New-York tribune., 1901-09-22


forthcoming novel is described a realistic
romance of the middle of the nineteenth GER
tury, the scene being laid in rural hampshire.
in London. and in Naples
The house in Gerrard-st Soho, wherein John
Dryden spent the last fourteen years of his
life is threatened with destruction 1t has been
suggested that the ancient building should
be restored and made into "a Dryden Museum
but it is not likely that modern Englshmen
feel enough interest in Glorious FOhn 10 do
this.
Miss Katharine Prescott WormeIey. whose
translate from the French of uncommon
value has been engaged in admirable un-
dertakinS. She has translated and arranged
second series of famous French memoirs
memoirs which appeal both to the lover of his
tory and the student of human nature The
list includes Nine. de Motteville's memoirs
Anne of Austria and her Court, in three vol
urnes; the journal and memoirs of the Marquis
d \ rgensOn. in two volumes; the Memoirs and
Letters OF Cardinal de Bernie in two volumes:
the Letters of MademOiselie de Lespinasse, IN
one volume: the Lette.s and Papers OF Count
Jean-Axel Fersen, in volume; and the
Memoir and Letters OF Madame Eiisab the
murdered sister of Louis XVI. in one volume
The complete OF ten volumes will be sold
only by subscription The edition is limited to
800 numbered sets, uniform with the eight vol
umes of similar memoirs previously puhilsneu
under the same general title of the NerSalIleS
Historical Series. They are to be splendldly
Illustrated by photographers after old portraits
NJ Edmond Rostand has written poem OF
welcome to the Gar and Czarina. to be recited
to them by distinguished actress on their ar
rival IN France.
"EIizabeth's'' novel The Benefactress' bids
fair to be almost as popular as the chronicle
of her beloved Garden 1t describes the
periences of pretty, we'll born English girl
whose life is made a burden to her at home by
the rich, vulgar siSter-in-law on whom she is
dependent. Being left house and estate in
North Germany, our heroine has the impulse to
assist those who. like herself. had been afflicted
with uncongenial surroundings
Hazlitt's NAPOLEON is. after all. to be in
cluded by the relenting publisher. Dent. in the
collected edition of the critics works now in
preparation 1t is difficult TO see how II could
be complete edition without this volume.
In a paper on Meredith and Hardy. published
in The international Monthly. Mr. Gosse
gives u bit of information worth remember
ing:
| "On the best authority 1 informed that
| the first novel which Mr. Hardy wrote has
never been published and Will never see the
light The name OF it was The Poor Man and
the Lady. and it full of the revolutionary
and anti-SOCial eXtraVaSances which are native
to the unripeness of youth of genius IL
happened by a strange and interesting com
cidence that the reader for the publisher 70
whom this manuscript was submitted happened
| to be less n person than Mr. Meredith He
saw the rough power in the book. and he zee
0mmeRded il for publication But he also sent
/ for the young man and with great courtesy
and friendliness urged him To consider whether
it would be wise to adopt on his first
introduction TO the public. sentler guide The
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suppress The Poor Man and the Lady and
| retired to write Desperate Remedies. This
/ duly passed Mr.. MeIedth's cenSure but il
! seems that his advice this occasion also
| was to tighten and brighten tone which still
| leaned too much 10 the Saturnine- IS il to con-
! lecture boldly To see the hand of the
I author of Harry Richmond in the aStOniSh-
| ing change of temper dIStlnSuIShdDIe when
We pass To Mr.. HaTdyS second published novel,
! Under the Greenwood Tree OSt22 This is
! and always will be. on its own account, one OF
| the most beloved OF its authors books II is
known To have had two great poets. TennySOn
and browning. among its earliest and most
/ delighted readers. To this hour. il is not
| usual to hear people Of intelligence say that
| they wish the author had been content to con-
! tinue the cultivation of this mood
! The first volumes of the new edition of
Richardson's novels. now in course OF prepara-
ton by Croscup X Sterling, To be issued
| this month The illustrations include num-
ber of attractive portraits and reproductions
of some of the quaint drawings made for early
| editions. Professor W. l.. Phelps. of Yale. is
the editor of the edition, and has added to it
| a memoir. several introduCtiOnS and a bibli-
| Osraphy-
The new English edition of Richardson
man * HalI's-is to be sold in this country by
the Iippincotts. 1t is 10 be issued in twenty
volumes. with seventy eight Illustrations.
| A current biography of Miss Corelh refers
gravely to her whose dislike of Self-ad-
yertisement is not generally understood Who
| can realize an unknown quantity