New-York tribune., 1905-06-10
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
Current Talk about Things Present
ond to Come.

The first presentation of Josephine Preston
| Peabodv's drama, "Marlowe." will be given at
Radcliffe College, Cambridge, on June ~ ana ~
although 1t was published in book form aponr
| .hree years ago The author was a RadchHe
student and this premier performance OF her
play will celebrate the opening of the new auoi-
torium in Elizabeth Cary Agassiz House. the
new students house at Radcliffe, given to the
| college by friends of Mrs Agassiz on her
! eightieth birthday, December 5, 1902 The part
| of Marlowe will be played by Professor George
| P Baker of the Harvard English department
| and that of Gabriel Andrew by ]. G. Hart The
| proceeds will be used for the equipment of the
| Agassiz House.
Not long since printed in a brief review OF
| Modern Advertising" a volume written by
Earnest Elmo Calkins and Ralph Holden, an
| extract from the book relating story to the
effect that Robert Bonner. the publisher of Inc
New-York Ledger" accidentally made fortune
| by ordering one line advertisement in Ihe
| NewYork Herald and writing the order so
| badly that it was given page, which attracted
so much attention that it made the reputation
of THE Ledger in day. Now Mr.. Robert
| E. Bonner, the of the original proprietor
of "The Ledger" writes to the Appletons to
contradict the story, declaring that his father
wrote a careful and legble hand that was
characteristic of his thoughtful precaution."
He gives quite different version of the incl
dent alluded to in Modern Advertising saying
| in part:
Mr. Bonner had made an arrangement for page
| New-York Tribune The copy which he furnished
The Tribune was line of eight words; Read
This was to be printed the page only i've times
and In @ car at te Top ana pot9 % OF be fe t nm
seTtion appeared the publis6er of The Tribune was
| display of much white paper that he sent to
Mr Bonner and offered to make no charge for the
| would allow him to cancel the contract for the
| cepted.
When Mr.; James Gordon Bennett the elder). of
Mr. Hudson his manager to NJ Bonner: a ana IN IN
Mr. Bonner e ali the ' space pace he wanted Mr.. Bonner's
| reply was, that he would take the whole eight
| an eight page paper Mr.. Bennett said Very
@ but MI y anhs4 hre TO get W
but my advertisement must appear on every otner
| tory of the incident
| Henry James it seems. has double, who is
trying to undo him. He looks much like the
| author that he was able to impose on a credu-
lous optician of literary tastes. who was famil-
| lar with Mr. James's published portraits, to the
extent of getting trusted for pair of expensive
eyeglasses, airily requesting the dealer to send
| the bill 10 Henry James In care of Harper e
| Bros The masquerader appears to have made
J but modest use of his resemblance. Mr.. James
is alarmed lest this should have been but trial
trip. so to speak, to discover how we'll the like
ness would impose on those who know him only
| through his pictures, and that the double may
| be planning some greater swfndle, from Which
he may not come out cheaply.
Jesse Lynch Williams has just completed a
| four act comedy, to be called THE Stolen
Story" founded the short story of that name
which he wrote for "Scribner's Magazine" and
| which gave the title TO his volume of stories
| of newspaper life. The play has been accepted
| by Henry W. Savage who will produce it IN
| the autumn. It is said to be less dramatiza-
ton of the story than elaboration OF it in
dramatic form.
DR.. Richard T Ely's well known book on
| THE Labor Movement in America, published
| originally in 1886, has been brought out by the
| Macmillans, with considerable matter
added in the form of two appendices. the latter
| of which is an article on 1.-The Relation of Tenn
| perance Reform to the Labor Movement" DR..
| Ely has in contemplation thorough revision Of
| his work with a view to making it conform
with the developments of the movement in the
| last twenty years.
Lady Bobs, Her Brother and t. story by
| new writer Jean Chamblin by name, which is
now being published a magazine serial, will
| be issued in book form by the Putnams in the
autumn. The author, who is of French and
| Virginian ancestry and was born in a Nevada
mining camp, has had varied and interesting
career having studied kindergarten work with
| Kate Douglas Wiggin engaged in active phil
| anthropy and travelled extensively as an actress
| of character parts. If her first novel fails of
success it will not be from lack of opportunities
| for observation.
a new and revised edition of WaIlace's RUS
| sia" brought down to the present day by the
author is announced for publication this month
| by Henry Holt & Co.
| It is not always possible to form an idea of an
| unfamiliar language either from its appearance
| in print or its sound when spoken. The preva-
| lent notion that Russian is barbaric and out
| landish tongue is contradcted by Prince
Kropotkin who may, however, be regarded as
| a partial advocate, in his book, Russian
| Literature" He declares that:
! The richness of the Russian language In words
| is astounding Many word which stands alone
| Of Western Europe has in Russian three or four
equivalents for the rendering of the various shades
of the same idea 1t is especially rich in rendering
various shades of human feeling, tenderness, love,
| sadness merriment, also various degrees the
same action. Its pliablity for translation is such
| number of most beautiful correct and truly poetic
! diverse Character, such Heine Beranger Long
/ fellow Schiller, Shelley and Goethe. say moth
| Shakespeare, equally well turned into Russian
| . The desperate vagueness of German meta
physcs IS quite much home in Russian as
the matter of style of the eighteenth century
iye ePse Sentences of the best Engs Wes
| offer difficulty for the Russian translator.
In this day of the literary press agent it is