New-York tribune., 1909-10-02

| Two books the Bourbons announced for
! publication this autumn One is an English
! translation of NJ. Gilbert Stenger's work, THE
/ Return of Louis XVIII" NJ. Stenger thinks, by
! the way, that the Kings sense of humOr de-
! ayed the final catastrophe of the overthrow of
| the family The second book (by Major John
| HalD is entitled THE Bourbon Restoration"
Queries being made to the delay in the
publication of the third volume of the new edi-
! tion of Gray's Letters" The first came out in
! 1900, and the second in 1904. A profuson of
notes and appendices is probably responsible for
| the regrettabe length of the interval.
! A edition of another work which is de-
sirahle in the library is announced by MIR. Lane.
This is Mr.. A. F. Steuarts edition of The Last
Journals of Horace Walpole."
One of the promising books OF the autumn is
! George PASSIONS Mr.. Pope: His Life and Times"
The two volumes will soon be issued by the
Putnams.
The body of John Davidson, the writer of
verse. was found floating in the sea, fort
night ago. at MousehoIe. about four miles from
Penzance-the town where he had been living
with his wife and younger son for two years be-
fore his disappearance, The final disposition Of
the body was not peaceful one. The London
star says in a dispatch from Penzance:
at Mousehole last night when it became N known
that John Davidson to be buried at sea, not
from land The inhabants of the evil Village declared Jared
the the body should not be taken from their haTbor.
He save non-committal reply. saying that while
approve of burial other than interment or crema-
| ton According to the first arrangements, no cIer
gyman was to take part In the ceremony. Event
ualiy hearse was procured and the body was
board a ships lifeboat and towed ten miles out TO
sea. The poets two sons We're accompanied by
two personal friends of the deceased.
The two volumes just published of The
Shakespeare Allusion Book" edited by DR. Fur
nivau and Miss Lucy Toulmin Smith belong to
THE Shakespeare Library" of which Professor
| GoIancz is editor in chief These volumes con-
tain reprints of all known references to Shake
speare and his works before the close of the sew
enteenth century The first part of the Library"
consists of separate volumes of the plays in the
old spelling. In the second part are reprints of
the romances and novels and older plays in
which Shakespeare found material The
| third part provides Shakespeare for children,
and in the fourth part, called "Shakespeares
England" are to be a number of books illus
trating in various ways the life of the poet and
his times. All this is published here by Duff
field 6 CO.
Mr.. J. p Morgan has just presented to the
Guidhan Library in London the first two vol
umes of MIR. Edward :. Curtiss work on .he
North american Indian, one OF the 500 sets of
that work-for which, by the way, Mr. Roose-
welt has written a "Foreword"
The novel by Agnes and Egerton Castle
Diamond Cut Paste" is exceedingly modern
and very amusing 1t turns on the efforts of a
pretty. willy, underbred little widow to entangle
in sentimental tolls a distinguished but rather
stupid Englishman The title foretelIs the fail
ure of her plans The book is to be published
by Dodd. Mead & Co. who are also bringing out
Mr.. Vachers clever novel. THE PaIadin": Mr.
J. X. Jerome's humorous story They and l."
and the romance of stranded pair on lonely
Pacific island. which the author Mr. c. T.
Brady, calls The Island of Regeneration"
one Of the most extraordinary places for
library site is a moor four miles distant from,
any town. remarkable library on such site
Mr.. Andrew Lang has recently discovered IN
Scotland. The books date, he says in original
editions. from the middle of the sixteentb 70
the middle of the seventeenth century. from,
contemporary replies to Calvin to the first e6i-
tions of Donne, Drummond Of Hawthornden.
Habington's Castara,' and so forth MANY Of
'il' N'l'tlVS are dS LIeSIl, IIe paper Is white
the ink is as black, If they came Yesterday
from the printer, Not clean. but even moro
interesting. is the French pocket Bible of the
heroic Marques of Montrose. with his name and
notes in his autograph" Mr. Lang adds that
this Innerpoffray Library was founded. as far
as he could learn, by Montrose's friend Lord
Maderty. a Drummond.
a series of French memoirs. beginning with
the valet Clerys account of the imprisonment of
his master, Louis XVI, and the rovaI family in
the temple. is announced by the Sturgis a Wal
ton Company. Cltry's story will be followed b,.
the "Recollections' OF Leonard, Marie Antoi
nette's hairdresser 1t was this parsonage who
invented many of the absurd pied-up towers 90
hair which see in the Queens portraits
Nine. Vigee Lebrun has told us how whom sb,
was painting the royal lady, she besought her to
use no powder and to part her hair on the fore
head. Il should he the last to follow thai
fashion" said the eQueen, laughing Il do not
want people to say that adopted 1t to hide nv
large forehead"
\ biography of Cleopatra has been produced
by Mr. Philip W. Sergeant who has apparently, |
brought together what he considers sufficient !
material for such volume
Mr. Roger Ingpens edition Of BosweIrs
johnson" appears in commemoration OF the |
great mans bicentenary. The two volumes |
have no fewer than six hundred illustrations.