The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-18
BOOKS AND

The Lyceum Club Of London, Of which
Mrs. Kate Douglas Wiggin and Mrs. Flor
ence Earle Coates are members, had thirty
Americans among It's members at it's foun-
dalton, and Others have been added since.
The club was founded by Miss Constance
Smedley, the author Of AN April Princess"
for the benefit Of original workers in
literature, Journalism, science, art and
music. 1t was successfully financed be-
fore 1t existed and has branches in France
and Germany, but not in America.
Louisville, Ky, is the Lesser Literary
Centre Of America" discussed by the cur
rent Book News and among the celebrities
which give fame to this old tow on the
banks OF the Ohio is Madison Cawein, whose
first small volume Of verse appeared nearly
twenty years ago. At present Mr.. Cawein
Is engaged upon a revision Of all his works,
which In the near future will be issued in a
ten volume edition. Mrs. Rice, who was
Miss Hogan when her first book was writ
ten, is a Southern lady and her Cabbage
Patch" exists in one Of the most squalid
parts of Louisville. Mrs. Wiggs' exists
too, although under another name of course.
h aggregate sales Of Mrs. Rice's three
books amount to some 800, 900 copies. Har-
rison Robertson has lived in Louisville
so long that he has become permanently
identified with the city n its people.
Mrs. Elizabeth CHEEKY Waltz, whose death
occurred a year ago, was one of the inter-
esting figures Of literary Louisville and
literary editor OF the Courier-Journdl, as
well as author of the Pa GLADDEN." stories.
Mrs. Annie Fellows Johnston lived for
some time In a Louisville suburb. Children
from every Part Of the world have besieged
the author of the Little Colonel" stories
with letters 80 that she had to resort to a
printed form in answering them. Louis
vile also claims George Madden Martin.
author of Emmy Lou"
Justin Huntly Mccarthy has taken as
the theme Of his new novel the story of
Joan of Arc, and around the we'll known
facts has constructed a i-historical
romance. AS is his usual custom, Mr..
Mccarthy has written both novel and
dramatic version at the same time, and
the play will be given next season by f.
H. Sothern and Julia Marlowe. The new
story will be called The Flower of France
Mrs. Myrta Locket Avary recently re-
ceived a letter from England saying: "A
friend in America has just presented me
ION my eightieth birthday with your book,
A Virginian Girl in the Civil War l am
sure one of the characters in it under an
assumed name is one of my earliest and
dearest friends, of whom have lost sight
for years. Can you tell me his address
or tell me if he is living or dead?" The
address was given, the old friends are
in correspondence again, and foundation
for a new romance might be laid, only
romances at eighty are likely to be brief,
for obvious reasons
A unique form Of military dictionary is
being compiled by Mrs. Constance Olive
Shelton in the shape OF a complete bio
graphical list OF officers of the name OF
Gordon who nave served in the British army.
Mrs Shelton has marshalled some 900 names
from army lists and authentic records.
1t is not often that a woman has under
taken a military work of this character,
though the Marchioness Of Tullibardine Is
now engaged on a regimental history.
DR.. George Brandes's "Reminiscences Of
Nv Childhood and Youth" is shortly to be
issued simultaneously in England and In
America, and will also appear in the original
Danish at Copenhagen.
DR.. Paul Hagen claims to have solved
the problem of the authorship Of the latest
French poem adapted Tor, as DR.. Hagen
urges, translated) by Wolfram Won Esohen-
bach in his "Parzival,' DR.. Hagen's theory
is that the poem was written ia England by
Philip. Bishop Of Durham, the companion
and agent Of Richard Ceur de Lion. The
wide range Of knowledge and Of intellectual
interests displayed in the 'PaIzival" which
has seemed surprising in the unletteret
and u~ntravelled Bavarian knight becomes
explicable, DR.. Hagen claims, il the author
ship ia attributed to the lifelong companion
of the most famous king OF the day, the
piIerim to Jerusalem and ~Compostella. the
brilliant diplomatist who represented Rich
ard at the imperial election of 1893 and who
was familiar with Scotland and South Wales,
and thus came into contact with living
sources of Celtic tradition.
Queen A~lexandra's> private yacht, the
Victoria and Albert, is the subject OF dis
cussion in the Hdrper'8 Bdsdr for May.
"Simplicity is the note, we are informed;
hut even on the upper deck, which is ex-
posed to the severest weather and the
action of the salt spray, solid silver is used
for the deck fittings. An electric elevator
&c provided for seasick royalties and a
wonderful hospital is presided Owe by
one of the ablest titled physicians in Europe.
The playing of whist under variou forms
has grown INTO a cult, is fast acquiring a
literature and now is to have a magazine
called Whist, and emanating from that
hub Of culture, literary Boston. H., d.
ward is the editor and r. F. Foster one of
the principal contributors. Other Ameri-
can authorities on whist and bridge are
among the contributors, and four Of its
forty pages will be devoted exclusively to
bridge, which is still the card game of the
hour, with a rapidly increasing literature.