New-York tribune., 1903-03-15

Riverside Press 1t ts the result OF actuA H, eH
perience as cowboy and foreman on the Old
Western Trail Mr. Adams is now miner IN
Colorado
lish artist, IS to contain many splendid ilustra-
tions we'll as careful biography OF ti,e
PAINTER A good Hoppner is an expensive plct-
ure to buy in these days. but it was not so IN
the period of his toilsome life 1t Is rec"rdcu
that when he WAS called upon to admire PANT p!
ing of the time he would say: "Ay. it is noble
picture; but it has one daInrjng def"ct-it is 4
modern one Prove it. sir. to be but two hum
dred years old. and from the brush Of famous
man. and here's 1000 guineas for it
DR. George Brandes IS bringing out a volume
Of Impressions in Poland from when NJ ap-
pears that he IS a persistant partisan OF tne
Poles lie has added to his sketches crltcai
analysis Of the romantic literature or fo'aho
in the nineteenth century.
Various anecdotes Of Emerson and conVerss-
tions with him are to be set forth IN q SiiIdil
book by F. B. Sanborn, "nlcn hi;sb hI; ~ Jrbe vol
speed, Of Boston. is about 20 publlsh- me Vol
ume, which Is to be called The personality VI
Emerson" "a poor title), will have an etchins
from the portrait OF the philosopher palnteo oy
David Scott in Edinburgh In 1913.
The carly life of G. D. Brown, the author OF
."The House with the Green Shutters. was not
an easy one. His father small farmer,
not particularly well-to-do. After the boy Leit
the village school he worked for two years az a
Dithead at Trabbock Then he went to higher
school, helped by the proceeds from the sale OF d
heifer which his father fattened for the pur-
pose each year. Boxes Of farm produce also
helped to carry the youth through the period
ended by his capture Of the Smell ScholarSnlp
at Glasgow. That took him to OXforo. "nere ne
was not happy. They tell at the university fhls
story Of Browns days at Bdlliol: Dr Jo"etl
was still master Of Baliol when the young eX-
hibtioner went up to oxford, and one day ne
asked him to bre-hfast to which James An
thony Froude, among others. had been invited
Brown had not taken much part IN the conEers,
tion when Froude turned to Jowett. and s;t!d:
Our young friend there is strangely IKE
our old friend - Then. after eating several
nouthfuls he again glanced at Brown. with 4
reflective air and added: You know. JoWrtt,
we always used to say that - was 'he usliS''
man knew"
quite well aW ire Of the ferOcity of his one iott-
bic novel More than once" it is added. WHlie
he was still writing It, he eNpresSed lear 80 t-r
It's becoming terribly brutal, he would say
People will get false impression of my point
of view. l wonder if it's not shame to "rlte
such a savage book?' Many hailed Bro" $
novel as a shrewd blow at the kailyard school
i love the book for just this it sticks the Kali
yarders ike pigs says Professor RaIeiEh: loi
instance" Browns first book was a worthless
potboiler called Love and Sword" punished
under the pseudOnyIne or helllieuy hiHS-
The work of preparing Victor HuGo's Museum
in the poets old house. in the Place deS Eoo5'5
Paris has been greater than was anticipated,
and the opening has been pnStpoheu
The text Of old John Evelyn's translation IT
NHuGt'S
inl, Of a library printed in ltiG1 has a ftW
typogra phicsl which. in the new ltIVerSiie
Press edition. will be corrected otherwise TINS
edition Will be exact reprint Ther'' VIII he
only ~ c,,is ard the plates will be destroyed
after lriutinG.
The. book is due early n"Nt month, >ani prom
ISIS to he in its nl.tktur worthy not "I!E "l
Evelyn but of its author. the librarian uf Rich
.-Iicu and M.IZarin-
Captain II. NJ. Chittendcn. the author of that
interesting, book. The American FAY Trade OF
the Far VEST" is adding new yulurI. to the
American Explorers Series This is a history Of
early Steamboat navigation on the Missouri
River it is founded on tn" life and adventures
Of Joseph La Barge, the pioneer navigator and
Indian trader.
The edition for America of the work contain
ing reproductions Of the most famous paintings
in the Wallace Collection is limited to L,IlI-
dred copies only. imperial japanese paper.
The ten copies with all the plates hand col
ored in facsimile longer available, all
of them having already Lccn tancn at a
Thousand dollars 4 COiy.
Why should Stevenson the dr1rHatiSt take such
Il back il, comparison with Stevenson the
novelist. the essayist the poet: This is a Gurs-
ton asked by Mr.. y. W. lintrp the Other even
ing at Edinburgh. He thought it was all the
more worth asking trc;tusr St,.vcIson'S case
was by no means singular one. Thcr" was
hardly Il novelist OF poet of the whole nineteenth
century who did not S;IIld in exactly the same
position They had and all attempted to
write for the stage, and it ely too mach
to say that they had one and all flirI. not only
to achieve theatrical success, but even III amy