New-York tribune., 1907-10-13

ther" Mr.. Crane prints this vignette of Ste
venson. whom he met once twice at the Sa-
vile Club:
,5 He used to stand the hearthrug in the smok
%5cB Gl5fG9Ti Te ySTy ETo, much in the same style as that m
choee Of words if carefully selected and cuiti-
usual as his speech. A long pale. thin face and
rdonic smile The World in Gnsr } InI eS6dSiav Ptfy
iuIe' uut stevenson sported black
MT Martin Halle is publish a book on
lanes Francis Edward: The Old Chevaler"
inns VIII make a companion volume to the same
authors biography of Mary of Modena.
We have had more than one contribution Of
late to the subject Of sport in Newfoundland
DuI hothlng thus far published has given the
reader quite what he is entitled to oxDect in
the forthcoming book written and illustrated
by Mr. J. G. Miilais This author and artist
mas unusual gifts, he has been granted special
privileges from the government in the gather
ing OF material for the work in question and
ne ought to have much that is valuable to put
.G oeIGIt US IN ms Newfoundland and Its Tn
/ fishers.
The late Lord Randolph Churchiu once do
IIucu tHit the letters written to him hv Sir
Henry Drummond Wolff were like a glass of
tI'e btSt chanragnc-cX cXhiarating and stimulate
ING. ms suggests that there viii be good read
| enced diplomat now has in press The hook will
Certainly contain much interesting political gos-
TWO volumes on Woman Through the Ages"
| are are presently to be expected from DR. Emil
I'elch. Inty begin with study Of woman in
ancient Assyra, Babylonia, Egypt and Judea
ana ana proceed to the history of the subject in
greece and Rome in the Middle Ages in the
Renaissance and IN modern times
The book Of verses which the late william,
sharp published in 1896 under the title OF "FIfIIs
| oil Dream and Later Poems" is to be brought
out out IN NJ a new and ENLARGED edition. 1t will
the pseudonyme of Fiona Macleod"
We recently quoted one or two good stories
from the biographical sketch prefxed by pr
Lulloch to the Sermons and Stray Papers Of
as A h. II. b" Here two more:
Or. Muir. '1irkng' the Town Council pravo5.
r% sG5 G5'e &c mere 6 upon The MAGISTRATES Of Gas
e when The Town Clerk t cSd @isf f5 sg RG hat hat
rrva W.. S IA were much asgrieved at being
stant: DE Muirs compliments to the Lord Pro
E9t 6t ana he is very sorry to ind that his prayer
s FT9g9G 5a be52s had told him OF youth at oxford in
ne could mention any instance OF the divine good
the conformation OF the nose Of the bulldog Its
nose nose Is SO rStracted that it can hold on TO the
have 70 let go its hold" The bulls point OF view
The second volume in the translation of the
memoirs OF Dumas which the Macmillan Com
Ihat was the period OF his start in life as a
writer IN Paris, and the volume tells much about
MS earlier relations with his great couteInpo-
rarles in the French capital.
Sir Conan Doyle IS OF course. best known for
MS sherlock Holmes stories. but. as readers Of
i ne W hitc Company are well aware. he has
more than ono string to his bow. His next pub
Ncatlon IS 10 show him in stiu another light.
II consists OF a series Of literary papers 10 be
called Through the Magic Door"
The Century Company announces n series OF
historical volumes under the general editorship OF
Professor George Lincoln Burr of Cornell Uni
YerSlty. There viii be ten volumes in all, each
by a specialist in the field of which he writes,
but all working together to secure unity. IL is
designed that the series, when completed, form
history Of the world from the viewpoint of
modern scholarship, upon lines essentially new.
The sixth volume of that colossal work on
the history OF the British capital, which was
begun by the late Sir Walter BcSaut, is very
soon 10 appear. II Will treat OF Early Lon
don"
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