New-York tribune., 1910-07-31
LITERARY NOTES.

Mrs. Margaret Deland has been at work for
the last three years upon a new novel She i5
now revising its last chapters, ana we may
probably look for the appearance OF the pook IN
the autumn
The first folio Shakespeare. 1923, which
brought $1,000 al a Sotheby sale IN 1880, came
to the hammer again the other day ana Vas
bought by Mr.. Quaritch for $1,000 IL IS an eA 4,
ceIJent copv and the decline in price IS worth
notice. It bears the boOkpate OF John Lane OF
Kings Bromley Manor, and it brought only
$3.50 at the sale of this gentleman DOCKS Il'y
years ago.
In the valuable series of Memories ct SouVe,
Mrs" brought out under the supervision or
NJ F. F'unck- -Brentano has just appeared the
'Histoire du Gentil Seigneur de Bayart, Son- S
posee par Ie Loyal Seryiteur 1t mas petn
edited with introduction and notes by NJ
Maurice Maindron. and is Illustrated from con-
temporary documents
We are to have some more amusing chromces
from the pen of that impeTiOus Anglo-Anerl-
can the famous Lady Holland To the vol
umes of her Journal published year or 1--WE
ago, is to be added volume containing - ne It.
Spanish Journal of Elizabeth, Lady Hoiland.
She describes therein two Journeys IN SPAN
which she undertook with Lord Holland ID
1SO3-'O5 and 1SUS-O9
MI Joseph McCabe. whose social studies en-
titled The Decay of the Church of Rome lf1-
P Dutton & Coz have served to provoke new
inquiry as to the relative strength of the Catho-
lie and Protestant communIons Is an tA-
Fra nciscan- who has already written a dozen
books dealing with religion from the secularlsL
point of view. Having been ordained priest IN
1891 Mr.. McCabe was professor OF schoIaSt1c
nhilosonhy at ST Anth0ny's College, London,
until 1895 when he became rector OF st Ber-
nardines College. Buckingham. soon after
ward he withdrew from the Church because
unable to adhere to Catholic doctrine
"a rudinentarv poet" is what Mr. L. A TolIe-
mache calls the late Goldwin Smith-and he
adds an "anecdote with quaint comparison
Walter Pater when walking with a trend
passed Goldwin Smith and remarked Ihere
goes the Milton of our day. but he has not
written and never will write his Paradlse
Lost"
Mr ToIlemache says that Smith was once
asked about Cobbetts objection to the phrase
than whom which is employed by Milton III
the sentence "Beelzebub, than whom, Satan eX-
cept, none higher sat,'-"herc than who might
seem 10 be demanded by the analogy of the
phrase than he He defended than whom as
being, sanctioned by usage, and compared IL 10
the French 'C'est moi 1t is noteworthy that ne
thus set usage above what may be termed the
logic of grammar. Fifty years ago a Fellow or
Balliol. after reading Goodwin Smiths Memoir
of Peel, put his dction on a level with Macau- M
lays, which then an even greater compA-
ment than it would now be
Ninety letters Intimate letters. written by
Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey. that good
| friend of her youth were sold the other DAY IN
London. They actually brought the consider
able of $510.
That publishing may be an eminently profta-
BILE business is shown by the size of the fortune
left by the lately deceased Thomas GaipIn,
once a partner in the London firm of Cassell.
PETER & Ciapin. and afterWard chairman anu
managing director of its successors, Cassell u
Co Limited His estate is said To amount 10
81 300 600 His partner. Mr.. q. w Peter, leIt
an estate even larger Tran thlS-
one Of the personages who appear in Miss
Rethan- -EdWards-s book on French men.
women and books is Jean Reynaud, author oI
Terri, ct Ciel" She tells US that keynaud
| once refused in his poverty 10 dine Win Il
friend SAYING Il will not turn friend mouse
INFO an inn and friendship into parasitism-
An interesting feature OF this new volume IS
formed by Miss Bethdm EdWardss unCom-
monty excellent translations from modern
French verse
The late Professor Churton Collins hose
death is a tragic episode III literary history
/ left some unpublished lectures which VII! shortly
be brought out in compact volume. Greek
Influence on English Poetry Will be the titie
| thereof.
4 book which promises to he Of much interest
/ To many readers is la Sale Maneer dc
Sainte- I}euVe" It contains a collection OF tahie
i talk made by NJ. jules Truubat- who was an N
| innate friend of The famous critic and his Eist
! secretary.
1t is good news tbs the brilliant writer, mo
! late T.. t,ebhaIt. left unpublished N"ih'
/ which --.-t coming from the press III fAIIA
1t is entitled Les Jardins dc ltiistoirG