New-York tribune., 1907-10-27

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Charles Eliot Norton survive James Russell
Lowell was its first editor, and as to his work
DR.. Hale bears testimony worth quoting:
Let, Let me say word about any presumption that
else did the work-trust me for l know. / have
worked under many editors good and bad Not one
| or worked at its details more faithfully. I think
of sense does Ir those days there was practically
Eens R0 s0 6d +e think 96 hat iii like any man Of
read the average contribution" But he had SAID
! he would do it, and he did It-up to time far
fai oS e h Sd SaftI m IN aetai, even 10 the lest de
work when he YVES done.
The next number of the old magazine. which
has been the storehouse of great part of what
has been best in American letters will contain
some historical "reminiscences
| Sir Lewis Morris, who has reached the age Of
| sixty-four. hath laid aside his lute-in other
words, he viii publish henceforth no new verse
| He Is about TO bring out maj EDITION IN ono
volume OF his complete pOetiCal works this
| book containing by the way, some poems not
| before published. This will be the seventeenth
edition of his poetical collection. 1t is a fact
| to rouse some wonderment, for while his verse
| is dignifed, correct and sympathetic, 1t is in
other respects commonplace hardly of the stun
! that lives
|
The march Of Rosett books is as that of the
| Irresistible years! only the other day
nounced one-and here behold another on
| the way, with the determined w. NJ RosSetti as
the pilot. This time it is the Letters II
! Christiana Rossetti" which to be bestowed
!
nesslike brother, with portraits and tasclmIiIcS-
! Another family book which he is soon 10 pub
lsh is the diary Of his uncle DR.. Pohdori.
The eIaboratcIy illustrated work Les Fem
mes de Versailles" will be completed by Gorph
during the coming season, the fourth and fifth
parts being nearly ready. The price Of this
] beautifully executed work is 81 600 other art
Pierre de- Noihacs life of FRANCOIS Boucher.
! Premier Peintre du Roi, 11o3-1IIo,' ana lie
| Lvre du Sacre de L LEmpereur Napoleon with
- n 4fFt,, lr4yJ Tr. -
/ the architectural details by PerCicr and Fon-
tanc. NJ Frederic Mdssons text in this cor
onation book is largely drawn from hitherto un-
published documents.
A volume Of Martin Luther's letters trans
/ lated into English is TO be published soon.
! ColeridCe IS remembered as asserting that he
could scarcely conceive q more delightful VOL
ulne than might be made from I.uther's letters.
especially those from the Wartburg. If trans
lated in the simple, idiomatic, hearty mother
tongue of the original"
4 wonderful increase in the price Of a hook Is
mentioned by u Corresp pondent OF Notes and
Qgrres The first ] edition il H;SG3 iS3 fbri Oh lana nh
.iuEs this year il was sold for SOLO.
The latest volume Of NJ Lenotrc's interesting
series. Memoirs ct Souvenirs sur Ia Revolution
e Empire deals with the experiences Of poor
young Marie Theresc-Charlotte. the daughter
Of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette Her own
memoirs furnish the most valuable material
| Pleasant talk about books VIII be found within
! the covers of Conan Doyle's new volume.
. Through the Magic Door" This talk Is
thought to be mot pedantic. but companion
able" Has tho inventor OF Sherlock Holmes
lost his power Of invention, that he turns 10 less
! sensational paths?
Tho State OF Connecticut may congratulate
. .t--l: upon being the scene OF Mr. Marion CraW-
fovd's next novel, THE Little City Of Hope"
There Is no foreigner among its characters.
Tho two volumes Of "Honslowc's Diary" edited
| by W. W Greg have been supplemented by
/ volume OF The HersIowc Papers" containing
additional detailed information concerning Eliza
. hethan theatrical productions Notes and
Qu"-i"s" may be quoted 10 the quaintucss Of
the iriy, ntories therein given For example the
T 'EEVoutary tacken of all the properties for my
Lord Admcjai,s men, the 10 Of Marche, 1889
/ is sufficiently comprehensive, including X
/ does in the first Item j rocke, cage, tombe,
. j Hon moughL and going on to, among other
things. ii uarchcpaneS and the sttie of Rome
Pheasant reading. too, the letters from
/ Philip Herslowe and Joan Alleyn to Edward
! Alleyn. and the jocose efGusOn written by John
/ Iyk To Mistress Allcyn, concluding:
. Yeti / swear to you by the fayt Of fus;yan
. hinge never to retOrne Ill fortune VS. brynG VT a
Jouful mctyng to lovly london sesse.
" 'Nor petty pretty pratlyng parlyng pyg
" by me John pyk.'
IN :ac intervals of writing his six articles ON
/ Egypt for The Century" Mr. Robert Hchens
/ VIII work upon novel the title Of which
! Las uut been announced.
/ "Eh" Library Edition OF John Ruskin's works,
! published hy the late George Allen, now ap-