New-York tribune., 1907-06-23

as to his own value in the first-edition market
as witness the following:
Ten years ago book hunters were ready to pay
70 for my Juvenile rhymes, and for nv "Aucassn
anu Nlcolette' | did not get the money, but my
wisdom was lowered. To-day however. the book
Collectors show signs of returning common sense
about f. 6s is given where five guineas used to be
shillings) or even below par and / advise holders
TO cut losses and sell bear Of me, while there is
more 0ne D G0%f9Tt is that that les pes samade not
Arnold's first editions are weak a falling mar
ket. Poems by A" and 'EmpedOcles on Etna"
editions of Victorian singers. except the earliest
and rarest things, of Tennyson and Browning /
have not observed that the early first editions of
Mt G. b. Shaw are quoted, but very special books
one copy the odes of 174s which Collins burned D
because nobody would buy them. From the orig
SO am glad that secured fine large copy for f3.
A son of the house of Caine is entering the
ranks or publishers, and novel by his
papa will be among his first productions Mr.
Ralph Hall Caine, it is stated will start busi-
ness under the title of Collier & Co. the name
being selected solely because of the good fort
une that has attended the great firm of that
name in America
In the Napoleonc period the British Minister
at the court of HeSse- Cassel, Mr.. Brook Taylor
was charged by the Emperor with being impli-
Gated in a plot to procure his assassination A
lively quarrel between Napoleon and the E,ector
turned upon the formers demand for the dis
at that time secretary to Taylor, and his letters
which are said to deal at some length with the
queer business, are soon to be published by John
Lane They will be edited by the writer's
granddaughter Countess Gunther Droben.
The voluminous biography of William Pitt.
Iarl or Chatham, which is appear in
London will be a translation from the German
original The author is DR.. Won Ruville of the
University of Halle
In the current number of '"The Burlington
Magazine" the frOntispiece is a plate showing
the art OF a man who is practically unknown in
this country, but who obviously possessed more
than ordinary gifts. This portrait of "A Man
with a Hawk" owned bv Mr. F. GaenZer
and died in 1910. For some time he was an as
sistant in the studio of Sir Thomas Lawrence
at salary of 1900 a year. If he produced
much work equal TO "A Man with a Hawk" he
ought presently to become object of interest
To collectors.
The Holts have Just had to send to press once
more DIR. Willis Fletcher Johnson's -Four Cen
tuT1eS of the Panama Canal This admirable
book seems to have firmly established itself as
the authoritative work on its subject.
'"The Four Philanthropists' is the title OF a
new novel by Mr.. Edgar JephSon, the creator Of
the amusing Tinker and the equally Quaint
Lady NOgGs." The philanthropy" of the
-four" which is treated in a spirit of comedy,
lies it is said, in "a scheme for the painless
moVal of harmful members of society. that a
hospital may be founded with their fortunes"
biography of Hood will be one of the publ
cations of the early autumn. The author is Mr.
Walter Jerrold. the grandson of Douglas Jerrold
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