New-York tribune., 1901-08-10

| Howells. He is busiy engaged upon It's COM
position, and 1t 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 on American art which L. c.
Page & Co.. of Boston. will shortly bring out
| The text is divided into eight parts, giving
| survey of American art before 1928" and of
| every phase in the development of that art down
| to the present day Painters, sculptors, illus
traitors. etchers, wood engravers photographers
and artistic photographers 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, If 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.
e 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| unpublished, by Frances Gerard.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
full account of the central figure in the story.
there will be much matter relating to
| Goethe, Schiller Herder. Weland 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 new
| novel, which Doubleday, Page & Co will have
| ready in a few weeks 1t 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
Englands 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 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 d. 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 later date is. therefore.
not included. With exception. Mr.. George
Smith the founder Of the Dictionary, died on
| April G. 1901, and, not unnaturally 1t has been
| considered necessary to give him place IN the
! supplement. The memoir OF him, however. will
be prefxed to the first volume. thus occupying
| position really independent OF the rest, There
| will be frontispiece portrait of him also. re-
| produced from the painting executed by Watts
! in 1876.
| That these supplementary volumes VIII con-
| tain a great deal Of highly interesting matter
| may 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 DR.. Richard Garnett;
| Aubrey Beardsley. by Sir Walter Armstrong;
r. D. Blackmore. by Mr. Stuart ]. Reid; Rob
ert Browning. by Mr.. Edmund Gosse; Lord
Randolph Churchill, by Mr.. Sidney J. Low:
| Wilkie Collins by Thomas Seccombe: Lewis
| Carroll by Mr.. f. V Lucas; George Du Maurier.
! 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 Abb
| bott; Frederick Locker-Lampson, by Mr.. Austin
! Dobson; James Payn. by Mr.. Leslie Stephen;
|
| 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
! lished some 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 fish
pictures which Mr. A r. Dugmore contributed
| to a recent number Of THE Worlds Work" 1t
is interesting to learn that the same pho
| tographer has executed large number Of plates
for a book on "The Food and Game Fishes
| 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
Throne" and by Right Of Sword" has written
a novel called For Love Crown" which is
promised for the early autumn by the Frederick
| A. Stokes Company. 1t is described COM
panion volume to the 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 & 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
/ ,yorly II aIso nractical in its arrapqa-