New-York tribune., 1910-02-27
LITERARY NOTES.

LITERARY NOTES.
| A new novel by NJ. Georges Ohnet. the author
! of Serge Panine" and of that once very pop
| ular story. LIE Maitre de Forges,' is about TO
make its appearance. 1t is called The Red
Flag, and is the story OF dispute between
| capital and labor The scene is laid on the
Franco-German frontier.
| The second portion of the library of the late
Earl of Sheffield Will be sold in London
March 1 and . One OF the treasures be
disposed OF Is a copy of the first edition Of
Gibbons Decline and FAN of the Roman En-
pire,' which contains an inscription by he
historian Among the autograph letters is one
written by Frederick the Great, and including
some verses from his royal pen. Another was
addressed by John Evelyn to Samuel Pepys.
Another forthcoming translation from the
French has been anticipated with some eager
ness by those interested in the study of an ex-
citing period This is The French Revolution:
a Political History, work in which NJ Aulard
has embodied the results of minute and long
continued research. The translation Will occupy
four volumes.
The book which Mrs John Lane has been
writing is not a collection of essays social
| bona fde novel. Maria its heroine. is Il par
| venue and a climber who is described as turn
| ing every incident of her life into a round Of
| her ladder to social Importance. This record IS
not all, however, that will be found in Accord
| ing 10 Maria; there is also love story running
| chapters.
| pleasant to meet again in Mrs. Lanes novel
| the story telling gift she displayed as Anna
| Eichberg King.
! Perhaps nothing varies so much as individual
! ideas Of Paradise. 1t is possible that not many
people would agree with Lord Ronald Cover.
who told the English Authors Club the Other
/ evening that he imagined Paradise a state Of
| being where they would recIine a cowslip
bank with d friend having around them the best
illustrated books. If there were no illustrated
! books in heaven he would prefer not 10 So
! there-Whereupon all the authors laughed
The English authors by the way, continue 20
be uneasy in respect to their profits. t.
/ writes Mr.. r. s. Warren Bel to The Author
the Dukes of Marlborough and Wellington may
i've on property earned by illustrious ancestors,
why should not the descendants Of Dickens and
Tha ckeray do the same thing? II is monstrous
/ TO think that while Charles DickenS's works
selling iE their hundreds OF thousands every
year his gTanddaughters should be forced to
! draw civil list pensions. and very small ones at
that AS it is obvious that similar fate awaits
! the descendants of the distinguished writer's
who form the Society of Authors Council. let
/ these clever men get to work and if they
| cannot put things right"
Mr.. Paul Leroy Beaulieu's opening lecture at
! expect to see in future volume-dealt with the
| origins of socialism His personal definition is
| that Socialism is d system which has recourse
10 state compulson either in the way Of regul.-
| Jion or taxation, 10 bring about less inequality
of conditions among men than the unrestricted
! freedom OF contract mas spontaneously
duced-" In q notice OF the lecture The Pan
| Mall Gazette says:
! he gives some amusing specimens Of the length
to which the pursuit Of this doctrine its cGic;s!
| end has pushed its advocates and quotes the re-
| mark Of a Socialist Deputy for Barcelona that
would prefer not TO be known by his patsrnaI
name. but merely NO. AS. the Commune q
! Sabadeil. AS the lecturer says. ConVicts are al
| ready named by this process; but it is doubtfuI
| whether there is much chance CT its being gem
orally adopted On the origin of the faith-for
faith il undoubtedly iS-he declares unhesitatiHsIy
that the French Revolution of 1889 had nothing D
| do with it and that the effect of that uphe:tvaI
! was TO establish the institution OF private prom
| erty-including. he says, the right of
! abusing ii pleaSure-On q frmer basis than
t before. Babeuf, the authority, the
father of modern socialism; but it may be doubted
! of the commuriistic sects Of the Middle Ages and
! the Renaissance
The latest biography of Henry Fielding con-
! tans some discoveries in regard the
InoveSt-discoveTies which interesting. IL
! not strkingly important. The author, Miss O.
and has upon the details of suit which
! boyhood and settles the mystery of the Dorset
property. She has found also few letters of
his. hitherto unpublished and she has dIScOV-
cred when and where his first wife the original
of Sophia Western. died. Her hook contains
more than thirty very interesting Photographic
! reproductions Of old prints.
N MEHOHIAH