New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-19
CURRENT TALK ABOUT
BOOKS AND AUTHORS
Franklin p Adamss New Volume of Verse-lhe War
Authors and Current Literature Best
Sellers: The Closter and the Hearth.

TO that one is tempted by the evidence
10 Mace "Uncle Toms Cabin" which,
like the older book, is still read In all
the languages into which IL was trans
lated soon after it's first appearance.
Homer hardly comes into consideration,
since his large annual sales, including
TRANSACTIONS, are mostly compulsory
among or studious youth; and the
same NAV be said Of all the classics
even Of Horace nowadays. Dickens and
Scott lead Thackeray and George EllJt
in England, and perhaps among US as
we'll. Wilkie Collins has fallen out OF
the race, and Troliope maintains az
best only a respectable average: ne
American "Bookman" occasionally de-
votes chatty, reminiscent article 10
forgotten best-sellers OF various de-
srees of merit, like Ouida, Archibald
Ciavering Gunter and the DucneSs'
Another forgotten best-seller is Kept
in the front rank by single one OF
his many books-Charles Reade. H2r-
per G Brothers announce another new
edition of THE Cloi5ter and the
Hearth" now in it's tiftieth year.
RahindrauaHi Tagore.
The Macmillan Company has pub
Hshed this week is considered 20
be Mr. Tagore's most essentially repre-
sentative work. 1.-THE King OF the Dark
Chamber" play of which it has been
said that it is continuous symbolism,
and that it never reaches the obvious
ness Of allegory. Instead OF giving us
a map of experiences through which
the soul may travel, as Bunyan did, 1t
gives US the experience ITSELF
One of Cortez's Lieutenan;s.
Bernard Dias del Castillo, the first
historian OF MeXco, md one OF Corr
tets companions in arms, has been
rediscovered after long years Of MS
torical oblivion by an English writer,
Il. Cunninghame Graham, who has
set to work upon his biography.
Shakespeare Cruxes.
Under the auspices of the Eliza
bothan Club, the Yale University Press
is now preparing to publish book
entitled "Some Textual Difficulties in
Shakespeare" by Charles D. Stewart.
The work is planned TO clear up the
famous cruXes which have remained
ungolved in Shakespeare's plays. Light
is shed on forty of the most perpleX-
ing passages, beginning with the noto-
rious "Runaway's Eyes" in Romeo
and Juliet" The work of clearing up
errors in printed Shakespeare texts
has now gone on during two centuries,
but there still remain certain num-
Der Of passages which have heretofore
baffled all attempts at explanation. II
is with these that Mr.. Stewart deals.
Many Celebrities.
In "On the Track of the Great" Au
brey Stanhope, the English newspaper
correspondent, gives his recollections
OF the notable personages with whom
his profession has brought him in con-
tact. Among them are Bismarck. Ed
ward VII, the Kaiser, the Car, Leo
poid II. the Greek royal family. King
Christian of Denmark. the late King
Carlos Of Portugal, King Alexander
and Queen Drsga of Servia, Stanley,
De Lesseps and Pasteur. The book will
he published next week by the John
Lane Company.
Another Peace Play.
As a result of cabled permission from
Alfred Noyes, the Frederick A. Stokes
Company will publish as soon as pos
sible his "Rada," the play of the Balkan
War which was presented last year at
the Christmas festival of the Mac
Dcwcll Club in this city. The publish !
ers sought Mr.. Noyes's permission to is ]
sue "Rada" in a cablegram which was |
carefully worded to avoid the use of
its name, so that the English censor I,
would let the message through. Mr.. I,
Moves used equal precaution in reply
ing.
De Senectute.
"The Indian summer Of personal en-
joyment," is a phrase used BY DR.. Will |
lam Elliot Grifis in his new book. |
"The House We Live In" to indicate /
the period of life which ne has found /
".most enjoyable" TIC years after
sixty.