New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-08
BOOKS AND AUTHORS

BOOKS AND AUTHORS
Current Talk of Things Present
and to Come.
AIR Maurice Hewlett's Forthcoming
volun1e Of fiction is entitled The Lore
NJ Proserpne." 1t is a collection Of
stories and sketches, much If which.
we arc told. is autobiographical. The
scribners will bring out the book.
ourand as a Biographer.
Sir Mortimer Durand, the former
r~itish Ambassador to the Cnitel
states. has been writing biography Of
-ir Alfred Lyall. and the book will be
one Of the spring publications. He is
not an unpractised author: other books
have come from his pen. In Lyall he
has had an excellent subject
a Southern Writer.
DO people read that sentimental ante
bsllum novel 'St. Elmo nowadays?
perhaps. Biographical "reminiscences
of its author. Augusta Evans Wilson.
are announced by the g. w. Dillins-
har Company, which would go 10
show that there is an audience for this
and for her other books. Mr.. Il. c. De
leon is the writer of these rcm'nis-
cences.
Woman.
Another Southern writer. one of to-
lav. has produced novel dealing
with the modern problems Of the posi-
lion Of women. This is Miss ellen
Glasgow. whose novel Virginia" is
coming bv and by from the press II
Doubleday, Page & Co.
The Bonn Books-Cheap!
What lover Of letters can ever forget
with what pleasure he used to welcome
The comfortable volumes Of Bohn's
Popular Library. The mention of the
title brings back a vision of the good
type. the dark green boards. of classic
mon classic. As books went in Henry
George Bohn's day-thc first bookseller
Pohn was buying Libraries in Leipsic,
BIZ the way, while Napoleon's guns
we're booming-his classics Englisa
and translated were certainly inexpeu-
sive. We wonder what he would ssy
10 the announcement of cheap re-
print of his "Library"-a reprint at
I
Story Of Brute.
A new novel by Jack London bears
The suggestive title of The Abysmal
Brute" The scene of the story is the
prize ring and the hero is an eXtraordi-
nary combination Of bruiser ana
scholar. The Century Company VIII
bring out the book in May.
Humors Of the Bacon Society.
The English Bacon Society celebrated
ut its annual dinner, the other evening.
The sod anniversary of Francis Bacon's
birth. That queer person. Sir +. Durn-
ng-Lawrence, distinguished himself on
this occasion by asserting that Bacon
wrote every line Of the "Faerie
,ueene" and also every line of Den
Quixote." The enthusiastic Baconian
can hardly go further than this.
4 Photograph Of Sandro.
The Romance Of Sandro Botticelli'
brought 10 the publishers, Dodd. Mead
& CO., an odd request from a prospec-
live commentator whose acquaintance
with the history OF art is defective.
Kindly furnish us he wrote. with
photograph of Sandro Botticelli for re-
production in connection with a review
4 his latest book.
Wagner Letters.
Those interested in musical history
will be glad TO learn that an English
translation of THE Bayreuth Letters
Of Richard Wagner" will appear during
the coming season.
Music and Shakespeare.
Musical readers may be interested
also in d volume entitled Shakespeare
Music the author OF which is DR.. h.
w. Naylor. organist Of Emmanuel Col
lege, Cambridge. He explains therein
The musical illusions in Romeo and
Juliet" Twelfth Night" and Ham
let" and offers suggestions TO modern
musicians who undertake 10 reproduce
the melodies which were in vogue in
the Elizabethan age. He has included
in his book the score Of about forty
typical songs and dances Of the Shake
Spearian drama.
Clara Schumann's Life.
Herr Berthold LitZmann's biography
II Nine. Schumann, the English trans
lation of which the Macmillans are
bringing out, has been based on rich
material in the shape Of the pianists
diaries and letters. There are, many
glimpses OF famous contemporary
musicians The work has some unique
Illustrations.
A First Novel.
one Of the March publications Of the
scribners will be the first novel Of Mr..
Gouverneur Morris. known heretofore
~ writer of short stories. 1t deals
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