New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-12-12
THE BOOH OF THE AUTHORS CLUE.
A UNIQUE VOLUME. WITH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM
MORE THAN A HUNDRED WRITERS.

MORE THAN A HUNDRED WRITERS.
Work. 90 the book which the Authors Club Is
10 publish this winter has advanced to such stage
that good Idca Of 1t be given to the public
II Is called Lber Scnptorum," aud is published by
the club for its own benefit. The realized from
the sale Of the book will probably to securing some
time in the future permanent home for the club.
which has Its rooms at No l55 West Twenty
third-st where a "housewarming" meeting was
largely attended last Thursday evening.
The volume. the first issued by the club. is
large one, sumptuously printed on handmade paper
manufactured specially for IT, and will have an unique
and handsome binding. which is described character
iscay American. There will be only edition, OF
25l copies zone copy for the clubs own library and
the contents appear III print nowhere else The Illus
trations consist Of appropriate headbands and tail
pieces. designed and engraved for the places which
they occupy Each article in each copy Of the book
will be signed with pen aud Ink by It's author.
No other book ever printed has this feature The
subscription price Is $780, the club reserving the right
TO raise the figure after the first 100 copies have
been taken. The original manuscripts Of all the
articles are being inlad and will be bound In two
or more large volumes. These will be sold as one
lot 10 the highest bidder.
More than 100 writers have contributed to the work,
some serdng poetry, others action Others essays ana
> on. some OF tie articles are: " Famnanta MOenia
Mundi" nreside study by Henry NJ Alden; Russian
Rule us 1t Is Felt by Ten Millions Of the UncrthodoX
b. Poultney Bigelow; 1.-THE Kings Bastard, by Hal
mar Hjorth Boyesh; "A Song of Nests lyric poem,
By Richard Rogers Bowler; The Books OF an Old
Boy by Noah Brooks, The Place OF Comenus In the
History of Education" by Professor Nicholas Murray
Butler The Ghost of Sable Island ballad by
VIII Carleton; "Genus illustrated from Burns by
Andrew Carnegie; The Fate OF the Ninth IL gion"
story OF Roman rule In Britain by John Denison champ
lin Noon In the Hlls,' poem. by John Vance
Cheney; Scholarship and Politics." an essay. BY
William Conant Church; Upon the Baneiul Effects
of Ridcule" skit, by Mark Twain, Ny Acquaintance
with Abraham Lincon," by Alban Jasper Conant; cur
summer Life at Wianno," by Moncure Daniel Conway
In Defence OF the Dead" Virginia story, BY Ed
ward Eegleston " The Literary Disadvantages OF lIv-
ing Too Late" an essay by George Cary Esgles'On'
Cordelia and the Moon" by Harod Frederic, Baris
a poem, by Richard Watson Glider; a University
Problem by President Gilman, OF Johns Hopkins
. The Germans in America" by Parke Goodwin; "Du-
ality" poem, by Arthur sherburne Hardy "Ihe
Kings Touch" didactc poem, by Henry Harahd
sidney LusAa); Euthanasia,' u sonnet by Juih
Hay; SCHUBERT u poem, by William }. henderson
La Ignoee" the story Of song by Rlpl,y Hitch-
cock; History in a Play" a technical SKETCH by
Bronson Howard Judgment Day. poem, h
W. ID. Howells; The Books Of My
Babvhoods Renaissance, by Laurence
Hutton; "Relef for Literature" essay setting forth
the invention Of the literary dead line by KossiteF
Johnson; "The Crest of the World" Himaiayah
sketch by Thomas w. Knox; The Iannhaeuscr,
an essay BY Henry f.. Krehbiel; Elsewhere
story by George Parsons L0throp In the Freight
a poem by Walter Learned; My Search for the Cod
dsss y a sketch BY Hamilton W. Mabe The Trans
fusion of Indigestion" humorous essay, by BTander
Notthews The Lex Loci OF the Hired GIRL hunlor-
ous essay, by Edgar Wilson Nye; "Loweu al ii"i
ward by George e. Pond; "A Bearer OF Dispi'ches'
6y General Horace Porter "A Shot at Buli h'"'
bv Theodore Roosevelt; "Tolstoi and the Chsec"
y
Clinton scotland: A Triad OF Worthless, by Horace
H. Scudder; Fin dc Steele" medtauFco PUcHBi ~
Edmurd Clarence stedman POmoh 1, NIp 10y
Daniel Oreenleaf Thompson; JOY ana Du'l, W IN tHo
Rev Dr. Henry Dyke. and d" LlteTature III DieSS
suit" essay, by Charles Dudley Maricr q cvr,s
AurinCer Marcus Benjamin James Thompson BiAby'
Alexander Black John Ii. Boncr, Arthur Lmoie Lost
wick, James H. Bridge Eoiidge ,; brGo1s srv Within ns
NJ Coan, Theodore Low DE Winnie, Maurice Iti.oas
FCan Henry r. Elliot, George ii. Eu"aneer NiIhAh
Kav William l.. Reese, James b. Kenyon, Leonard
Kip Joseph Kirkland, Perdval Lowell, James ". Luz
low Albert Mathews William ?, MayGi orTI Mori
Charles ledyard Norton, BERNARD r. " Sohor' DuiHHem
osborne Raymond :. Perrin, David H. fTOudht
Charles Henry Phelps, George lansing hNn .'t,l
William J. Sulman. Francis H0vey stoddard, oscar
( Straue stephen Henry rhaycr, John G. Van Dykc'
Ward George +. Warine, jr.. Charles Henry Webb
Charles Goodrich whiting and Francis Howard VIII
possiter Johnson No. l B0nd-st., the secretary Of
the club and any other member, will receive sub
sCrlptons The Authors Club was Organized In 1ee2
al 30. 1903 East Ffteenthst:, Where Mr.: Glider then
council consists Of Mr.. Glide, Mr. johnson. stephen
Henry Thayer secretary John Denson Champlin
ir. Thomas A. tanver, Charles de Kay, Moan BIvpAS
James Herbert Morse and Edmund Clarence stednan
chairman