The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-05
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.

Will present the most important speculative
movements as they were transferred from
Europe and developed during two centuries
Of our early history into the typical Amer
lean philosophy Of Emerson.
Clement Shorter pronounces Gustav
Frenssen. the author Of -J8rn Uhl.' the
most popular author in Germany. Next
in popularity to Frenssen IL Clara Cohn-
Viebig, the writer OF several works, includ-
ing Die Vacht am Rhein.' whom the Eng
lish critic calls the Marie Corelli OF Ger
many. Max Eyth. whose sketches From
the Pocket Book OF an Engineer has gone
into ten editions. is a great favorite. while
Die Wiskottens.' by Rudolph Herzog. Is
in it's twenty-hfth edition. Frenssen's new
novel for this season il called in transla-
ton The Three Comrades" and is a love
story which. unlike his previous works.
does not advance anything new or radical
on religious or social questions.
Mrs. Elinor Gyms Three Weeks" has
shocked the English critics because her
lovers are not married. They could not
have a Church OF England wedding with
full choir for obvious reasons the woman
was a queen with a husband and the man
was a young English aristocrat. They
met az a Swiss hotel where the queen was
stopping under An assumed name. The
husband was a dissolute b~lackguard and
the queen had far reaching green eyes. In
which according 10 the author) the his
tory of the whole world Of passion seemed
written slumbrous. inscrutable. their
heavy lashes making shadows IN her soft
smooth cheeks" They were staying in
L~ucerne-and what can you expect but an
intrigue" ending in great sorrow under
the circumstances Mrs. Glyn withdrew
the book from publication once for fear
OF what he reviewers would say, and the
reviewers are saying things almost az
shocking al the book. x
Prof. John Stuart Mackenzie, who has
Just written a new book on -Humanism"
which deals with the general IDEAS that
lnderlie modern attempts to make a sci
ence Of sociology. holds the chair of philoso-
ply In the University College at Cardiff
and is one OF the members of the younger
school OF English philosophical thinkers,
His new book il not a work for the specialist
only. but rather an appeal 20 the interest
of -the average man and an illustration
OF the tendency of philosophy oward SIM
II Is in a sense as much a sociology
cal az a philosophical book.
Mrs. Daniel Lothrop Margaret Sidney,
has corrected the proofs of the eleventh
OF the famous Pepper books. which
will be called Five Little Peppers in the
Brown House" and has gone abroad
for q year with her daughter. Mas Mar
garet Lothrop, a reoent graduate Of Smith
College.
DR.. william Grenfell has been the re-
cipient of an unusual honor in the degree
Of NJ. d. bestowed upon him by Oxford.
a. It is the only honorary NJ. D.. ever be-
by Oxford University. The degree
was given In recognition Of the work he
has hone In improving the social and phys
ical condition Of the population Of the Lab
rador coast. DIR. Grenfell Is an active
worker with his pen in books and articles
bringing to the outside world the knowl-
edge Of the conditions Of life In the north
land.
Franklin Wi Ills Calkins, the author OF
The Wooing Of Tokala." although q uni
versity man. has lived so long with the
Indians that he liz said to be more familiar
with their life than with that Of his own
people. He understand the life and feel
ings Of the Indian from the inside, and not
az seen by an outsider.
In answer to the charge mat Alfred l..
Hutchinson's THE Limit OF Wealth. was
founded upon Andrew Carnegie's sugges-
ton that all estates of more than 81. 600, 900
should revert 20 the State on tho death Of
their owner, the author states that he ar
rived at his idea quite Independently Of
Mr.. Carnegie. BY an odd coincidence the
second chapter in his book, in which this
idea In fully outlined. was written on De-
cember II. 1909. On the evening OF the
18th Mr.. Carnegie made p speech before the
Civic Federation in New York containing
this idea Of the distribution OF wealth. 1t
came TO the notice OF the author on the
following day, after h first two chapters
OF his work were completed. Mr.. Hutchin-
son was at onoe struck with the coincidence
and Immediately mailed q copy Of these
chapters to Mr.. Carnegie, calling hs atten-
ton to the date Of authorship.
MS MacKinlays, the son Of Nine. Sterling,
devotes most Of his book. which will be
brought out in America under the title
of -Antoinette Sterling and Other Celeb
TO "reminiscences Of his mothers
career. But as this involved an
intimate acquaintance with numberless
other celebrities In all fields OF art the book
gives a comprehensive picture OF English
and Continental social life.
Mr.. Warwick Wroth's new book. Gre
morne and the Later London Pleasure
Gardens" will give an account Of sone
of the more notable taverns and tea gardens
which were popular during the early years
OF the last century in various parts Of
London and the suburbs. The book will
contain much curious information derived
from old newspapers and stray handbills,
and will supplement the authors former
book on London Pleasure Gardens OF the
Eighteenth Century"
MY Lord OF Essex" Ia the title Of the
new historical novel which Mrs. Charles
Brookield will publish soon. and which
the authors husband will prepare In drama.
tized form for MIR. Lewis Waller. The
story deals with some incidents In the career