New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-06

Mr. George Cary EggIeston's "Recollectinns Of
a Varied Life Will be brought out in April by
Holt specially interesting portion of the
volume will deal with the authors experiences
in the Confederate army.
It is proposed to found a scholarship in Sim
mons College, in Boston, a memorial to the
late Sarah Orne Jewett. Her work, her ex-
quisite sketches of New England life and char
acter IN the latter half of the nineteenth
fury Will, we believe. be lasting monument
but there undoubtedly many readers who
would like contribute the sum of a few
thousand dollars needed for this scholarship.
died few weeks ago, is chiefly remembered
for his pretty pastoral ballad beginning
1 sat with Doris, the shepherd maiden:
1 sat and wood her through sunlight Wheeling
And shadows stealing for hours and hours
Mr., Munby delighted in writing of the work.
in field and household. and his country
story in verse entitled Dorothy" once
much admired If now forgotten.
A new French book which appeals to readers
in this country is M. +. Dupuys "Americains
ct BarbareSQues.' 1t deals with the be-
tween the United States and the Dey of AL
giers. the protector of the Barbary pirates. NJ
Arthur ChuQuet, of the Institute, contributes a
preface.
The fine copy of the first folio of Shakespeare,
which brought $1o,12J a London sale three
years has now gone into the library OF
Mr.. James Glen, the Glasgow collector. This
volume which belonged to Earl Howe. is one
of the few perfect copies left in Great Britain
X contains the uncorrected last page OF The
Third Part of Henry VI"
The new novel which the author of The
Viper of Milan is about to publish is entitled
Il VIII Maintain" Miss Bowen has set the
scene in Holland in the period of John De Witt.
An Unwilling Minerva is the piquant title
of Mrs Mabel Osgood Wright's new novel Ii
is announced by the Macmillan Company
Lord Creyve mas undertaken to write a book
about his father, Lord Houshton-Who IS often
est remembered the clever Richard Monckton
Mines Does anybody we wonder. sing now
adavs Il wandered by the brookside? He was
much more interesting friend and talker
than poet. Grant Duff once wrote concern
ing him. 1T ALWAYS seemed to me that HouSh-
ton had enough material in him to have made
at least three men of ability, each one of whom
might we'll have had higher position than
ever fell to his lot" Sir Wemyss Reds formal
biography OF HouGhton is an exhaustive work,
but nevertheless book of intimate recollec-
tions from the pen Of Lord Crewe VIII be well
come.
A region as remarkable for beauty as for
ragicaI historical episodes is described in Mr..
". Max Reds forthcoming volume, Lake
George and Lake Champaign The Putnams
are issuing the book, which is to contain many
illustrations from photographs
The newest volume of French biography is
NJ. Billiards. THE Marriage Ventures of Marie
English by Evelyn. Duchess Of Wellington a
new book which will cover part of the Same
ground is MI. Tighe Hopkinss work, The
Women NAPOLEON Loved
A volume of The Letters of Richard Henry
Lee" is coming from the Macmillan press-the
first volume of a series which viii include all
the available letters of the men who headed
the Virginia delegation in the Continental Con-
gress in the eventful period of the first resolu-
ton of independence Professor Ballagh has
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