New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-04-02
BOOKS and AUTHORS.
Talk of Things Present and
to Come,

to Come.
II is understood that Mr.. Roosevelt has
chosen for his Romanes lecture at Ok
ford a subject at once scientific and pop
ular. 1t Will afterward appear in
small volume.
II is useless to ask If the verse OF Rob-
ert Burns still finds enthusiastic readers.
1t certainly does in Great Britain Hun
dreds OF pounds. it is said, are paid for
Manuscript poems in his handwriting, and
his family Bible Ave years ago brought
Il 500 The poets shabby old mahog-
any desk, sold the other day In London.
actually fetched 1900. The worship OF
Burns these facts imply is worth noting
1t would be interesting to learn whether
il exists in the United States.
Shakespeare's pronunciation Of his
own name Is discussed by an English
commentator who holds that the true
pronunciation will be found in the sreneh
word "chaaue" and in the second sylia-
BILE of "espere" The rustics of war
wieksrire in these days pronounce the
inc IN Tl1aL way IL NdS III al fNSS~~
bility a surname founded on nickname.
Shakespeare was the shaker of the spear
as Wagstaf was the staff wager.
A copy Of John Eliot's Indian Gram
mar Begun" was recently sold in London
for 81 900 Another early American pub
LEGATION. Roger williams's Key Into the
Language of America" brought $40 at
the same sale.
The John Steventen" who is the au-
thor of a novel, 1.-The Hermit Of Capri,
lust published by the Harpers. Is, we
are told, Mr.. John Steventon Tarkins-
ton-the father, aged seventy, of Mr..
Booth Harrington.
The Faith Of Lsyman" is the title
Of & Forthcoming volume by Professor
w. II. Osborne, of Winnipeg University.
The author, il is announced, writes with
much frankness of modern ehurch con-
ditions.
Whether "Chanteeler" will have a
notable success in the theatres of the
that NJ. Rostand is making a comforta-
BILE fortune out of the published editions
of the play is a fact 1t is stated that for
the serial rights only 'L'Illustration" is
giving the author $4,000 for each act.
The editors of the New International
Encyclopedias" will bring out early in
May the New International Year Book
for 1909" It will be remembered that
Dodd, Mead q Co. are the publishers.
Nadar. the famous Partisan photogra-
pher. died the other day at the age or
ninety. He was a journalist, too, in his
earlier days, and there is an odd anec-
dete of how he ordered in 1899 or 1910
a story from Balzac. 1t is related by the
Paris correspondent of the London
Globe:
He had no money, and lived in garrett
with couple of friends-A Leon Noel an nei
Francois-as hard up as himself One day
FRANCOIS learned that he had inherited
5000 francs. The three inseparaeles had
never imagined that one of their number
could possess f24o andzvw a fne gener,
osity FRANCOIS at ones decided that the
money should he common property. AFTER
some discussion the trie-the eldest OF
that the best thing to do with the money
was TO be found journal. and the title Sc
iected was LIE Iivre d. Or." Nadar was
appointed editor. and his first step was TO
go to Balzae and arrange with him. for
the sum of go, to secure the hrst part or
a story La Frelore," which dealt with
the marvellous and sensational adventures
of a coincidence Unhappily, La Frelore'
never appeared. for after three numbers
the 'L4ivre d Or itself ceased to come out
pour cause majeuTe."
Tournaehon-is known to collectors of
camera portraits as the photographer of
all the distinguished personages of the
Second Empire. He was the kindest of
old men, and loved to bestow charity
without humiliating the recipient. APP
preaching a beggar, he would hand him
a coin, and inquire, did you happen
to have dropped this coin which I've just
picked up behind yeu? And It is added
that his Joy was complete if the beggar
was clever enough to reply: Mon bon
monsieur, that's just what I was looking
for"
The exhaustive history OF Babylonia
upon which Mr.. Leonard W. King, of
IN6 loIlIfSn AuSVu4iis iidS iOti6 bSNAA Ca"
gagged will soon appear. The author be-
lieves that the recent excavations shed
a striking light upon the evolution of
history. His work is to be issued in
three illustrated volumes.
The small volume containing the early
letters Of John Hay will be brought out
next week by the Houghton Mfffiin Com
pany.
The firm will issue at the same time
Mrs. Mary Hallock Foote'S new novel.
THE Royal Americans" AS its title
(the name of a valiant regimenD indi-
Gates, it is a story Of the eighteenth CEN
fury.
One of the speakers at the recent meet
ing of the English Authors Club de-
clared that there were three things the
author, and especially the English au-
thor. had TO guard against-frst, the use
of too many pronouns; second. the as
Stunning of too much knowledge on the
part of the reader; and third. not 10
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