New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-10
ROCKS md AUTHORS.
Current TaE5, about Things Pres
ent and to Come.

-, r.-aepsIet the associate editor OF the
-. Monthly" win hereafter have the edl-
.o-sel supervision OF IIoughton. MiHhn 0S 90
los Of limited Riverside Press editions Bruce
,-cqers viii continue TO have charge OF the 'ypo-
--snhical and artistic features o, the SERIES
,rbich has reached high degree OF e@eei-
80 in these particulars under his direction.
.oa,s1ot e,.-ine from now on his especial
..n,,ton 10 extending the series along harrnon'-
,,uas and establishing IN authoritative text
fT printing.
lar, London IN appearance suggests raeneI
- eafor than the man OF letters, the Ne@
Tr,ls" IN his milder moods rather IMAM hlS 40
- hiographer OF medium stature ana
-.a,obt he is bread shouldered. we'll museieu'
- and Of a sea breezy carriage. with 'he
- the mariner in his gait. He is smooth
Zen has firm. square set chin, keen gray
-. ewes and q mouth with what gushing au-
- terms .'pic:tlred corners" Among hiS
th,ss are the kindred amusements Of KITE NY
d. and socialism. he is fon1 OF salili1e' 0--4
Ins much of his writing aboard his so0p yacht
IN san Francisco Bay.
,.rr Garland has returned 10 Ne"-1oiN
-s.re he viii remain until spring. During the
-,,ter he will deliver course Of lectures Oh
Tte Mystery Of the Mountain showing oy
Means OF stories ana poems and extracts rom
30 -acent novel "Hesper." the irnpresSlo'0
r,esA on the plainsmans emotions by the hish
hills.
Ernest Thompson Seton is now on ie''ut
tour In England, 70 enable British wy -,
girls to make the acquaintance Oh ''i7 est,iI
friends LIMO Silver Spot, Bingo, the SaIluilii
- -. t,oro ~ his new book. Monarch. the
g 1sear IF TaIlac" and other wild animals ne
.aS ,,,ovn Incidentally he is stirring up an
interest in his books. over quarter OF nlliiloh
~ which The Scribners have already sofa on
both sides Of the Atlantic
rail ,-aire st is stated. spent three months IN
Iceland accommodating data and local color Iol
his latest novel. The Prodigal Son. he theh
,,syced an IceIauder TO accompany him 10
Switzerland. Paris and the Riviera, Where Inc
ether scenes of the story are laid for the pur-
ose Of observing the impressions that these
rlacos made on a native of that remote land
n Zee and snow. and also that he might employ
his companion as q sort Of peripatetic encycio-
ns.dja O. information. 10 whom he could REFER
when his own memory failed him, or when ne"
polnfs TO be settled arose IN the planning OF the
book
- Defective Santa Claus is the title of a
new book by James Whitcomb Riley. which the
Pobbs-Merriu Company has just issued for the
HOLIDAYS. The story is OF course, told in verse,
and is profusely illustrated by c. NJ. Relyea and
VIII Vawter.
Certain critics Of d Sherlock Holmes turn Of
mind have assumed to detect in Anthony
Homes latest novel. Double Harness" a refec-
,ion Of the authors changed views of matrimony
since his own marriage a little over year ago.
The married Londoners in the book do not, it is
true. find their paired condition in all respects
satisfactory. and the volume does not present
the usual cIeverIy cheerful characteristics Of
most Of Mr. Hopes previous work Unfortu-
rstely for the ingenious theories of the literary
sleuths II now is stated that Double Har-
ness" was written year before the authors
wedding and was indeed, begun before he had
even met the young woman who is now his wife
and who recently presented a little daughter to
him.
4 collection Of Letters of Henrik Ibsen" has
been made by a son Of the dramatist, with his
fathers sanction. The correspondence covers a
period Of about fifty years from 1919 to 1898.
and includes letters written to King Charles of
Sweden, George Brandes, the Danish critic:
Bj6rnstjerne Bjornson. William Archer and
Edmund Gosse. They have been translated by
John Nilsson Laurvik and viii be published
shortly in book form by Fox. DufTeld & Coz
preliminary instalment appearing in the next
number Of The International Quarterly"
Longmans. Green & Co. have now brought out
the first volume OF The Mammals OF Great Brit
ain and Ireland" by J. c. Miilais. F. z. s.. TO be
completed in three quarto volumes. dedicated. by
special permission, TO King Edward VII Only
1923 copies Will be printed for England and
America. The work will be richly illustrated
with photographers and coloreG plates by the
author. Archibald Thorburn and G. Z. Lodge
The succeeding volumes are expected 10 appear
al intervals Of eight months
Mrs. Alec-Tweedle. Of London. author Of Be
hind the Footlghts' and Mexico as I Saw It."
Is now in New-York fo- short visit Mrs
Alec-Tweedie has just arrived from a trip to
Mexico where she was the guest Of President
Diaz, and assisted at the festivities in connec-
ton with his inauguration for the seventh con-
secutive term. On her way north from Mexico
she had an interview with President Roose-
Welt III Washington and visited Horace Howard
FUTness. the Shakespcarian writer, at Walling-
ford, Penn The main purpose Of her visit to
this country was 10 collect material for another
book or Mexico. she sails for England on De-
cenber IS
Little Burr. the Warwick OF America" the
talTa volume q Charles FELTON, Pidgin's Burr
Irilogy'' is Just published by the Robinson, Luce
company OF Boston. The author, in his pref
nee makes the somewhat disconcerting state
Inent 70 those who have read his 'Blenner-
hassett" ana The Climax that Little Burr" is
'1aly the first Of the series, "Blennerhassett''
coming second and The Climax" appro-
PIlie!y' last. II is TO be hoped that even this
"'ons end foremost way OF getting his views be-
-o-e the public will satisfactorily accomplish his
purpose Of clearing the reputation of his hero
lbut Kifhnit notrnnti,,or e.. L.. -. -. =