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c x. ~^ - " "* - I Literary fiebuj and Criticism 'A Sheaf 0/ Stories, Horn antic mmd Qthcnrisc. INTO THE NIGHT. })y l"rasic s Khsme «;re<^ii. Iltiwtx-fiteii »•>■ C K. N«iKiv. liliio. pp. E7O. T. V. Cn'well £ Co. Tin; UQ9CQ GALLKUV. Dy Kva L«tb tury. :rm ». pp. ;v,j. Hniry Ho!: & Co. MAI. o:-' Aiu\vi>n:. i:>- f. h«wo? l»ui- castt-T. )"rotui-ri<vr Uy Ii";e il*3CeilL '^n>o, !>;•. tiZ. l>cttcii: »sjtivH. Ma>nard & Co. CXStiIAIVC Uy l!»«iry O. Rowland. i^uiu. pji. an. Tut John . ..;,.« Cuu>pany. CABZMIXJiC By Bobert C:Jrr. Kro:uis- P««w b> A. <•. J«.nriH>l. lin:a, ;>j>. ' ■■£s&. » The P. A. t?ti k> > « "ompany. TH^ fiurTIIKUXUH. A Novrl. ,l>-n« tLe a Ji<iL-ior.:i|'ii> ot Ktebolas Worth. wiru», i>|». 4J4. I\>ubUda>, i'ut- & Co. The detective story lia6 so largely be nome a matter »>f the rvarrancemeat o! farciiiar material, a mere question of variiitJons on a given theme, aim the itself has certain ob\loua limita tions beyond which Inventiveness dare rot venture, that one welcome* with pleasure a tai* thit has several elements «f novelty. Of course, there ha* to be a crime, end the criminal mutt be un known; .... be a!s3 a motive. «nd that, tec. nun bo hidden; further «aor» it is indispensable that there t-hail t>e clews pointing to teveral of the char acters in the etory, simultaneously or ♦ ucccscive!; , but a^ay f m the real perpetrator of the deed until the very lett. TJiese ere r,ot rr.trelj" !av.& that cwmbt le ignored, tut art Ingredients »hit. must bt used. "Into the Night" fjjts net attempt to t-e an imr»o£sitle exception in thc^ fundaraenUil?; naj-. iron, it cannot be *aid that, as a de tertsv* novel, it r£«ks with the best •;• foreign or domestic •=&<: Its MOV *:Jty lies In the choice of place. in Us DSCU aiiti ia KSSO invention of ctr tain tncUests cf the action. New Orleans offers opportunities of local cc!or ►-nd inJlvidualiTy ci population that ar« readily recognized or.cc one begins to read. The lynching there, several years as*, OS a r.urr.bor cf mafioii may not fee in IscSflest to which we look tack with civic pride, but it hat become part of history, i.v.d furnishes the author with m. lesitirrrct*- poiiit of depttStara. She. lias ♦lent: s-^ we!] in ihis tu!a tliiit one be ".icvefc cht will do fcr better in the future 'n the <-li.lm fh* has out. A course of Beery James is gcod train irg ter the begfnsSsg novelist, accord ing as the fttpirai.t ec:r:g to school to bbn h&s t&tent sad not merely an aap:: taste, capatta of acquiring a r.igh pclish of imitative technique, but nothing to rauiate from Its own tr.r.er Btjf. Now, tne centra! idea of 'The l-osg Galkry" is iv its crsence a Htinrj' James idea: thet rov. of .an;es:rai i>or ir-its is i.'.". English manor lioute, « xert- Ing a directing infiuvnee on the In ing. looks most familiar to tt.Jents of his work. W* dlsctplo begins, ponaefttrntly, in a decidedly Jamesian manner, i-acking her seutcnecs with sfl they srtn bold, and Volichir.g her dialogue till it gutters with «n aptness that is jast th« least little bit monotonous and fatiguing, nut after a vhile eh<- cuts loose from b«r pattern: her own plat, her own characters tak* rotnm&nd, ana Insist npon a freer, a more simply human, i<?« sdentillcally analytic treatment. Elers, ona is *« diced t.» think. Is far moro than a trrnly imitative talent, and decidedly tnoro than a cultured taste: bence James's Infinitely «':< licate method irks i::id retards h. r. Bha will work out her «j^!i salvation <>n a Ampler, .xnort robutit plane, retaining what is useful juid of ptofit to li<-r in his lifson as she tot-* iil.mj:, ainl making it, in to tar v» U werxta, ati ntK |rt> T* r ** w " i>:;rt «»f her ••.lUipmint. ■• - ■ - ■ " ■ ■ - ■ ■ I One wonders frhat an be the ut. cr tiroht of a fctory ULu 'tic-ruiainf," wtdcfa h&9 l*ct tiufllaent merit lv pltad'ti»e "urt for art's «uke" excuse— a false ci:«« always In fiction us in the drama, fcin<-e both are but vehicles for the study of life and Ms Eimiflciiii^o, its criticUm, perhaps, *nd never • an end in 'Htntrltca tnd whiclj j.rec'ents a theory of education that is bo reptihdre that it wfj) never t:tid acceptation, a Frenchman • ting "ad >s-u«.