New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-10-06

DR.. Bliss Perry. who has been spending the
summer in Belgium. IS in Italy, and will
not return 10 this country until January. when
he will take up HIS work professor OF Eng
lish literature at Harvard University and re-
sumo his editorship of The Atlantic Monthly.
His life of Walt Whitman" is published by
Houghton Mihiin & Co this week.
One OF the kindest deeds of the Hanoverian
kings Of England is recorded in the just pub
lished biograp ply OF Henry Stuart. Cardinal DUKE
Of York When this younger brother OF the Pre-
tender became a fugitive during Napoleon's
campaign in Italy the news was brought to
George III in England, and the King immedl-
ately arranged 10 pay his distant cousin an an
nuity OF $4,000
Frederic HarTison's Memories and Thoughts"
IS published this week by the Macmillan Com
pany. The distinguished author lacks only
few days of being seyenty-fve years OLD For
more than half a century he has been the
friend of nearly every leader Of English thought
and has been associated with almost every i'm
portant philosophical and scientific movement
OF his day.
What made DR.. johnson the greatest figure
of his age IN London? 1t was not his books, says
1.-THE London outlook" but his conversation:
He was oqe Of those men whom you must hear
Re had the pTedomnance Of great commander
IN me NED or great o G e IN his 6he s @
small enough for one man TO dominate II, ana
ions on every one There was no barrier between
the smart set and the intellectuals or the poll
set, ana yet he was one Johnson's dearest friends
ea s goang 0n au o fashion, 0R Of s e so
set qP 70 6S T9ng Of asT The aP best YOU o c oap
portrait painters now seem TO paint a young man
as IL they had nothing in common and no kind OF
unaerstan dins with him But Reyn aGn1s6 PoT,
connoisseur for connoisseurs; and you feel that
Walked through ~ he Vatican as well as the painter
The anonymous author Of THE Martyrdom Of
an Empress" has written a novel entitled Gray
Mist" which viii be published shortly by the
Hsrpers. The scenes OF the story are laid among
the Breton fsherfolk, among whom the author is
said TO have been born and brought up.
Ford MADDOX Hueffer who is a relative of the
English painter, Ford MADDOX Brown. and who
collaborated with Joseph Conrad in their Joint
. story, Romance" is visiting America. After
short tour OF observation he Will relate his
hasty impressions in volume to be published
by Mcclure, Phillips & Co
Edward VERBAL Lucas, the compiler OF the
pleasing anthology. The open Road" has
dertaken 10 do for the friends Of the city what
he has already done with such excellent tudg-
uent for the lovers Of the country. The
Friendly Town" a companion volume TO THE
Open 2oca.7 - announced for early publication
by Henry Holt & Co The book will contain
more than two hundred selections in verse and
prose from one hundred authors, many of them
Americans
Fifty more volumes of "Everymans Library
have been published this week by E. P. Dutton
& Co. They include Wesley's Journals" Sir
George Young's "Sophocles" Percy's ''Reliques"
Ford's Gatherings from SPAIN" and many of
the Waverley Novels The same house viii short
ly issue Egyptian Excavation: Biban el Moluk,
the Tomb Of Queen Hatshopsitu QIatasu)'' The
story Of the life and monuments of the queen
has been written by Edouard NaviIle, the de-
scripton Of the finding and excavation of the
tomb by Howard Carter, and Theodore NJ.
Davis has contributed the introduction. Seven of
the illustrations will be in color. and there will
be many others in photogravure and collotype.
Mrs Frances Hodgson Burnett, Miss Elizabeth
Robins and Mr.. A. Z. W. Mason viii contribute
serial stories TO The Century Magazine" during
the coming year; and the prospectus of the vol
ume includes at least seventy-fve short stories
by Harry Stillwen Edwards, Charles D. Stewart,
Norman Duncan. Harvey J. OHiggins. Irving
Bachelor, Eliza beth Jordan. Anne Warner and
many other popular writer's Of fiction.
Yer Beck's Book of Bears" is the title of a
volume, shortly 10 be published by the ]. B. Lip
pincott Company which Will contain a large
number Of Frank Yer Beck's amusing pictures of
bears big and little, all sorts of possible and
impossible situations. The accompanying rhymes
are by Hayden Carruth, Hanna Ryon and the
artist himself.
The famous old Indian chief, Geronimo has
written his autobiography which is being
published this week by Dufleld & Co. The book
has been edited by Mr.. s n. Barrett, superin-
tendent OF schools In Lawton. Okla and is dedi-
Gated TO President Roosevelt. by whose permits
sion the work was undertaken in spite of the
criticism and objection Of the War Department
F Berkeley Smiths book, In London
Town" Dunk & Wagnalls Company. is now
ready. In writing about the British metropolis
the author follows the same methods that char
acterized his books Paris and Parisians Mr.
Smiths propensity, If not his aim is to amuse
rather than 10 instruct. The book contains about
fifty illustrations by the author and other ar
lists.
J. A. Mitchell the Editor Of Life" and the
author OF Amos Judd" The Pines of Iorv"
and Gloria Victis" has written a new romance
entitled The Silent War" which is now in press
and Will be issued shortly by the Life Publish
ing Company. The story is based on the present
social discomfort, and is said 70 have tragic
ending The illustrations will be by Mr Balfour
Ker.
Mrs Margaret Sangster's book "Fairest
Girlhood" has just been issued by the Fleming
II. Revell Company. Written in much the same
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