New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-12-30

O, the fortunes of Jacobite family In
the days Of Bonnie Prince Charlie. This
firm has also in press a tale OF Anglo
Indian life THE Challenge" by Harold
Begbie, and romance Of the American
art colony in Paris by Mrs. Alice Woods
Ullman, which she calls Fame Seek
ers"
Tho Perversity Of Type.
In a. review in last Saturdays Trib-
une of Mr.. William Tyler Olcotts star
Lore OF All Ages" his name was unac-
ccuntably misspelled. The many readers
Of this we'll known writer on astronomy
are herewith notified OF his authorship
Of the new book, but Il Is likely that the
context Of the review may have led them
to apprehend this in the first place,
Dostoievsky in English.
The first volumes Of complete Eng
lish version of the works OF DostolevsKy
will b. put on the market in England py
Heinemann early in the coming year.
Miss Constance Garnett has made the
translation from Russian into English.
A New kipIlns Story.
The world, as science and sanitation
will have developed it in another hun
dred years or so. Is the theme OF MT
Rudyard Kiplings new story. 1t Will
make its appearance in March in an
English publication, THE London Maya
zine" under the title Of las Easy as
A 3 c." That Mr.. Kipling may num-
Der Queen Mary of England among his
admirers Is shown by the fact that
among the books personally selected py
Her Majesty for use on her recent voy-
age to India a complete set Of kipllng 8
works headed the list
Ruskin and John Strange Winter.
Mrs. Arthur Stannard, popularity
known as John Strange Winter. who
died in London the other day was the
author of many novels, most or them
dealing with English army life. Though
Bottles Baby" was the most successful
Of these, it was rejected by six pub
fishers before II was finally published In
The Graphic" in 1855 The story was
an instantaneous success and had an
enormous sale in book form IT was
Ruskin who described John Strange
Winter as the author to whom we owe
the most finished and faithful rendering
ever given Of the character Of the Brit
ish soldier" But he was disappointed
to find that John Strange Winter was
a woman, and wrote to her: Il had not
the least thought of your being
woman. q ought TO have had, for,
really. women do everything now that's
best and they know more about soldiers
than soldiers know Of themselves.) But
it had never come into my head, and I'm
a little sorry. that the good soldier I had
fancied is lost to me, for l have many
delightful women friends, but no cavalry
officers"
The English Review.
In these days, when the cost Of living
is so high and the price Of everything
terest that we learn of the decision Of
the management of The English Re-
view" Beginning with the January
number of that periodical, they have de-
cided, owing to a widespread demand on
the part of the reading public for the
best in current literature at a popular
price, to reduce the price to one shilling
a month. The annual subscription will
be Us. Cd, post free to all parts of the
world
Bunyan's Book of Martyrs
Bunyan's copy Of Foxes Book Of
Martyrs" was offered for sale at Soth
eby's the other day by the trustees Of
the Bedford Literary Institute. 1t will
be recalled that when the decision to sell
tt. famous book was first made known
1t aroused storm of opposition, and re-
suited in an investigation by the At
torney General Of the trustees right to
dispose Of 1t. Their action was found
to be legal but that the public senti-
ment was not in their favor was clearly
shown, and, as the highest bid offered
at the sale was only 5000, the precious
volume was withdrawn At the same
sale a perfect copy of Charles Lambs
King and Queen Of Hearts," illustrated
with fifteen engravings, dated London,
1906 fetched f34O, while first editions of
the "Compleat Angler" by Izaak Wal
ton, and Charles Cotton's "Compleat
angler, being Instructions how to Angle
for Trout or Grayling in Clear Stream"
together brought 800.
The Mission Of Poetry,
The newly appointed professor Of
poetry in the Royal Society of Litera-
ture, Mr.. Henry Newbolt, delivered his
first lecture before the society the other
day. He spoke on the aims of poetry,
and said that there had been much I'M
certainty in the mind of the public as to
what poetry really was, and that i'm con-
the subject had been alter
nately gloritied and neglected, but he felt
that IL the question could be cleared up
achieved. From an account of his adj
dress in THE Morning Post" we quote
as follows: There was" he said, zone
desire common TO both poet and reader.
the desire for more perfect world, not
merely an escape from the everyday
world. but transmutation OF it. Man
had learned how TO use the material
world but was still unsatished with 1t.
Great poetry was always touched with
the sense of possible perfection, the long
ing to grasp the sorry scheme Of things
and remould It nearer to the hearts de-