-d" novels in Engliph becomes the cuardian of a child, and. in order to wt/ejruard tier againat danger when hha be grov. ij up. fctartb her on a • our** cf icraditsg of his own books, of IJ^'.ar, Mauia^ant and ail the others, hie 4df-a being lljat if tho sirl be «.-uaic» famUJur with thest; pictures of life befcro the t!tae has ronie lor tlio ripening of '.n.r own emotions the will taice no ItJtereet in their cuijjecte after I bat dangerous moment has arri\'.-d. it i% v. wi«e custom of Knglleh novelists to M«tt ell their doubtful cliaracterE, their •■iin.*:.a'v and fcinnt-re abroad, reserving ihcir co; ltrjmen and women for tho virtuous ro!c«, .1 cimple ruin of ihe na tional flctioij. .oulri*- a Vtoruusb knowl *■£&,» of tuttionul suttctptibilifitp, *v*n «hout!i It be irriUitir»-ly prim' ye ar.-J hourgtois ttrtUtir* >J; The tuthor of "Germaint" prcdently follows the rule, tut. rtaily. the English publisher who ♦ells tha -. .. gg th*> expertibcnt cboald V.*v«; pretested ageliut it with ail the In f-olar COgfClOtteoess of moral euperioriiy. fcluec M. dArtagr.au tf.und fame and . fojturj* in J'arij mtny Caecons have fcl iowed his tx^-Tiple in tale» of advtrture tr^re -. Imb truthfully hftitarteai. and la. )»ri.tt<J mm »iui tteir audacity, tbtir 1 . • ':...:. Kl:rc\idacss. thoir fanfaronades and their deeds of «t«-nin», do. ' • Vamiallac" « the Wtcst iMJdltion »o t!)« company, it wliicli a census m!sht well be taken to ascer tain tho vavtMN of Us numbers, Cliroiio logically. Mr. Barr "•- hero preceded l»u tJiiLE's. however, for when lie went to «e^k a patron in Charles fAIMH do Uajnta, Ooocts] had but .'.»•' been ntur iicr<*<3, Marie Oo Mcuitl Imprisoned at BSbfj and tha thirteen^jwur-bld l»ui3 XI II placed oil the throne. EUcbeUau'fl MM h*4 not jet risen. Bui &t thai mo ment the Italian woman was an even mere ititcrettln!? penwwiase tit s?erve than RH Ar.ti. .•• Austria at ■ later day. Omliliac is not ; maturally ilever as liis immoital co'.leapue: in- walks into a trap the moment I.c reaches Paris: once lie sets out to rescue the Queen's ccnfl«lanto, tha daugliter of the Duk.<« «Je Hontrc-uil Oiere wedding bells peal faintly ii, the reader's trained cart); ho encounters opposing guile as great as his own; Ida still greater adventure for the liberation Ml the- Queen J<-ads to cnrr.tncr.surateiy greater difficultly? — rhort. here's just what one has a right to expect in a book of this kind, done once ajiiu with a fr^t.!.'.:«'j-s and an en eagir.e c'.r of conviction that is meritori ous when one rori«-id<rs how often it hits all been told before. Plot, counter plot and Incidents have been planned with ccnsidtrable cleverness. To some this Wnd of thing is but as an oft told tale; for others It never loses its in terest. To them this etory way bo recommended. It Is only by a considerable stretching 1 of the eufflcitntly clastic meaning of th. word "-fiction" that "The Southerner" e£n be described cs a "novel. 1 * Mrs. Atberton invented &t the Urn: of the psUlcatloa of her "Conqueror" a useful u-r.r>. whU-h may mean much or little. £s the author chooses— "flexible bior r^ph;." This is what "The Southerner" rttilly is, en tutobicsraphy what nctiori is more an outer, frotectlve layer than c p^rt of its warp ar;d v.oof. It is hard ly necessary to say much of these chap ters Ml their tpptarance •in bock form afier the attention they receive in the course of their publication in -The At ler.iic Monthly." Nicholas Worth's auto tiegraphy is the J.istory of th . South since the "Surrendf r." told by a liberal. clear fighttd, active builder in the peace thai «rtj fit first a wilderness. MMi then a ch?.es. by a eon cf th; toi! v.ho dared to etanJ up against