New-York tribune., 1908-02-09

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| 4 proposition that Socialism is a great intel
! lectual process, a development of ideas that
| tend toward the reshaping of human society GU
| new and better lines"
| The serial by Mr.. Wells called The War in
| the Air, which was recently begun in the Pail
Mall Magazine is an oGd tale As it proceeds
it is obviously going to treat of grave and
citing matters. but the earlier chapters which
have thus far been published are written IN
something like humorous vein The hero. Mr.
Bert Smallways, is an humble young Londoner.
His personality and his experiences seem 10
| tickle Mr.. Wells and the narrative bubbles with
satiric fun. Whether the authors inventive
genius fails him not that side of "The War
In the Air. which treats of scientific possibilities,
the story promises to be at least entertaining.
| The English Incorporated Society Of Authors
has not gone along the tenor of its wav as
evenly it might. In fact, there has been some
thing of a squabbe among its members induced
| by feeling that the council and the committee
OF management had too much power, and that the
eighteen hundred members were. as Mr. Bran
Stoker said, helpless against their rulers" Nj
| ZanGwill proposed and carried through at the
recent meeting remedial resolution follows.
| AN extraordinary general meeting shall be
called by the committee Of management If
quested to do SO BY any forty subscribing ines'-
berS'
| At the end Of her book Catherine de-
| Medici and the French RefOrma tion Miss Et;Irh
| Sichel says of GATHERINGS mind that it "was
| very large but had nc rudder. 1t like d Iis
ship doomed to stTeW the with wre.baie
| when it reached difficult places. Nor Were her
| faults such grew better with time, and the
| last half of her life might serve a moral tale.
| The woman OF the next twenty-seven years.
| lax by taste and a bigOt by policy. is not pleas
| ant TO read of; but she is always interesting -
| a human document. The story of this Gather
inc de- Medici. the colleague OF Alva, the Cath
| crime of St. Bartholomew Eve and Of the Lisue.
| still remains to be written if would complete
| the record Of an enigmatic and abnormal pei-
| s0nalty' The story of this later Catherine has
! at last been completed by Miss Sichel. and VIII
soon be blousht out under the title Of The
| Later Years o. Catherine de Mcujci.'
\
| Popular FalIacies" is the title Of q book vaish
| the Lippincotts are bringing out. and vh!eh
| promises TO be more less amusing The an
| thor. Mr.. A. S. F. Ackermann. mentions therein
| great number of so called facts and anecdotes
| in which people have believed and which ant
| new edition Of Easari's Lives" IS coming
| out in Engiand-and not only Il new edition but
| a new translation. The translator is Mr. Thu,nas
| Okey, whose excellent books Venice and Paris
| have been reviewed III these columns. Most of
| the great pictures mentioned by Vasari viii be
| reproduced as Illustrations. There are IT. be
eight volumes and these will be produced under
| the general editOIship of Sir Charles HulrsyG,
| Curator Of the National Gallery.
One of the February books of Loner....as,
| Green & Co is to be The Inquisiton: \ t'sit-
J ical and Historical Study Of the CoerciVa Power
! of the Church" 1t is a translation fron. tbe
| French of the Able VacaHdard.
| The third volume of the Comtezse de Rois-nes
| memoirs contains Interesting account a. Ihe
| departure from life Of Louis NVIII-au event
| which the King himself had long been a.i.titI-
| pating
! He a great sticklrr Tor etiquette :.n1 a:ye
the most minute Instructions about his obSe,uis>-
| All the cercmonialS observed at the departurt oc
| the kings OF France BE- respected :nL
| he had extraordinary memory. he settled tho
procedure down to the smallest details a tne
last the royal alInonrr made mistake in rtGi'i:5
the prayers for those in eNtrcuI!S. Louis NNiIt
| teTrupted him and corrected ia. mistake W.
him q moment The family :ss~e',ftfsd
a tuc end of the ,tui deeply .iff, ted.
The doctors. the duty and ~
around the bed. The First Gentleman Of ,t,.s
Chamber held the curtain: when the chief physician
gave the sign that all over. he let it fan and.
left sobDing. and Madame prepare. 20
follow him. Hitherto. she had always taken pre-
eituCc Of her husband. tn" Kings G..ucI fef .
when she reached the door Sh. suddenly stopped.
and. through the heartfelt tears with which hrt
face was streaming. she said with difficulty
obeyed without any hesitation remark. F!la
First Gentleman announced The King, f'ta
courtiers repeated 'Ihr King ana Ch#r'- X
reached his Tie Master Of the trrtni,..hs =
matf. some slight biuud"TS the royal tnTtff=l
| Charles y overlooked them. AMI S:oke ktfldt< ;"
the enlba rraSSed official. 'Oh, sire. y0ur MHlssH
/ is very kind: but there many defects Next
| time We will do better Thank you. RreZt.
piled tn. King with u smile. ''but Hot D. a
hurry" Thereupon NJ. de BreZt collapsed
| A biography Of Henry Clay is in course II
preparation by his grandson, Mr.. Thomas III
| CIav Ii will appear the series of The Ahttr
lean Crisis Biographies Mr- Brooks Adams -