New-York tribune., 1908-07-25

James's novels and tales which we owe to the
enterprise of Charles Scribner's Sons. is also to
be circulated in England. 1t will be brought
| out there by the Messrs Macmillan.
The scene of Mrs Gertrude Athertons latest
novel, which is TO be published in the autumn
| is the island OF Nevis in the British West In
dies. The book is TO be called 'The Gorgeous
Isle"
We quoted the other day Lord Curzons ad-
dress at the unveilins of the memorial TO Mrs
Craigie at University College, in London On
the same occasion her friend Monsignor Browne,
who is preparing a memoir of the novelist, read
extract from a letter which she wrote to him
the day before her death. She said:
have not the smallest wish to marry: even II
I a widow tomorrow there is nothing now
or so it might be different but I have pulled
ee tn Of onens ane shs and SOCIETY not
the least of them don't feel these any more.
The Bobbs-M Merrill Company announces
elaborate work on THE Animal Life of Malay
sia," by Mr.. J T. Daniel, of Johns Hopkins Uni
versity. 1t will give complete descriptive ac-
counts OF the zoology of the Philippines and
other islands IN that part Of the world
medallion portrait of the late Mrs. Oliphant
was unveiled the other day in St Giess Cathe-
draI at Edinburgh The principal address was
made by Mr.. J. N. Barrie.
Miss Constance Hill. the author Of two gos-
spy books on Jane Austen and Fanny Burney,
is completing another volume on similar lines.
Her heroine this time is Maria Edgeworth Il
is said that Miss Hill has found some mate
rial relating to her subject, throwing fresh
light Miss Edgeworth's visit to Paris in 1902.
The long awaited book on rConcealing Colora-
ton in the Animal Kingdom" by Mr.. Abbott H.
Thayer and Mr.. Gerald H Thayer is to be
published in the autumn The Macmillan Com
pany VIII bring 1t out, illustrated by numerous
Autographs.
Mr. Sedley Lynch Wares study Of HThe Eliza
bethan Parish in It's Ecclesiastical and Financial
Aspects" (Johns Hopkins University Studies) Is
preliminary TO an exhaustive work all phases
of E1izabethan parish government The inves-
tigation is doubly valuable because it's subject
is important and has been neglected The pict-
ure Mr. Ware gives of the surveillance and
regulation of the Elizabethan Englishman's
daily life by the ecclesiastical parish governors
demonstrates the necessity for studying this
influence if the various movements of the epoch
to understood The Church brewer
and tavern keeper, dancing master and theatri-
cal manager, pawnbroker. money lender. real
estate speculator, and, above all. tax collector
and guide OF every mans private affairs Yet
some people call the institutional work of mod
ern churches innovation! Mr. Ware brings
to light many curious facts whose sources he
records IN footnotes. This brief forerunner
promises well for the greater work to follow.
The writer's who always so busy making
popular books about Italy seldom seem inclined
to give 10 Genoa the attention deserved by that
beautiful city. We glad. therefore, that a
new volume to be devoted entirely to its history
life and art, is TO appear The author is
Mr.. Robert ". Garden.
English as well as French court life in the
past continues to supply the makers of anecdotic
books with abundant material Mr. Allan Fea
is publishing q. book. written along picturesque
lines, on James II and His Wives"
A portentous volume Walt Whitman has
Just been published in Paris by M. Leon BazaI-
gette- He regards the American as one OF four
men Of universal genius given to the world by
this country. The others are Poe. Emerson and
Thoreau- NJ. Bazalgette is preparing transla-
ton Of Leaves of Grass" and he is contem-
plating another volume Of commentary on Whit
man.
Readers of Blackmore's masterpiece who turn
their footsteps TO the Doone country are doubt
less often inclined to question the rustics there.
in the hope that they may come upon racy talk
Of old times. They may save their breath Mr..
H Snowden Ward. writing on the subject in
the London 'Booknan," has this TO say:
To-day, in answer 10 inquiries from "Lunnon-
Dooue stories have found that they still exist,
remembered from time before the publication of
Lorna" and that there are even very inter
esting old details WHICH were not used by Black
more. But II is nearly forty years since Lorna
who know anything OF the story know 1t as being
wriftea oy gen lsab an up R TO fs.adI LnnGn 3a % yen
be questioned without much result, because they
do not fully understand the language Of the cues,
have dropped out OF the OLD traaitlons. wnlch ac
presses an old native about Doones the he Is
driven into his hazy recoections OF What some one
Blackmores romance II one refers 10 ROBBERS
in tn old days over TO Badsery. the result may may
the legends are only TO found amongst the very
old inhabitants, and not amongst the coach drivers
and others with whom the tourist most freely
comes into contact, but they do still lnger
Mr. Joseph Conrad has two volumes in
press. One will contain THE Duel, the inter-
esting story of a long drawn out private quarrel
between two officers of Napoeon's army. which /
left very favorable impression in the pages
OF The Pail Mall Magazine" not long ago. The
other volume is made up of short stories 1t viii
be called a Set OF Six"
THE Beliefs of UnbeIief' CEaton & Mains). by |
". H F1tchett B. A. LII D. is an attempt TO /
assess the inevitable afirmations involved In /
contemporary doubt The alternatives TO faith |
are never blank negatons, and the author |
thinks a scrutiny OF the underlying posftives or
unbelief should lead to better appreciation OF |
the Christian religion. Such an idea. we'll