New-York tribune., 1901-09-21

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| the action and tells of the adventures OF Roger
Wallingford, a Tory by tradition. who serves
| with the naval hero out of partial conviction
| of the Justice of the patriot cause. and entire
| conviction Of the loveliness of Mary Hamilton
| the heroine.
Mr. Ernest Seton Thompson has made de-
sign for the cover of his book, Lives of
the Hunted" that is said to ernbody some
| curious symbolism likely to puzzle his readers.
1t shows great eye in a mass of foliage dart
| ing arrows at a number of animals under the
trees. A right hand. also in the foliage points
index finger and little finger at the eye. This
Is Mrs Seton Thompson's idea. and its signif-
canoe is thus explained: The eye represents the
spirit of cruelty to animals the hand stands
for the growing modern spirit of kindness. The
hand is held in the good luck position so
much used by Italians to counteract the ''Jetta-
tura" and pointing toward the eye of cruelty,
is intended to ward off its evil influence.
Theodore Roosevelt will furnish introduc-
ton to an elaborate volume displaying the wild
animal photographs of A G. Wallihan and his
wife, to be published this fall by Doubleday,
Page & Co., under the title of Camera Shots at
Wild Game" They have secured. 1t is said,
| some remarkable pictures of animals at close
range.
Some time in October f. p Dutton & Co. will
publish @ new book Church Needlework,
by Maud r. Hall. 1t will be fully illustrated.
The only other book on this subject it is said,
one by Mrs. Dolby. is out of print and difficult
to obtain so that this book will be the only
one available.
It is now announced by the Harpers that Cen
eral Russell A. Alger's book. The Spanish
American War" will be published on October B.
They say that while General Alger has not
of
versy arising from its contents. it has, never
theless been his desire to forestan any such
provocation while the heart of the nation is still
suffering under the blow which has been struck
at II through the late President
Longmans Green & Co. will publish by the
first of month H. Rider Haggards account
of his travels through Palestine Italy and the
Island of Cyprus. in 1900 under the title of "A
Winter Pilgrimage" 1t will have thirty-one
illustrations. taken from photographs.
An exhibition is now view at Wanamaker's
OF the original drawings for the illustrations in
two popular recent books-Irving Bachellers
"Dri and 1" and Lafayette McLaws's When
the Land Was Young" The former are by Il.
c. Yohn They eight in number and rep
resent with spirit border types of the period
about 1872, military. social and other scenes
There are seven drawings by VIII Crawford
for when the Land Was Young" The period
here is I'm earlier Colonial days in the Far SOUTH
which have given the artist opportunity TO
display picturesque armor, buccaneer crews
and gay costumes in profusion. All who nave
read the books will find the original drawings
| OF the illustrators full of interesting points and
| picturesque suggestiveness.
Rudyard Kipng's barrack room ballad
| in the October McClures is called M. (which
| is TO say Mounted Infantry. and is dedicated to
/ this branch of the service in South Africa. Here
| is one of the stanzas:
l wish my mother could see me now. agatherin'
news my own.
! When | ride like a general UP TO the Scrub an
ride back like Tod Sloan
Remarkably small my orses neck to let the
| shots go by.
We used to fancy it risky once
| (Called IL a reconnaissance once),
| Under the charge Of an orf-cer once,
| But now we are NJ. L.
| That IS what we are known as-that is the
| word you must say
| When you want men TO be Mausered for one and
| penny day.
Write to the London Isonas! Ask for the
| -s NJ. J.
.Number from Ist to 9th. according to taste and
| service of audience
Mr. Clifton Johnson, whose jaunts along
| French byways and among English hedgerows
| have made agreeable reading, has taken further
| trips through the lanes and the countryside or
| Ireland These he has described in book that
| the Macmillan Company Will publish immedi-
| ately entitled THE Isle of the Shamrock. in
| which he has depicted the rustic life of Ireland
| in many places from the Giants Causeway to
the Lakes Of Killarney; pleasant places. like the
| Golden Vale Of Limerick and the forbidding
| boglands of Connemara and Donegal as well.
| There will be numerous pictures in the book, re-
| produced from photographs made by the author.
The Putnams have issued a edition of
Bayard Taylor's Boys of Other Countries" TO
| which they have added his Stories of Animal
| Nature" an essay that has never before been
| reprinted from the periodical in which 1t orig
| inaIly appeared. Taylor says about the OBJ
| servations he incorporated in it.
| give these detached observations of various
animal features for the sake of the interest they
| may possess for others. The man of science
| sympathy enters largely, but be may still
| admit the possibility of more complex intelli-
| gence. greater emotional capacity and the ex-
istence OF q faculty allied to the moral sense or
| man. If should surmise a lower form of
| spiritual being yet equally indestructbe, who
need take alarm?
| DR. Weir Mitchell has arrived at the dignity
| of Complete works" The popularity OF his
| novels has led the Century Company to prepare
| a new and uniform edition Of them, including
| the forthcoming circumstance" which will
| number ten volumes
| Some interesting facts are reported by Harper
| & Bros in regard TO their American Novel Series
| 1t was announced by them that during the year
1901 they would issue twelve novels OF Ameri-
can life by American authors. They wished to