New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-10-16
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1910.


For if a husband. really loving his wife Cor,
may add, really respecting himselD, learned tnat
she could only be happy otherWhere he woul9
bid her go-ah! and see her go, with KISSED
hand and prayer. So certainly would a
woman bid man go whom she loved IN VAIN
It would be the last happy act OF life, maybe
but impossible to do otherwise.
The novelist and this puppet between them
pursue the subject with solemnities by which
We are, of course, tremendously impressed, but
We are little more interested In the further
light thrown on the affairs Of the three lead
Ing figures in REST Harrow" At the time Of
this talk with Senhouse, Sanchia, whom we left
In the novel restored to the one man worthy OF
her. has returned temporarily to Ingram He
"has fallen desperately i'll, and l think he Is
dying He cried for her in his delirium; she
event at once. Ingram viii die this
morning, in few hours" At the close Sen
house, in his character Of seer, reports that
the sick man has died, and passionately ex-
claims "Ihat q Sanchia should spend herself
upon a Neville Ingram! The grand manner,
"my friend the great large way! That's how
"a God works. We wonder what makes him
think SO.
In the rapidly swelling strear. Of new books
which is now flowing toward readers the diff
ferent currents of literary interest all have
their place. We do not recall a season In
which the lists have had greater variety. b.
ography is strongly represented, the memoirs
of the paste and-scissors type being for the
moment happily subordinated to serious studies,
and we are to have number of ambitious
volumes in historical research. The book Of
travel is also fairly conspicuous. The an
nouncements Of new poetry are not precisely
thrilling, but, On the other hand, we are to have
unusual number of essays In pure htera-
ture. Professor Mackail's Lectures on the
Greek Poets' ought to make good reading, and
so likewise should Mr. Edmund Gardeners
'Dante and the Mystics." The name Of Sir
Norman Lockyer the title page Of book
on 'Tennyson as Student and Poet Of Nat
lre' assures US of some suggestive pages. His
daughter also, by the way, has helped in the
preparation of this work. To the literature
that has gathered around Edgar Allan Poe
critical monograph is being added by Mr.. Ar
thur Ransome Finally, we have the brightest
hopes of Mr.. Sidney Lees "French Renaissance
in England and Professor Walter Raleigh's
six Essays on Johnson" Obviously, the mere
Y bookish reader is not to be neglected this
year.
Why is a Autographed periodical Of
the great risks Of the publishing trade? AS a
correspondent of "The London Times wag
sishly explains it is because, in the first place,
contributors are expected to write for nothing,
"and in the second, photographers expect, a
"matter of course to be placed on the free list"
With nobody left, therefore, to pay for the
periodical, the publisher usually retires with
'enlarged experience and an impoverished treas
Try" Fortunately, success has steadily wait
Cd upon one famous manual, Book Prices Cur
selt" Who would be without it? 1t abounds
in good reading, and, incidentally, it throws
merciess light upon the ups and downs Of au-
thors. Illuminating its latest volume, the
correspondent aforesaid makes these pointed
remarks:
The modern large paper edition" absurdty
vogue of the limited editions of the works OF
modern Poetic minores has long since ceased.
The Kipling, Stevenson and similar
manias no longer thrill except the score
IF drops Perhaps the most appalling in
stance in this respect occurred in the case of
school Boy Lyrics GSSD. The first copy of
this to appear in the market sold for t135, in
April, 1889. . . By July 1900 its CONNER
cial value dropped to IS IS, and it has dropped
altogether out of Book Prices Current" in re-
cent years The little Dawes Platz pamphlets
with which Stevenson amused himself used to
sell for their weight in gold now they do not
sell at all, and probably the owners would have
q difficulty in giving them away; they have no
literary value; they can hardly claim the dis
tinction Of ranking as literary curiosties.
This need not depress the collector There
Is always some new fad into which he may
plunge and from which he may derive great