New-York tribune., 1903-01-03
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
Current Talk Of Things Present and
to Come.

CU7en dLR OF IhHgS fTeSefu ana
to Come
A book Of stories and studies in fiction by
Henry James will be published in February by
Charles Scribner's Sons. There will be in all
eleven stories and studies The title has not yet
been decided upon.
The Macmillan Company has published a lit
tie book the care of the pet dog, written
by Muriel Handley Spicer. Its title is TOY
Dogs: How to Breed and Rear Them Being the
Life of Griffon Bruxellois.' The author
writes that she would save others from buying
their doggy knowledge at heavy a price as
have bought mine-a price which has often
amounted to the death of of my dearest
and most treasured pets" There is little smell
of the lamp about this doggy knowledge but
the index of the round cornered little volume
reads like the shelf of a druggist shop.
A memoir of Edward Bowen. the assistant
master at Harrow. who died a year ago last
spring. has been prepared by a relative, W. E
Bowen. anG is published by Longmans Green
& Co Bowen responsible in no little part
for the growth of that more personal relation
between the masters and the boys which has
marked the English schools of the last decades.
To break down the old rigorous barriers which
posing camps of the discontented and the in
tolerant, was something of task. but to
which he contributed his efforts with persistent
conviction. How far to go in this mixing of
intercourse. how much TO sink the office Of
teacher and assume the whole armor of youth
and is delicate matter But there is now
a far human regard and understanding on
both Sides and Bowen. perhaps more than any
other single man. stands for that achievement.
As would be expected he left many recollec-
tions of Harrow boys who attained prominence
in later life. Some of these are preserved in
verse. to the writing of which he resorted fire.
quently. In three songs. written in 1854, there
are several interesting sidelights both on the
author and the pupils.
The third song had for its theme two Of the
famous names ir the history Of Harrow
Byron and Peel There is in the cemetery Of
the parish church grave upon which Byron,
when q lad at This school used to lie and medl-
tate and watch the beautiful eXpanse Of coun-
try which spread itself our before his eyes. In
the old schoolrcom-the Fourth Form as it
was commonly called.-there are panels round
the walls with the names OF boys carved upon
them, sometimes by the expert fingers or the
professional workmen, sometimes by the un-
practised hands of the lads themselves Among
these latter is the name Peel 1t is on these
two circumstances that the song is based
Byron is found
Upea-top peaLi5ps Of fdIeS the Peachey stone,
from which bliss he is disturbed by the entrance
of the angry head master, who sets him Gram
and Virgil due" Peel is found
Just by the name in the wood
Reading rapidly, all at ease,
Pages out of Demosthenes.
The two boys were absolutely different from
enc another Peel could never have written
poetry-Byron could never have construed his
Demosthenes-whle they both differed equally
widely from the ordinary athletic member OF
the community, who could explain thelr exist
ence by remembering that
Even goose's brain has
They were separate too in their subsequent
careers and in their deaths, but it is well that
Harrow should always be broad and liberal
enough 10 include within its pale characters
and temperaments so diverse as theirs:
Byron lay solemnly lay
Dying for freedom far away;
Ruled the people and fed the poor
None so narrow. the range of Harrow,
Meleome me poet g1eanq anq reameT dreamer
Doer and dreamer. dream and do
Thomas Dixon's novel THE Leopard's Spots"
IS being translated into German. 1t is perhaps
in character with the title that the sales of this
book should be subject TO spasmodfc variations.
Mr. Dixon is travelling in the West. lect-
uring Wherever he lectures, so his publishers
tell us orders pour out for his books From
time to time he comes ashore TO do some writing
In his palatial log cabin. or to lecture Then he
nuts sea in ms yacnt leaving MS fedoeIS
behind him
Rostands "Cyrano" was ruled out Of the Con-
stantinople theatres some time ago by the cen
sor because il was feared that it would sad
den and depress the public mind" Lately the
censor of books followed this for the public
welfare with an objection to the title OF DR..
van Dykes Story of the Other Wise Man..
which was founded more concrete though
less interesting reasons. TO the ordinary West
ern mind it was a puzzle to know what could
be wrong with inoffensive and unremark
able a title The publisher of the Turkish
translation begged to know why objection was
taken to it. Because it is not true" the
astonishing reply. 1t seemed that there could
he no Wise Man but Mahomet- So the title be-
came the equivalent Of How the Other Scen-
tist Got Left Behind"
The Fleming II. Revell Company announces
for immediate publication the Life of Joseph
Parker" by the Rev. DR.. William Adamson.
The publication of this memoir by lifelong