New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-05
PUBLISHERS NEWS
Current Talk of Things Pres
ent and to Come. .

The annual exhibit OF the year
books is now open al the National Ar's
Club. These exhibitions, including the
originals of the illustrations made TOT
the books by our foremost artists, nave
become an interesting feature OF the
holiday season. Admission is free 70 all
Charlotte Bronte in Brussels.
Thomas Westwood, an Englishmani
who lived in Brussels at the time Oh
Charlotte Bronte's stay there as gov
erness in the pension Heger, was an
indefatigable correspondent. HIS let
tors 10 LADY Alwyne Compton have
been published in England under the
title of "A Literary Friendship" Re
ferring to the celebrated love analr'
Westwood wrote:
Heger was a worshipper OF in
tellect. and he worshipped Char
lotte Brontc thus far and no fur-
Their. When the evil was discdv-
cred there was an enforced part
ing and she returned to England
broken-hearted and despairing,
and broken-hearted and despalrlng
were the letters he received from
her for some time after. She tola
the whole story TO cousin OF my
wife's-a former pupil OF his, ana
Just one Of those intellectual pu-
pills whom he was wont to single
out for preference. lie told the
story, and ] am sorry TO say, ne
showed the letters also.
Navajo Blankets.
In his book on "Tndian Blankets and
Their Makers" just issued by A. -
McClurg & Co.. George Wharton Ed
wards dispels the general impression
that the Indians art of blanket weav-
ing is deteriorating. lie says: The
Franciscan Fathers of st. Mlchaels,
Ariz., than whom no one has studied
the Navajo more, assert that the mod
ern Navajo blanket is not one whlt
behind its predecessors of SIXTY or
seventy years ago. They say, In addl-
ton: The Navajo blanket is to-day
the only thing of its kind in the world
No other people. white, red, black
brown or yellow, turn out textile
fabric that can be placed beside 1t. II
is true Oriental rugs are woven In
much richer patterns than the Navajo
blanket. but while the former bewilder
the eve bv their over-rich and over
crowded designs, the latter, by their
very barbaric simplicity of design and
well chosen colors, please and rest the
eye at the same time.
New Browning Poems.
A volume of New Poems" by Brown
ing and his wife. edited by Sir Frederic
G.. Kenyon, has just been issued IN Lon
don. The poems will be new 70 the
possessors of all the editions OF Brown,
ine's works except the Centenary,
and to the possessors of all editions OF
Mrs. Browning. The volume gives all
the unpublished poems by Browning
known to exist. and a selection from
much that is available of Mrs. Brown
ing's early work. together with a poem
addressed by her to Robert Lytton.
There are two portraits, that OF mrs;
Browning being from an unpublished
miniature.
An Amazing Adventures.
"A Missing Link in the Hictory Of
the English Novel" is what DR.. Ernst
Bernbaum calls the seventeenth cen
fury English adventures Mary Garlic
ton, the narratives o. whose life and
career he has collected in his book.
Bigamist at twenty-three, eXlled to
Jamaica for theft, forger, pickpocket,
pamphleteer, and finally darling of the
police court followers for the imDosture
which made her famous, Mary Moders,
as her maiden name was. was the sub
iect of number of biographies, and
was finally enshrined in the 81 iction
airy Of National Biography" Her chief
fame was won by impersonating Ger
man princess, and winning beth hus-
band and fortune thereby. From fic-
ton such as gathered about this lady's
name can easily be traced the methods
which have given Defoe his accredited
position as father of the English realis-
tic no ell. Hence the authors title.
Ralph Common Volunteers.
Ralph Conner, the author Of "The
Patrol of the Sun Dance Trail" "The
Sky Pilot" and other popular novels
of the Canadian Northwest, has vol
anteered for service with the second
Canadian contingent for the war. and
has been appointed its senior chaplain.
As is well known, he is in private life
the Rev. Charles W. Gordon. ID. D.,
pastor of ST. Stephens Presbyterian
Church, at Winnipeg, MINI.
REFORMED CHURCHES.