New-York tribune., 1908-03-07
BOOKS md AUTHORS.
Current Talk Of Things Present
and to Come.

ready sent to Mr Montgomery Carmichael. the
British Consul at Leghorn. sum large enough
to provide "a noble and lasting monument
Mr. Carmichael writes to The Saturday Re
view that 2Ir. Graham is right in saying that
Ouida stuck quills.' and he adds: 'On a
modest writing table at the foot OF the bed
where her dead body lay I found. reverently
arranged by the hands of unlettered servant
two large quils in satire The honor thus
spontaneously rendered by symbols takes us
back to the origins of arInoral bearings and I'M
presses; it is striking evidence of the vivid
quality of the Tuscan imagination, and of the
tributes paid to the genius of the novelist it is
surely the which would have appealed to
her most of ALL
''ItaIica' is to be the title of Mr. w. X
Thayer's forthcoming volume of studies in 1tal-
ian life and letters. One of the chapters VIII
deal with the novelist Fogazzaro.
Mr.. H C. Wells in his new book on social
ism. says that he calls himself socialist. but Is
by no means a fa1atical uncritical adherent
To him socialism presents itself as a very
noble, but a very human and fallible, system of
ideas He does in all sincerity regard its spirit
it's intimate substance as the most hopeful
thing in human affairs at the present time, but
he does also find it shares with all mundane
concerns the qualities of inadequacy and error
A book on the Nez Perces Indians. fun OF per-
sonal sketches and details of their daily hfe Is
in the press of the Fleming H Revell Company
Its author Kate c. McReth, has lived among
these Indians for half lifetime.
Mr. G. loves Dickinson the author of that IN
teresting book, "a Modern Symposium, Is to
be the next IngersoIl lecturer at Harvard HIS
lecture on Immortality will be given there next
wear His new book entitled Justice and Lib
erty," will be brought out this spring.
Shelley's letters to Elizabeth Kitchener have
been examined by the poets bosrapliers, and an
edition of a very few copies of them was
nrtnted for private circulation by Mr. T. J. Wise
Eov, .hey have been presented to the general
DubIc by Nr Bertram Dobell- Most judtcious
readers and lovers of Shelleys verse VIII agree
we believe with Mr.. Arthur Waugh In his eNl-
dent regret that these epistles should be pup
lished They are harmless in themselves ne
saws but they stir UP again the whole puddie
of that confused and impossible household. with
Hogg making love to his friends wife behlnd
his back and Elizabeth Kitchener administer
ing intellectual consolation to the poet IN the
corner. and every one battening upon false emo
tons" He adds:
kind With I1ch a lack hunnor, but his relations
to them o WeF' aSk efuE of hmSr fhat led him write
TO his deserted wife Harriet lively description R & o
surely lack of taste that made nm assure M @ nef for III
M same ieJGr M Il nr Mr}f @ be slo lack Of hunor that
Suggested the necessity Of eXpalnims al birh had in n
d,rHd him 10 marry Harriet: but taste at least o'
anded that osd he sdoqd fb FT RH} m had only just taken
for wife And finally ,It hofn N angq 1emnnt @ Wien
M Miss t HahfnGr arpfd s99'f snd hnsef 80 % in
nror that he might share the consolatorH company
Of both the varying degrees IN Wtrn nc xneriment
failed Miss kitchener had 70 GO and then 4 south IN
Wo s stormy ~3 ifs of likes and dlskes had not
good word to say ydnop f@r @ and Disappeared make
way for Mary Goodwin
,,,,o ,isto.,. of architecture in Portugal is mar
.e, I'D Illustrated in a large volume which -
.. o,,ipp ont in England It is complete
s,,r,-e,, of the buildings Of that country most oi
then, having been personally inspector oE 'ne
author Mr.. W. c. Watson
Miss Ellen ThorneyCroft Fowler Is Nr''ins
new novel which is 10 bear the ute o' 0'
F4llowfield' Fortune MISS ooIe'h ID ~ 60
aced upon a new book.
N Rostand has written a new faos'- II -
doubtful that he was wise in ceasins nus scarf"
for an original subject.
of Lewis 'dIT'i'
come slight memories of the author or Ahce III
ZEonderland'' They belonged 10 the edth'
mess. in the dining hall. and he and the other
,ar,hers of the mess failed entirely to ois-
corr, the peculiar humor Of Dodgson- Ihes
,,,a ,,,,on him as n promising mathematician
,d nothing more He seldom spoke. says TINS
old acouaintance and the slight irnpedlmeht III
h, s,aecb was not conducive TO conversation
A., Nathan Haskell Dole has written vol
,,,,o of ESSAYS on Italian literature. ana II Is L"
be unfinished Immediately. The titles or theee
ESSAYS are respectively. A Teacher OF Ddite'
"A1feri and Tragedy" Dante ana 'le fic'u
resoue." Lyric Poetry and Petrarca. boccac-
clio and the Novella" and "Goidoni ana the H''-
ian Comedy
The publication of Mr.. Joseph Conrad's long
,,o,.a, :, be called Chance" is to be followed
h,, the appearance of a collection of the snort
stories he has produced in recent years
,t,s Julia Frankau. known as Frank Dan
j., ;, has written Il novel in which the Ike oi Il
,,don chorus girl is described. This DOOR, ui-
der the title OF The Heart OF Chio. mas
t,st been brought out by the Macmillan Com
pany.
..ra,,,salenl: The Topography. Economies and
History from the Earliest Times 10 40 A D.
is the title of a work in two volumes WHICH
Professor George Adam Smith is ABOUT 10 pfihg
ont IT is said 10 deal with many aspects oi
tho subiect hitherto neglected even by scholars
II ia a companion 10 Professor Smiths 'Histori-
ceI Geography of the Holy Land.
mid Roris Androvsky. the fugitive monk and