New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-16
LITERARY NOTES.

LII ER Al NJ lLS.
Mr.. Ernest Thompson Seton has seen the pict-
ures made by Mr.. Kipling for his Just so
Stss3ee" and writes thus about them;
wes greatly surprised and interested on see
FOR his forthcoming book. the Just 80 stories.
What can he not do2 / think that, without De
ing the work of trained drans aiit
are wonderful. They have the same oIlsilall,,ss
as his writing and express better tnan cou9
he done by any one else just VIVA. ne heeUeu
70 really illustrate those clever tales
But Mr. Thompson Seton has found some
thing the matter with of them There is
s,ix kangaroo pursued by dog over smooth
sandy waste There are the tracks of the
kangaroo in the sand. plainly enough MI
Thompson Seton said: Now. if I had been do
ing that. should have shown the dogs tracks,
too"
-rbe twelve volumes OF Fielding in the Mac
Ya5ans excellent little Temple Classics" series
win appear next week The set is edited oy
George Saintsbury-
F4oughton Mif1in Co are just now pun
fishing the first volume of an elaborate woih
:, two volumes on tine Argive Herfeum- III
snaorporates the important results of the eHca-
rsfions made in 1875 at the shrine OF Hera
In Argols by DIR. waldstein in behah OF 'ne
American School az Athens and the Archeoiog
tcal Institute Dr. waldstein edits the pooh
and contributes general introduction anu
chapter on sculpture cola borating also In 'iie
rhanters on architectural topography, terra
Gotta fgurines and terra Gotta .reIleis' r.
are seventy-five full page plates and nearly 7o'
other illustrations; some of them are coioieO'
so-ne are full page plates of architectural res
soratious and of objects of ceramic art. while
1hzre are also among them ten hehograNures'
of which the publishers are especially piouu'
representing the sculptures found in the e&ca-
vations.
Where is the average bookseller brought up
and in what sort of educational advantages
This question is suggested 20 many puoilsnels
Is, the strange requests they are contlhndil'
receiving from their customers One OF the laie-
est booksellers in a great Western city fecehtia
sent in an order for Hound of Basker Din
The same firm not long since got ano'her oiUe'
that NAV or may not belong IN the same o"'
egory; it seems more like joke. Ihls NdS
from the proprietor of a prosperous po"ius
journal in the West. who asked them to seiu
- con- If DensIor's illustrated edition oil
Mother Goose for review-he thought II "0uiu
he very useful to his readers
The Putnams are about TO add TO the suostan-
tial works on literary history already on 1heH
lists another devoted TO Germany 1t Is oy
Iebn C. Robertson, a ScOtchman who mas lhe
almost unique position for a foreigner Oh ieclui
or at a great German university-that OF StIaSS-
hurp This History of German Literature e&-
tends from the early Teutonic culture repre-
\ e,.as f,,- the Gothic translation OF the Bible
ID .na hy the Ni,eIungenlied to Sudermann ana
Hauptnlann. Speaking of the fact that Ger
many has never had such single intellectual
centre as Paris has been for France, MI ROBERT
son says:
The German writer has never known single
tribunal of public opinion: he has thought as an
irdsvidr,aI and written for himself Hence the
literature he has produced is one IN whlch lile
lyric, the most personal CT All IorIiis VI lie oI
fIre predonsinates and where the epic or mover
is employed to express purely persona in
us highest national development has always
been rornantic-that is say. individual. spirit
ual lyrical: this is its Importance and explains
It's mission in the economy of European letters
In his book on Daniel Webster. which the
Century Company bringing out this fall
Jof1n Bach AdcNaster has treated especially the
statesman's political career This is ms ezpia-
nation of the famous Seventh Of March speech;
The purpose of Webster was not 10 put slavery
in nor shut II out of the new territories. nor
make every in the North a slave calcheI'
,4or bid for Southern support in the coming elec
ton He sought a final and lasting settlement
Of q os,estion which threatened the perflanence
of the Union and the constitution ana Gay
comprehensive scheme of adjustment ne pe
lieved would effect this settlement me anon
ton the slavery. the Free Sol parties We're
10 him but Northern movements that Would
.sconoe 70 nothing" The great debate of lS1o
he regarded as idle talk that interrupted con
s,a~afion IF the tariff The great states
man had fallen behind the times and II was
r,erbarss well for him that he was now removed
from the Senate to the Department OF state
The chronicle of a leisureIy journey through
Ita1z- from the plains of Lombardy through
Milan Florence Rome and Abruzzi, across the
Apeunines and up the shore Of the Adrlatlc
IA Venice is contained in Katharine Hookers
.-wayfarers in Italy" soon TO be published by
the scribners Her impressions embrace mat
ters of art history and scenery. with sym
pathetic comprehension Of the spirit and genius
az people whose essential kindness OF nature
and simple democracy we'll whose innate
feeling for art she has endeavOred TO bring out
bx sfdelghts and suggestive incident
Somebody the Century Company was
amazed the other day TO hear one of the firm,
talking at the telephone, say emphatically TO the
man at the other end:
put some of the -CaterpiIlars' in the Lunch
cons.
The request seemed remarkable, but the ex-
.,laTation proved be simple. "Caterpillars
and their Moths" and 'Luneheons" are the titles
OF two books to be issued by the Century Com
many this fall and the gentleman at the tele-
phone simply wished Of the paper stock
ordered for the former book to be used also
in the manufacture of the latter.