New-York tribune., 1910-04-17
LITERARY NOTES.

1t is announced that The Century. viii in
future give much space to articles dealing with
Important religious subjects in which there IS
wide interest
American Problems from the Point Of View
OF Psychologist such is the title of Profess
sor Hugo MunsteTberg's new book now on th..
press of Moffat Yard & Co These problems
concern nerves, prohibition, books markets.
ghosts, women, vocations SchoiarshiD AMI
50 on
a verbatim reprint Of the first edition Of Rob
ert BTowning's Men and Women is coming
from the oxford University Press There will
| be issued at the same time a collection of Shell
ieys prose productions taken from the Bod
| leian manuscripts. This collection will include
many fragments hitherto unpublished
Two large mosaics have been placed on the
wall of free library building at Southwark
| in London, on the spot past which Chaucers
| pilgrims rode on their way TO Canterbury. These
mosaics-which portray the pilgrims-are to b.
unveiled soon. with appropriate ceremonial.
Southwark is a region of mean streets and
poor people, yet the surprising statement is
| made that the three Chaucer volumes in the
/ library are always in demand.
| Mr.. Theodore NJ. Davis. the American explorer
OF Egyptian tombs, is bringing out book under
| the title Of The Tomb of Queen Tiyi." Ac-
| companying Mr.. Davis's text Note" by
| Professor G. Elliot Smith, a Sketch of the Life
| a chapter on THE Excavations of 1907 by Ed
| ward Ayrton. and a catalogue of the objects
/ discovered. by George Daresay.
| The Bardon Papers which cover the period O,
| the Imprisonment OF Mary Queen of Scots from
| May, 1872 to the date of her execution, have
| just been published for private circulation. We
| have long given up all hope" says The Satur-
| day Review" of London, "of having the
| dark places in Mary's career completely cleared
| TO the light. Documents have long since proved
| quite useless. Those who believe Mary to be
] innocent of BothwelTs murder or of direct COM
plicity in the Darlington conspiracy to murder
| have m IL their IN ndS hat
/ ing evidence is forgery if written, falsehOOd
| wrung by torture IL attested No one of thos,
| who have not seen these papers in the original
| will be moved iot now that they may read
| them in print. Partisans who wish to be edu-
/ Gated In the subject matter of their
not, however. afford TO neglect them"
The volume The Mississippi River" upon
which Mr.. Julius Chambers has been engaged
will be brought out by the Putnams in the early
| autumn. The book gives an exhaustive aCCoGn'
| OF the remarkably picturesque history of the
| great river.
The first three volumes Of the Tree Book
| Series projected by the John Lane Company.
coming from the press. They are devoted
| respectively to the holly. the beech and the
| gingkO trees and deal with them from both the
scientific and the literary points of view. The
| book about the gingko appeals with special
| force 10 those engaged in the Identification OF
village and city streets, since that tree is valua
| BILE for its fine growth and its freedom from
| disease.
Mrs. T. +. O'COnnor, the American wife OF tn,
| Irish NJ p and editor Of IN. 4. p" is about
| 10 bring out a volume Of "Reminiscences which
| she calls Il Myself" 1t is said TO be full Of
| descriptions and anecdotes of celebrities.
| Arms and the Maid" is the title Of the ne-v
novel by Raphael Sabatiui. which the Putnams
| are about TO publish II is an exciting story Z
| tn, days of Monmouth and his royal uncle an
| eXeCutioner.
1t is known that the library of the late Rob-
| ert Hoe is of the most valuable and inter
CSting collections eXtant. The mass Of treasures
| il contains is 10 be estimated only by a stud,
| of the fourteen large octave volumes which
| tain catalogue of portion of its items. Col
/ lectOrs wondering when these things are =
/ be dispersed and whether the place OF sale VII
! be London or New York
Mr. Rossottis daughter Nine Angel has