The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-11
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.

The Owls OF ~. Ursula. ~ an artist
Her work in water color IL favorably
known and her book shows some d the
characteristics Of artistic painting.
The Danish Government has brought
in a ball Sbolishing the censorship Of
plays. The place % the Censor 10 taken
by theatrical council consisting % three
members selected by the Government.
dramatic authors and juFists-the sys-
TEN being copied from that In use In Por-
ngaL
new library has bean founded at
Benares. II h the gift of Raj krtshna
4 chAnd. q local resident, who wiahsd thus
70 psrpetuato his mothers memory
The building alone cost an immense sum
and Il contains . large collection Of books
and valuable manuscripts. Among the
latter ars some aAid to he over thousand
yeaS old.
A novsllmt writing on The Present
Position % Fiction IN the AiAen~uS
ment ions among the influences affecting
the moden novel the necessity for its
serial publication The life 81 the
average novel a. he says. barely three
months. and m consequence the sales
OF that novel cannot be very great. The
author. knowing this IN advances. m
variably endoavors TO r~coup himself
Ivy previous publication in serial form.
Hc Ia TO that extent under the
power Of the periodical and u controlled
by it Tho demand for the sensational
and the s.ntimental and particularly for
the happy ending limits tho full prcs-
entation oS human life. Novels OF
merit are. according ca this writer. over
looked daily in the whiri % rapid living |
and lack Of lucky accident. Lorna |
DOOne' owed It's recognition To the TACT
Of q royal marriage; Thomas Hardy |
found an aVenus to fame because an |
oditor's name occurred in Under the
Greenwood Tree" Fiction has reached |
a curioIls stage % evolution the 4ths-
RGun editor concludes is Il preparing
for rsvolutiouP-
In the good old times 81 Queen Elizabeth
Il was the fashion to write sonnets and
.onnet sequences. and many a lace friIled. |
ber1bboned becu and many man Of
prosaic calling contributed to tho htera-
turn OF thet day a sonnet sequence. Now
We have a new sonnet sequence. which |
appea rcd in England and has made such |
a deep impression that FIVE editions have
already been demanded Now IL 10 to
APPEAR in this country under the title Of
-Thyuis: An Elegy- IL 10 n sonnet 60 /
ayI-nca inspirrC. by the death % the poets
wife and Is written in a style which com |
nands. which has commanded the highest |
praise from Frederic Harrison. who says |
% them They have that pathos in
scrihed on marble in the best Greek |
epitaphs
4 do not care particularly. saxs Arthur
W North. the author 81 Camp and
Canine IN Lower California. for civiliza-
tion-or ahama II could b wrecked
With a library Of hooks on a semi-tropicAl
desert half timbered mssSas. Astounding |
in game. I'd be supremely happy Get
outdoors a lot and keep mighty busy; |
then the world I'm Z half had Mr. North
was horn IN California and is the son Of
California pioneer He u much interested
IN we-tern history and his travels have
led him all over this country and over
Ia rye parts Of Mexico. His book carries
the -pir1t 81 the true lover ~ outdoor life
and adventure
q p Putnams sons are Ga publish
this spr7ng an illustrates. volume by
Kelvin Mckready enti''-d a Beginners
star Book: With Charts 81 the Noon.
Star Maps on = New Plan and an Easy
Guide 20 the Astronomical Uses Of the
Opera Glass. the field Glass and the /
Telescope
The author - first of an concerned I
with the task Of making the starr interest 4
ing The book will be distinguished I
from other volumes on popular a-tron- /
omy by a somewhrt novel system %
mapping. and by an unusually full dis .
cuss,on ~ the us~s Of the si'npl~r astro- !
nomical instruments q .eStionS of optI-
col theory and construction are sun !
orciinated to the rointng out 10y the
author ~ the objects that can 10 seen I
with IN. unaidei eve. with rh" oDsra F.
glass. field glass ana telescope
a Radcliffe Dugmora. author -
camera Adventures IN the African l
WiIds.- IL the son Of an English army .
Captain who spent most II his life AZ out I,
door sport. chiefly shooting and fAlconry. /,
When Radclyra. JY was years old I
he vas tassn IN daily hunts over the /
family estates IN ireland II was his
job 20 mark the b,rds. and " didn't
he saws. 4 got a good hckinR after a
took the whole family around the world !
in a cruising Yacht a tTip that lasted az
years Capt Dugmore ~aS a collector ~ =
guns and the Yacht Was a Rrotesaue
arsenal The hoy had th" ~ him. de-
Iightful task of keeping these gums clean
and bright HIS schooling was ~ nec~-
sity desnIltory. hut the wide rang" ~ ms T,
oellAneous knowledge he has acquired !
on all sorts - outdoor sub ects mas b-eh
Of great assistance in his work
The scene of Eben PhlllpO,t- new novel J
to 10 p,iblishs.d tins week under the title /
The Thief ~ Virtue - LAID IN Dart /
moor. which he has made familiar IN his I
earlier works Mr. Phillpotts. II - proph~- (,
Sod. IN his series 81 novels about Dart /
moor will do for that part of England /
what Mr. Hardy has done for Essex
The Two knights % the Swan - Lohen- ,
grin and Helyass- by Robert JahrAy. !