prsjudics, itaction tnd indifference, ever taking middle gTcunil in the conf.ict cf views and ac tivities. South and. North, battling in dtfatigably. in the face of calumny and opposition, for the highest good, more!. civic a::d rr.steria!. of the land of his ancestors. The misundtrstandinre, thy» ciimities and the bitterness hava di£ap jjcared — wh: ; .t progress we hay€ ma^ie since the nioody Shirt was last waved in a Presidential campaign! To-morrow they will bo forgotten. Call tho booli a "r.ovd" or h Bi ti'.!' biography," nj y*u will; itt- chitf value is hletorical: it Ui, from firrt to last, a Bane, honest, im partial and just document fcr the m of the- future- historian. IS VIRGISIA A Record of Lift Before and During the War. iIV DAY. IJEMIXISCKNCES OP A IjONO I.IKK. Dv Mi>. lU«kt A. l J ryor. UitM irated. \znio, pp. «C. The MuemlJlan Cotapanjr. Tiie Virginian who gossip* t-<> uare« al«ly in Uiis volume has -■ • i. marvellous ctumsea in the land of her nativity. The Virginia of ncr Infancy bad no raUways; over the Bbwnlnabla ruaiif, full of atones and riMs, :■•■•!• )<• in., i. all journey* |>er force wilii a carriage and pair, a quaitit hair tiut:k Btra4);x*d on behind. Nearly everything needed by the family and its pla\»*s was ma<ie at home, fn«m the. g.H. *.--< jiiiii pen to the elo drawn fr<»n tho luum. Countless d«litious thins* «fere compountlrd und«-r the suj»erintend ence of the tareful !iousewlfe;jthere was no cold storasa for the rich* fruit from the Vircinia orchards and— benighted limo! — there v.ero n>j pr^fcervatives for the ounfecUoas inl<> wJiich it vas turned. Th<- stortrooin of thofo days had need t'4. if* v.f\\ furnished, i"!- ii..- lto«pitallty of v VirKinia jilantatinn was ceaseless. A vlfcit w;is«oflen :•. tiling n«»t of «la;s «ir w«H-ks, but «jf months— and the author remembers that an Invitation for one .light brmicbt i>* h member of her family a pleasant couple who remained I the welcoming frwirfffn for four j ears, & iiu<jtta. t<j<», the fctury of the master of famous uM Wefctover, who faid to a Buegt steking thelter ii.i.. a i ■ i,.-t< itu, "My dear sir. <l<> ttay and luiy us a visit." When the guest ex|>la!i.»<l that busmen presented. ••Well, well," said the friendly Virginian, "if you can't pay us a visit, com* for two or three we< ks at least. '' No good hotel, it was said, could be found in Viruiiiia becauM any eligible stranger arriving at a public boose would l>? immediately claimed as a guest i>y Use lirtt gentlenian of the region who «>uld reach him. The most Important journey of the little Virginian was th^t ty Niagara. Thr kind uti le ■j.n'i aunt \\h« ha-J adopt cJ ln_r brought her to New Y'»r!t, where, f:oi.-j (be windows Of tli»! Astor House, tho tav/ th-j Ecark-t flamingoes gathered round the fo.intaln in tha City Mall lark. From Scbenectady they went" to the I'alls in a canal boat, and in painful dis- OOmfort from beat, nt<is<iuito<=s and too crowdH qoartera, Boma of the j.afson peif left th<* boat every morning tc walk i head and wait for it hi nipht. h'ueh was travel Sn the great state of Nev/ York in ibQ forties! Pieasauter th:in any Journey was the daily life in tl, little town of Charlottesville, where w*»ll I M •! and wo!l read people fullo.ved the* social traditions of the oJJer tim^. Din ner parti*« took i>l«ice at the fashionably late hour of 3 la the afternoon, and t!ie young university Students who were per rtiitted by n::uerfarnilias to call upon their ffi»l acquaintances had to resptct th« strictly measured rules of the rha;j- CTOns. These iadi' s of tlio old school "tarWully limed the ; JIM | of a candlo till 10 oYlork. and all candles thereafter were cut that length. When thry l>«r«tli it nicker in the sockets good nights v.ere expected." Uy that time- Hannah More bad «.'j"ii to •••■ a guiding Utarary in duenCO in Virpinia, and girls ariu boya v«-re reading Dlcktns. An author wh«m th* little Virginian met when ehe went to live in' Washington tifttr her mar risge to tlu ribijijj young Journalitt, Roger Pryor. nsk that witty an-i genial l.i lou. Q. P. It Jarne*. She describes Mm .... dashing in L,r;«= day. in a highly ocitcd state, aiid exclaiming: •Have voa tttn 'The Inttlllnttncer"? 