Show t 1 1I r r l J I j r v ii rd Il r I i fr I I 1 11 1 jvii t1 f r iUt I f I j I I p I i 1 i y t jrrr7 Li i 1 I The announcement that the complete works of Emerson are to find a place In the Minerva library one oC the popular pop-ular British editions of standard works leads the Academy to say For Individual r in-dividual prose works of Emerson there has always been In England a gratifying gratify-ing demand Of The Conduct of Life or English Traits of Representative Men of Society and Solitude and so forth there have been many editions a fact which reflects credit upon the lI English reading public 511 Hcrvcy White t author of Differences = Differ-ences has two new books ready for L fall publication Quicksands a novel Y and a volume of short stories I t We are told by Mr Frederick Harrison Harri-son that as a burial place Westminster Abbey Is now absolutely full Not afoot a-foot of ground remains for burial not a square yard of space for a memorial The lluskln committee with the architect I 1 archi-tect searched every available corner and barely found u free square yard for 4 their memorial to the author of the 4 I Stones of Venice Mr Harrison suggests i sug-gests that an annex should be built S Jf this is not done the great Englishmen English-men of the future will have no monuments I monu-ments In the abbey II T i Lady Currle still signs Violet Fane I when she publishes a poem This she a has Just done In the pages of the i Italian Review a magazine printed ins in-s Italy In the English tongue and advocating 1 advo-cating many of the reforms especially j In laws and usages relating to women i which are associated particularly with i the AngloSaxon lace The new magazine i maga-zine which Queen Marghcrlta joins the j British Emhassadrcss In fostering IB I edited by Madame Zamplnl Salazar i who Js now on a visit to London 1 a Cllvc Holland has written a sequel to I his successful novel My Japanese Wife which will be published early this autumn t r RETALIATION The cynic smites the world and then Displays a wondrous lack Of scnso by wildly grieving when It turns and hits him buck Va8hInston Star After an interval of forty years spent In conventional urban ways Francis Parkman lover of woods took a month of camping Ills companion Mr C II Farnham says of this episode in his forthcoming biography of the historian The most Interesting manifestation of his personality l wan his mute approaches ap-proaches to naturo after so many years of separation He would look up at a hold bluff that arose several hundred feet above the river as If fain to scale once more such lofty cliffs Often he I would get into the canoe and float down the river for a glimpse of our neighbors neigh-bors a family of beaver I recall most vividly Ills expectant look off into the depths of the forest as I once look my rod l and puddled away to give him a day of solitude J One of the most valuable publications Issued on tho occasion of the seinlnjll lennlum of Gutenberg Is Catalogue No 21 I of the house of Jacques Rosenthal Rosen-thal of Munich called Incunabula Typographlca containing a description descrip-tion of 1600 Incunabula In the possession posses-sion of this enterprising firm covering Inn period from the Invention of tho art of printing to the year 1500 A D Although It IB an elegantly printed octavo oc-tavo volume with three colored plates and I ulghty Illustrations In tho text the prlcoMs I only 3 mar The collection represent the products l 100 printing establishments at fully ninety dlffeient localities Urn city of Main with tho productions of Gutenberg Fust and ScIiocfLer being In Tho lud The chief publication of the German Italian French and Dutch concerns of the prrlod arc all represented here to JethW WIth n number of tho rare and f UJU3i jlock books Evening Post 4 Translation from tho French novelists novel-ists form a large part of the reading of Germany Zola Muupus > ant and Marcel Mar-cel Prevent are particularly popular in r that country Mr Kiplings work Js said to be making Us way there Gnlett Burgess is to call his new collection col-lection of verjK consisting Jnrgely of lyrics from that defunct eccentricity Tho Lark by tho title of tIA Gao I of Youth Some hitherto unpublished verses are Included In tho volume I A It eimc pays for a lenrned coun Jl 1 to bo Up In matters of literature an well as of the law The London Morn I r Ink Pout relates that In a recent Bow street case In which n bookseller wns being tried for Belling an English translation of he celebrated till oJtn I nieron of tbo Queen of Navarre tho defendant t iunt > rl suddenly asked the pollro witness whether ho regarded I Tom Jones u an Improper boost The witness had read It and unhesitatingly animated I do Are you ware said tho Socratic counsel again that the novel In question war written by a former chief magistrate of thin court This reminiscence of the lon fprgotten fart that Fielding who had studied law at the University of Lcydin wttn once Justice of the Pence for the county of Middlesex settled the question of Tom Jone end The Heptntn nand n-and the jury promptly acquitted the bookseller City Editor Evidently you didnt get a very close view of Nookaaha ummcr place Reporter Not very close Why City EditorYou refs to It ac n mngninccnt marble pile whereas Its I a frame house Reporter It Just crow