The sun., 1906-02-02
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.

and IL now the property of Mr.. Pierpont
Morgan. Miss Croker was the adopted
daughter of John Wilson Croker, and it
has been rimored that it may have been
her pen which wrote at his dictation the
famous attack on Keats which inspired
Byrons memorable stanza:
| Who killed John Keats
Il" said tho QudHerlg
Savage and tartary,
Il Killed John Keats"
Lady Barrow lived in the reigls Of five
English monarchs and was as beautiful an
old lady in her cap as she was young girl
with the curs Sir Thomas Lawrence painted
Major Martin Hume is at work on book
which will consist Of the strange and ro-
mantle stories of some of the early Queens
of Spain, drawn in many cases from un-
published sources. The share OF Isabella
in the expedition Of Columbus. the attitude
Of Elizabeth Valois toward her stepson'
Carlos, and the reason Of her premature
DEATH the action of Elizabeth OF Bourbon
in the overthrow of Olivares and the
va ga ries of Iuisa Isabel Of Orleans and
other royal ladies will be discussed in the
volume. which will have pertinent interest
just now in view of the approaching mar
riage Of the Spanish King with an English
Princess,
THE Other Mr.. Barclay" is a story OF the
type Of the captivating tale THE Man That
Corrupted Hadleyburg Like its pro-
totype, the scene Of the new story is laid IN
a town ripe for speculation, and the stir
which the arrival of the Wall Street specu-
lator created among the inhabitants forms
the basis of a humorous tale that throws
some light on the methods of selling short.
Mr.. H Irving Dodge is the author of the
book, which will be published in February.
Miss Ellen Glasgow has explained re-
Gently the significance OF the title OF her
new book "The Wheel Of Life. She took
the title as a quotation from the sacred
books of the East and her purpose in using
it was to show that each human beng is
hound to pass through four stages IN his
individual existence and that wisdom
leads inevitably to the reconciliation which
is the consciousness Of God. This con-
sciousness- not love-1 have tired
to make the central theme Of the book,
Miss Glasgow says.
A curious example Of double personality
in literary or rather fictional history is that
of Mr. Ranger Gull. author of 1.-The Hypo-
critic and under his pseudonym OF Guy
Thorne. the writer Of when it Was Dark
and Made in His Image Nothing could
be more unlike than the productions OF
Mr.. Gull and Mr.. Thorne, and whether the
real man appears in the sacred iso-calied'
or the profane works is matter OF specula-
ton. Certainly the sem-relgiotls sensa-
tonalism in which the author INDUCES
as Mr.. Thorne is in marked contrast to the
lnaterialism of Mr.. Gull.
Miss Norma Lorimer's new book on
Sicily. which she and Mr.. Douglas Sladen
have recently published, contains some
int sting Information on the quaint ana
curious etiquette Of the people. especially
with regard to chaperons. In Sicily a
chaperon is essential to every girl. what
ever her class or station IN lie. IL you
engage a young maid servant you nave
to agree to take her TO church and on no
account to allow her to go out unattended.
If young woman comes to sew by the Gay
at ones house she brings her chaperon
with her, and young persons in shops
are never allowed to take out goods 10
customers without a duenna in attendance.
Mothers who have to go out to work lock
their daughters in the house until their
return.
The English Parliament now being elected
has several literary men among ITS MEM
bers. Mr.. A. E. W. Mason, who has won
manufacturing constituency, has also
distinguished place among the popular
novelists of the day. Mr.. Herbert faul Is
we'll known in the literary world MIR. =
+. G. Masterman, who looks after the iltera-
ture of the Ddilv Neus, made str IN literary
circles with his book The Abyss and has
recently published another In Penl OF
Change" Mr.. G. P. Gooch is a Cambridge
historian and writer on historical themes
and the author of Annals of Politics and
Culture. l49?-lS99."
DIR. Wallis Bulge of the British Museum
has made translation OF the Egyptian
books known as THE Book of What Is IN
Hadesr and The Book of the Gates,
works which give pictures OF the life after
death, differing in many respects from lhe
famous Book of the Dead and much later
in date. They were apparently not re-
d,lced to writing until the eighteenth or
nineteenth dynasty. Or, Budge's transla-
tions and commentary will he published IN
England in February and will Ike the first
version of these books which has appeared
in England.
Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff, whose recent
death deprived society Of man who COM
bined in remarkable degree the interests
OF politics. practical government and ~
erature, will be best remembered for his
-Notes from a Diary These notes
reached fourteen volumes and extend from
New Years Day in 1851, when he had just
taken his degree at Oxford and reached
Avignon on his way to Rome. to period
fifty years later, January -, 1901, when
the Privy Council took oaths to King Ed
ward VII. He was not Grevllle or Il
Pepys," says the Athendum, but he philoso-
phzed in society (Which means, ar Goethe
said. TO talk with vivacity about insoluh'e
probemsn as well as any one. He was al
ways kindly; he WAS not frightened into
bitterness or silence by the stress and com
plexity Of modern life; and he COPIED with
the modern malody Of unlimited appre-
ciatiyeness' as well as any sufferer from it
can hope to do
This year has been notable for the num-