New-York tribune., 1907-12-14
BOOKS IND AUTHORS.
Current Talk of Things Present
and TO Come.


ne,r hook is coming from the pen of Thomas
Hardy. That announcement ought to AWAKEN
the rIes santest anticipations-alas. tnat IL Can
M longer do So For il is not new mover 'ia'
4, -, ,be ,vsv hut the third part of his dreary
epic drama. The Dynasts." 1t is consoiins 10
raeect that this is 10 be the concluding part oil
a work which has given genuine sorrow 10 tiie
faithful admirers of this man of genius Inns
,ew volume is TO contain seven acts and NIFTY
three scenes 1t deals with the decline ana ldn
,e ,rs,o.eon and the re-establishment of the ola
dynasties-
MANY art books are on the point OF puphCa
tion or in course of preparation In Europe III
the Partisan series. -'Nouvelle Collectioli u0'
Classioues de TART" volume on Albert burer
--..I h-e ranroductions is 20 be followed by vol
,,r,es on Rsphael and Michael Angelo. In the
a-;es on LES Maitres de TART is announced
. ,norl- on ia Sculpture Grecque au lNeme
Siac,e iuso,i'au temps dAlexandre" by PROFESSOR
Marine Collignon. NJ Marcel DleulaIoy oooh'
la Ststuaire Polychrome en- Espasne' which
has lust been brought out. has eighty-thfee
,,ates three of them in colors- In Lelpsic Is
being published "a Universal Dictionary Oh
Artists" edited by DR.. Ulrich Theme ana Dl-
Felix Becker who have associated with thefh
some three hundred authorities IN ollIereh'
countries. The work will be in twenty volumes
and contain about one hundred and nr'y 'iiou-
sand biographies. each article being ProNloeu
with a photography
r.ntsin lanes A. Moss, U. S. A, has brought
,,,t revised edition of his Officers Manual
II novv consists of two parts-D the fafiuhi
nroner which contains matter not SUBJECT W
banpe bv army regulations and War Depart
ment orders and CD the supplement TN 'ne
form, of q pamphlet, fitting in a pocket at pach
oe booll. which contains all the matter subject
to change.
Tho newest edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets
has heen printed from that Of 1868 as volume
of .sThe Tudor and Stuart Library Mr. w
II Hadow in his introduction, expresses the
orinjon that there is no more tremendous reveal
tion of human weakness in all literature than
tba, IN he found in the Sonnets He insists that
Shakespeare's true self is to be found in them,
mot i'm the story which they narrate, but in
the judgments on life and love which they con-
tain
s hitherto unpublished essay by John Stuart
Mil on social Freedom has just been given
to the world in the pages of the oxford and
Cambridge Review" 1t reveals some of his
oueerest idiosyncrasies- especially in his idea
of social freedom being compatible with strict
regulation OF QreSS dCCO1uIil6 " SldSS VI NoSlC-
He advises that each social order should adopt
its costume, designed according TO taste and
reason not TO suit the interests of trade. Each
man should be proud of his order rather than
ashamed of il. The costumes in use may
be made to help in this direction. Army, clergy,
law, Quakers, rife-corps, sisters of mercy,
might aid in reformation Of dress. Co-opera-
tive societies might adopt q costume, perhaps
also trade unions"
A naval officer writes in censorious temper
to the London Spectator to ask for its in
nuenoe in suppressng the word 'warship-" He
calls it "a raucous Americanism which has
crept into the language, not of naval men, but
of armchair naval experts" He adds:
A stili more horrid monster-"gunship"-ha re-
Gently been created by writer in the -Nineteenth
Why should the good old term man-o'"war'' be
replaced by these hideous inventions? ''Man-o'
deared by old associations and beautiful in itself.
Is ane za all few eyer d the SSF1 eaT il the pacs sSs
Of warsips and gunshIPs n the t East 0eass aa
and the native of Ceylon halls the advent of the
''rnanowah.' While on this tack, should like to
. skss not a boat. and that naval men do not live
fs Their bosf s are YOU on? is question very
nftep addressed to officers serving in some gigantic
MGnsehp or cruiser.
ohiyesa- the Sioux, better known as Charles A
Eastman, tells in "old Indian Days" CThe
Mcclure Company a series Of characteristic
tales of Indian life They deal with inherited
timents and customs which there are now few
r,eopIe left to feel observe; and they deserve
10 remain a part OF our literature. Most of them
set forth the praises of courage endurance. 10y
sltv: often they speak of true affection and
age dignity OF character. OF wild adventure in
the forest there is much; of hurnor very little.
There is a trace Of it in the story of Nakpa, the
mule who, used TO carrying the twin babies of
her master, effectually resents their removal
and the substitution OF the household gear. But
the reader has hardly time 10 smile at her com
ical wrath when he is obliged to admire the
fashion in which, with her beloved burden re-
stored, Nskpa flies before the sudden attack of
tribal enemies. She leaves death behind and
meets il again on the lonely way in the shane
OF two gray wolves. How she fights both of
them for the sake OF the babies strapped the
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