New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-03
LITERARY NOTES.

There is to be a new illustrated edition of
king SoIomons Mines" Mr.. Rider Haggard
having revised the novel for this purpose. The
book continues to be popular, though published
some years ago. This is an astonishing record
for modern novel
Sir Gilbert Parker is not only finishing
long novel, he is engaged at the same time on
a series of short stories the scene OF which is
the Far North. 49,. ..u.-.
A curious find is reported in the shape of
French book published in 1851 which contains
much information about BacOn'S early life, and
even some writings by him not known to any
OF his biographers.
One of ]. L. TooIe's@ practical jokes is de-
scribed in the recently issued recollections of
the daughter of James Hahn Friswell. He and
his brother actor Lionel Brough dressed in
ragged clothes, they appeared in 'Dearer
than Life were passing through one of the
most aristocratic London squares on their way
to a photographers to be taken in costume.
TooIe- knocked at the door or large house and
asked the astonshed footman whether his master
NO he's notr' said the man, about to bang the
aTelI him that his brothers the porter and the
pauper, called and Wen come back later in the
afternoon"
Having published a facsimile of the.-First
Folio of Shakespeare, the Clarendon Press is
bringing out similar reproductions in quarto
will prefix the fruits of new Investigations he
has made in Shakesperian history For ex-
ample he, compares Venus and Adons' with
early French and Italian poems on the same
theme and in connection with this and other
matters goes carefully into the question OF the
poets Indebtedness to preceding writer's Mr..
Lee will have much to say about the methods
of Elizabethan publishers and printers, and he
viii round out his work with a Census of
Copies" similar to that which he drew up for
the facsimile of the First Folio. Two hundred
and fifty of the thousand copies printed will
be sent to America.
In the concluding volume of Lord Hollands
"reminiscences which has just been published,
there is a story told on the authority of Lord
AIbemarie concerning the authorship of the
''Junius' letters. Albemarle was present at a
dinner where a conversation started be-
tween Dudley North and Sir Philip Francis.
The former rallied the latter somewhat rudely
the author of Junius and said it was vain
to deny it.
b gTaRos and Eb v1 9T9 n IN t
me seriously thai am a scoundrei or liar7 have
denied distinctly. my being the author, and after
Be Rsy or TRo SsSGe or am pndeg
the sSoT is hlS de 10 Talk SO much @ te
al; in truth, know how It is Lloyd" q4rd Gren rem
YOU eoeeted the pre Fancis at these words
seemed startled and answered, as "A Albemarle
made worse guesses, sir. in your life than that
Professor Oser is mentioned keen stu
dent of Sir Thomas Brownies writings and an
eager collector of them. He has been writing
Illustrated article On the Norwich phi
loscpher.
Henry Provide will publish early this month
the sixteenth and last volume of Mrs. Paget
Toynbee's new edition of Walpoles letters.
This is the edition which contains more than
four hundred letters not previously included in
any other collection. The last volume gives
Indexes of persons, places, subjects and mat
terS OF art and art criticism. -a.5
Mr.. Stephen Gwynn has become publisher
In Dublin and will himself bring out his Life
of Emmett" and his typographical work on Ire
land, which Mr.. Hugh Thomson is Illustrating.
He will also publish Mr.. S. f. BullOCkS novel,
"Dan the Dollar''-the story of a returned Irish
emigrant, who has become prosperous in the
United States.
English readers have been vouchsafed a new
and cheaper edition, in volume, of the Life
of Voltaire," by s. G. Tallentyre, sister of the
late Henry Seton Merriman. We hope copies
of it will be imported here, for while not a very
weighty performance, it is uncommonly en-
tertaining book. and, In its way, useful
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