New-York tribune., 1907-11-23
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
Current Talk of Things Present
and to Come.


..vasari on Technique" is the title Of a forth
coming book containing the thirty-flve chapters
forming the introduction to Vasa1's Lives
This, strange to say, is the first translation CT
these chapters from the original into any
other language It has been made by Miss L. 3
MacLehose
When there IS no book Napoleon in the
ofing be sure that another the Stuarts is
coming in all sails set-it is many a year since
these have failed us. We have already an
nounced two biographies Of the Old Pre-"
tender. and next month we may expect
= work on THE Royal House Of Stuart"
Its two volumes will deal with that House
from its origin to the accession of the House of
Hanover The author is Samuel Cowan, the
Perth publisher who has already produced a.
book on Queen Mary and the Casket Letters.
The new work is TO contain very large col
lection OF Stuart portraits.
There is an amusing glimpse of the artist
Turner in the biography of Sir Rowland Hill.
the father OF cheap postage. which Hills daugh-
has lately published Taciturn and gloomy
looking, the painter left a crowded evening party
only 10 return some minutes later wonderfully
and fearfully appsreled and silently commence
q search about the drawing Suddenly he
seemed to recollect approached g sofa on
which sat three handsomely attired ladies.
whose indignant countenances were sight for
gods and men when the abruptly hammered
tist called on them TO rise. He then half dived
beneath the seat, drew forth ? dreadfully shabby
umbrella Of the Camp species and, taking no
notice Of the irate three than if they had
been so many chairs, wfthdrew-this time for
good
That there should be practically new biog-
raphv' Of Wordsworth in the forthcoming three
volumes Of his correspondence with his sister
Dorothy would seem 70 be impossible; yet it is
said that there is so much fresh matter in some
Of these heretofore unpublished letters 10
form that new biography.
4 unique copy Of the New England Primer.
edition Of 1777. is to be at Brentanos. At
least it is supposed to be unique, as the pos
SCISSORS have been unable to ind any other copy
Of II. or any mention Of another copy. among
available records quaint and rude portrait
Of John Hancock is on the back of the title
page.
Mrs. Dora sigerson Shorter. the wife of c. K
Shorter. is one Of the least pretentious in
method Of the present Celtic" group of minor
poets. Here is one Of the little poems in her
just published book:
A MEADOW TRAGEDY.
Here's meadow full of sunshine
Ripe grasses lush and high
There's reaper the roadwsE
And lark hangs in the sky.
There's nest of love inclosing
Three little beaks that cry:
The reaper's in the meadow
And z lark hangs in the sky.
Here's mead all full of summer
And tragedy goes by
With a knife amongst the grasses,
And song UP in the sky.
And here is another which is little grim:
AT POMPEII.
At Pompeii heard a woman laugh
And turned IN find the reason of her rnfrth
Saw but the silent figure of q girl
That centuries had mummied into earth:
The running figure of a little maid
With face hslf-hidden in her shielding arm
Silent yet screaming. yea in ev'ry limb
The cruel torture of her dread alarm.
At Pompeii a woman bend
Above This dead, pronounce this epitaph
The mother OF a child IL may have been
o horrible, heard a woman laugh.