| Show j BOOKS iNn PiCTURES I New Books in JLomlou ITIr Kolius I Collection Some Lady Artlsfs i I Lent is the London publishers feast not fast for reading then takes the plac of many debarred amusements The popular Lenten novelty is undeniably one by Lady Gertrude Stock sister of the Marquis of Queensbury notwithstandin its unattractive titleNatures Nurse ling It is a love novel founded on the prejudices of Catholics and Protestants which separate families and lovers r It would equally delight Mr Beecher or Mgr Capel Another popular Lenten novel is Diana of the Crossways by George Meredith Would any one suspect him as he does therein of playing with his pen on the whole gamut of passion Diana is a vivid conception worked out with great literary powers Mr F W Robinson has an eastern novel in the hands of Messrs Hurst Blackett with the melodramic titlo Lazarus in Lon don But the Bentleys next week will match it with an anonymous novel called Mrs Keiths Crime while Mr Craw ford who began fiction with India next week crosses the Afghan frontier into Persia with his new novel godfathered by Macmillans and called Zoroaster the Prophet The Bentleys Easter egg of novels is to be A Good Hater by Mr Frederick Boyle which will contain veiled portraits of notable people set in an ingenious plot The Blackwoods boast an reathetic novel by a lady The book has the prosaic pro-saic title Miss Brown Its hero Lon don clubbists say is intended for Mr Oscar Wilde It is a book of dramatic interest and keen sketching of character Twentytwo different volumes of verse have recently greeted prosaic London the chief volume whereof is Melchior an Epic by Mr Wills the dramatist Five thousand lines alternated with blank verse and rhyme give a staggering sound to readers but the dramatic story and treatment carry th6 reader delightedly delight-edly through to the end It is such a poem as Lawrence Barrett might have a play made from Lord Byrons great publishing house of Murray who was in such a dd hurry to set up an ultimate Canto issues during the coming com-ing week the first volume with five to follow of Lord Lyttons Owen Meredith new epic of Glenaveril which will be mystical savoring of his life in India Ho mourns a fathers failure in a recent play but he may joy in a success as great as Lucille for himself Even brokers in oils stocks and corn are becoming literary A committee of business men in the city announce from near the Herald offices a new magazine to be called The City Quarterly giving attention to mercantile matters with biographies of men who are something in the city Londc n draws the line at Zola whom the Society for the Suppression of Immorality Im-morality calls the apostle of nastiness and the Germinal is being suppressed Paris exiles James Ste hsns London exiles Emma Zola London backs up Mr Hamerton and his landscape book appearing yesterday de luxe at ducat price was largely bought at once It con tains fiftytwo engravings or etchings with the authors pen eulogiums of nature War has its new literature Messrs Allen Co publish on the Afghan question ques-tion with a supplement to date Mr Marvins Russians at Merv and Herat Their Power of Invading India It is based on Russophobic lines Mr Unwin today issues Scotts France in Ton quin It is a narrative of the pending campaign with a prognosis of the future of Siam as a conquered French colony Messrs Blackwood published yesterday yester-day a volume on the South African war by Lady Bellairs Blackwoods also present pre-sent a volume entitled Madagascar and France which besides its war lessons pays much attention to the Hovas the aristocratic caste or Normans of the island Illustratively of the Russian situation sit-uation comes from Messrs Smith Elder El-der Studies of Russia by the peripatetic peripa-tetic Mr Augustus C Hare who writes with the swiftness of his animal namesake name-sake The art collection of the late Mr H G Bohn is now under daily auction sale Where are the American virtuosi when there are either going or gone thirteen Watteaus eight Teniers thirteen Durers seven Hogarths five Guidos heading 1621 picture lots including sprinklings of Reynolds Turners and Wouvermans Two Watteaus went yesterday for 650 and a Giorgione for 500 everything being guaranteed Mr Harp Penning ton the latest American artistic accession to the Whistler set was at the sale He is enrolled in the Easter Royal Academy exhibition with a portrait of Mr Corn wallis West and is regarded as a coming man Seven hundred and sixty works of women wo-men painters collected from all Great Britain Germany and France under the auspices of a society of lady artists and pretty evenly divided between oil and water colors comprise an exhibition opened two days ago in the Marlborough Street Galleries A charming love scene entitled All My Fancy Dwelt OnNancy by Miss Katharine Bywater appears the most admired because exhibiting so much characterization The members of the society and large numbers do not usually exhibit are all artists JYeu > York Herald |
