New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-11-28

'Itinerario" of Jan Huygen van Linschoten
This will be followed by the record of Cornels
de Hontmans first voyage to the East Indies,
and by the rare "verscheide Voyagiens" OF
David Pietersz de vries CAikmaer. 1850.
'Tono- Bungay" is the title OF Mr.. II. G.
Weiss new story-a story which is described
as a searching study of "a patent medicine
king. 1t is a romance of commerce-of
great remedy which bears the title given TO
the novel. The patent medicine man tells mis-
own story in a frank fashion. II have got, he
says on the first page. IAN unusual series OF i'm
pressions that l want very urgently to tell 1
have seen life at very different levels, and at all
these levels have seen it with a sort of in
timacy and in good faith. ] have been a native
in many social countries. have been the I'M
welcome guest of a working baker. my cousin
who has since died in the Chatham infrmary; /
have eaten illegal snacks-the unjustifiahe gift
of footmen-in pantries, and been despised fol-
my want of style land subsequently married and
divorced) by the daughter of gas works clerk;
and-to go to my other EXTREME was once
Oh glittering .days,-sn item in the house party
Of a countess" "Tono- Bungay" is to he pub
lished first as a serial in the new English Re
view"
Professor Saintsbury. il is reported, has
planned a big book upon English fiction, and
will probably attack his subject soon as he
finishes the third volume of his History of
English Prosody."
DR.. 1. Gollancz secretary Of the British Acad-
envy. has just announced the details of the
programme of the Milton tercentenary celehra-
ton in London. The opening meeting will be
held at Burlington House the evening of
December s. when Or. a. W. Ward, Master of
Peterhouse will deliver a brief Grafton on Mil
tons Life and Work" and Sir Frederick Bridge
assisted by the chorstegs Of Westminster Alb
hey, will give address Millions 'Comus
and It's Incidental Music" A short poem
Milton by George Meredith will also be read
On the next day, that Of the tercentenary
memorial service will be held at the Church
Of St. Mary-le-B Bow, the Bishop of Ripon
preaching the sermon: and in the evening the
Lord Mayor will entertain a representative
company at banquet. On the afternoon of
December 10 there will be a meeting of the
British Academy. at which will be coHmuni-
Gated for publication the following papers on
various aspects of Millions life and work:
Milton and Dante. with Reference TO Macau-
lays Essay" by Mr.. W. 7 Courthope, c. b;
Milton in the Eighteenth Century, by Profess
Z. Dowden; Millions Fame on the Cont
nent." by Professor J. G. Robertson; Milton
as Schoolboy and schoolnaster," by MI A F
Leach; Samson Agonstes and the Hellenic
Drama" by the late Sir Richard Jebb.
On the evening of December Is there will
be q performance for invited guests Of the
Academy of Samson Agonistes'-and there
will. moreover. be public performances else
where On the 25th Professor c. H, Firth will
read before meeting of the Academy paper
on Milton as an Historian At the British
Museum there will be an exhibition of Milton
lana" and portfolio containing facsimiles of
the Milton autographs and documents in the
Museum will be published by order of the
Trustees. the occasion of the Milton Tercen-
tenary.' DR.. Gollancz says that Sir E. Maunde
Thonpsons suggestion as to the observance Of
the tercentenary by the educational and other
authorities of English speaking countries has
had a gratifying response
A valuable collection Of the letters Of Cen
eral Sherman to his wife and family is soon to
be published in "Scribner's" Some of the letters
written during the Civil War Of vivid inter
est
The magazine is TO contain also some extracts
Of historical value from an unpublished diary
of Secretary Salmon P. Chase.
The ever growing mass OF books on Napoleon
IS merely suggested By the group which one
firm alone-that of Plon- Nourrit-is just now
offering for sale There Albert Vandals
"I,Aveneu1ent de Bonaparte;" Arthur Levy's
Napoleon Intime;" P. Coquee's Napoleon ct
TAnsIeterre:" Paul Gautier's Madame de Stael
ct Napoleon" L. de Lanzac de Labories Paris
sous Napoleon L. Madens "Fouche' and La
Rome de Napoleon" ]. Morvans LIE Soldat
imperial" E Picard's "Bonaparte ct MoTeau;'
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