The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-04

years been o recognized intellectual force
In England and he has also, according to
the preface Of his new book. been q Liberal
all his life. For these reasons the seven
little essays which form his latest book,
"The Rake's Progress In Finance have
special elements Of interest. "The Needs
OF South Africa, "The Financial Future
"The Bane of Borrowing" Poor Lanca-
shire, " "The Pinnacle Of Prosperity en-
body his entreaty to England to look at
"the writing on the wall" He sees most
peril Of all In the way in which the present
financial theories of England cause the
nation to depend on the support OF Con-
tinental fnanoiers in times Of financial
distress, as during the Barring crisis, and he
points out that not one Of the great financial
houses In London is purely British. The
Rothsohilds, Seligmans, Hambros, &C., are
foreign Jews in origin and j. s. Morgan &
Co. are. of course, American.
Mr.. Bernard Shaw has been leoturing
before the Vegetarian Society and urging
that the quality Of ones life is affected
by ones food and that the peculiar luoidity
OF his (the lecturers mind) was due to a
purely vegetable menu. The eff cots Of
animal diet are bad, he argued, for every
one concerned from the animal upward.
II and Tolstoy," complained Mr.. Shaw,
"are the only vegetarians the ordinary
journalist has ever heard Of, 30 he rings the
changes Of alarming reports of broken health
and softened bones on U.S. One cannot
be in good health and overworked at the
same time; therefore the lecturer concluded
since there was a large amount of intel
leotual work to be done in the world and
no one prepared to do it but himself, he would
be ashamed to enjoy good health.
Molly Elliot Seawell's new novel OF mod
ern French life, "The Chateau Of Mont
plaisir," will be published April @. The
story Is concerned with the escapades Of
two men who have the same name but are
not related and resembles in humor and
treatment the authors former books. THE
Sprightly Romance Of Margao" and Papa
Bouchard.'
Einor Mccartney Lane, the author Of
Nancy Stair" has been spending the win
ter at Asheville, n. c., where she has been
at work on a new novel to be published in
the autumn. A shorter novel by Mrs. Lane,
DcdI luB VIC litlo " All " IL HO'S
Lady will be brought out in May.
Arthur Henry Vesey's new novel THE
Castle Of Lies, which will be published April
9. Is a story Of the present day relating the
plot of a band of Macedonian instructions
lists TO free their country from Turkish
oppression. The romantic element is fur
nished by the hero, an American. who
permits himself to become involved in a
desperate intrigue in order to prove to the
woman he loves that he is not a coward
Another book on angling is announced,
this time an English publication entitled
Seventy Years Fishing 1t is written by
Mr.. C. G. Darlington, formerly Assistant
Secretary to the Treasury, who writes of his
experiences In fishing at home and abroad.
The writer tells how he caught his first
fish, under the tuition Of Lord Grey Of reform
bill fame, and how, having learned the art
on the Tweed, he has continued 1t in Ger
many ever since in the intervals OF a busy
official life.
DR.. Paget Toynbee's Chronological List
Of English Translations from Dante from
Chaucer to the Present Day shows a total
number of $50 translators, but the number Of
entries Is considerably higher, amounting
to several thousands, as some Of the writer's
leigh Hunt for example) translated a
great number of passages in various years
in different works. A feature Of the list
is the inclusion of a number of privately
printed translations which have not figured
in any Of the Dante photographers,