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


20 "Scribner's Magazine" a series Of
four articles on the life history OF the
lion. the elephant, the rhinoceros and
the hIppopotamus, and the buffalo md
the giant Gland. The first Of these
articles will appear in the September
number. "Scribner's" has also ar
ranged with Mr.. Roosevelt for the
serial publication OF the narrative ~
the trip he will take in the early part
Of next year into the interior OF
Paraguay and Brazil. This voyage Of
discovery through the great tropical
South American forest will be made
by canoe and on foot.
Mr.. Howells in Europe.
4 new book by w. d Howells VIII
be brought out in the coming season.
II is n chronicle Of travel. It's author
is spending this summer in Europe.
"sic Languase!"
A hardy old seaman. who was one ~
the crew OF the steamer Pharos IN
which the boy Robert Louis Steven
son made a cruise 10 Shetland with
his father. remembers that authorize
be with dour disapproval: He was
a bad laddie. him, aye efter something
or lther that he shouldna haze been
efter And for curslng and sweering
| never heard sic language, never, ;he
language thc laddie had" The old
man could not believe that with his
language" the boy he knew had cut
something OF n figure in the world.
"Ah. weel," he would say, he may
be a We say, but never read a word
OF his books. And for a his monu-
ments he was never a man Ike his
father-yon was man"
Photcgraphna kipina.
American tourists are described rs
paying homage 10 Rudyard Kipling
this summer in a way which can
scarcely please that rather high
tempered author Crowds OF them. we
are told. drive from Brighton every
Saturday afternoon 10 rockingham
and line up with their cameras as Kip
ling comes In from his daily walk. II
is possible that he patiently endures
this with the reflection that patience
is wise from a business point OF View.
The circulation of his works constantly
Increases In the United States, and this
may he said Of his early books as we'll
as OF those published in recent years
An Indiana Story.
Mrs Stratton- Porter has abandoned
the woods OF the Limberlost. her new
story. "Laddie"-which is to appear
on August ideals with family 'ife
in Indiana in pioneer days. The plot
moves in a clear and wholesome at
mosphere.
Forthcoming Novels.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's sensa-
tional story. The Poison Belt" is
soon coming out in book form. Mr.
Robert Hichens's new novel, The
Way of Ambition" Is nearly ready,
and so is Mr.. S. r. Crockett's book
"Sandys Love Affair"
More Pre- Raphaelite History.
When Holman Hunt, the artist,
died. he left in readiness for publica-
ton much new material for a new edi-
ton OF his valuable Pre- Raphaelit-
ism and Pre- Raphaelite Brotherhood" ~
This new edition is to be brought cut
in the autumn in two illustrated vol
umes. The first edition was published
in 1903 and was circulated in this
country.
The German Shakespeare.
Professor Brandt, OF Berlin, has been
describing to a British audience the
new Shakespeare refashioned during
the last century by German methods.
The substitution of words and phra SEES
which more closely reproduced to the
German mind shakespeare's Ideas be-
gan The change, 1t is stated that the
peculiar characteristic Of this German