New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-15


Inent Mr.. Siadens book the Vatican
The present Earl Nelson has lately printed a
little volume on The Nelson Whom Rritons
Love throwing together scraps of the admirars
conversation extracts from his letters and So
ON, with number of Illustrations Among the
descriptive passages is this vignette from a
DANISH pen of Nelson's appearance in 1905:
Chairs having been provided, the Admiral sa,
down between Lady Hamilton and myself. and
having laid my account of the battle of Copen-
n,ETm , on ms knee, an interesting conversation
and showed a print OF our crown Primo and
OF the battle OF Copenhagen. Lord Nelson was OF
delicate constitution. The lines Of his face yeps
hard' but the penetration of his eye threw a
KIND OF light upon his countenauce which tenn
pered its severity. His aspect commanded The
utmost veneration. especially when he Iooksd no
wards. " ~ ~
The makers OF court memoirs would seen, 20
nave pretty nearly exhausted their field in
France, but one hero has remained to them the
valiant and beloved Marshal de SAKE He is
portrayed In book by Mr.. w r IL Trowbridge
which will soon be published Another volume
OF biographical gossip 10 be expected in the
autumn is Mr. A H. Atteridge's study of Ma
poleons Brothers"
The Fun Of the Fair" the book which Mr..
Eden PhillpOtts has Just brought ont is a COL
lection Of short stories. all of them concerned
with the DartmOor country. lie has abandoned
that region in his latest novel The Haven
rms Is a story about family in a Devon fish,
Ing village
n devoted ha
written a book on The Pyrenees." II forms a
kind OF guide TO the range dividing France from
SPAN. but though practical in it's purpos, is
written with the authors customary erISto.
Here In few lines, Is his invitation 10 the
tourist VINO would explore these comparatively
little known mountains.
Fantastic outlines are not to be discovered i,
these huis so frequently as in the Dolontes nor
are wholly isolated hills common though such
day man wandering in the Pyrenees See ciifs
mo regularly high. greater ession of rocks
son ot connected SUBMITS above him than in any
IS further sharp Characteristic in shs rance e' si'"
me i.ntts almost al the surface OF the noun
a. your disposal II is This ana a local custom q
'NbausTjbI avn MN max jhs pleasure Of them
Protective methods Of their own, make it c.rtain
changed by men, They are too large.
Readers Interested in the romance of Irish
history VIII turn 10 the novel which Mr. stephen
Gwynn has lately written. Robert Emmett is its
hero and gives the book its title
In the preparation OF the one-volumo "Dictior.
airy of the Bible" CHARLES Scribner's Sonsl Dr.
James Hastings has had the assistance besides
thdt of his British associates of Professor
Smaller Matthews. OF the University OF Chicago.
The index Of the five volume Hastings Bible
Dictionary has been taken the basis for this
new and independent work. The articles though
written 10 different scale. are fully as numer-
Gus as in the larger dictionary and they ara
contributed by authors other than those whd
production. Within less than thousand double
Coitmn pages the editors have brought togethet
the best results of scholarship in form fred
from gratuitous tcchnicality to make the vol.
ume invaluable for practical purposes of Bibt
study.
Mr. Joel Srngarns admirable collection 90
Critical Essays OF the Seventeenth Century
is be completed The third and con-
I Guiding volume is announced by Mr.. Henry
Provide II will contain essays by Robert Vols
lev. George Granville. Sir William Temple. john
Dennis and William COnSrcVr. The first and
second volumes carried the record from 1903 u
1855. The latest essay in the new volume dated
/ from 1901.
II is said that Mr. III Buxton FOrman is writ
| ing a life of Edward John TreaWny, that al
Vcnturous soul who interesting IN himself
, and who. as the friend of Shelley, has a Pc
Culiar Immortality Mr.. Furman has never con-
veyed the impression of a literary artist but
he is an industrious enthusiast. and, If We MAJ
. Judge from his dealings with Shelley and Keats.
his book about TTcawny ouSht AZ all events TO
be an authoritative storehousc Of facts.
Ii is a long time since have heard from
the author of How To he Happy Though Mar"
rrd." That obserVant army chaplain, the Rev
T.. i. Hardy. has recently been on service in
the Far East and there il appears that he was
struck by the greater Importance attached 10