New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1901-10-05

''Lennox papers, which Mr.. Lang speaks of
as hitherto virgin MATERIAL and from which
he shows how Mary's prosecutors, especially
the Earl of Lennox, father of her murdered
husband. Darnley. got up their These
papers add new and dramatically effective anec-
dotes of Mary and Darnley-"the whole subject
throws lurid light the ethics and persons of
the age which followed the Reformation in
Scotland" Increasing knowledge of the facts
has overthrow ingenious theories. says Mr..
Lang, and the new emergence of old MSS. has,
on the whole weakened the position of the de-
fence His inquiry, especially concerned with
the Lennox papers, does not clear Mary, but
solves some of the darkest problems connected
with her case.
Houghton. Miffiin & Co. announce for speedy
publication "Marlowe." a five act drama in
blank verse. by Josephine Preston Peabody.
The Andrea Mantegna" of Paul Kristeller
which Longmans. Green & Co. are bringing out
is fine volume with twenty-six plates and 162
text illustrations Mr.. KristeIler calls his sub
Ject the most perfect of the great early
period of humanism,' and says that his infinite
passionate feeling for nature made him one of
the mightiest combatants in the van of that
battle for nature which have to fight
more ardently than ever
A s. Baldry's book on Hubert Won Herkomer
is now ready for publication by the Macmillan
Company. This study and biography is an
elaborate volume, with many reproductions of
Herkomer's pictures, portraits and other art
works, tracing his progress In art and involv-
ing, as the writer says, a history of the man
and study of his temperament and his mill
tant personality.
Doubleday Page & Co. now have ready the
first volume of Esther Singieton's book THE
Furniture of Our Forefathers" which has been
appearing in parts. 1t has critical description
of the plates. of which there many by Rus
sell Sturgis.
John Urf Lloyd has written another tale of the.
people of Northern Kentucky with whom he
showed his familiarity in his "Stringtown on the
Pike" last year, called Warwick of the Knobs
1t is concerned with life during the Civil War.
when the people of the Kentucky Knobs" were
on the border line between the contending
factions, and the people divided in their
allegiance. Warwick of the Knobs" was a
'hardshe" Baptist preacher, who figured in
dramatic scenes and pathetic Incidents remain
ing true to his faith. Dodd, Mead d. Co have
the book in press
Booth Tarkington's romance Monsieur Beau
care" has been dramatized, and the stage YER
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ard Mansfield in Philadelphia next week Mr.
Mansfield Will play 1t in several Eastern cities
and bring il to New-York in December
The Appletons publish this week Cyrus Town
send Bradys tale the first long story
he has written for number Of years entitled
The Quiberon Touch" 1t is the first time that
the great English naval commander Lord
Hawke-whom Captain Mahan has counted
among the six great sea fighters of the world
has appeared In fiction. 1t was he who de-
stroyed the French naval power off Quiberon In
Brittany, at about the time when Wolfe was
destroying the French power on land In America
The October novel in the Harpers' monthly
series of American works that they have been
publishing this year is Let Not Man Put
Asunder. by Basil King. 1t is a story Of d.
vorce, remarriage. and the final reunion Of the
original couple, together with the troubles OF
various other married people. There is said to
be lesson In all this. which while unobtrusively
conveyed, is a sound one
The Century Company reports that the adj
vance orders for DR.. Weir Nitchels new novel,
circumstance" Just twice large a