The sun., 1906-12-28
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.


Two books containing the posthumous
work OF Mrs. Craigis will be pubHshed. Ons
10 an unfinished novel entitled The Tine
10 Love- which will appear with certain
guide a. 70 its conclusion In the form OF an
Enacted play upon she same subject written
by Mrs. Craigie in conjunction with the
late Edward Rose, who assisted Anthony
Hope Hawkins In the production OF the
play founded upon The Prisoner OF ZcndA.
The other book by Ms. Craigie will contain
some unpublished essays edited by Mrs.
Cr&igie's sister. Mrs. Prendergast. A pi-
vately printed volume entitled "A Diner
Out will be made up Of Mrs. Craigie's
hrst literary compositions and a number
Of articles written under the pseudonym
OF -Diogenes Pessirnus.'
Mr.. Manville Fem. who has published
some eighty books for boys, has a word
to say in the London Book MONTHLY in The
Boys Story which is interesting because
il is authoritative. What a boy wants
all the time in a story is adventure, excite
ment. honest healthy thrills. Every boy
is a romanoer by nature just as he is an
intense patriot, and indeed the two things
blend in him. Apart from surface changes
DOy ltt OH btu-uOuCbt,
manly, Straightforward, pugilistic, devoted
TO a fight. in particular full OF chivalry.
These are the elements which appeal to q
boy in a story because they are the domi-
nant elements OF his own nature. The
secret of success with boys story is per
haps this-the writer must be able 20 put
himself in the place OF thai boy"
Mr.. Thomas Hardy is working upon the
third and final volume OF his poem The
Dynasts." He is in fact engaged in re-
vising and shortening it. The poem will
end at Waterloo, as the great historical
drama which it depicts concludes with the
battle.
Little Dorrit." or rather her original,
Mrs. Mary Ann Cooper, is still alive. The
old lady, who is still able TO go about open
ing bazaars, is the daughter OF a Sunbury-
on-Thames farmer and was born in Hat
ton Garden in 1918 Her brother went to
school with Dickens.
Mr. Jerome X. Jerome has gone back
TO England with not very favorable i'm
preston OF the literary outlook. He thinks
that the American people seem to be more
and more given over to the reading Of
magazines and third rate novels. Such
books as THE Viper Of Milan and The
House of the Thousand Candles" he finds
crowding the window Of single store to
the exclusion Of everything else
Theodore M. Davis's Excavations: The
Tomb Of Hatshopsitu" is a description Of
one of Mr. Davis's finds in the Valley OF
the Kings. II the author is ri ght in his
conjectures he has found the sepulchre
of Queen Hatasu, the only woman who in
the course of 5000 years ever ruled over
united Egypt.
Four books about william Blake pub
lished by four different London houses
have been brought out this year. OF these
the letters give better idea of this peculiar
genius than the biography. In one Of these
letters, dated August, 1909, he writes: Il
am happy TO find great majority OF fellow
mortals who can elucidate my visions, and
they have been eluciciated by
who have taken a greater delight
in contemplating my pictures than even
hoped. Neither youth nor childhood is folly
or incapacity. Some children are fools, and
so are some old men,"
Mrs. Clement Parsons and the Parents
National Educational Union in England
have arranged a guide to childrens books,
divided into sections according TO age,
subject, &c. Books 10 be read aloud TO
children are distinguished from books
that children read to themselves. Some
one has remarked that they considered
Jane Austen too grown up for girl of
a. to which the Academy replies; 1T is,
in our opinion, much better for a child to
read Jane Austen or some other book above
his intelligence. and understand little, than
to read book below his intelligence and
u understand 1t all
Miss Mary Bsteson, who died recently at
belonged to that scholarly band
Of writer's who have gained distinction in
historical research and study. She was
the first and as yet the only woman con-
tributor to the Cambridge NJ odern History.
and quite recently the Cambridge University