New-York tribune., 1902-01-04
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
CURRENT TALK OF THINGS PRESENT
AND TO COME

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| Macmillan Company, Is now definitely in sight,
and three volumes OF it are promised for the
coming spring. Caspar Whitney is the editor.
and the volumes announced are Upland Game
| Birds" by EDWIN Sandys, with illustrations by
! L. A Fuertes, A B. Frost and ]. o. Nugent:
Salmon, Trout" by Dean Sage and A Nelson
| Cheney, illustrations by c. F. w. Mielatz S. F.
| Denton and others. and The Deer Family" by
Theodore Roosevelt. T S. Van Dyke and H. G.
! Stone, illustrations by Carl Rungius and others.
J For all the ten volumes on different depart
ments of sport. which will comprise the series,
| the editor has secured men of especial authority
| and knowledge
That there is a large enough interest in biblI-
| ography to warrant the publication of journal
| devoted to the interests Of book collectors most
| people concerned in this branch OF literary lore
| will agree At any rate, Messrs. Dodd. Mead
| & Co. think so and accordingly about to
| carry out what they describe "a long cher
| ished scheme by issuing such journal, under
| the title of THE photographer" with Mr.. Paul
| Leicester Ford editor They promise the
| following features: A free use of Photographic
fac SMILES of rare books, manuscripts etc; con-
| tributions by well known collectors students
| and experts epitome of the European bibli-
| ographical Journals; photographers of important
subjects and authors; fac simile reprints OF rare
| books; advance notes and reviews of important
| auction sales: a department of notes and
| queries; news from book clubs and photograph
| iCal societies in this country and in Europe; re-
views of important photographed works and
| catalogue of selections of rare books. There
will be numerous Illustrations. The publishers
present intention IS to issue the periodical only
| nine months in the year. emitting July, August
and September.
Several important additions to be made
| in the near future to the valuable English Men
of Letters Series published by the Macmllans.
A volume James Russell Lowell is being
written by Dr. Henry van Dyke; Augustine Bir-
reIl is preparing a monograph on Hazlitt for the
series; Leslie Stephen is writing on George
Eliot Owen Wister is writing Benjamin
Franklin; Emerson has been assigned to Pro-
| fessor George F. Woodberry and Edgar Allan
Poe to Professor w. P. Trent. The volume
Matthew Arnold will be prepared by Mr.. Her
bert w Paul.
c. J. Holmes is the author or a life OF
Constable which he believes will supplement
Leslies excellent biography the technical
side. 1t traces Constable's connection with his
predecessors by describing the development of
painting and by giving brief account OF the
evolution of modern landscape in England and
on the Continent. It is published this week by
Longmans Green & Co. new volume in the
Artists Library. 1t is illustrated chiefly with
photographs OF series of Constable sketches at
South Kensington.
Robert Ames Bennett. the author Of ''Thyra:
a Romance Of the Polar Pit" is now living
with his parents at Denver. Col. He studied law
at Washington. D. c., and was admitted to the
bar in Denver in 1892 His health failed. and
he forced 10 take up a residence IN Texas
He made many friends there. and was twice
elected to office in Port Arthur. Tex.
In Sicily" by Douglas Sladen is not "a
guide book to enable the traveller to dispense
with Baedeker; 1t is travel book TO make
him desire TO visit Sicily" The author says that
such visit is a wonderful thing. but that
IT can be done cheaply and with great pleasure.
There are two large volumes. elaborately illus
trated with photographs many OF which
taken by the author Mr.. Sladen Is known for
other travel volumes. including The Japs at
Home" and "On the Cars and on" In Sicily
is published in this country by E. p. Dutton
& Co.
Mr. Gable is not at all pleased with the sug-
gestion made by who reviewed THE
Cavalier that it written to catch the new
craze for exciting fiction In a letter to a friend
in this city he tells in detail the story Of the
writing Of the novel From this letter the fol-
lowing extract is taken:
The notion that l have written n story TO
catch the market" strikes me more drolly than
| suppose 1t possibly strike any one else
The fact is, the real beginning Of The Cavalier
dates almost ten years back. 1t then that
/ began to plan group of character stories. but
stories OF character portrayed through the
medium OF romantic and dramatic Incidents
They were to be short stories beginning with a
very brief one, and each succeeding one to be
longer than the one before.
/ finished the first full draft Of The Cavalier
in 1899 laid it by for many months revised It
in 1900, and ended the task at the end of that
year.
If I had published The Grandissimes" last
October instead of twenty-five years ago it
would have seemed as If 1 certainly had written
1t to catch the market" Oh. no; I'm too slow
a story teller to do that sort of thing success
fully try TO do il. From first 10 last
THE Cavalier" was In the egg about nine years
before 1 succeeded in Matching it. and 1 sitting
it Gather pitifuly) all that time.
The latest volume the Boer war to be inn
ported from England is With Remington" by
L. March Phillips. late captain in Remington's
Guides which Is published this week by Long
mans, Green & Co. The book consists Of a
series of letters written home from the front
when the author serving in South Africa.
1t is dedicated to Lieutenant Gustavus Cou-
son. OF the Kings Own Scottish Borderers. who
fell at Lamberchtfonten on May 10 last. while
trying to wounded man from the enemys
fire. 1t is a vivid soldiers story by man who
took part in many of the important engage
ments Of the war.
Actual experiences of a soldier of the New
Hampshire Grants, recorded by him in an
old diary, have been used by Chauncey c.
Hotchkiss in his new novel, The Strength of
the Weak" 1t is a romance of the woods. most