New-York tribune., 1902-06-25
LITERARY NOTES.

LITERARY NOIEo.
In 9 letter to The London Spectator Mr.
Henry Austin Clapp. Of Boston. aLuding to the
author Of The Lady Paramount, speaks o1
him as your Mr. Harland." and 1t would ap-
pear from this letter that the writer regards
Nr Hariand as an Englishman. He was born IN
St Petersburg and received part OF his eouca-
.ion if, Rome and in Paris but he completed 1t
at Harvard. He lived here for years Ii was
In this country that he wrote his first success
ful novel "As It Was Written" and he has al
ways been known as an American despite MS
long residence in London. The droll thing about
Mr. Clapps letter is that in it he complains OF
the careless use Of the word expect py Eng
lish writer's. and. citing Mr.. Harland as one OF
the offenders appeals to the Editor Of The
Spectator to do what ne can to prevent the
spreading Of an abuse with which, we are TO
assume a properly constituted American would
have nothing to Co.
Theodor Momnlsen, the great German hfsto-
rian of Rome. is about to turn his attention to
ecclesiastical history. AT the age of eighty
three he is proceeding to edit the Latin trans
iation by Tyrannus Rufus of the Greek text Of
the Church history of Eusebus. This will ap-
pear in the collection published by the Prussian
Academy of Sciences. under the title of The
Greek Christian Writers of the First Three Cen
turies.'
a1r Archer NJ. Huntington's superb new edi-
tion of The Cid" in the original Spanish and in
q translation of his own, to which extended ref
erence was made in The Tribune the other day.
As &c be published by G. p. Putnam's Sons. The
tact that Mr. Huntington secured their CO.
operation in bringing out this monumental pub
Ncation is one in which the firm may well take
satisfaction and ought 10 be recorded among
the most important in its long career
r II. Russell publishes in an exquisite book
let The Song of Songs reprint Of the Bibli-
cal text with illustrations by the late Sir Ed
ward Rurne-Jones One of these, familiar
painting serves as frontispiece; the others are
drawings, and they among the most char
scteristfc and graceful the English artist ever
executed. The reproductions are in half tone,
a-aa both text and decorative borders are har-
rnonized with them in respect to tint Mr. F1tz
Eoy Carrinston provides a brief introduction.
and the whole is bound in boards covered with
axeIium paper, tastefuily decorated with gold
and fastened with silk ribbons It is one Of the
,aaintiest publications we have seen in long
Cine.
A few years ago Professor Albert s. Cook Of
Tale University. established a prize in poetry
The award made this year, the fifth in the
Wheeler of New-Haven, for a group Of nine
~odyssean" sonnets which, in accordance with
Che wish of Professor Cook. has been printed IN
O little pamphlet. The lines disclose some
imagination and are smoothly written One OF
Che sonnets may be quoted as an illustration OF
contemporary college verse in its more serious
estate.
In Lacedanion lay thy brethren cold
Before the plain Of Troy was waste with war
That thou hadst died with them were better far
Than to have been the cause of woe untold
For O. thou statue Of supernal mould,
That man Is safe who hangs his mortal car
Behind the splendor of falling star,
COMPARED to those who saw tiny tresses' gold
/ see thee stately in thy husbands halls;
Wild memories nave marred thy deathless face, |
But still thy marvellous and mystic grace
Rreathes music like a melody that falls.
1 would that l. too. lay upon that plain
Had I for beauty such as thine been slain
.'The Book of a Hundred Houses is the title
of an interesting and very useful volume pub
Isaed by Herbert s. Stone & Co A score of
writers contribute the text, treating OF dwell
ings large and small, but mostly small in ex-
istence here abroad proposed by a de-
signer. The pages crowded with practical
and very promising suggestions, and these are
accompanied by q great quantity Of flustra-
tions from photographs and drawings The
prospective builder of a home in the country
could not ask for more useful book.
A new volume of short stories by Thomas
Bailey Aidrich is announced for publication this
fall by Houghton Mifflin & Co. 1t is four
five years since Mr.. Aldrich has published a
book. and he has made some of his greatest
successes in short Stories for which reasons the
volume viii be awaited with interest.
Il For more than fifty years the names Of Irving
and Putnam, in the relation OF author and pub
fisher. have been closely connected. In 1913
George Palmer Putnam. having the courage of
his convictions. and contrary the advice of
his friends and business associates risked his
modest capital in the production of the first
complete edition OF Washington Irving's writ
ings The result justified the faith Of the pub
Usher. The enterprise proved OF the great
successes n publishing undertakings. AS a
result the author received more than S100-
600 in royalties. This relieved him from
financial worry and enabled him TO spend
the evening of his life in comparative af-
fuence in his home, Sunnyside on the
Hudson. In 1902 G. P Putnam's Sons are
publishing 1.-The New Sunnyside Edition of
Irvingss Works Its forty volumes. illus
trated with more than five hundred half tones
and engrayings Will be a fitting "semi-centen-
nial' publication; the fact thai this edition
comes from the press Of 1rving's old-time pub
fishers is guarantee Of the care and skill
cised in its preparation.
Henry Lee Higginson's deeds and words in
behalf of Harvard University have endeared
him all who have ever been connected with
that institution more than any other man now
living. His gifts of the Soldiers Field and Of
the Harvard Union have brought him close to
of all