New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-07-02
BOOKS AND AUTHORS

BOOKS AND AUiHUKS
Current Talk of Things Present
and to Come.
The late George Meredith's unfinished
comedy, THE Sentimentalist,' is to De
published, we are glad to note, In the
August number of "Scribner's Maya
zine" The creator of Rallies, Mr.. E. W.
Hornung, will have short story in the
same number.
The French people are indefatigable
in erecting monuments to their writer's
The last to be thus honored IS that
author of a former time, the Comtesse
de Segur, whose delightful books Tor
children have become classics Inc
monument has been placed in corner
of the Luxembourg Gardens. In Paris,
and 1t was unveiled the other day III the
presence Of the Marquis de Segur, VINO Is
not only a distinguished historian put
the hero of his grandmother's book,
Petit Pierre NJ. Jules Lemaftre, who
made an admirable speech on the occa-
sion. referred to the fact that the Com
tesse de Segur was the daughter OF that
Count Rostopchine who gave the order
for the burning of Moscow. 1T moves
one to think" observed M. Lemaftre,
that the daughter Of the man VINO
starved our soldiers In 1872 was the
charming entertainer Of tkeir grand
children, and that in her stories she
Toasted them with the wit, the reason
Of 10 E>Yln n
| those days"
Other literary memorials recently I'M
yelled in Paris were in the shape Of
medallion portraits of Charles and
FRANCOIS Hugo, the sons, and OF Au-
guste Vacquerie and Paul Meurice, the
friends and executors, of Victor Hugo
These medallions were attached to the
pedestal of the poets monument in the
Place Victor Hugo.
THE Historic Mohawk is the title of
book by Mary A. Diefendorf which is
coming from the press of the Putnams
It deals with region fIll Of grim stories
of Indian warfare and pioneer perils.
copy of the seventh edition Of DR..
J. NJ Hoogvliet's Elements Of Dutch
an introduction to the study Of the
Dutch langua ge-was presented by the
author to Mr.. Roosevelt on the ex-Presf-
dents visit to The Hague. DR.. Hoag-
vliet, who Is a professor Of Utrecht Uni
versity, wrote these verses inside the
cover:
The times, indeed, are Ions gone by
OF old New Amsterdam,
But we may find still, II we try,
Some Dutch in Uncle Sam.
And to remind you this is true
I daresay tbs not much
I beg to offer here to you
My Elements of Dutch.
May Holland and your blessed States
Continue TO be friends,
In spite of discord advocates,
Until all histry ends!
A collection Of eleven original docu-
ments relating to the crime Of Eugene
Aram-a crime which Hoods thrlllins
ballad has made famous in literature
is to be sold at auction in London 1t Is
stated that these documents have come
down to their present owner direct from
his ancestor, John Theakston, who was
the coroner in the Aram murder case.
Those who have read with delight the
late Sarah Orne Jewett's Country of the
Pointed FRS will joyfully turn to the
story in the current Atlantic" in which
the love romance of the shy old bachelor
William Blackett finds its happy ending.
This story, entitled Williams We'd
ding" was mislaid. we are told, and has
only Just been found. 1t has all the
Quaint tenderness and simplicity Of its
predecessors.
The British Poetry Dinner is to be
held in London a fortnight hence, four
hundred guests In romantic literary cos
tunes being expected. Each eminent
English poet of the past is to be repre-
sented by somebody made up" to look
like him. and each will be attended by
group Of persons dressed to portray
characters of his fancy. Byron, for ex-
ample. who will be represented by
Mr.. Julian Gede, will conduct COM
pany including Manfred. Don Juan, the
Maid Of Athens, etc. A young lady who
is to represent "Jepthah's Daughter in I
the Tennyson group will Pei form a Gym
bal dance during the evening. In the
Matthew Arnold group the Sorab of
"Sorab and Rustem'' is to be imper-
sonated by Mr.. Richard Sorabye. who is
described as IAN actual descendant of
the original Sorab."
Fifteen volumes of the novels of Alex
andre Dumas are to appear in the New
Century Library of Thomas Nelson
& Sons The Three Musketeers" will
be published in August, and a novel will
be brought out once month thereafter
until the publication is completed. Mr..
Andrew Lang has prepared general in
PRODUCTION for this edition.
I'm the Midst of the Seas" is the title
of the poem In Mr.. William Watson's
new volume, wherein is described his
journey across the Atlantic. He writes
admiringIy of the storm, the matchless
artist, the lord of color and line" and
dispraises New York, where people obey
not a king, but "some huge, voracious.
hundred headed thing armed with a
million tentacle~.'
The late Princess Fedora of Schles-
wig Holstein the youngest sister of the