New-York tribune., 1900-09-29
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
CURRENT TALK OF THINGS PRESENT
AND TO COME.

j. NJ Barrie's new story. Tommy and
Grizel" which the Scribners will publish on Oc-
tober 13, will make a book of more than five
hundred pages.
Among the attractive things to be offered next
year by 'Harper's Magazine though no public
announcement has heretofore been made of it,
will be a novel by Miss Mary E. wilkins. to be
called THE Portion of Labor" No will be
surprised to learn that 1t is a story of New
England life, but the scene will be shifted some
what from the back country that Miss Wilkins
has often used as a setting for her stories,
and will be transferred to factory town.
practical application of botany to the needs
of the farmer and gardener to the exclusion
of all purely scientific discussion is the object
of textbook on Agricultural Botany Theo-
retical and Practical to be published within
month by Henry Holt & Co 1t is by Professor
John Percival, of the Southeastern School of
Agriculture of Wye. England There few
treatises this important application of bot
any, and the value of this is expected to be
enhanced by the series OF exercises and expert
ments included in It and by the careful original
drawings made by the author.
The familiar figure OF the late Governor
BILLY" Russell of Massachusetts is the hero of
several Of the stories in Charles Warren's vol
ume. "The Girl and the Governor" pub
hshed by the Scribners. Mr. Warren was
at time Governor Russers private sec
retary, and in this capacity got plenty of ma
terial for the type that he has worked out in
these stories-that of the college man of high
ideals who becomes power in political life by
sheer force of character
Professor Shaler's new book THE Individual:
A Study of Life and Death" is issued by
D. Appleton & Co. He approaches the ques-
tion OF death, he says in his preface,
from the point of view Of natural history,
and calls his book a protest against the
idea that a human being Is something apart
from its fellows: that 1t is born into this world
and dies out OF it into the loneliness of a super
natural realm
To the unphilosophical the name Of Shaftes-
bury is usually associated with the philanthropc
earl who did much to ameliorate the condition
of London slums; but the great Shaftesbury is
still his ancestor. the seventeenth century phil
osopher. Just Spinoza was God intoxicated,
Shaftesbury intoxicated with the idea
of virtue. He was the greatest stole Of modern
times. Into his life he wrought the stocal
virtues for virtues sake" So he is characterized
by Benjamin Rand in his book about him,
The Life. Unpublished Letters and Philosophi-
cal Regimen Of Anthony. Earl of Shaftesbury,"
in which much may be expected to be said about
this distinguished member OF the British peer
age that has not yet been said. The book comes
from the presses of the Macmillan Company.
The elaborately illustrated edition Of Brown
ing's "Pippa Passes promised by Dodd, Mead
& Co. will be issued on October 10, It will
have decorative cover in colors. and the pages
will be inclosed In series of ornamental de-
signs which. well the illustrations.
the work Of Margaret Armstrong.
Captain SlocuniPof the Spray. has been sighted
now and again at, various points along the
coast especially such points as have been fire.
quented by summer visitors, and has generally
been able to produce for inquiring visitors copies
of his book Sailing Alone Around the World"
which he has been willing to sell, with the
added attraction of his autograph. The Century
Company, his publishers, report that enthusi-
astic review of the book by Sir Edwin Arnold
in "The London Telegraph" was followed imme-
dately by the receipt of a cable order here
from the London publishers for five hundred
extra copies. The immediate effect of such re-
views in London has also been shown by the
receipt of a cable order for a hundred extra
copies of Josiah Flynt's book "Tramping with
Tramps" Immediately after article about it
had appeared in 1.-The London Chronicle"
The plot of THE Circular Study" Anna Kath-
crime Green's new story, is said to have been
originally designed for play. Several years
ago the author, collaborating with a friend,
wrote the first and synopsis of the rest
OF the proposed drama. 1t dealt with the time
of Napoleon. Other work intervened. and 1t
was dropped till recently. when the author took
it up again and wrote 1t as a story in the
roundings of present day New-York.
Books about animals and their human quail
ties so to speak. multiply rapidly. The next
to appear will be the work of the veteran nat
uralist and explorer. Paul du Chaillu, who in
''The World of the Great Forest" will tell how
he believes animals-birds, reptiles and insects
talk think. work and live. Mr. Du Chaillu de-
clares that close observation in the Great Forest
that of Africa-has convinced him that ami
mails possess great powers. little understood by
human beings, of apprehension and provision
and of understanding each other To enable his
readers to enter into the life of the African
forest. he has made the animals tell their own
stories and explain their own actions. He has
given certain discoveries of his In the
course of this narrative. The book is to be
published by the Scribners early next month.
The Peace Conference at The Hague has been
the subject of a good deal of misunderstanding
and misconception on account of the events
that have happened since its adjournment, in
Africa and the Orient For this reason an au-
thoritative account of what really accom-
| plished will be welcome DR.. Frederick w.
Hollis member of the Conference from this
country has written the first authentic treatise
on the subject to be published in English, which
will soon appear from the press of The Macmil-
Ian Company There will be a careful COM
mentary on the treaties which were adopted.