New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-04-30
BOOKS AND AUTHORS
Current Talk of Things Present
and to Come.

Current Talk of Things Present
and to Come.
An innovation is announced nv The
Atlantie"-no less a thing than the pub
LEGATION Of complete short novel in its
June number. It is the work Of John
Gslsworthy. the author Of Strife.
new edition Of Mr.. Peter J. Hannil-
toms book on Colonial Mobile" has just
been brought from the Riverside Press.
The work has been revised and enlarged.
and new light is thrown on the figures Of
De Soto. Pardo and De Luna, on French
and Spanish institutions. and on the
| Spiritu Santo question. The Pardo Mar
ratives of exploration are inserted in an
appendix.
The runor that Maxim Gorky Is no
longer a Socialist is fatty contradicted
| by his American agent. The novelist is
said to be maintaining at present
school for the instruction of Russian
Socialists in the philosophy of the move
ment II is established at Capri.
Marion Harland Mrs. Terhune), whose
autobiography has just been published
| by the Harpers. points out in her preface
that she Is now the only literary South
erner left to describe the South as ii was
twenty-five years before the Civil War.
! Her recoilections OF old-fashioned Gus
toms i'm Virginia are Of much interest.
| This lady began to write for publication
when she was fourteen. and for many
years interspersed novels with books on
/ household affairs. Through her long and
useful life she has had sense Of fun
which found expression In such aphor-
/ Isms as Fruit cake will keep for twenty
| five years ~ locked up" and Cabbage
should be boiled twenty minutes and
mile from the house"
| Mrs Terhune has a daughter who Is
following I'm her mothers footsteps as an
instructor Of her fellow matrons. The
Sturgis & Walton Company announce
book by her, From Kitchen to Gar
ret" which is to be the first volume of a
series entitled THE Young Farmers
Practical Library" Mr.. Ernest Inger-
soil is the editor Of the series, which will
deal not only with farm matters but
with the social and domestic sides OF
country life.
Commandant Persat. who was Carrots
second in the famous duel with Emile de
Girardin. left a manuscript journal
which is now in the possession of the
! Prince de Ia Mosl5owa, and has lately
been published by his permission. Per-
sat. after many adventures, became edi-
tor Of 1.-The National" and it was in
consequence of articles published in their
respective journals, the National and
the "Presse." that Carrel and Girardin
fought There is a pathetic story Of
Carrots gently asking his wounded adj
versary as. himself wounded unto death,
he was borne past in the arms of his
friends: Are you in great pain, sir?''
Persat was one OF Napoleons officers,
and was decorated for valor by the En-
peror's own hand. In 1916 he came to
America and fought with the French
fIibusters and under Bolivar. Later he
! Joined I'm the war for Greek indepen-
dence. and saved from death beautiful
young Turkish girl and married her.
Some years after he again came to the
( United states. became a Mormon, and
had some thrilling adventures with Mex
leans. Frankness and vivacity char
acterize his diary 10 such an extent that
Il is compared 10 a picturesque novel.
An historical study OF British Por-
trait Painting from It's Beginning to the
| Opening Of the Nineteenth Century has
/ h. " Gnio1roar1u
and is 10 be published by the Berlin
/ Photographic Company. 1t is to be
brought out i'm beautiful shape and in
a limited edition only.
| second series of the strange advent
ures OF the scientific detective, Luther
Trant, viii be welcome to the readers
Of the first series. The ingenious au-
thors. Mr.. Edwin Balmer and Mr.. ".
1 r. MacHarg propose to deal in their
new stories. with Russian revolutionary
plots. again applying their wonderful
machines for the discovery of crime.
! The heroine Of the first story. The
Hammering Man" is lovely Russian
/ girl II is TO appear I'm the May num-
Der Of "Hsmpton's Magazine"
| For the American edition Of Rostsnd's
"C'hantecler'' Miss Gertrude Hall is act
| ing as translator
The first two volumes IN the new
series. A History Of the Sciences" were
lately issued by The Putnams. These
we're the History Of Astronomy by
| George Forbes. and the History Of
Chemistry" by Sir Edward Thorpe. The
/ second volume OF Sir Edwards work will
! be brought out Immediately by this firm.
The monograph on George Sand. writ
ten by NJ. Rene Doumic. the literary
critic OF the Revue des Deux Mondes."
! has been translated into English by Miss
Alys ballard. and the translation is 10
! lie published here by the Putnams.
Writing Of the interchangeable Iabors for
half a century of George Sand NJ. Dou-
mic puts II thus wildly: For fifty times
three hundred and sixty-fve days she
never let a day pass by without cover
ing more pages than other writer's in
4 month"
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