New-York tribune., 1903-03-16
UTERlRY NOTES.

,-s.-,.x scrsbnerss sons announce for early
:. ,kl.s.Asoa q novel by A. I. cuiher-Coucn
.-ss.s >s4he Adventures Of barry Revei.
! -.4s-v az the reeeaaing Of . crime ey tnS mno-
.e~se.e suf 3 young boy who set1 involved "1 I"e
.-,n-sscas3ons. The sceHe is laid on the coast OF
Ensaszd many years ego
story NJ missionary ende&voT among the
r~rutbals Of the South Seas comes from the
Planning Il. ReveN Company In Iona Oh N
nsS,ea n Hero Of the New-Hehrtdes- Tne &ue'''
Yr.nk q. l. Patton. is the son Of John G. Patton
80 the hooa. hss been edited by the authors
xpo1s lanes Patton, who says IN nis preface
t 5snusrv 1889. I launched rpon the
40 tne autobiography of his venerable I.tne5.
Johr G. Patton. my apology was thus e1pI 80
Il publish it because SomesmES ,,S,. 'e hsve amply
r4nd,csted the grounds Of that decision in ven
,,rsnr nov to publish this book oy nis IN IN
minded sOncthe se9Ey ~t OF Tsnna@ny apology is
that nowhere else In all the Worao. Wlenll. u a.
tirnee have I been able 20 discover, nor ~ .
snS trreeistIbIe demonstration of The supernatu-
-ay oT;sTn Of the Word Of God and the m1racu-
Ions eEecss Of the Gospel CT Jesus CnrlsI
The anthology entitled ''The Poets OF iran
soendentslisrn," which has been expected fTom
this week
cvrus Townsend Brady put more dine upon
che composition OF his novel THE Southernere,
@vhicn the Scrfbners publish to-day, than Is nS
r,sz,sI custom. The idea for the story was 1ouno
fr tie diary Of Southern girl Kept curing tae
per.od Of the war. This manuscript came into
possession OF Mr. Brady and struck him as
irving abundant opportunity for use In notion
Oy reason Of it's intimate tone and detailed
record It lay In his desk for some time and
6i6 not result in the novel for 9 NUMBER OF
years
Anthony Hope is In New-York for q stay in
this country of six weeks He announced taat
he would give no readings from his novels Is
ne has done before The extent OF the reading
public here was theme for his smazement In
an interview published recently. This Interview
was given, apparently. before he had r1doen IN
the citys csrs, for on being asked what he
thought Of the method Of placard advertising as
srpI;ed to books he replied: You see, don't
know hoW It feels; don't believe they have ever
done that with mine.
Dr. Lyman Abbott has completed biography
Of Henry Ward Beecher. which Houghton' Mif-
gin & Co. announce for publication early In the
autumn.
Mrs Dorothea Gerard has published through
Brentaros novel called THE Eternal Woman.
A young English girl who as the protsgee OF
lady Of wealth had always had every expecta-
tion Of s large inheritance and is suddenly cast
upon her own resources, is the heroine OF the
story.
About March Is the Macmillan Company viii
publish a new novel by Stephen Gwynn called
1.-THE PAGAN at the Shrine" the love story OF .
Spanish priest. The scene OF the authors earlier
novel, '"The Old knowledge" was laid among
the ,Scotch-Ir1sh on the west coast of Ireland
~ The Bloch Publishing Company has issued q
new list Of "Iudaica," books of interest to Jew
ish readers. Among recent publications Is In
cluded Dr. DeIItzsch's Babel und Bibel" in
translation. Among recent fiction "oI special In
ferest to Jewish readers" are listed Arnold
Davenrort's by the Ramparts of Jezreel." |"
Emile -zoIa's Truth" Herman Bernstein's TN
the Gates of Israel" and Katherine c. Thurs
tons THE Circle
Esperanto, the new language designed for in
ternational Use to supplant Volapuk, is to be
furnished with Complete Text Book con-
tanning grammar, exercises, conversations, COM
rnerciaI letters and two vocabularies, In vol
urne compiled by ]. c. OConnor and soon to he
issued from the press OF the Fleming II. Revell
Company. From the advance sheets OF the
grammar this ready-mede tongue would appear
to Be 8 queer looking mixture OF English and
the Lstfa languages With brand new set Of
Er1mmat atical termination signs, quite at vart-
encs with the mistaken methods Of earlier days
La homo estaz morte.na- they say IN Esper-
anto: Man Is mortal
While on her Visits" Elizabeth was certainly
aware of her position as "mariagea ble'' young
person We learn now that she has been mar
-ied. to less a person than the persistent
little Frenchrnan who took his lovemaking 50
strenuously. In fact. there is family of
little children, glib with a childish French jar
gon and up to all manner of audacious tricks
In "Elizabeth's Children" the volume, forthcom-
ing from John Lane. which is TO chronicle their
doinEs, the three little boys show the need of
change Of sir AMI packed on by their
mother to an old bachelor admirer who lives on
just the requisite country place The bachelor.
who hasn't the faintest ides how,to manage the
youngsters, is rewarded for his pains By unex-
pected aid in his new love affair from the pre-
coeious matchmaking abilities Of one Of the
boys
The Revised Twentieth Century edition of
Isaac Pitman'e Shorthand Instructor" Qsaao
Pftman & sons presents the study Of phonog-
HSphy with conctseneSs With rudY.a facF.