New-York tribune., 1910-06-11
BOOKS AND AUTHORS
Current Talk of Things Present
end TO Come.

SlIu 10 COHS.
The John Lane Company will publish
next Friday Mr.. w. ]. Locke's new
novel. Simon the Jester" The hero Is
man with a heavy burden. II have
been told by the highest medical author
ities," he says, that / may manage 70
wander in the flesh about this planet for
another six months. After that 1 shall
have to do what wandering / yearn for
through the medium of my ghost. There
is certain humorousness in the pros
pect." Mr.. Lockes readers, familiar
with his clever touch, will observe with
keen interest his management of the
problem thus presented.
Visitors to Monte Carlo who want TO
know all about the history of that place
will find plenty of information in book
| just published by Miss Ethel Colburn
Mayne. She calls it The Romance OF
Monaco and It's Rulers" and she tells
her story with a full sense of the
dramatic elements in the annals of the
little Mediterranean principality.
The letter. which was presumably the
last written by Professor Goldwin Smith
was addressed TO an old friend Of his In
this country, Professor Homer Sprague,
of Cornell University. This letter con-
tains some touching evidences of the
writer's endeavor to preserve his wonted
courage and buoyance, despite bitter
suffering. He says:
My Dear sprague; II my answer 10 your
most kind letter has been long delayed, II
was not because it was unappreciated, but
because in the confusion il had got lost
searched for ii in vain. You will forgive
the want Of memory in one whose brain
1t is almost wonderful that in my state the
knowledge OF any friends existence mas
been retained. o that my memory had
been retained like my senses!
] had very bad accident. For four days
after ii ] was totally unconscious and for
some days afterward my memory did not
Ny memory for names has only inperfectly
returned, crippled and deblitated as l am
Cannot tell what vii become of me, But I
can tell, alas! that I shall never see Ithaca
again; Xainly ! had n hoped TO st srand 17bI upon "a
would have been still more pleasant 10 see,
the forms of such of my. old friends and
acquaintance as were left. I can hardly
even ask a Cornellian friend. if he comes
this way, to look, in upon me Where l
5na R re ln eondton coud G hardly fail to
GOLDWIN SMITH,
wife. to nv surprise as well as to my pro-
found sorrow. died before me. Having lost
her. I LOCKED for my only ~, and my ,,.S iass
need not say should have remained at
her beloved side.
This letter was dictated by Professor
Smith at his home in Toronto on May
of the present year.
The late Sidney Porter, better known
as O. Henry, was active with his pen al
most down TO the day of his death.
new collection of his stories, entitled
"whirligigs," will be published by
Doubleday. Page & Co. IN September.
The buttons have just published here
the autobiographical book. George
Meek: Bath Chairman" to which we
referred not long ago as having got itself
printed under the enthusiastic auspices
of Mr. H G. Wells. Prefxed to the VOL
un1e are these lines. in which Mr.. Meek
speaks not only for himself but for his
comrades:
SONG OF THE CHAIR-MEN.
We do not live. we only starve and linger;
We we baTe do mot s hGP s the Say YEARS d ave a9ng
faith-less;
Come, listen to the chsIr-rnen's feeble
song.
We have no grip on life all things per
VadnE,
We have no cheer but what to-day may
bring;
There i: no love for those who walk in
O. listen while the trailing chair-rnen
God send US help. or else there IS no sa-
God send US hope, or else we die in pain;
God send US light, or else we blipdly fa!ter,
God send US quickly back TO sleep again
Bundly We strive. the vultures gather
weakly We seek 20 arm ourselves and
stand;
We may not fly, there is no welcome wait
For Such as US in all thi. teeming land.
We would be men, and do mems work un-
We would be free and never know a care;
We would be strong and give for what life
But Hope lies wounded dying every
where
We would achieve. would quarry stones or
We've but our manhood left to Us to
o, Land OF England! is there none to
help US?
Is life just this-and presently the grave?
The Bodleian Library at Oxford has
received treasure in the shape of $3.50
sanscrit MSS. the munifcent donor be-
ing the Prime Minister of Nepal. This
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