New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-07-11
LITERARY NOTES.

The Letters from a Portuguese Nun" to an
officer in the French army will be brought out
soon in edition by Brentano's. The book
is being printed at the Merrymount Press and
will contain the first seven letters hitherto omit
ted in all American editions. Usually but five
OF the letters beginning with the eighth. are
printed The volume in press is to be an
exact fac-simile of the 1917 edition. with a
frontispiece representing Mariana pausing in
her writing to gaze a portrait of Chamilly.
The original title page and the peculiar manner
Of typesetting have been copied as we'll as the
original binding.
Who can interpret the workings of a womans
mind? Not Can even woman? Nine.
woljeska-T indolph is at least to attempt it.
The Life Publishing Company announces book
by this Austrian woman. living in this coun-
try. TO be entitled "A Womans Confessional"
1t purports to portray the life history of a re-
markable woman in the form Of epigrams taken
from her journal. marking the different stages of
her mental and moral development.
Kate Sanborn, writing in Good Housekeep-
ing" on that interesting volume 1.-The Fat of the
Land" by DR.. John William Streeter of Chicago,
which was recently reviewed in The Tribune,
explains that she SO anxious 10 know how
much to believe Of the tale that she wrote to the
author about It. He replied as follows:
The book was written to shorten sixty days of
sedridden discomfort and It served its purpose.
be read save by members Of my own family and by
me ntiI bd az IPS OtUSs rtrt IL was
and had written another book that l asked the
The Fat Of the Land" As farmers boy for OF
nineteen years. soldier for four and doctor for
thirty-flye there was scant time for acquiring the
art Of bookmakEg, and feel that it is sheer
induces them to withhold the knife WHICH
As TO fact. ] must admit some amplifcation and
no more. ! fancy: than Is admissible We have the
If BY so doing We can make truth clearer or more
acceptable. The PRINCIPLES Of factory farming
would be nine If could be consistent on land
as on paper.
The free Hawthorne memorial exhibition OF
the New-York Public Library will remain open
for six weeks at the Lenox Library building.
The exhibits consist of an absolutely complete
series OF Hawthorne first editions a number of
his original manuscripts, together with many
portraits. views of his hauhts and homes. and
books that have been written about him. This
is the first opportunity that has ever been
afforded the public in New-York to see all of
Hawthc-nes works originally published
Brander Matthews will contribute TO the
August number Of The Lamp an article en-
titled Seed Corn for Stories'-a collection, from
the essays and other writings OF famous au-
thors, OF suggestions for numerous stories which
still remain unwritten. The inference is I'M
avoidable in this gratuitous distribution Of lit
erary seed that the stories remain unwritten
because elaboration would fail to improve the
original terse statement Of the incidents or sit
uationS enumerated. Professor Matthews ia a
writer CT fiction himself
Dr.. Ellis P. Oberholtzer the Editor OF the
American Crisis Biographies" George w. ia
cobs & Coz. will contribute the life of Lincoln"
TO the series. The volume will be ready in the
early autumn. It aims TO give "a new twentieth
century view OF its subject
~Cotho" is a composite authors the nan
name. in fact Of the "Spinners' Club" q III
erary Group in California. numbering among its
members Ambrose Bierce Wallace Irwin. GeIett
Burgess, Howard Y. Sutherland Ednah Robin
son. VIII Irwin and suhdry kindred spirits.
"ciotho" is the author OF n book of tossts IN he
called "Prosit" that VIII De published in the call
By Paul Elder & Co. Many OF tho toaxts ar.