The times., 1899-06-04

Educational Legislation and Admins
tration OF the Colonial Governments by |
Miss Elsie W. Clews. is the title OF a new |
number in the Columbia University Ser
les of Contributions to Philosophy. Psy-
ehology, and Education
THE Age of Niagara Falls" topic which
has given rise to so much study and spec
uiation among biologists the world over
is the subject of an article by G. Frederick
Wright, which will appear in "Appletou's
Popular Science Monthly" for June DR..
Wright, while working last summer in the
gorge below the falls, came upon new evil
dence which seems to still further confirm
the view that they are of much more re-
cent origin than has been generally sup
posed.
THE Development of the English Nov
el, by w. l.. Cross, Assistant Professor OF
English at Yale, will be published immc-
diately. The field covered by this work
has been hitherto unoccupied. The novel 4
as an art form, has followed laws of de-
velopment. has had an organic evolution
less obvious perhaps than the unfolding of
the verse epic, certainly less obvious than
that of the drama, yet possible to trace.
What will probably interest the judicious
reader is the authors acuteness in detect
ing lines of advance in the art of fiction;
in pointing out instances of reversion and
survival; of backward and forward reach
and of the incessant give and take be-
tween realism and romance; in separat-
ing what is invented from what is in
herited, and in showing how the novel has
become what it is by selection, rejection,
addition, and modification of the type.
Luigi Luccheni, the anarchist assassin of
the late Austrian empress. is the subject
of most instructive and interesting psy-
Geological study by Prof. Cesare Lombroso
which will appear in "Appletons Popular
Science Monthly" for June. The curious
antecedents and early history of this man
very plainly show the mental disease
which Prof Lombroso believes to be at
the bottom of all anarchism and its allies
W. W. Jacobs. the author of Many
Cargoes,' The Shippers Wooing" and
More Cargoes,' has been compelled TO re-
tire from the British civil service in order
to devote himself entirely to literature. His
first long novel has been accepted for Sc
rial publication in the STRAND Magazine"
and is, of course, to be published in book
form in both Great Britain and America in
due time.
Messrs. Small, Maynard G. Co., Boston,
have acquired the rights to the four books
of verse by Mrs. Bliss Carman, formerly
published by Messrs. Lamson. Wolfe &
Co.-'Low Tide on Grandpre,' Behind
the Arras," Ballads of Lost Haven" and
by the Aurelian Wall" These four vol
umes comprise the whole of Mr.. Carman's
published work. so far as it has been is
sued in book form, excepting his part in
Songs from Vagabondia'' and More
Songs from Vagabondia,' in which he col
laborated with Mr.. Richard Hovey Low
Tide on Grandpre" and Behind the
Arras'' are at present out of print, but
new editions are in preparation for i'm
mediate publication.
The Bee People is an attractive book
for children 1t is by Margaret Warner
Morley, and talks simply and vividiy of
that interesting insect, the busy bee"
1t is illustrated by the author and pub
lished by A. C. McClurg & Co.
From Comte TO Benjamin Kidd; the
Appeal to Biology or Evolution for HUI
man Guidance" is the title of a book by
Robert Macintosh, to be published imme-
dately. The subject of the work is a his
torical sketch and criticism of the appeal to
biology, which was outlined by Comte, and
has been newly defined and emphasized by
Darwinism, and has been still more re-
Gently stated by Mr.. Kidd in the most ex-
| treme form logically possible.
a second edition of DIR. j. Sanderson-
| Christison's Crime and Criminals is just
out. II contains an appendix of sixty pages
! devoted to the Merry, Windrath. and Luet-
CERT cases.
| "a History OF the American Nation"
| by Prof. A C. Mclaughlin, which is 10 be
! published Immediately by d. Appleton &
| Co., will be the first volume in the new
Twentieth Century Ssries. The purpose of
this book Is to trace the main outlines of
national development, to show how the
| American. people came to be what they are.
C. P. Putnam's Sons announce for publ
cation early in June a book of instructions
! for swimmers; not only beginners, but
| also experts. The book is entitled How
to Swim" 1t has been written by Capt
Davis Dalton, champion long-distance
| swimmer of the world chief inspector OF
the United States Volunteer Life Saving
| Corps The author won wide renown by
! swimming across the English Channel In
| this passage ne was in the water twenty
three and one-half hours. He swan upon
| his back and, being carried out of his
course by the tide, he covered seventy-two
miles.
| Captain Dalton has saved 2S1 persons
from death by drowning. and has received
| 1863 medals for gallant conduct in his pro-
| fession.
| He is aware of the difficulties which con-
front the beginner in the art of swimming.
and he shows in his book how each may
| be overcome.
| For the instruction of the swimmer al
ready able to keep afoat, Captain Dalton
has included descriptions of racing strokes
and of fancy movements, a set of rules
| for swimming contests, and a system of
handicapping for racing.
| In addition to what might be called the
| Elementary Art of Swimming" Captain
Dalton has included chapters dealing with
racing strokes, fancy strokes and trick
| swimming; a set of rules covering SWIM
! ming contests and a system of handicap
ping.
"The United States of Europe is new
| book by w. T. Stead. who gives therein the
| views of the statesmen of the Old World
on the political situation of 1899, in the
| light of the Cars Peace Rescript and of
| American Expansion" Besides treating
of Americas task in the West Indies and
| the Philippines, the Chinese Puzzle
| South African problems. the Fashoda mud
| die the Concert of Europe and its work in
| Crete and Gambia, and many other mat
| ters of current interest, Mr.. Stead forecasts
| very interestingly the immediate political
| future More than hundred portraits.
views and maps illustrate the volume. 1t
| is published by the Doubleday & Mcclure
| Company.
Small. Maynard & Co.. have in press
The Dreyfus Story a short book about
the Dreyfus case, by Richard W. Hale, a
Boston lawyer. The books now available
on the subject are the work of avowed
| of T)rayfuS and are longer than