New-York tribune., 1908-08-23

strength. He twirled his walking stick lutte
had passed him BY.
The new novel by Mr. Justin Mccarthy. which
the Harpers publishing, is called The
Dukes Motto" 1t is a cloak and sword tale
the scenes Of which set in old Franc and
Spain.
Two books art promised for the autumn
season by Longmans. Green & Co One. called
THE Mistress Art" will present set OF lectures
on architecture by Mr Reginald Bloomfield. at
ready well known as writer on the history or
English renaissance. In the other, Painting IN
the Far East" Mr.. Laurence Binyon gives
! introduction to the pictorial art of China and
Japan, accompanying his essay with a number
of illustrations.
The fiction of Rolf Boldrewood, E ". Hor-
nung and others has made the outlaw a the
Antipodes fairly familiar to readers this side
| of the world, but book of history which l. soon
| TO appear viii put this type in an even clearer
light. Its title is 'The Story of the Australian
Bushranger" and fits author, Mr.. G. 2. RONan,
has taken pains TO assemble only verIfabie facts
for his narrative. Among the authentic d"Cu-
ments of which he has made are the confes-
sions of such famous individuals Pierce the
Cannibal, Jacl1y Jacl1y the Gentleman Bush
ranger, and John Lynch the Religious Mono
| maniac.
| The literary shrines of England have yea in
and year out, their UndiscOuraged pilgrims but
| now and then of these returns with a. IL
| lowing plant, communicated to the 'daI&cbester
| Guardian" by a tourist who thought he would
| find joy in the George Eliot country. and es-
peclally looked forward to cup of tea - an
| old cottage in the shadow of Cotton ('SheppeT-
| TONI Church He says:
The trip delightful, but in the old English
q colored plaster representation of the negI,bor-
Rg church and q the spelling Of the inserptlon
turned it over and found i1 the inevitable nct IN
the cottage woman offered US colored postcard of
Seorge Eliot 4,,t shTines They were all p.inteo n
these things was rather incongruous in q cottage
oa wa 5eI 6eb 0a S rpraed @a e s
don't say as they be foreign? did Sc them
with the books. She queer about names.
calm calm our church shepperton and such Ike 1t
%s vet TG Te and aef eGn ts2 So s be
| Apropos Of George Eliot the editors G. the
new complete edition OF Ruskin have reached
| IN IN one OF their latest volumes the ESSAYS on
| Fiction. Fair and Foul which he frst printed
| some twenty-five thirty years ago. II these
he paid his compliments to the novelist with all
ms Wonted candor one of her books ne GEM
| pared with "the sweepings out of a PentorvIe
omnibus To correspondent who ren-o-ls-1slt-
| ed with him he wrote:
| You are not alone In your admiration Of George
expectation Of its being accepted. but. as % all
opinion and on PRINCIPLES of taste which have heeI
good for anything VINO cannot judge of a painter
by a line and an author by sentence I read
qualities but having some personal regard toT htr
said nothing about her till the time came W1"n
other people think the fitting occasion come for
their praise. I have always praised the living and
judged-the dead. The ambiguity you complain OF
means simply that in deteSting with my hOe s)ul
the paltry tragedies of the modern novelist would
not trouble myself with such vile story as that
of The Mill on the Floss" until my friend soTi-
fused report of il necessitated my doing Fore
gone conclusions the business OF modern
cIiques parties and sects Mine have been tined f"r
half lifetime before word OF them Is written
| book for Scotchmen IS under way Nj
/ Donald Cameron Swan is writing It and J. IS all
| about Highland Chiefs of To-day I consists
! Of illustrated biographies Of the present heads
I of the clans MacgregOr. Frazer, Stewart, Mur-
! ray, Campbell and so on.
| Moffat. Yard & Co. publishing IN book
form the exciting story of '"The Statue. by
Arnold Bennett and Eden PhIpotts, which ap-
| peared seriaIIy in The Tribune not long ago
| They will also issue. early in September new
| novel by Frederick Palmer, entitled The Big
| Fellow.
| Literature of the modern sort is. il appears
| making progress in India. THE London Eth-
| enRunl' tells US that there some fairly good
| translations of Measure for Measure into
! Gujarati and THE Tempest" into Marathl, and
1t adds:
| There has been issued series Of novels con-
parable the modern English society moves eN-
| hibiting the extravaganza and lnmorallty q no
! Parsi smart set 80 In Philosophy, Mt t'lstcl;L
continues his account of Spencer's -PrincIpes Gf
| Sociology in Marathi. We have also The F0t-
ical Philosophy Of Burke in the la sl..Eo;
and under Voyages and Travel note fairly
! sketch O NepaI MaratE5 writer.
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