New-York tribune., 1903-01-30
LITERARY NOTES.
Until February collection Of studies and
sketches by the illustrator. Karl Anderson, VIII
be on view in Doubleday. Page & Co.'S bookshop
in Fifth-ave-


be on view in Doubleday. Page & Co.'S bookshop
in Fifth-ave.
Longruans Green & Co. are bringing out the
late DR. William BrighJ's revision of his lect-
ures on the early church. DR.. Bright. who was
regius professor of ecclesiastical history at OK
ford published book for students some thirty
five years ago called "A History of the Church
from a D. S13 to A d. 45l'' This volume was
designed for students. and was analy1ic al
treatment, citing verifying references for all
statements of facts In the present work, which
IS called The Age of the Fathers, the same
period is covered in popular manner
The less essential details are omitted, ano inc
attention is concentrated upon the l1Ves OF lhe
fathers and their doctrinal controversies hNe
interval Of thirty-five years stands. OF COURSE
sorj wider reading and ripper historicai 9uoe
ment The two volumes Of the newer "oih
while following the earlier treatise. are fouiiueu
largely upon the professors lectures. His note
books or sylvia he called them' huiiiOei
over sixty volumes. In ten notebooks ne "rote
ou- his lectures though in delivery he rarely
adhered 70 his written text. The first OF THESE
lecture notebooks bears the date 1SIo, ana 'he
eighth 1873 The ninth was apparently Ho'
COMPLETED till 1880. In them the text appe"i'
on the right hand page. with notes. references
quotations and corrections on the leiI Inc
preparation for publication was not entreS
completed when DR.. Bright died. but these no'e-
hooks were in such condition that there was
little difficulty in bringing the work 10 l's
close.
Basil Kings new novel. which is announced oy
the Harpers. is called in the Garden OF Chai
jtv' Charity Pennland is a young Nova oco'idl
girl married to a soldier who goes OH 10 llle
wars and does not return for eleven years
During this time Charity waits for MIN lal'h
fully He finally puts in appearance ailer ~ nav
ing contracted mock marriage with a nan
Greek woman. on the coast. and dies. Charl'y
attitude 10 the second wife and the chlio u 'ie
mock marriage is the theme of the tale
To the Miniature Painters" series the Mac
milan Company has added three volumes one
on Lord Leighton. by George c Nlii1ansoh'
another on Holman Hunt by the same author
and study of Greuze by Harold Armltage'
The practice of calling upon noted people lot
p list of the books which have Influenced them
or for which they entertain peculiar affection
IS becoming too general to receive comment
Rut one of the neatest replies TO that sort OF
question appears in IT. P.'s Weekly for De
cernber 26 This youlIgster among perloulcalS
had been sending TO prominent men TO know
what books they had cared for most In thelr
childhood The Pilgrims Progress, Roolnson
Crusoe' and a host of commonplacely classlcai
titles were poured into these personal para
graphs. together with an occasional book that
few old readers would have heard of. and that
had happened INTO the childs hand by accident
The cool dra1ght in this desert comes from Pro-
fessor Sl1eat of Cambridge University. L am not
prepared with any answer" he writes I dlo
not know when young that should be eA-
pected TO reply to such question
Eliza. r. Scidmore, who has already written of
lava and China has prepared a book on winter
India" which the Century Company will bring
out in the spring. Winter is the season OF
tourists in India. and furnishes some of the
most notable contrasts between the Eastern and
Western civilizations. The recent durbar lehos
an interest TO the country at present, with its
jmposing array of princes and state elephants.
The elephant. by the way, is said TO be under-
going steady relegation to the background
of ceremonial 1t is still used for carting, to be
SIRE and for state occasions it should always
hold its own. but for ordinary use the autono-
bile threatens TO displace it. This book is il
Illustrated by photographs taken by the author.
T7arlv in the spring the Century Company will
publish story of life in girls college by Jean
Webster The lighter phases of the life are
dealt with in a series of episodes rather than a
continuous plot
The Macmillan Company publishes transla-
+ion bv Johanna Valz of Friedrich NietZsche's
Dawn of DAY." 1t is a collection of short
r,arsgraphs with indented headings in italics. on
z-ariaus aspects of Nietzsche's moral concep
tions-a large book Of table talk, as il were
The higher we soar" he writes toward the
end the smaller we appear 10 those who can
NOT hv'' In the introduction he represents him
self as having spent a long time burrowing in
The ground in an effort TO underminJ sf0 preju-
dices A characteristic paragraph is the follow
ing: There is a constant mending and moiling
going on in morals, the result of successful
crimes (to which. for instance, belong all in
novations in moral thinking)-
Rudvard Kipling has gone to Cape Town.
South Africa, for the remainder OF the winter.
or n sneak with reference to the climate, for
the summer.
The author of Exploded Ideas" and Essays
in Paradox" has published another volume OF
essays through LonSmans. Green & Co, under
the title Auto da Fe and Other Essays. Some
Being Essays in Fiction"
The Poet Laureate has written three act
play in blank verse. entitled "Flodden Field.
which will he produced by Beerbohm Tree at His
M4iesty's Theatre, in London
St Nicholas for February viii publish the
hest design received in the Childrens Book Plate
Contest which the magazine started in Novem-
Der. Taese designs are drawn by children for