New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-03-18

that he was a of judgment. a man of fore
sight, and man of ACKNOWLEDGMENT in collect
ing early prints, foresight in his choice of lit
erature, and taste in his bindings and collection
Of music, He particularly referred to the set
ting Of ITO be or not TO be" to music Of which
the college had allowed Sir Frederick Bridge to
have copy, and which was sung at the last
meeting Of the Pepys Club on November 30.
"Hauntings: Fantastic Stories- IS the title
OF a new book by Vernon Lee Miss PageO. 1t
has presumably an Italian background
AS the widow Of the first British Minister to
Japan, Mrs Hugh Fraser has had unusual OPP
portunlues to become Intimately acquainted
with the character and opinions Of the Japanese
and she is now using all her observations in a.
new book 1t is to deal with The New Japan
The Italian scholar Professor Pasouale VII
lari has prepared a valuable group OF historical
studies on the Italian Renaissance and an Eng
Ish edition thereof is the press.
Can there be found IN these days. an original
and startling plOt2 Such, at any rate, is said to
writing. 1t is to be called THE Eight Guests"
and its main object is to describe a discovery OF
their true souls" by eight luxury loving, self
induIgent modern smart" people as the cOnse-
death
Mrs. Russell Barrington the biographer Of C,
+. Watts. has undertaken to prepare a memoir
of another English painter. Lord Leighton. His
Letters we imagine, may be more interesting
than his Life" for he was in no sense a great
artist But he knew many of the most noted
people Of his time and should have garnered
pleasant stories for his diaries and correspond
ence- Mrs. harrington has the aid in her Iabors
Of Leightons sister.
There could hardly be a statement less well
come than this to the lovers of good modern
literature-that Mr.. Thomas Hardy has definite
~ abandoned fiction. The student Of genius can
but mournfully ask Why The mans industry
3 hos not fqi hi .y,rII
TALLY unpoetic poem, The Dynasts," shows: is
it, then, his power Of invention that has left
him?
Mr.. Eden Phnlpotts has tried the collaboration
plan The new novel. The Sinews OF War" he
has written with Mr. Arnold Bennett, the author
Of several clever pieces OF fiction.
Mr. Justin Huntly Mccarthy is at work upon
a romance set at the end Of the seventeenth
g. Try. He calls il THE lIuStriOus O'HaGan.'
He is preparing at the same time a play on thu
same subject When these are finished he viii
return TO the tale OF ancient Greece which hG
began some time ago
Mrs. Flora Annie steele. who cannot be said
to have justified OF late the success Of hcr first
novel, is about to bring out another which We
may hope to find of interest. 1t is a story OF
Sovereign Remedy" The author is now engaged
upon Popular History Of India" a work which
is mentioned as "pcturcsque'
Some interesting Impressions OF the United
States appear in American business Methods"
book published at Stockholm by NJ. Hjalnar
CaSSel, q Swedish engineer. who lately visited
this country. He thinks that the secret OF
American success is not so much due to better
machinery, tools and appliances as to n more
perfect system of organization in factories and
Offices, and TO a minute superv siOn Of every de-
tail Of work.
Another Rossetu book, The output Of W. n.
ROSSetti Will resemble that Of a well Cs-
tabshed up to date factory. This time it comes
y-Cl1r ola
entitled Some "reminiscences Let hope
that the author has at last exhausted his recOl-
lectionS of his brother. Dante Gabriel, and has
embarked upon an entirely different stream OF
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