New-York tribune., 1908-04-11


Co Tho work covers the entire American in
sect world, including moths. butterflies and
beetles.
The new edition in English of the novels OF
Rjornsterne Bjornson. issued by Macmillan. has
Just been completed. The last two volumes con-
tain The Heritage of the Kurts" and biblio
graphical note by Mr.. f. Gosse describes the
circumstances in which the work was produced.
Two hundred letters, hitherto unknown, ot
Henri Boyle tSteudhaD are be included in A
forthcoming collection in three volumes of his
correspondence This edition. IL is stated. covers
the whole intellectual life of Stendhal. illustrat
ing in detail tho evolution Of his thought. The
book Is divided into four parts. entitled "Ap-
prcnticeship Actual Life; Man Of the World and
Ducttante; Official and Novelist" NJ Maurice
Barres has provided preface.
The Scribners viii publish this month Mr Ar
thur Trains True Stories of Crime" n curious
collection. which rivals fictitious narrative in its
revelations of the under world. Mr.. Trains OBJ
servations in the District Attorneys office pro-
vidcd him with quantity of excellent material.
4 volume on "Coleridge and Wordsworth in
the West Country: Their Early Friendships and
surroundings is in course Of preparation by
Professor Knight. and win be published in the
autumn.
Mr. Maurice Hewletts noveleae. The Spanish
Jade" is to be rcpubshed here by Doubleday.
Tage co.
Here was a bard shall outlast you ALL writes
Mr. William Watson in his copy of Tennyson.
The poem is reproduced i'm ''The Fortpightly Re
view" and here are some of its stanzas:
You phrase tormeuting fantastic chorus
With strangest words at your beck and call;
Who tumble your thoughts in a heap before US
Here was a bard shall outlast you all
Y9n prange on lansugse YOU force you str strain ii
You rack ana yG4 rive n IT, you o tWiSr sai ~ ana maui
Ana here was a bard shall outlast you all
Prosody gasps IN your tortured numbers
Your metres that vrithe, your rhythms that
And YOU make him turn in his marble slumbers
The golden tongued. who outsinSs you all.
Think you it's thus in uncouth contortion.
That Song lives throned above thrones that fall?
Her landmarks are order and Just proportion,
The many American friends of Mr.. Hesketh
Prichard, the traveller and novelist, will be in
terested 10 hear of a rumor that he is engaged
to marry Lady Elizabeth Grimston.
An elaborate biography of Mirabeau in three
Volumes by Professor Frederick NJ Fling is
which is devoted to the Frenchmans youth and
which closes with his legal coming Of age. will
be brought out this spring.
Mr.. Bail Tozer, writing The Coming Cen
sorship of Fiction in The National Review"
points out the probability that such censor
ship will be the result OF the recent output OF
unwholesome novels. He declares that the
financial success of some of these productions
has led to the writing OF great quantity OF
similar evil stuff by people who had never be-
fore tried to write anything for publication He
adds:
Through the courtesy OF TWO publishing houses
OF good standing I have been afforded the privilege
(sC) examining number of manuscripts of this
description that have quite recently been Submitted
10 them In almost every il becomes obvious
the illiterate and disgusting stories referred 10
mainly through their having thoroughly saturated
their thoughts with the garbage OF the same sort
only less so-that published early in last wear
They have apparently argued thus: There is moth
ing clever, extraordinarily attractive in these
books therefore they must have sold as largely
as they have done only because OF their plsin-
spokenness I believe I could write stuff like that
myself. Anyway. I will trv. And I will 20 one
better than even these people. And presently I
shall be rich beyond the dreams OF avaricei" nj
with that they nave sat down and set work
The consequences of the establishment OF a
literary censorship as described by Mr. Tozs,