New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-08-01
BOOKS AND AUTHORS
Current Talk of Things Present
and to Come,

The French Revolutionary record,
are far from being exhausted. NJ. lie.
notre's fascinating books, still coming
from the press, bear testimony to tina,
| Now we may note the approaching
publication OF q book by Mr.. W.
Dillon containing much new material
about Marat, the girl who murdered
| him-her name, the author SAYS. was
not Charlotte. but Marie de Corday-
and the Girondns.
Wonderful Eseapades.
Wonderful Escapades by Ameri-
cans" is the title Of a book which Mr.
| William Stone Booth has written for
| young people. The text is made up Of
dramatic accounts of desperate adj
ventures, ranging from Indian and
! Colonial times down TO those of our
own day.
A Little Cold Truth.
American praises Of Mr.. Alfred
Noyes's poems have been so absurdly
overdone that il is rather pleasant
than otherwise to come upon this pas
sage in a review published In THE
London Athenaum": THE impress
sion we get Of Mr.. Noyes's Elizabeth
ans is that they are over-aware Of the
vivacity, dignity and daring Of them
selves and their set. and are so stu
diously engaged in clapping one an
other on the back that they have no
leisure to be collected, and TO see
things in their natural colors and pro-
portions"
Borrow and Fitzgerald.
One who was a boy at Lowestoft
when George Borrow and Edward
Fitzgerald both old men, lived in the
neighborhood, has lately set down his
"reminiscences Of them. The two
queerly dressed grand old gentlemen
were TO the lads OF the place objects
Of vague dread and fear: Borrow they
knew as the Gypsy Man" and Fitz.
gerald as "Old Tum Tum," the owner
Of the lugger Meum and Tuum. Bor-
row, we are told. used TO prowl at
nightfall in a slouched hat and cloak
punched round his shoulders. pacing
up and down the roads and lanes
and often in the company Of
the members OF that numerous gypsy
family, the Lees" The writer con-
cludes thus: Il have seen 1t stated
somewhere that Fitzgerald and Bor-
row were not friendly. 1 know have
har
a vivid recollection of one day on the
North Denes, at Lowestoft, seeing
Borrow fastening Fitzgeralds battered
old tall hat to his head with a huge
bandana handkerchief after It had
been twice blown off,
Eugene Aram's Trial.
Contemporary reports Of the trial Of
Eugene Aram for a murder made fam
Gus in poetry. fiction and drama are
said 10 be almost all Enthusiastically
and imperfect. Particularly interest
ing, therefore, will be a forthcoming
volume In which the case has been
reconstructed from unpublished docu-
ments in the Record office The evil
dence, including some strange reyela-
tons greatly strengthens the case
against Aram.
An Expert nent in Democracy.
What is described as the story OF an
experiment in fundamental democracy
has been written by Mr.. Bouck White,
author OF THE Call Of the Carpenter"
1t will lie published 10y Doubleday
Page & Co. in the autumn under the
title of The Mixing: What the Hill
port Neighbors Did"
Mrs. Thrae and Americans.
Mrs. Thrale-Dr. Johnsons patient
hostess and indulgent friend-wrote IN
her later years an autobiography IN
six volumes. This has never been
printed in It's unabridged form, though
the copioIs selections published by
Hayward should have presented the
cream OF It. Editors do not always
think alike, however and 1t may he
that the new volume Of selections viii
win favor. Here. by the way. Is a
little reflection which the lively lady
made at Milan in 1856: The Ameri-
cans have got a trick OF travelling. |
find. II is very foolish in their govern
ment 10 suffer 'em. They will get
spoiled"
The American Drama.
To trace the growth OF native
drama on American soil has been ne
effort of Professor Richard Burton IN
his book. The New American Drama
which Crowell will bring out in Sep
TENDER.