The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-18
FORTHCOMING BOOKS.

Pessimists about present-day literature
will find food for thought in the list of
books in poetry and belIes-lettres an
nounced for publication this spring by the
Macmillan Company. The list is specially
remarkable as containing the names of
four writer's who stand at the head in
English poetry today, in addition to one
great name from the past. The promise
of hitherto unknown poems by Tennyson,
as well as OF a series OF his own notes on
his works, is perhaps of the greatest sig
nificance. Then there is a new volume of
poems by Alfred Noyes, generally held
to be the most promising of the younger
generation in England, and new dramas by
Stephen Phillips and William Butler Yeats.
Mr.. Phillips has written a Faust" which
is to be produced in London by Beerbohm
Tree, before the close of the present sea-
son. Mr.. Yeats's new drama, THE Uni
corn from the Stars which he wrote in
collaboration with Lady Gregory, has al
ready been played in Dublin, and will be
published in a volume along with 'Kath-
leen Nj Houlahan.' and a revised edition
of THE Hour Glass" The American
drama is represented in this list by Percy
MacKaye. with THE Scarecrow," the first
prose drama from his hand TO be pub
1lshed.
An important biography of the New
Year will be that of Thomas A. Edison,
to be published February l by Thomas Y.
Crowell & Co. The author Is Francis Ar
thur Jones. Edison's life story reads like
a romance. from the time be published a
newspaper on board a train at Ii, and later
was an out-at-the-elbows tramp" tel
egraph operator, till his electrical inven-
az AZ an
stock company. No recent life Of Edison
Is in print. a fact which makes this book
doubly valuable
Anne Warner has written a new story
around Uncle John and his niece, said to
be funnier than her first Uncle John
book, and the Century Company will pub
fish 1t in February under the title of See
ing England with Uncle John"
Duffield & Company will publish next
month a posthumous work of the late
Richard Hovey, entitled ITO the End of
the Trail" This collection of poems will
form a companion volume to Along the
Trail" of which Duff1eld & Company re-
Gently issued a new edition,
Granville Barker, who is a playwright,
as well as n manager, has been persuaded
by the directors of the New Theatre in
New York to come to America and con-
duct the affairs of their projected play
house. In launching that enterprise he
will adhere closely to the plans set forth
in a book that he has produced in collabo-
ration with William Archer. This is en-
titled "A Scheme and Estimate for a Ma
tional Theatre" end is announced by
Duf1eld 81 Company for publication on
February s.
The Century Company will publish in
February Elizabeth Robins's story Of the
Far North, Come and Find Me-" now
running s~erially in Thu Century.
"Thc Letters of the Wordsworth Fam
lily" from 1857 to 1856, collected and edited
by William Knight, form In interesting
group of three volumes, published by
CHM & Company. Glimpses OF the home
life Of the famous bard and of the coteri,
of author friends which he gathered about
him are given In these quantity written
and somewhat formal letters, most OF
them from the pen of William Words
worth himself and of his charming sister
Dorothy.