Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 155, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1910 — NEWS OF RECENT BOOKS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NEWS OF RECENT BOOKS

Arthur Radkham's fall illustrations will Include pictures for “Rhinegold” and ‘“Phe Valkyrie,” translated by Margaret Armour from the Wagner libretti Among early novels will be a new book by Edward C. Booth, author of “The Poet Girl.” It also is a story of life and love In the author's native Yorkshire country, and it will appear under the title of “The Doctor’s Lass.” A novelist of a generation ago, Mrs. Marie Walsh, has just died in New York. She was the author of “Wife of Two Husbands,” “The Lost Paradise” and “The Romance a Dry Goods 1 Drummer.” She dramatized Miss Braddon’s novel “Three Times Dead.” Why do women writers favor the pseudonym “George?” There were “George Eliot” and "George Sand,” and at present there is “George Fleming,” Julia Constance Fletcher. “Georg Schock,” a Harper writer, completes the “four Georges.” But there is now room for a George V. Under the will of Mark Twain, Clara Langdqn Clemens, wife of Ossip Gabrilowitsch, sole surviving daughter, inherits his home at Redding, Conn., and all other real and personal estate. This she will enjoy “without power of anticipation and free from any control or interference of any husband she may have.” Walter Pulitzer, son of Albert Pulitzer, formerly proprietor of the New York Journal, whose death was some montba ago recorded, announces that he will take up his father’s "Memoirs” where the latter laid off and incorporate them in a biography of the Journalist and an account of the progress of journalism In his day. Mrs. Humphry Ward has not scored an English success with “Lady Merton, Colonist.” The Saturday Review thinks the story very thin and threadbare. "We never read a novel of Mrs. Humphry Ward in which, the characters were so sketchily outlined and so uninteresting. But the book will be popular because it idealizes the cant of the hour.” The publication of the complete edition of the works and correspondence of Galileo, undertaken by the Italian government in 1890, is at an end, the concluding volume having just been issued. It is the twentieth. It contains indexes to the whole set and an “indice biografleo” of Galileo’s contemporaries. The edition is published at Florence, where Galileo died. Its full title Is "Le Opere di Galileo Galilei: Edizione Natlonale sotto gli auspicii dl Sua Magesta il Re d’ltalia.”