The times., 1898-08-07

OF Logic and Ethics, Columbia Univer-
sity, and New Trials for Old Favorites."
a literary paper by Brander Matthews.
LITERARY NOTES.
The Werner Company, of Akron, Ohio,
is publishing War and State Libra
ry,'' which will doubtless prove popular.
1t consists of six volumes, uniformly
bound and handsomely illustrated, and
the library is accompanied by a small
oak case of artistic appearance. The
books are: Personal Recollections OF Gen.
Nelson A. Miles" including "reminiscences
of tine civil war, Indian campaigns and
the development of the West, and Illus
trated by Frederick Remington; Deeds
of Daring by the American Soldier"
collection of stories of personal adven-
ture, described as strictly non-sectional;"
The Story of American Heroism," be-
ing narratives of personal adventure dur
ing the civil war, by such men as Gen.
FitZhugh Lee, Gen. Lew Wallace, Gen.
Wade Hampton, etc; John Sherman's
"Recolections' Owo volumes), and THE
Story of Cuba, by Murat Halstead.
Book News for August contains a por-
trait and very brief biographical sketch
of Anthony Hope. 1t continues its policy
of asking the popular authors of the day
why they wrote their books, and receiv-
ing answers from them. 1t may be re-
marked in passing that an examination
of the signatures Of the authors, repro
duced in facsimile after these letters. is
calculated TO destroy the theory that
mans signature and a woman's are es-
sentially different. Francis Wilson's au-
tograph is very feminine, and Helen Wat
terson Moody's very masculine, accord
ing to the old ideas of what signatures
ought to be; and there are all sorts and
conditions OF chirography among the va
Iious authors.
new work on India has been written
by Sir Richard Temple. formerly gov
ernor of Bombay, at present member of
Parliament. 1t will be called "A Birds
Eye View of Picturesque India" and
will be illustrated from drawings by the
author 1t is published by Chatto & Win
dus, London.
Lamson. Wolfe & Co. have in type for
publication in the near future book by
Elizabeth Woodbridge. of New Haven,
called Dramatic Law and Dramatic
Technique" which is highly indorsed by
Professor A. S Cook. OF Yale. The au-
thor is inclined 10 think that the English
are closer TO the Greeks in sympathy
than to the French of the seventeenth
century, which is probably true.
Dr. Douglas Hyde. editor of Love
Songs of Connaught" and author of BE
side the Fire" and other works, has
written a history of literary Ireland
which Fisher Unwin is to publish in Oc-
tober.
e P. Dutton & Co. will publish in Sep
tember a historical story by May Halsey
Miller, called "Raoul Iron Hand: a Tale
OF the Fourteenth Century
Houghton. Mifiin & Co say that they
are literally flooded with manuscripts rela-
ting TO Hawaii, the Philippines and the
West Indies, which they cannot use, and
other publishers are telling the same tale.
No ancient information rehashed from en-
cyclopedias is finding sale just now.
What is wanted is live. interesting, accu-
rate information from people who have
been in the tropics, and there is not room
for very much even of that.
Charlotte Perkins Stetson, the brilliant
and philosophical poet OF the Pacific
Coast, has written a book on Woman
and Economics" which is a lucid state
ment of a very much vexed question.
1t will hardly be popular among those
who sweep away everything connected
with the so-called woman question"
with the smiling remark, We'll women
must always marry in the end. and then
all these questions settle themselves"
Mrs. Stetson is inclined to think that they
will not settle themselves without more
or less intelligent thought, and she makes
strong plea for her view of the case.
Teachers who attempt TO do current
events teaching-a branch which re-
Quires more knowledge, more hard work
and more tact than almost any other
will find THE Book of Parliament" by
Michael Macdonough, of great use in
their work. In II they will find the his
tory, theory parliamentary practice and
daily working machinery of the two
houses of Parliament.
A new and striking book by DIR. Paul
Carus is Buddhism and Its Critics.
Two of Maupassant's best-known
novels, EN- Famille,' and BEL Ami are
now being adapted for the stage. Ma
dame Laure de Maupassant, mother of
the novelist, lives at Nice, and is fire.
quently asked for permission to drama
sents but has allowed the dramatization
of these novels and two others, Mont
OrioP' and Pierre ct Jean
A short biographical and critical ac-
count of Tolstoi is published by Fisher
| Unwin. 1t is the work of Mr.. G. W.
| Perris, and is entitled Leo Tolstoi the
| Great Mujik."
| One of the multitudinous books about
| Spain now being published is THE Es-
| tablishment of Spanish Rule in America, -
| by Prof. Bernard Moses, of the Universi-
| ty of California. Prof. Moses compares
| the colonial rule of England and of Spain.
Two recent numbers of the Half Moon
| Series of papers on Old New York are
| "Old Taverns and Posting Inns" and
| New Amsterdam Family Names and
| Their Origin" both of which will prove
| interesting to the student of colonial
| times In the monograph on New Am
| sterdam Family Names" which is the
| sixth of the series, the following curious
| explanation of the name Manhattan is
| given:
| Somebody tells that Manhattan, in its various
| spellings means the "Big Drunk" because ac-
cording to Indian tradition, which, by the way,
is reliable if craven in stone the first meet
| ing of red and white resulted in the utter
| stupefaction of young Indian who courageously
| dared to drink the goblet filed with wine which
| the white men offered in token of friendship and
which the older men of his tribe had suspiciously
refused He fell upon the ground, completely
| overpowered by the hitherto unknown beverage,
| and the place was called the ''Big Drunk" or,