New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-04
BIOGRAPHY, MEMOIRS
Past and Personal---very. James,
Toby. M. p, Crispi.

To the exceptionally large number OF
important and interesting biographies
published last fall there is added this
spring, first and foremost, the second
volume of Henry James's autobiog-
raphy. which he calls "Notes of Son
and Brother" Charles Scribners sons.
If not with It, at least after IT, may be
mentioned vale" the third and last
volume Of George Moore's frankly
revelatory photographed reminis-
cences, published under the general
title of Hail and Farewell Cd. Apple
ton d Coz. Two American publishers
are about TO tell us their life stories,
George Haven Putnam in Memories
Of NV Youth" 1884 1865, including,
therefore, his distinguished service
through the Civil War from which he
emerged a brevet-major Of Volunteers.
S. S. McClure's "My Autobiograp
(The F. A. Stokes Company is. OF
course. to a large extent history Of
current Anglo-American literature.
Mitchell Kennerley announces the life
OF a great American newspaper man,
the late Joseph Pulitzer, by Alleyne
ireland. From the same publisher we
are to have this spring the third vol
ume Of Horace Traubels walt Whit
man in Camden" The HoughtOn
Mifiin Company has Just issued "Our
Friend John Burroughs" by Dr. Clara
Barrus, and Thomas Wentworth Hig-
ginson," by Mary Thacher Higginson.
Sidney Whitran's Turkish Memories"
will bear the Scribner imprint. Under
the title of Beating Back" Will Irwin
tells the story of Al. Jennings, the
Western train robber, who, after hav-
ing served term in prison, went back
TO Oklahoma, his native state, and
there redeemed himself with such sue
cess that he j.. now mentioned as
candidate for the Governorship. Cd.
Appleton e. CO.
From England we are TO have sec
ond volume OF Toby NJ. P.'s" (Sir
Henry Lucy's) "reminiscences &c. p.
Dutton e. Coz; twenty-five Years
"reminiscences, by Katharine lyman,
the novelist Chicago: The Devin-
Adair Company; Clement X. Shorter's
George Borrow and His Circle"
(The Houghton Mifflin Company and
r. L. Brancllon's "Mid-Victorian
Memories" (The George II. Doran Com
pany). Mrs. Mary King Waddington's
'My First Years as a Frenchwoman"
(Scribner), while the work Of an Amer
lean. deals exclusively with European
notabilities and affairs at the close of
the 70s Of the last century.
In historical biography we shall have
the third volume Of the Writings Of
John Quincy Adams" and the second
volume Of the Letters of Richard
Henry Lee" (Macmillan); the entire
period Of our national life down to
Woodrow Wilson is covered in the four
volumes of "The Lives CT the Presi
dents OF the United States" (Scribner);
Ulysses S. Grant" by Franklin Spen
Of American Crisis Biographies" pub
lished by George w. Jacobs & Co., OF
Philadelphia; Gamaliel Bradford's sec
ond volume Of Confederate Portraits"
Johnston, Stuart. Longstreet, Beau
regard, Benjamin. Stephens, Tombs,
eemmes-bears the Houghton Miffiin
imprint. "Junipero Sierra. His Life and
Work" by A. II. Fitch, comes from
A. c. McClurg & Co. ION the Left OF
a Throne" by Mrs. Evan Nepean (Thc
John Lane Company, is an inquiry
into the personal character of the Duke
Of Monmouth. who, in his desperate bid
for a throne. commanded the headlong
devotion of thousands. The third vol
ume OF the Memoirs" OF francesca
Crispi is in the press Of the George II.
Doran Company.