New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1901-06-29

| zone is not allowed in Turkey the use of elab-
| crate obvious instruments" Yet he records
| the large obligations he is under to the Turkish
| Government for protection and assistance in
| mote parts of the country
| In his Reconstruction in Mississippi" Pro-
fessor James MILFORD Garner has made thor
| ough study of the actual workings of recon
| struction in one Southern State. with the idea
/ that It's processes and results were practically
the same in all, and that such a study will there
| fore be useful contribution to the study Of the
| history of the whole section. The Macmillan
| Company publish the book this week.
| The Appletons are about to issue complete
subscription editions in handsome FORM like the
| outward Bound" KiDling. ard the Thistle"
| Stevenson, of the works of A. Conan Doyle and
Anthony Hope. In the case of Dr. Doyle the set
will number twelve Volumes and in that of Mr..
Hope thirteen; both are to be increased as the
authors add 70 the number of their books. Each
volume will have number of photogravure illus
trations.
Mr.. Nigel OIiphant was volunteer who took
an active part in the fighting about the legations
in Picking last summer, and for a time in
charge of section of the defence. He has de-
scribed his experiences in a book which the
| Longmans have ready for publication. en-
titled "A Diary of the Siege of the Legations in
Picking During the Summer of 1900" Mr.. An
drew Lang contributes a preface.
John b. Henderson. jr. son of the Speaker of
the House of Representatives, has written and
| tn Macmillan Company are publishing. a book
on American Diplomatic Questions" It is an
exhaustive study of five subjects that are now
or have recently been uppermost in American
iNin tha
and the processes by which they have arrived at
their present state. These subjects are: The
Fur Seals and the Behrng Sea Award" The
lnterocean'c Canal Problem" THE United States
and Samoa" The Monroe Doctrine" and The
Northeast Coast Fisheries"
Since Nine Butterfly" and THE Cat and the
Cherub made an impression on American
theatregoers. there has been considerable in
quiry." the wholesale merchants say for
stage settings of Oriental life "A Little Trag-
edy at Tien-Tsin,' which appeared in the No
vember "Harpers," has been dramatzed and is
10 be produced in the fall; The Go Away Child"
in the same periodical for May is also being pre-
pared for the stage And now a long story
which the Harpers will publish in a beautifully
decorated book in the autumn, Miss Onoto Wa
tanna's "A japanese Nightingale" is to be
dramatized for production here next season. Miss
Watanna, who is half japanese is also writing
short one-act piece for the New-York stage
called Miss Perfume"
one of the last literary UNDERTAKINGS OF the
late Sir Walter Besant was the completion Of a
popular work for which he had special quaihca-
tions, The Story Of King Alfred" The Apple
tons have secured the American rights of the
book. and IL VIII be published by them IN July
or August. 1t has special timeliness of course
in view of the Alfred millenary celebration this
year
e. p Dutton Co will publish some time in
July James Grattan Grey's Australasia Old
and New" Some OF the chapters were written
years ago. but the volume it appears Is said
to be an important and timely account of So
ciety and the government as they are to-day
in Australia and New Zealand.
The frs. volume OF George Brandess elab-
crate critical undertaking. Main Currents
OF Nineteenth Century Literature Is just ap-
pearng with the imprint of the Macmillan Com
pany. II VIII be completed in six large volumes.
The first is devoted 10 The Emigrant Iitera-
ture' Of France; the others will treat OF The
Romantic School" The Reaction IN France"
"Naturalism in England" The Romantic School
In France" and Young Germany" The author
describes his purpose To be TO trace the out
lines Of a. psychology OF the first half OF the
nineteenth century by means of a study of GER
tain main groups and movements in European
literature" The comparative view of various
literatures. he thinks. possesses the double ad-
vantage OF bringing foreign literature so near
to us that we can assmate IT, and OF removing
our own until enabled see it in the
true perspective. We neither see what is too
near the eye what is too far away from it
The Longmans have nearly ready Mr. Andrew
Lang's book on Magic and Early Religion"
1t contains a series OF recent speculations about
early religion. especially regards Mr. Fra
zer's theories in The Golden Bough." Other es-
SAYS deal with tho latest results OF anthro-
biological research in the religious field and in
that OF magic.
The book on Famous New-York Families"
by Margherita Arlina Harnm. which the Put
mans are going TO publish. will be lavishly IL
lrstrated with reproductions Of family por-
traits many of which the owners have not
hitherto allowed to be copied. The book will
give accounts Of many of the families that have
been most prominent in New-York society for
generations.
The appearance Of Mr. L. Schuyler Mathews's
Familiar Trees and Their Leaves" with IL
metrations in colors. completes the series of
nature books issued this season by d. Appleton
g. Co Mr.. r. NJ. Chapman's Bird Life" Pro-
lessor ] Fl. Comstocks Insect Life and Mr.
of effective photographs of flowers. are the
other numbers of the series.
pnnL-S M TINE WEEK