New-York tribune., 1908-06-27
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
Current Talk of Things Present
and to Come.

The Thomas Bailey AIdrich Memorial at
Portsmouth. n. H., viii be dedicated with eiao-
o-oto ceremonies next Tuesday morning. There
will be exercises in the Music Hall, followed oy
a breakfast and visits to the "Nutter House
and the aldrich Museum. Distinguished guests
-ro,,, MANY parts of the country are expected
Tbere Is TO be a second edition of Mr. Arthur
Dasent's Life Of Delane,' and 1t promises W
contain much matter the editor "'''
learned that quantities of his uncle ietteiS oi'
matters Of public and social interest afe ho"
In nriyate hands and be is endeaVoring 10 COL
lect them with view to their inclusion IN the
forthcoming new edition
One Of the art books of the autumn season
u;n hs o, elaborate work on Scottish Paint
,ns PAST and Present 162O-1906-" 1t WILL OF
course be profuseIy illustrated The authof'
Mr. James L. Caw is director OF the Natlonai
Gallery of Scotland.
The autobiographical papers which Miss Eiieii
Terry is contributing to "MeClures MssaA
will be put together in book form anu p
in the early autumn They will bear the 'i'i'
of THE Story of My Life
n, Jerome K. Jerome has published BOOK
arsv q collection of humorous essays oi '--
so,lies and tendencies of the time IN oho va
,,esa ESSAYS he discourses on philosophS anu
-, &C tho tr,est philosopher he ever heAro VI
n who WAS brought into the Lohuoh
= lrito, with n poisoned leg He thus teiis mex
story: ~
,r,o ,o,se surgeon made hurried examination.
He was man of blunt speschit &c told her
..It will have TO come oh' iie w.
ual
nm nal, ,ybnIe mIe Of it, / am sorry to say gro"eu
the house surgeon. 40,
no other chance for you whateFei'
the houSs Weii Sun Shank Gawd it's not my cad oO
served the lady.
Mics Edith sioheIs new book on catherine oV
1t; which we announced some time as
TT coming from the press Ii VIII pe
No. I'm one entertaining volume she mas o
aascribed the earlier years Vi 'i'0 -
woman The forthcoming volume tens VI -
ou,,o,,ence as practically the dictator Vi
80 ana sketches the lives or her ia iN
children.
o.o,n+ indeed. are the notions Of some h'ei "''
r.a+o,s Mr. c. *. Shorter has O
.aa7tne the report of a legal action iii'
,, Crockett and he says: II was 0l
to- ~ note the limitations of certain iiioi
1ess literary witnesses one hao ieF1-
NJ, Stanley Weymans Minister Vi -
ssries of short stories that were i-'@ f-l.
;, .1hs English illustrated Masa%ihe -,
nod never read a Window IN IhruliiS.
ali due respect for Mr.. Weyrnah anu NJ ::
- rnus, protest that the idea OF resaFuiAs -
,orance of some of their pages as cons
.,limiration' is one of the 1nilfiles'
have heard Of in long time
ro,arkably cheap series OF reprints IL Gull
,re, from the house OF Routledge II Is 10 Oe
called The Penny Library and II Is 10 III
clude works of serious literature as "ei @
novels. Good type is promised pu' as --
volume is to contain only siXty-Iour paSe7 "0
wonder If the typography Will not De Trying ~
rnany readers or course IT Is p"ssioie '""'
1oluminous books will be printed IN successive
numbers Each reprint is to have decorative
picture wrapper
In "wanted-A Theology P'unk & Wagnais
ronnanv, the Rev Samuel T. Carter asks for
the nron1pt dismissal of the Westminster con-
fession and the Shorter Catechism from the
formularies Of the Presbyterian Church- SSIh-
bols so outworn should be replaced by 'ne-
ology having as its centre the INFINITE loVe oi
God" 4 faith stated on this basis Wouiu' III
DR. Carter's belief, bring with it clearer uh-
derstanding Of the human greatness OF Jesus OF
the essential divinity Of man and OF the pur-
poses of punishment being exclusively reihe-
dial It would proclaim a universal church with
width so generous as to include all human as
piration.
When enlargins on this theology MI.
Carters expression is always genial All his
wrath and every robust expletive he reserves
for the doctrines of total depravity and endless
torment and their defenders, ancient and mod
ern. in particular, certain theological semi
naries" which seem hardly to have heard that
there Is any new theology" Against Jonathan
Edwards the author cherishes a deep resent
nent ouite unsoftened fear, by the refec-
tion that Mr. Edwards died several years ago
AS sort of Irritation with presbyterial prosecu-
tion DR. Carter's little book is likely to be un-
o,-ailins since his colleagues will agree with
hin, that the mild dogma he publishes is, after
oil not new but far brought from the venerable
sources.
The reviewer of THE London Chronicle" is
concerned lest novel readers should cease 10
demand romantic affection as an element IN
their fiction He quotes the saying that edl'ors
80 calling for stories without love interest"
and he adds: We'll early Victorian novehsls
we're not expected to write about anything else
bpt now we have motor cars and ever SO many
th,,gs ~ mt into novels. Life, we are told
bas become not only less leisurely but more
scientific and more serious. and a mere old
fashioned love interest is 'hoff Isn't 1t
little tragic, thought"
Queen Anne and Her Court is the title OF
q work in two volumes which Is to be published
soon Mr.. P F. W. Ryan being the author The
life of Anne was full of sorrows only her youth
ar her uncIes court having in it something OF
light heartedness.
There will soon be sold in London the corre-
snondence of Mrs Lynn Linton, one of the cleV-
80, -, +ba feminine authors of the last century.