New-York tribune., 1903-04-11

on new novel which he has been working
for more than year. He writes that the nara
training agrees with him wonderfully well ana
that he has gained ten pounds up at D ana
tossing medicine balls till t. he says is the
programme; then a shower bath, breakfast ae
$50, and at 10 boots and saddle through the
finest hill country in the world. Out of doors all
day long and lights out at 8 o'clock" He has
-four weeks yet to serve" and then VIII return
to his work.
The latest addition to the Vale Press publica-
tions is a reprint on paper measuring IL oy
inches of 1.-The Amber Witch" the narration OF
the interesting trial for wtchcraft OF Mary
Schweidler. printed from the imperfect manu-
script by her father, Abraham Schwe1dler' tne
pastor of Coserow in the Island of Usedom- II
is edited by William MeinhOld and TRANSLATED
from the German by Lady Duff Gordon. Ihe
nresen+ edition is decorated by C. S. Ricketts,
George B. Ives, who is editing the edition of
Montaigne's works which Houghton. Mlffiln q
Co. are issuing. secured the cooperation OF MI
Albion w Tourgee, United States consul at
Bordeaux His efforts recounted IN a letter
to Mr.. Ives. from which "The Boston Tran
script" makes the following extracts:
"I send you under another cover of even date"
saws Mr. Tourgee -four prints of the pages OF
Montaigne Essays which you desire. BY sooo
fortune l got the special favor Of NJ celeste the
chief librarian and induced him to make inter
cession with the Mayor for leave to take tne
precious volume to a photographers studl0
without waiting for a meeting OF the Consel
Municipal In consequence NJ. Celeste TOOK the
volume himself and remained with us While the
work being done.
The title page has taken very Well Ihe
lower right hand corner of the original has
yellowish-red smudge coming up as far as the
body of the youngster who seems 10 nave the
nj of bleS
by the way. had you ever noticed that the
frame in which the title is mortised APP
narentlv originally designed for cook book.
perhaps for work on the "Jardin Potager;
This a sort of literature very highy
esteemed in France about that time, and the
printer having it hand, evidently thought
such frame would make fitting border for
the Essays and much cheaper than a new wood
cut Of that size. The writing is all IN INK no"
of a strong reddish brown cast 1t was evil
IDENTIFY a good ink of iron and gall nuts Not
line has failed and hardly letter is 1l1l mon,
taigne, of course, wrote with a quill pen ana
in the most cramped characters. l fancy he
| must have been myopic, though l do not re-
member it having been noted. The fact
| that he is said always to have worked at
! strongly confirms this hypothesis.
almost every page Is full of notes. but many
| of them are additions rather than strictly
emendations 1 thought you should have had
another page to show how Montatgne corrected
his poetry. Every page of verse in the volume
has a heavy line drawn from the upper left
hand corner to the bottom right corner showing
the cheerful readiness with which he slew the
rhymed children of his fancy.
We learn that George Putnam Huntington
was assisted in his compilation. '"The Treasury
of the Psalter" which mentioned in these
| columns lately, by the collaboration of the Rev.
Henry Aiken Metcalf, Of West Roxbury, Mass
Dr. Huntington is the compiler of "Ruskin's
Comments on Dante which Houghton, Miffn
| & Co have issued, and for which Professor Nor
ton wrote an Introduction.
Adelaide Keen the author of the unique cook
| book entitled with Saucepan Over the Sea-"
which Little, Brown & Co. of Boston. recently
published is a native of Philadelphia coming
from an old and epcurean family. She has
written for the New-York daily papers, 'Har-
per's Bazar," Vogue and some of the monthly
magazines on domestic topics. Miss Keen
gathered her recipes from many sources, but
chiefly, it appears, from foreign cooks during
tours on the Continent and in England.
d Appleton & Co. will publish about the end
of May a novel by Frank r. Stockton which
was written by the author during the year pre-
ceding his DEATH and entitled THE Captains
Tollgate" It is love story of ninety-five thou
sand words and has for its scene that part of
West Virginia in which Mr.. Stockton made his
home during the last years of his life. He had
this novel finished at the time when he took up
sKate Bonnet" but decided to defer publication
until Kate Bonnet had been published in
serial form and had afterward run Its course
a bound volume. 1t will be remembered that
Mr. Stockton died only few weeks after Kate
Bonnet appeared but he had so far completed
the work on THE Captains Tollgate" as to
make It ready for submission to his publishers
The book will contain a brief memoir of Mr.
Stockton written by Mrs. Stockton. 1t will
also have frontispiece portrait of the author
and some views of Mr. Stockton's home in West
Virginia. Claynont is stately mansion of
former generation intimately associated with
the Washington family, Mr.. Stockton's farm
having been at one time the property OF George
Washington.
"Othello." which is the sixth volume In the
Dowden edition of Shakespeare published by the
Bobbs- Merrill Company, is now ready. Mr.. H.
c. Hart, under the editorial supervision OF Pro-
fessor Edward Dowden, has annotated 'Othello"
and has written introduction TO the play
The same scheme of annexation and editorial
comment that adopted in the preparation
of the first volume, and that has been followed
in each of the succeeding ones is continued.
An issue OF ''Everyman'' in book form, TO be
ready next week is announced by the new firm