New-York tribune., 1907-11-03

which enabled Edmond DanIts TO accomplish such
LITERARY NOTES.
Hitherto unpublished letters and other new
matter viii bc found, it is said in forthcoming
informal memoir OF Henry Fielding, the
eliSt The author is 6. II. Golden. The book IS
to be richly illustrated.
A set Of Classics" has been projected by
Messrs. 4. c. McCurg & co, and four volumes
VIII be brought out this season. They are old
friends-'The Tale of Two cities" ''KcniI-
worth" oliver Twistr and "Iyanhne" The
volumes to he Of handy size and Will aI,-
pear under the general title Of The Prairie
Classics
"Th" King over tho Water is the title Of
old Irotender- Nj Andrew Lang has colIabo-
rated IN the preparation OF this work. and
therein. as IN his History Of scotland" ne has
'ud'a'"r@d q give r"asauttr idea Of James
than that conveyed I'm the magic pages o.: "Es-
mond.' The preface has been quoted AS foil '"s:
r., Th.. IS IT, o. The Prime known rs IN, "o,a
tl. n..r tt. ,-.I..s ,,i,,,,s W ~
who cannot plead sImpI, Ignorance of Eis char
without party spirit. "a plain setting forn.ri ~
testimony ~ mis- own l'tters and a tae authentic
~ an honest man toward whom tho world did reJ
[ ,,. i." l't "..' ..t'E I..'i ma u' %. IN a
".i ,h' "..iHF tuy back. 10 th' pic. "t ais
I
II i- hard 10 believe that anybody could -
Tuth IcntIy pleased uy IN" uuutteratly coutaou-
. place and obvious "I'ruvcrbisI Philosophy of
the late Martin Farquhar Tuqr,r. to actually
nam" street aft,r that poet" But $50 IL is
there Is a Farquhar road i'm London which
runs near his former dwelling The name of
Tupp'r, II seems. was not quite cuphouiuus
enough for This admircr SO the second name of
the author was selected.
"a f.. l-. int. . f..
tries of South America may hk, 10 know that
mat exceedingly competent person Major Mar
tin Hume Is engaged upon a series Of books
dealing with those countries.
The worship Of wealth We ar, told by a care
iul writer. has reached India and is affecting
the Indian 20 a striking degree. Mr.. J. G. oman,
IN ms new volume. The Hrthmaus. Theists and
MuSHHIS on ihdIi, quotes young Hindu as
saying 90 him i'm regard To- this worship: 1t is
dcpriviug US Of our Erahmans. who now rush
INTO secular employment as the only means OF
obtaining the respect To W hich they have been
accustomed" Observe the progress Of ciyiIiza-
ton
"Ships That Pass in the Night" is a novel
that had brief success and was the iusprer
of much funmakiug. but ii is now almost for
gotten. Its author Miss Harrudcu. is now busy
with a new story dealing with life in London.
The cottage It Neither Stowey in Somerset
shire in which CoeridEc lived when ne wrote
THE Ancient Mariner" is to be preserved Il
national monument, sufficient money having
been subscribed to purchase it, 1t is a humble
little place for which the poet paid rental Of
only SO year. There and a half
of land attached TO il and ne fondly believed
at one time that he could raise enough vegeta-
bles and pigs thereon To support himself and his
wife II was wild dream, in which many
other literary men have from time to time in
dulged. There is certainly something perpetu-
ally irreconcilable between the writing of i'm
mortal verse and the diliEent feeding of
cral yoracious, squint-eyed pigs.
The Myopes' is the unconventional hut sug-
geStive title of a forthcoming novel 10y Mr. Mar
maduke Pickthall. 1t is to be hoped that in this
story OF the near-siEhted the author may recur
to the clevcrness of his first book. Said the
Fisherman
Work fun and adventure generally evoknc
manly qualities make up the stuff of Mr. Ralph
II. BarbOur's stories for young people-pleasant
therefore. is it 10 note that the coming volume
Of "St. Nicholas will contain in "Harry's Isl
and" a serial story from his pen Various old
friends viii reappear in it
BALLIDE or THE JOJRNEY'S END.
Margaret SacIvile. in The Spectator.
Those far fair lands feet have trod-