New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-05-25
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
Current Talk of Things Present
and to Come.

SehOra Pardo Bazan, the Spanish novelist. re-
| Gently organized In Madrid a conference in
honor of the late Juan Valera, herself delivering
! the opening address Other friends of the dead
author followed with discourses on his works.
and the commemoration closed with a theatrical
representation Illustrating of those works.
An exceedingly interesting collection Of rare
and choice books relating to America has been
placed sale by Dodd, Mead & Co. Four Of
these volumes 10 be sold together and the
very mention of them is calculated to stir the
just greed of any we'll informed collector The
first Of the four contains the earliest printed
separate account of any voyage to America by
Englishmen This is Sir John Hawkins's own
story of his journey of 1867 '6S to 'Guynea and
the West Indies'-his third slave hunting jour
neY 1t is a copy of the octave edition, and
only one other copy-that in the British Mu-
seum-is known. 1t is dated 1863. The second
book is almost rare. being of only three
copies that known exist This is the
first edition QJ1O Of Dionyse Settles account
of Martin Frobishers second voyage to the
Northwest in 1917. This be it noted is the
second separate printed description of any .voy-
age to America by Englishmen.
Settle was of the ships company and took
lively interest in the natives he encountered
third book 057S contains a description of the
same voyage set down by Thomas Churchyard
Gentleman, probably derived. 1t is said from
Frobishers talk This. too is one of the
only three copies known. The fourth book is
apparently the only copy known of Thomas
Eliis's account. of Frobisher's third voyage 1878
In addition to the rarity and the quaintness that
make it valuable Is the fact that this book is
the third printed separate account in English
of an Engshman's voyage hitherward The
price Of these four books. by the way is SO 900
They are all bound by Rvere.
Among other treasures in the very large COL
lection is splendid large paper copy london
lIo9 of Cotton Mather's Magnolia" 1t has
the rare two leaves Of errata concerning which
Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Co say that so far as
they can trace other copy on large paper
with genuine errata has been offered for sale.
Here Is Mathers characteristic introduction to
his list OF errata:
The Holy Bible, It sell. some of it's editions
hath been affronted with scandalous Errors of the
those Words Psai liz ISL Printers have perse
all the Reason In the World then to be Patient.
tho his work be depraved with many Errors OF
cases. is the Distance of the Author from the
Press. Here was the distance of thousand
In a coming sale of manuscripts in London
rles In its folds haunting memories of terror and
suffering. This is the original warrant for the
massacre of Glencoe. dated February II. 1852.
1t was signed by r. s. Duncanson. and issued to
Captain Robert Campbell. of Glenyon. 1t is
folio document OF only twenty-five lines.
The late Charles H. Haswell. editor Of the
Engineers Pocket Book and author Of a vol
ume of "reminiscences of old New York. had
he'd hIa nj oh btrtb baO
he died. a fortnight ago For the last sixty
three years the Harpers had been his publishers.
and he accustomed says "Harper's
Weekly" TO make frequent calls upon them:
You want to be careful about this he would
say: you know when you had the Are What
wears ago" II was In 1863 that the fire happened
but Mr. HaswcH was forty-four years old at the
saying that "a day Of life in New York in 1880
was worth week OF It now"
A forthcoming volume by Mrs. Rosa New
march is devoted to the Russian poets Of the
nineteenth ceutury-to Poushkin, Lermontov,
Koltsov. the Russian Burns" Nitln, who dealt
with rural life; Nekrassov. who sang Of revolu-
ton. and Madison. The book IS To be entitled
Poetry and Progress in Russia"
Who was the Mr.. Rodney" who interested
himself in 1903 in the question of the authorship
OF the letters OF JunluS \ correspondent of
"Notes and Queries quotes from the London
Morning Chronicle" Of April l6 1909 a para
graph which ends thus:
Ingenuity being exhausted in this way In Europe
a al, late attempt has been made in America to re
WYE this controversy and to discover the author.
Gated w"ud Mace the ronirovarsy in y new itrbt
Unfortunately. however, the authority is OF a de
scrptOn TO which no attention credit is due
part OF the world ever heard writes a letter to fine
editor of an American paper, In which he tells
Tossing himself the author, and detailing number
cealment. We merely notice this circumstance to
show that controversy which has SO long remained
enveloped In mystery Is not at all eucidated by
this new attempt to discover the author of the let
ters of Junius.
Some of the English school authorities have
been disportng themselves in odd fashion on
library questions. The London Education Com
mittee wants Mrs. GaskeiIs story. Mary Bar
ton" removed undesirable from the schools
under its control but it apparently finds nothing
to object to in thu novels of Mrs. Henry Wood.
In Manchester a body Of school managers has
requested an official to obtain for them an cdi-
ton OF Kingsley's Westward Ho!" in which
Salvation YeO'S culogy on tobacco is omitted. In
an amusing article these performances The
Manchester Guardian quotes from Trevelyan's
biography of Macaulay an instance of the effect
of certain details in classic on the mind of
child:
Mrs. Hannah More fond of relating how she
called at Mr.. Macauay's. and was met by fair
pretty. slight chld, W1th abundance of light hair,
about four years Of age, who TO the front
door to receive her and tell her tnat his parents
out. but If that she would he good enough 90
come in he would BRING her 1t glass of old spirits.
proposition which greatly startled the good lady
who had never aspired above Cowsip wine. When
questioned t. what lie knew about old spirits.
he could only say that Robinson Crusoe often had
some.