New-York tribune., 1901-08-10

Howels. He is busily engaged upon its COM
position and it will appear in time for the win
ter holidays.
Mr. SadakIchi Hartmann whose name is
vaguely recalled as having been attached some
years ago to essays in "decadent' poetry. has
prepared a book American art which L. c..
Page & Co. of Boston. will shortly bring out.
The text is divided into eight parts. giving a
survey of American art before 1928" and of
every phase in the development Of that art down
10 the present day. Painters, sculptors. illus
traitors. etchers. wood engravers photographers
and artistic photographers are all represented in
the book There will be two volumes, hand
somely got up with forty full page illustrations
in half tone and photogravure The book, il we'll
written and free from critical caprice, ought to
be useful publication.
The political boss Of these latter days receives
elaborate treatment in the book by Francis
Churchill williams which is announced by the
Lothrop Publishing Company 1t is called j.
Devlin-Boss" and is described romance Of
American politics. the boss being presented as
the hero of a love story, defender of women.
and altogether a most honorable man.
z p Dutton & Co. have in press biography
of Anna Amelia. Duchess of Saxe-Weimar and
Eisenach. compiled from private papers hitherto
unpublished. by Frances Gerard. In addition to
a full account of the central figure in the story,
there will be much new matter relating to
Goethe, Schiller. Herder. Wieland and other
celebrated people. "A Wonderful Duchess is
the title that has been given to the book
The author of When Knighthood Was in
Flower" Mr. Charles Major. has written a
novel. which Doubleday. Page Co. will have
ready in a few weeks II is called THE Bears OF
Blue River" and is made Up of tales OF Indiana
in the early twenties-
The supplement to THE Dictionary of Ma
tionaI Biography" which will be published by
the Macmillan Company in September. is to
consist OF three volumes containing one thou
sand articles. More than two hundred OF these
articles represent accidental omissions from the
work as IT at present exists. Many epochs are
represented. but the chief purpose OF the sup
plement is to commemorate those personages
who died at too late a date TO be included in
the original work. The recent mortality among
England's interesting sons and daughters may
be gauged from the fact that there are nearly
eight hundred articles IN the supplement about
persons in this category. 1t was originally in
tended that the supplement should bring the
record down to the extreme close OF the nine
teenth century, but the death Of Queen Vic
toria on January % 1901, was finally decided
upon as In itself the most significant landmark
with which TO define the completion Of the work.
Any person dying at a later date Is. therefore,
not included. With one exception Mr. George
smith the founder OF the Dictionary" died on
April G. 1901, and. not unnaturally. II has been
considered necessary to give him place In the
supplement The memoir OF him. however, will
be prehxed 10 the first volume. thus occupying
q position really independent OF the rest There
will be a frontispiece portrait of him also. re-
produced from the painting executed by Watts
| in 1876
That these supplementary volumes win con-
tain a great deal Of highly interesting matter
NAV be Judged from the following list Of n few
selected articles giving the name OF the subject
and that Of the writer responsible for the ar
ticIe Matthew Arnold. by DIT. Richard Garnett
Aubrey Beardsley. by Sir Walter Armstrong
r. D. Blackmore. by Mr. Stuart J. Reid Rob
ert browning by Mr.. Edmund GOsse; Lord
Randolph Churchill, by Mr.. Sidney ]. Low;
wilkie Collins, by Thomas seccombe; Lewis
Carroll. by Mr.. T. V Lucas; George Du Maurter
by Canon Anger; Helen Faucit, by Mr. Joseph
knight; Edward A. Freeman, by the Rev. Will
lam Hunt; James Anthony Froude. by Mr.. A F.
Pollard; William F. Gladstone by Mr.. Herbert
Paul; Thomas Henry Huxley. by Professor
Weldon; benjamin Jowett. by DR.. Evelyn Alb
bott: Frederick Locker-Lampson, by Mr.. Austin
Dobson; James Payn. by Mr.. Leslie stephen
John Ruskin, by Mr.. E T. Cook; Sir Arthur
| Sullivan by Mr.. F. G. Edwards, and Queen
Victoria. by Mr.. Sidney Lee the editor.
Captain Arthur H. Clarke. Of the New-York
Yacht Club is writing history OF yachting
which is expected TO give more comprehensive
/ account OF the sport IN all countries than any
/ hitherto prepared. 1t will probably be pub
: lgsbad Soma time next winter.
| Photography as a basis for illustrative work
has never made a better demonstration OF its
| capacities than in the group Of tropical ish
/ pictures which Mr.. A r. Dugmore contributed
! IN n recent number Of THE Worlds Work" 1t
| is interesting to learn that the same pho
] toerapher has executed a large number OF plates
| for a book on THE Food and Game Fishes
1 which the publishers OF the magazine bring
ing out The text is by David Starr Jordan
and Barton w. Evermann. of the United States
! Fish Commission.
Mr Marchmont, author Of "A Dash for a
! Throne" and by Right Of Sword" has written
| a novel called For Love Crown" which is
/ promised for the early autumn by the Frederick
I A. Stokes Company 1t is described a COM
panion volume to the same authors I'm the
/ Name Of a Woman"
An excellent school compendium is the
French and English Dictionary" by Hjalmar
Ecgren and Percy B. Burnet. which Henry
Holt a. Co publish in handy volume OF
something over twelve hundred pages. 1t is
based on the closest scrutiny OF the highest
authorities and IS, IN fact thoroughly scholar
ly work. 1t is also practical in its arrange