New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-29

and the yellow Book.
LITERARY NOTES.
The hero of Anthony Hopes novel is de-
scribed as volatile and brilliant lady-killer.
The book is called Second String"
M Pierre Lott has always been fortunate in
the choice of titles for his books like best
the which he has found for his latest novel
He calls this lie Chateau de Ia Belle au Bots
dormant"
Professor Saintsbury has just published in
London the third and last volume of his History
of English Prosody" Presumably the Macmil-
ans viii very soon bring it out in this country.
This CONCLUDING; instaIment of an admirable work
of scholarship carries the subject from Blake to
Swinburne. 1t is divided into three sections
the Romantic Revival, Early and Middle Vie
torian Verse and the Later Nineteenth century
Lovers of European poetry will welcome The
Oxford Book of Italian Verse" which Mr. ST
John Lucas is compiling for the Oxford Univer-
sity Press The little French anthology which
was issued from the same source a year or two
ago has made many friends
A biographical study of Maurice Maeterlinck
by Gerard Harry has just been translated into
English. 1t is couched in fervid terms He
carves his dreams in marble and casts clouds IN
bronze" says M. Harry Here is one of his
notes the personality of the man he adores:
It is beneath the simple exterior of q country
rather ponderous build as bets Flemish origin
that Nature has enshrined the tar JeWets OF ms
maj W vgt4 RT HC ief into the lid which give a
glimpse of sparkling treasures within and which
are the writer's two eyes glowing finely win IN
inward light reflected by the pupils. Nor has the
poet modified in the slightest this outward sem
blance a stout. healthy country'Inan- You would
meet as his automobile spins along the banks Of
the Lover Seine or IN winter ~ the azure f t
most prosiac of working gardeners if you saw him.
his mad looking after some favorite plant in the
flower beds of st. Wandrille or of the Clatre
Chemins at Grasse
Resides the monograph on MaeteTlinck this
volume contains a photography and two OF ms
early papers One Of these, The slaughter OF
the Innocents" is a curious story IN which a
Scriptural motive is developed against an DIG
Flemish background.
The Vessels & BisseI Company announce The
Story of the Constitution of the United STATES,
bv Rossiter Johnson. The authors aim Is TO tell
his story with accuracy and dignity, but to pre-
serve as much possible of the mere human
interest it involves. The same firm is bringing
ont THE Garden at 49," novel by that
clever and amusing author, Edgar Jepson-
Readers who approximately remember Quo
Vadis' will be Interested to hear that another
of Sienkiewiezs novels has been TRANSLATED ana
will soon be published here Little, Brown q %
have it in hand and viii bring it out under tie
title of "Whirpools' some time in June: 1he
book has been trarc'ated from the PoliSh oy
Max A. DrezmaL
NJ Philippe Monnier's Venice in the Eigh-
teeutIl Century has at last been Translated INTO
FrgIjsh and il is ID be hoped that there VIII
soon be an American edition Of the book Re IS
an entertaining writer and his subject IN LnlS
instance is one Of peculiar fascination The
eighteenth century was in Venice period OF
deca derca but it's social life was nevertheless
brilliantly picturesque, and in art 1t was POOR
only by comparison with the golden age The
masters of that age were almost forgotten out
TiepoIo was. after all, not altogether unworthy
of them nor can we ever be anything but CRATE
fuI for the place and the period that gave us
CanaettO Guardi and LonShi. Rosaib' too
brings something worth while TO NJ. Monnle! 8
book and among his other significant figures are
C:oZZi and GCIdOni-
The widow Of General SIR William GataCre
has writer! a memoir Of that distinguished sol
der which is presently to appear. Most Of her
space is given to his work in South Africa, but
she tells also of his earlier years and of his
services in India, Burma and Egypt
We had Supposed that all Of the writings LETT
bv the late Ferdinand Brunetiere had been pub
lshed but one moro composition Of his Is To see
the light. Il is study found among his papers,
of The Youth of Volt2jre.
The Hollis will inaugurate early next month 4
new American Historical Series. The first
volume in il Europe Since 1876, BY Professor
Charles Downer H@=cn-