New-York tribune., 1902-09-08
LITERARY NOTES.

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Another Cromwell novel is forthcoming; this
time THE Lord Protector" by s. Levett-Ieats-
II will bear Longmans. Green & Co.'S imprint
Kate Douglas Wiggin has recently established
prize at Bowdoin College. to be known as the
Hawthorne Prize. for creative work in Enghsh'
that will be awarded each year at commence
rnent to the member Of she junior senior class
presenting the best poem short story Mrs
Virgins home, Quillcote-on-Saco, at Hoills'
Ne, is not far from Brunswick where BoWdoin
is situated. She has been engaged this sum
rner as for the last two years, on an anthology
OF verse for children. entitled Golden Num-
bers." which viii be published by Mcclure
Phillips G. Co this month
There is touching passage from the manu-
script OF Darwin's Autobiography" reproduced
in the new volume OF Letters that the Apple
tons are preparing 1t was omitted from lhe
Life and Letters" because when that was pub
lished Mrs Darwin was alive:
You all know your mother and what good
mother she has been TO all Of you she mas
been my greatest blessing. and L can declare
that in my whole life. 1 have never heard 4iel
utter word / would rather have had unseiu-
She has never failed in kindest sympaLh!
toward me. and has borne with the utmost pa
tence my frequent complaints OF III heaIth @ dIlr
discomfort. 1 do not believe she has ever
missed opportunity Of doing kind acuoh 10
any near her. 1 marvel at my goca forluiIe @
that she, infinitely my superior Ia eNetS
single moral quality, consented TO be my WlIe;
She has been my wise adviser ana CheeIL "a "a
comforter throughout life which without leI
would have been during very long peTloa pee@,o5 a
miserable from i'll health. She mas tdIieV
the love Of every soul near her
1t is well known that Agassz was an ener-
getic opponent of Darwin's theories Of evoIu-
ton; fact that gives piquancy 10 the following
reference in a letter TO f Miller in 1So0'
You refer in your letter 10 the facts when
Agassiz is collecting against our views, on Iie
Amszons. Though he has done so muen Sdl.I IoI
science. he seems TO wild and parauoAIeii
In all his views that cannot regard MS opll'o'I
Is of any value
1t is not often that two brothers appear on a
r,ublisber's book list side by side with an an
nouncennent of practically simultaneous pubica-
tion of books on different subjects That is the
case with the brothers George H. and w u
Ellwanger, who are about TO bring OUT throush
Doubleday Page & Co. books entitled, respee-
lively The Pleasures of the Table and A
Summer Snowflake They are sons Of a noted
nurservman of Rochester George H Ellwanger
has already written number Of books, chlehF
on out Of door topics and on gardening, incIud-
ing an introduction TO Gilbert Whites MAJ
,,ral History of Selborne," and is a practical
gardener himself He is also interested in gas
tronomy and possesses a large library on the
st,hiect His new book will deal with the SUBJECT
chiefly in an historical way; thus he discusses
I-ucullus and Apfcius. old English dishes, L Al
uanach des Commands the school OF SaFarli'
From Careme to Dumas" American VS. Eng
ush cookery and AT Table with the Clergy
". d. Ellwanger has been contributing verse to
magazines and the weekly periodicals; and from
this he has formed the volume put forth as "A
Summer Snowflake and Other Poems which
will have illustrations by Wenzeu and others
A third brother II. B. Ellwanger, was the au-
thor of an authoritative treatise on the rose,
Theodore Low De Winnie, the master printer,
has written most interestingly on various
phases of the art of printing in two books that
have appeared in the last years. and now
he issues. through the Century Company, a
third in his series on THE Practice Of Typog-
raphy." entitled "A Treatise on the Title Page"
AS in the others, Mr.. De Winnie speaks from a
store of practical knowledge, scholarship and
acquaintance with the present and the past in
typographical matters The book is packed full
of facsimile illustrations and reproductions Of
types and title pages and colophons from the
earliest DAYS down the present time. and the
authors comments are full of interest to the
lay reader well as the expert 1t is interest
ing 10 note what he says about William Morris's
practice Of typography:
1t may be admitted that the Kelnscott book is
the work Of a master OF Typography. but is its
style the best? Is that style fit for modern
books? All English speaking people do not
cherish Morris's reverence for medieval or
,nonasttc fashions, is the great body or
readers in foreign countries any more deferen-
tial- During the sixteenth century the reading
world outside of Germany had decided most dis
tinctly that Il was weary Of types formed on
Gothic models and put them aside forever as the
standard type for book texts The Roman letter.
then accepted better has been confirmed
the standard Of form by three centuries OF con-
finuous use; and, alth ough IL often has been de-
based by bad cutting and printing, it is
not probable that il will be supplanted by the
Troy Chaucer type, or any form Of Gothic
letter A newspaper or magazine a die
tionary, even any modern book intended more
for use than for show. is impractcable in the
Kelmscott style of Typography.
There has been rather remarkable access Of
public interest in that quaint little book Mrs
Wigs of the Cabbage Patch which has be-
come one Of the best selling books in the last
ers. say this is only what might have been ex-
pected but its first publication, months ago
it found no exceptional demand They have al
ready printed more copies of il than Of any
other work of fiction they ever published.
The burning question which is agitating photo
graphic circles is whether photography
should be considered art. At the instance
OF Mr.. Alfred Stieglitz. Of those who have
produced artistic work in this line have or
ganized the Society OF Photos -Secessionists.
and last spring gave a large exhibition at the
National arts Club. New-York. The society is
much encouraged by the fact that, as Mr Stieg-
nz says IN the forthcoming Century in
spite OF all derision, prejudice and opposition,
the serious character Of many Of the exhibi-