The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-11
BOOKS AND

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lished Rudyard Kipling is preparing to go
to his winter home near Cape Town. Mr..
Kipling lives in a fine old Elizabethan
house in Sussex in summer. His den is
far up among the gables. where he works
every morning from 0 until -. The rest
OF the day he devotes TO recreation, to
motoring about the historic scenes Of Eng
land or to walking or riding over his estate.
Mr.. Kipling has 500 acres of rich cult
waited land and he is an enthusiastic farmer.
personally supervising his tenants at their
work. He is more interested in talking
with a visitor about one of his prize chickens
than in discussing his literary work or the
British foreign policy.
The House in St. Martins Street; Being
Chronicles OF the Burney Family. by Con-
stance Hill. is a new book of special literary
interest. These chronicles of the writer
Of -Evelina' and her family in the last of
their London homes are taken from con-
temporary latters and journals written by
Fanny Burney and her sisters. The book
includes unpublished letters from Mrs.
Thrale. Daddy Crisp, Garrick and others.
Miss Lily Grant Duff, the daughter Of
the late Sir Mountstuart +. Grant Duh, has
written a novel entitled @Periwinkle,"
which will be published in November.
Frederic Harrison's Memories and
Thoughts" pictures a genial Carlyle who.
he says, made me feel at home at once.
and he talked on with a simple and hearty
opeuness OF thought, full of d~rollery, cpl
gram. laughter and racy d~eliverance on
men and things, with warm kindliness
toward his visitor and manly f~orgetfulness
Of himself and his position as acknowl-
edged master in letters, and an utter absence
of embarrassment, discomfort or spleen. ="
Mr.. Harrison's "reminiscences of George
Eliot supply information o N the makings
Of Felix Holt" and Daniel Deronda-
not included in her husbands biography,
and portray her as "the most courteous
and considerable of friends, delighting in
lively conversation and good natured
gossip-an excellent housewife and con-
siderate mistress"
The fr~ontispiece OF the December Century
will be a reproduction in color of Sigismund
de Ivanowoski's portrait of Maude Adams
as Peter Pan. Miss Adams posed for the
artist at Onteora, her home in the Catskills,
and he took the finished portrait there for
her to see. She was playing tennis when
he arrived, and the canvas was placed in
the cottage, where she would see IL as she
entered. There is a pretty story of how
she ran TO it and cried with pleasure over
it, so charmingly has it reproduced the
spirit Of the charac,"r.
Irving Bachelor has made his way into
the Rocky Mountains in search of local
color and big game, reaching the big game
country by a stage journey of one hundred
and twenty miles and a saddle ride Of sixty
miles. He has been hunting grizzlies
without any bad effects either to the game
or to himself, but after following SEEM
ingly endless canons he had the pleasure
Of bringing down by a shot from his rife
an enormous bullock, whose antlers he
prizes highly. MIR. Bachelor reports that
big game is getting scarce even in the
Rockies
Il IL said that THE Cowboy Bishop
that witty Bishop Talbot whose reminiscent
volume, my People Of the Plains" has
recently beer published, is really the hero
OF the story told Of Archbishop Ireland.
"Where in hell have I seen you BEFORE
questioned a rough looking man, meeting
Bishop Talbot in the street Of a mining
town. To which the Bishop quietly re-
torted, TO the delight Of the bystanders:
what part OF hell do you come from,
sir?"
The Dean OF West minster has sanctioned
the inscribing Of Elizabeth Barrett Brown
ing's name at the foot of her husbands
grave in the Poets Corner of Westminster
Abbey. When Robert Browning died the
honor Of burial of his wife's remains, now
entombed In Florence, was offered and
declined. In this the centenary Of her birth
her name will be added to the list Of the
famous in the Abbey, but the grave in
Florence. to which so many pilgrims find
their way each year. will remain undis-
turbed.
NJ. Anatole France has been engaged
for ten years On a book about Joan of Arc
which is SOC to be published. The subject
has always been a f~avorite study OF the
author. and many shelves in his library are
cOnseorated to volumes relating to the
French heroine and her times.
Books Of travel. biographies, and his
torical works are favorite ~recreations with
women Of leisure. with whom they are
evidently the result OF exhaustless research
and study. Among the more notable works
OF this kind brought out by women during
the past year are Mrs. Russell Barrington's
Life, Letters and Work Of Frederic Leigh
ton Lady Gilbert's life Of her husband,
Mrs. Bearne's -Heroines OF French Society,""
Letters Of Robert Earl OF Lytton Owen
Meredith Miss Langbridge's william
Blake Mrs. Sichel's alfred Anger" and
Mrs. Alec Tweedie's monograph Of -Porfrio
Diaz.'
The object which Prince Hohenlohe had
In view In arranging for. the publication
Of his Memoirs after his death the book
which has caused such a profound sensa-
ton In Europe and threatens ar Internal
crisis In Germany = Is explained in a recent
issue OF the Spectator. Prince Hohenlohe
was q patriotic South German, moderate,
liberal. loyal to the Empire and hating