New-York tribune., 1909-09-11
BOOKS And AUTHORS.
Current Talk Of Things Present and
to Come.

to Come.
Mr.. ". D. HoweIls Is completing in England
| some literary work upon which he has been en-
/ gagged for several months. Il is stated that. so
far from being i'll. he is in good health and good
/ spirits
| The scarcest Of all Swinburnes separate writ
| ings is Moxon's edition of "Laus Veneris' 1866
| A copy Of this is held at SIS. The genuine
first edition of the Poems and Ballads" is held
at ss7.
! The author of My Novel" is the subject Of
coming biography by Mr.. T H. s Escott. There
ought to be much that is interesting In The
Life of Edward Bulwer First Baron Lytton Of
/ Knebworth," Perhaps Bulwer deserved the
| acrid sneers Of Tennyson. who was infamed by
! his brother writer's attributon TO him of The
jingling melody Of puroined conceits." but MY
Novel; is a book that deserves TO live. The
dandy was not apparent there.
A volume OF addresses by Mr.. Charles Wagner
entitled The Home of the Soul" Funk & Wag-
nails Company takes Its name from the insti-
tutional church lately built for the authors con-
gregaton in the Faubourg ST Antoine. Pastor
Wagners church now numbers more than three
thousand adherents in all parts of Paris. The
present book is occupied with expOsitiOns in
which first place is given TO spiritual freedom
and to the Importance Of lay testimony TIE
restorative element in all religions. No matter
what the antiquity the beauty, the fundamental
truth of the system, if it is not born again 1t
kills itself with Journalism and as new birth is
the law of all true life religion must be con-
stantly refreshed at its Jay sources.
NJ Philippe Gonnard's work on Napoleon
The Exile of St Helena" will be brought out in
its English version by Lippncott. NJ. Gonnard
illustrates his conviction that even in his far
Atlantic island Napoleon welded an influence
over the destiny OF France.
Coins of the World is the title OF volume
which The Banking Law Journal" will issue
! Immediately. 1t contains concise history of the
coinage system of each country, brief survey
of historic coins, and added 20 Photographic
reproductions Of the current coins of the world
a catalogue giving their denomination and value
in United States money The coins have been
catalogued by Mr.. T. L. Comparette, the curator
OF the numismatic collection of the United
States Mint. Philadelphia. Mr.. NJ. s. N1uhleman
has supervised the preparation OF the work.
The fine Ashendene edition Of "Tutte le Opere
di Dante Alighieri F4orentino" has Just been
brought from the press in England, and is men
toned a thing of beauty in every sense.
The London Times" declares that not perhaps
since Boccacclo made with his own hand a copy
of the "DiTina Commedia" as a present for
Pe.rarch has such labor of love been lavished
on the works of Dante. The English commen-
/ tatOr continues:
The book is a large folio volume. of four hundred
pages printed in double columns in bacx and red,
the size of the page being about Is by II inches.
The type, the same as was used in Mr.. Hornby's
beautiful issues few years ago OF the Inferno
semi-rOman font employed by the German printers
Sweynheym and Pannartz in their first press at
Subiaco before they migrated to Rome, IN 1861
The initial letters, which are printed III red. and
add greatly TO the beauty of the page have been
designed by Mr. Orally Hewitt In the style Of those
] =, ey yenrirbed bv SIX iustTationS bV Mt g. NJ
tiere, beautifully wood by Mr.. W. Il. Hooper.
Mr. Ceres drawings consist of title page. repre-
book with Florence In the background-an obvious
"reminiscences of the we'll known picture by Do
efS nnd head d. penes to the Vita Nuovo Convivo
and each OF the three divisions of the "Coninedia
The beauty of these illustrations (Of which the
head piece to the ''Purgatorio' deserves special
mention) both in design and execution. makes IT a
subject for regret that artist ana engIaNet VIE VIE
not allowed wider scope for their talents IN ths
frbnl With fuller knowledge and sympathy what
Fiaxman and Blake. according to their hehts. did
hundred years ago.
Mrs. Cotes (Sara Jeanette Duncan) has writ
ten a romance of anarchy in Bengal "A Burnt
Offering" is the title of the book. which viii
soon be brought out
A beautiful monument has just been erected
bv relatives and admirers over the grave of
Ouida in the English cemetery at Bagnt di
I,ucca It is the work of Italian sculptor
.rd is in the form of a Gothic sarcophagus.
hearing the recumbent figure of the novelist.
Where bv the way, is the desirable pocket edi-
tion of her works? She was woman Of genius
and I'm spite of many literary faults and alb
surdities some of her books will live when those
Of three or four now popular feminine novelsts
are dead nail in door.
new volume of poems by Professor Henry
van Dyke is announced by the Scribuers under
the title of The White Bees and Other Poems"
II contains the verse which he has written since
the publication of his Music and Other Poems"
Cotton's Museum of Relics of the battle of
Waterloo and the Grand Museum Hotel, which
are remembered by hosts Of American visitors
TO Waterloo, are for sale. Edward Cotton was
sergeant major of the 7th Hussars. and fought
through the battle of Waterloo, his horse being
killed under him. When the army was dis
banded he made UP his mind to stay In Belgium,
and settled at Mont St. JEAN where. after some
years, he became much priced guide over the
battlefield He had education and native intel
Iigence, and his book, "A Voice from Waterloo"
has gone through ten editions since its publica-
ton. in 1886 and still holds it's own against all
competitors as authentic history of the battle
which broke forever the power of Napoleon
Cotton's rights in the volume will be sold with
the other properties-properties which have been
in the hands of his family since his death, in
1S49 His remains lie in the crypt of the
Waterloo monument at Evere.
Mrs Langtry's forthcoming novel is mentioned
the story of a pretty woman who goes on a |