New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-22
BOOKS And AUTHORS.
Current Talk of Things Present and
to Come.


Agnes and Egerton Castle have been spending
a good part of the summer in Montreux.
Switzerland. working new novel OF their
late book The Star Dreamer" Mr. Castle writes
a friend in this vein:
LAS you know, the book was begun in 1901
during our stay in our summer residence at
Hindhead Gin Surrey. There IS a wild garden
apart from the pleasure grounds. and much of
the Garden of Simples'-for that then,
you remember, the title had chosen-was writ
ten in that fragrant atmosphere. Over the high
est wing of the house had established my OBJ
servatory-I have always been a stargazer my
self. partly as a lover of the nights splendors
and the music of the vast partly the man
whose earlier studies at Cambridge were all OF
natural philosophy. The silence of The Star
Dreamer the character of Sir David Cheveral
the wounded dreamer, with his folly OF renuncia-
ton, and Of Elnor Marvel. representation of
beautiful vigorous, healthy life and love. who is
to redeem him from cloudy phantasms' to the
real joy of the world; even the scenery Of Bin
don-CheVeral, with its legend concerning the
herb garden-all these things had been familiar
to for long time before we began the book
in earnest 1t only in the green and blue
surroundings of our Hindhead house that they
began to pulse into life. and nearly the whole of
the first draft written there in the sum-
mer of 1901"
Among the new editions which are coming
from the Harper presses is a library edition OF
ATotley's Fail OF the Dutch Republic" in which
the illustrations are for the most part repro
auctions from paintings by American artists.
"The Flamingo Feather and "Chrystal Jack
& Co.." which belong to the Young People Series.
also appearing in another edition. The pub
fishers report that the demand for these books
Of Mr.. Kirk Munroe. who is at present, by the
way, making a tour OF the world continues
steadily season after season. Another new edi-
ton on the same list is that Of James Otis's
boys book. Raising the Pearl"
This author more properly known as James
Otis Kaler. is at present at work upon his nine
ty-fourth book. 1t will be published by the
J. B. Lippincott Company early in the autumn
season. Before attempting to write books, in
which he has rolled up such large score, Mr.
Kaler was at work newspapers In this city
and Boston for something like twenty years
Such an apprenticeship, he holds, is Of the
greatest possible advantage to an author. In
1880 Toby Tyler was put forth. 1t was his
first story OF any notable length, and since it's
appearance he has devoted all his time to such
composition, a fact which the number Of his
books still on sale would suggest.
This story will probably be called The
Treasure Hunters"
Eustace l.. Williams has taken the complica-
tions of large boarding school for the matter Of
juvenile which will appear with the imprint of
the Lothrop Publishing Company, with the title
The Mutineers." The president Of one of the
school societies assumes too great an authority
and influence over the affairs Of the entire stu
dent body to please the hero. Disguised with
the reign of favoritism, this intrepid youngster
introduces the schism of rival baseball team,
defeats the regular team. and thus overthrows
the party in power.
Appropriate photogra phs of sights in the old
Pennsylvania town Kennett Square are used IN
Illustration of edition of Bayard Taylor's
The Story of Kenneth" which the Putnams are
bringing out The story was originally pub
lished nearly forty years ago.
A story of love and adventure. set in the time
of Chaucer in England, is announced by Hough-
ton. Miffin & Co. in novel by Florence Con-
verse called Long Will This will he ready in
October. The Little Chevalier." a romance of
the French regime in New-Orleans in the early
eighteenth century. written by NJ. E. NJ. Davis
is scheduled for the time. Two novels and
book Of stories will appear, however, next
month They are Ruth Halls The Pine Grove
House picture of life of city people at small
country hotel; Good Bye, Proud World" by
Ellen Olney Kirk, story in which the scene
changes from the hustle of a New-York news
paper Office to the quiet of a small Connecticut
town, and Guy Wetmore Carryl's stories OF the
French capital. set forth in a volume called "Zut
and Other Parisians.''
Chiefly of the Lyric Kind was the descrip-
tive subtitle to the volume Of poems by Watts
published in 1877. of which come upon a copy
in the current list of books from Frederick
Wheeler. London. An earlier book is copy OF
Quarles poems, printed for Marriott, with ten
title pages. all bearing the date 1888. Feast
for Wormes." "Pentelogia," "Hadassa," Job