1 By ic> rg-. It's all true! fc« tiqies n*c ny aero, a »oUtary h«rttnian, cnitre^ tin?. 1 a wcod! My word! 1 was ti. tally uncoaeciouk of li! t'tney it! Six times! XKW-VORK DAILY TRIBUNE, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER R. 1009. Well, if* all up with that fallow. He has tot to dismount an»i eater on foot— a bee car. or l.urelar. or i>«.Alif-r. or at least a mendicant Mar." "Pat." Mi»'v. s;--l i !i-, "h<* m!slit drive, Mightn't he?" '•lmjH>«si»i!e!'* fail Mr Jame*. '•imagine » i «•!•<» in it t,'li; <>•' ,i currtcl**!" He •ii.-..i. hUnself' very merry over It; but the M>Htary bora*tnaa api»^aro«l no mora ia the ft-w novels he was y^t to writ*. Mm. Pryor*« pictures of lifi* in th-j South in the days when th« Civil War v:is tir.i'.vin.; on are full of color; dark with Euircririf* ami privation arc her rec ord* -if the struggle In Us progress. As it approached the tin] liiin^«-r tormented ( Iviii.m Mid soldier alike. Even the commander in chief often lacked for food. The author recalls th«* cheery as mraiire of un Irish M. P. who was at one tim« General Lett's ffuest: "You should have been 'Uncle Robert's* dinnor to-day, madam! He had two biscuits and ho gave me one." Another time the Irishman was cheerier e-til^: "We had a glorious dinner to-day! Somebody sent 'Uncle Robert' a box of sardines." There is an endenring glimpse of Lee at the table of a friend »ho had received a gift of a. thing as rare In that place and time as rubies — a turkey. "General Lee con fronted" to share It with her. She helped him at dinner to a moderate portion, for there was only one turkey — like Charles Lamb's hare — and many friends! Mrr. Banister observed the general laying on one side of hiF plate part of his share of the turkey, and she regretted his loss of ar>petite. Madam,' he explained. 'Colonel Taylor is not well, and I should be glad to be permitted to take this to him.' " Nobody in that region In those early days' of 'Co knew how next day's food could be obtained, and when it came it was pitifully scanty. To Mrs. rryor it seems little short of a miracle that they could continue to exist on fo little food. As for Lee's soldiers, starvation had lett the men with no resisting power with which to combat even a slight wound. They buffered, but the suffering of the Southern women was as great. l| much tragtdy in the story, and no one can read it .without admiration for th© c'urarf- and endurance which carried them through such misery. An interest ing phase of their experience lay in their clever contrivance. Bits of carpet end morocco pocl:etbooks made into boot* for little children were better than rothlng. When money grew scarce the v/sf*t of the absent general cut up her husband's dress coat and made for sale v.til fitting gloves for women, with gauntlets of the silk lining. From thes* find from gloves cut out of the gray flannel interlining th* mad» hundreds of dollars in Confederate money, nd bo kppt the pat. such as It was, a-boiling. These reminiscences are set down viv idly, yet with simplicity. They should hold ■ permanent placs in the records of life in the South befora and dOTIQS the war. FREXCH FICTIOX. A Clever Story of the X a pole writ Wan. Paris, October 30. M. Georges d'Esparbes, curator of the Palace of Fontainebleau and author of "La Guerre en Dentelle," has acquired icmarkable skill in giving life and ro mantic interest to brief passages in his tory that have remained somewhat vague and nebulous. He avt • legends based upon a happy combination of facts ani fancy, and thereby presents a light, readable "historic,*! neve!," in which well known personages are portrayed in vig orous outline. The disastrous cianpaign of Nai*»!6on's