New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-07-17
LITERARY NOTES.

Mr.. George Moore has finished a novel which
is to be called General Life" We hope he is
also putting into shape for publication In book
form the miscellaneous "Avowals" which be has
been printing serialiy. These Informal essays
contain some decidedly clever writing.
The second volume follows rapidly upon the
heels OF the first in the collected edition Of MI
Swinburnes poems 1t will include Songs Be
fore Sunrise" and Songs Of Two Nations and
VIII be issued in London tomorrow. This haste
Is not unlikely to embarrass the English re-
viewers They have so recently exhausted the
language IN hysterical praise of Mr.. SwinbUrne,
apropos of the first volume in the new edition,
that they can hardly be prepared to take up the
theme again so soon
In the new book which he is just bringing out
IN Paris, Les Etats-Uns au IKE Siecle- Nj.
oIerre Leroy Beauleu dates the real growth of
Our hauohaI character not so much from the
war of Independence as from the purchase OF
LOUISIANA He believes that trusts are but a
passing evil and prOphesies that because of
natures endoWments and our own energy we
VIII be supporting. in another century, the role
that England has hitherto played in the world
The chief art book of the coming winter sea
son promises to be the deliberately illustrated
folio on Romney which Mr. Humphry Ward
ana Mr.. W. Roberts are writing. The Scribners
VIII publish it. In the mean time Lord Ronald
Cover is printing monograph on Romney, on
a smaller scale He deals fully with the por-
traits by this painter at Trentham. which have
hitherto been comparatively little known A
well made and not too expensive edition OF
turner's 'l-lDer StudlOrum' Is expected In The
fall. which will witness also the publication of
a book by Mr.. Dewhurst on "Impresa1onist
Painting" The next volume in the admirable
new Library of Art" which has already given
Sir Charles Holroyds Michael Angelo -
Lord Balcarres's "Donatello," and NJ Dinner
French Painting in the XVIth Century. will
be DR. Georg Gronau's Titan" Two volumes
TO be published before long in the "Connota1eUr
Library will be given respectively 10 Ainia-
lures and Worries.
Miss Emily Lawless whose book on Maria
Edgeworth has just been published by the Mac
miIlans in the English Men of Letters" series,
il. Mrs. Oliphant wrote the volume on sheridan
for the series, at the invitation Of Mr.. John
Morley.
A volume Of recouections by the late Helm
rich Delbruck is shortly TO be published In Ber-
lin under the title OF The Youth and Educa-
ton OF Frederick William " Of Prussia and
of the German Emperor William l." Delbruck
was one of the instructors Of the two HohenzoI-
Tern princes in their youth. and it is said that
his memoirs VIII contain some interesting IN
formation relating TO them and to the RUSSIAN
court
Mt W F Reddaway has written a life of
Frederick the Great for the Heroes OF the Ma
tons" series which the Putnams publish. and II
Will soon be issued. The author confesses 10 have
found his inspiration, 10 a certain extent In the
symbolical character Of the celebrated monu-
ment in Berlin. The sense of isolation conveyed
by the position and by the expression on the
royal face suggests 10 Mr. Reddaway the true
significance Of his rule Between monarch
and people there was ever great gulf fixed
Throughout his Hfe-in his counsels, in his de-
spair in his triumph and in his death-F'red-
erick. almost beyond parallel in the record OF
human history was alone"
NJ. Bernard Capes, who has written some
readable stories has new novel coming OUT
within the next few weeks. The Extraordinary
Confessions OF Diana Please The heroine 3
an adventures who figures in some notable
events toward the close OF the eighteenth cen
turv She has something to do with the Nea-
politan rising OF 1899. and at this point Emma
Hamilton comes into the story.
The hero Of MI Joseph Conrad's new novel
.'Nostrorno" the scene Of which is laid N
south American republic, is the man whose
name gives the book its title. He IS GenoeSe
sailor Of striking individuality. The author says
Of him that 1.-The sight OF his black wh.sAers
and white teeth made the evildoers quail
Colonel Andrew Haggard, the brother OF the
well known novelist, is 20 publish another vol
urne OF side Lights on the Court OF france
similar 10 the one which we reviewed some
months ago. 1t will be called Louis XIV IN
Court and Camp" and will be. like its predeceS-
sor fuI OF anecdotes and Illustrated with por-
traits