New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-05-30

the SERIES Fair Margaret" was soon followed
by "Prmadonna,r which reviewed not long
ago, and the last book THE Diva's Ruby, Is
now running through the Sunday Magazine of
The Tribune The Macmillans will afterward
publish this novel in book form.
An edition of THE New Encyclopedia of So
cial Reform has just been brought out by the
Funk & WagnaIs Company, with predatory
announcement that 1t is not revision of the Old
edition, but a completely new book save for
few purely historical economic articles, the
subjects Of which need new treatment-al-
though many even Of these are either revised or
completely rewritten. The work is OF high
value to the publicist and sociological writer,
| and it is good to have 1t In the defnitive form
given to it by Mr.. William D. P. Bliss, his as
sistant. DR.. Rudolph NJ. Binder. and the spe-
cialists who have co-operated with them
For some time The International Studio has
been paying more and more attention to Ameri-
| can art In the June number the section de-
voted to affairs in this country Is well filled and
Illustrated. and the leading article in the body
| Of the magazine is devoted to the work of Mr..
| Winslow Homer. That work is synpathetcally
| described by Miss Leila Mechin and her re-
| marks are accompanied by admirable
| productions,
recent
second vacancy In the French Academy. The
| two seats, 1t is understood, will not be filled
until the spring Of next year.
Among the Forthcoming books of biographical
| and historical interest is The Trials Of Five
| Queens" description by MI r. S. Deans Of
the court proceedings in the pitiful cases of
Mary Queen of Scots. Katherine of Arason
Anne Boleyn. Marie Antoinette and Queen Caro-
! line The author treats the trials from the legal
point Of view.
| Miss Marie Corelli has finished her new novel
and it is to be published In the late summer or
| early autumn. The world it appears, is ex-
pected to hang breathless the information
that the subject of the story is an enthrallins
one"
Precisely what service Mr.. Harlan Hoge Bal
lard has rendered to literature in translating
Books WIKI of VirgiTs Eneid II is not easy
to say However valuable this section Of the
epic may be to students of Latin folk lore and
literature q new translation does seem
| necessary just now Only remarkably charm
ing, poetica version could justify the task. But
| MI Billiards. "41neid of Virgil (Houghton. Milf
| fin & Coz does not display any unusual literary
gift. 1t is faithful without being painfully lit
eral there admirable passages here and
there, and no sign of straining after effect can
be said of the work
An elaborate publication dealing with 1.-THE
Domestic Architecture of England during the
Tudor Period is in preparation. 1t is coming
out in parts the first of which is in the press
! Lovers of the horse, nobIest and most abused
Of the slaves Of man, will no doubt be glad tc
hear of the publication In volumes of The
copiously illustrated and which contains the
history of 12s Derbies. is by Mr. E Moorhouse
An appendix. by the way. gives records of each
event.
Mrs Alfred Sidgwick's book on Home Life
in Germany" CThe Macmillan Company)-a
book which this English born daughter of Ger
man parents Is peculiarly qualified to write-is
es it was expected to be. clever and amusing A
large part of 1t Is devoted German women
the woman of the advanced sort and the staid
home keeping woman OF the old ia shioned type
There still masses Of these old fashioned
danes to be observed German women" says
Mrs. Sidgwick. have always been devoted tC
their homes and their families. and they a.
subservient 10 their men folk the Japanese
She continues:
They do not actually fan on their knees before
woman of the old school speaks Of die Herren is
| enough to make a French American, English
the modern revolt against men, For any woman
with q spice of feminine perversity in her nature
| will be driven the other camp when she meets
extremes; that in Germany she feels ready to
| rise against oyerbearing males; while in America
she misses some of the regard for masculine judy
! excess. least IL seems an excess of duty to
| US when we hear Of German bride who will no,
| hostess till she has asked her husbands permits
sion: and when we hear Of another writing from rom
ardentiy believed in total abstenton, she had
now changed her opinion because her husband
drank beer and desired her to approve OF II.
The author notes that the lord of the house
hold will, on occasion, assert his authority with
some violence and in a manner that would not
be tolerated elsewhere. She says:
For example, there was once quarrel between
The girl b did not drink Tar II and s hs
forgotten and does not matter 1t is the com,
ment Of the historian that remains in the memory
they are married and my friend gets her to him
self she will not behave So. ,, r,.. -,
champagne if she did not want it?. asked
because he commanded her to- said thi.
a rsslsfa told NE another story about man
who threw his lady loves dog Into a pond, not
dog eds sv bad w 9g5 to sep
dog out OF the water.
IBID she ever forgive the s man. said r,,
man wished to put the dog in the pond. mar
must know how to enforce his wilt or hi
Is man..
MI Lionel Gust, director OF the National Por'
trait Gallery In London. is preparing subscrp
,ion volume on what are called the Leaving
Portraits in the Provosts Lodge at Elton. Thu
London Outlook says In regard TO 1t: 'Th'
nra,.ice among DISTINGUISHED Etonians of pre-