New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-09

A volume of hitherto unpublished
poems by Robert and Elizabeth Barrett
Browning leads the Macmillan Com
pany's first announcements for the new
year. The collection includes some
twenty-nine poems from Robert Brown
ine's pen and six by Mrs. Browning.
There is an introduction by Frederick
c. Kenyon dealing with the Browning
MSS.
More Rabindranath Tagore.
From the same house we are to have
this month still another Iagore VOL
ume, Songs Of Kabir.'
French Authors in America.
Frank Allen. of Plainfeld. y. j.. has
been reapponted as the American agent
of the Societe des Gems de Lettres and
the Societ6 des Auteurs Dramati9ues OF
France, post which he has held for a
number of years.
Byproducts of the War.
Parody has now peen added to the
weapons wherewith Englands men or
letters fight Germany. E. V. Lucas has
written a parody of "Slovenly Peter,
which he calls "Swollen- Headed Will
lam" (Dutton & Coz, and George Nor
row has parodied the original drawings
of the famous classic of the nursery.
Ii is all rather amusing; il is also very
futile, very much like assaulting mod
ern fortress with a popgun:
1t almost makes me cry TO tell
What foolish william once befell.
He'd grown more hcadstrong every day
And now was left alone TO play.
Upon the table close at hand
\ box of matches CHANGED to stand.
Now Dame Europa oft had told him
That if he touched them she would
scold him,
But william said, "Oh, what pity,
For when they burn il is so pretty,
SO long I've waited for this game!
They crackle and they squirt and fame"
That Omar would be among the first
TO be seized upon for this pastime IN
the hour Of tragedy was a foregone
conclusion. Another Engllshman, 81.
John Hamund, has written ''Rubaiyat
Of William" and has, on the whole,
made a far better thing Of il than has
Mr.. Lucas:
| often wonder il the truth can be
One-half as CHASTITY as the tales they
tell,
he says. and he gives a capital example
Of the difficult art he practises IN HI.
thirty-ffth quatrain:
Now the Young Turk reviving old de-
sires
Old Abdul Hamid gracefully retires,
While the strong hand of Enver to
the plough
Puts forth. and Mehmet on the throne
perspires.
The fateful spirit OF the original is
well caught IN the final quatrain, which
empty throne
Ohnet's War Diary.
That veteran OF many best-sellers,
Georges Ohnet, has begun the serial
publication. in fortnightly parts, of a
journal dun Bourgeois pendant la
GuerTe dc 1914
Alsace-Lorrainc.
Most timely is the announcement, for
January 10, Of a brief history of cal
SAGE and Lorraine" ty Ruth Putnam.
the author Of Charles the Bold" and
William the Silent" The book will
bear the imprint of q. p. Putnam's
Sons This firm also announces for
/ publication this month a revised and
| enlarged second edition of Eugene a.
Hecker's "Short History of Women's
Rights from the Days OF Augustus TO
/ the Present Time
Nathan Hale's War Verse.
The quality OF the poetry inspired BY
war being much discussed just now. il
may not be amiss. for the consolation
| Of the bards who have recently so
grievously failad, to quote some of the
war verse Of Nathan Hale, hitherto
] practically unknown. and only recently