New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-10-22
LITERARY NOTES.

Mrs Roger A Pryor has pictured the brilliant
social life OF early Virginia IN a volume called
The Mother OF Washington and Her Times"
II Is made up OF q store OF various information
about the life and habits OF the Colonial danes
end maieens their accomplishments, their man
ner OF looking at things, the way they dressed
and the homes they lived in and directed. Be
sides the usual sources OF information, Mrs
Pryor has consulted unpublished letters, diaries
ana documents. Many OF the illustrations ere
REPRODUCED from matter loaned from the collec-
f,on OF Colonial pictures owned by Mrs. Alice
Morse Earle The Macmillan Company are
bringing out this book
The Modern Speech New Testament" an
sdior,atic translation into English from the
Resultant Greek Testament by the late DR.
Richard Francis Weymouth, is among the books
sust set forth by the Baker & Taylor Com
pany DR.. Weymouth. al the time Of his death.
was one OF the best known Biblical students
Isn England. His work the Resultant Greek
Testament met a wide reception. For twenty
years he was engaged upon the idiomstic trans
lation, which he felt TO be necessary for the
aid OF Biblical students IN their work The
volume is edited and partly revised by E.
Hampden-Cook.
Julian Hawthorne has just published. through
.
father and OF his fathers friends, under the
title Hawthorne and His Circle" The book re-
lates chiefly to the personal side of the writer
of romance his relations with his family and
with the host OF friends 81 this country and
England Eui,an Hawthorne has already writ
sen q biography OF his father ana mother. He
has been a prolific writer. Some thirty vol
umes OF fiction bear his name, and about one
hundred short stories rot collected IN book
form His work as special CORES pondent for
newspapers and ma gaines has taken him.
among other parts OF the world, TO Cuba and
70 India history Of the United States a
history OF Oregon. manual OF American lit
ereture q biography OF Hszen S. Pingree and q
volume OF Confessions and Criticisms" may
be mentioned among his many books. The
Hsrpers estimate that & collection OF bis total
works would hn some sixty octave volumes. a
thought which recalls remark about Kipling
in OF stevenson's letters that II ne kept
On at his chosen rate his works would soon
al the popuious globe
John Lane published o. Thursday a novel by
z. Baron Russell. called "Borlase & Son." IN
which several OF the characters found in the
authors earlier book. "a Guardian Of the
Poor" make their temperance This earlier
book wse published IN 1897. The author. in
Q prsfssory note. writes that there is no con-
nsction between the two books. He goes on
% disciairn any intention OF Disgusting per-
sonal facts for the purposes OF his tale in a
pssrage which may be found interesting as an
index 70 the nature Of his new book and q
statement az his conception OF the novelist's
work
II Sc hardly necessary to say-and the author
would not venture TO Etv st. had not some
readers OF "A Guardian OF the Poor" been good
enough to identity TO him, IN correspondence
the supposed originals of Mr.. Borlase and OF
Borlsse & Colnpeny's ernporium-that the per
0onsges represented IN both books are purely
fictitious. The conditions OF life portrayed are
on the other hand. absolutely veracious: but
20 individual and no single establishment have
been even remotely, aimed at II some CRYING
evils have been pretty plainly limited at, II IS
quite ir1personally, and the author is fully
aware OF the many instances in which these