New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-08-05
BOOKS AND AUTHORS
Current Talk of Things Present
and to Come.

season is a collection Of speeches by the
Hon. Joseph ". Choate. It will bear the
title Of American Addresses" and will
be issued by the Century Company.
DR.. Furnivall.
! There is to be n memorial volume
about the late Dr. Furnivall. Mr.. j. j.
Munro will supply biographical sketch
Of him and the rest Of the book will be
made up Of anecdotic contributions by
DR.. Stopford Brooke, Sir Sidney Lee. Sir
James Murray. Mr.. A. W. Pollard and
other friends. The proceeds of the book
will be handed over to the Furnivali
Sculing Club.
A Publishers RecoIIections.
The dean Of English publishers, Mt
Edward Marston, is presently TO bring
out a volume OF "reminiscences. called
Easy Chair Memories" He it was who
published Lorna Doone" years ago, and
much about his friend. Blackmore, may
be expected in his book. He was stan
| leys publisher, too, and he had personal
as well as business relations with many
other noted figures. About them all he
will give us. 1t Is to be presumed, inter-
esting anecdotes.
Mrs. Ward.
a new novel by Mrs. Humphry Ward
THE Case of Richard Meynell," is an
nounced for publication this autumn by
Doubleday. Page & CO. The story deals
in part with the characters Of the novel
with which she won her repute, Robert
| Elsmere."
Sir Charles Dixie.
The late Sir Charles Dixie kept diary
wrote many letters and left behind MIN
voluminous papers Of political or lit
| erary significance. All this material mas
been overhauled by Miss Gertrude Tuck
well, his literary executrix. for the biog-
raphy which she Is publishing before
very long. We shall have this autumn
also a memoir Of Sir George Newnes
written by Miss Hulda Friederichs.
| Shelley Letters.
A recent sale Of autographs in London
included eleven pages of Shelley's casual
correspondence, which brought total
Of 1869. In one OF the letters he makes
this humorous comment on the pub
| Usher, Murray: TT is probable that ne
puts off writing till the Day Of Judg-
ment, when he expects to meet me IN
the lobby, and when I shall certainly
oppose his passage to the dress boxes on
the ground of this and other malversa-
tions" In another letter, written to the
freshman, John Taafe. he says:
Accept my best thanks fol, your, strict.
! ures on "Adonais" The first have
| adopted by cancelling in the preface me
whole passage relating to my pr! fl,',
! wrongs | am amused with news Sron
| England Of the ridiculous violence OF the
| prejudices which are conceived hsalhs'
me-and as l am interested by thuhder-
| storm as a grand, tragic ballet or the
| heavens, so I laugh at this comic panto-
/ mime which the good people or Dondon eh-
| hiblt, with my shadow for their harlequin
In a third letter Shelley has something
10 say on darnnation: IF God damns me
| even by making me MY own hell,
II bv no means follows that I must de-
| sire TO be so damned. I may think 1t ex-
/ tremely disagreeable as l do TO be In
an Ill temper, and wish to God that God
would not have damned me either in this
| or in any other manner"
/ Canada.
/ The wide public discussion of reciproc-
| itv may naturally be assumed to have
/ stimulated interest IN our Canadian
Ineighbors, and accordingly there is good
reason for the publication Of book on
tho subject. one has been written 10y
Mr.. Frank Weigh, and 1t will soon APP
near under the title Of Through the
Heart of Canada" The McClurgs will
/ bring It out, with illustrations.
/ Luther.
/ The life Of Martin Luther by Dr. Ar
/ thur c. McGlffert, which has been run
ming as a serial through The Century
Magazine" will presently be published
/ I'm book form, with many illustrations.
4 The author is revising and considerably
charging his work for this final publica-
/ ton Of it. His purpose is to portray Lu-
/ Their as man rather than as a theolo-
glan.