New-York tribune., 1901-08-17

novelist,
Burr to take the centre of the stage. lie Is
corsnicuous \nsure in "A Dream of Empire. a
novel nv William Henry Venable. which Dodd'
Mead & Co published the other day. He plays
an important part in ."Bennerhassett; no
nance" by Charles F. Pidgin, which is an
nounced for early publication by the C. M clark
Publishing Company, Of Boston News comes
also from the Century Company to the erect
that one of the novels in its autumn list is
Mistress JOY" in which the authors Grace
MacGowan Cooke and Annie Booth Mckinney
introduce Burr. obviously there is be Burr
boom"
When Mr.. S. P. Avery about year ago pre-
sented to the New-York Public Library his col
lection Of etchings, Autographs photographs anu
| large volumes illustrated by the same arts. he |
placed all art students and lovers Of art in this
country under heavy debt In the first place. |
he laid the foundation for print department |
in the Public Library which ought in time to |
take rank with the greatest similar departments |
in European libraries and museums. Secondly |
his gift is itself of such high value that with
out any of the additions which it is bound to at
tract from other it constitutes collec-
tion of prime Importance. OF its general char |
acter our readers have long since been informed |
but we are led to speak of it again by pri- |
vately printed Handbook of the S. p Avery !
Collection of Prints and Art Books in the New
York Public Library" which has just come
| into our hands. It is an interesting little me-
| mortal volume, embracing a list of the artists
| represented, with some predatory matter re-
| lating to the prints and to the donors expert
ences in bringing them together. He has made
the assembling of his treasures labor of love
for thirty years. This means that among
the 17,775 etchings and Autographs there are ex-
| amples of the highest quality, examples pur-
| sued with the tireless enthusiasm of a
nOisseur who is willing to watch and wait for
| years in order to procure the best possible inn
preston of a plate. Turner's ''Liber Studiorum,"
| as represented in the Avery collection, is singled
out for special comment in the book before us,
but the fact is that at many points this body of
work is singuarly representative and fine. 1t
was a good idea to embody a record of Mr..
Avery's splendid gift in well arranged and
well printed book. 1t only remains for the
curator of the Print Room to prepare a full
| catalogue.
Mr. George w Cables new novel, "The
| Cavalier" is to be published in book form by
| the Scribners without previous serial pubca-
| tion. 1t is tale of the Civil War, the scene
| being laid in Mississippi The hero is Ned
| Ferry Confederate scout. and the heroine is
| Charlotte Oliver Confederate newspaper corre-
| spondent Mr.. Howard Chandler Christy is to
provide the Illustrations for the novel, which is
to appear in a short time.
The most attractive item in the current bull
letin of the Macmillan Company is a prize essay
| by an English scholar This is a study Of
Macaulay by D. H. Macgregor, Scholar of
| Trinity College, Cambridge.
D. Appleton & Co. will publish at once in book
form the novel by Mr.. Hall Caine 1.-The Eternal
| City" which there has been so much
pother since the English publishers who pur-
chased the serial rights declined to go on with
| it in the columns of their magazine
new edition of Lord ChesterfeId's Letters
to His Son" is to appear in two volumes in the
Library of Standard Literature" published by
G. P Putnam's Sons. Charles Strachey and
Miss Annette Calthrop are the editors They
give the complete text. with ample annotations
Mrs. Van Rensselaer's recent articles in the
North American Review" relating to the his
tory of New-York foreshadow an elaborate vol
ume on the subject by the same author 1t has
been in preparation for some time and when
completed will be published by the Macmillan
Company.
The latest enterprise having for it's object the
dissemination of Photographic reproductions of
works OF art is that undertaken by the Cosmos
PICTURES Company, of this city. We have re-
celved some specimens in various sizes OF the
cosmos Pictures" the group including repro-
auctions OF paintings by Raphael, Botticeui
MlLet. Dagnan-Bouveret and several other i'm,
] rortant men, ancient and modern The nIates
are printed in a rather cold but nevertheless
agreeable tone and are, in fact uncommonIv
well executed Published at low prices and
= ranging over wide field of subjects thev opeb+
E to be popular, and we give them a cordial vel
come.
DR.. William Masons Memories of a Musical
Life" of which the greater part was printed
serially in 1.-THE Century Magazine" will an
pear in book form this fall. Manv additions
have been made to the text rounding ont tho
life story OF the author
An interesting souvenir of the services held
in the parish of Trinity Church on February
1901, in memory of Queen Victoria has been
prepared in the shape of pamphlet, published
as ordered by the church wardens and vestrv-
men, by Edwin s. Gorham at the Trinity Mis-
sions House, in Fourth-ave. It is entitled Ser
vices in Memory of Queen Victoria" and con-
tains a brief narrative of the services, with
list of the persons invited to attend The ser
mon preached by DR.. Morgan Dix on the pre-
ceding Sunday is also reproduced.
The forthcoming volumes in the Stories Of
the Nations" series and the Heroes of the Ma
tons" series will supplement one another in
exceptionally happy fashion That in the first
series will be on Wales" while the other will