New-York tribune., 1901-02-23

4 indications of this u1eaSineSS mas peeH Inv aP
/ pearance in The London Times" Of series OF
long articles treating Of American Engineer
| ing Competition" Though not signed. they are
! plainly the work of an expert versed IN the oe-
/ tails Of the subject. These articles are no" 10
/ be reprinted i'm volume that the Harpers VIII
! publish Immediately. II will have ttHeiN IN
terest for those who are watching the rapid de-
velopment Of American Industrial influence
| abroad.
Mr. Booth Tarkirgton's Monsieur Reaucaire''
has nov gone into its fortyhrst thousand IL
has recently been published in England ana l.
=oid 20 have attracted considerable attention
| there NJ. Harrington was at first oppoSea 70
| the publication OF the book in England because
( he felt that it contained certain rehec'ions OF
English society. bur the English people do n''
seem 70 - unduly susceptible to sucn renee
( tons
My owen Johnson. a son of Mr.. Robert Under
| wood Johnson of the Century Company. mas
written d story. which the Macmillan Company
! is about to publish, called Arrows OF the Al
mighty" II is not war story as the term is
usually understood hut deals with incidents oc-
/ curing during the war. especially with the
haro's fight with contractors who were rohhinS
the Government in providing supplies for the
army. Tho scene is laid in Maryland just before
the way breaks out. and is transferred 10 CleF'-
( land and then 10 New-YoTk
/ Among the many books that arc dramatizef
/ nowadays few are founded So short story
/ as Madame Rutterfly. Ny. Belascos stage
version of Mr. Longs little romance is to he fol
| lowed il is understood. by an opera on the same
| subject by the italian composer Giacomo pu'-
! cini who can scarcely seem to find subjects
! rapidly enough for his face fancy
| John Lane is 10 publish the book by Osman
! Edwards called japanese Plays and Playfel-
/ lows" that has been previously announced as
| Hlc1v m come from another publishers office.
| There will be twelve colored plates made by
Jaran-se artists. especially for the book-a
urtoua and charming feature The book is dsdi-
! Gated 70 "Yakuno Koizumi and Lafcadio Hearn,
poet and friend with admiring gratitude
! Paul Laurence Dunbar has become best known
nv his verses relating TO negro life but he has
| also entered the field or fiction Last year he
published The Strength of Gideon and The
Lane If Landry" and now is about to add an
other volume 10 his work novelist. which
Dodd. Mead & Co will publish, called The
/ Fanatics
The next volume in the Appletons Great Com
manders series will he devoted 10 General Meade.
and will he written by Isaac +. Pennypack"r.
! The basis of the work is found in the official
records Of the Union and Confederate armies
Special pains have been taken with the maps.
measurements and other information relating
/ 70 the Gettysburg battlefield.
| Professor Harper Of Princeton University. has
written q series % studies Of French literature
/ that the Scribners are bringing out this spring.
! Its chapters are on The Place OF French Lit
eraturc." The Golden Age or French Litera-
t..re." saint Simon. Montesquieu" The Revo-
lutionary Apaiysis--Votaire." Victor Hugo"
Sainte- Beuve" and "Balzac."
In her f7rthcoming book on The Flowers and
Ferns in Their Haunts." Mrs. Mabel Osgood
Wright is said To treat the subject from a new
point Of v!ev-that is. as element In the
landscape she holds that II wishes 20
| know the wild flowers. one must visit them in
| ,heir haunts. The fifty fun page Illustrations
! carry out this view for they all from photo
! graphs taken from the plants they grow.
! The human side rather than the technical II has
been Mrs WriGhts purpose 10 emphasize. The
book Will appear with the imprint Of the Mac
milan COMPANY
The Art Of Life is announced for early pub
lIcation by the Putnams I, Is by r. dc Maude
. 10 Clavlere. the author OF the interesting
/ Women OF the Renaissance" reviewed in The
/ Tribune not long ago. The book has not
Yet appeared in Paris and Will be published 81
| multaneously In this country, France and Eng
land.
The next number Of The International
studio viii have an article on Edwin Rowland
Bashfied the mural painter Of this city, Copi-
ously illustrated with reproductions OF hts work:
some Of these will show decorations In private
houses that have not before been disclosed To
the public eye There will also he an article I'm
| this issue on color etching i'm France. with speci-
mems.
| divertng book is promised in George c.
Hazleton. jrs. Mistress Nell. a Merry Tale of
n Merry Time" in which he has embodied the
grace and beauty as we'll as the gayety and
vivacity If Nell Gwyn. recently so copiouslv
and attractvely displayed on the stage MI
Hazleton is the author of one OF the plays that
attracted New-York audiences for considera
bic season. hut his book is said 70 be more than
"A novel written out OF the play 1t is rather a
utilization. with the greater funess demanded in
a work OF fiction. of the same material out OF
which he constructed the drama The Scrib-
ners publish the book which will have a coIored
frontisPiece portrait Of the English actress
Among the new works of fiction that Hough-
ton Miln & co. have in preparation is The
Curious Career OF Roderic> Campbell" hy Jean
Y McIIwraith which will appear early in
March its hero is a Scotchman. and il is said
to be full OF good fighting and OF humor even
in the fighting. One OF the incidents described
is the battle of Culloden. and the scene shifts