New-York tribune., 1910-11-23
MISCELLANY.


A belated movement to estanilsli d
tional memorial to sydney Smith ii'is
been started in England. 1t is propo'00
to erect q church at Foston. III
shire, the edffce in which Smith oiiioi
ated during his life in that parish nav
ing fallen into sad disrepair 1t was
Foston that Sydney Smith was aS il0
said himself, village parson, village ooo-
tor. village comforter. village maslsli e''0
and Edinburgh reviewer
A book for American genealoglsts oS
DR.. Arthur Wentworth Eaton 10 "'i
nounced by the Salem Press CofilpailJ'
of Salem. Mass. Under the title OF he
History of Kings County. Nova oco'l"'
the volume describes the heart Oh tii0
Acadian land. sketches the lie Oh 'ile
French settlers and the incidents OF tIleir
expulsion, and gives a history OF tlIo
New England planters who came IN thelr
stead. All the prominent families OF the
county are described for at least two or
three generations.
The readers who delighted in the love
letters of Dorothy Osborne given 70 the
world by Judge Parry, about twenty
years ago. will welcome a further IN
stalment of this charming woman
epistles-epistles to her husband, Sir
William Temple. written after their mar
riage They will be found IN volume
OF the Letters of Martha Lady Glf-
fard,' which will soon be published.
Lady Giffard was Dorothys sister-ln-
law, Sir Williams only sister. 1t is
stated that in these letters will be found
MANY intimate references to the story of
Swift and Stella. 1t will be remembered
that Swift spent many years in the
household of Temple, and Lady Gifard
must have known as much as anybody
Of the period knew about the romance
of Stella.
A promising book Of travel is an
nounced by D. Appleton & co. under the
title of "On and Off Duty in AMMAN -
The author is the wife of a French, army
doctor who was sent TO AMMAN few
weeks after their marriage. In their
travels over the country they mingled
freely with the natives. and this book
illustrated by photographs taken by the
writer. Nine. Gabrielle Vassal, should
abound in picturesqueness. From the
Appletons. who publish Mrs. Julia Fran
kau's new novel. there comes, by the
way, an explanation Of her pen name
Frank Dandy" She had chosen
.Frank Berni' Tor her pseudonyme, but
a printers blunder turned 1t into the
name that we know.
Sir William Robertson Nicoll, talking
recently at the Authors Club about
things literary, glanced at the difference
between publishers twenty-five years
ago and the publishers of the present
day. In the old period, he said, pub
fishers looked down upon authors and
axnected the latter to crawl on hands
and knees to their offices. He knew one
publishing house that had had the honor
of declining Stevenson, Barrie, Ktpling
and Crockett That was certainly a
pretty good record.
The Putnams have just published Mr..
Rooseyelt's African and European Ad-
dresses" in a handy volume. In an in
PRODUCTION Mr.. Lawrence T. Abbott de-
scrfbes the condition under which the
addresses were given during Mr.. RoOse-
velts journey from Khartoum through
Europe to New York and analyzes his
characteristics as an orator.
There are readers who very carefully
distinguish among the various writings
OF Mark Twain, taking some Of them to
their bosons and ruthlessly rejecting
others. IF there is one of his works
which siIences criticism it is THE Ad-
ventures of Tom Sawyer" The Harpers
have done well to choose it for holiday
edition. handsomely printed, and sup
nIied with a number Of capital inustra-
tions by Mr. Worth Brehm. These pict-
ures are skilfully drawn and they are in
the very spirit of the text. What text it
is, Mark Twain WAS never more genu-
inelv beguiling than in this realistic ro-
nance of boyhood.
Meredithians will turn out in force for
the sale which is to take place at
Sotheby's, in London. on December J. 1t
will dispose of a number of the novelist S
autograph manuscripts. the property of
Miss Nichols. his nurse and attendant
for the last seven years of his life. The
manuscripts include nearly every book
in prose or verse which Meredith pub
lished between 1880 and his death.