New-York tribune., 1904-08-14


day day Stories for March l9 1894 have followed the
! piot and circumstances on which Miss .hOlmO0da-
thereby infFnFed the eoPyFighf law desire now
! TO offer to Miss Chomondeley and MIR Murray my
SOPHIE GARDNER.
The new collected edition of MI : Svinburne's
works is to be published in this country by the
| Harpers. The twelve volumes Of which il IS
/ composed will include the poets dramas and
some of his prose writings.
Mr.. Edward Bennett. of the Psys hicaI So
ciety, has in preparation survey of his favorije
| subject to be published in the autumn under the
| title OF Twenty Years of Psychical Research
| 1t will provide the student with COmprehen-
| sive record and 1t viii contain, moreover, Sc
! lected list OF the books which he would do we'll
/ the occult mysteries.
| The new book by Mr.. H c. Wells which is in
the press, is entitled The Food Of the Gods and
| How it Came to Earth" Ouida has a new novel
ready for the printer, "Helianthus Mr. Lau-
renee housnan. VINO wrote An English Wom-
| ans Love Letters, has completed Il new novel
| OF modern life. "Sabrina Warham," and some
autumn volumes also to be expected from
MISS Dorothea Gerard. Miss Rosa Nouchette
| Carey Rolf BOldrewood and Justin Hunty Nc
Carthy. The last mentioned writer's new novel
i is to bear the pleasing title of The Lady Of
win reach in the form of full hedged novels,
| but some collections of short stories are prom
Atoms CT Empire" Another is coming from
Mrs. Gertrude AtheTton. THE Bell in the Fog.
/ anu OIneF StOFleS
In the biography Of the late Professor CoveIl,
| Of Oxford, which has Just been published there
Is OF course more news so to say, OF the Orien-
| talist's famous friend. Omar" FYtzCe-ald one
| Of the hermits letters to Mrs Coweu runs IN
/ this WISE
| My Dear Lady: I thought you were going 10 cut
me. Thackeray's visit to you I heard from no less
you must not suppose that don't wish TO 20 to OK
/ ford Rather, don't wish to create a want
/ rather meet Thackeray with you all aloue-and
Branford-suTIner or winter-tn the little old room
tribute something to the Entertainment I commend
purple silk gown. seeing how love au puppies a-d
| hlacA Thackeray is a noble fellow-sonething Il
you, you can out hero too often. So I my
| spite. and am yours FRETFuL FITZ-
| DR.. Richard Garnett IS writing a monograph
| on Coleridge. for the English Men uf Letters
series. This is cheering news. for il is case Of
| a good subject being treated by the right man.
The price OF the sumptuous new edition ot
Ruskin IS 10 be raised at the end of the year.
| No doubt the publisher feels that he has good
/ reason for taking this step. but wish he
/ would remember that there are thousands OF
readers who would be glad to possess such a
! complete edition Of Ruskn as he alone can give
/ them and that these thousands are not as a
! rule, prepared to spend very large sums on
! books. II seems too bad that whenever really
! dehnltive edition Of a classic is projected il
/ should be made up along luxurious and expel-
| siye lines, apparently as a matter Of course
/ Mr.. Robert Hichens, whose stories have geucr-
! ally dealt with London life. has gone to North
/ ern Africa for the scene OF his forthcoming
| novel The Garden Of Allah will describe the
! efforts of a man and a woman TO achieve the
| true liberty Of the spirit,
TWO books. very different in character but
both calculated to interest the lover of Italy.
! are IN press. One of them IS a monograph
/ by AR George A. Sirnonson on Francesca
/ Guard. which viii contain in its biographical
I portion the fruits of original research and VIII
/ give also list of the artists works with
! number of reproductions. We hope the book viii
! be a good one, and that public appreciation Of
( il Will be generous enough to encourage Mr..
/ That clever painter did for Venetian society in
/ the eighteenth century what Guardi did for
/ Venice itself Both men deserve to be made
/ better known to the modern world. The other
/ Italian book is Mr.. w. HeyWoOds "Pa!io and
! Ponte,' in which the author treats OF athletic
sports in the Peninsula from the Middle Ages
| down TO the present time Special prominence
/ is given to the favorite sports CT Pisa, Florence
/ and Perugia-
| Mr.. s. r. Crockett has prepared as his con-
! tTibutIon to this years juvenilia volume called
! RED Cap Tales: Stolen From the Treasury OF
! the Wizard OF the North He makes this
/ mark about it: -Four children would not read
| Scott so told them these stories-and others
rots dangled before the nose OF the reluctant
! donkey" Does this mean that Mr. Crockett
| has been "condensing'' Scott? We hope not,
/ but in these days OF bookmaking almost any
/ thing seems to be possible.
| NJ Jusserand, the French Ambassador to the
! United States, is engaged upon the final volume