New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-03-20

We now learn through Gertrude Atherton that
II writer keeps on writing long enough he may
gain his second popularity" This. she believes
rs now threatening Henry lanes, TO whom she
dedicates her new book. '"The Bell in the Fog"
If her dedication does not clinch it, a recent
letter Of hers should. from which we make the
following extract
I think can explain the popularity that now
threatens him for the second time During the
crop Of Henry James disepes Both here and ig
ay and tSs paS enoye 6 y g ba not o
been educated up to his second manner but has
g agahg K 9iseoverea now nq9n better ne is than any
how hard he tries. cannot suppress his great gift
smother a character in worus, but the character
W ya;I anu IN Dtsaa9es i as & as %Ofna uieT Ger
forever. these people Of his types sometimes ter
ribie in their dstinctness, as in THE Ambassadors'
ana The Other House" Where in modern litera-
IS thinness, and in no writers is thinness so
than 'aThe Arnbassadors9' And no one is so rich
svery cfeT4ce@so thick: used this word Because
ture is there more dramatic, more human.
/ accentuated as in the disciples OF Henry James.
Nine. Waddington. who has been contrfbut-
ing to scribner's Magazine her italian Recol
lections' of twenty years ago, revisited the
Italian capital last spring. and in the April
number of the magazine VIII give her impress
sions of the Rome of to-day, including the new
Pope, the King and Queen and official and
diplomatic circles
Tho author of 1.-THE Yellow War;" book on
the present Eastern conflict recently published
in England and to be issued In this country
next Saturday by Mcclure. Phillips & Co., con-
ceals his identity under the pseudonym 90"
He is said TO be a man who, because Of his
political and personal importance. was able to
see much more of the actual fighting than the
general run Of correspondents. He has just
returned TO London from st. Petersburg and
his comments on the conditions in the Russian
capital are interesting in view Of the recent
developments. He believes, his publishers
report, that there will not be a revolution in
that country for some years at least, but that
undoubtedly more Of the grand ducal party will
be removed by the Terrorists. The great hope
of the people. he says. is still settled upon the
Gar as their Little Father, but the more in
telligent Of them will continue to agitate for
free press and political representation, and If
they get IT, he thinks. the determination of the
Romanoffs will be postponed for some decades
at least.
Among the spring publications announced by
L. c. Page & Co. are new novels by Alice
MscGowan and Grace MacGowan Cooke, Nor
! ley Roberts, Elliott Flower and Captain T.
Jenkins Hans. The same house is bringing out
Lord Beaconsfeld's Vivian Grey" "Conings-
/ by'' "Sybil" and "Tancred." in four volume
! set, edited by Bernard N. Langdon Davies,
/ n. A., and with Illustrations by Byam Shaw.
/ The aim is TO present the Young England"
movement, the judgments and ideals of the
Young Tory party, represented in fiction by
its leading statesman. Each volume contains a
/ foreword and a critical essay by the editor
A study OF political conditions in Bulgaria,
Seryia and Rumania is announced for imme-
! date publication by E. p Dutton. Under the
! title Of THE Balkan Question a number of
different writer's win treat the different phases
/ Of the subject and discuss the attitude of Tur-
1 key toward these three States and the bearing
/ of the ques ion upon international European
politics Valentine ChirGl, for example, writes
on The Attitude of the Powers" and Victor
BeFard ON The Attitude of France" The vol
ume is edited by Luigi Villari and contains an
introduction by james Bryce, NJ p