New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-08-11
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
CURRENT TALK OF THINGS PRESENT
AND TO COME.

CURRENT TALK OF THINGS PRESENT
AND TO COME.
The new edition Of Mr. Whisters Gentle
Art CT Making Enemies" which r. n. Russell
has in hand. will present the book considerably
augmented.
The Rev Cyrus Townsend Brady is working
at Cape May this summer, where he is occupy
ing a cottage He has just finished a Life OF
John Paul Jones'" which will be published by
the Appletons in September. The author has
four novels nearly ready for publication. He
will presently have made record of six books
in one year with numerous contributions to the
magazines Besides all this he has also at
tended to his duties rector of the newly
established church at Overlook Penn.
An interesting note Francis ParlIman's his
torical writings has been offered by DR.. George
r. Parkin, principal of Upper Canada College.
Lord Roberts once said to me-" he writes,
that ne considered Parkman's volumes
Montcaim and Wolfe as among the most per-
feet. and to a soldier the most instructive, bits
of military description that had ever been writ
ten"
The papers on THE Crisis in China" which
were contributed to The North American Re
view" by Lord Charles Beresford Archibald r..
Colquohoun Sir Charles w Dixie, WI Ting
Fang John Barrett late our Minister to Siam,
and others have been hurried into book form
through the Harper press. The volume appears
to-day.
Mr. Louis c. EIson the Boston musical critic,
has written a book called shakespeare in
Music" in press. 1t is the result of many
years of research and of corr espondence with
Shakespearian scholars in this country and in
Europe.
Mr. William Vaughn Moody, of the depart
inent of English composition at Chicago Uni
versity, has written what he calls 'masque
drama" entitled The Masque Of Judgment,
treating symbolically a metaphysical theme.
Small. Maynard & Co will bring it out in the
autumn.
Within a few weeks Mr. Howells's Indian
Giver" and The Smoking Car" will come in
separate covers, uniform with the recent edi-
items Of Bride Roses and Room A. from
Houghton Mifflin & Co.
E p Dutton Co. to bring out in this
country a series Of literary classics started
in London by J. NJ. Dent & Co. The first vol
will be The. Meditations of Marcus Au-
relius," and will contain several authentic let
ters written by the philosopher, and recently
discovered in the Vatican Library The text
VIII be accompanied by six photogravure illus
trations. The second volume in the series will
be "Bacons Essays"
Mr. Winston Churchill has decided to call his
new novel The Crisis" AS already announced
1t will be extensive study of phases of the
Civil War, the action moving largely around Mr..
Churchls old home. St Louis Lincoln, Grant
and Sherman will he introduced among the
characters 1t may be ready for publication in
the late autumn. The Macmillan Company will
bring it out.
The Harpers are publishing General Charles
Kings novel, "A War Time Wooing," in pOpu-
lar edition of fifty thousand copies.
Professor William Lyon Phelps. of the English
department of Yale, has edited "Thackerays
English Humorsts" for an edition which Henry
Holt & Co. will issue shortly
The Scribners have in press new edition Of
Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island"
NJ F. Mansfield is the American publisher of
Professor F. York PoweIIs translation of
"Twenty-four Quotations from Omar"
The editor of the Beacon Biographies" has
recently announced some interesting volumes
as on the way toward completion. They In
clude James Fenimore Cooper" by w. B.
Shubrick Clymer. formerly Of the English de-
partment at Harvard University; Louis Agas-
siz. by Alice Bache Gould; John Greenleat
Whittier" by Richard Burton; Edwin Booth -
by Charles T. Copeland; ~. S Grant" by
Owen Wster and benjamin Franklin" by
| Lindsay Swift.
Mr.. F. Marion Crawford calls his volume on
Southern Italy. which has occupied him for
many months, Rulers of the South: Sicily. Gala
bria and Malta" The Macmillan Company will
| bring it out in edition uniform with the same
authors Ave Roma Immortalis."
To the Stage Lovers Series" which L. c.
| Page & Co. started last year with the two uni
form volumes Famous Actors of the Day"
and Famous Actresses of the Day" three new
books will soon be added: "Prima Donnas and
edy" and Celebrated Comedians of Light
Opera and Musical Comedy" and a reprint of
Actors and Actresses of Great Britain and the
United States" edited by Brander Matthews
and Laurence Hutton.
Captain A. T. Mahan has completed an elabor-
| ate history of the South African war closing
| with the fall of Pretoria. 1t will be pub
ished by P. F. Collier & Co. of this city, in an
| edition containing six hundred large ilIustra-
| lions.
| Mr.. Hervey White, author of differences"
| has two new books ready for fall publication:
| "Quicksands," a novel. and volume of short
| stories When Eve Was Not Created" Mr.
! White is a recent graduate of Harvard Univer-
| sity. During his thirty odd years he has had
considerable experience. He was born in Iowa