New-York tribune., 1909-05-09

in London. Doubtless in this age of feminine
agitation ample subscriptions will be promptly
forthcoming
A month ago reviewed the book in
which M Joseph Turquan discoursed upon the
, personalities and adventures sentimental and
otherwise, of the sisters of Napoleon. Now we
are to have Il translation of the same authors
work on the love affairs OF the great him
self The book win be published by the John
Lane Company, with many illustrations.
DR.. Hiram Bingham, lecturer on Latin Ameri-
can history at Yale is bringing out through the
Yale Publishing Association The Journal of an
Expedition Across Venezuela and Colombia,
1906-1907." In 1t he describes his exploration
OF the route of BOliVar's march of 1919, and the
battlefelds of BOyaca and Carabobo. DR.. Bing-
ham remarks in his preface that Spanish-Arner-
lean historians have considered this march OF
BollVars as wonderful as the more famous
marches of Hannibal and Napoleon but that it
has been almost impossible to estimate the act
uaI obstacles overcome, as the region is not
easily visited and the published descriptions OF
1t are meagre- The author spent four months
In going over the ground
The "reminiscences of ex-Vice- President AdIaf
e Stevenson in press and under the
title OF Something Of Men Have Known" will
be published Ill the fall by A. G. McClurg & Co,
OF Chicago. His memories as a practising
lawyer go back to the days in illinois when
Lincoln was active in the same profession He
knew Mrs Gaines, who sued the city of New
Orleans for $4,000, ,0O0 and Peggy O'Neal who
caused the disruption of Jackson's Cabinet On
he will have something TO say and of course
his book will contain numerous political rem
iniscencea His publishers promise rich store
Of anecdote
Mr.. Robert Vansittart is a new versifer who
sometimes manages to get atmosphere and a
picture into his rhymes There are both In
these two stanzas OF Caravan:
DongI dong!
Lurching along.
Out OF the dusk
INTO mo Jhe hGht;
NolselesS and lusty,
Looms the long caravan line into sight. =.
Fugitive thrOng.
out Of the dark
| Into the night.
Silent lonely.
Conei the bells only
| Tell US u caravan once was in sight
New light on Byron is to be expected from
two books which I'm press. In OF
| these, Byron: The Last Phase" Mr.. Richard
| Edgcumbe analyses with the aid of authentic
documents the main causes or the separation
| between the poet and his wife. and vigorously
contests the charges brought by the late Lord
L0velace against MS. Leigh. The other volume
| is being made by Lady Dorchester out of the
voluminous "RccoIlections' OF her father, John
Cam Hobhouse Lord Broughtou. which
privately printed in 1865 This intimate friend
OF the poets left quantity Of manuscript to
the British Museum, with instructions that IL
was not L. be examined until 1900. The Byron
papers which he also left, giving his account OF
the separation, remained in the possession Of
Lady Dorchester. and it is expected that her
forthcoming book VIII contain some very inter-
eStlng material derived thcrcfrom.
The Bobbs- Merrill Company has just pub
hshed under the title Elusive Isabel the
novel which Mr.. Jacques Futrele contributed
not long ago 10 The Trbune's Sunday Maga-
zine. This is the novel in which a beautiful
girl invested with mysterious powers plays a
seemingly sinister part in diplomatic circles at
Washington and finds herself pitted against
one Mr.. Grimm brilliant employe OF the Secret
Service bureau The book is full action and
/ of surprises OF the cleverest of recent bits
Of detective" fiction The love motive. like
the vein of adventure is sklfully handled.
There has just been published in London n
translation Of NJ. Lepelletier's biography of Paul
NeIldine- Here are some Char2 CterlStic
thoughts extracted from the book:
The misdecds Of a of genius ought not to
prejudice us, even his crimes should be taken
into account when his work only is in question.
The artist must be judged by his work alone
quite apart from his responsibilities a
II IS better Tor artist 10 set himself apart
from common morality If by doing his brain
IL stimulated rather than leav" behind him the
best Of regulations and the worst literature
English women are all pTstty-Wlth bad cX-
preston and angels voices
When sing Of sorrow longer feel il.
There moments IN life when destiny is COM
plctcly altered disorganizcd and spoiled by the
chance arrival of some peTSt who. unknown the
day before at once assumes excessive Impor-
tanCe.
Mr. Albert F. Calvert most Industrious Of