The sun., 1906-02-15

Guido Biagi In summing up the years
literary harvest in Italy, speaking of the
output Of fiction. says: Women have begun
to invade the field, and save for easily
counted exceptions, feminine handwork,
unless IL bears the name Of Matilde Serao,
Is decadent and feeble, because women
are, at least amongst us, more adapted to
make romances than to write them
Literary interest will be aroused by the
narrative from the pen Of the late William
Sharp on The Garden OF the Sun-Route
Notes In Sicily the first instalment of
which appears in the March Century. Ac-
cording to Mr.. Sharp, to see Sicily, the old
Garden OF the Sum-" as the poets have
called it is not to see Italy, though"
writes Sharp, there may be a measure Of
truth In Goethe's remark that not to know
Sicily Is not to know Italy In a sense, one
might more truly say Of Sicily that not to
know it is not to know Greece. In another
sense, however, we have in this most beau
tiful Of islands the intensification of Italy;
whatever is most Italian is in evidence here,
though 1t il Italian of the South and not of
the North
Houghton, Mifflin Il Co. publish next
week a volume entitled What Is Religion?'
by President Henry s, Pritchett of the
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology.
Mr.. Pritchett has just been appointed presi-
dent Of the Carnegie Foundation for the
pensioning Of the college professors
The two elections to the Academic Fran
case are NJ. Alexis Felix Joseph Ribot, who
is better known as politician than littera-
teur, but Of whom it Is said il parle CONNIE
un livre," and NJ. Maurice Barres, who, al
though still a young man, has written
number Of books The Figaro recently
reprinted his first published story, lie
Chemin de l'Institut.'
According to the Aheneum Newman
Is the subject OF much elaborate analysis
and study In France. NJ. Henri Bremond
has just brought out an -essai de Geographic
psychologique" on him and he has already
issued three other volumes concerning
Newman. In preparation are Newman
Hagiographie" and Newman Educator"
All this In consideration Of the man who,
according to Thomas Carlyle's account,
had the brains OF q rabbit"
Mr.. T. c. Spellings book "Bossism and
Monopoly is to be published in England
to explain to the British public the trust
system in the United States, the abuses of
municipal service monopolies and the own
ership OF railways by private corporations
and to advocate the feasibility and advan-
taRes Of Government ownership.
1t has been rumored from authoritative
sources that the tenth edition OF The Ency-
clopedia Britannica, now being prepared.
will be done in the United States. Should
this prove true it will be the first time that
this work has been produced outside Of
Edinburgh, and its loss will be severely felt
by the printing trade there. 1t is said to
be increasingly The custom for publishers
to have works set up in the United States
and In many CAGES sheets and stereo plates
are sent to Great Britain.
The first large issue Of Farming was
almost exhausted within a week after
publication day. The magazine is a COM
panion to Country Life in America and
departments Of special interest to agri-
cufturists and covered by authorities on the
various subjects. The March number,
the editors expect will be an inspiration to
begin work and to improve on some of the
old ways Of doing things on the farm.
Mayor Mcclellan At Home Sick With Grip.
Mayor Mcclellan is down with the grip.
He was unable to leave his home yesterday.
and In his absence from the City Hall
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