The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-09

as one of three to write the life OF Pope
Leo XIII, which will be founded on I'M
published documents and will fill four
volumes. Mr.. Crawford knows Italian as
we'll as he knows English and is a Roman
Catholic.
Lovers Of Anthony Trollope will be
interested in another series Of his hooks
to be published by Dodd, Mead 4 Co. There
ia one series of the Barchester novels which
centre around the life of an English cathedral
oity and a second series containing the
parliamentary novels. The third series
ia To be known as the Manor House Series, -
and will contain those books which de-
pict the manners and modes Of thought that
characterize the English country gentle
man in his chosen environment.
The new volume in the little series en-
titled THE Wisdom of the East" though
it contains less than a hundred pages,
claims to include the two oldest books
in the world, the instruction of Ptah-
| Hotep" and the instruction of Ke'gemni,"
translated from the Egyptian with an intro
duction by Battiscombe G.. Gunn. They
seem to have been written respectively
about 1000 years and $500 years B. G."
which, MIR. Gum says, makes them the
earliest extant specimens OF the literary
art. They stand on the extreme horizon
Of all that ocean of paper and ink tibet
has become to us an atmosphere, a fifth
element and essential of life" The an
str,lction of Ptah-Hotep" fills about twenty
short pages and summarizes the leading
principles of morality current in his day.
The eighth paragraph is chara cteristic Of
the whole:
II thou be an emissary sent from one noble to
another. be exact after the manner OF him that
sent thee. give his message even as he hath said II.
Beware OF making enmity by thy words, setting
ono noble against another by perrertlng truth
oyerstep It not, neither repeat that which any
man. be he prince or peasant, saith In opening the
heart: It Is abhorrent TO the soul.
Mr.. Hall Caine is occupied with a drama
which he is writing OF the basis OF 1.-THE
Bondman,' one of his earlier works. In
order to avoid a too strong resemblance to
The Prodigal Son" certain scenes will be
| transferred from Iceland to Sicily.
Mr.. Arthur Symons seems to have been
attacked with the Bernard Shaw microbe,
In his new book, Spiritual Adventures he
writes Of woman, in whom he seems to be
intensely interested Woman as he saw
her. he says in his study of Christian Ire
valga, lis the beast of prey. rapaoious Of
affection, time, money, all the flesh and all
the soul, ones nerves, ones attention,
pleasure, duty, art itself! She is the rival Of
the idea. and she never pardons. She re-
ouires the sacrifice Of the whole man; moth
ing less will satisfy her; and to love a woman
Is, for an artist, to change ones religion
The Memoirs OF Archbishop Temple
contain a glowing tribute to a remarkable
woman-Dorothy Temple the great scholars
mother. Knowing not a word Of Latin,
she taught him his Eton grammar from the
fret page TO the last; a bad arithmet ician
she took him, with the aid Of a key. through
the whole of Bonnycastle; the same with
Euclid and with algebra. The children
we're trained to manual labor, the boys
working in the fields and garden, the girls
in kitchen and dairy. Blundell School re-
ceived at twelve years old n very unusual
boy, who became at seventeen a Blundell
! scholar Of Balliol. His refusal Of all wine
parties and of subscriptions to college
sports was at first resented, but when it
became known that he was stinting himself
to save out Of his various small resourc COS
G20 a year for his widowed mother he re-
ceived every evidence Of admiration and
| regard.