New-York tribune., 1901-08-11

mood And you may take word for it that
ali his other novels are of precisely tne same
kind-nOt better not worse ana hs'.ner .n .@ DsH
nor good. In a garden. or ON the GecA
of a ship. or the terrace of casino-wner-
ever you be Iollins. hale and hearty away from
your usual environment-these. Il assure you.
are the very books you need, and are the only
books you need
Mr.. Neil Munro. whose Doom Castle" We re-
view to-day. will have another novel
printed, THE Shoes of Fortune
The short stories all dealing with the ad-
ventures of one handsome young man, which
Mr. H. B. Marriott Watson contributed 10 Inc
Pail Mall Magazine" a year or 50 ago. are pres
emily TO be published in book form The title OF
the collection will be THE Skirts OF Happy
Chance"
Max MuIers library has been bought by
| Baron Iwasaki and presented TO che University
of Toxic. which is building new hall for the
reception of the books. TO be called the Max
Muller Library There are nearly 10000 vol
umes in the collection Eighty-One Sanscrit
MSS. also included in it. The Japanese
wanted the books so much that IL Saron
| Iwasak had not purchased them they would
have been acquired by the high priest OF great
Japanese monastery. In presenting the library
the baron says: II donate the whole 10 the uni
versity. with the hope that by the memory OF
Professor Max Muller may create interest
benefit all those engaged in researches In me
| same fields of learning" The only conditions
| imposed by the donor are as follows:
First-That the library be kept separately
under special care in order to commemorate the
name of the original owner.
| Second-That the library be open 70 any stu
dent engaged in studies similar 10 those or
| Professor Max Muller.
| Third-That the university Will carefully AVOID
| all danger of loss or injury.
| A great quantity of unpublished literary mat
ter was left by the late Robert Buchanan Much
| of it is unfinished, but there is long poem
which is complete, and several finished plays are
among the relics One of these. The Good Old
Times" will probably be presented in London
next spring. Buchanan had intended to write
his memoirs. but only disconnected jottings for
| the work exist.
! Sir Edwin Arnold has composed a epic
poem of about four thousand lines 1t cele-
brateS the CircumnayigatiOn of Africa by the
| PhpnicianS six hundred years before the Chris
| tian era, and is called THE Voyage of lthoDaE
| The hero is sea captain of Tyre. who takes
service with Neko. king of Egypt TO explore
| the unknown waters beyond the Red Sea- After
picturesque scenes at Tyre-where he buys in
| the slave market. with priceless pearl, an
\ Continent, and alone knowing it's secrets-he
builds three ships at Suez and sets forth All
this is mnutey described. together with full de-
tails of the voyage of fifteen thousand miles
round Africa Returning with two out of the
three ships. after numerous and exciting ad-
ventures, which bring out almost every feature
OF African life and scenery. IthObal relates the
story of his enterprise in a discourse OF seven
days before the throne of Pharaoh. who loads
| with honor the successful captain, the princess
| this wife) and his crews The metre is mainly
| that of The Light of Asia and The Light or
the World
Two books by the late DR.. Mandell Creighton
are to be published this fall One. consisting
of various charges and addresses. Will be en-
titled THE Church and the Nation" The other
is a memoir of Sir George Grey.
| ApropOS of the new edition of Byron. one vol
ume of which review to-day another page.
we may quote this record from The Harrow
School Register 1S01-190o." which has just been