New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-23
NEWS AND GOSSIP OF
BOOKS AND AUTHORS
John NIuirs Life Letters and Journals New Washing
ton Irving Letters Scrbners Midsummer
Number-Mrs Burnett's Lost Prince

John Muir left a considerable body
of unpublished writings at the time OF
his death. including abundant material
for Life, Letters and Journals" an
nounced by the Houghton Mifitin Com
panv. which invites the collaboration
of all possessors of letters and other
data. There are also several records
of travel. which the Boston house Will
issue separately.
Washington Irving Letters.
From the Messrs Putnam we are to
have this autumn a collection OF ABOUT
a hundred letters, many Of them hith-
erto unpublished. written by Washing
ton Irving to Henry Brevoort during
the years 18O7-1843. The editor OF the
volume, George s. Hellman, Will pro-
vide an introduction.
"Scribner's" for August.
"Scribner's" is the first of the mid
summer fiction numbers of our maya
zines 10 reach the newsstands. There
is, first of all, complete novelette, by
Kate Douglas Wiggin; and the short
stories are by James B. Connolly, Cor
don Arthur Smith, Jenette Lee, George
T. Marsh and Una Hunt. In addition,
there are two sonnets by John Mase-
field, and prose play (his hrst) by
Stephen Phillips. Its scene is laid IN
Renaissance Italy. There are several
poems, and a number of colored illus
trations, among them the second OF the
magazines twelve historical frontls-
pieces, Franklin at the French Court y
painted by Stanley NJ. Arthurs. Ernest
Peixotto illustrates his own article on
Lisbon and Cintra"; and Alexander
Dana Moves begins the periodicals new
department, "The Financial World"
with a review of the economic results
of the war The graceful midsummer
nights cover design is by q. II.
Mitchell.
Mrs. Burnett's New Story for Children.
Frances Hodgson Burnett's "The
Lost Prince" which is running It's Sc
rial course in the pages Of "St. Nlcho-
las" is soon to be issued in book form
bv the Century Co. The tale is based
upon the old European legend OF
prince who, not knowing his rank, wan
dered all over Europe carrying a mes
sage, whose meaning he did not under
stand. 10 men encountered in city
streets and country lanes, at palace
gates, in forests and on mountain SIDES.
In Praise Of Kennebunkport.
Louis Untermeyer writes from Ken
nebunkport, Me, where he is spending
the summer:
1t makes me feel literary
for we are entirely surrounded by
Mr.. Longfellow's "stern and rock
bound coast" COR was it WHIT
tiers ~; fanked on our right by
"The Boston Transcript" and cut
off in the rear by Booth Tarklng-
ton. Margaret Deland and other
mere novelists with summer homes.
Then for extra inducements. there
are the deep pine woods. the ditto
Atlantic, and the even deeper blue
berry pies of Mrs. Toothaker.
Then also there is the canoeing,
which is sine Qltd non, and the
walking, which is sttmmd cum
Lnude. and Goodwin's ice cream
soda, which is ndscltur non M.
Russian Literature.
America is reaping part of the beneht
of the increased interest IN all thlhgs
Russian created in England by the al
lance of the two countries in the war
From the F. A. Stokes Company we
have this week translations Of Gogoi
DEAD Souls" with an introduction by
Stephen Graham, and OF Tchekhoh
"The Steppe and Other Stories Rich
ard c. Badger has just issued a new
version of Maxim Gorki's Submerged,
perhaps best known here under us
German title of "Nachtasyl"; from the
Macmillan Company comes Andreyev
drama. "The Sorrows of Belgium; ana
a new publisher in this city, Alfred y.
Knopf. announces for this fall a series;
OF important Russian works. old ana