The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-17
BOOKS AND

BOOKS AND ACTHORS.
Among the new books of the week Elinor
Glyn's -Beyond the Rocks promises a
feast to the lovers Of the audacious, the
risque and the suggestive in fiction. There
are a daughter with gentian blue eyes,
a husband with "a liver, a chest and tenn
per, "a father with a habit Of accumulating
debts" and an English gentleman of title
to make things entertaining with dangerous
situations. There is also said to be a touch
OF deeper passion than the author OF The
Visits of Elizabeth" has hitherto attempted.
DR.. George NJ. Gould's @Lafcadio Hearn"
in the November Putndm's Monthly presents
an interesting chapter of what the author
calls the new pathology Of genius" which
shows the "mortidizing Of art and literature
through disease. chiefly of the sense organs
Of the artist and literary workman" In
Hearn's case there seemed to be a sad
conspiracy of the Fates. according to DIR.
Gould. which compelled him to work over
the imaGinings of other writers and, perforce.
morbid ones. HI had but one eye and that
one enormously nearsighted. Almost every
hour OF his life had been lived in physical
or mental anguish, denied desire and I'M
R1IOPu WdVV O1lNoC DOlH
mother, an English father, his childhood
PASSED in an absurd French school, flung
upou the alien world of the United States
in youth, drinking for years the bitter
nelson's of poverty, banality n the rest.
he still preserved a morbid but genuine
artistic power. With no romance, no love,
no happiness, no interesting personal data,
he became what DIR. Gould calls the poet Of
myopia.'
Marion Crawford's new nc vel, "A Lady
| of Rome" which is published this week. is
! a story Of modern Roman society.
-The Impersonator," Mary Inlay Tay-
lor's new Washington society novel, will he
published this week. A Paris art student
invited TO visit her aunt, a leader in Wash
in0ton society. sends her friend to imper-
senate her. The complications which fol-
low afford the writer an excellent Oppor-
tunity to display her familiarity with life
at the national capital.
Bran Stoker's Personal "reminiscences
of Henry Irving" published on Saturday
the anniversary Of the great actors DEATH
is one of the important books OF the season
How seriously and sincerely the author
regarded the responsibility he has under
taken may be gathered from the preface. in
which he says:
For nearly thirty years I was an Intimate FRIEND
OF Ir~vIng-in certain ways the most Intimate frien'
OF his life. / knew him as well as IL Is given u
any man to know another. And this knowledge
IL muy In my mind when ! say that so Tar as
know there is not In this book a word OF MS lnnci
life or his outer circumstances that ne would Wlsi
uusaid. no omission that he would have Ike
nled.
Leonard Barron, the author OF the bool
on Lawns" to he published this month
was born in England and is the son OF thu
superintendent Of the Royal Horticulture
Trial Gardens. His father was also tn
editor of the Gardeners Chronicle and Mr.
barron received his editorial training OF
that paper. He is secretary OF the New
York Horticultural Society and Of tn
American Rose Society. He is also tn
author of Roses and How to Grow Them.
Ceor9e AIDES an Pastures New" is tn
record of his own impressions and those O
bia fellow traveller, Mr.. Pesseley OF De
Moine Iowa, concerning things EngllsI
and European told in the picturesque dialec
which the author Of FABLES in Slang
chooses as his literary medium. In Eng
land he becomes acquainted with Englis
-as she is spoke" but gives up trying
write it for his own rich and varied vocaou
larv. Mr.. Peaseley. intending TO go to Brus
sels. gets of at Antwerp by mistake, and nc
discovering the difference goes o
the city with a guide book and map ad
miring and Identifying everything wit
perfect ease. The book will be PubIishe
at the en- Of the month.
Ethel Barrymore contributes to tn
sortbco ming Harpcr's B1EIv her opinio
concerning "Thc Young Girl and the Stage
The whole aim Of the article ia, "a the writs
savs. "to show two things Shich hrmi
believe first, that out Of the thousand
Of airIs who desire to become actress
not ten have any chance OF success {