New-York tribune., 1910-07-23
BOOKS AND AUTHORS
Current Talk of Things Present
and to Come.

DUNN AMI Hc sISflS
Current Talk of Things Present
and to Come.
| An unpublished poem written by
Ralph Waldo Emerson and illustrated
by William Henry Furness- when the pair
were boys is to appear in the Records
| of Lifelong Friendship which the
Houghton Mifflin Company will publish
| in the coming season. The volume Will
| contain the affectionate and intimate
correspondence of the two friends and
will be issued in a limited edition of $50
mum bered copies.
The third and fourth volumes OF En-
erson's Journals will be brought from
the Riverside Press in October. These
cover the period of his journey in Eu-
rope his establishment al Concord and
his marriage. Margaret Fuller appears
in its pages, as does that very shallow
philosopher, Mr.. AlCott
A volume of "Chats on Autographs
promises to be of particular interest to
collectors. The author, Mr.. A. NJ.
Broadley, is himself a collector of energy
and authority It is stated that among
the signatures reproduced will be those
of Ismail Pacha and Arabi Pacha, for
whom Mr. Broa dley acted as counsel at
the Cairo court martial of 1882.
The late Chief Justice Fuller was in
mild way a. literary man. He was for
some time a contributor to the critical
pages of the Chicago DIAL reviewing
historical and biographical books and
novels with equal interest. His opin-
ions, so far as we have observed them,
were based on genuine culture and ex-
cellent taste.
In book entitled Mad Magistrates"
DR.. A. S. Rappoport has dilated upon the
histories of various European sovereigns
who have been grievously afflicted by
mental disease. 1t is book which we
should hardly commend to the general
reader. 1t is the result, it is TO be sup
posed, of the rivalry Of British pub
fishers always agog for sensational ma
terial.
A descriptive illustrated book on
Switzerland has been prepared by Pro-
fessor Oscar Kuhns, Of Wesleyan Uni
versity It is the outcome of many long
visits to that land of glorious mountains
and beautiful valleys. Thomas Y.
Crowel & Co will soon bring out the
volume.
A collected edition of the late Sarah
Orne Jewetts stories and Tales" will
be issued by the Houghton Miff1in Com
pany in October It is to be complete
in seven volumes (sold only in sets). and
will include the story which finishes so
happily the romance of William of The
Country of the Pointed Firs."
The Scribners will publish next month
Mr. Richard Harding Davis's new book.
once Upon a Time The new Dooley
book Mr.. Dooley Says" will be brought
out at the same time.
DR.. Lyman Abbott has prepared a re-
ply to the statement credited to that
English observer, Mr.. G. Lowe Dickin-
son, that Americans use all their energies
in the pursuit of wealth and power to the
exclusion of things religious. DR.. Abbott
calls this new book Seeking After God"
1t is announced by CroWen.
The late British barrister. Arthur J.
Munby, is known to Americans as a
poet and largely through his charming
ballad beginning:
l sat with Doris, the shepherd maiden.
Her crook was laden with wreathed flow
erS;
1 sat and wooed her through sunlight
wheeling
And shadows stealing. for hours and
hours.
Mr.. r. B. Cunninghame Graham. bid
ding farewell to his friend. the late
Major Martin Hume. has called him
Don Martin" The title is happily con-
ferred, and it is one by which many
readers will gladly remember one of the
most delightful of modern historians.
Major Hume was a sound scholar and
devoted to the study of documents-did
he not spend ten years in editing and
seeing to the publication of the Spanish
state papers of the reign of Elizabeth in
the Continental archives?-but not even
in this work done for the Record Office,
did he forget that history is but the
reflection of poignantly human things,
and in the numerous volumes which he
prepared for wider public he was wont
to give free play to his feeling for pict-
uresqueness and romance.
There is an interesting story of the
origin of his ambition to write history.
Educated at Madrid, where branches of
his family had lived for over a century
he saw much OF Spain. and once picked
up In a book shop there a Spanish
chronicle of the reign of Henry VIII
of England He sat up all night to
read ID and presently undertook a
translation If the book. Thenceforth he
gave himself to literary career. He
began late. being over forty when he
took up his life's work. but he was al
most incredibly industrious. and when he
died the other day in London at the age
of sixty-two. he had put some TWENTY
odd volurnes~to his credit Among then,
are lives of Philip II of Spain. Sir Walter
Paleigh and Lord Burleigh, a study Of
THE Courtships OF Queen Elizabeth -
another of The Love Affairs Of Mary.