New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-31
LITERARY NOTES.

Miss Dorothea Gerard has written new novel
which, under the inviting .f?e of The House OF
Riddles is on the eve of pcJlcation.
Mr. Charles Warren Stoddard ..The Reader''
states, is preparing to write book on odtirne
Spanish mission life in California where he is
living at present Here is another statement for
which this periodical is responsible:
After the travelling correspondent had got back
from his five years in Europe he introduced
to r. L. S. in the studio of artist friend. or
Stevenson used to 90 often 70 sfoddard's bunga-
low, and after one of these visits he strobe away
under one arm and Stoddards South Sea Idyls''
his new friends ardent talk about the charm Of
life in the South Seas. gave to the plucky invalid
rest of his life.
The French Ambassador at Washington has
sent to his publisher the manuscripts of the
volume of his literary history. 1t is said
that NJ. Jusseran1 writes in French. then has
translation made for the English edition and
himself revises this edition He knows English
almost as well as he does his own language
Mr.. Theodore Watts-Dunton, the English critic
and versffer and author of the tiresome, much
overrated novel, "Aylwin," has left the ranks
of old bachelors. He married the ether
day in London to 4 Miss Clara Reich. NO de-
tails offered as to the future plans or Mr..
Swinburne. who probably loses in this marriage
the houSemate of many years.
Some autograph letters of Washington and
of Jefferson brought good prices at London
sale the other day. The five epistles written by
our first President We're sold for 500; Jeffer-
sons eleven letters brought $3.50
At the same sale first quarto 1900, Of Much
ADO About Nothing brought $3.50. A fourth
folio Shakespeare of 1855, a very large copy,
brought $3.50 The unknown portrait of Snake,
speare" described a in Wa ad Antiquarian.
October, 1885, brought S3O5.
Sienkiewicz, the Polish author, is not, it is
said, rich man, in spite Of his immense sales
1.-THE London Academy" says:
The Russian Empire has rot yet adhered to thu
Berne convention, and Polish copyrights can
therefore be violated with impunity. The country
lately presented to him in the neghborhcod OF
Warsaw is no source of income but; on the con- On
daily mailbag. too-so we are assured by q
attend to it-makes great inroads upon his purse
well as his time He receives about four nun IN
dred letters a day; Most of them are requests TOR
his autograph, but good many are requests Tor
subscriptions.
Mr. n B. Wheatley, who has ceveriY
edited "Pepys" all right readers know. is
about to bring out two books Of his own-SL
''History of Bookbinding" and a volume on
''Hogarth's London" In the last named he viii
attempt to reproduce in words the eighteenth
century aspect of Hogarth's backgrounds as
contrdsted with the actual scenes to-day.
A complete set of the Tudor TRANSACTIONS" is
now held by an English dealer al 500 Florlos
ssMontaigne" AddingtOnS "Apuleius' and the
King James version CT the Bible are the workS
in this beautiful series OF reprints which, when
sold separately, bring the highest prices IN the
auction room. The RabelaiS and the FroiSsarC
have also been approaching in value M2chia-
yelli fills the thirty ninth and forueth volumes,
which have just been published. The next ana
last volume is to be in some part we beueEe, q
memorial to the late W. f. Henley, who edited
the series from the start and erected IN 1t MS
best Monument
Mr.. John Davidson is British author who has
in the past produced verse which was at least
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