The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1909-05-12
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.

have similar opportunities at nome
Mrs. Anterior has been oritioising America
recently for its indifference to music as
compared with interest taken in Germany
In that form OF art. in som things the
wonder Of the world for energy and pro-
gressiveness,' Mrs. Atherton says, in
others we are stationary. paralyzed.
And what We need is not greater for
tunes, woman's suffrage and compost
tons read at clubs but to open the veins
Of the New World and admit the color,
the richness. the traditions aud the ro-
nance of the Old"
Andrew Lang will preside at the Royal
Literary Fund dinner to be given this
week in London. j. M. Barrie and Rud-
yard Kipling have acted as literary chair
men in former years. Among the speakers
at the dinner will be Lord Tennyson,
Sir Edward Clarke. X. G.. and Maurice
Hewlett.
THE English Woman: Studies in Her
Psychic Evolution 10 be published
soon in England, is a translation made
by Mrs. j.. NJ. Z. Brownlow Of a French
work on this subject. II is an interesting
evidence Of the increasing study in France
Of English life.
Dutch Bulbs and Gardens a new
volume soon I be added TO the Macmillan
Color Series is the work of four women
ON as artist, two rs authors and the
fourth in facilitating the labors OF the
three others. The Misses Una Silberrad
and Sophie Lyall are the authors. Miss
Nina Nixon is the artist and the fourth
IL no a less a parsonage than Queen
Wilhelmina, who granted unusual privi-
leses to the oollaborators in her summer
palace. Het Loo.
Mrs. Panton. whose new book. Fresh
Leaves and Green Pastures is to be
brought out soon, is a daughter Of W. p.
Firth, r. A. She lives in Dorsetshire,
England, Thomas Hardy's country. Her
book describes English country and
literary life In the Victorian period and
contains numerous anecdotes n stories
told by Thomas Hardy, Miss Mul ,ck and
other notable people.
Together We may fail to be happy;
separate We canno fail to be miserable
this statement, which appears in N OF
Carlyle's letters In The Love Letters OF
Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh sounds
tho keynote OF a subject which has been
discussed for many years-whether the
Cariyles were happy in their domestic
life. A number OF original poems and
TRANSACTIONS both by Carlyle and Miss
Welsh attest the thoughts and feelings
OF the writer's at the time Of their court
ship. Two OF the poems by Carlyle
have never before appeared in print.
George Hazleton, the actor dramatist
and author OF the love story Of Edgar
Allan Poe published under the title OF
The Raven attracted the attention Of
the late Robert q. Ingersoll by deolaiming
one Of Ingersoll's own famous speeches.
Ingersoll assisted in placing him in Law
renoe Barrett's theatrical company. II
was while with Booth and Barrett that
Mr.. Hazleton wrote his play Mistress
Nell Later Mr.. Hazleton was for tw D
years in Nine. Modjeska's company. His
latest book. -The Raven like the early
me, was first cast in the form of a drama.
SlT OIVST IfOuRt, u " ~, tfiu EiiBitch
savant and author OF The Substance
OF Faith and other works. will furnish
the fourth volume OF the new Library
OF Living Thought Series The three
initial volumes have been the work of
Swinburne, Tolstoy and Flinders Petrie.
Sir Oliver'swork, which will be published
soon, will be called The Ether of Space.
A~ristotle's .The end Of labor is to gain
leisur n" il quoted as the text Of A. Bar
ton Hepburn's essay on The American
Business Man. which will appear in the
June Century. The writer urges that the
American business man Is paying too big
a price In time and strength for wealth
and commercial prominence. His pres
entation OF existing conditions and hi.
vi suggestions regarding tho ethical obi
cations resting upon rich men will have
| distinctive interest and value on accoun,
OF the important place occupied by the
writer In the business world, Mr.. Hep.
burn has been Comptroller OF the Cur.
rency and United States bank examiner
He was q delegate OF the Chamber Of Com.
meroe, New York. TO tho London Chamber
OF Commerce. He ID q member Of
Delta Kappa Epsilon. has the degree OF
| LII. d. and has written books or finance.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson In his
article on immortality in the current
Harper's Boxar quotes from an unpub-
lished letter written by Elizabeth Peabody
to a friend who had lost a child. just
now you srsrI dare say, in the mood OF
Emerson's vail In the Threnody. Do you
know that It was quite at first he poured
out that Yong Of woe. and it was not till
q efterward he wrote the rest
from the words The Deep Heart Replied?'
This fact gives both parts more meaning
and l think you will find solaoe in
reading now the first part and thinking
OF tho rich consolation In store for you,
Bot excuse me for making suggestions
the letter concludes; when God has
spoken TO you 20 intimately"
Elinor Mccartney Lane. when asked
the question. what is your ideal womans'
answered.: Nothing OF the new woman.
A loving, passionate, great souled. gen.
erous creature who loves children and
animals, men. women and plants" She
expressed the same idea in another way
In one Of her books when she says: Give
q woman plenty Of her husbands kisses
and his babies at her breast
The volume Of dramatic verse by WILL