out mar ble then and Insert wood Phlladal l > hla Press Like forensic eloquence Judicial humor l hu-mor IH omcthlnK peculiar to Itself Recently Re-cently Justice Day oC London el ctrifled I the court by asking i Who to Sherlork Holrnt1 it Is I a kind of tradition with her MaJeatyM JudgM to know nothing of popular Hl r rntur or of aC fairs that are known of everybody Who knows not Sherlock Holmes I Well Justice Day docs not and there Is the humor of it The counsel who I replied to the question explained that Sherlock Holmes was the name of a 1 book which it is not It looks as if the counsel was determined to be In the J humor and not show more knowledge than the Judge That Dr Conan i Doyles hero who solved so many mys J I terleS should become a mystery hj = + ii I Is a pleasant circumstance I The autumn lists of the publishers are in themselves good reading this year The most salient feature especially espe-cially noticeable moreover In that it I is shared by several housqs Is the lIt of reprints from the classics of English literature Enterprise in this Meld canner can-ner be too highly commended particularly par-ticularly when as at the present time the publishers unite upon the policy of I giving their reprints handsome form and putting them on the market at a low llguio Considerable fiction by authors au-thors well known for interesting work Is promised and there will be the usual contingent of elaborately Illustrate books Wo arc glad to note however that the picturebook of stereotyped gorgeousnessand banalitywhich was once regarded as Indispensable to the fall and holiday trade Is apparently I dead beyond all possibility of resurrection resurrec-tion The Illustrated volumes thus far announced promise satisfactorily to demonstrate their right to exist Of works of pure literature there Is not a great deal to expect but the list of historical his-torical biographical and critical books Is on the whole sufllciently extended when the unsatisfactory state oC the I publishing world during the last year I is taken into consideration The South African war may not have worried the scholars In their seclusion but publishers publish-ers have not unnaturally felt the Influence Influ-ence of the prevailing atmosphere which has not been conducive to strictly i strict-ly literary study and they are still I cautious about ventures that are not I at any time widely popular New York Tribune i Laurence Ilutton at his home in Princeton preparing a volume of papers to be called UA Group of Players and j Other Sketches I 6 I Mi Alfred Austin has just been placed upon the civil list with a pension of 200 1000 a year and the usual chorus of dispraise has arisen which Is heard of late whenever the poet laureate Is mentioned The Westminster Westmin-ster Gazette says Critics however should remember that Mr Austin was a Tory leaderwriter before he was laureate and perhaps his reward Is rather for his labors In the former car paclty than for any eminence attained in the poetic line Still of course It Is as laureate that Mr Austin is known now and It Is Interesting to recall that he one Issued In lSiOa book entitled The Poetry of the Period In which he had something to say of his distinguished distin-guished predecessor In the same ofilce One quotation will suffice He wrote In Memorlam will assuredly be handed over to the dust as soon as the generation arises which has come to Its senses Thirty years hence what ono wonders w111the opinion on Mr Austins poetry c I am afraid said tho poet to the editor that you dont exactly grasp the depth of the ideas expressed in my blank verse Perhaps not said the editor They may be beyond my mental reach I think you wrong yourself said the poet kindly Let me test the point Here Is a line at random She swiftly passed him down the silent way and In her path a subtle perfume lingered Them that doesnt seem confused to jotu docs it Not at all replied the editor briskly brisk-ly I thats easy You are simply tryIng try-Ing to say that a gasoline automobile went down the pike Cleveland Plain Dealer One of the most Important works which is announced for the autumn Is Sir Walter Armstrongs Life of Sir Joshua Reynolds uniform with the same authors Gainsborough which appeared hint year So much more Is known In a personal way of Reynolds than of Gainsborough that It Would be possible to glva the details of his life a fullness almost equal to Boswollb life of Johnson The volume will contain seventyllvo photogravures and the price will be 56 nets net-s The discussion In England relative to a proposed return to the threevolume novel costing a guinea and a half and the evils which have followed In the wake of the nlxJihllllnjr books of fiction still proceeds says tho Philadelphia Press On the one hand Clement K Shorter whose opinion Is of some consequence con-sequence thinks that cheaper novels have n dcploniblc effect on the young men who are now doing the principal reading of their lives Following Is Mr Shorter view Threevolume novel were read principally by women with superfluous leisure The majority of young people never opened them What money they had to spend on books was spent on firstclass fiction that had survived the tNt of Unn or on good biography and history Witness the excellent sale which obtained for the English Men of Letters aeries for the