New-York tribune., 1901-05-25

MacLehose. will be published soon by the Mac
milan Company. 1t will be elaborately illus
rated from rare pictures and prints An in
teresting innovation, the publishers call II.
will be the insertion of a portrait as a sort of
initial letter at the beginning of each chapter.
An elaborate book THE Training of the
Body" in relation to participation in sports and
for health is announced by f. P. Dutton G. Co
II is by Z. A. schmidt, NJ D., and Eustace II.
Miles the latter historical scholar in Oxford
and a noted player of tennis. rackets and
squash. who is well known in this country The
hook is both practical and anatomical contain
.ng a large number OF illustrations of the
muscles OF the human body and discussion of
their functions.
Harper & Bros. will begin Immediately the
publcation once month Of what they call the
Portrait Collection" of short stories The name
is derived from the fact that each volume will
have on the cover a portrait vignette of the au-
thor and will also contain colored frontispiece
portrait. The first of this series will be "A Pair
of Patient Lovers" by William Dean Howells
and will include, besides the tale that gives its
title 10 the book, The Pursuit of the Plano"
"a Difficult Case The Magic of a Voice. and
"a Circle in the Water" Succeeding volumes
will be by Lillian Bell. Van Tassel Sutphen. Eliz-
sbeth B. Jordan and George Bird Grinnell.
A book that has attracted considerable atten-
tlon in England The Francis Letters" will
be published here soon by E P Dutton G. Co
They are from the correspondence of Sir Phili.
Francis 10 whom has been attributed the au-
thorship of the Junius letters. and there is an
essay the subject prefxed 10 the volume by
C. F. Keary, TO prove the identity OF Sir Philip
Tyriu
the volume Of special interest to Americans
being written TO and from friends and relatives
of Sir Philip Francis resident in this country
lust before and during the Revolutionary War
The volume is edited by Beata Francis and
Eliza Keary.
Admiral Evans's book. "A Sailors Log" seems
to have met with an immediate success. It is
understood that the publishers had difficulty at
first in furnishing a sufficient supply OF copies
TO meet the demand.
"The Backwoodsman," H. A. Stanley's story
OF frontier life in New-York State. is dedicated
by the author to The student OF Revolutionary
history, TO those who for fifty years have made
sport Of Cooper's Indians. and to those who
have known and met adversely" Mr. Stanley
is said to put in an entirely new light the char
acter Of Brant. the noted Indian chief prom
Q X.
For the next issue Of THE Worlds Work" Mr..
Stanley, who is now resident of the West has
written an article entitled 1.-THE Wonderful
Northwest"
A new edition Of Three Northern Love
Stories" translated from Icelandic by Eirikr
Magnusson and William Norris is ready for
publication by Longmans Green & Co. The first
edition appeared in 1875
Mr. Van Tassel Sutphen's novel. The Car
dinars Rose" published here last autumn. has
recently been issued in England. and is TO
be translated into German. The American pub
Fishers, Harper & Bros, report that the book is
in its ninth edition.
The Longmans have ready for publication the
last Essays Of Max Muller, first series. The
essays are on Language Folklore and Other
Subjects" the other subjects including 'Kant's
Critiaue of Pure Reason" "Coincidences'' (be-
tween Christian and Buddhist ceremonials),
How to Work" Dean Liddeli as Knew Him
and The Schleswig-Iolstein Question in His
tory
The Macmillan Company announces two
and timely volumes in the Haddon Hall Ii
brary Of Outdoor Sports. edited by the Marquis
Of Cranky and George A. B. Dewar. These will
be on cricket and golf.
Frank NJ. Chapman's Bird Life in Colors."
published here by the Appletons. has been
adapted for publication in Canada by large
Toronto publishing house.
Some recent statements TO the sales Of
Mr Kipling's books in England have led to
conparisons with the American figures. which
are considerably larger. Up TO the close OF 1900
$1,000 copies of The Jungle Book" had been
sold in England and 5000 in the United States.
OF The Second Jungle Book" the sale there
had been $4,000 and here $4,000. A still greater
discrepancy is noted in the case of Captains
Courageous" OF which the English market had
taken 27OeO copies the American 5000 OF
The DAYS Work" more than one hundred thou
sand copies have been sold in this country. No
fewer than half million volumes of authorized
editions Of his works have been disposed or In
the United States, and an estimate OF the recent
sales of the earlier uncopyrghted works LEADS
10 the belief that three million copies or MS
books have been sold here in the last three years
There have been several translations or
Booker T washington's autobiography up
from Slavery" but now word comes that it is
going to appear soon as a book in native
tongue OF India Already several chapters nave
appeared in the "Kankale-i-Hind" c'The star OF
India'O a weekly paper widely read by lnolah
Christians The translators name Is Lilavau
singli
The eyer increasing demand for books on
sports and other out-of-door subjects explains
the high degree Of specialization that VIII char-
acterize the new undertaking OF this sort 'ha'
the Macmillans have in preparation Ihls Is
The American Sportsman's Library, eolted