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London, April Among the biographies
m he published in the autumn MI Morleys
Life of Gladstone will hold the first place
About one-third of the manuscript is III
hand and the proofs have oeeh reVlseu
and portions of the remainder are hhlsheu'
Mrs. Morley is working with great oehp-
Grafton goaded on by acute literary con-
science and the final chapters may not De mn
ished in time for the Christmas trade VI
ography which will interest musicians Is - H'
C,raves's Life of Sir George Grove, the most
scientific of recent English writers on beethoven
Mr.. Graves is one of Richard Hutton's trained
writer's for The Spectator" and has sympa-
thetic touch This will be published in the
autumn by Macmillan. with biography OF MISS
Charlotte Yonge by Christabel Colerldge VINO
shared her literary tastes and co-opera'eo with
her in at least one work.
The American Winston Churchill Is eHpec'eu
in England early in May and VIII propapiS iooN
on the coronation and make the ROUNDS Oh 'ou
ist travel Marion Crawford Will also DE mere
since his play based on The Chioreh oi '"e
King" may be produced in London as wen Do
..,rrancesca da Rimini" in Nine. Bernhardts
enea cement Mr.. Crawfords new story Ce-
ella the Last vestal." has received its finishing
touches in Paris Nothing is expected IN the
autumn from Rudyard Kipiing except the COZ
lection of tales entitled Just So Stores
Mr. Millais a son of the famous painter mas
written for Longmans a volume of close opser-
walton on the habits and changes of plumage
of surface feeding ducks. whica Will be erect
lively illustrated. Mrs. Evelyn Cecil. not content
with writing charming history of gardening
is seeking to foster among children a love for
this old fashioned art "Childrens Gardens
which Macmillan will publish speedily, is book
for beginners of all ages. A new book on Ola
London will follow II. ". Tompkins Hert-
fordshire" in the delightful Highways and By
ways" series. 1t will be written by Mrs Z. l.
Cook on lines admirably adapted for the require
ments of sentimental and practical American
travellers A book of different character will be
Might Side of London by Robert Machray.
from MacQueens presses. Wilkinson Sherren mas
Manned for haprnan book Wessex which
will illustrate Thomas Hardy's novels. George
Gssing is cutting down Forsters Life of Dick
ems for some house which will issue a popular
edition next autumn.
The great war in defence of the empire has
not had the stimulative effect upon english lit
erature which the American Civil War exer-
cised. The autumn lists of the publishers do
not contain evidence that intellectual inn
pulse has been received during the period of
storm and stress. Not even Mr.. Kipling has
been inspired. There are humdrum undertake
ings involving literary drudgery superficial
study but there is enterprise of the first rank
except Mr.. Morey's Life of Gladstone No pro-
vision has yet been made for literary celebrities
at the coronation. There was a gallery at the
Jubilee service in the Abbey. where many of
them looked on With artists and actors, art
and literature will probably he crowded out
next June. l. n. r