LITERATURE AND ART.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11644, 4 May 1901, Page 4 (Supplement)

LITERATURE AND ART .

Sir John- Mtt.la:s' famous picture "No!'' changed hands at Christie's lately at 1400 j guinea,. j The new and final diaries of Marie Bash- | kirtsefr. together with the romantic corres- ; pondence she carried on with Guy de Man- ; passant, will he pnblithed very shortly by ; Sir. Grant Richards. "David Livingstone" will the subject (■■' "he next volume of the "Famous Scots"' series. The author is Mr. T. Banks: Mac- ' bchlan. who his already written a volume on another missionary explorer, Mungo Park. < The Duchess of Cornwall and York has j just accepted the dedication of sn illustrated ■"submarine fairy story." by Miss F. Lan- ; caster Lucas, entitled "The Fish Crown in Dispute." Messrs. Skefiington will publish Sir Henry Irving has accepted "a chvssi- i .•a' blank-verse drama." for production at the Lyceum, from the pen of Mr. Fergus Hume, the author of "The Mystery of a Hansom Cab." and many other sensational stories. ! During the last 12 years Mr. Hume has writ- , ten no less than -8 stories. Zola's new novel, which is appearing as a [ serial in L'Aurore. is already half trans- - lated into Enjiish by Mr. Ernest A. Viz?- \ telly. and will be published by Chatto and Windus simultaneously with its publication . in Paris. It is one of a series of four, of which '" Fruit fulness" was the first. Its title ; is "Work:" the two yet to appear will be j entitled '" Truth" and " Justice" respectively, i j Mrs. Charlotte C. Stokes is about to pubish a volume entitled " Shakespere's Family." j which will contain a record of the ancestry i and descendants of Shakespere. It is written on rarely genealogical lines, and is said ' to snppiv some fresh information coi.ctrn- j ing the Shakesperes. The author attempt? ! to prove, among other things, that Shake- j sr-ere. on the mother's side. w.»s descended | ; -. m .Alfred the Great. The work will be i illustrated bv sketches, facsimiles, and red:- ! zrr=es. and will be published bv Mr. Elliot j -trek. " ; i At the berk and autograph sale- at Sothe- I ay's a few days ajo were included a, correc- : ted proof of Charles Dickens' speech at i Drury Lane. June. 1355. which brought £19 : is. while six autograph letters of the novelist j "•ere sold for £13 'lOs : a first edition of I Oliver Goldsmith's "Deserted Village."; [770. went for £25 : Herrick's '• Hesperides." [ 1648. a fine iar-re cop}- of the first edit : on. : was ben-rht for £56: "Poems on the Death : of Priscilla Palmer.' by her grandson. ' Charles Lloyd. Charles Lamb, and Samuel • Fay'or Coleridge. 1795— an exceedingly rare I opv— and Walter Savace Landor's I 'Gebir: A Poem." 1739. first edition, £25. j "I love it very much, and cm deeply ■ thankful to have written it. whatever the ' public may say to it." So remarked George Eliot on concluding "Adam L-.de." It is rather amusing to recall that the book would have been published earlv in Decem- . bar, 1859. but that Bulwer's "What Will He Do With It?" was to be published by Blackwood at that time, and it was thought j that this novel might interfere with it. \ What about Bulwer's story now? Before a ' rear a seventh edition of " Adam Bede" was rlisposed of. It would bo exceedingly in- j teresting to know how many copies of the ' book have been sold altogether since. It ! appeared in sixpenny form some time ago. j The copyright of "Adam Bede" expires j this year, and Messrs. Blackwood are to is- i -•up immediately two new editions of George j Eliot's work. " To one—the " Warwick"— 1 we have already called attention. 'It will be printed on India paper, and will be of a j neat pocket size. " Adam Bed-" will be is- | sued at once. The other will be a new ]i- j bran - edition. "Adam Bede" appearing in April. A feature of this edition will be i photogravure frontispieces from drawings by William Hatherell." R. 1.. Edzar Bundv, . ILL. Byam Shaw. R. 1., A. A. Van Anrooy. ! and Maurice Grieffenhagen. We note, by ! the way. that a neat pocket edition of I "Adam Bede" has just been issued by Mr. ' Lane. " |