New-York tribune., 1909-07-31

Happen Again." is voluminous narrative anu
will occupy two volumes in the English edlIion'
Nevertheless, It will be sold In LONDON Oy
Heinemann for four shillings. We wonder IL
the American edition will take the same form
and be issued at the same price
The monumental edition of the writings of
Ruskin which Mr. Cook and Mr.. Wedderburn
have beer. putting through the press has been
brought 10 completion with two volumes OF his
letters In one of these there is curious Illus
tration of the principle that he held as teacher
of ideas Writing to Mr. Furnivall he says:
must speak if I see people thinking what L
know is wrong and il there is any GhaRce eap Ge @ g6y
reputation II had It. but until people are reaoy
to receive all l say about art as "unquestonape.
cbemistrV rs don't consider myself to have any
reputation at all worth caring about
B. w. Huebsch announces for publication next
month a volume of THE Confessions of a Con
Man." as told to VIII Irwin. It will be Illus
trated by W. Glackens:
The beautiful edition of Mr. Henry James
published by the Scrlbners is now being issued
in England also and The London Times has
lately reviewed It, The cordial reviewer finds
this edition "a monument of art so fine in quail
ity and at the same time remote from any
thlnS WnlCn mas pttttueN II tildb it HfiS iOi N'o
critic a double portion of suggestion and chal-
Ienge" The idea Is expressed that a criticism
OF Mr.. Jamess work whole demands dis
entangling Of the principles Of the art OF fiction
and that Mr.. James himself Is perhaps the best
man for the task. As a specimen of English
appreciation of the novelist may cite this
passage:
He is in fact, at once the most dramatic OF
writer's, taking the word at It's strict value, ana
the most economical however little the two cpl
thets at first sight to suit the me cloud
Of determinations in which he moves and the
ample limits which he allows it. None the less
his tons in fact, rigidly directed At every
point by the law Of economy which foroldS the
smallest waste OF words anything unrelated 10
the centre. Nothing IS any preteXt TO be aq-
mitted which does address itself TO the business
In hand, and the business I'm hand must demand no
IN the way OF development aud adornment
than II exactly requires make its point. Mr.
James himself cOnfesseS, with the suspicion OF Il
chuCkle that his tendency is not in the direction
of underreating his idea; yet exhaustive In their
they utter anless word, they never waste
a meaningless glance All cheap effects are for
hidden them; they must nos turn aside ior mo
ment to raise a laugh excite sympathy. they are
expected to work inteigently and Unremittingy
for their places I'm the story. Mr.. James viii
meanwhile in WORK for them. and VIII see
10 il that fun justice Is done 10 their beauty or
their Quaintness or their CharT- They certainly
have small reason 10 complain The cloud OF dis
examinations. with all 10 does for their t3teIN-
gences. does not blur their outward lines. their
cleverness IS not cold. their sG. ety not coorless.
II f. very seldom only at the rarest c~iss. that
they are permitted show IN simple form the
forces which astate them. they may not crudely
entirely with their remote and indirect manifesto
tions.