New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-09-15
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
CURRENT TALK OFF THINGS PRESENT
AND TO COME.


catalogue of the National Gallery will be
reached with the third volume which Cassell
G. Co expect to publish this autumn The book
will form a complete illustrated catalogue or the
great English national collection and VIII con-
tain between 300 and 1.400 Illustrations. The
third volume will deal with British masters and
modern schools. including the pictures IN the
Tate Gallery Sir Edward POynter. besides an
introduction gives notes additional to those CON
tanned in the official catalogue. embodylng MS
personal views on the principal pictures The
edition is limited to a thousand numbered
comics OF which $50 are allotted to the United
States.
A number of delicate and effective water-color
drawings have been made by Howard Chandler
Christv for the new edition of Thomas Nelson
Pages story THE Old Gentleman of the Black
Stock that the Scribners are bringing out
They are reproduced in colors and give latin
full impression of the artists touch There VIII
be a capital colored vlgnette on the title page
That mighty English hunter Frederick Cour-
teney Selous has another book of his advent
ures ready for publication by Longmans, Green
g. Co. entitled Sport and Travel. East and
West" The part that relates to the west VIII
be of particular interest to Americans because
IL deals with his experiences in the Rocky Noun
tains.
Nothing is so erratic and extremely diff
emit to forecast in advance as the duration of
the public taste for books that are at present
popular" So says prominent publisher ana
bookseller apropos of some of the recent Vagarles
noted in this direction "A book that seems 10
be in the height of its popularity and that Is
selling by the thousands may fail all of a sud
den some fine day, and be almost dead the next
morning We order books by fves and twenty
hves and hundreds and two hundreds and ff-
ties and we are always on the lookout that we
NAV not be left with the last four or twenty
four, or ninety-nine or two hundred ana 1orty-
nine on our hands to be worked of at loss
when the wave recedes.
You never can tell when successful book is
going to help an unsuccessful one along. 'Trilby
did nothing for the stilborn Marian. but such
a book often stimulates the earlier works OF an
author into life I think DR.. JelIyll and Mr.
HYDE ciaptrap book; but it brought into
notice and success StevensOns infinitely better
earlier works like 'Virginibus Puerisque, and
the book trade is full OF such instances George
Meredith is a conspicuous example of man
whose early books commanded only the num-
drum sale of three volume English novel, TIL
one day one Of his publications was determined
by the critics to be a great work. when imme-
diately his half-forgottsn earlier books became
great works too"
complete edition of ]. Fenimore Coopers
novels, called the Red Rover edition, in hand
some and convenient shape, is issuing from the
Putnams' press. No such edition of these novels
is at present to be had; but there is thought to
be an undoubted demand for one. owing to the
continually growing interest in the historic
periods of which the stories treat. 1t is also be-
lieved-and justly-that Cooper still has a large
audience, undisturbed in loyalty toward him by
the flasher methods Of later and temporarily
more popular novests.
The novels of Maurus Joka the Hungarian
writer. to be be gaining in popularity
among English speaking people. Half dozen
| have been translated in recent years; Of the
very large number still remaining to be drawn
from, Mcclure, Phillips & Co. will presently
! publish The Day of Wrath" 1t is story Of
Hungarian life. like most of J6kars books, and
is the last one he has produced.
! Kalman Mkszath is a Hungarian writer Of
| novels said to be second only to Maurus Jokai
in the popularity he enjoys among his own
countrymen. although outside Of Hungary he is
! almost unknown. even by name book Of
! his, bearing the queer title of st. Peters UNI
brella," is to be published next week by Harper
& Bros.
The race of millionaires is prone to silence.
| Mr. Andrew Carnegie is one Of the very few
men who have amassed vast wealth in active
business and who have been fired to express
themselves freely in print. He has become we'll
known as an essayist in the periodical press on
a great variety Of subjects, chiefly economic
! and political. Whatever may be thought of his
| opinions. he has shown himself fluent in eX-
| pressing them. Now for the first time his essays
| are to be gathered between covers and are soon
! to be published by the Century Company. There
! will be included two THE Gospel of Wealth. -
| and others on THE Advantages of Poverty
| TRUSTS" America nism." Expansion Home
| Rule in America and autobiogra phical
| sketch How I Served My Apprenticeship as a
| Business Mana very frank account of his
humble beginning and the poverty of his early
days
Instead of coming to America this autumn, as
he expected. to supervise the production of his
new play. arranged from his novel I'm the
Palace of the King Mr.. F. Marion Crawford
| will stay in Sorrento The play will be pro-
| duced for the first time in Washington before
| long 1t is not the first of his theatrical vent
ures previous attempt in the same line hav-
ing met with immediate failure. He is now
| putting the finishing touches his history.
THE Rulers of the South" Although his pub
Iished work has been chiefly in the direction
| Of fiction Mr.. Crawford's interest has long
drawn him toward historical studies. In his
| forthcoming book he will give connected &C
| count of Southern Italy and Sicily under their
| succession of different rulers, from the first
! Greek settlers down to the accession of the
| House of Aragon. No consecutive narrative
has ever been given of this subject. There will
be a chapter on the Malta that is said to con-
| tain information only recently accessible. even