New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-05
BOOKS AND AUTHORS
Current Talk Of Things Present
and to Come.

American Point Of View" 1t is
valuable contribution to world knowI-
edge. as we'll as an uncommonly enter
tanning collection Of opinions and OBJ
seryations. 1t is to the credit of the
Germans that they have welcomed his
criticisms. however severe-and some of
them have been severe indeed-with as
much good humor as they have taken
his praises.
On coiored Plate Books.
Mr. Francis p. Harper will bring out
immediately his "Colored Plate Books
and their Values" a work of reference
which promises to prove useful to coll
lectors. librarians and booksellers Mr..
HARPER has covered a wide field, and
has added the prices paid for the items
in the W c. Dulles library Of colored
plate books.
First Folio Shakespeare.
The First Folio Shakespeare just sold
in London for $3.50 to Mr.. Quaritch is
q fairly large copy. with some imperfec-
tons. The title and verses are in fac
smile. Ii was once in the possession
Of a lady whose name recalls a pictu-
rescue incident of the poets life--a
great ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS of Sir Thomas
Lucy. of Charlecote. MIR. Quaritch has
also just bought for $1,000 a copy of
the fourth quarto of Romeo and
Juliet" published by John Smethwick
in 1909, seven years before Shake
speares death.
A New Biography.
That beautiful littl- widow Christina
Of Denmark. whose fascinating por-
trait by Holbein is so often reproduced
is the subject Of a new biography by
Julia Cartwright Ady. The author has
found in the archives of Brussels and
Milan and in the Bibliotheque Ma
tionale in Paris. many original docu-
ments dealing with her charming sub
ject
Dickens the Father.
There is a pleasant glimpse Of Charles
Dickens at home in one or the English
letters of Charles Eliot Norton pub
ished in the April "Scribner." His
children's manners to him and his TO
them" wrote the American, were very
sweet-he always kissed his boys just
as he did Mamie and Katie and the
letter continues:
When he snubbed the boys il was
with 50 much humor that they seemed
10 owe him no grudge. but no one of his
family seemed 10 enjoy his humOr as
much as Katie. and in her quick per-
nan The others There were two
dear little grandchildren in the house,
the children of Charles Dickens.
Dickens had taught them 10 call him
"Nenerabas." and declared they did not
know they had a grandfather"
The lnpersonal Novelist.
Mr.. Eden Phillpotts has promptly
contradicted a suggestion that his new
novel. THE Joy of Youth" contains
something photographed. He de-
work is, and his only concern is to ere
ate character. THE protagonists must
not be taken to represent my own con-
victions,' he adds, "or command my
adherence TO their sentiments in one
case more than another. My object
was to breathe the breath of life into
them with sympathy and understand
ing; but | belong 10 the old school and
cannot employ art for propaganda"
Happy House.
Baroness van Hutton has just com
pleted a new novel. TO which she has
given the title Of Happy House"
Some Crsbbe Letters.
AS a middle aged widower the poet
Crabbe met in his Wiltshire vicarage a
charming woman named Elizabeth
Charter, and. imperviOus as he had
considered himself TO the attacks Of
Dan Cupid. he promptly fell in love.
His impassioned correspondence with
her was lately acquired by Mr.. A. M.
Broadley, the collector, and will now
form the material OF book entitled
THE Romance Of an Elderly Poet
A Grand Dukes Book.
The Grand Duke Nicolas 'Mikhailo-
Witch has written a book about a spe-
cially interesting member Of his fam
", the Emperor Alexander l. 1t was
Of this potentate that Bonaparte was
quoted as saying: Now I'll tell you
the difference between the Emperor OF
Russia and the King Of Prussia. Inc
Emperor thinks himself a very clever
fellow. and he is a d. fool; whereas
the King Of Prussia thinks meanly OF
his own talents, and he is a very sensi-
bic man" Lord Grey, as reported oy
Creevy. thought the Emperor vain ana
silly and a person Of vulgar manners
but paradoxically one who had "gooo
opinions upon all subjects"
Psychology Of Revolution.
DR.. G.. lie Bon's enthralling book on
The Crowd" a study OF great Vaiue
has a successor in the shape Oh h's
Psychology Of Revolution lIIus'la'eo
by the French Revolution" The Eng
lish translation Is nearly ready
The Belief in Immortality.
DR.. 7 G. Fraser, the author OF III
Golden Bough," is producing ne"'
work which he calls 1.-THE Belief IN I'M
mortality and the Worship Oh u"N
Dead" The first volume, which W"
soon be published, deals WIN De.e'
among the aborigines OF Australia wv
Torres Straits Islands. New Gu'he" ""'