New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-11-28
goOkS AND AUTHORS
r,,rvert Talk of Things Present and
to Come.

10 come.
c.,1o-d Pinchot Is preparing for THE
~---,s's work" a series Of papers on the nat
-, resources Of this country-resources so
- ruthiessiy dealt with. He will describe
80, IS they were when the European colonist
g.. APPROACHED these shores they are now.
80 rv-o hundred wears Of much misuse. and
..t they will he OF would be under intelligent
treatment
there is fine collection Of Balzac portraits
., ths possession Of Partisan enthusiast, NJ.
;. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS engraved, painted.
sxsu-n modelled. silhouetted. by masters OF
,h.,r crafts The queer inkstand IN the form
-, f., Maddox which the novelist used for years
-ss, writing his Tofnances IS another relic in
-hss museum; and a third is paperweight
-,ss. from q fragment Of marble from Bal
ears house in the Rue Fortunee (now the Rue
Esl,acl with q masque OF the Coincide HUI
maine upon il in chiseed bronze.
what Dc Women Want" IS the general title
=. three articles by Ouida which are to be
pueished soon in 'Lippinooft's Magazine" It
g stated that they purchased from their
author twenty-five years ego with the under
Standing that they were not to be given to the
public until after her death. 1t Is probable
chat The novelist takes in these papers a con-
se-vsfive view Of feminine activities
III. latest volume Of that indefatisahle book
rsker. Mr.. Barring Gould deals with more
less notable persons who have come out Of
Cornwall One Of these was ths dramatist
Samuel Foote. particularly extravagant be-
Ing The Fleet Prison story is of course, well
known but no writer on eighteenth century
manners can afford 10 ignore it. Mrs. Foote
AZ
N. large fortune she had inherited. and was
lacked I'D in the Fleet for debt She wrote
thence 40 her son:
,ss;et vaur loving mother. 2. FOOTE.
tn his brief note he replied:
n..- Mother. so an L which prevents his duty
beng paid his loving mother by esr af TenR
son. mn H.
rr.,ssan the tenor. was another Cornshman.
- ., his notorious selfsnness Mr.. Barring
Gould writes thus;
.-snrh- 10 table heaped up. apparently, with fresh
tsrrInss All the company; except Incleoon and
a,e. 49, time When the behring's had been cleared
svsv- there appeared beneath one fine White lsn
- 80 Is > John Dory. Charles" Some Of
tb.v had eaten enough fish. and SO lnoledon and
RS wife ate the John Dory between them
-Tta- ptIrports TO be the most complete ana
,,,o-ss-e works on libraries in all countries
:. IN ureparation by the Societe du Mercure
=. France II IS IN two volumes, is entitled
.rp5bfotbeoues" and is the production Of NJ
ruzene Morel. librarian Of the Bibliotheque
Nstionale.
rishor Cheshire Of North Carolina, has
edited with an introduction and brief notes
George Rerbert's "A Priest TO the Temple. or
The country Pa-sor'' CT-homas Whitaker. Inc)
Yn5ehfedness 10 Professor G. H Palmers defini-
i've edition Of the poets works is gracefully
scknouledged. Dr.. Cheshire thinks HeTbert's
prose is wholly free from the faults that mar
his verse Less whimsical and obscure it is
nay admit and The Country Parson'' shows
us Izssk Walton's friend. the holy Mr.. Her
t4-t~ Is an apostolic fisher Of men, but after
ant Is as poet that Herbert survives.
No xoTnau Is to appear in the seven or eight
flores which Mrs Edith Wharton IS to con-
tfibuts 70 "Scribner's Magazine" during the COM
tng yssr They will be published under the
genera title Of Tales Of Men" II is stated
however. that indirect evidence OF the eternal
feminin. IS not wanting"
There has lately been founded in Holland
rocisty which proposes 10 do for Holland what
tire Eakluyt Society does for England in the
publication Of old records Of travel II has
taken the name OF the Linschoten Society and