New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-11-17
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
CURRENT TALK OF THINGS PRESENT
AND TO COME.

increasing the usefulness Of Libraries has been
afforded by the American Library Associations
series Of special photographers. OF which they
have issued a number backed by the authority
of men eminent in the lines OF which they treat.
They are now about 10 issue another-a Guide
to American Historical Literature" edited by
]. y. Larned Of Buffalo, who has had the aid OF
the best forty critics available His titles will
! exceed three thousand Paul Leicester Ford
prefxes an essay on documentary Sources of
/ American History" The association hopes to
appoint an editor who Will maintain this par
ticular form of guidance by'publish!ng as card
| series every month the titles of the best new
works, suitably criticised After that they will
! try to have every other important field Of let
! tiers treated in the fashion
! These are distinctly the days of international
law. when questions pertaining to 1t are fire.
| quently brought to the attention Of almost
every newspaper reader. Those who desire to
understand the general principles of the sub
| ject will find information about it In the next
volume that will appear in the Temple Cyclic
padc Primers that the Macmillan Company
will publish Immediately. Much information is
compressed into small compass here
A French translation has just appeared of
Henry c Lea's History of the Inquisiton."
first published here in 1881 1t is a compliment
TO the author that a scholar so we'll known as
NJ. Solomon Renach-member of the Institute
and noted through his researches in other fields
should undertake the rather humble task of
translator as he has done for Mr.. Lea's book
Professor Paul FREDERICK, of Client, said to be
one of the highest authorities the subject in
Europe, contributes photographed introduce
ton.
Rear-Admiral Bradford chief of the Bureau
of Equipment of the United State, Navy. has
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and United States ships be provided with
Augustus c. Buelrs Life of Paul Jones'
Founder of the United States Navy" This Is
an unusual honor to be bestowed on book by
a layman. Up to this time Commodore Macken-
zie's life of Jones. published half a century
and more ago. has been the standard work on
the subject for the use of the Navy In recent
letter to the publishers Secretary Long called
Mr.. Buelrs work "a interesting book"
There is a hardly finer record, he adds, of
disinterested. efficient and brilliant public ser
vice, and Mr. Buell. has set it out admirably.
regard 1t as a valuable contribution to naval
literature" A second large edition of the book
has just come from the press.
There are many things in Professor William
Newton Clarke's new book, "A Study OF Chris
tian Missions about TO appear that will
strike the believers in and supporters OF foreign
missions strong and timely utterances. Pro-
fessor Clarke's view is distinctly modern and
practical, and while he recognizes the neces-
| sity Of some changes in methods he strengthens
the hands of missions at every point. OF the
recent criticisms directed against the missions
! in China he speaks thus:
There has always been unfavorable criticism,
and certainly 1t will continue. 1t has abounded
| since the troubles in China began, for It has
| been convenient TO lay the wrath OF the Chinese
| to the charge of those who were offering them a
| new religion. But the accusation will not live
| long-in fact. is already meeting It's answer
| All foreign clements have doubtless been Of
| fensive to the Chinese but 10 represent the
! quiet teachers of religion the real cause OF
! the outbreak. when the eXasperatng agEresslons
| of the Western Powers are known by all men.
! is to bring accusation that must be short
| lived. The world is too intelligent to hold II
| long.
| A Frenchman is usually so good a French
! man that he cannot Givest himself. for an
| hour, of the preferences and prejudices OF his
| own land and race. When. however, you do
| find a Frenchman who by temperament re-
! search and travel has attained TO cosmopol-
| itan impartiality. then nobody dwells in cool
| and clear atmosphere as he
These remarks are applied by Mr. Henry
Norman to NJ Paul Leroy Beaulieu in his pref
ace to the latter's book, The Awakening Of
! the East which is Just published in an Eng
| llsh translation by Mcclure. Phillips & Co NJ
| Leroy Beaulieus repute one of the clearest
| thinkers in France on political and economic
subjects is quite enough to justify Mr. Nor
mans view, and the fact that the English cor
responder t finds the French writer's book not
able for its political sagacity and the detach-
| ment Of it's authors attitude as observer and
investigator is only what readers of NJ Leroy
Beaulieu's previous work would expect His
book ought not to be the least interesting and
authoritative Of the many that the recent COM
| plicatons in the Far East have called forth
| When Lewis V F. Randolph was a bank clerk
| twenty-five or thirty years ago, ne was told
| that bank clerk shouldn't write poetry; and
so he put away certain verses that he wrote at
| that time and kept them from the public eve
Now that he is president OF one of the great
trust companies of the metropolis and Indifferent
| to the maxims which regulate the relations Of
| bank clerks to verse, he is publishing these
| early productions under the title of "Survivals"
| The book Is illustrated by Bryson Burroughs
| and is issued from the press OF G.. P. Putnam's
| Sons.
| The new set of drawings by William Nichol-
son, "Characters in Romance" which r n
| Russell publishes this week. is executed in a
| style considerably different from that OF the
| striking wood engravings with witch his name
| has hitherto been associated-a style less mas
| sive and severe. The series numbers sixteen and
includes Don Quixote, Captain Costigan and
| the Fotheringay. Salt Trunnion. Madge Wild
fire, The Rochester Chicot, Porthos Mr. Vanslv-
perken and His Dog, Gargantua Sophia West
ern, John Silver Mulvaney. John Jarrocks, Miss
| Havisham. Tony Weller and Baron Munchausen.
| Mr.. Walter H. Page is Editor of The WORLDS
| Work. and a member Of the firm of Double
day, Page & Co.; he is not consulting editor
of Frank Leslies Monthly" as has recentlv
been stated in a public print. Neither is he
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