New-York tribune., 1907-12-22
LITERARY NOTES.

LITERARY NOTES.
The Diva's Rubies" the sequel to IS prano,'
which Mr. Marion Crawford has completed is to
| be first published as q serial.
Why has there been no biography of George
! du Maurier? This is a question which has
! often been asked without result A British
/ paragrapher who lately brought the question up
! again mentions that the preparation of such
! biography was contemplated by Mr. Frederick
Mhyte but the project came to nothing. Du
Maurier wrote exceedingly good letters, many
| of which are in existence.
Lord Cromer's Forthcoming book, Modern
| Egypt" promises to be of absorbing interest in
| its accurate narrative of the principal events
| that have occurred in Egypt and in the SOudan
since 1876 and in its explanation of the results
| that have accrued to the country from the Brit
| ish occupation in 1882. The work is to be pub
| Hshed IN two octave volumes.
A volume Paderewski is to be added to
| the Living Masters of Music series. Mr.. Z.
| a. Baughan is the author.
! An Interesting statement by Thackeray
! once made to the Professor Mason:
| Dye know, he said. that though l can de-
scribe an lrishnan perfectly, never could de-
scribe SeotGhmanE | reminded him of Mr.
| that's a mere facsimile of man know;
mere description from life. But what | mean
is l couldn't iarcnt a Scotchman.
| The readers of Mrs. Henry de Ia Pastures
| Catherine Of Calais" may like to know that a
! new novel by this author entitled GATHERINGS
| Child will soon be published in serial form.
Mr. Joseph Conrad is writing a new novel to
which he has given the suggestive title OF
| Chance" II is story, and he calls it
"a discurSiye sort Of thing.
| Thou art a plant sprung up to wither never,
| But like a laurel to grow green for
! So sang Herrick ITO His Book in his Hes
perides.' a version Of which, oddly translated
| into seventeenth century Danish, has just Sp-
peared in Denmark.
| The venerable W J. Rolfe is hard at work
upon a volume OF Shakespeariau proverbs-and
also upon another work relative 10 Shakespeare
| about which he is silent at present. At eighty
years Of age Mr.. Rolfe is robust and vigorous
parsonage one of his comfortable morning
walks is from Cambridge TO Boston and back
again.
Mr. Edward Arber is projecting another series
Of reprints-this time from the masterpieces of
European Christian thought and devotion The
series Will bear the title Of "A Christian
Library" The first volume viii be "A Brief
Discourse of the Troubles at Frankfort, 1851
'5S." attributed to William Allingham The
volumes OF the series will be issued monthly
piration OF copyright before bringing out re
printS-but in while an accident hap
pens. \ firm in Scotland which has anticipated
by only few weeks the release from c"p!fiSht
of Dickens's our Mutual Friend has had to
withdraw its edition. Another Scottish firm
was Obliged forfeit edition of Darwin's
Voyage OF the Beagle" having brought II out
long before the copyright had expired.
The Twentieth Century American" is the
title Of n book which is to hc brought out by the
Putnarns within f-w months. Its author IS
an Englishman who has lived for many years
in our country. who has travelled all over IL,
and who is reported to have made his obserVa-
tions with good sense aad sympathy
Eight volumes Of the prose and verse OF Mr.
w T. Yeats, The poet must have Il pubic,
else why should MIR Eulicn publish these books!
and two unpublished plays and several un-
collected essays are 10 be Included also. How
lightly can man foreEo such treats as these
same works bE Mt Yeats.
william Penn is the subject Of 4 new bioSra-
ply md its author, Mrs Coiquhcun Grant, is
one Of his direct descendants II IS to contain
some hitherto unpublished letters
II is interesting to near that in Great Britain
at least the popularity of Sir Walter Scott IS
StiIl overwhelming An experienced dealer IS
reported as saying: Scot Thack"ray and
Dickens were never in greater demand; Dickens
part!cularly But Scott fer the moment out
strips them al / really think that scmetmes
n. VIII run Shakespeare hard
HER L1CGH.