New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-03-17


of the Civil War period
Merry Rockhurst'' is the general title Of the
new series of stories which Mr.. and Mrs. Eyer
ton Castle have in preparation These are ro-
mantle tales OF the Restoration period. tales
which are meant. like the Incompatible Bel
LARS" to form IAN episode whole" They are
also at work Oil a long novel which will be pub
hshed serially during the summer Of next year.
If Youth but Knew" the Castle novel which
Is on the verge Of publication. is in the man
ne- Of their former book. Young April" The
scene Is laid in Westphalia. in the reign Of that
imitation king Jerome Bonaparte. and the ac-
ton takes place partly in his court.
The lengthening days remind U.S. amid snow
and cold that summer and vacation time are
coming, and the promised publication by the
Scribners OF Camp Kits and Camp Life" by
c. S. Hanks. Will doubtless be none too soon for
those who contemplate early start for a
spring outing. The volume is intended to be a
practical handbook for the woods, and will be
illustrated in manner to be helpful to the tyro.
Mr.. Hanks is the author Of the book Hints to
Golfers" by "Niblick."
A novel by Lady Henry Somerset, to be
titled Under the Arch" will be brought out
shortly in America by Doubleday. Page & Co.
1t is a story of London life during the Anglo
Boer War. Soldiers and socialists play impor-
tant parts in the drama in which the scenes
shift from high society" to the Submerged
tenth"
The War of 1912 is the topic Of Volume XIII Of
THE American Nation" series. published this
week by the Harpers, under the designation.
The Rise of American Nationality In this
volume DR.. Kendric Charles Babcock treats of
that conflict with Great Britain the really
formative and solidfying cause of real spirit
of nationality in the hitherto loosely welded and
constantly pickering states
Mr.. John Payne has never done as good work
as an original writer as he has done in his
translations from Villon. Boccaccio. Bandelo
and Arabic literature. but two admirers of his.
Tracy and Lucy Robinson, have thought it
worth while to collect some of his verse into a
/ luxuriously printed volume. This volume, Sc
! lections from the Poetry OF John Payne CThe
! John Lane Company is by turns romantic. NOR
/ bid and fantastic. 1t is always polished as to
! its workmanship. 1t is never spontaneously
melodous or sincerely tender. Mr.. Payne is one
/ Of those many modern poets who have been
made not born. In the vein Of clever, pretty,
sentimental song, which such focks Of minor
writer's have exploited, he is, like the rest of
them, agreeable enough. Here is a specimen OF
/ his work at its best:
! NADRIGAI. GAL
! The summer sunshine comes and goes;
The bee e, huns in the heart Of the rose;
The lilies tighten about thy feet
4, new light gtters on land and sea;
The turtles couple on every tree
Gossamers fangie thy golden ai hair ha'f
The air with kisses is bthe and gay:
8y Sweet is Of 50 Sw se in b the mid middle q May
Thine eyes with heaven have pierced II through
when When biFd-s0ngs babbie from every. bough.
Honey Of Heaven tro rs OUT Sitd thy 69af p sips
Miss Ida NJ. Tarbell, one of the pioneers IN
the latter day literature Of exposure bv maya
zine. has just returned from pleasure trip to
! the West, during which she saw and conversed
with William Allen White. 1t is to be inferred
the end is not yet.
OF wickedness in high places and in CONNER
cial life so much has recently been printed that
! the wayfarer should readily distinguish its ear
marks Mr.. G. Loves Dickinson however in his
new book The Meaning of Goodness" to be
published this spring by Mcclure. Phillips & Co.
will endeavor to show US the other side of the
picture and TO set forth after the style Of "A
Modern Symposium" clear-cut and ~ Eligible
definition Of what goodness is.
John Reed Scott, young lawyer of Pittsburg
is to make his first venture into authorship this
spring with novel called The Colonel Of the
Red Huzzars." to be published by the Lippin-
colts The author. 1t is said. has aimed write
a thrilling romance in which there should not
only be no killing but no bloodshed. The ex-
pertinent will be watched with interest
Readers who have liking for farce will
call with a smile Mr. ]. S. Clouston's "Lunatc
at Large" That book was written with unfail-
ing vivacity. We had supposed that the author
would nevertheless be unable to repeat his sue
cess. but he promises to do this in the sequel
which he is now publishing in "Backwoods
Magazine" Count Bunker" the story
is called. is as funny as its predecessor and
it has the advantage Of being free from the
UNPLEASANT elements inseparable from the start
ing point of MT. Clouston's first book.
A B. Ward, the author Of The Sage Brush
Parson" Little, Brown & Coz is Mrs Alice
Ward Bailey of Amherst Mass Mrs. Bailey
now confesses that she has never been in Neva-
da. where the scene OF the story is laid, but
gathered her impressions Of the life and en-
vironment of a mining camp from former resi-
dent of Eureka, in that state This is not Mrs
Bailey's first adventure in literature. her first
story. Mark Hebron" was published ten years
ago and she has also written several volumes
Of verse.
Another unique place among twentieth cen
fury romances'-we decline to give the exact
number marked off during the five odd years of
this century-has been reserved for William J.
Hopkins's The CIammer," by its publishers
Houghton. Mfin & Co. Back. way back how
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