New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-26
CURRENT TALK ABOUT
BOOKS AND AUTHORS
Exiles in New York-War Documents-Ihe Bayeu1
Tapestry in Coored Reproduction-Mrs. ParneTs
Much Discussed Story of the Leader

of pictures which will be used in the
introduction to the play. THE Opened
Shutters" is an innovation in the mat
ter of feature films because the story
is founded on the ultra-modern as
poets of mental science and conduct.
1t is not n story Of quick and melo-
dramatic action, but Of slow and con-
vincing emotional development. At the
end of the story the physical aspect of
the characters is the same as when
the story begins, but their minds and
hearts have changed.
The Bayeux Tapestry.
Under the title of 1.-THE Book of the
Bayeux Tapestry" G. P. Putnam's Sons
| issue a series of seventy-siX colored
! panels reproducing the entire length of
| this most famous of medieval tapes
I tries, which presents a complete pag-
( cant Of the Norman conquest of Eng
/ land. HIlaire Belloc furnishes an his
/ torical introduction and running COM
mentary on the panels.
| Parnelrs Love Story.
Mrs. Parncl's Charles Stewart Par
nell: His Love Story and Political
| Life" which created such sensation in
/ England last spring, has Just been pub
/ lished in this country by the George
/ ii. Doran Company. The work is in
two volumes, fully illustrated with
! portraits.
| The Gospel of Happiness.
4 little book entitled "Our Brother
| of JOY" by the Rev. David Baines-
| Griffiths, is announced for early pub
! LEGATION by Eaton & Mains. The au-
! thor's endeavor is TO 80. orce the fact
| tn {. far from being, as Nietzsche
would have it, "the negative of life"
! the Christian Go J2l is an essentially
! affirmative power. Bringing illustra-
tons from ancient mona ticism and
! from modern pietlsm. as well as from
{ Tolstoy, Mr.. Baines-Griffiths carefully
examines the more austere and ascetic
interpretations o. Christianity, and
asks us to condemn them as being at
variance with the unaffected simplicity
| and joyful enthusiasm of the Founder
of the Christian society. what with
| its ruthless rupturing Of natural bonds,
/ its infections of unnecessary misery,
/ its sentimental coquettinl' with
wretchedness, and, above all, it's ig-
/ noring of the Immanent Presence in
the world, this gospel of pain may
well be called-as in Lucas Malet's
! phrase-'a blasphemy against the or
der of nature and of natures God"
'NIcn Around the Kaiser
A new edition of Frederic w. Wile's
/ Men Around the Kaiser" bears the inn
print Of the Bobbs-Merrill Company.
! The author has provided the book with
a new preface, written Immediately
| after the outbreak Of the war. He was
| in Berlin at the time, as the CORE
spondent Of London paper, and left
! the German capital in the train of the
/ British Ambassador.
DostOievsky.
"Crime and Punishment is the fourth
volume of the edition of DostoIevsky's
works now in course of publication by
( the Macmillan Company. The transla.
tiOn is again by Constance Garnet,
who, indeed, has contracted to furnish
the English versions of the whole
series. Students of Russian literature
are to be congratulated upon this
| choice o. a translator. Miss Garnett's
work is immeasurably superior TO the
quality of the English and American
/ translations from the Russian with
which We had to satisfy ourselves dur
| ing many years.
\ Stevenson Anecdote.
/ In the October "Bookman" Clayton
Hamilton tells an as yet unpublished
/ anecdote of r. L. SIS childhood, COM
| munieated to him by the future novel
| lists beloved nurse, Cummy. When
! little Louis was about five years old he
/ did something naughty, and Dummy
stood him up in corner and told him
he would have TO stay there for ten
minutes. Then she left the room. At
/ the end of the allotted period che re-
/ turned and said: Times up, Master
/ Lou; you may come out now" But the
little boy stood motionless in his peni-
tential corner. That's enough; times
| up, repeated Dummy. And then the
child mystically raised his hand, and
with a strange light in his ewes:
"Hush" he said. "Tm teiling
myself q story"