New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-11
FICTION
New Novels by Mrs. Wharton, Will
lam De Morgan and Others.

ldlu Dt NIUE gan dHu OIItlo.
THE Custom of the Country" Edith
/ Wharton's new novel. leads the Scrib-
ner fiction list This house has issued
this week John Galsworthys The
Dark Flower" and The Lost Road"
new volume of short stories by Rich
ard Harding Davis. The Witness for
the Defence" by A. E. W. Mason. is
still TO come
| A new novel by William De Morgan
! is worth waiting for. His new story.
| announced once or twice before Is now
ready. after two years work. and may
/ be looked for some time this winter,
under the title Of when Ghost Meets
Ghost" Mr.. De Morgan's American
| publishers, Henry Holt x Co, an
nounce that the story is in the vein Of
Joseph Vance" and even more DE
Morganish" than that book Of many
delights. From the same house we are
| to have Beulah Marie DiXs new novel,
| Mothers Son" which is not a hist0ri-
cal romance. but a tale OF present day
| life
! The Messrs. Appleton make several
! important announcements Of new fic-
| ton, among them new book by Mary
| Cholmondeley, the author OF Red Por-
tage." which is called After All" 1t
! is not a volume OF short stories, but a
novel, its authors first In several
years. Another new work Of English
! fiction Of importance 10 be issued here
by this house is Compton Mackenzle's
Youths Encounter" which, under the
title Of Sinister Street." has recently
helped to make some more circulating
! library history in England. Maxwell
Gray's new book is called The Desire
Of the Moth" and Baroness Won Hut
tens. Happy House" Joseph c. Lin
coins new book is "Cap'n Dams
! Daughter" In IT a Cape Cod salt
takes his family to Europe. 1t is a
new departure for Mr.. Lincoln and his
Maine folf. and one OF great POSSIBLE
tiles.
Mary Johnston's new book. "Hagar,"
which the Houghton Miffiin Company
| has in preparation, will not be an his
torical novel, but tale Of modern
! life. Its heroine is q Southern woman
who, born under the old social
dispensation Of petting and repression.
! passes through the early changes In
woman's status OF the late eighties
and nineties, and comes TO realize her
opportunities and responsibilities as a
free human being. An English best
seller, Jeffrey Farnol. will give us.
| through Little. Brown & Co., his new
! book, The Hon. Mr. Tawnish." which
| is the story Of three feats performed
| by that gentleman as the price Of the
| hand Of the lady Penelope. The same
Boston house has just issued Eden
! Phillpotts's The Joy of Youth" his
/ first venture into fiction away from
| Dartmoor. 1t is a tale of Italy and
art and love, and. so we are told, pre-
eminently a novel of the present hour,
/ giving expression TO the influences be-
/ ing exerted by Bergson. Nietzsche and
! others"
! II. G.. Wells's Passionate Friends"
and Mrs. Humphrey Wards THE Corys
ton Family" the latter published this
week. head the Harper fiction list.
| Gilbert X. Chesterton has written a
tarcical romance, THE Flying Inn"
which tells the adventures and mis-
! adventures Of the last English inn
keeper when all Western Europe shall
have been conquered by the Moslem,
with his dogma OF total abstinence
| The John Lane Company. Conan
| Doyle's The Poison Belt" successor
to THE Lost World" is announced by
the George II. Doran Company. From
the John Lane Company we are also to
have new volume Of Stephen Lea
cocks clever parodies. Behind the Be
yond." The Bobbs- Merrill Company,
which publishes novels. at all seasons