New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-07-10

Mr.. Andrew Lang has two volumes in hand
to be published next season, as well as another
collection ion OF fairy taes-whieh by the way is
| is "Sir Walter Scott and the Border Min
| strelsy.' The other relates to The World Of
| Homer"
| A new biography of Villiers de rIsle-Adam, by
| NJ E. de Rougemont has just been brought out
in Paris. 1t is said to give for the first time
| really adequate account of this singular writer
| of his, such Baudelaire, Verlaine Huysmans,
| Coppee and Catulle Mendes.
Under the title of "A Quaker Post Bag" Mrs.
| G. Locker Lampson is to publish a selec-
ton from the letters written by William Penn
| to Sir John Rodes of Barlbrough Hall, Derby.
None of these letters has been printed before.
An introduction to the collection will be supplied
| by Mr.. Augustine Birrell.
! We have recently announced the preparation
Count Alfred dOrsay, whom he proposes 10
| celebrate THE Complete Dandy A note
in the London Nation on the incongTuous .acs
| that the man described by Captain Groho" as
| a gorgeous dragon fly was nevertheless tne
valued friend of such men as Byron, DICKENS
| Lander and Disraeli, recalls the description OF
| his visit to Cheney Row which Carlyle sent to
| his brother. Thus the sage wrote:
| must tell you Of the strangest compliment OF
vent Of Count dOrsay. About a fortnight ago
this Phteous Apollo of Rhrne st6er in
chariot that struck all Chelsea into a9 mute z nt
i Ike the HOPPER or sunder riddle of a pair OF
into actual contact With such grim
| ness Nevertheless we did amazingly Wen. me
built like a tower. with floods of dark auburn
hair, with beauty, with an adornn1ent unsurpass-
at ab's soo 5i By no insight
laughed for two days At the contrast of my my
| and this Paphian appariton
| Dr. Hofstede de Groot wearies not in well
doing, but continues to labor on his Catalogue
>f $ba Works of tha IN!
| Of the Seventeenth Century based on the
| great work of John Smith His third volume,
will soon be issued by the Macmillan Company:
1t is devoted to Halls. the two Ostades and
Adriaen BrouWer
The Oxford University Press is issuing The
Commemoraton Prayer Book. 1t contains all
the forms of prayer issued by authority con-
corning the late King from birth to death. 1t
is TO be illustrated with portraits of Edward
VII George v. Queen Alexandra and queen
Mary besides other pictures representing
memorable incidents in the life of King Edward.
Ten years ago. when the Dictionary OF Ma,
tonal Biography" was CONNECTED II htied i
scarcely settled down to its place in the library
when it was found necessary to issue Sup
Element" in three volumes Now still another
extension OF the work. again in three volumes
is announced. 1t will include biographies OF
famous people who died during the reisn OF
Edward VII. Mr.. Sidney Lee, the old editor
Of the Dictionary, will prepare these volumes,
which the Macmillans hope to issue early ia
1872.
Henry Holt & Co. announce that NJ. William
De Morgan is on his way back from Florence TO
London bringing with him the final corrected
proofs Of his new novel. IAN Affair of Dis
honor" He is said to have almost rewritten the
story in these proofs. While it will be some
what shorter than its four predecessors, 1t VIII
still be twice the length of the average novel
| NJ c. H HarinS is the author OF an elaborate
| work on THE Buccaneers in the West Indies n
the Seventeenth Century" which r. p Dutt"n "
Co will have ready in the fall. He has not only
studied all of the printed sources, but has drawn
largely upon hitherto unpublished documents IN
| London and Paris.
| The new volume OF short stories which Nj.
| Eden Phillpotts is publishing immediately Il
| called Tales of the Tenements.' The tene-
ments in question certain Dartmoor farms
! which date back to inmemorial times ard ARD
not, like the other farms. under The jur:sdicto1
| Of the Duchy of Cornwall
| number OF French authors have been
answering in La Revue a question put 10
them as TO their attitude on the question O: t1d
| vote for women. 1t is Interesting TO note tE'i
NJ Jules Ciaretie, NJ Henri Bernstein. II. EnAti
| Fagcet, III. Paul Hcrvieu and NJ. Maurice Don.
nav all in favor OF this extension OF the Su:-
iraEe. NJ. FaGuct is quoted saying taa.
| women being. generally, less sensual much
less criminal and infinitely less alcoholic than
/ men, ought, rather than men. make The I@w-
! Another translation of Vacari's Lives OF
the Painters. SculptorS and Archic :iS' Is under