New-York tribune., 1900-09-08
Malaria According to the New Researches.
Longmans Green & Co. will publish the book

malaria According TO the New Researches"
Longmans, Green & Co. will publish the book
The everyday details of Colonial life in the
United States exercise unfailing charm on
readers of the present day; they are not to be
CLEANED from most of the historical treatises
that deal with the larger political movements
of the time anS yet they illustrate and explain
many things that need explanation. and serve
TO make clear the spirit that ruled Colonial
days Mrs Alice Morse Earle makes pre-
tence to being historian. but she has made
herself at home in the details Of our ancestors
lives. She is about to publish through the
Macmillan Company another volume OF her
picturesque studies. entitled Stage Coach and
Tavern Days." which will be fully illustrated
from photographs of real things gathered by
herself.
THE Century" in the course Of the next year
will publish several papers on Daniel Webster.
by John Bach McMaster. In which the states
mans career is expected to receive fresh and
entertaining treatment.
A new series OF books to be started by the
Putnams this fall will be called the Top Round
Series and will include sketches of prominent
men and women who have achieved more than
ordinary fame in various walks Of life-those. In
fact. who have reached the top round of the
ladder. The first two volumes will deal with
Twelve Great Actors and Twelve Great Ac-
tresses." and will be prepared by Edward
Robins.
Poems by lawyers. for lawyers and about law
yers old and new. from Geoffrey Chaucer down
to r. K. Munkittrick. make UP the contents OF
Ina Russelle Warren's new book THE Law
yer's Alcove" published this week by Double
day. Page & Co. Shakespeare. Blackstone, John
Quincy Adams, Swift and Landor among
the older race Of poets represented. SAKE. Will
lam Allen Butler. Carleton and Riley among
the newer Senator Depew will contribute an
introduction.
1t is cheering to learn that sometimes serious
books as we'll as novels pass into many edi-
tions, 1t is reported that Professor James's
Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Stu
dents Some OF Life's IDEALS has done. hav-
ing reached it's eighth. But then it will be re-
membered that Professor James is the philoso-
pher who writes philosophy like novels. his
brother Henry James. being the novelist who
writes novels like philosophy
Richard Kearton. well known English field
naturalist, has written a book of observations
on wild birds, animals and insects at work and
play, that will be published presently by Cassen
& Co. The volume will be illustrated with
nearly two hundred pictures from photographs
taken direct from nature by the authors
brother, Cherry Kearton.
Though the later events in China have some
what obscured the general interest in the South
African war. books called forth by the latter
will continue to make their appearance for some
time yet. One of the next to emerge will be
Mr.. Winston ChurchilPs Ian Hamilton's
March," which Longmans Green Co. will
publish. Mr.. Churchilrs work as correspondent
Of THE Morning Post" Of London from which
the letters forming the book are chiefly repub-
Iished entities it to respectful attention. for he
has shown himself possessed of the stuff from
which the true correspondent is made.
Messrs Doubleday Page & Co.'S new maga-
zine, which will make it's first appearance on
November l. will be called THE Worlds Work"
In describing it they say that the page will be |
wider and longer than the usual magazine size; !
that it will have pictures larger than those |
printed in most magazines, and that the price |
will be % cents copy, or S3 year. Walter |
H. Page will be the editor It is intended to tell
busy men what is most important and inter
esting.' without being monthly newspaper. |
and will seek no list Of famous contributors. but
rely on it's subject matter to interest readers.
What occult power has the Editor of The |
Century Magazine in predicting the winner Of |
the women's National championship in golf? |
Certainly the devoted followers OF the game |
displayed such ability in marking Miss Girls |
com, of Philadelphia, the coming champion. |
In the current number. however. the frontis- |
piece is a reproduction OF Miss Cecilia Beaux's |
portrait OF young woman and her mother. No |
n1mes given. but 1t now turns out that Miss |
Griscom and Mrs. Griscom are the subjects of |
the picture. But 1t began last year for when |
Miss Ruth Underhill Won the championship
then the current issue of The Century con-
tanned poem by the successful contestant
The people who love the sayings and doings
OF animals. heard and seen through the ears
and eyes of their imaginative friends may ex-
pect to find interesting things in ''Mooswa and
Others OF the Boundaries that Scribners
will publish before long. 1t is by W. A. Fraser.
Canadian who knows the Canadian wilderness
and it will have pictures by Ar
thur Heming 1t is. to the authors words
the simple romance OF simple people. the
furred dwellers OF the northern forests" which |
came to him from time to time during the six
seasons he spent on the Athabasca and Sas-
rivers, in the far Northwest OF Can
ada 'Mooswa," it appears. is the moose pro
tector Of the boy" The boundaries are the
great spruce forests and Muskeg lands living
between the Saskatchewan River. the Arctic
Ocean and the Rocky Mountains, being the home