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cynical expression in THE Great White
Way" Edwin Arlington Robinson IN
his new book of poems. The Town
Down the River" just published by
THE White broadway, 19o6),"
sees differently. The last stanza of his
verse runs
when Avon. like n facry floor.
Lay frcighted. for the eyes OF One,
With galleons laden long before
by moonlit wharves In Avalon
Here. where the white lights have be-
gun
To sccth way for something fair.
No prophet knew, from what was done,
That there was triumph in the air"
The man who looks over. for the first
time. the Short Plays from Dickens"
by Horace 3. Browne. MA. the Eng
lish scholar. just published by Charles
Scribncr's Sons, feels a shock of sur
prise that no such compilation was ever
made before. So admirably suited arc
Dickens's characters to the stage, so
complete are his own stage directions,
so full of the spirit that makes for
good stage effects are his dialogues AMI
conversations, that few changes. either
In scene or action. from those described
In Dickens's works have been ncces-
sary. This volume has just been
brought. out In this country by Charles
Scrlbner's. Sons, and very OPPORTUNITY.
with the n Dickens centenary drawing
near and the publication of the Cen
tenary Edition of Dickcns's Works just
getting under way. The plays. although
short, number 20. and include the most
famous of the Dickens scenes and char
acters. For instance. in the three from
"David Copperfield' is Mr.. Nlicaw,b-
cr's Prospects," in the three from "Our
Mutual Friend" is "Sllas Weggs
STALL" others are from 'Barnaby
Rudge." BLEAK House" Martin Chuz-
Sketches by Boz
Early in December Houshton NEifnin
company will publish n collection of
Mrs. Julia Ward Howcs later poems
entitled AT Sunset urnn which she
was engaged at the time of her dea TN.
They were written mostly during the
able public occasions.
The World OF Dreams" a new book
by Havclock Ellis, which Houghton
MIfflin company had hoped to publish
this autumn, will not be ready until
next spring.
The Piper" Josephine Preston Pea
hody's prize play. recently produced at
the Shakespeare Memorial thcater mt
Stratford- on Avon and elsewhere in
England. Is to he presented this season
at the New theater, New York city. 1t
Is published In book form. and is al
ready in its seventh impression.
An interesting list of books is pub
llshed by Houghton Mifnin COM
pany as follows: THE Corsi-
can" an extraordinary literary
discovery. being the diary OF Napoleon
in his own words compiled and trans
lated by r. NJ. Johnston: volumes III
and ~ of "Emerson's Journals" COW
ering the years 1898 through 1897, now
first published; THE Essence of Re-
llglon," by Prof, Borden Parker
by DR.. Lyman Abbott: "'rhe Winter
Queen" a romance of Elizabeth stuart,
queen of Bohemia. by Marie Hay. au-
thor of ~ German Pompadour:" Eng
fish Dramatic Companies, loss tG42." by
John Tucker Murray; and seven vol
umes of the popuIar-priced Autograph
Poets Series" comprising the complete
poetical works of Longfclow.' Lowell
Holmes, Emerson, Harte, Whittier and
Tcnnyson.
Recently a special performance
vas given at the Republic thea
te, New York, of 'Rebecca of
SunnrDfOOk Farm, to which Kate
Douglas Wiggin. the author, invited n
huge party" First there We're minis
tiers of all denominations and nation
hlitics, then many school superintcnd-
cntS and principals. and lastly iivc
great attachments of children from tho
orphan asylums. No seats were sold.
Tho wife Of Baron Herbert linden
burg, u Prnssinn diplomat, under her
maiden name. Marie Hay. first became
generally known to tho lovers Of the
hy-wnys of history, or shall VIC say,
historic GOSSIP, by her book on the
Countess Grnvenitz, "a German Pomp-
adour." whose practically forgotten
story the baroness discovered at Stuff
CART. But this was not her earliest
venture In historical romance. for shc
had already taken Niane Of Poitiers for
n heroine and that little recognized in
ventor. the marquis of Worcester for n
hero. the latter an ancestor of her own.
Marie Hay belongs to tho younger
branch of that very old Scottish fam
lily. being the niece Of tho present carl
Of kinnoull Having an hereditary in
crest In the Stuarts, II Is not surpris-
Ing that In her new volume. 1.-THE Win
ter Queen" shc has taken tho life Of
sort of chronicle romance. and what
better heroine could n historical novel;
list desire than that indomItably brave
and hopeful. If persistently unfortu-
nate. mother Of n race of kings to be |
and who are!
When the Confessions of a. Best
seller appeared in the Atlantic |
Monthly about u year ago, many at