The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-11-25
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BOOKS ANN AUTHORS
Beyond Good and Epiir has been added
90 the complete translation Of the works 81
Friedrich Nletzsch, which IL being brought
out in this country. The translator 10
Miss Helen zimmsrn and the volumes pub
lished include Thus Spake z~arnthustra.'
"A Gcnealogy Of Morals,H "The Dawn OF
Day and -The Case OF Wagner
The second Of the volumes In which Mr..
Frederic Harrison IN collecting his mis-
csllaneOus writings has appeared with the
title ~Ths Philosophy Of Common Sense"
It's connection with the first volume In
the series 10 close. for an the author points
out "The Creed Of a Layman' dealt with
what the author calls -Ths Religion Of
Common Sense" and the new volume u
designed 20 throw light ON the philosophical
basis Of that religion. The volume pom
sists largely OF critical essays dealing with
the work Of Spencer. Lswes. Huxley. Bal
four and other contemporaries Of Mr..
Harrison.
Mr.. Harrison Rhodes obtained his
knowledge OF the coast OF Florida. which
he uses to such good advantage Ia The
Flight to Eden" from personal observe
ton. as his mother lives there. MIR. Rhodes
isa Harvard man and was one Of the editors
Of the Chop Book. published in Chicago.
He has lived much in London and has no
fixed residence at present. When asked
for some personal details concerning his
career he wrote: A to my life it In all ha
for publication and all embarrassing. Z
ave been able to invent an anecdots
about myself"
The heroine Of Burton v. s~tevenson's
new detective story. THAT Affair at Eli4a-
BETH is unlike any other woman either
in or out Of a book. Although her fortunes
form the framework Of the plot and her
personality pervades the boob she speaks
but one word in the entire story.
Hail A.. Browne. whose book on Bona
parte in Egypt and the Egyptians of To-
day has just been imported. died on the
eve Of it's publication. This adventurous
Irishman wss the only nan from tho Brit
ish Isles who ever saw the throne of the
Caliph HarOun Al Raschid in the temple
at Meshed. Disguised AZ a Turk he made
the pilgrimage TO Mecca a q Mahometan.
and thus gained his title Of Hail. The spiTit
Of the book may be inferred from the pref
ace. In which he says:
For over thirty years 1 have given OF
all I have had TO give for the promotion
Of two Objects-irst, Pen-Islamism. which
1 conceive to be the true interest OF the
Islamic world; and secondly. the develop
ment OF friendly relations between the
Moslems Of the East and the British
Empire"
Mrs. NJ. G. NJ. Simpson, who died re-
Gently in England, remembered seeing
through her nursery window Cobbstt
working in his garden. and old Talleyrand,
with white. ~pomatumed hair, limping
around the square. She danced with tho
youthful John Stuart MIL. was petted by
Sir Thomas Lawrence and rOmped With
Whately n Sydney Smith. She saw much
OF ~Thsckeray. and calling one day to take
him TO n dinner party she heard him say.
wait a few minutes till l I ave killed her"
| The "her" was Helen Pendennis. As they
drove through CurSon street he said sud-
denly, Look at that small house; that 10
where Becky died and I lost q hundred
pounds
Under the title Of the Fleshly School Of
Fiction a writer in the London Bookn,an
protests against The decadence Of the
modern novel. Yesterday" he says,
paris almost alone spread the plague.
To-day il RACES in London. Fashionable
publishers keep it in stock, newspapers
advertise 1t in spicy paragraph. women'a
clubs and afternoon teas reek with ito
Odors. Is IL not time to ask whether we
want this tainted literature among US,
and II not. how we shall get rid Of it1
. The alternative TO be decided by
r~eaders-chieiy women-who make the
fortunes Of English fiction is whether We
shall continue the ~splendidly wise and ten
der hearted tradition Of Scott, Dickens
and Thackeray or fall upon the garbage
spread out In the sun by imitators OF the
erotic. absinthe drenched, nerve racked
dccadents who swarm about Paris cafes.
Do we chose the latter? . Literature
will have sunk to pathology. and the physi-
clan may be compelled to treat the modern
story as IL il we're a shameful disease"