The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-03
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good English for that divine glow Of genius
without some touch OF which no story can
be vital. Nor Ii this genius. despite the
assurance OF our comfortable platitude
only an infinite capacity for taking pains.
IL is rather q divine spark. a light from
heaven, which infinite pains may do we'll
TO cherish but can never kindle.'
A. r. Orange, the editor OF TIE Nese Age,
has just published a study OF Nietzsche
whose arrival he terms "the greatest
European event since Goethe" Nietzsche
IL still the war CRY OF opposing factions"
in Germany and France. while in England
he IL the chief subject Of controversy Ia
the new art and philosophy group Of the
London Fabian S~ociety-an intellectual GEN.
tire which attracts H. q. Wells. @. Loves
Dickinson. W. b. Yeats and Bernard Shaw,
and Of which Mr.. Orange is a member.
The genius Of Edgar Saltus is the subject
Of one Of the articles In the July Current
Literature. BY some the writer claims
Edgar Saltus is held to be u greatest
American stylist, by others a mere dazzling
juggler OF words. To-day he has almost
completed his tiftieth year. He has written
philosophy and fiction and poetry. Tbe
strangely colored novels and fantastic
essays Of his early manhood are being
republished, but with twenty books to his
credit Mr.. Saltus still remains in what our
critic terms distinguished %obscurity.'
Mr.. W. Romaine Paterson, the English.
novelist who writes under the name OF
Benjamin Swift, has taken up a task that
will occupy him for some time. His in
tention is to make a study Of the develop
men Of civilization from the earliest times
unto the present day. with especial refer
ence to the causes underlying the decline
and fall Of the nations that ave obtained
and lost their supremacy. His forthcoming
volume will be devoted to tracing that
gradual transformation OF the worlds
social basis by means Of which in the Middle
Ages slavery became serfdom and in modern
times serfdom became poverty
The Memoirs Of Frederic Mistral," the
French poet. will be among the autumn
publications Of special interest to students
OF literature. Mistral was educated at
boarding school in Avignon under Rou-
MANTLE, and studied law in AK, but after
ward gave up the law for literature. He
was honored by the French Academy after
the publication of "Mireio" in 1859.
Gen. +. p. Alexander. author Of Military
Memoirs" was Chief Of Ordnance in the
Army of Northern Virginia and afterward
Chief of Artillery in Longstreet's corps.
He was also a West Point graduate and an
engineer officer of the "Old Army" before
the war, and has been all his life a man
deeply interested in soie ntific study Of
matters pertaining to his profession.
Titles are often the hardest part of a novel
TO write and the last 20 be achieved. A new
book by Richard Marsh. the English novel
list. TO be published. will bear the curious
title OF who Killed Lady ~Poynder2" The
American publishers. not approving the
English name of the book. cast about for a
new one. The readers. who were asked to
give the main theme OF the story. kept re-
peating The theme Of the novel is. Who
killed A4ady Poynder?" The book opens
with the discovery Of her dead body. and
each chapter seems 10 throw suspicion upon
a different person as her murderer. At
the end Of every chapter the question arises
-Who killed Lady Poynder?" II was finally
decided TO uee this query az the title. and
to the objections made that il would sug-
gest Who Killed Cock Robin" the answer
was given that this would do no harm as
it would onnect the new novel with n great
classic.
Robert Chambers's new novel. now run
ming serially. which will be published in
the autumn, 10 in the same field az his last
seasons success, The Fighting Chance"
1t opens with n tantali2ing situation in
N hich a dixyOrpad pnnn xShnaa Npifa haa p IN
married and Is mistreated by her new hus-
band falls in love with a beautiful girl OF
the younger set. The hero Is 0 man of strict
scruples M the solution Of the problem is
battling to curiosity.
Chancellor James r.. Day Of Syracuse
University. who has attracted much atten-
ton by his defence Of the trusts. is en-
bodying his views. which are decidedly OPP
posed to those Of the alarmist and the dema-
gogue. in a book to be published in the early
autumn by Appleton. The book Is entitled
Trusts and Corporations" and will present
the Chancellor's matured conclusions on
giant corporations. public distribution OF
vast wealth. the science OF organized char
ity and kindred topics.
Lloyd Osbourne Is said to have put Rud-
yard Kipling thinly disguised into his new
novel The Adventurer.' now running
~serially, and which will be published in
pooh form In the early autumn. The au-
had the dangerous good fortune to be
the stepson OF Robert Louis Stevenson
and his collaboration in The Wrong Boz
"Ebb Tide" &c, but the results Of his
apprenticeship TO a great master are be-
coming more apparent in his later literary
achievements. His work is cordially re-
ceived and the new serial il attracting
much interest.
William De Morgan. whose story OF
Joseph Vance" is attracting attention,
was educated at University College in
London and at the Royal Academy. He
practised the arts and crafts In some form
until early in the present century. when he
wrote the beginning Of Joseph Vance"
to see II he had a turn for fiction. He
decided in the negative. but his wife found
the MS. and made him finish IL. The
impression that Joseph Vance was in
some way founded upon it's authors own
experience is an entirely false one. Joseph