Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1910 — Book news and Reviews. [ARTICLE]

Book news and Reviews.

M. Maeterlinck’s version of “Macbeth” as it was produced at his country home, Saint Wandrllle, is to be, published immediately in Paris. The memorial which Englishmen fepve designed for Tennyson is the restoration of the little Somersby church near which he was born, and the placing therein of a reproduction in bronze of Woolner’s bust of the poet. Three-quarters of the necessary sum has been raised—and there the subscription halts. “How Americans Are Governed” Is the title of a forthcoming hook written by Crittenden Marriott, whose most recent work for youthful readers was called “Uncle Sam’s Business.” The new volume will tell the story of the methods and power of national, State and city government in a way to command^the attention of the young. At the sale in London the other day of twenty-four letters written by Beethoven, Herr Kinsky of the Bologne Museum proved to be the fortunate bidder. He paid 63,300 for them, They deal chiefly with family matters connected with the composer’s worthless nephew, Karl, whom he loved in spite of the youth’s worthlessness. A long memorandum extending to forty-six pages is the longest manuscript in Beethoven’s handwriting that is known. Frederick Greenwood was asked .by four different publishers to write his “reminiscences,” but after some hesitation he declined, writing only fragments of such a book. Mr. Greenwood, after Thackeray resigned the Cornhill, took up the duties of editor. Later he became absorbed ln the Pall Man Gazette. Mr. Greenwood, it will be remembered, put the final touches to two great stories “left half told”— the "Dennis Duval” of Thackeray and the “Wiles and Daughters" of Mrs. Qpskell. The British Museum will shortly become the possessor of Nelson’s memorandum on, the action of Trafalgar. This is the document which Frank Sabin purchased three years ago for 818,000. An outcry arose from those who felt that it ought to belong to ths British nation, and Mr. Sabin offered It to the museum at the price he had himself paid. The authorities were not able to find the money, and an Englishman, B. M. Woollen* bought the memorandum at the price mentioned, agreeing to leave It to the mgseum. Hie death brings the precious bit of paper to its final home. Gilbert K. Chesterton, whose recent novel. "The Cross and the Ball," Is delighting the epicures of literary unexpected flavors, promises s new volume to be published under the title, "Whet Is Wrong.” . The ball of the new novel is the dome of St. Paul’s, the cross the religious emblem which surmounts. The two leading characters, a toonk and Lucifer, arrive in an airship, and the old monk, fresh from hie hermitage in the society of wild animals, is left clinging to the erase to find hie way down the ball to look on at this wicked world and Ito various absurdities and conventions.