New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-12

prano." as has been announced in the press
Mr.. and Mrs Williamson. the pioneer authors
OF automobile fiction, have Just completed new
novel which will be published seriay before It's
annaaranoe in book form It is entitled Lady
Betty Across the Water but whether 1t CON
Germs itself with motor or not is left for the
reaaar 70 discover for himself. Mr.. Williamson
&c an English Journalist and editor. and his wife.
formerly Miss Alice Muriel Livingstone is an
American and a New-Yorker. although her ram
tly comes from the South and she spent he'
early years in Kentucky. The Williamsons nave
nov. however. forsaken their native ianos TOT
a picturesque cottage. Chalet des Pms, al Zap
Martin. on the south coast of France, where they
retire after their motor trips to cast their eA
perieEces into the form of fiction.
One of the most fascinating drives In the worm
is that which winds through the Dolomite couh-
fry that province of Italy wherein Titan was
born. and wherefrom ancient Venice drew ''e
massive piles of her waterways and the pam"
for her galleys. There are still sPlendld ioIeS'S
in Galore and the peaks Of the Doiolni'es ii'o
-, into +be h,ue II, interchangeable beauty and
grandeur above valleys and meadows START"
with flowers and set here and there with I'm!
villages All that this region means TO lover
~ ,et,,ra may he seen in Amelia b EDWARDS :
.eTT,trodden Peaks and Uufrequented Valleys
i. 4hir5 edition of which has been brought out
here by F. P. Dutton * Co The DOCK was
urritten thirty years ago, and footholeS nave
brought il partially up to date in the mater OIL
changes specially interesting to travellers we
roov rejoice. however. il the fact that those
changes are few so far-that. while the railway
-, x-a,ica leaves the enlightened traveller at
. NOS. convenient point for starting his drive
and while there Is a magnificent modern hotei
midway between Belemo and Toblaoh. there ara
no facilities inviting 30 the cheap trippT'
whose coming spells ruin to every glory o.
nature The face Of the country is altered ohI9
b, bergfalls which now and again occur mere
the one most ,Iagic in its resulto happeheu
toward the end of the eighteenth century, when
<our villages were destroyed-two being buried
suddenly in the dead of night and two oelhe
drowned in the depths of : lake formed by the
consequent damming Of rushing river 1t 10
said that when the lake IS smooth enough
houses with their roofs still on and their chlh-
news standing-even the parish church with us
belfry-may be seen far under the clear water
Not one of all the people in the four villages
escaped
Three more volumes have been issued in the
5eHgb+fnl biographical Edition OF the WORKS
of stevenson which the Scrfhners are pruning
one is given TO The Wrong Box. Whlch WAS
;++., i'm collaboration with Lloyd Osbourne
ofh
,.s+ civ CHAPTERS. and the third TO the Com
80 poems. All the volumes have prefaces ny
1r. stevenson These contain. as usual de-
60. IF biography which have an especial per
o,a1 authority. some Of them throwing NNlu
light on little known phases or 0teNeilso"
corear Writing in the Introduction to 81, ives
bout his relations with Mataafa, Mrs steven
son says:
One side of my husbands character vas s senon6
cpaee his ii health beginning in his s66er
making what he preferred "a l s75, hooks on mill
az tactics Notifications ETC. on @tiS avarnna-
Nm II NAV he imagined how gazing IL the
sit writing books on his veranaah:. tbe Opposing
VINES and knowing how easy 1t w%eIa he ee was
ost tempted to throw in his lot win M@ id
az he was ACCUSED of doing But ms Pc pTs'T ,e; and
msn{ Ifs One Of the petty prosecutions he was
subjected 20 was an order b onIV reason for his
ne P to have few rifles at his oomma1R9o Ms
that were in historic sGit bateeid just the
border between the opposing loTT Iss At our very
annrs We had reason to fear eIlher sue t3be
Even ~oQtlugb~ 800 m he carried to the victors
80 founded mon from either SIDE WoIlu I9oh
him I rer shpcS protection would be Impossible He
therefore asked PERMISSION 20 refused Not
a4rer nv son saw his opportunity ana ioIr e
oe
tbeu1sslyes unvillingly imported the SIX l1i77 '
we afterwards kept in the STUDY
~. Stevenson corrects the erroneous i'm
--essions which have got abroad as TO tAe
house, AT Vaiima It has been described poth
as kind of palace and as house OF poverty
She saws that {; was neither the one thlng no.
the other, and gives account or II Whlch
merely shows that the stevensons hNeo WITH
comfort and in good taste
Tbe Tjnnincotts announce a sumptuous vol
,,me entitled Newport: Our Social capital
nv MIS- John King Van Rensselaer, me au-
Thor writes with authority on her SUBJECT Whlch
she treats bo1h from the historical and the
social point of view Her book VIII be Prllled
En- handsome quarto. with a frontispiece IN
color by Henry HUT. and many illustrations
IN photogravure ard other process plates.
W. Edward H. Cooper has carefully observed
s.The Twentieth Century Child John Lane
.gt+ snnears in the society of the British Isles.
sn5 -s,,-eseuts it TO be a more or less sophlsfl-
cafes. cynical and tempestuous parsonage He
.otos al increasingly rapid development OF the
nursery intellect The child of to-day. he says,
..thtrks more knows more questions more.
talks = hundred times more than Its contem-
pc;s-y afteen years agO+'-all this being the
consequence, apparently, Of its present en1an-
o;Da3.oa rom the nursery and its admission 10
gTow7-1p ne How are these nervous, nigh
strung. remarkably intelligent children Of pe2-
20 e1siea with the affairs CT society to be prop
ss4y ,s=cd sor7 Hire deputy mother, advises
.os zatho:-"a ledY with authority gov
~raess osrso and drcssTnakers, With power 90
refuse the requests Of auats"-a guardian Hho
has not Only refinement, but brains. patience,