New-York tribune., 1910-10-23
LITERARY NOTES.


The "reminiscences of Goldwn Smith will be
published by the Macmillan Company on No
vember % The volume which is to be Illus
| trated. has been edited by Smiths secretary
and literary executor Mr. Arnold Haultain.
DR.. George Brandes is responsible for care
ful biography OF that extreme socialist. Ferdi-
nand Lassaie- The book is soon to appear in
English. and apart from its curious political
interest VIII appeal to the admirers OF the hero
of Meredith's novel, The Tragic Comedians
The first sale of the Robert Hoe library will
take place in this city. at the Anderson Auc-
ton Rooms. early IN February. It promises to
be very important one.
French readers are to have series Of books
on foreign writer's, beginning with one on
"Chaucef." by NJ. Emile Legouis and one on
| THE Brontes." by the Abbe Ernest Dimnet
NJ. A. Kosuls book, La Jeunesse de Shelley
will follow
The centenary of Mrs. Gaskeli. the novelist.
this is told the blood curdIing story of the
ghost that is said to walk in the Clopton
kell visited girl. 1t is story of the great
plague of the seventeenth century and it's hero
inc was Charlotte Clopton. She was supposed
to have died of the terrible disease and was
hastily buried. Presently the family vault
opened to receive another victim and the body
/ of poor Charlotte was discovered leaning
against the wall in her grave clothes. She had
| revived only to die of hunger and horror.
! The first volumes of the new edition Of Will
| lam Morris's works viii be brought out next
| month. They have been edited by the au-
thors daughter. The edition viii be complete
| in tWenty-four volumes and will be limited 20
one thousand and fifty copies, the odd fifty
only in sets, and the type will be distributed
soon each volume is printed. The edition
will be ILLUSTRATED one.
Mr.. Bran Stoker's book Famous Impos-
tors is the press of the Sturgis-Walton Com
pany 1t deals not only with the notable swim
dlers and charlatans of far-off days but with
such moderns as the Princess Olive and Mime.
HuInbert.
'"The Feminine Influence on the Poets is 4
subject calculated to furnish much entertain
ment il treated by the right person 1t re-
mains to be if Mr.. Edward Thomas, VINO
has prepared a volume under that title. has
| risen to the occasion.
| NJ Lenotre's book the experiences of tho
Gascon royalist, the Baron de Batz-an Eng
| lish version of which has just appeareo-Was
first published in Paris years ago, and ie
| is surprising that it was not Translated before
1910 De Batz Of the strangest fig
ures of the French Revolution. he is SAID 10
have used his enormous wealth IN bringing
about dstr11st among the revolutionary leaders
and in Gripping finance, and thus had much 10
| do with the end Of the butchery. Ihere was
one terrible incident of the executions preced-
| ing the fall OF Robespierre thus narrated py NJ
! L1enotre in this volume:
| A certain of great strength and hardness
one & OF those that he Would
watch the execution at close quarters
.
not do not know For long time ne ,,oo pore The IL
scaffold and arranged herself upon the plank ana
said gently to the executioner: Monsieur shai1
/ be all right like that his head swan and his
sight failed him, his immense strength gave way,
and he fell the ground. For moment he was
thought to be dead and carried home
The committee formed in Holland to erect a
monument at Zutphen to Sir Philip Sidney have
lust published a memoir of Sidney wherein they
dwell upon the fact that his memory has al
ways been kept alive in the Low Countries.
Mr.. F. Hopkinson Smiths new novel, KEN
nedy Square," is a story of the South before the
Civil War. It's initial chapter appears in the
! November number of "Scribner's Magazine
! The same number contains Through the
Nists." sketch by Sir A Conan Doyle OF an
episode of the fourth century.
Again has the title occurred to two
widely removed writer's. An entertaining Amer
can story by Mr. Henry G. Rowland is now
running as a serial in the Saturday Evening
POST under the title OF THE Pilot Fish A
story bearing the title by a foreign au-
thor Mr. H de We're StacpoOle, leads the con-
tents of the forthcoming number OF The
! Forum
ROBERT LOWE, LORD SRERBROOhE.
Cioldwin Smith, fl The Nineteenth Century