New-York tribune., 1905-07-16

Oeeh awarded prizes by the French Ac1deny
one one OF them is Nj. Emile Lauvriere's Edgar
zoe, sa Vie ct son QIuvre" the other is M TnIas
GGSSrocquigny's GSgy Charles Lamb, sa We ct ses
AIready the titles of novels to be ex-
Pected in the fall being announced Mr.
M, wv lIllaIn LIE Queux will deal in Behind the
1hrone with fntTigues supposed to have gone
On On at the Quirinal during the latter wears of
hlng Humbert's reign. Miss Florence Warden
mas mas IN press story about sensational proceed
! IIgS IN an old English country house. when she
VIII call Playing the Knave'' and a posthu-
nous novel by Mr.. Guy Boothby, "A Brighton
| tragedy, is also promised for the autumn
Mr. MI Austin Dobson's defnitive edition of the
Dlary ana Letters of Madame dArbay'' has
been completed. The sixth and final volume will
be issued in a short time by the Macmillan Com
;1any. The same house will publish in the fail
| Ihe volume on Watts, in which Mrs Russell D.
harrington a near neighbor and intimate friend
or the artist, gives her personal recollectons OF
him. with many anecdotes. The book is ex-
pected TO throw light WattS's methods of
| painting, since Mrs Darlington had constant
| access to his studio, often watched him at work.
ana mad many talks with him the subject of
ms art There will be numerous illustrations in
the volume.
| We hope that there will be an American edi-
| ton of Tolla the Courtesan," Mr.. Frederick
| Lawton's new translation of the book by Rodo-
canachi. which treats of eighteenth century
Rome. AS fiction it has great repute but
as study of Italian social life, in a particll-
| larly interesting epoch, it has won high praise
The Hon Maurice Barring says in his new
book, with the Russians in Manchuria" that
Milton is the most popular author in all Rus
sa. He learned that Paradise Lost" is to the
Russian peaSantry what Shakespeare is TO the
Germans. that the priests encourage the read
ing of the book. and that it is known to every
private soldier In q talk with of his Rus
sian friends about the late Henry Seton Mer-
| riman's well known novel, 'The Sewers" he
found that English acceptance of the work as
accurately representing Russian conditions was
regretted, the book being regarded as anything
but faithful to the facts.
Stories of good luck in the old book shops Of
the world always have charm of their own.
we we rarely encounter prettier one than this.
which we take from "The Sketch:
M. Hanotaux formerly French Minister for For
elsp Affairs was one day walking along the quays
III in Paris rI His mind was fixed politics, but he
IN IN tarnished red morocco for the sum of five
the Of empire and on the margins
OF Of the pages handwriting that made him start. M.
avaed himself of further expert opinion and found
mentaries Of Caesar annotated with free eG military
criticisms in the autograph OF the first Napoleon!
at Fontainebieau, and from internal evidence It
a Appeared & that rat the set of Cesar had been ineom
to read in his carriage after the abdication.
There is to be still another volume published
of verse by the late Laurence Hope" 1t is to
appear within a few weeks under the title of
indian POEMS" and it will be awaited with
a genius, had often a beguiling touch in her
work. 49,
Ihe Rev. r. ]. Hardy who wrote How To Re
Happy Though Married. declares in his new
Dook, John Chinaman at Home" that he has
found the Chinaman full of sympathy and
hulnor He has an amusing anecdote illustrate
ing the fondness of the Chinese for astOnishine.
foreigners, even though they have to sacrifice
the truth in the process. IAN fnhabitant OF
canton" he says, being told that the King
or Great Britain certain occasions drawn
in a carriage by eight cream coIored horses an
Swered without moments hesitation China
Emperor-twenty y-four.' "
A book on Crystal Gazing" has been written
by Mr.. N. w. Thomas and will soon be pub
lished. 1t will contain introduction by Mr.
Andrew Lang, who has always found time in
the midst of his many literary UNDERTAKINGS to
way, that all writers such subjects had some
thing of the light touch which Mr. Lang uses
when he is treating them. Indeed, he Is not
more interesting when he is writing about lit
erature or the StuartS than when he is writing
about ghosts, crystal gazing and the like Mr.
Lang has lately received a very pretty compli-
ment. One of his countrymen Mr. Henry
Whyte, has made number of selections from
his True Stories Books has translated them
and is going to bring them out in a volume
called True Stories in Gaelic
At time when writer's on Shakespeare are
only too often disposed to adopt an air of owIish
superiority, it is pleasant to have a scholar of
recognized ability express his contempt for blind
scholarship with frankneSs and Vigor Mr.