The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-12
ROCKS AND AUTHORS.

1850
Olive Christian Malvery, the wife OF a
Scotch gentleman, has gone INTO some
of the unwholesome places IN Lonoon anu
has written her experiences In a DOCK cai,eu
The Soul Market" Some Of the sub titles
give an idea of the contents: swearing
Dens," Women Who Work ana baUes
Who Weep" How / Lived on Sixpence a
Day, and Earned It, The British jungle
&c. She also went into the Ntrleo hsn
business and learned what an important
part these malodorous shops play IN the
domestic economy of the London poor
Miss Malvery dedicates her work to those
who still have faith in humanity and hehef
in God.
Her Son is the first Of Mr.. Horace
Annesley Vachell's plays to be produced
by a good company. The author OF Broth
ers," aThe HILL" &c, has written three
or four other plays and has had three
of them accepted for production. Her
Son, which is being played by Cyril Maud
is really a dramatization of a novel Of the
same name which will appear serially
and in book form. Mr.. Nachell may ne
said to belong to the military group OF
dramatists. like Capt. Robert Marshall and
Mr.. Egerton Castle. Mr.. Nachell was at
the Royal Military College at Sandhurst,
but like Mr.. Castle he never really Joined
his regiment the Rifle Brigade.
The first publication day Of the new year
for Doubleday, Page 4 Co. will be January
p, when the following books will be brought
out: "Bettina," by Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd;
The Sovereign Remedy" by Flora Annie
Steele; MY Life as an Indian" by j. W.
Shultz, and -Daffodils, 10y ]. W. Kirby.
Miss Mary c. Dickerson begins a new
nature serial in the midwinter number OF
Country Life. Miss Dickerson, who is not
only a nature lover, but a student and
writer, began a year ago making a series OF
observations of animal and plant life in
fields and woods, month by month.
In the award of the five hundred dollar
Patterson cup given each year for the best
book by a native North Carolinian, The
Life of Sidney Lanier, by DR.. Edwin Minis,
has first place this year, and Cotton" by
Clarence H.. Poe and Charles W. Burkett,
stands second in honor.
THE Active Life" a book made up Of a
series Of practical health articles written
by DR.. Luther II. Gulick, which have APP
peared in the Worlds Work, together with
several other papers IN the same general
subject, will be published in February.
DR.. Gulick is president Of the American
Physical Education Association Of the
United States and director OF physical
training in the city public schools. The
aim Of his book is to show in practical ways
how people may enjoy good health and long
life by following simple rules.
Sophus Bauditz, the Danish author, has
publisheda curious book, entitled "A Com
edy on Kronborg, the principal character
OF which is William Shakespeare. According
to this story, which is to be translated into
English, the Earl of Leicester's company
Of actors vent to Denmark. One OK the
actors named Will met with an accident on
the Journey and on landing at Elsinore
was cared for by liver Kramme, a teacher,
and his sister, Christence. During his
convalescence he read the Latin chronicle
of Sake Examinations, Christence learning
that he had a family in England dice like
Ophelia. Kramme never suspects the iden-
tity of Will, who returned to England after
the drowning Of Christence, until years
afterward when the captain of a Danish
ship presents him with a copy OF Hamlet"
Some six hundred pounds have been
subscribed for the purpose Of erecting a
monument to Gabrielle Rossetti at Vasto in
the Abruzzi, where he was born. Dante
Gabriel tells of ~the lofty brown build
ing" in which his father was born and
complains that a prophet has no honor in
his own country, or the municipality would
nave bought the house. This they have
now done and have called the piazza after
their townsman. The youthful student Of
Dante went to Naples, where he became an
active politician, which led to his flight to
England. Gabrielle Rossetti wrote a book
on Dante, but his chief claim TO distinction
is that he was the father of his famous son.
II is proposed to purchase the cottage at
Neither Stowey, Somerset, in which Cole
ridge wrote the Ancient Mariner, ""Christa-
bel" and others of his finest poems, and to
keep it as far as possible in the state in
which it was during the poets residence.
1t was in this cottage that Coleridge enter
tanned William and Dorothy Wordsworth, !
Charles Lamb, William Hazlitt and others.
A small gallery of portraits of Coleridge
and his friends and pictures of places asso-
ciated with him (some Of them drawn by
celebrated artists will be placed in the cct-
tage.
The House in st. Martins Street" Of
which Miss Constance Hill writes, still
stands, though robbed OF much of the dig
nifty it possessed when the Burneys enter
tanned their friends there-Garrick and
johnson and Reynolds, the brilliant stars of
the opera, the wits of the day, and Omai, the
Otaheitan chief. Cowper's gentle savage
1t is said that the house was built by Isaac
Newton and that it was in his observatory,
Miss Burney's faYorite retreat where she
Gould setirs 10 reed or write any Of her
private fancies or vagaries. that .Evelinar
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