New-York tribune., 1902-07-05
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
CURRENT TALK OF THINGS SRESENT
AND TO COME.

Mark Twain has gone to his summer place
near York Harbor, Me, where he is at work on
a novel,
The remarka BILE industry Of Mr. f. W. Hor-
nung is to bear much fruit in the autumn. Be
sides the novel announced by the F. A. Stokes
Company, the Scrbners will publish a long
novel and novelette, from his pen The mover
will appear first. being entitled The Shadow oI
the Rope" 1t has been running as serial story
in "Munsey's Magazine" The title refers to the
accusation brought against the heroine of the
murder of her husband, for which, in the open
ing scene Of the book, she is undergoing trial in
an English courtroom.
"Harper's Weekly" appears for the first time
this week in a form The journal is now
somewhat smaller in size. and is divided into
two parts an illustrated section, containing
pictures in the excellent reproductions that have
long been familiar to the readers Of The Week
ly," including a double page coored drawing
and an editorial section, with six pages of edi-
torial aragraphs and two of longer discussions,
followed by special articles. an "Allegory," by
Mark Twain, and a story, THE Fourth of July
Boy" by w. D. Howels. In the illustrated
section. besides the pictures, is a poem on san
tago," by Thomas A. Janvier. an account of
Mark Twain's unveiling of the tablet in Chicago
to Eugene Field. page of dramatic news
more dDOut CnlfnIne fdOueH, anu the liiSN III
stalment of new story by Anthony Hope,
THE Intrusions of Peggy" We miss the full
page Illustration on the first page. and the paper
is now inclosed in a cover. printed in red and
black, with the title. large picture of the Bar
tholdi Statue OF Liberty, a list of contributors
and partial tabIe'of contents. The Weekly
will be even more welcome in the new form
than 1t has been for so many years in its old.
H, T,I1r hon he firm If
Appleton & Co. Will leave the corner of Fifth
ave and Thrteenth-st, to settle in their new
quarters at Fifth-ave. and Thirty -ninth-st..
thus reaching the furthest north Of any New
York house in the publishing trade Their
nearest neighbors will be Dodd Mead & Co,
who are at the corner of Fifth-ave. and Thirty
ffth-st. 1t has been a matter Of seventy seven
years, this progress uptown from the location
in Exchange Place where Daniel Appleton first
began business. Their home is in a new
building just completed; it stands diagonally
across the way from the Union League Club,
and one block below the dismantled reservoir
in Bryant Park above which are rising the
walls of the new public library,
Daniel Appleton published his first book In
1881. 1t is entitled Crumbs from the Masters
Table; or, Select Sentences, Doctrinal, Practl-
cal and Experimental" Very few copies of the
not more than six; how many copies were dis
posed of is not now known. but at least two
editions were printed in the first year, and it
was considered sufficiently important to be
stereotyped. Mr.. Derby, in his Fifty Years
among Authors, Books. and Publishers re-
lates how many years ago. when copy OF this
book was wanted by the firm, paragraph was
published as an advertisement stating that they
would give in exchange the largest book pub
lished by the house. An old lady in Maryland
saw the advertisement. and received for it
volume twenty times the size of Crumbs
It must have been n picturesque sight when
Mark Twain, on his recent visit to the West
took up again the task OF a Mississippi River
pilot that was his business. as he has de-
scribed II IN his Life the Mississippi" He
took charge Of the wheel on a steamer carrying
the Rochambeau party. The deck and pilot
house crowded with guests, says "Har-
per's Weekly" who cheered the erstwhie pilot
standing at the wheel with his gray locks blown
about by the breeze; and the origin of his pen
name came back to the listeners they heard
the call Of the leadsman, and the answer from
the lips of the distinguished pilot-author at the
wheel. Mark Three" came from the deck,
and Mark T-h-r-e-e' echoed from the pilot
house; Half Twain" from below, and
again Half TWAIN from above;
"Q-u-a-r-t-e-r Twain" from the leadsman
heard IN moment. and the answer
"Q-u-a-r-t-e-r T-w-a-i-n' followed And then
amid cheers from the spectators followed
Mark Twain by the deckhand, with the
answer from the impassve man at the wheel
Mark Twain"
Sir Gilbert Parkers new novel that the APP
pletons will publish will be called Little Dicky
Donovan" and is the story of one Of the ad-
venturous characters who have advanced the
boundaries of the British Empire Its scene is
laid in Egypt Sir Gilbert now a member of
Parliament. Is said to be the only professional
novelist at present belonging to that body He
is a short well built man. with dark beard
and strikingly keen eyes. He works as a rule
for three hours day. but though he writes
with infinite care and is for the time absorbed
in his plot and his characters. he has the power
OF mentally detaching himself when the time for
work is finished. The consequence of course Is
that he returns to II with renewed freshness and
power He finds the country better than Lon
don for literary purposes mainly because there
are fewer political and social distractions Sir
Gilbert lives in Carlton House Terrace when in
London, and riding is his favorite amusement
The letters of Darwin that the Appletons will
publish In the autumn will make two sub
stantial volumes. They include the very con-
siderable of his correspondence that has
been brought to light since the publication of
his Life and Letters some years ago, and
chiefly addressed To scientific men. They
said to illustrate many phases of his char
acter, but most strikingly to bring out the un-
firing pains he took to obtain accurate informa-
ton small points bearing on his scientific
work. There will be a special interest to Amerf-
cans in the fact that a large number of these
letters to ha