New-York tribune., 1909-02-06

| study of walt whitman by Professor G. r
CARPENTER, OF Columbia Is TO be added 10 the
| English Men of Letters" series,
,tiez Alice Brown has written a new novel
| "-TbA story Of Thyrza" and it is announced for
! early publication by the Houghton Miffiin Com
many. It is mentioned a description OF the
life and development of an mpulsive and original
| girl.
Salvage" Is the title Of the book % verse by
,-- Owen Seaman editor OF Punch" which
! Holt Is about to publish. Most Of the pieces IN
the volume were drawn from the columns OF
| Punch"
The tenderness of Lincoln's heart Is vfv1dly
illustrated in Mr.. L E. Chittenden's little book.
Lincoln and the Sleeping Sentinel" He could
not endure 10 confirm an army death sentence:
They say that destroy all discipline ana and am am
cruel to the army Xhen neT d and nncon once but
I cannot see it. II God wanted me TO see II lie
6nar 9Ti9 sf sn beng aH9 ouei u to the end friend
calling Upon the the Fl 0n&t MARITAL reeoFds before
him "(7o away, Swett," he exclaimed. with IN
and vii not be interrupted until have found
excuses for saving the lives OF these poor iei0"S
rr Emil Reich. the indefatigable, is bringing
out a new book which he calls Nights with the
Gods" The plan OF the book, says the Lonooh
"c,lobe" Is quite novel "The author, VINO con-
siders the ancient Greeks and Romans 10 haVs
been incomparably superior TO our own genera
ton lays the scenes of his book in the assem-
blies Of Zeus. Apollo. Donysus ana the other
gods together with the great Greeks anu
Romans. such as Plato Aristotle. Diogenes'
Caesar. Pericles, etc. who meet at night IN
various beautiful cities of Italy and discuss Eng
land which they have revisited lately from
the standpoint Of Hellenic and Roman civiiiza-
ton Many well known men and women OF Eng
Iish society are given their real perspective The
dialogues are full of biting sarcasm and in
s+r7Ictiye comparisons of things Greek with
things modern. The seven chapters treat or "a
Fads (Christian Science. Total Abstinence, etc)i
q and 81 the Women; 90 the Theatre partcu-
Iarly Shaw: C5) the Universities; CD Foreign
Policy and % the New Religion"
A fascinating subject is that dealt with by the
artist Abbot H Thayer and his son. Gerald H
Thayer in their forthcoming book. "Coucealing
Coloration in the Animal Kingdom" II is illus
trated with Autographs.
Under the title Of THE Trailers- comes
book iron, the pen of Miss Ruth L. Mason. Miss
Mason is the daughter OF Mrs. Caroline Atwater
Mason, the author of various clever stories
There are two unique books in the new Ma
tionel Library os Wales. at Aberystwith- Both
were printed in 1546-the two earliest known
printed books in the Welsh language One is a
primer by Sir John Price. and the other is a col
lection of Welsh proverbs by William Salisbury.
No other copies are known. Tho library con-
tains the exceedingly valuable collection Of Shir
burn books and MSS, q collection which had
remained for $50 years in the possession of the
Esrls of Macclesheld, at Shirburn Castle.
An Illustrated book which is coming from the
Putnams contains Mr.. J. o. Curwoods entertain
ing history CT "The Great Lakes" Portions of
this book originally appeared in the pages OF
''Putnam's and the Reader"
In Napoleon and America" a book now com
ing from the press Of Mitchell Kennerley MI
E L. Andrews devotes himself to portraytng the
relations between this country and the great
captain and the influence Of each upon the other
Professor Saintsbury, in his preface to Vanity
Fair" in the new oxford" edition of Thackeray.
saws. concerning the supposed studies of real
people:
gerate their coincidence with their originals One
OF o the sdaned hTst 61 fdv RItehes Kngsey in
yeast (published in 1s4sl It asserts that Thack
cray Cwho IS mentioned by nanle), being re
preached with having made the baronet tSlr |
was almost the only portrait in the whole
book CThe original Is sometimes said to have /
been Lord Role, the owner of StevenStone and |
Bicton in Devonshire OF whose eccentricities |
It viii be observed that the limitation has an i'm
gortant bearing on the 5naca more &c common lde f.
Wenham with Croker. etc, though no doubt there
TO Theodore Hook The model Of Dobbin referred |
given as ArshdeaGon Alien ThaGkeFaiX
6sld. df dIneiA 10 MS "0'Hs'' MS "''e anu 'i'' o
The Lincoln centenary has another poetical |
celebration in the forthcoming ode of Mr.. Percy |
Mackaye It Is announced by Macmillan. A
narrative poem in which Lincoln appears, the
author Of which is Mary Z. Waller, is coming
from the press of Little. Brown & Co.
book which Holt will bring out is The |
Life of a Fossil Hunter by DR. Charles H. |
Stern berger. The author has been for many
years an uncommonly successful explorer. and
he mas recorded many amusing and picturesque |,
adventures.
An Englishman who is at classical |
scholar. a poet and hammer man In great |
railway workshop IS arousing attention in Lon |
don williams is his name He was a little |
rustic who left his country school when he was |
only eleven years old and who served a few |
years as a plough boy before he entered the |
workshop. A little casual reading touched the |
springs OF intellect in the lonely lad. and after
he had devoured Shakespeare he took the four |
years OF English literature of Ruskln |
Hall, oxford. The Latin quotations oe some of |
the books of the course led him to the study of |
that language, and after much difficulty the way |
became easy and he found himself the happy
reader Of Cesar, SaIlust, Ovid, Horace Virgil |
Then he mastered Greek. French and mathe- |
matics then he began to write poetry All this |
time he continued his daily labor in the shop. |