lieutenants in Andalusia is cleverly dealt with by M d'Eaparbia in his new work, "i.t Vent da DouloC" The terrible conaequeacca of |farmt*M blander in trying to protect the Infamous Gcdoy, Prince of Peace, from the Just attacks "' the .Spanish people; the am bush laid at Dayonne when Charles IV mm his son van summoned under false pretences and compelled to abdicate in favor of Joseph Bonaparte; the melo dramatic itiyl of ii,- young French lieu tenant, llontandier, ami the taaa M»r cNes, and th« massacre of the Mame luLes, immortalized by Goya, figure amt.ntr the picturesque epia.xles set forth in this spirited narrative, and aft • gam. vine impressions of historical reality. M. CamiHe Id aiaaalsr In his new novel. "La UaJaon «ol Dort." published by tho Librairio Fasquelle, the action of which is laid in Flanders, gives a series of de lightful character todlM and the dc «*** of th« land and scenery are trutbfu! and ploasing. The "house that Slumbers" is a sort of sleepy hollow, in which the folklore of the peasants is carefully studied and rendered. "Mr lr." a work of fiction presenting t-iiginal in vestiKatlohs pertaining to tho habits, cus toms and morals " the Polish Jews, by M. EUse Orzeszko. and translat. d into French ! v ML Kozakiewiez. is, published by tho Llbralrle Fasquelle. A love tale v.ith a tragic ending, in which Melr is tie hero and <Jo!da the heroine, is adroitly used as a theme "'l which the author's psychological studies are dcrtiy embroid ered. BsybOir, tha Lithuanian village in habited almost exclusively by Israelites. Is described with minute precision, and may ;,. taken as an example of the numerous but little known Jewish com munities in Poland. o. 1. v Interest In the identity of "Jiiiiius" La perpetual, i nd in guesses are worth con sideration, a correspondent of the Lon don -Spectator" thinks he has discov ered a fact Which throws light on th« problem. Jle writes: rJ'^i ra<t i 1i 1 , reftr to ls thltt the n*m*« iTuiicli. ur,.l riiua were as-sooUteJ with one a,.otK.j more than two s£turte»b£ \ «. i 7 £S£?* ff * I TSS cf thtJ '•«««■ fecters. A u« II knowii Krenrh Protestant thro loKiari, Fmncoti do Jon-ln Latin. Prau dscua Juni»s-was ix.m in lo*-.. and^died in !</jJ. His ton. who a!>o bore t»^ num. . died in ICTR He came to England in J«-» -•• ' u-.^ librarian to the Karl of Artino^l for tWrty years, if* was a dlstincuished Anjrlo-Saxc ii umi <J.ithic -■ '■••iui aVI us "KtjHioloKl.-uni Ai.feiicanum" was "«tea! *iv«.ly iisf.l hy Johnsoa iii the preparation «.f h«s Dvtknar)'. Then: Is a referent t " him n. Dus»eU's* M Uffl of JohtSn™ JStobS hd.tion p. ».n. My • lvi - ihlß-l ii no": bibk- that this •1. vi.i.. ccaocatlon ofotSa two han^fl ran haw txtn a nK-r.- V .In": dfneel Is It not rather to be f Xl ,j a inej by I. I,*1 ,* supposition that J'h.liii iVar',,7 £. mi? in rrarch of :t pstudonyme. took 'that ■mica was !yn-. ; ready to w s Ksndin tS name of the old Scholar. Fr.iuvu Jm ,»• BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS. lAutourapl,"^^ l^^',^^ ''•■•" "iNotclK-rtur." it « > r . RARE BOOK:. & PRINTS IN EUROPE. SAB IN ! wuwi>nmii» <fmnV T » ' i eiUai *> Colour Prints. '.arr.no. A. , lis I7i Sew Uond M. AVJ |{A»; BO3XS, VAL- London, W. j ÜBL 41 UJ,K*»»itS, Ac. »* A LI.- OUT- OF -PRINT -BOOKS" *» Wft.'TE ME: can ( «t you »ny bock *v*r Buh!:«h»J oj ui.y kubiaot. 7h» mo.'i «ip«rt tcok fln<l«r .him. -■ '-.tn In Cn*Un<J r»ll a«4 kf BAtCBIt d OUCAT XiC'OK tliOf. Jch« lirldUi »i., 84r»Uifh*m. HOOKS t\i) AUTHORS, Talk of Things Present and to Conic. Tlie book in which a rash person has attempted to sbow that Gibbon wrote tiM "Jitters of Junius" is not convincing, inasmuch a:< no positive proof la oftVrtd. Coincidences of style arid circumstances In the historian's life which might not make much authorship Impossible aro scarcely enough for consideration. Here is one of the foolish arguments of the volume: "In replying to this invitation (from WllkesJ . . . Junitia in be trayed into tho unguarded use of a phrase which. I think, help?. in howtjver Kinall a depree, to identify the writer. "Many thanks,* ho says, "for your oblig ing offer; but ala« my age and jVjnrc would do but UtUe credit to my partner.