New-York tribune., 1909-03-21
LITERARY NOTES.

Miss Marjorie Bowens forthcoming novel
| BLACK Magic" is mentioned as medieval and
picaresque-' 1t begins in Flanders and ends in
Rome, and it is full of blood and thunder.
Mr.. Kipng has written a story entitled
! Little Foxes which. under the guise of a hunt
! ing tale, makes political applications. 1t is un-
derstood that the story subtly deals with Eng
! lands government of her colonies 1t will be
published in the next number of Golfers
OF the material in the forthcoming volumes OF
the Carlyle love letters comparatively little was
used by Mr. Froude. He printed in full only
one of the 176 letters. Two or three he printed
nearly in full; and he included in the first vol
ume of his biography brief extracts from about
/ thirty other letters. Against his forty pages or
letters may be set the f30 pages IN the prom,
/ ised CoIeCtion-whch is to appear at the end
/ of this month About twenty poems written by
! the pair viii be Included. and among the mus
tratiOnS will be portraits in color. The work IS
already being translated into French, German
and Italian
The Girlhood of Queen Elizabeth: A Nara
! tive in Contemporary Letters is the title of
collection which has been prepared for publica-
/ ton by Mr.. F. A. Mumby- Some of the letters
which are put together on a slight chain of com
ment, will. it is said, be published for the first
| time in this volume. The girlhood therein de
! scribed was not a happy one. The child Of
| Anne Boleyn badly brought up-suCh guild
| ance and teaching as she had were poor enough.
| How in much perplexity and peril she grew to
| be shrewd, calculating, Ingenious and efficient
! these letters viii in a measure show.
A final volume of the Library Edition OF
Ruskin viii contain complete photography a
catalogue Of Ruskin's drawings and MSS Ad-
denda and Corrigenda. and an elaborate index.
This index will contain at least 100000 refer
ences.
The eminent English diplomat Sir Edward
Malet, left the MS of an unfinished narrative
of events which took place at Constantinople and
Egypt during his life in those regions. His
widow, Lady Ermyntrude Maiet. is preparing
to print this narrative for private circulation.
"Asika" is the name of an African priestess
who in Mr.. Rider Haggard's new novel The
yellow God" recalls his former heroine Ayesha-
A search for hidden gold is the motive of the
story.
Sir Conan Doyle has recovered his health and
| is about to publish a new book which he calls
! Through the Mists." Meanwhile he has been
! printing in some earnest blank verse shake
/ speare's Expostuation.' addressed TO those who
would fain believe in the theory Of Bacons
authorship of the pays You prate about my
learning he makes the poet say,
| You prate about my learning. I would urge
Ny want Of learning rather as proof
| A seaboard to Bohemia. and made
The cannons roar whole vide Sin century y then
St fGrf he the the FIRST nnA
MoTd d thus haTs 6Tove that am true
And by that faseness gender truth in you
A script, wherein the writer tells my Lord
He is a secret poet, Iat True enough! ne Gn!D,st
| Have you not read his poems? Know you not
Might better far dispense unjustest law
9R m be IN FTsFsS5 Tsse q Sqe4 I[TGS hs 6oetrv
/ Was secret. Now that he is gone
M ad 5 Judge Re 2nE IF & be 5'F Re y df Gs@ be Ra
Read and pronounce, The need Of praise is thino;
But still let his he his and mine be mine
! In an article on The Defamers Of Shake
spearc" in the current 'Nineteenth Century.
: " education a.