collaborating
with Marcel Schwab a play. written in
| French, which is to be tried in Paris during the
| next few months.
Gelett Burgess is to call mis- new collection of
verse consisting largely of lyrics from that de-
funct eccentricity The Lark" by the title of
"A Gage of Youth" Some hitherto unpub-
lshed verses are included in the volume.
The late Grant Aliens book on Paris" will
shortly come from the press of L. c. Page &
Co. 1t was first brought out in England sew
eral years ago, but the American edition will
contain some material
Miss Josephine Preston Peabody has made
Shakespeare 1gure in the Elizabethan drama
which is to be a novel feature of her volume of
verse Fortune and Mems Eyes" now in the
press The play is said to derive it's inspira-
ton from Shakespeare's sonnets.
Andrew Lang in The CornhiIl
The Mysteries of Udolpho," Mrs. RadCliffes
| next and most celebrated work is not Gin the
judgment of this reader. at least her master
piece. The booksellers paid her what Scott erro-
! neouSy calls the unprecedented of 5000
for the romance, and they must have made a
| profitable bargain. THE public" says Scott.
rushed upon it with all the eagerness of curl
osity, and rose from it with unsated appetite"
1 arise with thoroughly stated appetite from
The Mysteries of Udopho." The book as Sir
| Walter saw, is The Romance of the Forest
raised to higher power. We have similar
and similarly situated heroine cruelty detached
from her young man and Rnmured in a bowling
| In place of the Marquis is a miSCreant on a
| larger and more ferociOuS scale. The usual
mysteries of voices. lights. secret passages and
innumerable doors provided regardless of
| economy. The great question, which I shall nor