New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-09-06

Mr.. Anthony Hope calls his forthcoming novel
Double Harness"-an excellent title from I'm, tne
pen of a newly married man. Other stories WhlCh
are on the way to publication are Mr.. lie
Queux's Secrets of the Foreign OIlce Ille
late Mr.. FargeOn'S "Amblers' and "Ihe Rouse
of the White Shadows" and Mr.. FRANKFORT
Moore's "Shipmates in Sunshine" Lucas
MaIet's novel is nearly ready.
The life Of BeaconsfeId on which Mr.. wilfrid
Meynen has been engaged is to be issued soon
under the subtitle of An Unconventional 81
ography.' The author, says The Academy,
had Unexpectedly placed at his disposal an
interesting and important collection or letters
from Disraeh to a private friend. letters OF
which the existence unknown to all but the
recipient. The inclusion of these amplihed the
plan of the work. and. while it delayed compie-
ton, will. it is expected. clarity many of the
obscurties in Dsraelfs life
Mr. w. f. Henley. who ever busy
writer and editor left an estate of something
under 5000. He left everything to his wife.
and directed her to be guided in all matters
/ relating to his literary property by the counsel
of his longtime friend Charles whitley. Mr..
whitley. by the way. is clever man OF letters
and the brOther-in-law of the late James Nc
NELL Whistler.
The late Frank StOckton's Virginia story.
The Captains Toll Gate" is to be brought
out in England. with the accompanying memoir
by his widow
The author of the Forthcoming book the
ments in Italy which are sait 20 give a special
value to his study careful photography of
the astronomers writings will be included in
the book.
Has Shakespeare's fame ever been seriously
affected by the changes in literary fashions?
This question is to be answered by an English
compilation i'm which to find gathered in
chronological order ali the best eulogies of the
poet in English prose and verse.
Mr. Will Payne's new novel. Mr. Salt" is
mentioned as a novel Of business. as well as Of
sentiment. the hero being one of the modern
action passes in THE street." and trusts play
a certain part in the story.
In the latest of the innumerable Stevenson
books the author. Miss Laura Stubs. tells the
story of Austrian count to whom II. l. 5.
showed most kindly hospitality. one lovely
morning. when staying at Valima. the count
got UP abnormally early and plunged into his
bath. which was on the veranda. HE sp.aShed
and sang feeling very well and very happy,
and at last, beginning to sing very loudly, he
forgot Mr. Stevenson altogether. AL at once
there was Stevenson. his hair all ruffed up. his
eyes full of anger. Man he said. you and
your Internal row have cost more than two
hundred pounds in IDEAS and with that he was
gone"
THE French Wife" is the title of Miss Kath-
airline Tynan's forthcoming novel
The new edition of Grove and CavaIcaseHe's
history Of Italian painting has long been de
sired. The book has been out of print for many
years, and with every year the price of second
| hand copies scared higher and higher. Ii is
said that the revisiOns left by the late Sir
Joseph Grove amount almost to n rewriting of
the book In this new edition the wOOd-blOCk
Illustrations of the old will give place to
the modern halftOne and photographers. Two
volumes of the work will be brought out in
few weeks.
In a copy of Bewick's Birds lately cata-
Iogued in England found these lines in
TennysOns handwriting and signed by him:
gate and field half ploughed,
y solitary COW,
child with n broken slate
And a titmaTsh in the bOUgh
But where. alack. is Bewick
To tell the meaning now?
The finding of titles is not an easy thing in
these days of Astounding fiction. Mr.. III. Il.
Marriott Watson has found which is not
| bad for his volume of short stories; il is
| ALARMS and Excursions"
Talking of titles. THE Daily MaiI'' reminds
of Mr.. W. p. James'S essay pointing out that
Dickens usually wrote up to a title. He chose
his name with the utmost care. and when that
| fact was accomplished seemed content. The
writing was a mere matter of course. In his
memoranda were found nineteen titles for
els unused. AS Mr.. James remarks, the English
novel began by calling itself after the hero
heroine. such Tom Jones or 'ClarisSa,' but
presently aspired to be holder and more pict-