New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-12-16
BOOKS AND AUTHORS
current Talk Of Things Present
and to Come.

...,t,ar of "Scribner's Magazine
MS ,,biisbed. The issue for January
,o,a which begins the fifty-frst volume,
To- - stlv celebrate the occasion. 1t WIZ
W. ~, as frontispieces portraits OF
80 famous contributors-Stevenson'
.]so5,th and Barrie-whose novels The
Nc NJ Rallantrae." The Amazing
n".s,rea and Sentimental Tommy
"rsered first as serials in "Scrioner $
o.. same issue will contain in the an
,.or,ent pages a sketch and sum
-. If some OF the famous contriou-
..o,s 70 literature which have appeared
- tNs magazine during the first twenty
a.. wars Of its existence.
A.. sedqwick's New Novel
new novel by Mrs. Anne Douglas
,.,r,c. "Tante." is announced for
srnl,cation early next year by the Cen
tury Company.
NJ Howells IN Spain
NJ William Dean Howells returned
.o.r. RECENTLY from pleasure trip IN
Sin and It is likely that the impress
rs n q visit there in his youth-Sev-
m. and Madrid especially, which ne
.L,-,,,ehlv explored-will be crystalllzed
bic second trip and find their way
81, some future book Ike his London
Rims" and Certain Delightful Enghsh
T.wnsp These two books have recently
hsep republished IN a single volume IN
THO Complete Works of William Dean
,,oosus the edition which has been in
,ror-ess for several years. only the first
- ,oirIrnes are ready. They comprise
hsstdes the English book, My Literary
passions" criticism and Fiction "A
Hazard Of New Fortunes" Landlord at
lions Head" Literary Friends and Ac-
o,ointances" and Literature and Life
Autographs.
special exhibition OF autographs IS
now going on at P. T. Madigan's Book
and Autograph Rooms, at No. oOl F1Ith
sverre. Among the more important
items N the catalogue are letters Of all
ne presidents. autographs Of the Signers
n, the Declaration Of independence
manuscripts Of Edgar Allan Poe, letters
Of Wagner, Ruskin, Lamb, Thackeray'
scott. Dickens Tennyson, the Brown
,nrs. Hawthorne, Irving, Cooper. Whit
man. Longfellow. Lowell, Whittier, En-
arson. Bayard Taylor and Stevenson
A New Shakespeare.
new edition Of Grant Whites
Shakespeare is announced by Little
p,own & CO. Wh..e Whites edition Of
ne text will be retained IN the main, u
viii be revised wherever later research
rsquires il. The editors Of this revised
,rnplenented and annotated issue are
Professor William P. Trent, N. A.
IL. O.. Of Columbia University; Benla-
min Wells. Phi. D, and Professor John
2 Hennenau. Phi. D., late OF the Uni
varsity of the South. The work will be
IN slghteen octave volumes. and will be
Illustrated with nearly one hundred re-
PRODUCTIONS Of famous pictures, eighty
six portraits Of well-known actors and
actresses in Shakespearian parts, ana
with facsimiles Of the title pages OF the
original auartos and the four folios.
Another Literary Hoax
Asktter from the author in 'the I
North China Daily News let's us fur
taer into the secret that the slashing
ESSAY entitled a Chinese Appeal Con
corning Christian Missions" which pur-
ported 10 be the work Of Chinaman'
really belongs to the list Of literary
frauds Mr. Lin ShaO-Yang turns out (
70 be true born Anglo-SaXon, who has
only been having his bit Of fun with the
faithful Why any one should mind 1t
that Mr. Lin ShaO-Yang has described I
himself as a Chinaman when he isn't
battles that gentieman's discernment (
Fe sN1gld remind the dull precisians /
thar.%-e harmless device is staleness .
'tsee. Did not AIontesquieu adopt an /.
Oriental name and standpoint for his /
"Lettres Pereanes"? And what Of the .
first Lord Lyttelton's Letters from a I
Persian .u England 20 His Friends al F.
Ispahan" and Goldsmith's Citizen Of .
che WorId"2 These might DE shelterlng
names To- a writer who had worked in
IL same sort of material In the pres /.
EFT instance. however the anonymous
user of the pen name has 10y his dis
suisa put q slight on Chinese ethics /
which his early confession may not .
vho1T remove IT might be best for
Nj Lar shao-Yaug 20 depart from the /.
Dractico OF Montesquieu and his other
literarv confrAres and 10 keep invioiable .
tha mystery 90. his name and station.
Thomas Dlxon.s New Novel.
The Messrs Appleton are hereafter -
he the publishers Of the Rev. Thomas
Dixon They viii issue early next
spring n.. new novel. The Sins Of the
Father which. they announce, is not
? no,elzauon Of the authors play Of
The same name
Wore Popular Biography
Judging from some of its announced F
rcnun5s 3f~ Charles +. Pearce's The
BELOVED Princess q memoir Of Princess /
Charlotte u Wales. will not lack attrac-
oon. for certain readers. There are 70 !
ne revelations concerning the terrible
story o. the Princess Sophia. with it's
me.o1ramatic incident on the sealed box;
me extraordinary scanda N the Duke
OF York and the notorious Mary Ann
'Iarke and the mysterious tragedy Of
81 Jamess Palace and the Luke Of
cumberland This sort OF biography is
more and more assuming the guise OF
me sensational fiction white il is in
tended To supp.ant in popular favor.
'ol'sre Manuscripts.
according 10 a letter from Munich
published N The "Etone Beige" Pro-