New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-09-04

playing in one of the successful comedies Of the
season, his understudy delighted at his
opportunity to distinguish himself, and so sure
that his friends would want TO witness hts tri-
unph, that he teegraphed to authors and man
ayers all over London, saying, y shall play
AS part tonight" No one took any nosice OF
the dispatch save Mr.. Barrie. who autographed
back: Thanks for the warning"
Mr.. George Moore. which. according to the Eng
lish papers, was TO be called General Life" II
now appears that MI Moore never thought OF
using so unattractive title, but win can his
book The Lake" He is also. by the way, going
70 reprint his well known book. the Confessions
Of a Young Man"
A translation IS soon to be published, under
the title CT Life il Crack Regiment" OF the
novel by Baron Won schlicht "Erstklassige
Menschen," which got itself prohibited In Ger
many, but sold, nevertheless to the extent OF
fifty thousand copies The author is to be tried
next month His book is described by The
Athenaunl' as "a trenchant attack German
military manners and morals, painting IN dark
colors the life OF aristocrat.c officers Of the
present day their idleness. ProtligaCy and IN
worthy methods Of obtaining money"
Mr.. Rider Haggards new story The Breth-
ren," viii be published toward the end of this
month. 1t is a tale OF the Crusades. and the
brethren" are Englishmen, Goodwin and Wulc
darcy. Il IS said that the book is as advent
urous in its atmosphere as King Solomon 8
Mines which is good news, for Mr. Haggard Is
never so interesting as when he lets himself so
q
II ls not long since the late Sir Leslie Ste
phens book George Eliot published IN
the English Men OF Letters" series but already
another monograph on the same subject is
nounced- IL is being written along biographi-
cal and critical lines By Mr.. Sidney Lee In view
Of the qualities he has shown in his various books,
he would seem to be well qualified tc write judi
c!oUsly on George Eliot
Collectors Of chairs and tables and similar i'm
IN yx-aT n NJ he fatt
that Mr.. Percy MacQuOid is soon 10 bring out IN
monthly parts an elaborate History Of English
Furniture" 1t will be divided into four con-
venient periods dealing respectively with those
OF oak walnut and mahogany and the one
which the author describes as the composite
age" There viii be thousand Illustrations,
and these viii be generous IN scale, for the work
IS TO be printed il folio The Illustrations
mainly photographs, VIII exhibit the furniture
Of gland from the Tudors TO the Georges
The Life and Letters" OF Bishop Creighton.
by his wife, viii be published by the LOngInans
before very long. The work VIII be IN two vol
umes, Illustrated The same publishers have
nearly ready the second volume Of The Epistles
Of Erasmus" the first volume Of which Mr.. F.
III. Nichols published about two years ago.
Max Nordau, who has not attracted much
attention 70 himself since he momentarily
tonished the world by his book -Degener-
alton" has new novel IN press which Will
bear the title OF Morganatlc-' II IS described
as a social study Ringing on German morga-
matte marriage
The Custodi,4us OF the National Library az
Brussels have recently discovered that system
attic robberes Of books have been going on
under their very noses Several hundred vol
Umes, some Of them of great rarity and al OF
them valuable. have been stolen from the IL
brarv and sold 70 foreign booksellers The
police have got upon the track Of the culprits,
but have not Yet recovered any OF the missing
treasures.
IN the little north country village OF Knuts-
ford Mrs GasEeN found he scenes OF hsr
"CrarforC,' and il figures also in othc- pages %
hers. The place Is 10 be made the subject OF a
book IL Mr.. Dents series or Temple Topogra-
phles an Il Viii, % course, be !ov.shly illus
trated.
The hero Of Nj ". f. Norr,ss last novel
Natures Comedian was actor The hero
Of "NigeIs Vocation" which he IS now bringing
out is a young man Who having Joined this
Church of Rome and been admitted into i
monastery as novice. finds himself recalled to
the world by the Inheritance Of a large estate
The schemes of many persons TO supplant him
and the complications which arise from his love
affair form the substance Of the story.
the fall an Illustrated edition in two volumes Of
the "reminiscences OF Henry Angelo OF the
most picturesque OF Georgian figures Theirs
Will be sixty plates, forty OF them IN coIors after
subjects by Reynolds. Rcmney, Bartoiozzi. Row,