New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-09-24
The Sunday Irbune's News Reviews of Books and
Shop Talk


a mystery story of Cape Cod. entitled
give Nights at the Five pines.n has
written q good many short stories. but
this Is her first novel. She In The w;fe
of Harvey Il. Gaul, the musician and
composer, and lives in Pittsburgh when
not visiting New York or summering at
Cape Cod. She says: 81 find Pitts
burgh ia an ideal place for writing, as
ono is so seldom tempted to go out in
search Of amusement There isn't any.
Travelling in China, Harry Franck
writes, has q few trifing drawbacks.
such as bandits, revolutionists and
general absence of up-to-date transport
facilities, but the only serious difficulty
is the heat, which in midsummer and In
central China IS appalling.
The Bobbs Merrill Company will be
obliged to quit their present magnif-
cent building shortly, because It stands
on the proposed site of the War
Memorial Plaza. which Indiana intends
to make to the memory Of her soldiers
In the late war. The Robbs-Merrill
Building was put up In 1910, and is
copsidered one of the finest buildings
IN Indianapolis. Plans for r. new one
are being drawn.
Mrs. Honore Wilisio has discovered
She writes to her publishers: II
spend my days In the saddle >.
Over in the canyon is herd Of wild
horses, led by pinto stallion. One of
the favorite stunts of the young riders
in to run this pinto. The stories they
tell Of their adventures with him
OF his losing them in unknown
passes, of his fighting them with hoof
and claw, would make book Of itself"
Much Of Mrs. Burnett's last novel;
."Robin," was written while the author
was SO seriously Ill she was not ex-
| pected to recover. She gained strength
as the story grew, and was practically
well by the time it was completed.
A. 8. NJ. Hutchinson (is 1t necessary
| TO mention that he Is the author OF "If
! Winter Comes" and This Freedom?
| began, line many other novelists, "a
Il newspaper man or journalist, and was
once editor in chief Of "The London
Daily Graphic" He is hard and steady
"orhef "hSn eHsaEeu VA tioNell "E4t-
ing all morning and very often all eve
ming. He is said to be representative
to critical dispraise.
| Robert Aictons started az @ musf.
clan. he loft that for journalism, and
then turned novelist. It may be re-
, membered that one Of his novels dealt
with composer Of operas, His last,
December Love-" iB q study Of D.
woman who found Il hard TO grow old.
O'Reilly cut short very promising
career. Miss O'Reilly was the daugh-
ter Of John Boyle O'Reiliy. and reared
| in a literary atmosphere in Boston,
when that was the publishing center OF
the United States. Of late years she
| resided in New York, excepting when
| In France; she was a nurse to the
! French soldiers at Nice for some time
Her book, How France Built Her
Cathedrals," has been highly praised
by French scholars and critics.
Small wonder chat Lincoln CoYcord
writes much about the sea and the
| seamen; he was born at sea, off Cape
| Horn, his father being one of those
! Yankee captains who sailed the old
clippers TO China in record time.s But
| since the age Of fifteen Lincoln Col
| cord has not been much at sea, and
has small interest in steam vessels.
He lives at Penobscot, where his family
have owned their home for five genera
tons; his own career has been that
Of q journalist and fiction writer.
Another author who was born as sea
| is Charles Beadle, author OF "The
| Witch Doctors" thrilling story Of
Darkest Africa. He got his formal eau-
cation in England, served in the Boer
War. and received medal, he saws,
for never having seen shot fred"
After that he lived in Africa FOR ten
years, engaged in many different occu-
pations, from hobo to kingmsksr; and
then ne began to write.
Teaching school in Ireland seems 60
be what journalism Is elsewhere. q
training for authorship. Pearse, Mac
Donoughs Plunkett, MacNeil, Joyce and
Cookery all either are or have been
school teachers. Daniel Corkery's latest
book, "The Hounds Of Bauba," has
just been published IN America. He
lives in Cork, and writes Of it, as one
might naturally and euphonioualy SUD.
pose.
That Che stars really do govern Nh.
man destiny in large and general way
Ellsworth huntington. aS he says that nr;
sun spots affect The climate, and the
climate affects history, and the sun
spots themselvlI are caused by differing
conjunctions of the planets. This Is
fully explained in his book, "Climatic
Changes; Their Nature and Cause"