New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-06-15
BOOKS md AUTHORS.


With the books which they publish to-day
Houghton Miflin & co. round out their list for
the spring season. The group includes the vol
ume Of new Garrick letters and the poems by
Maria Lowell TO which We have already al
luded and The Causes Of the Panic Of 1898"
by William j. Lauck; Industrial Education. "
by Harlow s Person. and Growth and Educa-
ton" by Professor John NJ. Tyler
The Boston Transcript" prints an interesting
account of the monument to Francis Parkman.
bv Mr. Daniel Chester French. which has been
erected on the shore OF Jamaica Pond once
part of the Parkman estate, "A spot OF rare
landscape beauty. without Earring note any
where in view; set amid noble American elm
trees and clumps OF rhododendrons- MT
Downs the art critic of The Transcript" thus
describes the memorial:
The central architectural member Of the monu,
ment Is sG Tfsn sS from the centre OF long
sranite bench in the form Of exedra This
niche sunk deeply in its face is the heroc-scaIe
figure Of an Indian cner T SI and hoding his
pipe OF peace.
The head of the eborIglno is that o, one Of The The
most noble and pathetic types to be found in al
infinite pathos in It's expression there IS superb
stoicsm The sculptor has read into tnS one ~ pc
The motive OF Park1nans life work, Perhaps the
actual Indian Ghgt IS fbar T. J., an embodi
inent Of one of the representative Iroquois chiefs
hdaigos Of spain. It IS. at all events, the Indian
as We like to think Of him-thc proud brave. tact
but thanks 10 the author OF the Half Century of
c2 Redw thu not ga my Of the ndn Chief is
bass-relicf of Parkmans head In Pronle surrounded
10y %aH Wenty gears ago approxmatey
about the S that fo his s. Rot M15 penb e
had even at that time an almost boylsl aspect;
the name "Francs Parkman" and the dates OF his
birth and death These are set forth in bronze
trait OF the historian.
TWO art books Of much interest are presently
coming from the Scrlbners One, an addition to
the we'll known Red Series is a monograph
on Sir William Beechey. by Mr.. w. Roberts
This painter was one Of the inheritors Of the
eighteenth century tradition founded by Reyn-
olds and his group. He began life as de-
signer of carriage panels and inn signs and rose
TO be Il distinguished member OF the Royal
Academy He produced a vast number of por-
traits and achieved fairly high rank in his pro-
feseion but he has never been made sufficiently
familiar to American students. and Mr.. Rob
erts's book will therefore be especially welcome
The other new volume to which we have alluded
is Mrs Arthur Strong's richly illustrated work
on Roman Sculpture from Augustus to Con-
stantine" In this she breaks practically now
ground for while Roman sculpture is traversed
in all the handbooks 1t has not hitherto been
made the subject of such an exhaustive volume
in English as Mrs Strong has produced.
The romance of Gambetta and Mile Leonie
Leon is the subject OF book which NJ Francis
Iaur has just published in Paris 1t is said
that he throws much light a story which has
always been obscure, and is particularly careful
10 show the effect of the statesman's private in
fatuation upon his attitude toward certain of the
political questions with which he had TO deal.
Mr. Sidney Lee has drawn upon himself the
wrath of a Baconian who-unlke most Ba-
conians-seems to have caught the Shake
spearian scholar in a contradiction. Mr.. G. Stro-
mach quotes in The Academy from Mr.. Lees
article on William Herbert. third Earl of Penn
broke:
"Other parts of the Dedication Gof the First Fool
prore clearly that Shakespeare was on friendly
gestion that the publishers Dedication OF Shake
speares sonnets to the one bgeier of these insuIng
gused under the initials of his family name, Will
lam Herbert. The acceptance of this theory
Pembrokes early biography. The Sonnets, though
published til 1909. We're written for circulation
40 Shakespeare's young friend was, doubtless
Pembroke himself; and the dark lady; in az prob
Mothing in the sonnets directly contradicts the
Identification CIV, Of w H. their hero and . ons be-
fsrnai details confirm it, The italics throughout are
mine, not DR. Lees
Then turning TO Mr.. Lees Life of Shake
spesre" Mr.. Stronach quotes follows
The theories that all the sonnets addressed to
woman were addressed to the dark lady" and
Fitton. a mistress Of the Earl of Pembroke. are
basetess con!ect"fef ne III, s VI NJ