New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-05-05
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
CURRENT TALK OF THINGS PRESENT
AND TO COME.

Mr. Will H. Low has completed the iustra-
I lions for the new edition of LAS You Like It.
| which Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Co. preparing
| for publication in the autumn. They include fVe
! full page illustrations reproduced in color by
autobiography. as well as a large number
of decorations.
When in a few days Miss Mary Wilkins
rives in England she will find herself among
| host of friends During the last half dozen
years her books have been widely read there.
Just before sailing she put the final touches to
! her novel of Virginia life in the seven
teenth century, THE Hearts Highway" which
will be issued by Messrs Doubleday, Page &
/ Co, without previous serial publication. Miss
wilkins has also finished for "Harper's Bazaar
half dozen short stories of New England life,
each complete in itself. but with several of the
| same characters used throughout
Mr.. Eliot Gregory. in his first book. Worldly
/ Ways and Byways.' brought together the clev-
| crest of his newspaper articles and found the
| appreciation from the book reading public that
! their quality deserved. In his second volume,
The Ways of Men" which the Scribners have
| just sent out from the press he has gone some
what further afeld, treating greater variety
of themes, several of them relating to aspects
of life in Europe. The article Sardou gives
| an intimate glimpse of the dramatist Mr..
! Gregory has not only known him we'll, but has
| lately collaborated with him on a play fact
which he modestly refrains from mentioning.
J however
Mr.. Frederic Crowninshield, the well known
! painter, and for several years occasional con-
! trlbutor to the magazines, has made a collec-
ton Of his verse, which he will publish through
! Messrs. Dodd. Mead & Co. under the title of
| 'Pictoris Carmina"
| The success of Red Pottage" has stimulated
| the demand for Miss Mary Cholmondeleys pre-
Vlous work. Diana Tempest" and new edition.
with portrait and biographical. sketch, has
just been published by the Appletons. Red
Pottage' now gives promise of being of the
! half dozen most popular books OF the year.
Mr.. John Lane, who has been described by an
| American writer as a publisher who has the dis
| tinction of being more noted than any of his
! authors, is making his annual visit to this
| country. H expects to return to London about
! the middle OF the present month. Mr.. Lane
achieved fame in England a few years ago by
becoming the first English publisher to make
! poetry pay. He has done more than any pub
Usher. American English. to give encourage
| ment to The younger verse writer's. Mr.. Lane
takes a keen interest in American books and
has introduced to English readers several
American writers Of both prose and verse. On
his departure for home he will leave in charge
! Of his New-York office Mr.. Temple Scott known
| in England journalist and author who will
succeed Mr.. II. H. Robinson lately returned to
London.
Mrs. Ruth McEnery Stuart is writing the
last chapters of a novel of Southern life on
which she has been engaged for several years
The work will probably make its first appear
ance a gaZine serial.
Now that Mr. John Kendrick Bangs has be-
come the Editor of ''Harper's Weekly he is
taking a rest from authorship. He believes
that he has earned 1t, after writing two books a
year since 1894. Late in the summer, however,
he proposes to write a story of a humorous
| character for publication in the Weekly"
Mrs. Gertrude Atherton has lately returned
TO this country after visit of several months in
Cuba. The next few weeks she expects TO pass
| in New-York. and in July she will go for the
summer to the Adrondacks, where she is plan
ming to work on new book In the autumn
Mrs. Anterior will go back Cuba in order TO
complete her studies for novel of Cuban life.
She believes that in Cuba there is for the writer
of fiction fresh and attractive material, both in
the present changing conditions and in the old
Spanish civilization Mrs. Anterior is of the
few American nOvelists who in the past ten
Indeed her success may be said to have been
practically made in England When she left
this country about five years ago to take up her
residence in London she known as the
author of several novels that had been widely
discussed in the press, but had not been Sc
riously considered. Moreover Mrs Atherton's
studies of Californian life had subjected her to
considerable censure. In England, on the other
hand, her novels were warmly praised and are
now extensively read. 1t was Patience Spar
hawk that first made her familiar to
English readers AS it was published during the
Jubilee, bad year for writer's, it did not make
its way at once; but when it had on the
market for six months it bounded into favor
Mrs. Anterior is naturally enthusiastic in her
appreciation of the English in their attitude
toward writer's She believes that writer's have
a better position in England than in the United
States, and that they receive more genuine
help from the English than from the American
critics. She notes with satisfaction too that
the English publishers pay authors higher
royalties than the American publishers do a
fact that has often been regretfully commented
on by our stay home authors
Some surprise has been felt that Mrs Ather
| toms novel Senator NORTH published this
week by John Lane, should not have made it's
hrst appearance in this country a serial AS
a matter of fact the serial rights were sold TO
syndicate of American newspapers When
the book was examined, however. its treatment
or American politics was considered to be so
irritating to the sensibilities of the average
American reader that all OF the newspapers re-
fused TO print it. The Chicago Inter Ocean
however, went far as to publish the first
four chapters, and then discontinued it An ex
animation of the book fails to show just why