New-York tribune., 1908-08-15

the French Academy. This bust which mas
lust been handed over to the Immortals, Is
work executed by his friend Delaplanche. when
the poet was still 3 young man. and, so to say
-Joole5 the part" II Is certainly more TO the
point that he should be thus represented than
IN one Of those official portraits. done in a
mans old age and rarely significant OF the per-
sonality behind his best work
American authors are much to the fore in the
list of new novels which the Scribners have IN
press Toward the end of this month they Will
issue Peter: A Novel of Which He Is Not the
Hero" by F. Hopkinson Smith, and IAN Olyn1-
pic Victor" by James B. Connolly In Septem-
her they Will bring out "Kinkaid's Battery. a
new romance by George w Gable of Southern
life in wartime and a collection of short
stories called waldo Trench and Others. by
Henry B. Fuller. For later publication new
novels by w W. Jacobs and Kenneth Grahane
are promised. and a volume of eight short
stories by Mrs. Edith Wharton.
sierra Einar was an Icelandic poet Of the sew
enteenth century whose work Is now TO be IN
+roduced in English to Anglo-Saxon readers.
7ba hook contains set Of ballads under the
title of "elzotland's Rirnur' these ballads being
devoted to the story of the Gowrie mystery, the
so-called plot to kfdnap King James VI when
he went to look for "a man with pot OF goio-
The 1ceIandic writer does little to dispel the
mystery.
III. ,o+s +hs announcement Of a book which
,x.r ,robahtv have many eager readers. It's
title ,s srFrIving Machines" end the author Is Sir
Hiram Maxim. The Macmillans Will publish It
What is apparently an unexpected literary
.-nnd" is collection of the miscellaneous poems
of Fyroilv Bronte. There are no fewer than 1oo
of these unpublished poems. and they are to De
included in a volume Of 1.-THE Complete Poems
of Emily Bronte."
II Is recorded in the new volume OF the An
no+a+ed Tennvson' that when the poet wrote
bts famous Crossing the Bar while crossing
the solent in his eighty first year. his son SAID
70 him: THAT is the crown OF your hres
work. and he answered. ut came in a mo-
,,en+- And a few days before his death ne
said: Mind you put my Crossing the bar a'
+be end of all editions Of my poems
Americans as well as Englishrnen Will be in
terested in a volume now on the press-a VOL
nm. which IS to bear the title Of THE Blrtn Oh
Modern Italy: The Posthumous Papers OF Jes-
sic White Mario In her memoirs VIII Dc
found : good deal Of new material relating 70
ca-ibaIdi Mazzini and other Italian palrlots'
ond ~ the struggle for Independence which
h2n
described Nine Mario as "a great woman to
,,,o,, r-A italians owe great debt" She was
q, English woman married 10 an italian. and
bo+r engaged heart and soul and hand IN the
righteous revolution of the 1fties and sixties.
What - n he described as a very free adap-
+a+ion Of David Copperfeld' is to be placed on
the stage OF the Paris Odeon this autumn
,,.,r1riIe a new book about the novers author
,Enr nj
"C-harIes Dickens and His Circle II Is tho
-7o-p Of MI w Teignmouth Shore
a. ,,.s+ins or the Lindsey standing Joint
,o-,r,i++ee at Lincoln in England the other day.
+ha chief constable. says the LONDON ruin
ranorted that he had been investigating aliega-
+ions about the operations OF German SPIES III
T;roo,rsbire He was acting ION instructions
which had been officially given TO MIN III COLI
seouence of certain suspicious characters re-
sembIing foreigners, having been proving ABOUT
in that neighborhood. He found that the sup
nosed spies were Mr. Rudyard Npling, OF aII
80 90 +1Ho or three other gentlemen. who
had haen invited down on a reconnaissance con-
,oc+ed with the construction Of a light railway.
Predecessor Fichard G. Moulton has now drawn
into a single volume the twenty-one handbooks
making I'D THE Modern Readers BLDG CIhe
Macmillan Company. contemporary IlteIafS
form, is followed in the arrangement of, the
text which Is based upon the English revised
version The list of Hebraic classics includes
Tobit The Wisdom of Solomon and Ecclesias-
ticus. With regard to The Wisdom of Solomon
Mr. Moulton makes the suggestion that its au-
thor was stirred to proclaim his doctrines of
hope after meditating on the dreary outlook
OF the writer Of Ecclesiastes The noble ethics
of Wisdom and Ecclesiasticus gets ample recOg-
milton in the literary introductions, yet the
editor evidently feels with Mr.. Saintsbury that
II these books were as bad philosophy as Mar
tin Tupper and as bad morals as some Of Lucian
they would remain great literature.
Wagnerians will be glad to hear OF the pub
lication with which the house of Bruckmann.
in Munich has celebrated the twenty-ffth
niversary Of the death of the composer. This
firm has put together in a convenient little vol
ume all Of the photographs of Wagner made
from 1860 TO 1882. Some of these
There are altogether thirty-four plates In the
book
The chronology Of Palestine, Assyria, Babylo-
mia and Egypt down to 1850 B. c. is the sub
ject of necessarily technical treatment in Pro-
fessor Olaf A Toffteens Ancient Chronology"
(The University of Chicago Press) Obelisk and
monolith inscriptions of Shamaneser II afford
an unchalIenged starting point in Palestinian
chronology. The cuneiform and hieroglyphic
inscriptions Professor Tofteens chief re-