New-York tribune., 1901-04-20


Glyn, it appears. is none other than Mrs. Elinor
Glyn. lady known in English society, and now
passing the winter in Egypt. Her book has gone
into its sixty-fifth thousand
Casseu & Co continue their enterprise this
year OF reproducing the most notable of the
pictures in the Royal Academy exhibition This
years issue will contain five photogravure
plates of representative pictures IN addition to
the usual reproductions, which are said to be
on a scale sufficiently large to give an excellent
notion of the originals.
Mr. H. s. Fuller the Editor Of School" spent
some time last year in European travel HIS
impressions were set forth in a series or letters
to his paper. These having all been competed
it is announced that they will presently be pub
lished in book form.
The Century Company is preparing very
large first edition of Miss Runkles Helmet or
Navarro" which they will publish on May L.
The cover of the book will depict heinet ana
a sword, and will give a facsimile or the au-
thor's signature. Of course. the dramatists are
after it for the stage rights and the Century
office is described as having been besieged for
months by managers anxious to get the privi-
lege of dramatizing It.
General Charles King, whose novels of army
life are well known, has praised Frederick
Palmer's Ways of the Service. just publlshed
by the Scribners, in a personal letter 10 Mr'
Palmer in which he wrote:
Almost am | persuaded you, too, must be a
regular, so accurate is every detail nave leiu
and reread it, and sent 1t to others VINO read
and the verdict is the same. 1t is the pest yet
Miss Alberta Bancroft, in Royal Rogues, has
written series of three fairy stories containing
the adventures of the same characters through
out The Royal Rogues the twin sons of
king and their doing fully illustrated. The
Putnams have the book In preparation
Mr. Alfred Hadder has written in conabora-
ton with Josiah FIynt whom the New-York
police are looking for with renewed flourish
Of trunpets under the pseudonyme of Wal
tom" but philosophy, not studies OF the under
social strata It Is said. is really his CHIEF pur-
suit. He is just publishing, through the Mac
milan Company philosophical work. the hrst
book he has written over his own name, with the
curious title OF The Specious Present Its
subtitle declares that 1t is "A New Inquiry into
Human knowledge" In it he aims to controvert
certain current theories in regard to judgment.
reasoning and perception. and to substitute
others in their stead.
We have had records OF nineteenth century
progress; and now comes venturesome Eng
iishman with forecast of twentieth Century
Inventions" which Longmans. Green & Co. are
about to bring out The author is a journalist
whose attention has been devoted to technology
cal questions. and he has based his predictions
and anticipations the actual trial of 'inven-
tions which have a future before them in the
twentieth century,"
count Of his troubles and trials which will he
published this month by Mcclure. Phillips & Co.
will be one of the best protected pieces OF liter
ary property published since the passage of the
International Copyright law. A French edition
is being set up in this country. not for sale. but
that its copyright may prevent other than the
authorized transations from being made.
Lillian Bell. the American novelist. who has
recently been in Russia. says that she had a'talk
with Tostoi there in which he asked whom
he regarded as the greatest living writer. where
upon he answered, Mrs. Humphry Ward AS is
we'll known Tolsto is not dependent on trans
lations for his knowledge of English books, but
reads them in the original.
In all the great enterprises with authors
famous of George Smith. the London publisher.
who has just died in the midst of chronicling his
recolections firm in this country
closely associated with Smith. Elder & Co as
that OF Harper e. Brothers 1t is interesting to
note that having begun with Thackeray and
Bronte away back in the forties. these firms
have recently Joined hands in issuing the sub
stantial and definitve collections of the ''Bi-
ographical Thackeray" and the Haworth
Bronte: must the important part be forgot
ten that the late George Du Maurier played in
cementing the close relations of these two firms
The Vice Provost of Eton, DR.. Cornish, has
just completed a work "Chivalry." which the
Macmillan Company will publish Immediately
The authors aim has been rather to sketch
state of society than to chronicle a period. He
has illustrated from contemporary writings the
unity and universally of chivalry and its posi-
ton institution which sufficed for it's own
time. and bore fruit in influence upon later
days.
Professor Isaac Taylor Headland of Peking
University. who put into English the curious
and amusing Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes
has written book from his full experience
Of Chinese childhood. called THE Chinese Boy
and Girl which the Fleming H. ReveH Com
pany will publish. 1t tells, in addition to the
games played by the boys and girls of China of
the toys children's shows and entertainments
children's stories, Juvenile Jugglery and other
amusements Of youth in China
''Voysey' is the title of a new novel which
the Macmillan Company will publish Immediate
ly. 1t is by Richard Orton Prowse. who wrote