New-York tribune., 1909-02-20
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
Current Talk of Things Present
md to Come.

and to Come.
MT, .,. ,,or,r,As of the Tudor Translations
are TO contain BocoaccIo's "Decameron' is
-.,i+o5 ont that though this version was hrsl
i.,,ed ae late as 1920 it is Elizabethan IN styie
o,7 ,oa+bod and therefore is well Withh lhe
.cona of the series planned by Mr. Henley MI
I1dTrard Hinton has written an Introduction Ior
+I,a work which is to fill four volumes Volumes
7 ond IT will be delivered to subscribers next
month and volumes III and " in May at latest
,1ar,, volumes of the Tudor Translations are
non, ont of print including the 'Montalghe' the
aApuIeius." the "Plutarch." the Don QuiNote'
the ..Suetonius" and the 'Froissart. Nearly ou'
f nrint Is "The Courier of Castiglione' and the
'Rabelais"
4 nubIication which will arouse interest among
all lovers Of art is the special number OF L Ar'
ct 10 Beau devoted to Edgar Degas." There
ora sixty reproductfons Of the artists works
accommodating the text of Mr.. Georges Grape
A new, volume which will also appeal to sucn
readers is an edition of Eugene Fromentlns
'Iettres de Jeunesse," prepared with piolios-
raDhv and notes by NJ. Pierre Blanchon.
In hook on 1.-THE Royal Stuarts in Their
Connection with Art and Letters Mr. w {.
R1aikie- Murdoch points out that James OF
Scotland was a poet Of genuine s1fts' thaC
lanes " was "a true book lover; that JdiileS
V was the reputed author Of THE Gaberlunzie
Man: that Queen Mary wrote credltapl9
verses and that Charles was bibhopmle ana
q picture buyer of knowledge and taste Ihree
of the daughters of James Margaret, Dau-
mime OF France the Archduchess Sigismund or
Austria and the Duchess of Bretagne-ah haa
literary ability Charles II, it is recorded could
draw we'll he delighted in poetry and music, and
could himself upon occasion, display pretty
turn in the writing of a song. Mr.. Blaikle-MuF
docb notes that the late w f. Henley used TO
talk of the Stuarts as a family of artists, ana
was won't to make some scathing and critical
comments on the nation which thought fit to
deposs the said family.
The 1rst two volumes Of. those diplomatic
napers Of the French Foreign Office which have
TO do with the origin of the Franco-Prusslah
War are still in the hands Of the commission
APPOINTED to prepara them. These volumes zeal
o,lv " TN the events of 1876. 1t is said tnat
AZ least eight volumes will he required for these
papers. and that the task Of preparing them
viii occupy many years
The Queen of Rumania has been writing a
tribute to Charles Dickens which is we'll mean
irg though weak as poetry:
love him so for all the good
His soul was wont I, 70 e,,51ferstood see
Unknown humanity
In darkness he found light; in pain
AND error love divine.
He taught sad hearts 70 laugh again,
And hidden gold 70 shine
He heard the Christmas carols ring,
he pitied moth and snake.
And had a song for evry wing,
and balm for ey'ry ache!
The Dickens Fellowship has Just celebrated IN
London the ninety-seventh anniversary OF the
birth cf the novelist. An ex-Lord Mayor, Sir
william, Treloar made speech In which ne
recalled his Young married days. when he read
the immortal novels aloud TO mis- wife and they
laughed and cried over them-when, moreover
they went 10 hear the Dickens readings. wait
ing FOR an hour outside the hall in order to set
a seat while I was Lord Mayor" said the
speaker. Il met some OF Dickeus's characters at
the Mansion House. 1 often met Mr.. StggnS
there. and sometimes there was Pecksnn, ana
NOW and again Chadband Even Mr.. Micaw-
rer was TO be found-I have done little bit IN
that way myself for a Lord Mayor should have
a touch Of Mcawber and q spice OF Mark Tap
ley
While holding that office he had the pleasure
Of Kissing a little Dickens girl, aged three. ana
he had lust heard from Mrs. Dickens that when
she went home she said: Il have been kissed
by the Lord Mayors SHOW That was not sur
nrIsinc. When he first rode in the golden coach
he felt uncommonly like the Lord Mayors
ehov,- especiallv when he heard the admirns
comments of the people "'E fanoies isseif'
don't 'e?" said one lady.