cheap edition of Frauds and so on All of this kind of thing has fallen into the background At every booksellers l the moment you enlur a bookshop It In assumed that you have come for this or that six shilling or lhre andslxpcnny novel The result Is I proportionate The number num-ber of readers of the young generation are not reading half so strenuously as their elder brothers and sisters ten years ato The Chronicle however doe not take tho discussion quite seriously but says All the talk on the matter 1M I Just I talk and nothing more it will come to nothing Nobody wants the guinea t and a half threedec back again lust of all iMudles and Smiths who I were Us undoing Tin thretJvoluino hovel If a mile of lh imt an will try to ryp th t oMft 1 hlI1T1l pamphlet on the other hand thr uu no real I Influences 1 making toward the extreme of cheapness The British reading pub lic arc rather conservative in their hab its and they have not got well accustomed accus-tomed to the sixshilling novel With us the lending library plays a part th tIt t-It does not play In any other country In France you buy your fiction In paper covers here you mostly borrow It In a substantial binding You cannot have the thing both ways and our way has been the way of the circulating library i The habit Is likely to continue for this time the libraries have no reason to seek a change A sixshilling book suits them In every respect and their single I complaint is that the short novels which do not Justify the price are often published at it Recently however that grievance has been righting itself It-self A LIBRARIANS NOTES One dear soul came In brimful of a desire to obtain a book that a friend had recommended beautiful book I toobut the t title and authors name were a myth to her all she knew about i I It was that It was about Monday Repeated Re-peated solicitation made her waver nothing she was sure It wasnt about I Tuesday or Wednesday or any other I day of the week The poor mortal serving serv-ing hor did his best but the book 1 on Monday author unknown came not I to his mind and the lady went her way sorrowful A few days later she cams In her countenance radiant as a sunlit poppy In a cornfield and the librarian J I knew with his Instinctive thrill of delight I de-light that the title was found which had been lostIt was Gloria Mundi I Another great source of fun is to be found among that class of subscriber full of gush and with the Instinct of the litterateur oozing so to speak from their very fingertips who cant read Marlon Clawford < you know because they cant read books written by women wo-men and who speak of Sydney Grlcr and John Strange Winter as he One could pass these trifling errors over were not the Joke accentuated by their fervid declarations to any stranger whom they deem fll subjects for their confidence that their knowledge of authors au-thors publishers tricks and booksellers booksell-ers little ways Is wide and accurate The Publishers Circular 1 i A Blow In the Dark McJigger That was a sly dig Critcek gave Cribber about his new book Thingumbob Why Cribber has been boasting about Crltceka very nattering comment UDon It McJIgger Yes he was too deep for Cribber Crltcck told him there were some things in it that were decidedly original and some others that were very clever Philadelphia Press e The literary paragrapher of the Pall Mall Gazette wants to see some adequate ade-quate portraits of Dumass great guardsman Who Is there he asks who could realize DArtagnan f I wonder I won-der And the strong man of the Quad rilateial how shall we ace him Por thos of the Mousquetalres 1 hope not I the Du Vallon of the latter days I Porthos on the road to Calais Porthos at La Rochelle not Porthos as the I Bourgeois Gentilhommc From this it would appear that the Englishman has I never seen Maurice Lclolrs delightful j I Illustrations which not only do full justice to thebig guardsman with all his gallantry and all his vanity but I also show his three companions to the life LITERARY PRESCRIPTIONS For clearness read Macaulay For logic read Burke and Bacon For action read Homer and Scott For conciseness read Bacon and Pope J For sublimity of conception read Milton Mil-ton For vivacity read Stevenson and Kipling Kip-ling I For Imagination read Shakespeare and Job t For elegance read Virgil Milton and I Arnold WN For common sense read Benjamin Franklin > II For simplicity read Burns Whittler and Bunyan i For smoothness read Addison and Hawthorne I I For Interest In common things read Jane Austen j r For humor read Chaucer Cervantes and Mark Twain For choice of Individual words read Keats Tennyson and Emerson For the study of human nature read Shakespeare and George Eliot For loving and patient observation of nature read Thoreau and Walton Kansas City Star What do you know of Juan Fernandez Fer-nandez a I This was the question propounded by the civil service examiner And this was the answer laboriously written out by the man who wanted to be considered an applicant for a position posi-tion Juan Fernandez was a noble Spaniard Span-iard who discovered the fountain of perpetual youth In Florida Ho was afterward cast away on a desert Island In Pltcalrns sea where his descendants may be found to this day They are very religious and subsist chiefly on hogs and vegetables Chicago Tribune Trib-une |