New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-10-17
LITERARY NOTES.

LITERARY NOTES.
Mr.. John Galsworthy is bringing out new
book, fiction but not novel. He calls it Villa
Rubeim and Four Stories" Mr. Eden PhiH-
potts's new novel is entitled The Haven
In Seven English Cities" Mr.. W D. HOwells
VINO has just returned from abroad-has col
iected the results of his latest studies of in
terestlng places in the mother country. The
book will be published by the Harpers within a
fortnight. Mr.. Howells has come back in ex-
cellent health from his summer in Carlsbad.
The forthcoming volume OF the collected works
OF Anatole France, translated into English. coz
tains ''The Merrie Tales of Jacques Tourne-
brOche"
Those who read Miss Edith Durham's uncOm-
monty interesting book. "The Burden of the
Balkans" will anticipate with pleasure the COM
Ing of another volume from her pen-One which
is 10 bear the title of High Albania"
Mr.. H. B. Wheatley, the editor Of "Pepvs's
Diary" has written a book which he entities
''HOgarth's London: Pictures of the Manners
of the Eighteenth Century" The Illustrations
include large number of reproductions Of
Hogarth'S pictures.
A translation into French of Mrs. Humphrey
TO appear in the Revue des DeuX MOndes" It's
title therein is George Anderson In this
country it is called Lady Merton"
Mr. Alfred Noyes's Drake" an epic poem in
twelve books has been published here by the
Frederick A Stokes Company IL is stated that
Mr.. NOyes's pOetical work is popular in England
and that he makes living by (which is more
IL appears, than Mr.. Stephen Phillips is able To
do. The latter has lately gone into homeless
bankruptcy. his poetry not observation-disclosures
else 1t may mean-prosaic bread and butter.
complete catalogue of the incunabula in
German Libraries has been undertaken. 1t is
said that $4,000 examples of early printed books
have already been registered as existing in 213
libraries. The London "Athenaum" notes the
expectation that the total will amount to over
one hundred thousand examples.
The verses which Mr.. Kipling has attached to
the story of dog in his book will appeal
to an innumerahie company of dog lovers:
Buy yo n pup and yG ,Pof money win buy
Perfect passion and worship fed
BY kick in the ribs pat On the head
Nevertheless. it is hardly fair
To risk your heart for dog to tear.
When the fourteen years which Nature permits
Are closing in asthma; or tumor, or fits
And the vets unspoken prescription runs
To Iethal chambers or loaded guns,
Then you will nnd-it's your own affair
But you've given your heart for dog to tear.
Mr. Alexander MacCon has written some time
title "A Working Theology Charles Scribner's
Sons The test to apply to any confession OF
faith is he urges. a pragmatic one: Does it
confirm itself in experience and does il issue in
power? In setting value on statements OF be-
lief allowance must be made for the fact that
language. even when dealing with spiritual
truth. is symbolic in its function To show how
far the liberalism of Bbolatry used to carry
it's victims Mr.. MacCOll tells that when vac
cination introduced in New England a SER
mon in opposition to it by one Mussey Of Lon
don was widely circulated. Its text was SO
went Satan forth from the presence of the Lord
and smote job with sore boiis from the sole Of
his foot unto his crown and the argument ws.s
that Satan the first incubator
In just published book on The Intcrprcta-
ton OF Radium' Mr. Frederick Soddy almost
suggests an astonishing hypOtheSiS-that "a n
previous epoch in the unrecorded history of he
world there existed race of men who had the
power of Harvesting for practical purposes the
prodigiouS energy in uranium-men whose
periments gave rise to the universal belief in the
philosophers stone and the elixir of life.