New-York tribune., 1908-02-15
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
Current Talk of Things Present and
to Come.

TO come.
| The new edition of BoswelTs johnson prepared
| by Mr.. Roger 1ngpen has been conveniently ar
ranged in chapters. Some new notes have been
| added to the many which already familiar
The specially delightful feature OF the edition is
| the collection OF three hundred Illustrations
drawn from all available sources These IN
clude drawings Of the houses in which Johnson
lived. portraits of the famous people he knew.
| reproductions Of paintings and old prints, and
| political caricatures.
Mr. Owen Wister has deserted authorship for
the moment to enter politics. He has been nom
| mated for city councilman on the reform ticket
| In Philadelphia, and he is reported to be con-
Quoting vigorous campaign.
There much that was piteous in the end
| ing Of Ouda. 1t may not be true that she was
actually without food at times: but 1t is known
| that when turned out for lack of funds, from
| her apartment at Viareggio she sat all through
one night on the seashore. and that this ex-
posure resulted in invalidism from which she
never recovered. This account Of her last hours
! was communicated to THE Daily Mall OF Lon
| don, by an Italian correspondent:
| Her faithful maid, Isolina Cervelli. was by the
| deathbed and Ouida's beloved dogs were in the
er two os ohaf pes y no ad a kept
the floor by the bed The little aTf seRT4om eT was
carpet to cover the bare brick floor ouida lay.
the aares af seas na an Of
reposs the eyes half open she was bt san Gown
over it and had long wooien mittens her. fra
oany n se oved All through night
after death had come, the little dogs howied round
metioniess retr featurea 2ps 0'0 ''e 'e
When ouida returned in September from Massa-
Gated by heart weakness She recovered her health
turned Four days ago she telegraphed to friend
dsEed Doctors bt n three months ago
to receive TWO visits daily from Dr. Psc E who n Is
visitor during the last six weeks. with the excep-
The aged lady left her room, but until four
Se uss I s y be s
have enc s D5Sa Friday she said to to her mad
You see: an, am dying; Say am. am nst?" no
DOGS Isagh5 e sF GSs
again 4 die she said my dogs leave 70 You.
W De 10 Voice auaeed to- ene
ana % ene end s came; n .+,e-ns ., r,or-e- -
house The body was quickly placed in plain
an ordinary street cab to Lucca. The body will be
IA o @ Mas also as bred Rs here d
received "a quarters a m of her
penniless. Her maid declares that she paid all ex-
! penses last week.
| Ouida left no diary, it is said. but among her
papers, now IN the care or the British consul
| there is a half finished novel.
! DR. W. G. Rolfe has just passed his eghtieth
| birthday and he has moreover just finished his
work on the volume entitled "Shakespeare's
| Proverbs" The maxims, aphorsms and
| proverbs are mostly those which were long ago
selected from the plays by Mary Cowden- Clarke:
DR. Rolfe has added selections from the sonnets
| and has prepared an introduction and notes
new novel is to be brought out by Mr..
Richard Bagot In the of few months
It's scenes are laid in the Northumbrian border
country of Britain and partly in Tuscany, and it
| has English and Italian characters Both regions
! are familiar to the author-the border country,
| indeed, is his own. his mother having been one
of the Northumbrian Percys. The plot is said
to be based upon strange and dramatic occur
| renee In real life.
The Scots remain warmly faithful to their
| favorite poet. Robert Burns's birthday was cele-
! hrated all over the Land o Cakes this year
| with many ceremonies and formalities- The
| sfneinp Of his songs was the most important
| mart of the programme everywhere
| Several new books on Napoleon are an
| nounced One of these. "Dumouriez and the
| Defence of England Against Napoleon" has
! hAen nrepared by DR.. Holland Rose, In collab-
! Grafton with Mr. A. NJ Broadiey The book, we
o +o,d will contain several unpublished docu-
| a+s Including schemes of defence devised by
| r,,ouriez in his holograph copy, and by the
nuke of York in 1903. Another new oook' whlcn
| :; oo,,ine from the pen of an Oxford scholar
| r1.rhert Fisher is entitled "Bonapartisn 1t
! stc,sses the beuuest of the Revolution. Napol-
-. relations with Europe. and not merely
! ~ -,sa of the Second Empire, but Its downfall
| within living memory
| The lust published biography (E +. putton
a. 20, of CAPTAIN Joseph Virgins, the Brltlsn
| merchant seaman. who rediscovered the Nara
| &c. route to Siberia, is full of interest TO say
| no+binp Of the record of his Siberian and Rus
s,an experiences. there are good stories OF otier
.L.ses Of his career Not the least curious one
| soro.rns q white Squalr' on the Mediterra-
! nean:-
ors glorious night-the full moon shining from ,sn an
almost cloudless -y ss set His mind at rest
he turned into his cabin and fell asleep bgst htS
pose wster wde was rushing the ships side and
into his cahin-that the vessel was IN danger o.
slnns sink gresa st eorf asrfsp made deck
Reaching at the wheel heel sran ne 1oreso ssou
arGeys to the sailors. He awoke, and found the
gain, at him one in aa m Himself felt aWk
ward and foolish for the night was s. cam fn ana m
and raa eaced sesrs orders He no bunk
again amid the general LAUGHTER o OF 'ae ohe men with
Again psnsey ns ss strained He puzzled to
count for his condition and he determnea @ 70 dress
as IN 5n Ras9e If eg 1t thf He on
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