New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-18

Talbot Mundy author OF 'Rung 10
which was reviewed IN these columns
last week and Is already In It's second
large edition, IL an Engllshman now
living In this country, at Norway, Ne.
He has seen all parts OF the world and
has written n number OF short stories
which have appeared in the magazines
Of this country and England. His
book was published only three weeks
ago by the Messrs. Scribner.
Schoenberg the Composer.
II is James Huneker's specially 70
discover to-day the literary and artis-
tic leaders and movements which the
rest Of us will be discussing a few years
hence, and often. IL not always, his dis
coveries "arrive"-Max Stirner, for in
stance. and Samuel Butter, Richard
Strauss and Debussy Mr.. Huneker's
defence OF the Vlennese composer
schoeuberg, in the forthcoming Cen
tury," will therefore be OF considerable
interest to music lovers.
A Habitual Best Seller.
William j. Locke entered the ranks
OF the best ceiling novelists nine years
ago with The Morals OF Marcus Or
deyne" Since then be has steadily
forged 20 the front in that fortunate
division OF writer's, until now 1t is re-
ported that his latest book, The Fort
innate Youth" heads the list OF the
season's best sellers in New York,
Indianapolis. Milwaukee, st. Louis.
Cleveland. Pittsburgh, Cincinnati,~Bal-
timore. Minneapolis, Philadelphia and
Detroit.
higher Nationality"
The address delivered a few months
ago by Lord Halda =. the Lord Chan
cellor Of Great Britain, before thu
meeting OF the American Bar Asso-
citation az Montreal, has been pub
lished by f. p. Dutton & Co, under
the title Of Higher Nationality: A
Study in Law and Ethics"
A Poet Manufacturer.
Louis Untermeyer, whose verse long
since began to attract attention, and
whose volume Of poetry. Challenge,
has Just been published by the Century
Company, Is a manufacturing jeweler
by the chance Of birth, and one Of the
editors OF The Masses" from convic-
ton. Poetry is his real vocation in life
and music, ne maintains, his greatest
teacher. II believe" he said recently
that have learned more about poetry
its nuances, its possibilities as 10
color. and, more especially, rhythm
from music than from all the poems
ever written. I know. quite honestly
that music Is by all odds the first and
most final Of all the arts, dealing as II
does with thoughts and emotions rather
than with mere words, and l regret
that 70 is not the art in which can ex-
press myself The sonatas OF Bee
thoven are more to me than the plays
IL Shakespeare, and I would rather
have written half a dozen OF the Schu-
mann songs than all OF Dante's Divine
Comedy"
Womsn's Education.
Among the Houghton Miffiin Com
pany's April books is Before Vassal
Opened: The Beginnings OF the Edu.
cation OF Women in America" by
James Monroe Taylor. president OF
Vassar College, who viii retire from
his post in February OF me- year. Hi;
book is an account Of the early days
OF the education OF women in America
with a full record Of the events lead
ing up to the founding OF Vassar, in
Guiding a character sketch of Matthew
Vassar The book is fully documented
from letters journals, etc, and prom
ises 10 be q most important contribu-
ton to the history OF an important
subject.
A Brazilian proVerb.
The puzzling phrase, Para Inglez
ver' C'For the Englishman TO seq
/ constantly cropping up in Brazilian
conversation tosdenote that things are
not always what they seem, is ex-
planned by Frank Bennett in his Forty
Years in Brazil" IL seems that in
/ 1915 or 1916 the British Minister in
Rio de Janeiro made such strong rep
reservations to the Brazilian govern
ment against the Slave traffic that
through his persistent demands q law
was passed TO put an end to it-but
it was never put into execution. So
the law was for the Englishman 10
See" and nothing more.
The Apostle of Alaska.
The recent retirement OF William
Duncan, the pioneer missionary Of An
nette Island, Alaska, marks the pass