New-York tribune., 1901-08-18

A translation is soon 10 appear, under the title
Of The Romance OF a Harem." OF Nine. Eilon
Flury's Dams LOmhre dU Harem, Partisan
sensation Of year ago The writer's father was
physician 10 Sultan Abdul Aziz. She lived in
tonstanttnople and was fortunate enough to
have opportunities 10 make some close obserya-
uons Of harem Hf-.
The Austrians know what they like or dislike
In literature. SIX thousand copies of a recent
French novel We're seized the other day in the
ho"kshors Il Vienna and burned 10y the police.
NJ Graham RaIfour's biography OF Robert
Louis Stevenson is 10 appear. In two volumes. in
Tho coming season About the same time Mr.,
Howard " Bel will bring out a COLLECTION Of
letters by Stevenson hitherto unpublished.
1, always annoyed the late Sir Walter Besant
10 hear IL stated anywhere. of his relation 20 the
Society II Authors. that he was the society"
Nevertheless hc was the most useful man in it,
he was. Mr. Meredith has put il. the very
beating heart Of = society and The Author"
the organ Of the society, certainly full from
the beginning. of MS vitality How important he
that the July number. largely devoted 70 his
eulogy, contains the announcement that no ~'Irp-
Much has To be done in order 10 get the work
accomplished that ordinarily Sir Walter did for
th~ journal II Will resume publication with
special number IN October
Mr. Thomas Hardy is preparing FOR the press
new volume az Poems L. include his various
lines inspired 10y the war in South Africa
\ sentence, peuned by the lat DR. Martineau
ha, furnished a title for the forthcoming collec-
tion of stories by Eden PhillP"tts. The Strik-
nome try of our spirits that there shall be thou
sands or silent moments between the striking
huJ RS
Mrs Olive Sehreror is in a region governed
AT present by martial lew. and OUida and others
are making protests In the London papers
D.. . %
Mr. T. l.. S,hreIn,r. her brother. says that what
LotdShips She has endured are only those which
have been borne ty al! persons under that same
martial law
Tho publishers of the admirable Temple
Classics and Temple ShIkespeare' announce
au edition of IN, EIa!e uniform with the Shakes
I"ar"- II Will appear IN tWenty-four volumes,
thr old Testament filling seventeen Of these and
the New Testament filling seven. The t-Xt
"NiU iu the main be presented in all the grand
simplicity Of that sterling English prose which
Hr have in TIN Authorized Version" printed
consecutive ely and not divided UP into vt-ses. \
corps Of eminent scholars viii edit the vol
umrs. which will be Illustrated with photo
gri,vure frontispieces reproducing famous de-
signs 10y tho Old masters. The BishsP of RisOn
Will contribute an Introduction to the study Of
Holy Scripture" to se printed in a separate
volume. one book froIl the Apocrypha will be
included as experimental" and possibly the
other books may ultimately be given alse
Mi Fraser Rae has prepared for publication
new edition of Sheridans plays, in which the
text viii represent Tor the first time what Sheri-
dan actually wrote. \ fragment of his mothers
unactrd comedy, A Journey to Bath" will be
included as we'll a short introduction by the
Marquis Of Dufferin and Ava containing per-
sonaI impressions of his great -srandfather's
plays
An American description ,f Alfred Austin
Poet Laureate If England arouses the wrath
of The London Academy. We. over here.
II says. know that such a fuuctionary rOet
laureate OF England does not exist. In this
country the poet laureate Is a salirled member
of the royal houS, hold that. and nothing more
or less Ills nan and tTnGlumeHtS figure in the
official lists Of that household. The appointment
is a court appointment; II has national bear
ing or significance whatever 1t so happens
that the post was filled in succession by three
notable mrn-tWo Of them men OF genius
Southey. Wordsworth and Tennyson, and that
fact has given the office altogether fac
titious interest and Importance. England makes
her own poets laureate. they are not appointed
by government