New-York tribune., 1901-04-30
LITERARY NOTES.

Houghton, Mif1in & Co. have removed their
New-York offices this week from the old build
ing they have occupied for twenty years in East
Seventeenth-st. TO quarters in modern
building, No 81 Fifth-ave At the corner of Six
feenth-st. The new establishment is handsome
and convenient, occupying entire floor of the
building. and, having all the conveniences that
the modern builder provides will doubtless be
found superior for the requirements of modern
business; yet many will regret the old fash
toned coziness that has so long made the Bos-
ton firms New York Offices unique among the
publishers quarters in this city.
The magazine mentioned in this column
last week as soon to be stared here VIII MAKE
it's first appearance in the autumn, ro" tiie
office of Doubleday, Page & Co. IL VIII De calie"
American Country Life and is lntehoeu ioi
the lover and student of nature. the suburban
resident the man with a country holhe' li7
amateur farmer the fruit grower. vegetaoe
gardener. florist. landscape gardener-all whose
work or play carries them outside the
CITY" as the publishers announce. the con-
santly increasing list of books devoted to out or
door subjects and their popularity, would seem
to indicate the existence of an interest that VIII
give such a magazine a substantial support.
The editor will be Liberty H Bailey. professor
Of Horticulture in Cornell University, recog-
nized as one of the chief authorities in his spe-
cialty who has published many books on horti-
culture and done much to encourage interest in
and knowledge of outdoor matters of every kind
The publishers intend make the magazine
beautiful in its appearance and will make a spe-
cial feature of the illustrations in the way of re-
producing photographs. In the furtherance Of
this plan they are already announcing an offer
Of prizes for the best series of four photographs
Of any outdoor subject that would come within
the scope of the magazine. TO be awarded on the
basis OF the success with which the photographs
render the spirit of the country, and on their
pictorial excellence.
The next volume. the second. in Mr.. John
Lanes cheap edition of George Eliot will be
Scenes from Clerical Life" which will be ready
in few weeks.
A book that should be useful in many ways
and especially for reference. should be Mr.. G. G.
p. Gooch's Annals of Politics and Culture, 1882
1S99' published in this country by the Mac
milan Company. 1t is. the author says, "a
concise summary of modern times. embracing
the life of mankind in its extreme range Of
thought and action No systematic attempt
he says, has hitherto been made in English to
combine politics and what the Germans call
"Kuturgeschichte' in this manner.
The first Of the series of nature books an
nounced by the Appletons will be published
within fortnight, and Will be Insect Life" by
Professor j. II. Comstock. 1t will have illus
trations in colors made from the insects them
selves, under the authors supervision, which
are OF unusual beauty and accuracy of drawing
and coloring
Messrs Henry Holt & Co. have just issued
T natar
by Social Forces" by Professor Kuno Francke
OF Harvard. 1t is the fourth and enlarged edi-
ton OF Professor Francke's Social Forces in
German Literature" and in its form gives
more detailed attention to the works of such men
now active Sudermann. Hauptmann and Will
denbruch.
The Age of Decision" is the attractive title
Of volume of sermons preached to students at
Cambridge. England by P. N. waggett. of the
Society Of st. John the Evangelist. 1t will be
published at once by Longmans
Thoreaus essay on friendship, contained in his
Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
was said by Stevenson to contain "the noblest
and most useful passage remember TO have
read in any modern author" and has aroused
almost equal admiration on the part of other
literary men. Messrs. Houghton, Mf1n e. Co.'S
reprint of the essay in an artistic little volume
will therefore doubtless be distinctly worth
while. 1t will be limited to 800 mum bered copies
Another book on China, little apart from the
warlike character of the prevailing tide of such
books, will be DR.. w. A. p. Martins 1.-The Lore
OF Cathay," announced by the Fleming H. ReveIl
Company. 1t viii treat of the arts, sciences
literature, philosophy, religion, education and
history Of the country now perhaps foremost in
the eye Of the civilized world. Dr. Martin is
president of the Chinese Imperial University
and brings 10 his work the result Of more than
sixty years of close observation and study. He
is the author of "A Cycle of Cathay" and 1.-The
Siege in Peking,' and was one of those shut up
In the British Legation during the siege of Pc
king. He came to America last autumn, but
has just now returned to Peking to resume his
duties
The curious and celebrated Pastor Letters"
the intimate chronicles of an English family
ranging over very long period of years, many
OF them filed with momentous events, are re-
printed in a new edition which the Macmillan
Company publishes in this country 1t is a re-
PRINT OF the edition Of 1S12-'15, with an ad-
oitional fourth. volume containing consider
able number of letters found since that edition
appeared. and never before published. The ad-
ditonal volume also contains a full account of
the strange vicissitudes OF these important docu-
ments. and much explanatory matter by James
Gardner.
BOOKS OF THE WEEK
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