New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-27
BOOKS AND AUTHORS
Current Talk of Things Present
and to Come.

Current Talk Of Things Present
and to Come.
drawn out novel. "Once Aboard the
Lugger,' is to have a successor during
the autumn, the author, Mr.. A. 5. NJ
Hutchinson, having produced new
story which is said to be more serious
than the first one, though not without
humor.
The volume of True Stories of the
Past by the late Major Martin Hume.
which is to be published soon. will deal
with the murder of Rizzio. with the
secret marriage of Lady Arabella Stuart
and with other romances OF history.
An edition of Professor Flinders Pet
rie's work THE Arts and Crafts of
Ancient Egypt" viii be brought out
issued at the same time Mr.. A. l.. Hay
dons book The Riders of the Plains:
A Record of the Royal Northwest
Mounted Police of Canada
and His Circle we may expect to find
a collection of many entertaining anec-
dotes and characteriZations. Rogers
was given to effective sarcasnS, effective
largely because of the deadness of his
countenance and the dryness OF his
name" There was not always so much
truth in his sharp speeches as in that
Of
biography and the number of memoirs
he had composed: why 1t Is not safe
to die While Moore's alive"
Miss Sylvia Paukhurst, the daughter
of the English woman suffrage leader.
has written in The Suffragette" book
which is said to be a dramatic personal
narrative. The Sturgis & Walton Com
pany will publish il.
DR.. Andrew Whites book, Seven
Great Statesmen is coming from the
press of the Century Company. Sarpi,
Turgot, Grotius, Stein, Thomasius,
Cavour and Bismarck are the person
ages selected for discussion by the
author Bismarck DIR. White knew we'll
when at Berlin.
Mr.. r. r. Bowker's history Of Copy
right is to be published by the HouSh-
ton Miff1in Company in November. 1t
must be regretted that the new bill TO
be discussed by the British Parliament
one which will make notable changes
in the law if carried through-cannot be
included in the measures dealt with by
Mr. Bowker in his valuable handbook
4 young literary man, an Anglo
F'renchman. is the hero of the new
novel which Lucas Malet, the daughter
of Charles Kingsley, is about to pub
lish Adrian Savage" is the title, and
it is described as being full of senti-
mental complications
The Level Plan for Church Union' is
the title OF the forthcoming book in
which Bishop Brown, of Arkansas. has
defined his much talked of position in
regard to Church unity. MIR. Whitaker
will publish the volume.
The original edition of Professor W.
NJ. Sloanes life of Napoleon is now out
of print 4 new library edition, which
is on the press of the Century Company
will present a great deal of entirely new
matter, the author having continued to
collect material for many years.
In discussing two anthologies of verse
devoted to Italy the reviewer of the
London Times says that 1T is Curl
Gus to note what lyrics strike us, what
rocks stand out in the waste of words,
when we come to them freshly. without
prejudice. And in these days of new
little gods it is almost a relief to find
how. without any will Of our own 1t Is
the big men that still strike home.
Browning glows. Shelley shines, Byron
CLEANS and glitters, Rossetti burns
white In these pages-fOr many of the
same poems and poets naturally appear
in both works We are struck anew by
the immense absence of sentimentality
in Browning, by his dramatic sense of
Italy's meaning which makes him in
vest every street corner. every land
issues that they bring: by the trans
lucent thought of Shelley, or. rather, the
translucent emotion which flashes into
thought as we look. and wheels swift
through the very heart of italian nature
over the Euganean hills and Ponte
Serchto and the Bay of Naples. or OF
Spezia: by the sense of grand and ford
deed housed in marble palaces which
Byron's eIoquence suggests"
Napoleon in His Own Defence" Mr.
C. X Shorter's compilation of original
material giving the Emperor's own
views of his career and his captivity is
for publication here by Cas-
sell.
Among the Argyll letters of the eigh-
teenth century is an amusing one writ