New-York tribune., 1910-02-13
LITERARY NOTES.

LITERARY NOTES.
Rostand's "Chantecler," the new play which
has just been put upon the stage in Paris, Is
presently to be translated into English This
version of it will be published here by Duff
field & Co.
stamp out the plague of improper books In
Vienna the other day the police swooped down
upon some thirty thousand volumes In one shop
and carried them off for destruction The re-
suit has been a renewed plea for strlcter super,
vision of the books placed upon public sale.
In the eighteenth century to-day your poet
sometimes gave himself up to rue1ul reflection
on the market value of his wares In letter OF
Cowpers, lately sold at auction. occurs this
reference Il am very good arlthmetcan,
yet l calculated the other day in my morning
walk that my two volumes at the price of
three guineas will cost the purchaser less than
the seventh part of a farthing per line. Yet
there lines among them that nave cost
me the labor of hours" How Cowper would
have opened his eyes at the coolies of money
made hy some of his successors, such as Tenny-
kipling.
A biography of the late Orville H. Patt Of
Connecticut. has been written by Mr.. L. a.
Coolidge and is soon to be published by the
Putnams 1t bears the happy title of An Old
Fashioned Senator
Two new novels are issuing this month from
the press Of Charles scribners Sons one, The
Glory of His Country, @ & by Frederick Land!E IS
destined" is novel of New York life by
Stephen French Whitman.
If DIR. William Fairfield Warren is correct
in his calculation, the much COntriVing Odys-
seus has TO his credit the crowning achievement
! of snatching the supreme prize Of polar eX-
pOratiOn In THE Earliest COSmOOGies' (Eaton
& Mains), DR.. Warren points out that the re-
coyery of the true Homeric conception of the
abode of living men poUrS flood of light over
| the entire odyssey, showing it to be repre-
sentaton, in highly poetical form. OF an 'magI-
nary Recommendation of the mythical earth
| in it's upper or northern hemisphere, including
| a trip to the under or southern hemisphere
and visit to the North Pole Against the ira
ditional cosmolOgists DR.. Warren advances the
| hypothesis that the earth Of Babyonlan,
| Hebrew and Homerc belief was a spherical
earth and not a thick circular DISK.
The Charities Publication Committee has
brought out in 'WOmen and the Trades by
Elizabeth Beardsley Butler, the first of the SIX
volumes summarizing the findings of the Pitts
b1lre, "Survey' The remaining volumes will treat
| of the households at Homestead and life OF the
steel workers. the significance of accidents to
the workman and divers other important
| themes.
Let those who are tfmid about their French
blaming themselves because il is not as good as
| their English take heart Of grace Here is Mr:
| Andrew Lang discoursine on "Babu English
and apropos, he makes these modest obserVa-
| tions:
| We are all apt to write foreign tongues OF
| which we are not quite masters in a Babu ldl"ih.
| 4 celebrated French scholar to whom once wrote
i'm my Babu French replied. in excellent t-nSIlSl,
| that much as he admired my French style ne
| preferred to read my English. In French, Know
! / am the compeat Babu. once in Pans rtIicIt
lady asked me to direct her t. the SLOp tle i'oii
! Narchb "PTene7 q SiaiStre. Madame | sald ana,
| recognizing that | quoting ElI0n tabo1t
| 46O) '.y'rcnce Il dertre ct &iHiStTe. IauSHeu,
| and so did the lady. though perhaps Silc dld not
know nv poetical source From the 'ChtnSoii ge
| Roland" 10 I.abiche and 3oisgobey my lrehch Is
Ratu is a mosaic of fragments OF the language
| through nine centuries.
Mr. Percy Fitzgerald, indefatigable IN the
ma king of books. has biography OF SAM
mel F'oote in hand. He could not have more
amusing subject and, especially IN view or MS
acouaintance with the theatrical history OF EiS-
land he ought to produce readable work
The Revells announce under the title OF Fltty-
three Years in SYRIA book which Should be OF
much interest to those who care TO: the MS
tory of foreign missions. 1t is the autoblo2Fd-
Dhy of Dr. Henry H JesSup. who mas prayed d
large part both in secular and religious az
fairs and has had close relations with MANY
famous people.
SAILING AT DAWN.