New-York tribune., 1908-08-29
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
Current Talk of Things Present and
to Come

We Noted not long ago the promise OF ne"
book by Mr.. George Moore, book about Ire
land his native land called Hail and Fare
we'll" He Is credited with an amusing saying
on the subjec.-"Dublin is now divided into two
sets; one-half Is afraid IL will be In the doom
and the other half is afraid II won't
The new; novel by Mr. Rider Haggard when
is scheduled for early publication has AN inV'-
Ing title ''The Ghost Kings In II ne returns
10 the African scenes he knows so we'll pAlililis
q picture of zuuand and the Zulus III the tllno
of DinEaan. Mr.. Eden Phpotts has gone lihc-
wise to a familiar field, to his accustomed Darl-
moor. for the material of his autumn novel,
THE Virgin in Judgment
Professor Masperos writings make rather dlffl-
cult reading for the reader who Is not speclal
student OF his subject. but he addresses hitIseih
more particularly to tho iayman IN the voiurne
which We are have from him ths fall In
New Light on Egypt he outlines the progress
Of E;Syptolosy from 1893 TO 1901 touching in a
light manner upon excavations. religion. htera-
ture history and popular customs.
The fourth volume in the charming Human
ists' Library" edited by MF. Lewis Einstein
and published at the Merrymount Press. In Bos-
ton. by Mr. d r. Updike. is given 10 Sir Philip
sidney The famous Defence OF Poesie' occu-
pies most of the space. but room mas also nap
pily been found for the Discourse in Defence
Of the Earl of Leicester" and for what is even
more welcome the letter to Queen Elizabeth
nnerswading her not to marry with the Duke or
Aniou. Professor Woodberry in a rather TOO
"precious" introduction. Is at all events en-
gagingy whole hearted in his praise. he rlghtly
lavs stress on the vlvIdness with which Sidney
Iiu Una
genuine man beneath the garment of rich prose,
o,d ona delights In what Professor Woodberry
,,,ointlv calls his "Englishry" The little book,
,iba its predecessors is exquistely designed and
printed
The admirable Library OF Art, the Red
library issued in this country by the scr1pners'
Is to be enriched by two volumes when excite
agreeable anticipations. One will he given to
CHRISTOPHER Wren subject which simply Cries
our for treatment in the kind OF book character
istIc of this series. Miss Lena Milman is tho
author. In book on "Great Masters of Dutch
and Flemish Painting students Will have the
high advantage of gaining the views OF Dr. Will
helm Bode on Rembrandt, HAS, Ner1neer
Metsu Jan Steen. Wouverrnans Paul Potter
Rubeus Van DyCl1 and others.
Henry Holt & Co. announce American edi-
tton of apollo and the Seaman and othof
POEMS" by Herbert Trench. one of the most
graceful Of the younger English writers OF verse
The titular poem and other are the pieces
which MI Trench has already made known In
his own country by throwing them on screen
in a darRened hn1i. what time Invisible or
chestra discoursed the music fitted to them
Mr. H c. Wells has another book in press.
presumably completing the series in which he
has published "Ant.cipations," Mankind in the
Making" and "a Modern Utopia 1t is a book
of reflections life and death, and Is entitled
First and Last Things" This authors con-
+ribution to the years fiction will be 1.-The war
in the Air." which has been running serially
through 1.-THE Pail Mall Magazine" Mr. Wells.
nv the way. takes view of the aerial warship
witch will not commend itself TO the enthuSi-
asts of the present day In his opinion a war
g., the air will be "at enormously destruc-
tive and entirely indecisive." The different
powers will damage one another in klnd or
wanton storm Of hatred The latest instaifnent
of the novel, in which there is a remarkable
n,ct,,re CT a nightmarish conflict between the
Germans and the Asiatics. on American SOIL, In
cudes this passage;
These aspects of aerial fighting took the world
by surprise. There had been no ioresight 10 ae-
di,ce these consequences. II there had BEEN the
world would have arranged tor S.vensa penes noa
zone faster than intellectual and social organlza-
Tion and the world with Its silly old flags, It's SHY
nnmeaninx tradition OF nationality. Its cheap news
Dauers and cheaper passions and inaperialsms: It's
base commercial motives and habitual nsincerities
sn5 y,,learities its race lies and conflicts. was
taken by surprise. Once the war began there was
no stopping IT, The himsy fabric OF credit that
had grown with no foreseeng. and that had
held those hundreds of millions In an economic
that clearly understood,
dtssoiyed In panic. Everywhere went the airshlps
dropping bombs destroying any hope OF rally
and everywhere below we're economic catastrophe.
starving voorhees, people, rtotlng and social DIS
nrder Whatever constructive guiding Intelligence
thera had been among the nations vanished in the
passionate stresses of the time Such newspapers
and documents and histories survive from this
nariod all tell one universal story of towns and
Cites with the food supply interrupted and their
streets congested with starving unemployed. or
crises in administration and states Of siege Of pro-
yisionaI governments and Councils of Defence. and
In the cases of India and Egypt, insurrectionary
committees taking charge Of the rearmlng or the
nopation o. the making of batteries and gun pits
of the vehement manufacture &C airships and fly
ing machines.
one sees these things in gmpses, in illuminated
moments as IL through a driving reek OF CLOUDS,