The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-14
Literary Notes.

All lovers of letters, and most especially
| Americans who take a pride In work Of
the first quality from the pens Of their
compatriots, will be glad to learn that an
other volume Of essays-"Shelburne Es-
saws: Fifth Series'-by Paul Elmer More,
will De published early in 1908. The book
like its four predecessors in the same
series, will appear under the Putnam i'm
print. Mr.. More's work now finds full ap.
probation and warm welcome on both sides
Of the sea by all who know how to value
books that combine singularly fine quail
ties OF style with sound, broad. and deep
scholarship, and a human interest that
lends vitality and freshness to every sub
ject treated. The complete list Of titles
for the essays to be included In the forth
coming volume we cannot give at present.
but studies of the Greek Anthology" of
Dickens. OF George Gissing's novels, Of
Mrs. Gaskell. of Philip Freneau, Of
Thoreau's Journal, and a paper, ''The Cen
tenary of Longfellow,' are among the
number.
"Old Paths and Legends of the New
England Border by Katharine M. Alb
bott, has just appeared under the Putnam
imprint. This volume covers fields I'M
touched in the same authors earlier work
which was entitled "Old Paths and Lee
| beIuS OIL NEW DnBidnus III lnt OOOk just
published, several distinguished amateur
artist-photographers are represented. Will
lam Radford. of the British Embassy, has
provided some of the most charming of
the photographs. Clifton johnson, the
Misses Allen, OF Deerfield; Miss Katherine
e. Mcclellan, Edwin II. Lincoln, and
! w. H. Benedict have also done much to
enrich the volume with representative ex-
amples of their work. The dra wings of
Connecticut homesteads and scenery. are
by Charles d Hubbard and Mildred
Howells.
Taking Petrarch's fascinating character
and varied career as his main theme, the
author OF "Petrarch: His Life and Times
which G. r. Putnam's Sons have Just pub
lished, endeavors to give a sketch Of four
teenth-century life at once historically ac-
curate and attractive to the general reader.
The lover Of Laura, and her poet; tho
founder Of Hunnanism, whom Boccaccio
called friend and master; the associate Of
King Robert Of Naples, of Rienzi, OF
Popes, Cardinals, Princes and an Emperor.
Petrarch played a conspicuous part In the
social, intellectual and political life OF his
age. and hardly a city Of Italy Is uncon-
nected with his career.
Those interested In the love AFFAIRS Of
Madame de Stael may be TO a
recently published MISUNDERSTANDING de
Stael and Benjamin Constant; Unpublished
Letters This book will take on a new
interest If the reader will peruse In con-
nection with it Constants Adolphe. In
which in the form Of fiction the author ex-
presses the boredom and ennui which lie
himself experienced in the course OF his
affair with the lady ''of a certain age
and tender heart, whose letters are mere
offered to the public view.
A. Henry Savage Lander. the author of
"Across Widest Africa" besides being cns
Of the greatest explorers Of the day, u war
correspondent and author. has now be-
come interested in the problem of aerial
| navigation and is at present in Paris per-
fecting and experimenting with an aero
plane OF his own invention. While max
ing his now famous trip across Africa his
Somali servant went insane at Lake Tchad.
Instead of giving him up or leaving him
with the natives, Eandor took the great
est care possible Of the boy and brought
him over to Lonoon in the hope that the
change of climate and medical attendance
would restore his reason. The treatment
proved entirely successful and the boy re-
covered his mind and was photographed
and interviewed in regard TO his impress
sions Of the underground railway and other
London sights. When he began TO show
signs OF desiring TO return TO his
country Lander accompanied him as far as
Marseilles, put him on board a ship bound
for Africa, besides giving him enough to
make him comfortable In his home land
for the rest Of his life. 1t is that boy
that appears beside Lander in the rontIs-
piece OF the book.
A new and very beautiful edition OF the
Arabian Nights has just been published.
The I'VE storieg in this book have been re-
written by Lawrence Housman and the
Illustrations are by Duiac There are fifty
fuli-pase sketches, very original aud slrik-