New-York tribune., 1901-07-27
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
CURRENT TALK OF THINGS PRESENT
AND TO COME.

of remarkably high quaty-is not now consid-
cred sufficient The picture in colors is freely
used and not only color in the design, but tinted
per has come into favor with the publishers.
With a gorgeous and the best possible
Typography the periodical Of the day is an amaz-
ingly luxurious thing. 1t is a curious COM
nlentary on these developments in our periooicai
literature however, that while art Is "elcoiheo
IN tine popular magazines an American serial
publication devoted exclusively to the arts ana
writt.n printed and illustrated on the highest
plane. has not yet got itself produced.
The. proceedings resulting In the exoneratlon
of Mr. H Phelps whitmarsh of the charges made
against his administration Of his office as Ci'N
Governor IN the province Of Benguet, Luzoh'
have served incidentally to redirect attention to
his work as writer. THE Worlds Housh
Hand" which the Century Company puoished
in 1899 is a good book of adventure, and IL mas
the added interest of being autobiographical
The author is the of an English clergyman
He went to sea at early age, and passed
through divers picturesque experiences on ship
hoard and on land He has been jack -of-all-
trades in Australia and a pearl diver in the
Indian Ocean Later he became journalist. and
n was as a correspondent that he went to the
Philippines.
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 edi-
ton Of his novels the Eversey edition. was
brought out some years ago; but the idea or
printing Kingsley in specially sumptuous form is
a new,one
THE Teller" is the name Of a new periodical
to be published monthly and in a form so small
fS
a kind OF condensed railway guide, the informa-
ton in It relating simply to New-York and the
suburbs. The booklet is certainly conven-
,ence and since it is adequately printed it ought
TO prove successful.
The Iothrop Publishing Company of Boston,
has lust published n new novel by Mrs Burton
Harrison the romance Of an American man ana
an Italian woman. The scene is laid IN the
Dolomites 1t is called "A Princess Of the Hills.
and the publishers declare that it is really Mrs.
Harrison's first serious attempt at fiction"
statement rather disconcerting IN view Of the
fact that the author OF THE Anglomaniacs."
"Frlower-de- Hundred" "A Merry Maid of Ar
cady" and a considerable number of other books.
has been credited by her critics and by an ap-
preciative public with having gone with all due
seriousness about the composition OF them.
CYRUS Townsend Brady is at work upon what
is announced as a kind Of historical trilogy. Tho
first volume has already been published. 1t is
the spirited collection Of episodes in the earlier
wars OF the United States. called American
Fights and Fighters" The second In the series.
to be published by Mcclure. Phillips & Co. in
the fall will be called Colonial Fights and
Fighters" and will tell of Frontenac. the capture
| of Iouisburg Morgan and other pirates. De Soto.
| Ticonderoga. and other exciting themes. The
third volume will be on Pioneer Fights and
| Fighters"
The series Of magnificent monographs in which
| the Scribners have published Sir Walter Arm
| strong's Reynolds" and "Gainsborough" is TO
| be continued. with volume on Sir Henry Rae
| burn which will be brought out In this country.
| however by Dodd Mead & Co. These memorials
| OF the great English painters are uncommonly
valuable and 1t is to be hoped that the publica-
| ton OF them will be carried until Romney.
Hoppner and Lawrence have been commemorat-
| ed. Hogarth, too would make good subject-in
fact a book OF the sort dealing with his remark
| able art would be boon But It would be we'll
| II the scope OF the series extended TO
include some Of the great Continental painters.
Titan especially would provide fascinating
! terial for a volume.
| In these columns. in which the author OF THE
| Harp of Life" a musical novel, demonstrated
| that she had no intention Of representing Mr..
| Dan Godfrey, or any other living person. in
| of her characters. a NewYork publisher
| marked on the difference between English and
American ideas this subject. our cousins
across the water are much more rigid than we
are In the Interpretation of an authors privileges
| in the sphere of what may be called personal
| portrature in fiction" The only case this COM
| mentator could recall from recent years was the
| noted protest made by Mr. Whistler against Du
| Maurier's reference him in "Trilby." This
! appeared only in part of the issue Of "Harpers
! Magazine" and was omitted from the book on
| account Of the artists emphatic objection.
| though the allusion to him good humored
| and not calculated. as far as the general public
| could discern. to injure the famous painter in
| any way. Some fifteen years Mrs. Greene's
| book Cape Cod Folks created great indigna-
| tion on the Cape" by the accuracy of some of
! the portraits Of actual people IT contained; but
| nothing than indignation was expended
| on the volume
| "Harper's Magazine" for September will con-
| tain contribution from Mr. Frederic Harrison
| of exceptional significance He will give in
| some "Reminiscences OF George Eliot" his i'm
| pressions of the novests personality and, IT
| is said will settle and for all the question
| Of her attitude toward the Positivist movement
The article is to be illustrated with fac-similes
| OF letters never before published
| The first English edition OF Mr. Kipling's
! Kim" will run to fifty thousand comics Tho