New-York tribune., 1902-07-21
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
CURRENT TALK OF THINGS PRESENT
AND TO COME

new collection Of short stories by Thomas
Bailey Aldrich "A Sea Turn and Other Mat
ters," is to be published in October by Hough-
ton Mifflin & Co. Mr. Aldrich is spending the
GUNNER at his cottage at Tenants Harbor,
Maine.
one volume history of the temporal power
Of the Papacy has been written by the Rev.
DR. William Barry. who heretofore has been
writing novels among them THE New An
ugone" and THE wizards Knot" THE
Papal Monarchy as his first essay in historical
writing is called. covers the period from Greg
ory the Great 10 Boniface VII from the first
stride into world politics to the great schism
These seven hundred years display in DR.. Bar
rvs treatment single action, with the
Papacy as the propusive force, from the crys-
taIIization of Western Christian idealism in that
notable amalgam OF church and state, the Holy
Roman Empire to the conflict with advancing
national spirit resulting in final loss Of tenn
IoraI prestige.
Dr. Barry is an Irishman born in London.
For the last eighteen years he has lived in
Dorchester, in a typically English garden and
hedgerow home the Thames, near Oxford,
In sight OF an Augustinian abbey and the Chill
tern Hills. But. though fond of England and,
like all Irishmen devoted to Ireland-which he
describes as April and the wild west wind and
sheer and barren rocks, and in the south a semi
tropical vegetation"-he has been something OF
a traveller. He knew Rome thirty years ago.
and Paris before the burning Of the Tuileries.
and Italy, Athens and the Rhine were familiar
TO him. Even Chicago attracted him eight years
ago. After long years of study in Rome and
England he gave up his chair of theology In
1850 with the feeling that modern expression
os principles must be made in literature"
Since then he has written and published THE
New Antigone" in 1887, THE Two Standards"
n story of the money market, in 1889, and Ar
den Massiter' in 1900 the tale of the fall of an
old Papal house by contact with modern So
cialist ideas. 1.-The Papal Monarchy" will be
published shortly by the Putnams.
new reading handbook comes from the press
of Charles Scribner's Sons. 1t is edited by
Professor S H Clark, professor of public speak
ing in Chicago University. In the preface or
this Handbook of Best Readings" Professor
Clark makes some remarks upon the quality Of
reading aloud" which comparatively few books
possess in marked degree. The Excursion is
true literature" says the editor; &" 'Endymion'
is true literature, but they will not read aloud
wordsworth's Michael is also real literature;
but it will read aloud. The principle that has
led me 10 omit the first two and insert the other
has guided me throughout"
D. Appleton & Co. announce contribution to
the literature of golf by J. H. Taylor, English
open champion for 1894, 1895 and 1900 Taylor
on Golf" sounds almost as learned as Lyttleton
on Coke. The beauty OF the game is that the
complications consist in the and dexterity
of playing and not in the rules of government,
otherwise there would need TO be a vertable
court of chancery at every bunker. The book
is illustrated with fullpage haiftones showing
Mr.. Taylor in position and in action.
Toy1
September a book by L. Frank Baum, called
1.-THE Life and Adventures of Santa Claus" If
children to-day have the ideas they used to have
of the enormous scope and amount Of the work
which Santa Claus undertakes every year in be-
half of his many young friends, Mr.. Baum will
write the biography of a veritable captain of in
dustry.
Miss Josephine Dodge Daskam, whose latest
book is called THE Madness Of Philip" to-
gether with Miss Edith Wyatt and Miss Ida NJ
TarbeIl whose biographies of Lincoln and Ma
poleon are well known is in Switzerland on
tramping tour with s. s. Mcclure. George
Douglass Browne who, for writing, drops his
last name, after the manner of Anthony Hope
Hawkins will join the party later, as will also
Robert Barr Mr. Browne is an experienced
walker but Mr.. Barr is said to have some
doubts about himself in the character.
be open TO the inconvenience of being held per-
sonaIy responsible for observations, were
newspaper editors in the earlier days. Will
y. Harden given anxious time the other
day by the original of of his characters in
his novel, "Abner Daniel" which the Harpers
issued lately. The mountaineer and ex-moon-
sinner called the author in his Office, in Dali
ton, Ga. 1t plain that trouble was coming.
The man whom Mr.. Harden had used a model
for Pole Baker was famous for his affrays.
Folks say you've been poking fun at me in
q book" said the visitor with fire in his eye, and
something like a revolver bulging under his
coat II don't know whether il is not, but
Pm here to say If it IS n you'll hitch in short
sorder."
90 Mr. Harden thought rapidly. He had drawn
this man well he knew how. And yet he
took the bull by the horns after a moments
fection, in this fashion: Il know you are fair
man. and I will do what is right. Here is
copy of the book. Sir down and read it, and
then If you desire it will give you satisfaction"
ss- The mountaineer read the book through in Mr..
Harben's office. Finally he laid the book down
and said sheepishly: Il don't think kin kick.
Il was little afeared you made show the
white feather. But that feller they say is like
mes got a sight more grit than have. Huh,
Sled fight circular bare handed. No. 1
Don't think kin kick"
In the September issue of the Century Maga-
zine" Professor George F. Woodberry writes on
sthe poems Of William Watson, whose Corona
esion ODE is still fresh in memory. "It is the
style of Mr.. Watson in all his verse" says Pro-
fessor woodberry, which lifts it of com
parison with al! his contemporaries" which
might mean a number of things. In the same