New-York tribune., 1909-06-20

10 readers interested in the subject is Mr..
Francis Lenygons Decoration and Furniture
of English Mansions During the Seventeenth
and Eighteenth Centuries"
The new Gaelic Dictionary" of Mr. Even
Macdonald is approaching completion. 1t has
been compiled by himself and is being printed
by himself in a rude printing room in a small
| cottage near Herne Bay. Mr.. Tighe Hopkins
says of the work and its compiler:
Thirteen years he has been at it. His task is as
| solitary, or wellngh 50, as anything Of the kind
detached from the world than this devoted Tecluse
~ng & %nn ] or rev br EsS 9L bo E@ G1grSf Ours n SI[nns
day at his manuscript. his drawing board, or his
many countries he has pushed his purpose on. pur-
which Gaelic Students have approved at steady
net profit to himself Of about pence per hours
sbinr for daT9s rr1T Or, q q eijS djciiorary
lie has recently parted with his little library Of
Gaelic books to buy fresh stock Of paper En-
pletcd in manuscript it time 10 think OF print
aoN way the compiler's sole choice was to become
lie preserves as curiosity the little press made
win ms own hands con,rivance which should
/ bury Casting about he picked up one or two
useful secondhand chimes. and Is now the owner
him start.
Mr. Macdonald has about five hundred sub
sCribers, the United states contributing a small
number Of them.-this notable Dictionary only
just pays its way
Trans HimaIaya: Discoveries and ADV mt
urcs in Thbet" is to be the title Of Dr Sven
Helin's nov book, 1t viii bo published next No
| v"mber. The two volumes Will be cUbcllishcd
with four hundred Illustrations.
a new edition OF forty volumes in Gocth"'s
works Is To be brought out by Lemckc and
Euechner. Tw" hundred numbered copies Will
printed on special hand made paper OF
tT'" supplementary volumes Wtlch ar" prom
iscd Volume 1 will present Goethe in contem-
porary illustration with all available portraits.
silh"uettes. etc and including the plates Of
= Chodowiecki ana other Illustrators Volume II
/ will deal with Gorthr's family friends and
, various dwellings. and Volume III Will contain
documents and fac-simiIes of manuscript The
( edition Will also provide selections from the
authors letters and diaries
In the matter of autobiographies the Southern
States are not lavish. one book of memoirs We
are, however to see prcscntly-that Of General
Basil Duke
In his latest Book Auction Records Mr..
Karslake. the publisher. describes an occ lion
talked steadily for two hours about English
literature. 4 can we'll remember" says kars-
lake his wonderful flow of dictiou without a
moment. cessation from first To- last What
stru * most forobly respecting his personal
ty the extraordinary eXcitabiIity Of his
temperament and his marvellous physical
energy During the two hours that he talked hd
never ceased to drum his fingers on the table
or to uervously handle and open the books which
he was selecting and there absolutely nj
rcpose from the moment he sat down till he roSd
to go" An anecdotc related by the poet IS re-
called by the bookseller:
. certain distinguished lady had asked him 10
20 to her house evening and read his poems
to her lie did So and. having made himself quite
/ comfortable a couch ne read. and read. and
read Presently hi hostess became hdgcty. but
still he read and read. And he remained on that
couch till dawn. reading poem after poem, and
the lady kept up all night she never again
asked me to read my poems % her, he concluded
Herr Sudermaun's new novel. "Das Hohe
Lied" is to be published here i'm English by Mr.
= W. Hucbsch under the title of The Song of
Songs
Canon FIeming's account of how Tcnnyson
. came to write crossing the Bar appears in
the lust published biography Of chat churchman.
The poet when i'll on one occasion had a nurse
who was devoted to him. When ne WAS getting
better. she said to him. oh | wish, sir You
. would write Il hymn. 1 don't like hymns. Wai
, the somewhat abrupt reply. With "a womaH4
r tact and WiStfulneSS she merely said on l
, wish YOU would and there the matter rested
. The pcrsuaSivencss she threw into those simple
words was not lost Teuuyson- He began TO
get better. and day on the journey RON
, AIdworth to Farriugford his Crossing the Bar
came to him like Il flash
! Mr. Anthony Hope Hawkinss Prisoner OF
. Zenda' is still Il remarkably popular book IN
, this country, although II was first brought out
fully fifteen years ago. The firm ot Holt IS
now reurinting for the fiftyninth time the edl-