The Washington herald., 1911-02-19

were secrets very carefully kept by the
few people who knew the real state OF
affairs. 1t now appears that this biogra-
ply was never meant to be published un-
! til a certain number of years after the
death of the author. There were various
reasons for this, among them the fact
| that many of the people who were alive
and referred to at the. time that Wagner
wrote are no longer living. More than a
quarter of a century. twenty-eight years.
to be exact. after the death of Richard
Wagner. his autobiography is at last an
nounced for publication. The American
rights have been secured by Dodd, Mead
& Co.
Mrs. Margaret Hill McCarters The
Price of the Prairie" recently published
by A c. McClurg & Co, has had a
remarkable success and is likely before
long to be given to the public in the form
of play. The students of the Western
Normal School at Hays. Kans., gave an
amateur production of a play based on
the book on the celebration of Kansas
Day, January 81. dramatic coincidence
was the arrival in Hays on the afternoon
of the performance of the Seventh Cav
airy. Clusters old regiment with whose
history Mrs. McCarter's book is so
largely concerned. The regiment was on
its way from Fort Riley to the Philip
pines.
Included in the spring books of the
Baker & Taylor Co. are: Dan McLean's
Adventures" by Frederick w. Brown;
THE Canon in Residence" by Victor l.
whitechurch: another Lawrenceville book.
to be called THE Tennessee Shad.' by
Owen johnson, and THE Blue Goose
Chase"
Henry Holt & Co. will issue within the
next fortnight 1.-The Newer Spiritualism,' -
in which Frank Podmore. while inclining
against the theory of spirit communica-
ton, attempts to show possible extensions
of the human faculty; Half a Hundred
Hero Tales of Ulysses and the Men OF
DID," Studies in Language and Litera-
ture" in honor of Prof. James Morgan
Hart, of Cornell, which will consist of
eighteen contributions by his former stu
dents; Kellogg's The Animals and Man."
and PerrauIts Les Lunettes de Grand
maman." edited by Mary Sinclair Craw-
ford, the illustrations being reproduced
from the French edition by Geoffroy.
Mr.. Maurice Hewlett has written a
new long story which is to be brought
out in the spring. 1t rehearses episodes
in the career of a parsonage to whom he
has already introduced us. The title Of
the book is "Brazenhead and Other Epic
Sections"
The oxford University Press will ceie-
brate the tercentenary of the authorized
version of the Holy Bible by issuing
shortly a Photographic reproduction of
the Black Letter edition OF 1S11. The size
of the reprint will be eleven and three
quarter inches by eight and one-quarter
inches. Alfred W. Pollard has written a
photographed Introduction OF upward OF
fifty pages, in which he describes, first,
the earlier English translations, 13So-lSs2
(the wycliffe Bibles. Tyndale's New
Testament. Coverdale's Bible, Matthews
Bible, the Great Bibles, the Geneva Bible,
the Bishops Bible, the Rheims New Tes-
tament); secondly. the Bible Of f6ll itself,
giving a list OF the revisers and the rules
by which they were bound: and, tnirdly'
the later history of this Bible. The vol
ume will contain THE Translators to the
Reader" various illustrative documents,