The sun., 1908-06-10
Bo0Ks AND AUTHORS.

Mary e. Wilkinss new story, "The
Shoulders OF Atlas" with which she won
the prize In the novel competition. de-
feating her rival, Max Pemberton. by
$4,000 votes, will be brought out in book
form by Harpers this week. There is
to be a special printing for an edition in
Australia, where the New England writer
has large following.
DR.. John Browns three volumes entitled
Spare Hours have gone through more
than q score Of editions. The second series.
which contains besides Marjorie Fleming"
and John Leech" Ave sterling lay sermons
on Health" and the relations between
doctors and patients and children. &c., is
still in much demand among physicians.
who recommend it to their patients. Direct
orders for this volume came in last week
from no less than ten members of the
medical profession 70 the publishers, each
from a different State. DR.. Brown is best
known Of course as the author Of "Rab
and his Friends" which is contained in the
first series Of Spare Hours"
The home Of Warwick Deeping at Battle,
Sussex, is In the old Hastings district.
! which accounts for the quaint name Of
Battle. Mr.. Deeping's house. Gate Cottage.
is more than century old. 1t is small and
low with little old fashioned windows almost
overgrown with ivy. II is here that Mr..
Deeping wrote the greater part Of his
latest novel, Bertrand Of Brittany The
hero of this book. Bertrand du Guesclin.
has figured before in English romances.
Readers Of The White Company will
remember the sketch there Of this future
Constable of France. 1t is Tiphaine. his
love--or as she appears in "The White
Company" his very comfortable wife
who is his redeemer.
Max Pemberton, whose Sir. Ricbard
Eecombe" will appear next week in this
country, is at his home, Troston Hall. in
Suffolk. Mr.. Pemberton was formerly a
resident of Hampstead, and he settled in
his cottage in Suffolk few months ago to
remain for an indefinite term. He is Cam
bridge man. He published his first novel
in 1891 under the title OF -The Diary OF a,
Scoundrel.'
Gertrude Atherton will spend the sum-
mer in Munich amusing herself with musical
interests Of which that city is an important
centre. Mrs. Atherton is a devoted student
OF opera and has contributed some notable
operatic criticisms to the foreign press.
Amelie Rives has always possessed
gift Of pretty phrasing and an ingenious
frankness in expression to. which she has
added certain ripeness of criticism
especially toward the dreams of life that
please the practical man while it jolts the
dreamer The visionary heroine OF her lat
oct hrn "a Hnl fap ci hat
man can thrive in the rarefed atmosphere
of love to which the physical is denied.
Amelie Rives condenses the opposite phil
osophy into a single sentence-"One may
fee into the desert and save ones soul
alone, think, but hardly two-hardly two. !"
1t is not commonly known that this writer
Of stories is also O portrait painter and
has spent some time in Paris studying the
art of painting. Prince Troubetzkoy, her
husband, is portrait painter, but the Prin-
cess has of late devoted herself to literary
work almost to the exclusion Of the other
talent.
Margaret Potter is spending the summer
in Italy, making Rome her headquarters
and taking occasional jaunts from the
Eternal City out into the Italian country
and enthusiastio writer Mrs. Potter s
book the impressions made by her latest
novel, The Golden Ladder" which is
described as "an unvarnished story
A new book by Mrs. Mary Stewart Cutting
entitled The Wayfsrers' will be brought
| out on June 20. 1t deals on large scale
with the typical American folk with
whom we are all acquainted-the middle
aged married people and the younger ele-
ment that make up our representative
| American society
Mr. Kipling's Soldiers Three" has been
| brought out in a French translation by
| NJ. Albert Savine, under the title OF "Trois
! Troupiers. Two other stories by MIR.
Kipling are translated in the current num-
ber Of the Mercure de France.
Pierre de Nolhac. in his peaceful retreat
| at Versailles. is studying the life Of Nine.
Vigee-Lebrun, In reading the memoirs
! she wrote when she was SO the Keeper Of
| Trianon has detected some pardonabe
| errors made by the aged lady artist in the
| recolieotions Of her youth, The perusal of
the unpublished letters redisooyered at
the Bibliotheque Rationale dscloses the
unacknowledged but certain collaboration
of some writer among Aime Martin 8 circle
| perhaps Anne Martin himself NJ de
Nolhac is choosing among the documents
| those which show most clearly the pic
turesqueness Of Nine. Vigee-Lebrun's
impressions Of people and things, for
the woman painter of Marie Antoinette's
court could describe with her pen the
womanly figures Of her time just as she
painted them with her brush. Pierre de
Nolhac's study Of the artist and writer
! will come out this year in the Goupil edition
books about Fragonard. Natter and
Boucher.