New-York tribune., 1906-04-01
LITERARY NOTES.

LII ALIi IN NOl EO.
Ihere IS to be a biography of one who has
peeh calied the greatest of woman travellers"
MRS. Isabella Bird Bishop. 1t is the work of her
longtime friend, Anna Stoddart the biopranhe,
of Professor Blackie.
Two more volumes of Mr.. John A. Doyle.
work The English in America" are cornins
from the press. These deal respectively with
The Middle Colonies and THE Colonies Under
the House of Hanover" The other voInmes Of
the work, Virginia, Maryland and the Caro-
inas, and "T'he Puritan Colonies" were pub
llshed in the eighties of the last century Mr.
Doyle, who is a. Fellow of All Souls College. Ox-
ford, has devoted most Of his working life to
A copy Of Lord John RusselPs suppressed
novel The Nun of Arronca," has just turned
up in an English booksellers catalogue This is
the story to which Disraeli thus referred in his
Runnymede Letter. addressed to Lord John in
1886: Your ambition sought from prose fiction
the taIne which has been denied to your Tyre,
and your intellect in consequence produced the
feeblest romance in our literature"
Here is glimpse of George Meredith's con-
versatfon found in letter written by the late
Professor Sidgewick: He was not affected or
conceited, and talked ffuentlv hut not exactI-
with ease nor did his phrases seem to me often
TO have any peculiar aptness; once or twice
there was an amusing stroke of humorous fancy
as when he talked of an unhappy singers voice
6elhg like the soul of a lemon in purgatory'
but these things did not come often"
The original MS of DR. John Browns beauti-
ful little sketch, "Rab and His Friends" has
just appeared in a foreign auction room II
was composed as n lecture to be delivered by the
author in his native village. At the end of the
MS. is a note which does not appear in tho
printed editions: "I have in my head a human
and a dog moral if thought necessary, but
prefer every one being his or her own moralist
j. B."
Mr. Maurice Hewlett playwright does not
q appear to be of remarkable mettle "A dun
little play of distinction is the criticism pro-
nounced upon his One-act piece, 1.-The Youngest
of the Angels" 1t is scene adapted from his
novel, THE Fool Errant'-the cupboard scene
OF Renaissance flavor.
THE Dutchman's Fireside" the historical
novel which its author, James Kirk PauIdine
brought out in 1881. is to be reprinted as a
whose scenes are set in the middle of the efgh-
teenth century, was q success in it's day and the
experiment of reprintng worth making
ItS action takes place in Northern New York
and its principal perSOnages are Of Dutch blood,
There is considerable humor in the story.
The beautiful books published under the gen.
eral title of THE Goupl Series will come to
an end with volume TO be devoted to Queen
Anne. OF this series, dealing with famous
historical characters, this forthcoming volume
should not be the least popular. Mr.. Herbert
Paul is the author. and he is never duh
These books have, as rule. brought S2a
each; bat some Of them have found SO large a
sale that their price has risen to 800. That
devoted 10 Queen Elizabeth, for example has
been special faVOrite. All have been illustrate
cd in splendid profusion.
The story of Sir Walter Scott and the King'I
gift is retoId in a biograDhy lust coming out in
London. Here it is:
yacht the King exclaimed, Sir Walter Scott. The
or q 10 Of iyf