New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-06

p,,rnes he bowed. You rarely get a."
to buy pint OF peer
Tho late Major Martin Hume VIZ
ve-x, industrious writer. and IL VIII
s,,~rr.,s,,y If we do not see more thah
r,stbur,ous volume bearing MS
800 A collection OF his shorter pieces
is already announced 1t contains eHo
stories. retold in popular fashion OF
number of the heroines on Ehshsh me-
tory. The book is IL reminder OF 'nS
eov,hi,ttv Of this gifted EnSiishn1an.
Iy;. ,,rai, yvas stored with learning, and
over and over again he successiuiy du
dressed himself to an audience VI
scholars: but in everything he wrote he
kent the general reader" in mind, and
., occasion. he would give himself up
o,,+,rs,v tn the entertainment of that
individual.
Mr. Claude c. washburns Pages
from tho Book of Paris will be issued
by the Houghton Miffin Company III
tho autumn. The text is TO be accom-
named by forty illustrations made by
Mr.. Lester G. Horribly.
An authoritative biography OF DIS
raeH Is at last, We are told, TO be pro-
duced. It will be published during inc
coming season. The name of tho biog-
rapher has not yet been divulged
A collection OF Professor kuno Meyer
renderings Of old Irish poems is to be
published soon. Some of these are al
ready known to readers who are curious
about Celtic literature; others are
hitherto imprinted poems gathered from
old Irish manuscripts.
One Of the autumn publications will be
a volume OF selections from the famous
diary of Master Samuel Pepys- 1t may
interest the casual reader ard lead him
to the perusal of the diary itself. We
hope that this may be the case. for an
odder and more absorbing study In hu-
man nature is not to be found any
where. The Sturgis Walton Company
will issue this book.
Mrs F. L. Barclay, whose novel, THE
Rosary" is reported to have gone into
fourteen editions, has been correcting
the proofs OF new book in the Isle OF
1.-THE Mistress of Shenstone," Will be
brought out next month by the Put
MANS.
Sun To, the great Chinese general
who lived and fought ,, 100 years ago,
left behind him the manuscript Of what
is the oldest military treatise in the
world 4 translation Of this work into
English was made by Captain Calthrop,
and published in London two years ago.
Included in this volume was collection
of the savings Of WI, another Chinese
general of days long departed. Now,
Mr.. Lionel Giles, an official of the Brit
ish Museum, has made another transla-
ton of Sun THUS work, to which he has
added the comments of Chinese critics
And talking Of writings on the art of
war we may place on record the recent
lively remarks of Mr.. Maurice Hewlett
who stopped producing fiction long
enough to preside at the annual meet
ing in London of the International Arbi-
tration and Peace Association. Aggres-
s;ve war was "a bestfaI act he de-
clared, and one unworthy OF man He
added that hatred of war was now a
matter of conscience with the serious
minded, and until the national con-
science was educated to revolt at the
idea of war making, the work of peace
congresses and peace societies would be
incomplete The picturesque and emo
tional side of war making was 50 ready
to infame, and the war making instinct
So inf1ammable, that in times OF tension
the powers of reasoning might be
drowned by drums and trunlpets. There
would always be this danger until the
national conscience placed war in the
same category as gluttony, drunken
ness, murder and such like"
MIR. Hudson Maxim, the inventor OF
the high explosive .Maxinite,' is about
70 publish a book which has nothing
whatever to do with war. He has long
devoted thought to the subject of this
book-which is entitled THE Science of
Poetry and the Philosophy Of Ian
auage." It will be issued by Funk e
Wagnalls.
In a personal letter which recently
appeared in an auction room r. D. Black
more, the novelist, said of Browning:
1.-The poets work makes me doubt my
own sanity" The late DR.. f'urnivall.
who founded the Browning Society IN
England, asserted that he found the poet
as amazing an enigma in himself as
in his poetry He thought Browning
IAN eternal disappointment to second
class minds" and added: THE truth
was that Browning was always on his
guard His real personality had all the
fire and dash and depth and breadth OF
his poetry: the actual man was more
Italian than English, and more medieval
than modern"
OF the formation of his Browning So
ciety Furnivall once said:
! felt that justice had not been done TO
Browning. He stayed away from England,
and he was getting very difficult to under
stand. He assumed that his readers knew
the circums tanceS of each OF MS poems
Just as we'll as he did himself, and II they
did not, he refused to help them. felt
Browning Society would do good IN this
way. as ii did. People used to tell Brown
ing that he ought 10 stop the society. TO
which he replied: II cannot place a police
man on Smith Elder & Co. s dcorsteps and
say: You must stop any one gong IN VINO