New-York tribune., 1907-08-18

| the collection, eleven of which have been de-
| scribed perfect. VIE do not doubt that many
! OF Lord Amhersts best things viii be purchased
! by American collectors.
! George W. Jacobs &, Co. of Philadelphia an
nounce that they have taken over from the Lip
/ pincOtts Mr.. c. F. Warwick's book on Mira
! beau and the French Revolution" At the same
! time they note that they have in preparation q
/ companion volume by the same author. entitled
DantOn and the French Revolution" which will
be issued some time next year and that he viii
follow this with a similar study of RObespierre.
The Putnams will publish in this country .Tb.
| cambridge History of English Literature
which Professor A W. Ward and Professor A.
K Walker are editing, and which is TO be COM
pieted in fourteen stout volumes. This will he
work of many hands, the different chapters
being written by scholars who have specialized
IA n ainerent phases of the subject treated
american and Continental well English
writers VIII assist in the enterprise. The plan
oI S,I TINS history, which is TO deal with English
literature from the beginnings down to the end
| OF the victorian age, is thus summarizes:
b IS intended a. to give connected account Of
ary in English literature this jmpits t an anu s1
b eaefneht OF secondary writers instead Of leaving
ulese 10 be overshadowed by the create personaIi
ae as 10 TdbiGat trGG the he progress Of the English IAN
note Of the infnence Of f6ra literature CD to take
~ 6fngsH . literature and Though in a smaller degree1
o1d 4e en OF English upon foreign terares
| photography. Win d sui'ic'eh'
From the Bates & Guild Company. Of Roston.
series of feceTed another number in the
one an important subject wen treated 'rbpse
monthly sheaves of pictures and opposite quota
| tlohS are always welcome. They are rrncieeIxy
WI Mrta' Is needed by the beginner in the study of
| ? new novelette, by DR.. s. Weir Mitchell win
De printed in the September Century, Pre-
| sumably it will also be issued in Eloi, f ~
| season. " A A'i4ii 'iil'
Mr. Lang has been moved to fnextinruisbab1a
o and IN his usual blithe way he tells
| the readers OF The Illustrated London Ncws''
| an ABOUT It 1t seems that "a very cultivated
| critc. aInfably reviewing some reprinted ESSAYS
of MI Langs, has gravely asked the latter
my, Wmy ne ne mas not won as commanding a posi-
| with joy Mr. Lang remarks:
He might as well ask why never won 60 COM
@ rlandinE position in modern cricket as Mir " G.
as esher Megs OF ~ theSe illnsTious men single tale
| theEs Unbound" -
The problem, Why is not one man as good as
another|' is hardly worth posing We are next
te, t@Id ahg the late master Of Balol did not at
stolclsm OF trospero.' The master had much bet
er wa5 f5'e ~ 'd an Renan He never publicly expressed
had T 81 seys 20 De "a a pretty Womans prayerbOok He
w. aa9 d sense Oh hunlor-he did not give himself
opnon fo1Ffy that aF5fe T tE wh my critic in his
with fine personal charm as those of EIia
should think indeed! 1t is an overWrhniIni1c.
modest man ff buSSs sTo an a9 e in ads the ne
Of ofs & taken @ SO SO seriously Finally the real truth
cred d. IN IIo fine 'prefeTred Mr Rider HagFard
| Nj.
! france committed that error. but then | conceive
| that M France does not read English. 1t is not
| for me TO make class list of nOveliSts and TO
| give Mr.. Hardy a Second. One kind Of book
| pleases n man at one time. and in mood n
other at another time and in another mood Thack-
| erays gourmet did not always prefer beans and
! bacon To the masterpiece O.: Gordon blcu, and
! there was an hour when Shelley himself tholirht
| better OF bacon than Of penny buns his wouted
/ ainbroSla I1nfn late Victorian novels the
great things Of human literature. and reader
/ may hamcleSsy or de0rcSs himself With
/ them as he Will / know. but Viii never reveal.
what Mr- Stevenson said about Tess
! The next volume in the excellent 'Conncfs-
/ Seur'S Library viii be devoted 10 "Coldsrniths
/ and SilverSmth's Work" The author is Mr..
/ Nelson Dawson.
! Or II. =. Kcpu1rd is sooC to publish an elah-
orate work The Russian Peasant" In il no
traces the history Of the ''moujik' from tho
DAYS Of HerodotuS to the present time and do
scrlbeS the circumstances leading TO the aboN-
ton Of legal scrfdom in 1851 His object j. to
reveal the staEnation of the PEASANTS existence
throughout the centuries. owing to the subjec-
tion in which he has been kept by a roactionary
bureaucracy.
Gilbert Parker's serial in ''Harpers." The
Weavers' is drawing To n close Late next
month the Harpers viii issue il in book form.