New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-09-01
ROCKS AND AUTHORS.
CURRENT TALK OF THINGS PRESENT
AND TO COME

works to appear In America will be issued this
autumn by G.. P. Putnams Sons. W. J. knapp
the biographer OF Borrow. will be the editor and
annotator of these volumes-there will be four
and will faithfully follow the text OF the first
issues. and, N the case of "Lavengro' restore
certain suppressed incident. Each volume Will
be illustrated with etchings and other pictures
of places mentioned in the text.
Edmund Clarence Stedman's. American An
thology' has been expected ever since the pub
Iication of his victorian Anthology FIVE years
ago It's appearance is now impending from the
press of Houghton, Mif1n & Co. There VIII be
two editions The large paper edition Will be
in two volumes limited to three hundred copies
It has a photogravure frontispiece to each vol
ume-a group of American poets and a portrait
of Mr. Stedman. The other edition VIII be IN
one large volume of $50 pages. Mr. Stedman has
written an introduction which includes survey
of American poetry to the end of the century,
and there are, as in the victorian Anthology,
brief biographies of the writers quoted
The publication of Victor Hugo's love letters
will be begun in "Harpers Magazine" for No
vember The headpiece for the first instalment
will be a curious drawing made by the poet him
self In the December number will be printed
an article by Benjamin Constant on Victor
Hugo the Artist" which will be Illustrated by
a large number of Hugo's original drawings.
The appearance of the new volume of stories
by Edith Wharton promised by the Scribners has
been postponed. Mrs. Wharton is so engrossed
with her new long novel-to be called THE Val
ley of Decision"-that she has not been able to
provide the short stories. Her present work
will deal with court and country life in Northern
Italy in the eighteenth century.
Mrs. Lawrence Turnbull who has written
1.-The Golden Book of Venice" coming next
month from the Century Company's press, is
member of wealthy Baltimore family, she and
her husband having founded the Turnbull lect-
ures on poetry at Johns Hopkins University.
Her book is an historical romance. dealing with
Venetian life three hundred years ago. in which
the famous quarrel between Paul the Pope and
Paul the Friar enters.
Books on war in general. we'll as on the
operations now in progress in South Africa and
China, will attract attention this autumn. Few
modern writer's are considered better qualified
to speak on this subject than Spenser Wilkin-
son, whose articles in THE London Morning
Post have attracted great attention all through
the Boer conflict. Dood. Mead & Co. announce
for early appearance a book by him, entitled
WAR and Policy in which he discusses a num-
Der of subjects relating to military operations,
the preparations necessary, points raised in the
South African conflict, and the general situation
at the present time considered from military
point of view. There are also historical
chapters, including one on the American Civil
War.
Several deliberately illustrated books to be
published this autumn by r. H. Russell. One
of the most attractive will be edition Of
Robinson Crusoe," with than a hundred
pen and ink drawings by the brothers Rhead;
and with headbands. borders and decorations
done in old woodcut style. All the illustrations
are from sketches made a special trip to the
island of Tobago. with the idea that Defoe
places his hero's adventures in those surround
ings. There is a frontspiece portrait of Defoe
from 7print in the British Museum. considered
| the best extant and the cover has been de-
signed by Louis Rhead. Mr.. Russell will also
| publish a portfolio Of drawings by William
| Nicholson from pastels reproduced in colors.
| illustrating characters from fiction. OF these
there are sixteen. ranging from the creations
of Rabelais and Cervantes, Fielding and Smol-
| lett. TO those Of Stevenson and Kipling They
are expected to mark a wide departure from the
! stern wood engravings with which his name
has generally been associated hitherto.
The first books that will be published by
Doubleday, Page & Co. this autumn will be
Hymns That Have Helped" edited by w T.
edited by Mary w. Tieston, appearing in a new
uniform ''red-line' edition; also Maurus Jokals
| novel "Dr. Dumany's Wife" translated from
the Hungarian by F. Steinitz These come out
next week. The week after Miss Jeanette l..
| elders Autobiography of a Tom-Boy" will
| appear; a book for girls. A little later DIR.
! Frederick Cooks narrative of the Belgian ex-
petition to the Antarctic regions in 1898 80
will be published, under the title Through the
| First Antarctic Night" In 1t he treats of a
number of interesting discoveries in the
almost unknown land-Fuegian giants, a new
navigable highway, curious other-world races
of animals There Will be many pictures in
Guiding four color plates.
The Century Classics is the title of a new
series of books to be started this fall by the
Century Company. It will comprise some OF
1.-The worlds best books" which will be selected
edited and introduced by distinguished men OF
letters The publishers will aim especially at
purity of text, elegance of Typography and
beauty of external form, and will use a special
water marked rag paper. and a font of new
type OF rich. square appearance, cut especially
for the series. and to be employed in no other
books The frontispieces will be reproductions
of the best extant portraits of the respective
authors Six books of the series are already
announced-BacOn's Essays" with an intro
duction by Professor Woodberry; Bunyan's
THE Pilgrims Progress" introduction by
Bishop Potter; Defoe's The Plague in Lon
don," introduced by Sir Walter Besant; Gold
smiths 1.-The Vicar of Wakefield" introduced
by Henry James; selections from Herrick's
"Hesperides" and Noble Numbers" with bio
graphical and critical study by T. B. Aldrich