New-York tribune., 1909-06-13
LITERARY NOTES.

NJ Anatole France is again preparing to pub
lish new book This is described as being in
the vein Of his fairy story. "AbeilIe." It is en-
Autres CCntes Merveh!euN
Lieutenant shacldeton's story Of his adven-
lures in the region Of the South Pole will not be
long delayed He is rapidly preparing the book;
and the complete manuscript is to be delivered
to his publishers by July -.
We stated last week that. according to Mrs.
Sturgis. the daughter Of George Meredith, me
years and that there were not, 50 f1r as SI9
knew. any unpublished manuscripts left by him.
Since then Mr.. c. X Shorter has published N
The Sphere" this paragraph:
1t Is much to be hoped FOR that Mr.; Meredith
has left the manuscript % his unfinished r"Sg-'
uIUstrious author frequently spoke o. II TO MS
but Lord Morley. Mr. Stead and many another
journalist who nourished twenty years back VS.
is sure TO make delightful reading for it was wit.
ten in the days prior to "o"e OF cur Coiqu''''S
publisher Of whom very little is heard. but
whose long years of experience must hiF7
stored his mind with incidents and Impressions
worth putting into a book is Mr.. John CoILn5
Francis who publishes The Atheneun ani
Notes and Queries" His recolleCtions are soon
TO appear under the title Of Notes by the Way
Very prcttily made are the ten volumes in
Austen Issuing them in The St Martins Illus
trated Library Of Standard Authors" The typo
| is large and handsome and as a hght paper mas
! been used one Of these volumes IS dtcldtdiy
comfortable to hold. The green Clnth bihdllS
, is also attractive Mr.. r Brimley Johnson, Mho
urovidcs the Introductory notes, Is wisely bTief,
! combining himself chiefly 10 matters of fact
The artist who has made the coIored lHuStIl-
lions and end papers is hardly to be congrdtu-
/ lated His technique is quite undlstinEuiShcd'
and he has small appreciation OF MISS austen
| delicate humor. The books are SO well made
that the edition could have got along well
enough without the aid Of Illustrations
The French Procession: A Pageant of Great
Writers" is the title Of a book on French Literal
ture which is coming from the pen of Nine.
| Duclaux-who in earlier days the EngliSh
minor poet Miss \. Mary f. Robinson. The
authors with whom she deals range from tta-
cine to AnatoIe France. Nine Duciaux has
long lived in France
It is understood that Mr. Bliss Carman has
been requested to write the memorial poem
which is 10 be read Burlington Day during
the celebration of the Lake Champlain tercen-
tonary. American writers Of verse will prob
/ abIv wonder why a Canadian should have been
selected to perform this TASK.
N. Cflestin Demblon, a professor in Brussels.
is sure that the productions OF William Shake
spcarc were written by Roger Manners. fifth
Earl of Rutland. and he has prepared a book
which viii present his arguments at full length
! The discovery at EoVOir Castle of a document
( in which ShaIesnearc and Burbagc are
toned is said to have put him on the track He
is confident. We told, that Shakespeare was
merely the cloak behind which the accomplished
and much travelled young earl hid himself and
that the real share Of Shakespeare was to serve
as Il model for Fastah-
DR. Wilhelm Bode's work italian Bronco
Statucttcs Of the Renaissance nears compile
ton The third and concluding volume. deal
ing with John IF Bologna and his coEtempoFA-
rcs will be published in the autumn.
A book which promises to be more than COM
/ sfi iS a letters
+ / Trelawny. Nearly all its material is un-
published and it covers the whole of Trelawnys S
! life not chronicIed in his Adventures of a
Younger Son"