New-York tribune., 1910-01-29
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.

BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
Talk of Things Present and
TO Come.
THE Diary of James X. Folk" 4. to be
published soon by A. c. McClurg & Co.
The manuscript, which belongs to the
Chicago Historical Society, has been
used by historians, but ii is now to be
brought out in complete form for the
first time. It will fill three octave vol
umes of four hundred pages each
The ninth and concluding volume of
The Writings of Madison" edited by
Mr.. Gaillard Hunt, is announced by the
Putnams. All sources, public and pri-
vate, have been examined by the editor,
and the collection of documents and let
ters is believed TO be complete.
The rector of Merton in Norfolk has
in just published volume worked havoc
with the pathetic story of ''The Babes in
the Wood" 1t appears that there was
who, as a prosperous orphan. became a
ward of Queen Elizabeth. He died while
visiting his stepmother or on the way to
her house, and his uncle claimed the
estate. That gentleman was unpopular,
and an impression grew that he had
murdered tho boy-but nobody ever dis
covered the truth of the matter. Alas
for the ballad. But it is comforting to
hear that the legend of the amiable
robins that covered the babes with leaves
is so stoutly believed in Norfolk that no
boy in the county will steal eggs from a
robins nest
A volume on "Roman Cities Of Italy
and Dalmatia,' by Professor A. l..
rockingham, of Princeton, will be pub
lished shortly by the Sturgis- Walton
Company. The text dealing with these
ancient cities is reinforced by sixty-four
illustrations.
New York Society on Parade Is the
title of forthcoming volume by Mr..
Ralph Pulitzer, the eldest son of the
proprietor of "The World" of this city.
The Harpers will publish the book.
The often noted assertion that Tenny-
son was not "a thinker annoys Mr.. An
drew Lang, who declares that he is tired
to death of hearing It, He continues
thus:
Tennyson was a considerable thinker"
He argued at Cambridge as an undergrad
uate in favor of our evolution from some
aflt ha
date when Darwin arrived at his epoch
making conclusions. But he did not pro-
pose to initiate the behavior of ''the greater
ape our ancestor, vino, however, / under
stand, is by no means patron of free
love" like some Of our present thinkers,
but highly domesticated ape. attached to
family ties Tennyson was q born mystic
he had peculiar psychical caleXperiences. most
beautifully adumbrated in In MemoriamS;
and he hoped that his love was immortal,
not to perish with the death of the body.
AS Locl1hart writes
Ore faith ] fain would keep.
One hope IN not forego,
Eternal be the sleep,
Except to waken So
in the society of the beloved
Serene in perfect prime
OF body and OF soul.
Lockhart's lines were dear to CARLYLE
but Tennyson is now despised by thinkers
who do not desire what he desired. and
contemn every mortal who is not mate
rialist Well. Tennyson was ''born to other
things" and he was thinker. If we
must have poets who are thinkers"
though he reached conclusions despised by
popular science We must take him with
his limitations Whether his thinking was
right or wrong, 1t does not, as Mr.. ker says
lott" "The Lotus Eaters" ''Tithonus."
Mariana in the Moated Grange" Ulysses"
Mr.. Ker quotes 'Sidneys idea of poetic en-
deavor Tennyson accomplished ii. I
would he content to rest his fame on these
successes. and ] do not care what think
ers' may say. They cannot alter the fact.
Mr. Hutchns Hapgood has described
in Types from City Streets the life
and people of the underworld. In the
course of his observations he has found
much to admire, and his book is not at
all pessimistic. Funk & Wagnalls Will
bring 1t out
The same firm is publishing new and
revised edition of Mr.. Morris Hillquit's
History of Socialism in the United
States" The work, which has been
brought up to date, has been entirely re-
set.
"a Mine of Faults" is the odd title of
a love story which the Putnams are
about to publish. The heroine is an Ind
ian princess whose beauty disarms and
conquers a Sovereign who bankers for
her fathers kingdom. This book is the
latest work of Mr.. F. w. Balm, author of
"A Digit of the Moon"
The just published translation by Pro-
fessor a. Wolf of SpinoZa's Short
Treatise on God, Man and His Well
being has rich and clear commentary
and an equally valuable Introduction.
containing a literary history OF the work
and study of Spinozas life. The lat
ter corrects in many particulars various
former biographies. Professor Wolf
shows that Spinoza enjoyed life. poor
though he was.
A new book by M. Gabriel Dromard
contains very cold comfort for his con-
temporaries. He declares that while
only a very few individuals are capable