The Washington herald., 1908-02-23

a good deal OF favorable comment has
been excited by prose version Of Cat
upius" made by Francis Ware Cornish,
VI. A. AS an example of these English
renderings. the following lyric 10 LesbIa
herself. from which may be drawn the
reflection that Death though a surly
spoil-sport by profession. has stiIl this
good quality to his, credit-the very
thought OF him adds a zest 10 love and
life. Here is the old wine Of the lyric
decanted into the prose bottle:
Let rs live. my Lcsbia and love- and value at
one faFthing all the talk Of Grabbed old men.
Suns may set and rise again. For us when the
short light has once set, remains TO be slept the
sleep Of one unbroken night
Give me thousand kisses. then a hundred then
another thousand, then a second hundred then
yet another thousand. then a hundred Then when
we have made up many thousands We will confuse
our counting that we may not know the reckoning
nor amy malicious person blight them with evil eve
When he KNOWS that our kisses are 50 many.
The sudden English demand which the
Harpers have experienced for three small
Niebelungen story books by Anna Alice
ChaFin is only part of a more general call
in England for popular literature on the
Ring" There is no doubt that the cause
lies in the approaching production Of the
four Wagner operas at Covent Garden.
for the first time in the history of the
Ring, in English. As the first perform
ance Of the ''Niebelungen Ring" took
place at Baireuth in August, 1873. Il has
taken thirty-twO years for the English
musicians to experience the need Of trans
lating II into the popular tongue.
Mrs. Leonidas Hubbard has just COM
pleted book telling the romantic and
tragic story OF five years ago. when her
husband set out TO explore Labrador, mis-
took the way. was oyertaken by winter.
and died Of starvation. Two years later
the widow resolved to go and complete
his work This she did successfully. and
now will publish, through John Murray.
the story of her experiences. Mrs. Hub
Bard viii be this months guest Of honor.
together with Mr.. and Mrs Israel Zang-
will. at a dinner given by the New Vaga-
bond Club. at which her publisher will
take the chair.
Theodore Roosevelts book. Outdoor
Pastimes OF an American Hunter" is one
Of the most popular Of outdoor books. and
now new edition has Just been brought
out containing two new chapters and a
number Of new Illustrations The new
chapters are the account OF his recent ex-
petition In the Louisiana Canebrakes"
and Small Country Neighbors.
The S S. Mcclure Company announces
a novel, entitled The Sisters" bv Mrs.
Percy Dearmer. an Englishwoman. whose
work has been hitherto unknown in this
country.
simultaneously with the announcement
by the John Lane Company that it viii
publish this spring a new edition of ",The
Secret Life comes the news that its au-
thor whose name has so far been hidden.
is Elizabeth Bisland. who wrote the wide
ly read ''Lafcadio Hearn's Life and'Let-
ters."
Antonio Fogazzaro Is too well known in
America TO need more than a mention
here. His book the Politician has
been translated into excellent and SYM
pathetic English by C. MantelHni IN this
edition. published BIZ Luce & Co. OF Bos-
ton. The story, so instinct with Italian
life and thought. so tragic, and so noble.
has already acquired wide audience.
Leonard Darwin, whose lectures on mu-
nicipal ownership at Harvard last year
attracted widespread attention, has incor-
porated these lectures into a volume soon
to be published by Messrs. f. 2. Dutton
& Co. The four divisions Of the book.
each representing one OF the lectures. will
be entitled Ownership Not the Main
Question, Municipal Statistics" "Mu-
nicipal Corporation" and Municipal
Ownership" Mr. Darwin's previous
work. Municipal Trade" is already
standard textbook at Harvard and other
universities.
Possibly the most unique and pictur-
esque study Of the great monarchs of
forest and mountain VIII be found IN
Trees: IN Nature. Myth and Art" by
J. Ernest Phythian. to be issued shortly
BY George W Jacobs * Co. In this book
you will read Of the tree when il was
worshiped as a god, as a progenitor of
the race. You will be able TO study its
development in nature, and how it was
taken up in art, and even trace its forms
In architecture, and note the effects of
trees IN modern art. According to the
publishers, this is the first study Of trees
OF this kind to be issued. 1t is interesting
indeed to learn that, according 20 ancient
fable, the ivy sprang from the graves of
Tristan and Iseult. and. climbing the
walls OF a church, met in the dome above.
and TO note and to analyze the emotional
suggestion OF trees in modern paintings.
The boys who are really reformed are
those who want TO do right and not those
who have to do right" That phrase. from
Judge Ben. B. Lindsey's preface to WAYS
to Win Boys" by Lilburn Merrill NJ. d.
sums up concisely the subject matter of
the new book. In 1t Mr.. Merrill will take
up. among other matters. The Honor of
a Kid, The Heart of Boy, The Tran
SitiOn TO Manhood. Fresh Air Work with
Boys, Religious Meetings and Clubs for
Boys. 1t will be published by the Flem-
ing H. Revell Company.
The S. s. Mcclure Company will publish
this month THE House Of the Lost
Court" by a hitherto unknown author.
with the interesting and lengthy name of
Dona Teresa Saballo, Marquesa d'Alpens.
The authoress is described, as an attrac-
tive young woman. Spanish marchion
ess, WITH both American and English
blood in her veins, VINO is said 10 have
remarked that il she ever marries her
husband viii be an American. She lives
IN London, where she attracts attention
by going about in the native Spanish
mantilla.
Moffat. Yard & Co. will introduce next
month TO American readers a new Eng
lish novelist, John Trevena. who has
made, with his first novel, an impression
upon the critics and readers Of his own
land. 'Furze the Cruel has been pro-
nouneed generally in London a work little
short Of genius.