New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-18
BOOKS AND AUTHORS
Current Talk of Things Present
and to Come.

and to Come.
Mr.. Maurice Hewlett is about TO
bring out new book, but the lovers OF
his best work, the Little Novels or
italy," need not hope for something re-
calling those magic pages. The new
volume is one Of poems.
Lincoln's Assassination.
An account of the murder Of Lincoln
by an eyewitness, Mr.. Jesse W. WEEK.
&c IN appear in the February Cen
fury" This New Story of Lincoln's
Assassination" has never been pub
lished.
Pomances Of Daring.
The records of the Pennsular war
are filled with stories of daring deeds
and romantic episodes. and from these
Mr. Edward Fraser has made book
which he calls The Soldiers Whom
wellington Led" He has gathered his
material from contemporary diarIes'
letters and journals.
The New French Author.
NJ. Andre Lafon, the young usher IN
a country college, to whom a commit
tee Of the most eminent literary men
in France awarded the Grand PriX de
Literature" of 1912. was, in his teens
a clerk in a business house. He had an
love for letters, and In
every spare moment pursued intel
lectual studies, working alone but so
faithfully that at the end OF seven
wears he won a university degree. His
book. "L'Eleve Giles" study OF
school life, is partly autobiographical
and was written in the not too frequent
intervals Of labor with his pupils.
The Fortnightly" says Of him;
A correspondent who visited him to dis
cuSs the tonic of the hour tOunu MN IN
his spartan little room adjoining the STUDY
hall His surroundings were OF the ul.
most simplicity-mercly a huse us7N
streygn with papers. a round iaple WIN d
lanp n few wooden chairs, some sHelEtS
containing his fivorite books, ana IN
ciIrtaiued recess bcG. WaSninS stdHl
and WdruTOat. As ne NlDDl ~ NO go
smIlingly answering questions, but prof.
fcrlug no information on bis own ac.,
count. the author Of - EleNe cues
looked almost a. young as one OF MS CIV u
UupUs He f. very retiring IN manner,
and seems almost bewldered ny the pNo-
licity 50 UNEXPECTEDLY thrust upon nm.
A Notable Sun Dial
In the grounds Of the Country Life
Press Of Doubleday. Page x Co, in
Garden city, has been placed a large
sun dial which is an appropriate mon
ument TO the printers art. The early
history Of that art is represented on
brass plates let into its white surface,
and the colophons Of twelve of the
great pioneer printers OF Europe are
reproduced in the border. The dial
bears also. engraved in metal. this in
scription by Mr.. Gili.ss:
n measure Of time, Thou merest mite
within thu endless providence Of God,
Nav thy unorrng finger ever point
TO those VINO printed first The written
word,
Mr.. Vances New Book.
The Day Of Days is the title Of
Mr.. Louis Joseph Vance's forthcoming
book. The scene is laid in this city
and the story occupies twelve hours in
its action. It will appear I'm February
The author is now staying in Paris.
A Word for Grandson.
Most critical readers Of eighteenth
century fiction have agreed that in
"Clarissa ,HarIowe" Richardson set
forth the best that was i'm him. II APP
pears that George Eliot did not hold
that opinion Mrs. Frederic Harrison
declares that the novelist once told her