The Washington herald., 1907-10-27

Gertrude Atherton's Ancestors have al
ready gone into new editions; also that
Owen Wister's Lin Mclean" VIII Har-
ben's "Abner Daniel" and THE Conquest
Of Canaan" by Booth Harrington. have
just been set in new editions to go to
Australia.
The following books will shortly be
published by G. P. Putnam's Sons: a
Princess Of Intrigue. Madame de Tongue
Vile and Her Times" by H. Noel VIII
liams; "The Emily Emmins Papers" by
Carolyn Wells; The Court of Philip ".
and the Decadence OF SPAIN" by Martin
Hume: Enterprise and the Productive
Process" by Frederick Barnard Hawley
The following books are published to-
day by Charles Scribner's Sons: A new
volume I'm the series Of Original Nara
tlves of Early American History" en-
titled Narratives of Early Virginia, -
edited by President L. G. Tyler, OF the
College OF William and Mary; Source
Book in Ancient Philosophy" by Dr.
Charles NJ. Bakewell, professor Of philos-
ophy in Yale University; Nursery
Rhymes from Mother Goose" illustrated
by q. G. Wiederseim: THE Harrison
Fisher Book" with a sketch Of the artist
by j. b. Darlington: ''Bacon's Essays,V
edited with an introduction and notes, by
Mary Augustus Scott. Ph.D.
In the biographical sketch prehxed by
Or. Tulloch to the Sermons and Stray
Papers" Of the late Dr. Boyd are many
good clerical stories. Here are two of
them:
Dr. Muir "kirking' the Town Council. PRAYED
Lord have mercy unon the magistrates Of Glasgow
such as they are Make them wiser and better %
And when the town clerk called 20 say that the
magistrates were much aggrieved at being prayed
for in sHCh a fashion. the answer was instant "Dr
Mui7's compliments 70 the lord provost, and he is
very s0uy 10 find that his prayer has not been an
swered."
Froude had told him Of youth at oxford in hts
day being examined IN Paey who was asked If he
could mention any instance % the divine goodness
which be had found out for himself. Yes the
conformation q the Of the bulldog Its nose IS
81 TetUCtcd that 70 can hold on % The bull and yet
breathe freely But FOR this IT would have % let go
It's hold" The bills point u view vas no, regarded
It all.
Collectors Of the many editions that
have been printed Of omar" Fitz Ger
AIDS 'Rubaiyat' must envy Lady
Burne-Jones the copy IN her possession.
which IS mentioned by Mr. Walter
Crane IN his just published book Of REM
iniscences. This is a manuscript COPY.
the script being that Of William Morris,
who. with the collaboration 0f Burne-
Jones and Fairfax Murray. also pro-
yided the book with pictures and nlumi-
mated borders. Mr.. Crane quotes from
Morris. by the way. a quaint description
OF TennysOn's way of approaching a
picture:
Staring fIedly 81 the canvas he would grovI.
What's thstt' The answer perhaps was a man %
but this information only led % the further ques-
tion. What's be doing.' which was not very hope
fUl f0r the painter. This scems cIri0us when one
considers how rich in pictorial suggestion Tenuy-
sons poems are, and how great his powers as q
word painter
once az the house Of Mr. Stopford
Brooke Mr.. Crane met the Laureate and
heard him read a poem. He gives this
scription Of the episode.
The poet was hrus1ue and almost rough in his
manner. and had a strong burr IN his speech and
spoke IN a deep voice which occasionally ba-ame
some dish thar was served 40 Che dinner He vas
rather tarulru AZ first. hlt melted by degrees and
even told stories 'afteT The ladies had retred and
after dinner. ir the drawing r10gu we had the ur-
U--aI pleasure uf hearing him rad a poem # his
oEn. T,l- vas The Ballad u the Fleet " Before hs
begsE he s.gmulT Ul0iEed the whole c,mpauy-al
most swearing every uue-t0 the strcrat secrecy as
t9 The p0vm OF bis having read u ard when the
reading was finished the Laureate g-1wl~f
ONT. Yes and % think that those vrrtchei fellows
Of Che Nineteenth Century only gave me e2ro for
1t'