The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-02
WITH THE PUBLISHERS,
Books of Interest just Published or Soon
to Appear


State Trials, Political and Social. Sc
lected and edited by H. L. Stephen of
the Inner Temple, is the title of two
volume work to be published by the
Macmillan Company at an early date.
Brown & Co, Boston, announce for
publication August Is, "a Kipling Pri-
mer," by Frederick Lawrence Knowles,
editor of Cap and Gown" Golden
Treasury of American Lyrics" etc. 1t
contains the most complete blbllogra-
phical data of first editions yet pub
llshed, photography of reference ar
ticles, an excellent photography, a.
scholarly and popular critical appre-
citation of Kipling's works, and an al
phabetical index to the plots. of all sto-I
ries and ballads. The same publishers
also announce for August, 1.-The King
and Queen of Mollebusch, or the Indis
pensables," a delightful folk-tale, by
Georg Ebers the German novelist.
The fifteen-volume edition Of Kip
ling's works is not to be published by
the Doubleday & Mcclure Company, as
has been reported, nor, for that mat
ter, by any one publishing house. 1t is
an edition arranged for by the author
and issued Jointly by his authorized
publishers-D. Appleton & Co., The Cen
fury Co., and the Doubleday & Nc.
Clure Co.
Clement Scott, the veteran dramatic
critic whose writings for so many years
appeared in the columns of the Daily
Telegraph of London, is correcting the
last proofs of his .'Reminiscences,.'
which the Macmillan Company will
bring out as soon as completed.
Prof. Angelo Heilprin's important
work, Alaska and the Klondike.'' is
said to present for the first time an
accurate general account of the region
which has SO recently become famous.
Much has been written about the Klon-
dixie, but large proportion of this ma
terial contains so many exaggerations
that a proper perspective is impossible.
1t was for the purpose of discriminate
| ing between fact and fancy by means
of a personal knowledge of the region
and it's varied conditions, that Prof.
Heilprin, an experienced traveller and
the leader of the Peary relief expedi-
ton of 1892, made his journey through
the region. The Messrs. Appleton will
publish this book shortly.
The same firm will soon publish 1.-THE
Races of Europe. by. Prof w. a. Rip
ley. This book is said to furnish a
lucid description of the present living
population of Europe from the stand
point of the physical anthropologist
/
which has gradually arisen between
man and his geographical environment
Simple maps. specially drawn for the
purpose, and a rich collection of origi-
nal portrait types from all parts of the
continent, increase the interest of the
| text for the general reader.
DR.. Henry c. McCook's new book, en-
titled THE Martial Graves of Our
Fallen Heroes in Santiago de Cuba" is
now running through the press, and
will shortly be published by George w.
Jacobs & Co. of Philadelphia. The ini-
tial purpose of the book is to give an
exact picture of the condition of the
battlefields of Santiago de Cuba after
the conflict. But its publication Is not
altogether commercial venture, as one
copy is to be presented to the nearest
OF kin of the more than thousand SOL
diers who persisted in Santiago de Cuba
put number of the limited edition will
be offered for sale.
Cy Warmans new novel of railroad
life is entitled Snow on the Head
light" 1t is said to picture dramatic
phases OF a great railroad strike The
| BOOK is to be published soon by Apple
ton q Co.
1t is a singular fact that with all his
! popularity there has never been any at
tempt to illustrate Thomas Hardy's
novels from the actual scenes in Tie
Wessex country. The background for
such Illustration is especially rich in
material, as was shown in the first in
stalment Of a series on "Thomas
Hardys Country" (which appeared in
the June Bookman. Give Holland, the
author, had the cooperation OF Mr..
Hardy IN Identifying the various
scenes OF his novels, so that the series.
| when completed, will be very val,Ia
pie and important one to all Hardy
lovers. There will be three papers in
all The instalment In the July num-
Der. Will be wholly devoted to what is
perhaps the most popular of all Thomas
Hardys novels, Tess of the D'Urber-
| villes.'' 's-rs 80
Dodd, Mead & Co. will shortly pub
fish the only authorized edition Of the
early novels of Henry Seton Merrinian,
author of The Sewers In Kcdar's