New-York tribune., 1922-11-19
Shop Talk

toT bne nrSg time in MANY Sears
MARY JOHNSTON is Writing New York
some time this month. She lives very
qaietly at her country home in Vir-
ginia for the most part. While ir New
York she will zee on sale her iatest
novel, "l4s2,' which Is just published;
and the screen version OF her. arst
book, ITO Have and to Hold9n which
is also the frst of her novels TO be put
on the fiiln.
The author Of "Shapespeare and the
Heart of Child" Gertrude Slaughter.
has travelled extensively, yisitinp manv
Of the scenes of Shakeapesre's nIavs
which Shakespeare himself nrobabJv
never saw---Vcrona, Venice and 10
forth. Shakespearc's own country she
also visited. MRS. SLAUGHTER her
self was born in Ohio, of an old
Quaker family, md lived much in
washington in her youth. Her husband
Is mead OF the Latin department in
W isconsin University; so since her
marriage she has made her home at
Madison. Mrs. Slaughter is herself a
student and a scholar of attainments.
She did great deal Of war work
chiefly with the Red Cross in italy. and
was decorated with the white Cross
of Savoy. Her latest book is intended
90 remind parents as well as children
FhaS Shakespeare is sti,a good reading
and good acting.
HARRY HERyEY'S. Caravans hv
Night" has been selected to put into
ofaitie for blind readers, an honor not
many contemporary books have re-
ceived. But it has also been accorded
TO Margaret Cameron's "Taagles."
nat is Mameluke anyway? Il
sounds sinister. Harper's are about to
puonsn new book on Napoleon.
rom the Tuileries TO St. Helena bv
LOU EFT .ENNE SAINT-DEN 8. uho
when he was alive was "the Emnerer,s
second Ma1nelnke and va et.s Saint
Denls also was the man who hrouoht
sne Emperor's ashes back from st
Helena to France. w.
;, A volume of Eight More Harvard
Feets" win be brought out bv nren.
ia1 amos before Christmas. The irst
hAght" were published in 1917, and iii
ne ne, mere e, or less famous now. JOHN
MINGs, FOSTER DAMON r. nyrnI 6IMy ~
POoRE, ROBERT HTLLYER. CITTH-
SEkI WRIGHT, STEWART MITCHEfI, T,
ahd NORRIS. Thee current book is
neing edited by Foster Damon and will
nave preface by DORIAN AEBOTT
winch viii review the intellectual tern.
Per or harvard since The Civil War nv
the light of similar anthologfes-gurp.
~ fair way for these little candles
to. to shed their beams. This second
Eight" comprises the names of NAL
SVLM COWLEY, NORMAN CABOT.
SAMEKoN ROGERS. JOSE ROGERS,
s,,Sf mRaMI CADE. ROYALL LUNN, JACK
MEX ZEN and JOHN BROOKS WHEEL
WR CHIT. Some of these names NAV
be spelled wrong, because the hand
writing OF poet is at times difficult to
deeipher.
ACHMED ABDULLAH's volume Of
short stories. "The Honorable Gentle
man, and Others" dealing largely with
Chinese subjects, is to be brought out
IN Chinese translation by Shanghai
University, for use by tho native stu
4 book written il, the early part Of
the twelfth century is now to be trans
lated literally into English for The first
time. This is "Historia Calamitatum. :"
an autobiography OF Che famous school
man and still more celebrated lover,
Peter Abelard 1t will be subscrip-
tion edition only. THOMAS A. BOYD,
of st. Paul, is the publisher, and
RALPH ADAMS CRAM has written
preface TO it. The translation has been
made directly from the medieval Latin
text of the Migne set Of patrolovie
Ph. d.
MARY ROBERTS RINEHART has to
keep a regular office staff to handle
the large correspondence and business
details occasioned by the enormous
popularity of her books She has made
Washington her residence for the last
year or so, except for spending her
summers in the West, last summer in
Wyoming, to be exact.
CHARLES d. STEWART, whose
Fugitive Blacksmith" is still we'll re-
nlembered after twenty years, was a
cowboy in Texas in the early nineties.
ran, daily column of "Talk Of the
Town in "The Chicago News"
GEORGE ADE, RAY STANNARD
BAKER and JOHN r. M'CUTCHEON
were his newspaper contemporaries in
that city. His literary output has been
singularly varied, for he has written
on "Wasps" and Spiders" for ''The
Atlantic" and other grave magazines;
and his last book, VALLEY Waters" is
a novel laid in the Ohio Valley. Then
he has published little book elucidat-,
ing various obscure and puzzling
phrases in Shakespeare, which was
brought out in America by the Yale
University Press, and at Oxford, in,
England. At present Mr.. Stewart lives
in Wisconsin, remote from literary
haunts, and says he never feels lonely,
because he is too busy.
The real name of MICHAEL FAIR
LESS. author Of 1.-THE Roadmender,"
a book greatly beloved of the last
generation, was MARGARET FAIR
LESS BARBER. She lived and wrote
and died in Sussex, which is the scene
Of her famous book. A new edition of
it has just been brought out, with
Photographic illustrations takensaround
and near her old home.
D .
"The Glimpses OF the Moon" by
EDITH WHARTON is reported on the
best seller lists, not only in America,
bat IN London and Paris