The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-12-23
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poems st different times and giving inter
ssting facts concerning their origin. These
volumes will contain a number OF poems
never before printed or printed In the
poets early life and immediately sup
pressed. There are also early versions
which afterward became famous in a re-
vised form and some interesting metrtcaI
sxperimente.
Gertrude Atherton will arrive IN New
York during the present week on her way
from San Francisco to London. After a
six weeks visit in England she will go on
to Munich for the winter. Next year she
intends spending the winter in New York.
The poetess and musician Carlotta Fer
rari, who died recently at Bologna, was
born about the middle OF the last century.
and her collected works, which comprise
four volumes, have been recognized AZ
valuable by the highest literary critics Of
her own country. Her poem Dante
AIighieri," in ten cantos' ran into several
editions.
A new work in process OF preparation
for bows in called The Boys Book OF Steam
ships5 and In written by Mr.. J.. r. howden.
HuNnOT " ~ DOye RSNNc ~
IL discusses simply the great problems with
which the naval architect and engine builder
are always graphing and gives a summary
OF the history Of navigation and an account
of the great shipping companies on the
four oceans.
The Writing Of English, by p. j. Hartog,
with the assistance Of Mrs. A. II. Lsngdon.
has lust beer issued. Mr.. Hartog sums
I'M the plan OF the book az follows. "The
English boy cannot write and is not taught
to write English; the French boy can write
French because he il taught how to write:
how the French boy is taught and how the
English boy may he taught"
The publication Of Mr.. Stephen Phillips's
Faust: A Drama originally announced
for D~ecemberl. has been postponed until
after the holidays.
The Lady Of the Decoration" is still
making record sales. The book was issued
twenty months ago, but the sale during the
| week ended December 7 was 10, 900 copies.
Mr.. Watts unton contributes an article
TO the December NireteeRth Century called
dickens and Father Christmas" Taking
the five Christmas books as the basis OF his
study he discusses the singular place thai
Dick ems held in England some years before
his death. Mr.. Watts-D unton endeavOrs
to show that the novelist during his own life
time developed into a myth among the Bop
ulace or London who never had an oppOr-
tunity Of reading his books. He goes so far
asto compare Dickens's case with that of the
Archduke Joseph Of Austria-Hungary (the
GvpAv Archduke) who also during his life
time developed into a myth in Hungary
and Pennsylvania.
THE Appearances OF our Lord After the
Passion" by Prof. H. r. Swete, to he pub
lished soon. is "a simple narrative Of the
appearances OF the risen Lord based on a
study Of the documents" which will he
interesting to psychic students AZ well a. TO
scholars interested In the New Testament.
The idea proposed by Hughes Ia Roux
TO raise the standard OF French literature
circulating in America is taking definite
shape in establishing at New Orleans the
first central station for the sale OF the
higher class Of French literary and scientific
books. with a reading room attachment
where lectures will be given every week.
From thence French agents will travel.
visiting libraries. bookshops and universities
in an effort 10 cause the best French litera-
ture to reach all classes.
Francis Arthur Jones will publish in
February OF next year, under the title
of Thomas Alva Edison. Sixty Years OF
an Inventors Life" the story Of the famous
electricians career from the time he pub
Ifshed a newspaper Of board a train at
fourteen and later was an out At how
tramp" telegraph operator until his cleo
trical inventions caused the formation of a
SIS. OOO, 600 stock company. The book is
the result Of close acquaintance with and
careful study Of the inventor.
The MonRols," which is TO be published
this week, lie considered the browning work
OF tho late jeremiah Curtin. Mr.. Curtin
il hest known through his TRANSACTIONS of
Quo Vadis" and other novels Of Henry
Sienkiewicz, but he was also a remarkable
linguist, a great traveller and a close stu
dent OF history. He spent the last years Of
his life on a history of the Mongol Empire.
and his book on The Mongols. now ready,
will be followed next year by Russia Under
the Mongols.'
Mr.. L. Melano Rossi's work on the -Sau-
tuario of the Madonna di Vice." which has
appeared in Italy and in England, is attract
ing the attention Of the architects and con-
noisseurs in this country. Mr.. Rossi is an
Italian scholar who is at the present time
in America.
Immortal Memoirs, by Clement shorter.
which is now brought out in an American
edition, consists OF addresses delivered
originally before literary societies. The
dedicatory titles ITO the immortal memory
~of"--attach such names as DIR. johnson.
William Cowper. George Barrow and George
Crabbe. One Of these essays on The Hun