* The assumption of 'age' (ho was only thirty- was probably a pretext to ■excuse his absence, as also part of his general scheme of dissulse; but may wo not find a consciousness of his growing obesity underlying his mention of the un suitability of his 'figure' to r' « a ball room?" There is to be a new edition of Henry Cockburn's "Memorials" of his time, a book first published In ISSO and one which was much read In the United States as well as in Great Britain. It is an authoritative sketch of Edinburgh In the days of Sir Walter Scott, its Mod ern Athens period. Here is Scott, by the way, as Cockburn saw him: Scarcely even in his novels was he more stimuli or delightful than in society; where the halting hmb, the burr in th« throat, the heavy cheek* the high Goldsmith fore head, the unkempt locks and general plain ness of appeal ance. with the Scotch ac cent and sio.lt-s and sayjnss. all graced by gayvty. simplicity and kjndntss. made a combination most worthy of being enjoyed. '"England the Inval'J" is the tHle of a book w hich has just appeared in Berlin. It hi the work of Dr. Curt Ab«L t!:e son of Dr. Carl Abei, the distinguished He brew phi!olj?lst. The substance of th'.s volume is said to be that "English in feriorijty and German iuperiority aro the cause of any friction between the two nations." Three new Ibsen books have Just been published in Copenhagen and Berlin. They contain tho Norwegian autb-r'* youthful romantic drama*, with verses, letters, tpaMaMA prose writings and tho outiires of all his plays. The forthcoming new edition or "L,orna D©->ne." evokes the statement that counting this adition — no fewer than 720.000 copies of Blackmore's nov»l will have been solj. Here, at !ee«t. is excel lent testimony to the fact that a deii a h T ful work af art may sometimes be "pop ultir ' In concluding a disquisition on plagiar ism, an English writer mentions as something worse the fabrication of spurious quotations. H« quotes in illus tration a story of Samuel Warren, who once took part in a debate during which Roebuck blasted that he was not a party man. "Warren rose, end said that 'my learned friend's beast reminds me pain fully of the words of Cicero. "He who be longs to no party is presumably too vilo for any." ' At the conclusion of the de bute Roebuck came over to compliment his adversary on having made a suc cessful hi', adding. 'I am fairly well up in Cicero; but I have no Idea where I can find the passago % you quoted.' 'Neither have I,' said Warren. 'Good night.* " A now- edition of Elise ko's "Mu sical Sketches" is coming from the press of Sturgis .£ Walton. It will Include some gketohes which htive not before Ik • ii translated into English, and it is to have a number of illustrations. A correspondent of the London "Spec tator" writes, apropos of tho possible ex istence of undent HH la th«» libraries of Constantinople, that he was permitted last spring to sea those in iho OM Se raglio library. He found there thirty threu Greek MBS.I scarcely any one older than the thirteenth century. ii. adds that there have always been vag'ie stories <>; other hidden libraries in the fortifications or elsewhere, but residents seem skeptical concerning their exist ence. and that Professor Browne, of Cambridge has worked at •»• Oriental MSS. la almost all tho libraries of Urn city. The Council of the British Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies havo BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS. BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS Publish To-day Henry Van Dyke's new book of poems The White Bees $1.25 net; postpaid, $1 .35. The latest and most beautiful of Dr. Van Dyke's verse, includ ing many poems which have