New-York tribune., 1907-10-20
LITERARY NOTES.

The letters Of the poet Carducci will probably
be published They deal more or less with
political subjects well as with literature.
Mr. r s. Hichens's Just finished novel "A
Spirit in Prison." is a sequel to his former book.
The Can of the Blood" 1t will not be brought
out in book form until the autumn of next year.
His novelette,. "Barbary sheep" is not to be
| published in England in that form
The forthcoming volumes Of the Letters oc
Queen Victoria" written between the years 1881
and 1851. promise to have a prodigiOus circula-
ton, the preliminary orders having been very
large I-ongmans, Green < Co. will publish the
collection in this country this month. 1t is said.
by the way, that the volumes contain many
notable portraits.
Another Rossetti book-this time collection
of Dante Gabriels poems in one volume They
originally written, and the sonnet formerly
withdrawn from The House of Life" has been
| the author made of himself at the age of nine
teen has been reproduced as frontispiece.
The widow of General Lew Wallace who has
just gone to join her husband. is said to have
always regarded his novel Ben Hur' in
spred document. She religiousIy cherished
every scrap OF paper bearing his handwriting
and TO the end OF her life the volume of Ben
Hur" lay turned down upon the table exactly as
his bag of tobacco. II is worth while to quote
beside this devoted wife's grave these sentences
from tne OLD generaIS autobiography:
Her faith in began with the beginning when
| was unknown and uncertain of myself. and the
world all too ready 10 laugh at my attempts. Her
gentle soul has bent me to her wishes but always
for my good and always so deity that l was as
one blind TO the domination. Ny temper has never
been so hot she could not lay IT. All that am is
owing TO her
There remain in existence a number of I'M
published letters from the pen of VOtairc, and
these. some of them, 10 appear in Pro-
fessor Churton Collins's new book on the visits
to England OF Noltaire. MonteSquieu and Rous-
seau.
The forthcoming volume of Sidney Ianiers
poems. Hymns OF the Marshes" is TO be
realistically Illustrated with photographs taken
in the marshes of Glynn. They will be in har-
mOny with the text, for Lanier's verse. while
ii often breathes forth imagination and a wild
music. has still much that is thoroughly un-
poetic.
New light on Nelson's conduct at NapIes-a
matter which continues TO cause uneasiness In
the admirers of the admirals career-is prom
Ised by Commandant Maurice We'll. 1t will be
found in OF the forthcoming volumes OF
Wells painstaking work on Murat, lie Prince
Eugene ct Murat."
In London has Just been published the Eng
lish version Of the autobiography OF the Pro-
vcncal poet Frederic Mistral This book con-
tributes to literary history careful account OF
the birth Of the praiseworthy Felibre move
ment. The Baker & Taylor Company will issue
it here.
A Tudor Fac-Simile Text which is nearly ready
for delivery is the reproduction of the only MS
of Elzabethan play which survives in the
authors own handwriting. This is Massingers
ed from the MS in 1914. 1t is recorded that
| the manuscripts Of eight of Massnger's plays
were, in the middle of the eighteenth century.
used to light kitchen fire by the ignorant ser
want of the outrageousy careless John War
burton, Somerset Herald