New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-19
LITERARY NOTES.

The long series Of volumes in which the Put
mans have been printing the writings of Wash
ington. Hamilton. Franklin, Adams and other
commanding figures in the history of the
ton is to be completed with edition of the
writings of LINCOLN This, edited by Arthur
Brooks Lapsley, will to eight volumes, and
will embrace not only Lincolns public addresses
letters and other official documents but a large
number of more personal letters and speeches
The full text of the Lincon-Douglas debates
will be given The Life by Noah Brooks will
be included in the scheme. and will also
be made for the essay written by Carl schurz
and for an address by Joseph H. Choate. This
Federal Edition will be printed with great
care fine paper. and it will be illustrated
with portraits of Lincoln. and Of other notable
Americans of his time.
Collectors Of whistleriana will do we'll to note
the fact that the Scribners have among their
autumn importations the special edition, pub
| lished by Henemann. Of the catalogue of the
memorial exhibition recently held in London.
The text makes interesting record, and the
numerous Observation-Disclosures and half
tones-incude several unfamiliar things. The
photography of the subject has, by the way
mounted up with some rapidity since the artists
death Messrs. Dennis and Ways book, the
| thick volume by Mr.. Mortimer Menpes. and now
this catalogue, are to be put to the credit Of
English enterprise In this country the work
which promises to be the most important publ
cation of all is a defnitive catalogue of Whis-
tiers etchings, which the Grolier Club has under
way. 1t will be authoritative: 1t will be uxuri-
ously made and It will reproduce all Of the
etchings in facsimile. We reviewed some time
ago the excellent book on Whistler which NJ.
Du-et published in France, and since then a
sumptuous folio has been projected in Paris,
apropos of the memorial exhibition at the Ecole
des Beaux-Arts The September number of the
Gazette des Beaux-Arts,' Just TO hand.
tains the last of four articles Whistler by
NJ. Leonce Benedite articles so good that their
ultimate appearance between the covers of a
book is to be expected matter Of course.
Considering the essays published on both sides
of the Atlantic. and the fact that an elaborate
biography 90 Whistler is in preparation by Mrs
Pennel it is plain that the student of the future
will not lack material when he goes to the
| libraries.
This months Gazette" is an uncommonly
good number. It opens with the first of series
of articles by NJ. Gabillot on Drouais and his
immediate artistic descendants, a fascinating
theme Then NJ. Hovelaque talks at length about
Louise Breslau, that modest but accomplished
il we remember correctly, the envious wrath Of
Marie Bashkrtseff. NJ. Godet describes a
hitherto unpublished portrait by La Tour,
which from the plate take to be exquisite
souvenir Of the noted pastellist, and NJ. Boppe
completes his survey Of those surprisingly
numerous eighteenth century painters who de-
veIoped fondness for treating of ORR
entail life There is a good letter from Belgium
by NJ Hymans. describing the Jordaens Exhibit
ton at Antwerp.
The current number of 1.-The Burlington Mag
azine" Robert Grier Cookie opens with a sug-
gestive paper by Mr.. c. J. Holmes on Turner's
Theory of CoIouring." It does not give us a very
luminous analysis of the theory but the author
lends some FEASIBILITY to his argument that
there were science and knowledge beneath
Turner's later work that he was not mere
happy-go-lucky virtuoso in those pictures
which, on the surface, seem TO justify that view
OF his artistic character There is much curious
and interesting information in the second of
Dr. Martins studies of the life Of the Dutch
artist in the seventeenth century and we well
come also the continuation Of Mr. Viewers H.
Illustrated account of old English architectural
lead work The most important Of the other
miscellaneous articles deal with two early
French miniatures and points in the history of
Titan and Durer. The department given to
Art In America" is now edited by Mr. F. J.
Mather' jr.' whose salient notes this month ars
on two old paintings in the collection of the
NewYork Historical Society The hest things
| in The international Studio" for September are
the articles on recent exhibition at Venice and
| the pictures in the Thomy- Thiery collection left
to the Louvre two years ago. Both are well H.
Illustrated We may appropriately note here tho
| September issue of Masters in Art. C7oston.
Bates & Gould Company. sheaf of ten good
| reproductions of Claude. accompanied by q nor
trait and some interesting text
Mr. Ophant Snieatons Edinburgh" was "a
viewed at length in The Tribune last year. wber