New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-09
LITERARY NOTES.

LITERARY NOTES.
Mr.. n. c. Bailey, who is pleasantly reIneIn,
bered as the author of MY Lady Orange, VIII
soon bring out a new novel called Inc MASTER
of Gray"
volume is promised containing many
anecdotes of the Duke of Wellington. with let
ters from his pen. 1t is TO be entltled Inc
Memoirs and Correspondence OF captain
EIers.' The captain was a friend of yelling
toms, and knew many of the notable people Oh
his day
The life of Midhat Pacha, the reforming Turk
who fell under the fatal displeasure or the
Midhat, and will be published in the fall The
author does not now live in Turkey, but II Is
expected that the book will throw light on the
inner affairs of the country during the reign Oh
the present Sultan.
Mrs Alice MeyneH is writing the text for an
art book which will be brought out in the
autumn, consisting of some threescOre repro
auctions of pictures of children painted by the
also TO be represented. The book will be en-
titled Children of the Old Masters"
Dr. William Barry has new novel under
way. and will also publish in the autumn long
essay on criticism.
Mr. Austin Dobson has been found OUT in
a bunder decidedly unusual thing for him.
Mr.. w. ]. Lawrence is the person who has pre-
sided over his discontinue. Mr.. DobSon has
accepted, and has embalmed in print, the state
ment which other writers have made that Peg
Wellington made her first appearance in Eng
land at Covent Garden on November ., ITO.
Mr.. Lawrence proves. by an advertisement from
THE Daily POST of that period, that the ac-
treSs made her debut eight years earlier, at the
Haymarket. when she took part in perform
ance of THE BegSar's Opera, appearing In
three roles, those of Macheath, Mrs. Peacham
and Mrs. Diane Trapes.
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durbar at Delhi by independent observers, there
is TO be embOdying official record of the
event. 1t is to be written by Mr.. Stephen
Wheeler, who. besides full account of all the
ceremonies and events of the durbar. will give
lists of the Indian princes and other notabes who
were present, details as to the troops engaged,
and historical sketches of the states, provinces
and people that were represented at Delhi
Mr. J. E. c. Bodley having seen his book on
the coronation published and most favorably re-
ceived by the reviewers, has returned to his
home at Biarritz. He will resume at once his
work upon the French Church and religious
questions, which he began five years ago as a
kind of supplement to his we'll known book on
France.
| Longmans. Green & Co. will bring out this sea-
son two books by Mr. Andrew Lang. The
Wallets Tragedy and Other Studies and a
Christmas volume, to be added to the well
known series, THE Crimson Fairy Book"
Mr.. Lang, in recent article on literary con-
troversy, glances at the Carlyle imbrOglio. Il
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since been informed that its source was of
the two CarlyleS. If so. Sir James CTichton-
Browne has, far. bad case A told me the
story; A had it from B. a very celebrated per
son; c, a person of equal celebrity, told B. and
G had the anecdOte from one of the unhappy
welded pair. That is the pedigree of the mar
ratiVe, which l myself had heard in the same
words long ago. If that evidence is good enough
land the narratorS' names carry much weight.
Mr. FrOude may be relied as against his
AEsculapian aSSaiant." To this Sir James
Crichton-Browne promptly makes public reply
in part in this wise:
THE array of fictitious initials is in Itself
suspicious but think 1 can through it. and
if the story is the take it to be- it rests en-
trely a supposed breach of confidence of a
very fragrant kind by a medical man, and gained
currency through the incontinence Of a gossip
ing old woman. L refuse to believe that the
medical man ever dOubly disgTaCed himself by
divulging a professional secret which he must
have known to be untrue; and know, moreover,
that at the very time when he is accused of
committing this treachery, in gratuitOusly Civ
ing away a patient to mere acquaintance, he
was himself in such a state of health as must
have deprived of validity any statement he
might make. Mr. Lang's story is therefore OBJ
viously story in the COllOquial and nursery
| sense of the word, and the state of mind mani
Tested by the telling of it requires correction.
Evidence will be adduced that the unhappy
on the strength OF a, b, c, ascribed to one of
them"
One Of the new books of travel to be expected
next winter will be a volume entitled Giles" in