New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-09-01

ters I'm Jones's remarkable career hitherto UNI
known are said to be laid bare in the book;
many of them are told in the doughty admirals
own words. for a great number of his letters
are reproduced, and he seems to have been al
most as much of an adept at letter writing as
at fighting. The frontispiece OF the first vol
ume will be color reproduction of a miniature
portrait of Jones by Dutch artist, in the
Hermitage Gallery. st. Petersburg. That OF the
second volume will be reproduction of Charles
Wilson Peales portrait. These two lilxenesses
are believed by Mr. Buell. to be the only ones
painted from sittings. On the front covers of
the two volumes will be copies in gilt OF the
diverse and reverse respectively of the gold
medal voted to Paul Jones by Congress
after his fight with the Scraps. and the book
will contain a number of facsimiles of interest
ing documents.
Among the earliest fall publications of Harper
& Bros will be two novels 1.-The Dishonor of
Frank Scott by NJ Hamilton a writer whose
work is much better known in England than IN
this country and THE Lost Continent" by
Cutcliffe Hyne, said to be romance in Rider
Haggard's style, dealing with adventures In the
lost island of Atlantis. These will both appear
next week. month later will be published the
first attempt at novel by Simon Newcomb, the
famous astronomer who at the age Of sixty-five
has turned his scientific knowledge to the ser
vice of fiction. His story will be called His
Wisdom the Defender" and mingles romance
with scientific possibilities in the way made
familiar by H. G. Wells. THE Expatriates," by
Lillian Bell. also coming from the Harpers' press
in October, is her first attempt at an extended
novel Conversations with Prince Bismarck"
By Heinrich Poschinger, translation from
the German. will be published this month
Mr. Parke Goodwin has written a vigorously
controversial New Study of the Sonnets of
Shakespeare" in which Re undertakes to point
out some facts which he thinks have been over
looked undervalued. It will be published in
the future.
Some Of Governor Rooe >velt's books have OBJ
tanned popularity on their own merits but in
| terest in them will doubtless be stimulated by
his present campaign for the Vice-Presdency.
| which, of course. makes especially timely the
| reissue of his works in a uniform series by G. P
| Putnam's Sons-the Sycamore Series There
will be fifteen volumes, the two longer works be-
| ing divided. THE Winning of the West" into
six parts. and THE Naval War Of 1872" The
| Rough Riders is included in the series by ar
rangement with Charles Scribner's Sons. Each
volume will have frontispiece, and the whole
| will be published at popular price.
| That the British conflict with the Beers is not
yet over is brought home by the fact that DR..
A.
| War" is being held by the publishers. Mcclure.
Phillips &, Co. until something decisive happens
to bring the end in sight. They say 1t is about
| two-thirds in hand, and expect to publish it
| about the end Of October or early in November.
! whereby they indicate optimistic view of
| Lord Roberts's ability 1t is we'll known that
| DR.. Doyle has been at the front in South Africa.
where he has been serving as surgeon He has
| thus had exceptional opportunities for observa-
| ton.
| Joel Chandler Harris's appreciation Of the
| picturesqueness and quantness Of the Southern
negro is well known. He writes thus in in
PRODUCTION to one of Mr.. Russelrs forthcoming
books:
critic saying the other day that lack
| in this Republic the atmosphere necessary to
| the production Of really great fiction and he
cited the reader to the Old World where there
are ruins Of castles and ivy covered wrecks of
older civilization. But it is clear that the
| citation is not to the ruins and wrecks but to
| the historic associations which they recall
| What we have lacked hitherto is not the at
| mosphere, but the eyes capable of perceiving ii
| in the fulness of it's beauty Fortunately there
are very recent evidences going to show that
the trained eyes and the inspired hands have
| arrived upon the scene
The book is Down South" a collection of hall
tone reproductions of photographs, studies OF
negro life in the South. made By Rudolf Eicke-
meyer jr. There are forty-eght of these thai
represent many of the most characteristic
| phases of Southern life
The possibilities of hypnotism in the treatmen
of disease are by no means novelty, but the de
veopment of them by DR. John Duncan
Quackenbos in his book, "Hypnotism in Menta
and Moral Culture" is likely to attract re
newed attention to the subject. 1t will be pub
lished next week by Harper & Bros. He show.
the influence of hypnotism in training children
by removing bad habits, in reforming crm
nails and even in benefitng singers who have
had trouble with their voices. and who have
been made whole again by the power of sug
gestion.
Everything that competent observers can offe
in elucidation Of present conditions in China Il
welcome at this time. and for this reason thu
early appearance of a book on China, by VIII
lam Barclay Parsons, will be awaited with in
terest Mr.. Parsons-whom everybody in New
York knows to be the chief engineer of the RAPID
Transit work-was in China last year In thu
interests Of an American syndicate to secure
railroad concessions, and had quite exceptona
opportunities to the true state of things. H
writes chiefly on commercial opportunity in thu
Far East and illustrates his work with photo
graphs he took himself. Mcclure. Phillips &
| Co will publish the book early in September
Governor Roosevelt's monograph on Oliver
Cromwell that has been appearing in Serb
ners Magazine" will be published between
covers about the middle of the month by Charlie
Scribner's Sons. There will be fifty illustrations