New-York tribune., 1908-06-06

,,or "Art,ane IN MantrIa" Vernon Lee is bring
ing ont In London a new volume of essays which
she calls Gospels of Anarchy and Other Con-
temporary Studies" In this she discusses
Nietzsche Tolstoy, Ruskin, Emerson, PROFESSOR
William James and Mr.. n. G. Wells we nope
that her American publisher will issue here tne
new edition which has been prepared in Eng
land of her Studies in the Eighteenth Century
in italy" 1t is, on the whole, her best oooh-
N.x+ IN tho tida Of fiction comes the tide Of
sbakespeariana New contributions to the lit
erature of the poet are always being made Two
more have Just been announced. Under the title
of 1.-THE Shakespeare Apocrypha, MI T. Z.
Brooke has edited. in one volume, with introouc-
tion notes and photography. group OF rour-
teen plays which have been attributed 10 tne
dramatist In 1.-The Shakespeare Problem Re-
stated" Mr. George Greenwood summarizes tne
arguments which have been brought to snow
that Shakespeare not the author or the
dramas contained in the First Folio OF 1913
Mr. Arnold Bennet is novelist with TWO
s.ri,rs IN his how. He can write well in
serious vein and he IS adept at sensational
farce II is presumably in the latter vein that
he has written his forthcoming novel. Buried
Alive" The hero is an artist supposed to be
famous who causes 1T to be understood that ne
is dead, and then passes as his valet VINO is
actually dead.
Some quaint information appears in Mr. Allan
Fea,s book on Secret Chambers and Hiding
Places" The subject, which has so often proved
of value to writer's of fiction has of course meant
much in actual history Mr.. Fea is preparing
new and revised edition of the work
Mr. Walter Page Wright, the English garden
ing expert has written a book on 1.-THE Perfect
Garden" The Lippincott Company will soon
publish It, with many illustrations in black and
white and in color.
The American branch of the Oxford Univer-
sty Press has brought out an edition OF Ter
ence by Professor Sidney G. Ashmore, OF Union
College 1t will contain the Latin text OF the
six comedies a long Introduction and a COM
mentary consisting Of explanatory and critical
notes on each of the plays This is the first
collected edition of Terence to be published in
America.
Sir Frederick Treves, the distinguished sur
geon having made a success Of one book OF
travel is about to publish another. In this Ine
Cradle of the Deep" he collects his impressions
of the West Indies.
M Pierre de Nollac is engaged upon a book
about Nine Vigee-Lebrun, the eighteenth CEN
turv portrait painter. and it is to be printed
with all the magnificence of the we'll known
GoupiI series, in which monographs on Frason-
ard Nattfer and Boucher have already been
nubIished 1t is expected, by the way, that these
volumes will next year be reissued in popular
editions.
The publishing house of Macmillan. in Lon
H. NO, b,,+ I'm nv two men of notable abiI-
itv and many interesting friendships. One of
these men. Daniel Macmillan. made the
s,,biect of a memoir by the late Tom Hughes
His brother Alexander, is now to be portrayed
in a biography by Mr. Charles Graves. The
book will include much literary "reminiscences
and a quantity of letters.
Mr. Charles Marriott. who came into pron1-
nence as novelist few years ago. is trying his
hand in another field of writing He Is making a
book of Spanish travel.
Mr. Wallis Myers is publishing through
George w. Jacobs & Co Il book called The
Complete Lawn Tennis Player" 1t is not in
tended for experts only but for all players of
the game Portraits of a number Of Its mas |
ters in action. will appear among the four |
score illustrations.
Mrs J. r. Green. widow of the author of that |
admirable book. "a Short History of the Eng |.
lish People," is herself favorably known for :,
her Town Life in the Fifteenth Century That
was published several years ago. Meanwhile
she has been occupied with research into the
economic and social conditions of Ireland under
the Tudors and the Macmillans will presently
publish a work the subject from her hand.
Studies of Irish History"