New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-23


late Stephen Crane would not be brought here
But it was decided by his relatives that he
should be buried in his own country His
widow and niece sailed for New York this week
! by the North German Lloyd Line. and are ex-
/ pected to arrive here with the body next
! Wednesday. on the following day services will
/ be held at the Seventh Avenue Methodist
! Church, near FGurteenth-st., at 1920 a. m. The
| Rev. Dr. ]. NJ. Buckley will make an address
! The burial will take place at Elizabeth, n ].
Rudyard Kipling's stories of the South African
began to appear seraly in England early
/ in the present month. Their appearance in this
| country has been delayed for some unexplained
! cause. Now we are informed that one of these.
The Outsiders" will be published in the July
number of "McClure's Magazine" and that the
Fourth Of July number of Golfers Weekly
will contain another. Folly Bridge
! Anna Katharine Green calls her new detective
story which will be issued early in the autumn,
| The Circular study" from the room in which
the studious hero does his work
! Here is new proof that the dialect school of
| literature has sustained a complete reverse. An
enterprising firm of publishers in Boston has an
nounced edition of Beside the Bonnie
Briar Bush with all the Scotch dialect taken
. out! Is not this trimming your sails to the
wind with vengeance? What does Ian Mac
aren think of it? Or can it be that he knows
nothing about it? The publishers take it for
granted that they are doing laudable thing.
The book. they remark complacently has prob
ably reached the enormous sale of several mill
ion copies and yet to millions of American read
ers it is a closed book, because of the Scotch
dialect which not understood even by ma
jority Of intelligent and cultured readers" They
are also careful to add that in spite of their
change the work will retain all it's sympathy
| and pa,hos" 1t is kind of them not to take
those out too.
The Macmillan Company has in press an elab-
crate work Historical Jurisprudence" by
Guy Carleton Lee. of the historical department
at Johns Hopkins University. It traces the de-
velopment of judicial systems from the earliest
Egyptian papyri monuments and ancient rec
ords, treating it only historically, but from
the economic and social point OF view as well.
Councilman of Cambridge, Mass is trying
TO secure an appropriation from the city for the
purchase of Elmwood the home of James Rus
sell Lowell, for a public library.
The Appletons are preparing to bring out
new edition of THE Red Badge of Courage"
with a portrait OF the author and with g. bio
graphical sketch by Mr. Ripley Hitchcock. 1t
was Mr.. Hitchcock who accepted the book from
Mr. Crane. at the recommendation. it is said,
OF Mr. W. D. Howells
An American editor is making a collection of
literary blunders" which he hopes to publish
between covers some day. Here is one taken
from Mr.. Clodd's memoirs OF Grant Allen, which
he may consider worthy Of record. 1t consists
of a letter written to Mr.. Allen by an unknown
admirer. Pardon the liberty am taking In
your clever story Of The Great Ruby Robbery
| you mention Browning being splendid for the
| nerves. Is there such a thing? Would you give
me the address to obtain it? am dreadful
| sufferer of nervousness; under such circum-
stances you will accept my apology for troub-
! ling"
| Miss Mary f. Burt has made a collection OF
stories for children by w. D. Howells, called
The Howels Story Book designed for use in
| schools. 1t has been illustrated by the novelists
! daughter, Miss Mildred Howers and it will
| appear very shortly from the press OF the
! Scribners.
| Mr.. James Lane Aliens much heralded novel
| THE Reign Of Law" which to appear early
in the present month will be held back in this
! country till next Friday, when 1t will be pub
lished also in q large edition IN England ard the
British colonies.
Among the volumes taken over from the Doub-
! leday q Mcclure company by Mcclure, Phil
! lips & Co are Miss Ida NJ. Tarbelrs Lincoln"
Mr. Hamlin Garland's Grant" and Conan
! Doyle's Songs OF Action" It is to be hoped
that in time shall be able to straighten out
the list of publications Of these two firms. At
! present their relations seem very perplexing
especially as they involve also the third firm Of
! Doubleday Page & Co.
The Harpers are shortly to bring out what
promises to be an attractive book for summer
reading, in a collection of light essays by z. s.
! Martin, who for several years has conducted
the department known as This Busy World"
in "Harpers Weekly" II will bear the curious
title Of Lucid Intervals"
Paul Leicester Ford is completing a Christ
mas story to be published by Dodd Mead &
Co. 1t viii be called Wanted. a Matchmaker"
Doubleday, Page & Co. have in hand the auto
biography of Booker +. Washington, the negro
educator. 1t will probably appear in the autumn.
The Bowen Merrill Company of Indianapolis
| has lately sent out a curious little book. about
! two inches square, advertising its publlca-
tons 1t is called "A Booklet of Successful
evidences which we have had of late that activity
! in American publishing is not confined to New
/ York Boston and Chicago. The list includes
| twenty names, less than half dozen of which
are familiar to the reading public of the East,
| but of course we all know James Whitcomb
Riley, Robert J. Burdette Frank L. Stanton,
Susan B. Anthony and Charles Major. OF these
Mr.. Major is by far the most interesting. A