New-York tribune., 1909-02-07
LITERARY NOTES.


Mr. Marion Crawford's novel THE White
Sister, is to be brought out in a few weeks
Mr.. Crawford is one of the most industrious Of
men-his books appear with a regularity that Is
amazing to those authors who write with less
ease.
The first volume of a translated reprint Of
Sainte- -Beuve's "Causeries de Lundi' is coming
from the ROutledge Press. 1t is understood that
we may expect, in time, English version, in
a uniform set Of volumes of all of the great crit
les literary essays. 1t is a cOnsummation de-
vOutly to be wished. To know Sainte-Beuve
is to drink deep of of the purest springs OF
literature.
There is to be a biography of John CAL
win to be brought out in July during the cele-
bratioR of the four-hundTedth anniversary OK
his birth
The Three Brothers" is the title of MIR. Eden
Phillpotts new novel 1t is another story OF the
DartmOor
Such honor as a statue impaTts is to be be-
slowed upon the memory of Francis Bacon by
the gentlemen of Grays Inn What is pro-
nounced by the London Chronicle" to be "a
fearful and wonderful figure in plaster.
mounted by hat of the Mother Shipton type"
has already been placed in the south square Of
the inn for the consideration of members. This
remarkable hat reminds the commentator ot
the chapeau OF statue of Wellington which
has now disappeared from its London site. The
memorable thing about this hat was its ar
rangement of metal plumes purposely made to
futter in the breeze.
Nine. NOvikof's "reminiscences will provide
one of the most entertaining works of the
spring. 1t is to contain hundreds of letters
from the pens of Gladstone, Froude, KinglaEe
and other celebrities.
The lively literary paragraphcr Of the Man
chester "Guardian,' in discussing the growing
mass of Shakespearian literature, describes the
sad fate of the Frenchman who proposed to
write mcgnUm opus on Shakespeare:
Instead Of doing what under the etrcumsancGs m
Smokinc out an nriori conception Of the whole
subject-he resolved first to master all the Iterl-
study became congested with books. Books about
Shakespeare cumbered the cll'LiF+; b&ohS ,h"nC
Shakespeare were piled up upon the floor cEgIy
spare inch of space had its book and no if'ae
uIne, so that visitors 10 tne StuuGm. +I ColJ "g ]
interview a nose ana a palr OF spfct,tGiGi ~. ff.
castle he found his living subject, and that
were issued n England and three in Germany
Still, lie held stoutly to his task. and if man had
piisled wonders. But ..de on that knave Death.
He spoiIs all; and the man died not only be lore
mastered 4 tenth part of the preliminary studies
The fourth volume of the edition of the
Itinerary of John Leland-the chaplain OF
Henry VIII who went mad i'm the process Of
obcying the Kings command to search after
T2ngland's antfGuities-has lust appeared The
fifth and final volume viii be published in faw
months The Itinerary. was first published
Queen Anne That edition was in nine
volumes.
Another motor tour figures in Set in Silver"
the new novel by Mr.. and Mrs {. y. William
son The title from that description of
England as gem set in a silver sea- phrase
put into the mouth of John of Gaunt.
A new book by NIaarten Martens is an
nounced for early publication. 1t is entitled
brothers An and is a collection Of short
stories of Dutch peasant life. The Dutch
ic yy-i-
the religion Of the LowIand Scotch. He is a
cousin-but distinctly twice removed-of the
R0or He is as absolutely unlike his Flemish
brother as two sons Of one father-and different
muthers-can possibly be
Les Peintres IIIustres' is the title of series
Of art monographs which is coming from the
house Of Pierre Latitte ct Gle, Of Paris. VI.
Henri RoujOU. of the Academic dcs BeauX Arts,
Is the authority under whose direction these arc
produced. Each volume is 10 be devoted to a
celebrated artist and each will contain eight re
rrnl ll.ti ~ m and SRNnntN-SiX Of