never before been printed. The patriotic "Songs of America" are in this volume, as well as "In Praise of Hoets/ 1 "Lyrics Dra matic and Personal/ etc, Ernest Thompson Seton's Life Histories of Northern Animals 2 volumes, $18C0 net; exprcssagc extra; 60 maps, 600 drawings by ths author An important book of popular natural history on a strictly scientific basis. The most authoritative as well as interesting work on the sixty animals with which it deals. W. W. Jacobs'* new boot Sailors' Knots Illustrated. $1.50. New stories full of the inimit able hum»r and fun that ha\e made him the best of our humor ous writer;. "The *irst of living English humorist — ' standard. decided to tak«> some action the result of which would bo to do for Human or Latin studies the work which by its con stitution the Hellenic Society ha* don* and Is doinj? for «ire«>k studies in relation to all periods of the existence of »!r»»»*k nationality. It appears to tho council after giving prolonged consideration to raajeaUi m received from various sources that "this end would bo best served by the formation of a new Society for th- Promotion of Roman or Latin Studies. Th« scope of such a society would bu' ancient Roman civilization In all Sands of the Roman Umpire, to gether with its survivals in Italy and Western Europe down to the end of tho Middle Ages. With fuch a society the Hellenic Society would wish to work in complete harmony and with constant collaboration. In some cases th* work of the two societies would overlap, but as tho two bodies would work together no difficulty Mad bo caused, and it is confidently -It that some mutual ar rangement will be possible between the two bodies, so as to avoid any duplica tion of effort, either in th« sphere of re search or in tho collection of working materials, such as books, photographs or lantern slides." The council calls for communications from possible support ers of their plan. The matter will, of course, be of interest to American scholars. The first instalment ©f Mm«. Mod jeska's memoirs will appear In tne Christmas number of "The Century." It it to be accompanied by many Illustra tions, including; a tinted portrait of the actress as Ophelia. These memoirs, it Is stated, were finished by Mmc Modjeska only a short time before her last illness. The serial publication of them will con tinue during 1010. Lord Brougham, whose tamper may have partly justified Mr. Cre*vey in railing him "Beelzebub." sometimes dis played strange manners as a host In hJa own house. In the first published remi niscences of Lady Wak* (sister of Arch bishop Tait) are to be found some cur! cus notes on his behavior: »»>Jwo,r^ ! i " irhan \ dld w ROt a PP«*r till th« • .' for dinner, when ha suddenly rushed « n '» the drawing room with peerin- eves and knitted brows, ran up to Mrs Tait poked out his arm at her as thourvj ha were prtsentJng a pistol, and without a room. W There ne Pat 'at ' "° the af hi* table without uttering a lh « head of hi* , a K thout utterij i« » syllable. Other S-VSV^im" 6 n 2 ne: Pleasant conYer^ was h\ P /«« " a J? d v " ry "ico^ifortabla i"|i a word, )ookin~ black as nirht r^irs deep WB'cV'.id'w.'/pi. iirrif" in time startling every one by sud ff nn e l Yn°^ nln X' l i- e " lttfn e room dosr. pok- It is remembered that Lady Brougham was the widow of a Mr. Spalding. and that Lord Brougham was heard to men tion his predecessor as "the gentleman whose loss we have all so much reason to deplore." Concerning the lady also old Creevey was bitter. He describes her at a dinner party, sitting "like an overgrown doll at the top c the table in a bandeau of roses, her face in a per petual simper without utterance." A work which promises to be of fas cinating interest is to be brought out Immediately by M. Armand Dayot. the French Inspocteur Ofwf«a| of the Fine Arts. This is devoted to "LouU XIV," and will no doubt resemble in character M. 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