New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-06-18
BOOKS AND AUTHORS
Current Talk Of Things Present
and to Come.

Mr.. Joseph Pennell has etched various
studies of Pittsburg which are to be re-
produced in the Forthcoming number of,
THE Century"
Hunting Camps in Wood and Wilder
ness is the title of the book of Mr.. H
Hesketh- Prichard; which the sturgis &
Walton Company will publish in the
autumn. Mr.. Prichard's Don @" chron-
icles have shown how effective is the
pen he yields.
The author of that delightful book
'"The Great Lone Land Sir William
Francis Butler, died fortnight ago at
his Irish home. day or two before his
death he received a message from Mr..
Roosevelt conveying the ex-Presidents
hope for an early meeting and his adj
miration for Buffers we'll known book.
The latter replied; Regret extremely
unable to leave room owing to chill.
Please express to Mr.. Roosevelt honor
feel at his kind message and reference,
which I shall always prize, to my little
book Of forty years ago"
MT d. ~. Eolledu- Lux IDS just
in London the biography of Cardinal
Vaughan, which has been awaited with
interest since the death of that church
man. seven years ago. The successor of
Wiseman and Manning had long
career and possessed notable person
atty. Living in the full current of mod
ern life, he nevertheless preserved some
thing Of the spirit of an older day, as
witness the following note:
In later life, for the greater modification
of his body, he devised form of punish
ment which required another sort of Couf-
age. For years he wore on his left arm
an iron bracelet with spikes on the inside,
which We're pressed into the flesh. One
which he had worn for some time had
somehow got broken. and he commissioned
Monsignor Dunn to make new one. CIV
ing him a piece of the old one as a pattern.
A day or two later the new bracelet was
produced, but the points were mercifully
blunt The Cardinal handed it back with
more explicit instructions. 1t was to be
made out of steel wire, piano wire, and
the points were to be. sharp When it was
made to his satisfaction he told Monsisnor
Dunn to bring q pair of pliers and to
fasten 1t on the arm, SO that it could never
come off. When that was done the Cardi-
nal brought his right hand down heavily
on the iron circlet and so drove it home.
1t was cut off his arm after death.
Mr.. James J. Hills book. Highways
Of Progress" has just been brought from
the press Of Doubleday, Page & Co. The
volume discusses practical problems
presented in one day to the American
people.
NJ. Lenotre's forthcoming book is to
hear the title of "a Gascon Royalist in
Revolutionary Paris" It's hero is the
Baron de Batz, an aristocrat of high
qualities, who meets with many thrilling
adventures in the city of the guillotine.
NJ. Lenotre's successive volumes, all so
closely packed with human interest and
with heart-moving tragedy, promise to
make strange and stirring history of
the revolutionary period. He is in
defatigable in pursuit and study of
original documents.
| In a recent number of the Revue des
Etudes Historiques," II. J. Cart gives a
new and well documented account Of the
| famous massacre of the Swiss Guard at
Paris, in 1872 In opposition to most
French historians, he shows that those
being by contract in the service of the
| King We're not required to initiate the
mutinous Garde Rationale and join the
revolutionary forces; and especially that
they were not the aggressors upon that
exciting day in August With respect to
this last point the testimony of Major
Bachmann of the guard, corroborated by
| all the officers, sub officers and privates,
| is conclusive. Bachmann was, however.
sent to the guillotine in spite Of his pro-
| test that the revolutionary court had no
Jurisdiction over a Swiss soldier. The
rest of the guard were imprisoned. but
later, by an order of Dantop. the entire
force, to the number of 796, was massa-
cred.
War with Switzerland was narrowly
averted by the concilatory action Of the
French government. A letter published
by M. Cart. for the first time. and writ
ten by the Minister of Foreign Affairs
to the diplomatic committee. advised the
preservation Of friendly relations be-
tween France and Switzerland. repre-
senting the latter as strong barrier be-