New-York tribune., 1901-06-15
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
CURRENT TALK OF THINGS PRESENT
AND TO COME.

"SwallOwfield and Its Owners that Long
| mans, Green & Co announced for publication
months ago. is now ready. and is likely to prove
full of interesting details and "reminiscences that
| Lady Russell has gathered. She has for years
busted herself with collecting everything that
relates to this ancient manor. which is in Berk-
shire, England, Reading. and is mentioned
in Domesday Book. 1t has had many noted Wis
| itors during almost the whole period of English
history. Sir George Russell. one of the own
ers." who came a visit to the United States
in 1855 met many of the American literary men
of the time
The truth about the Borgias lies between the
two extremes in which they have been painted.
l believe in frankly and openly studying that
swift. vivid. violent age writes the energetic
author of CHRONICLES of the House of Borga,'
which F. p Dutton & Co. will bring out. He is
Frederick Baron COrvo. and it would seem that
he has presented the facts about the famous
Italian family in a somewhat light. He
does not write" he observes. with the simple
object of whitewashing the house of Borgia, bis
present opinion being that all too vile
for words TO tell"
The first of the volumes 10 be published for
the University Of Pennsylvania by Longmans.
Green & Co. who have undertaken the issue of
It's historical SERIES VIII he SelectOnS FROM the
Writings of zwingn" edited by Samuel Macau-
ley Jackson. professor of church history in New
York University. 1t is said to be the first ap-
pearance in English of any of the works of the
Swiss refOrmer.
a new life of Nathan Hale Of whom no salts
factory biography is now accessible Is an
nounced from the pen Of Professor H P. John
ston. OF this city In it promised fuller ac-
counts of Hale's career than have yet appeared
based on recent researches. and copies of all his
letters that be found and Of those of his
correspondents. There will be some rich illus
trative material employed
J. o. Brant-Sero is a descendant of Joseph
Brant the captain of the Six Nations during the
border OF the Revolution now living in
Canada, though present he is in England lect-
uring on Indian music, songs and dances He
recently wrote 10 Mr.. F. ". Hasey author Of
The Old NewYork Frontier" thanking him for
sending TO the Mohawks on the Grand River Re
serve copy of his book. which has much 10
say. Of course. about the Mohawks and Joseph
Brant He says in connection herewith:
have advocated for some time the necessity
of bringing into existence library which shall
contribute its uses TO the Indians as theorists
and practical minded farmers There Is nothing
more calculated to encourage the rising genera
a
tration In supplying those who care 70 read for
the love OF II with such literature which cannot
fall to interest the old people.
The Bolivian Andes" is the record OF what
that master mountain climber Sir William Mar
tin Conway accomplished I'm the great South
American range The Harpers are publishing
1t this month He took many photographs on
his journey, and they have been literally drawn
upon for reproduction in the book Sir William
is more than mountain climber. as is shown
by his election the other day 10 the professor
ship OF fine art in Cambridge University. to
succeed Professor Charles waldstein.
Pancoasts Introduction TO English I.tera-
ture." published by Henry Holt & Co. has been
favoraby received in England Professor Ed
ward Dawden has written to the publishers in
commendation Of several OF its features
During the blindness which has recently come
upon him. Sir Edwin Arnold has dictated an
pic poem Of about four thousand lines it's sub
ject being the crcumna vigation of Africa by
the PhRnicians six hundred years before Christ
1t is entitled THE Voyage of IthobaI." and the
6. w. Dillingham; Company announces it's pub
lcation early in the fall. Ithobal IT is said is
"A sea captain of Tyre, who takes service with
Neku. King of Egypt. to explore the unknown
waters beyond the Red Sea.
Three days after its publication Mr. Sydney
Herman Preston's amusing story The Aban
doned Farmer went into It's second American
edition. The Scribners report that the specioI
Canadian edition was sold before publication.
there have been three editions called for al
ready.
The first edition of Miss Anna Fuller's new
book. Katherine Day." though the Putnams
have not yet published 1t. has already been ex-
hausted by advance orders. and a second edition
put to press
Mrs. Henrietta Dana Skinner who wrote "Es-
piritu Santo" has a new novel ready that Har-
per e. Bros. about to publish. entitled Heart
and Soul" Mrs Skinner is the daughter of the
late Richard II. Dana. jr., author of Two Years
Before the Mast" She lives in Detroit where
some of the scenes of her new novel are laid
Mr. John Lane is about to remove his New
York office from its present location at Fifth
ave and Twenty -eighth-st to No. 81 Fifth-ave
now occupied by the firm of Truslove Hanson
& Comba, whose business mainly in French
italian and Spanish books. he will absorb He
will also henceforth be agent for the publica-
tions of the Theosophical Society.
Several Of the novels of Annie Swan & writer
whose work has received attention in England
have been taken ior publication in this country
by T. L. Dutton & Co: these include a new
st ory AN American Woman" and the one that
appeared just previous TO 1t. "A Stormy Voy-
ager; also a work of smaller compass called
"Homespun.'
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