New-York tribune., 1907-08-17

tory" The other is a monograph on Napoleon
! by a German scholar DR.. Max Lenz.
| For many years Dr. Hofstede de Groot has
been working on a Catalogue Raisonne or
| Eminent Dutch Painters Of the seventeenth
| Century" basing it on the well known work or
| John Smith. but producing substantially a new
book. The first volume of Il translation ny Mr-
| z. G. Hawke, to be completed in ten Volumes
| will soon be brought out by the Macmilans.
Mr.. E. V. Lucas. who has won such high
| repute as the hiographer and editor of Charles
Lamb has also shown himself to be In otner
| directions an uncommonly skilful and charming
man of letters. We are glad therefore to learn
| that he has three books in preparation
one collection of essays, will bear the inviting
| title of Character and Comedy" Another Is 10
be called THE Gentlest Art: An Anthology OF
| Entertaining Letters" For the compilation of
such book Mr.. Lucas has peculiar gifts. His
| third volume "A Swan and Her Friends. Will
| be study of Anne Seward, the Swan OF Lich-
! field" who spent most of her life in DR.. john
| sons native town. Her mother taught the Great
Bear and she herself knew many Of the literary
celebrities of her day including Southey ana
Scott. MI Lucas's discursive biography of this
| lady is announced being, incidentally. "a
| study of the rise and decline of the bds bteu,
and the rise and decline Of fine writing.
The literary critic Of THE London Bystander'
| records, with enthusiasm surely Justified by
! the occasion, the invention OF new wevd- y
| publishing firm recently requested hiTa to print
| a ''Iaudagr PHI of one of its books We syfnPa-
thize with his enjoyment of this engaging little
monster AS he says. puff" is a little terse and
| brutal and notice Is rather formal and un-
| imaginative On the other hand the writer In
The Bystander' does well TO point out that
| 'laudagraDh" has a converse" "damnagTaph.
| There is something wonderful about the inilu-
| ence of the dog days on the human intellect
hfr Kenyon Cox has written another volume
of papers on art. Duffield & Co. Will publish 1t
| In the fall. under the title OF painters ana
| sculptors." It will be freely illustrated
The books of historical biography soon coming
| out in London and presumably TO he issued
here. include several promising studies MAJOR
| Martin Hume contributes 10 the list his philip
and Eliza BETH the Whole Story Of the Span
| ish Armada" Mr.. Beckles Wilson has In press a
work entitled George III as Monarch Man and
Statesman" and MT Lewis Melville is complet-
ing two volumes on the same subject, which he
will call Farmer George" The Duehesse de
Montpensier, who was the friend of conde in the
wars Of the' Fronde. is the heroine of another
volume which will appear under the title OF "A
PRINCESS OF the Old World
Miss Janet Adds has written life of Nine.
de Sevigne and will bring it out this fall under
the title of THE Queen of Letter Writer'S"
If this book is we'll written IT ought to win an
especially cordial welcome.
Dr Holm Mason has written a volume on "Lu-
cretius: Epicurean and Poet" He addresses
himself 10 the general reader as well as to the
scholar and in the course of his work endeaVors
to summarize all the discoveries relating to
I,cretius that have been made in the last thirty
years.
Mr. Henry johnson has written a life Of Cap
tain Joseph Virgins. which will appear some
time this winter Virgins was the modern dis
coverer of the ocean route To Siberia, by way of
an open channel through the Kara Sea. In his
Journals and letters he carefully recorded his
many hazardous attempts 10 prove his theory
and from these and other documents his bog
rapher is said 10 have prepared a stirring MARIA
tive of adventure
Unquestionably Mr.. C. B. Shaw is arriving"
We alluded a few days ago to the book which
some one is writing about him. and now a Mr.
r. a. Peddie announces that he is at work
a photography of the great mans writings.
IL is pleasant to see that the Roman house
which has been turned into memorial of Shell
ley and Keats, largely through American effort,
is already beginning to make effective appeal
to the generosity of collectors. 1t is stated in
1.-THE Atheneum'' that Mr.. II. Buxton Forman.
so long known for his dealings with the works
of the poets, has decided to give to the museum
in Rome a great portion of his Shelley and Keats
library He will retain his first editions, manu-
scripts and certain other material, but he will
give the mass of his illustrated matter, which is
TO say, his books containing essays on or allu-
sions TO Shelley and Keats. his miscellaneous
collected editions and selections, and his antholo
gies magazines ANIMALS. newspaper cuttings
and so on
DR. c. Oman has completed work Ind
ian life entitled 1.-THE Brahmins, Theists and
MusIims OF India" 1t is concerned with many
diverse phases of the religious and social activi-
ties of the present time.
Two new books on Italian themes may be ex-.
pected early in the season. Mr.. w. Bout-
ing has written work 'Tasso and His
Times" and q Mrs. Ryley has made a study
of Queens of the Renaissance" portraying
divers noted ladies from Petrarchs Laura to
an individual OF decidedly decadent type.
Olympia Morata-
When Professor David Mason completed his
edition Of De Quincey some seventeen years ago
it seemed if he had exhausted the subject.