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volume of the right size. and at the same time
of texture and quality such that 1t VIII De
substantial and will not show through When
/ first went into the business in the sixties
there were dozens Of little editions printed In
diamond type. They were very popular. but
the public to-day wouldn't stand such thing
for an instant
Among the innumerable new issues of old
favorites that find place in public esteem the
series entitled Riverside A'dine Classics" TO be
published by Houghton Mifflin & Co. promises
to take honorable rank account of the ex-
cellence of the type, page and paper used. The
first volumes of the series are Longfellows
'Esvangene" Whittier's Snow Bound and
other autobiographic poems; Holiness The One
Hoss Shay" The Chambered Nautilus and
other poems, grave and gay; Lowelrs The
Vision of Sir Launfal, "A Fable for Critics
and "Commemoration Ode" and Hawthorne
Legends of the Province House" and Twice
Told Tales"
The two best selling books Of the Century
Companys publications at the present time are
Miss Scidmores China. the Long Lived En-
pire." published in June at an especially oppor-
tune time. and Edwin Asa Dix's novel. Deacon
Bradbury" published last April.
Miss Arabella Kenealy, whose new story,
Charming Renee" will be published next
week by Harper & Brothers, is a daughter OF
the late Edward Vaughan Kenealy. counsel for
the defendant in the famous Tichborne case of
thirty years ago in England. She began life as
a doctor. and practised medicine for a time but.
like other young physicians. found leisure
which she put to better than some in writ
ing a story. DR.. Janet of Harley-St-" 1t en-
bod iod - bsr as
and was SO successful that she was led to turn
her attention more and more to literature. finally
giving up medicine for it entirely. She has con-
tributed frequently to the English periodicals;
of her recent articles that has attracted
much attention is on Woman Athlete" Op
posing the extreme to which the feminine Guilt
walton of sports has been driven.
Mr.. Seumas MacManus is evidently anxious
to get the full strength of the Gaelic flavor in
his new book of Donegal Fairy Tales" though
to judge by his previous work there is no need
of any extraneOus assistance in this regard.
But he has written preface in Gaelic in which
he keeps up the high tension Of the true literary
Irshman, dedcatng the book as "a humble dis
ciple' to those Gaelic 'shanachies' who have
kept alive the fine ancient tales Of the race. At
least that is what appears the gist of the
matter in a translation into mere English that
The rapid advance of the United States in the
worlds trade and the worlds diplomacy is lead
ing to one of the most important recent shift
ings in the worlds social equilibrium-a fact
that is destined more and more to claim recog-
milton and discussion. For this reason Mr..
Brooks Adams's book. Americas Economic Su-
premacy in the Worlds Politics" is likely TO be
interesting contribution to current economic
which. though written at different times during
the last two years, are said to make connected
whole.
Those who follow Governor Roosevelt's liter
airy career alone to say nothing of his politics.
may we'll be pardoned for feeling some giddiness
at the lghtninglike rapidity with which his
books are issuing from the press In addition
to several others recently announced comes now
his OLIVER Cromwell" the "Scribners' serial
printed as a book with many Of the illustrations
that have appeared in the magazine. This will
be issued by Scribners next Saturday.
Miss Braddon has entered a field hitherto not
usually associated with her name. in her new
book The Infidel" which tells story of the
time Of the Methodist uprising in England. 1t
is to be issued by the Harpers next week.
"Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts is the re-
markable and uninforming title Of a book Of
short stories by o." Mr.. A. T. Quiller-Couch,
that will be published in a few weeks by the
Scribners. From the preface. however, it APP
pears that the stories all relate to 'revenants'-
persons who in spirit or in body revisit old
scenes return upon old selves old emotions
or relate passage from a world beyond percep-
ton.
Englishmen seem never tired of writing. nor
Americans of reading. Of the glory and charm
them is in a book by the Rev. NJ. TuckweIl, soon
to be issued by Cassen & Co. There will be
sixteen fullpage illustrations.
Never did Americans take more interest than
now in the achievements of the American Navy
back TO the days OF the Revolution. Therefore
Cyrus T Brady's book the subject "Ameri-
can Fights and Fighters will presumably come
before appreciative and eager audience when
it issues from the press of Mcclure, Phillips &
Co Eleven Of the great naval battles de
scribed in the text and they illustrated with
reproductions of a number of contemporary
pictures. Among them representations of
the Philadelphia. the Wasp and The Surrender
of Yorktown"
While Armenia has been somewhat pushed
aside from the worlds attention by the stirring
events of the last two three years in other
quarters of the world. there problems of an
economic and political nature remaining there
and still to be solved. which destined I'M
doubtedly to attract renewed notice in time to
come The country itself is not we'll known to
Occidentals and there are interesting historical
| and antiquarian features deserving of study
| For these reasons Mr. II. +. B. Lynchs book