The Washington times., 1901-08-11
The London Chronicle" says:

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The London Chronicle says:
On the Continent, especially in France the
name of Dmitri Merejkowski is well known. but
hitherto Of his novels has been translated
into English. Messrs. Constable. however, are
now about TO introduce him to the reading pub
lie in Great Britain with his romance, ''The
Death of the Gods" story which deals with the
career of the Roman Emperor Julian the Apos-
tate, who in the fourth century sought to
yive the worship of the Olympians after Chris
tianity had been adopted by Constantine the
Great as the official religion Of the Roman En-
pire. The work has been translated by Sir. Her
bert Trench, talented Oxford scholar who has
written as preface an appreciation of the
most interesting and powerful Of the younger
+ Russian novelists,
Dmitr Merejkowski made his first appearance
in literary life a translator OF Aeschylus and
Sophoeles Later the Gnostics. the Fathers of
the Eastern Church, the Greek sophists, were the
young poets objects of study. Thus was born
the romance OF The Death of the Gods" which
he has continued later in The Resurrection of
the Gods (oi which Leonardo da Vinci is the
hero), ard completed by "Anti-Christ," portray
ing the savage figure of Peter the Great. Mr.
! Trench points out that before writing the first
of these Nerejkowski Travelled through Asia
Minor and Greece, visited ConstaDtinople and
Syria, and gathered everywhere living impress
sions to serve his art and his thought"
Mcclure, Phillips & Co.. who last year
published Richard Mansfields acting YER
sion of King Henry "" and later E. H.
Sotherns of Hamlet intend to con-
tinue the series with Sir Henry Irving's
version of "Coriolanus," used in his
recent production of the tragedy in Lon
don.
Anthony Hopes new novel, "Tristram
of Blent." is on the eve of publication in
book form, but the exact date of its APP
pearance here is still withheld.
THE Whirligig." forthcoming from the
press of Longmans, Green & Co, is said
to be a modern romance of the .'Zenda'
type with an abundance of quick move
ment. 1t is by Mayne Lindsay.
Among the publications which are ex-
pected to reach us from the other side
of the Atlantic about Christmas time will
be an edition de luxe of the works of
Charles Kingsley. A good edition of his
novels. the Eversley edition. was brought
out some years ago; but the idea of print
ing Kingsley in specially sumptuous form
Is new one
The Critic" says:
While in Poland recently Mr.. jeremiah Curtin
visited Sicnkiewicz at his summer home in the
Carpathan Mountains There he found the novel
list hard at work upon new novel. not the sequel
to ''Ouo Nadis'' that were led to expect, for
he has put that out of his mind. being in
terested in another subject. The new story deals
with Jan SOblcSkl, the famous follsn patriot,
who PLAYS a small part IN the hrst chapters OF
Pan Michael" This story viii not be as long
Us ''Quo Vadis;'' indeed for Senkiewicz it viii
he comparatively short, running TO about one
hundred thousand words. II viii be finished IN
the winter when the author will begin what he
considers the great work Of his life: series OF
novels dealing with the life of Napoleon Each
book will be complete story in itself but the
same characters will through the entire
ries, Napoleon being the hero of each volume.
Senkiewicz has been collecting material for this
series for many years. Some OF the most vall-
able of it he received from relative VINO fought
under Napoleon in Of his most famous bat
ties. With the pen of sienkiewicz writing OF a
career as romantic as that of Napoleon. we may
expect a series of novels such as 1t Will be hard
to equal.
The Lothrop Publishing Company, of
Boston, has Just published new novel
by Mrs. Burton Harrison, the romance of
an American man and an Italian woman.
The scene is laid in the Dolomites. 1t IS
called "A Princess of the Hills.
The first English edition of Mr.. Kip
ling's kim will run to fifty thousand
copies The first American edition Will
be between fifty thousand and one hun
red thousand copies. That word be
tween may mean anything when the
time comes, hfty-one thousand or ninety
nine thousand but there is every proba-
bility that the circulation of the book will
be far wider mere thdn IN EESianu Inc
personal popularity of Kipling in his own
country remains undiminished, yet for
some occult reason he appears to be read
there less widely than in the United
States His transatlantic admirers will
have an opportunity TO show the faith that
is in them in very substantial manner
when the portfolio of Mr.. Strangs etch
ings illustrating scenes from his writ
ings, is published next winter. 1t will
cost something over S25 copy.
r. II, Russell is publishing this week a
portfolio OF pictures by F. It. Richards
entitled THE Royal Game of Golf" 1t
contains seven spiritedly drawn hand col
ored prints of single figures in old-time
costumes engaged in playing the game.
The costumes. for which Mr.. Richards is
said to have made careful historical stu
dy. are those of the reigns of Mary Stu
art Charles /, James IL, Queen Anne,
George III. and the early Victorian pc
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