New-York tribune., 1902-05-24

-,el "a Welsh Witch" which the Appetons
IRISH this week portrays a phase of Welsh
,rs that is passing away-the peasant life.
| r,p scribners intend to make Richard Hard
- Ds1iss new volume Of short stories-though
90 Of them not so very short, being
..,ber short novels-a handsome book. 1t
III be entitled, from the first story in it,
apanson's Folly This tale OF army life in the
,-es,eru country will be illustrated by Frederic
psrnington. Following il will be I'm the Fog"
r,bich has already appeared a book by it
sss illustrated by Frederic Dorr Steele: The
Bsr Sinister" with pictures by f. NJ. Ashe;
aThe Derect" with pictures by Walter Apple
,on Clark and la Lettre dAnour, illustrated
nv Howard Chandler Christy. The cover de-
sisn is by Frederic Remington.
ur Adrian H Joline whose 'Ieditations of
an Autograph Collector" the Harpers have just
rutaished. is a member of a Newly ork law firm
equally celebrated for its legal skill and its lit
erary reputation. One OF the partners of the
6rnn is William Allen Butler who wrote Moth
ing 10 Wear" the celebrated poem which de-
.ails the doings of Miss Flora McFlimsey. of
Madison Square. This poem first appeared in
sFIarper's Weekly in 1857, and at once became
ropailar. The ''Meditatons'' is the first book
Afr Joline has made, though from his earliest
,sars he has had pronounced leaning toward
literature and marked capacity for making
literary finds in the way Of autograph letters,
ynanv Of which are reproduced in his book Mr..
Joline IS a Princeton man.
The limited edition of -Montagne's Essays"
which Houghton. Niifin & Co. will announce
shortly is intended 10 be the crowning achieve
rnent of the Riverside Press. The FIorio trans
istion is the one selected. and the work will
cornprise three folio volumes OF uncommon
geographical beauty Each volume will con-
tain a frontispiece portrait OF Montaigne. the
first one being after a contemporary en-
craving by De Leu. The frontispieces, deco
rative title pages and initial letters will all be
engraved wood, and in the photography, to
appear at the end of Volume III, there Will be
fac-simile reproductions of title pages and other
interesting material from famous old editions
The type to be known as the Montagne. has
not Vet appeared in any publication; it is large
and bold modelled upon a type cut by a ff-
teenth century French engraver. and is the
exclusive property of the Riverside Press. The
design Of this book. in whole and in detail, is
conceived in the spirit Of the golden age Of
French printing. which but little antedated Mon
taigne's own period The publishers say that
no pains and no expense are TO be spared the
editorial work the details OF type, paper,
binding illustrations and reproductions. The
volumes viii appear at brief intervals and il is
understood that the edition will be limited TO
q comparatively few copies. The whole edition
Of three hundred copies of the same publishers
handsome reprint Of Henry Fieldings Journal
Of Voyage 10 Lisbon has been subscribed for
IN advance of its publication. which was this
week The next volume in this series will be
Poems of Edward Sill" in five hundred copies
It will be published next month. It will be
large octave volume Of about three hundred
,.g+E, y-E,o off Of
Rafael sabatini IS entitled 10 call himself
somewhat Of a cosmopolitan He born in
Italy in 1879 spent his childhood in Portugal,
was educa ted in German Switzerland, and nine
years ago settled in England, his mothers ma
tive land. He has written novel called The
Suitors Of Yvonne." which the Putnams have
arranged 10 publish 1t is his first novel. though
for four years he has been writing short stories.
Graham Travers, author OF THE Way Of Es-
cape which the Appletons are publishing. is
Dr. Margaret Todd. of Edinburgh, a graduate
OF the Edinburgh School OF Medicine for Women,
q licentiate Of the Royal College OF Physicians
and Surgeons of Edinburgh, and an NJ. D. since
1894. She has been assistant physician TO the
Edinburgh Hospital for Women and Children.
She wrote her first novel, Mona Maclean Medi-
cal Student" in 1892: her Fellow Travellers"
followed in 1896. and "Windyhaugh" in 1898.
Her writing is done at odd times, stolen from
her busy practice.
The Hinderers; a Story OF the Present Time"
is the curious title of a story by Edna LyalI
that Longmans. Green & Co. publishing. II
tells of South African in England, and the
Boer war is in some sense background of the
picture.
The next volume in the Macmillans' Great
Craftsmen series will be on Peter Vischer by
Cecn Headlam. The Germans have by nature
the gift of working in metal" says the author
and among them in the realm Of bronze Peter
Vischer stands easily first His position
craftsman may. IN fact, be compared with that
held by his contemporary and fellow citizen.
Albert Durer. an artist"
a good many New -Englanders and visitors to
New-England have amused themselves with
series OF little paper booklets called Trolley
Trips" In which Miss Katharine NJ Abbott has
described how many long trips on trolley
be taken through interesting places and
Incidentally has described the interesting things
about these places. especially their old tradi-
tons and legends. So well was this latter part
Of her work done that the Putnams have de-
terTnined TO publish a book by Miss Abbott. in
which she has embodied the local New England
history. tradition and color. II viii be fully
Illustrated.
Somebody has asked 4lr. David Graham Phil
lips il his novel just published. Her Serene
Eighness" is intended as a satire on THE
Prisoner OF Zenda." II seems that Mr.. Phillips
did begin the story as satire but found Il
soon developing under his hands into what he
considered such a good story that he changed
bis mind and devoted himself to working it out