New-York tribune., 1910-04-23

Mr.. William Allen Whlte is repcrteu
10 have taken at least one living person
as a model for character In his sue
cessful novel "A Certain Rich Man
this person being his friend Congress
man Victor Murdoch. insurgent.
An exhaustive work on the pheasants
of the world is to be prepared by Mr..
and Mrs. c. w. Beebe, who have chosen
Japan as their starting point. Henry
Holt & Co. are bringing out meanwhile
their new book. "Our Search for Will
derness This tells the story OF two
ornithological expeditions TO Venezuela
and British Guiana, the first OF which
was undertaken on a little Venezuelan
boat with which they journeyed into
jungle filled with monkeys, scarlet ibises
and big snakes.
"A Garland to Sylvia" IS the graceful
title of a book which Mr. Percy Mac
Kaye is about TO publish. He calls it "a
dramatic reverie."
An American edition Of Mr.. Rider
Haggard's new novel. Morning STAR" is
to be brought out here next month by
Longmans. Green & Co. II is a tale of
ancient Egyptian magic. and among its
characters are wizards who work terrific
miracles The heroine. Tua. or Morn
ing Star" is as lovely as She and is
princess, the daughter Of Pharaoh. She
goes through many thrilling dangers for
the sake of the man she loves-dangers
IN,
invent than does Mr.. Haggard.
The lectures which Governor Hughes
gave at Yale are to appear in book form
next month. The Yale University Press
will bring the volume out under the title
of Conditions of Progress in Democratic
Government" The Governor says that
the purpose of the book shall have been
served 'if il develops wider apprecia-
tion of high standards Of decency and
justice" in citizenship.
Another work announced for early
publication by the Yale University Press
deals with THE High Court Of Parlia-
ment and It's Supremacy" 1t is an his
torical essay on the boundaries between
legislation and adjudication in England.
The author. Mr.. c. II. McIlwsin, Of
Princeton University. was moved 60
write the book in the course of his ef-
forts to find ar explanation Of the cur
rent attitude OF courts of law toward
legislation. especially In this country.
A biography Of Byron written by a
woman is something which the reader
may justly anticipate with some curl
osity. Such Il book is to be published
in the autumn, its author being Miss
Edith c. Mayne, an English woman, who
has already produced a volume on the
Countess Guiccioli. and who proposes to
deal with the poets career upon bold
and independent lines and from a
woman's point of view. The last woman
who attempted that task was Mrs.
Beecher stowe. and she certainly did
not distinguish herself.
Mr.. Hugh O'Donneli. ex-Member Of
Parliament for Galway. tells In his hook.
"A History Of the Irish Parliamentary
Party" a characteristic story OF Glad
stone:
] remember an occasion when the Parnell-
ties were attacking the estimates. and Mr..
Healy, burning for rstrenchment or shre
for efficiency. proposed that public servants
should be compulsorily retired AZ siNty-fve
as too old for work. We had a division.
and as the opposite streams passed one an
other from the opposing lohbieS | saw Mr..
Glsdstone-then approaching seventy-hVe-
all smiles and waggery, approaching Healy.
Very good. Mr. Healy. very good Put the
old men on the shelf at SiNty-fiVei Throw
them on the rubbish heap Too old for any
good, Mr. Hesly" oh, sir blundered the
fsbhergasted Tiger Tim. II do not mean
that
A new book on THE Care ot Trees in
Lawn. Street and Park" is coming from
the press Of the Holts. How to treat
invalid trees and how to fight the pests
who attack them are matters discussed
i'm detail therein. Professor B. z. Fer
now is the author.
The organized work Of women in for
eign missions is picturesquely described
in Western Women in Eastern Lands"
a volume Just issued by Macmillan. 1t
tells the story Of the growth OF the mis-
sIonary movement in the last ffty years
"a growth from one society to forty.
Mr Oscar Browning. I'm his just pub
lished "reminiscences. says that Robert
Browning once told him that an scci-
dent delayed the public recognition Of
him for twenty years. John Stuart Mill
had discovered his Pauline" and wished
to review IL i'm a certain periodical. The
editor said n had already been noticed
and il had been noticed TO tie extent
Of ine-balderdash." single line