The Washington herald., 1908-07-05
THE WORLD OF BOOKS
LITERARY GOSSIP OF HOME AND ABROAD

risks. Mr. Watson is q genuine poet;
with a little more power he would even
have found place among the major
poets. His new spic is likely to be worth
while.
The new novel by Mary Johnston,
Lewis Rand" will be brought out by
Houghton-Mihlin Company about the
middle Of October. and four months
ahead OF publication they have received
an advance order from one bookseller
calling for lo.oOO copies. Miss Johnston
Is now at Warm Springs. Va.
A book that may best be described as
Hall Gaines literary autobiography is
among those promised for fall pubIica-
ton by the Appletons. My Story" is its
title, and in It the author tells OF the
friendships he has enjoyed with such lit
erary luminaries as ROssetti, Carlyle,
Iennyson. Morris, SwinbUrne, &c. Caine's
early struggles to obtain recognition In
the world OF letters are dealt with very
/ fully while the last chapters bring the
autobiography down 10 the present time,
the whole covering literary England dur
ing the last thirty-fye years.
/ In The Passer-by in London" ". S.
Campbell has written most interesting
/ account Of many Of the attractive and
yet little known sights Of London. He
calls the book "a tribute 70 Wren. Glib
I bons. and John Stow. with some Ro-
nance and History Of the Old City" and
/ II Is Illustrated with more than 10 pho
/ tOgraphs including all the spires and
I towers OF Wrens city churches. He has
chapters on "Old London When"
/ "Grinlng Gibbons and His Work" Some
Ancient DOorways," The Hidden Stat
uary and Carvings Of London" and
hooks and Corners The book is writ
! ten in a pleasant. easy way. and is a de-
lghtful guide TO people who are really
/ fond OF London and who know, OF who
want to know, the true city.
Readers who have been wondering what
has become OF l. Zangwil will be glad 70
know that he has nearly finished book
| called Italian Fantasies" which his pub
fishers think VIII outlive all his novels.
He hopes also 10 finish this summer a
new play on a Jewish subject. His emf
I grafton work has Of late years absorbed
most Of his time and strength. and his
/ health also has been wretched. He is
/
sake OF quiet. and has been able 10 write
/ but little His early books showed an
| exceptionally brilliant mind, and it may
/ be that he succumbed 20 the strong
/ temptation Of a popular author TO over
work
/ Il VIII be singular TO have a new vollEns
from an old friend with the name Of
Lord Morley OF Blackburn on the title
/ page. but il is extremely pleasant 10 know
that neither the cares and responsible
| ties Of the Indian Office nor the burden OF
his new title is enough 70 prevent the aU-
/ thor OF the lives OF Gladstone and OF
/ Cromwell from producing another book.
/ The new volume is. indeed. not a pre-
| tentious work. II will contain number
| Of essays, one, a study Of MachiavelU,
\ has already been published separately,
/ but the accompanying study Of Mschia-
/ vellis contemporary. Guicciardini. appears
! for the first time. GuiCciardini was the
/ historian whose reputation for Iong-wind-
| edness was such that ne was made the
/ butt Of the ancient Italian joke which re
! lates how felon, being allowed 70 choose
between the .galleys and the reading OF
/ GuiCciardinfs history. chose the latter,
( but after he had struggled half way
/ through the historians account Of the war
| Pisa threw up the book and went joyfully
| 10 the galleys. Notwithstanding this un-
| enviable reputation. however. Guicciar-
DIM is recognized as a master OF political
] philosophy, who carried 70 greater con-
sistency than its originator the nonmoraI
maxims set forth in The Prince"
Frederic S. Isham. author Of The Lady
Of the Mount" &C, wrote a goodly por-
tion Of that romance in various cafes in
different parts Of France At Tours,
where the writer called for paper and ink
one day, the waiter an inquisitive mortal.
noticed that N1r. Isham numbered his
/ page Of note paper 1oi. That is a long
letter. monsieur this provincial garcOn
/ permitted himself 10 murmur. Monsieur
/ must have very eXaCting sweetheart
l she is, answered the writer, "the most
eXacting, and, one might add. capricious
/ The waiter looked sympathetic. All. mon
| Dieui Did he not know? Could he not
| commiserate? Did he not have his own
/ capricious Marie? But what-mon Dieu,-
was monsieur's sweetheart caned2 Nine.
/ Public" said the writer, and the garcon.
who did not see the point, again mUr-
INJURED sympathetically.
/ S. G. Bayne. whose .-Quicksteps in
! Scandinavia" the Harpers recently pub
lished, was announced as the author OF a
previous book of travel through Donegal
! and COnnemara, entitled "On an Irish
Jaunting Car Inquiries as 20 Just what
/ an Irish Jaunting car is have since been
/ plentiful and may be settled by observing
/ one which runs about I'm Central Park.
\ New York. almost every pleasant after
noon. II is the old Irish '1ow-backed
car. with two small wheels and an over
/ hanging seat the passengers sitting back
/ 10 back, with their feet on a broad step.
| II wins much attention. and a sigh or two
| from the homesick children Of Erin.
! The first volume Of the important His
torica Bible" by Prof Charles Foster
Kent, viii be published this month. This
work will be brought out in six volumes.
the first of which takes up The Heroes
and Crises Of Early Hebrew History"
] In the midst Of his journeyings through
/ the South Seas, Jack London has found
time 10 write another romance. and ii will
first appear serially, under title Martin
/ Eden in the pages Of the Pacific Month
ly, beginning with the September. issue.
Not often does 1t happen that the pub
Usher the author. and the governments
J li'-' a. HNN4lie0S AAltlttE IN mana WllCu IN
/ wolves exactly 3 cents. The other dav
/ however, Uncle Sam drew an order for
that amount, informing Norman Duncan.
the author whose stories. chiefly 0f Lab
rador seamen. have won such wide notice
IN Harper's Magazine. that the disburs-
/ ing department Of the port of New York
/ recorded an apparent balance I'm his IA
vor on account of customs duties over.
paid. Although Mr. Duncan's publishers,
/ the MeSSrc Harva- had nod