New-York tribune., 1906-04-18

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4 translation OF I'll Santo" by Antonio Fogaz-
FARO. This is the novel in which the aut,or has
struck note new to modern Italian fiction.
theneby creating something of a sensation The
lame or the book has been spreading through
out Europe, and il is good 20 know that Ameri-
can readers will soon have a chance 70 test II
Tor themselves.
Since the publication of Mr Thomas Wright's
oook about the late Sir Richard Burton in which
much is made OF the Orientalists Indebtedness
as translator of the Arabian Nights" 70 Mr.
ravne's version, his linguistic capacity has been
me subject OF some discussion. In the course of
letter TO the London Times" Colonel W. F.
Prideaux. the we'll known photographer. has this
TO say:
sba,, reference . TO an old Bombay army list will
tnsseo tf~ the interpreters examination, which III
SSsani Persian. Nahrathi t;uzerathi. sindh and
iinguiss among his CONTEMPORARIES in the Bom6av s6oT
Tesnse,' s4ce' put none Of them equaled him in this
ssif s,IiofFough knowledge Of that language, I accom-
Burton's regiment r,a 1s4b p, ~, -
oF bs station three previously. but stories
one 70 the ecf st tba f1F5 dessed n II the Baz2T
ar The opeF, I've ne used 10 sell dates and sweetneats
pe.Ia1ea p,5d rated his disguise. His extraordinary ewes
4nee % Of an Arab. His greatest friend at Alden was
T 81 rsuerlck Steinhaeuser. OF the Bombay Medi-
a. that station; steinhaeuser was a man Of ec-
ana ana his medical experience gave him an insight
lia are euphemistioalIy called the esoteric
course with seinhaenser hat gave B1rfon S his
@aIif Iaila 5, y-ar opology. new version OF the
fr ~ wor cen the two friends and the doctor set
or SO. some years efterward l entertained the
ea age oI IN inahng a new translation. and shortly
the few sheets containing his version which for
seReraI years had been lying by him Pressure Of
frz,m arry--
, ls o1I @ my leea IN lSli when officiating as agent
from Burton, saying he had learned that stein
ASKING If hsd sG SaS IN my possession and
ne was conoefpating e M me publication of new
accordingly sent him the manuscript and thfs
vas The foundation Of his own great work. 1iT.
years subsequently. This version as Wei as bur
Of the Nghs and DF %he Ge 9e Broa Sscgtts reeenson
his translation must in the main be deemed an
independent one
THE Garden Book Of California" by Belle
Sumner Angler, of Los Angeles a volume which
viii aim TO cover the general subject of home
gardening the Pacific Coast, is now In press
for speedy publication by Paul Elder & Co. II
viii be the first work in 6 new series of nature
books 10 be brought out by this Western house
A revised and enlarged edition OF Charles
Keelers BIRD Notes Aheld" is also in press
THE Girl Graduate; Her Own Book" is a
volume the interest and literary excellence of
which will vary with each purchaser. II has
been designed by Louise Perrett and Sarah K
Smith. two young Chicago artists in order TO
provide book in which American girls may
keep record Of their four years experiences in
college The pages. OF course. are blank, but
agreeaby decorated with ornamental headings
OF appropriate title and design. The book is
he'd hy he Reilly prittoD
In Sir Arthur Conan Doyie's "dramatization'
OF his book. THE Adventures of the Brigadier
Gerard" in which Lewis Waller is now playing
the title role in London. he has. II appears.
used none Of the stories in the volume as a
basis for his plot He has simply taken some
what less volcanic form Of the character of the
Brigadier and written a play around him.
following the method adopted by William Gil
lette in writing his play of Sherlock Holmes"
We are little sorry for the Mr. Norgate who
has just brought out biography OF Sir Walter
Scott. No doubt it is a creditable piece Of work,
but II appears just as Mr. Andrew Lang has
published the book Scott which we were re-
viewing the other day, and this is to say that il
enters into a difficult competition. Mr.. Lang,
by the way. has been talking about bibliomana,
and incidentally has made apropos OF the Bod
leian's anxiety TO get back It's copy of the First
Folio. a confession which must inspire sym
-pathy in the bosom of many a reader:
What am going TO say. greatly daring. is Phil
that man cannot invariably be in the wrong.
Well. 10 let the truth out do not understand the
craze. now so furious for First Folios; or any OF
charm of First Folio of Shakespeare? The
iis6ed after his death If he had seen it one does
not know what he would have thought about it: it
IS the reverse OF well printed book Probably
d
Indifferent TO the honoTs Of print He must
in his 'Lucrece'' and Venus and AdOnis." $nd
he actually the first editions Of these poems
rnenf than in the First Folio The most sentiment
about thai is that Charles I probably read in it,
great student of Shakespeare. One under
stand the value attached 10 a First Folio that had
SarIsbrooke otherwise the volume may interest
the rypogrspler curious In the accidents OF the
textlIaI criticism and for the making Of Bedlamite
cyphers about Bacon. But plenty Of copies exist
and tbe abuses Of the Bedlamite. one would lefer
possess q play in quarto that Shakespeare may
about as a piraticaI production than possess
First Folio which he never saw az al even with
was not cut we'll Therefore though sorry
that the F3odleian got rid OF its Folio long for
is not likely TO be raised for the recovery OF the
treasure not entirely heartbrolSen- II the
of wealth employed in a whm Of Bibomania.
Looking at IT, some may say flKe the Scottish
"Whatna fule sunk his money in yon?'
Miss Elizabeth 8. Haldane's "Descartes His
Life and Times CE. P Dutton d Coz. has the
merit of being not only an instructive but a
readable. book. The author has gone with much
industry into her subject. and gives an excellent
survey of her heros life. She also gives a sug-