The times., 1901-05-26

mas unearthed q greater treasure than has
Jack London in that same rugged coun-
try. Mr.. London has found among the
hardy miners and trappers life full of
daring. unfettered action, and intense hu-
manity. In THE God of His Fathers" /"
to be published by Mcclure. Phillips &
Co., he tells the story of a mixed people
gathered fron-no one knows where;
with a history-no one ever asks. He
mas lived with them ard knows their
trials, their periIs, their ambitions.
The July issue of Harper & Brothers
American Contemporary Novels will be
The Manager of the B. & A" by
Vaughan Kester. 1t is said to be a re-
markabIe performance for the first work
of fiction by young writer. The scene
of the story is laid in little
town in the lumber region of AIichi-
gan, and the hero is the manager
of small branch railroad which
is on the verge of bankruptcy when
he takes charge of it. The plot of the
story is original, and situation follows
situation in rapid succession in the trying
experiences which the manager of the
y. & A has to undergo in his efforts to
build UP the road, and incidentally to
triumph in his wooing.
The Extracts From Adams Diary" by
Mark Twain, which appeared in the April
number of "Harpers Monthly" has
| caused a good deal of diverse criticism
in England. One credulous critic an
| nounces that Mark Twain's next book is
to be called Adams Diary" and will be
compiled from the original manuscript
Another writer comments as follows: "It
is just as well that Mark Twain should
| return to his humor. His latest attempts
| at serious writing have exasperated the
| whole country, and his references to Eng
| land andSthe war in South Africa are, to
| say the least of it hardly generous to
| a country which has treated him win
great generosity. The Academy dis
agrees with this point of view, and is not
| TO return to his humor. 1t considers his
| early dealings with Adam as written
| rather in vein of caustic satire. Adams
| Diary, indeed, is a title that Swift might
| have chosen when he had rolled up his
sleeves for piece of artistic savagery.'
| Sydney Herman Preston's humorous
| book, THE Abandoned Farmer viii be
published on May 29. Mr.. Preston is a
| Canadian. and the reputation he made
| with THE Green Pigs" which was pub
lished in "Scribners Magazine" has
created a local demand, which has re-
suited in the sale of a Canadian edition
of The Abandoned Farmer in advance
of publication.
A new volume In the biological series
of the Cambridge natural science man
uals, under the editorship of Arthur E.
Shipley, is Lectures on the History of
Physiology During the Sixteenth, Seven
teenth and Eighteenth Centuries. by Sir
Michael Foster. Secretary of the Royal
Society. These lectures were delivered
as the Lane lectures at the Cooper Medi-
cal College in San Francisco 1900. The
author has woven into the story of ideas
the stories of the personal lives of the |
men who gave birth to those IDEAS part |
ly in order to add to the human interest |
of the tale; also, and even more SO, be- |
cause in most cases at least the fruitful |
ness of the labors of an enquirer is large |
ly dependent on the enquirer's character |
and belongings.
Mr.. E. F. Benson's forthcoming novel, |
THE Luck OF the Walls" is reported to |
represent a new departure for the author, !
which promises to win as much popularity |
in another field as he gained by .Dodo"
His new novel is to be published probably /
IN May by d. Appleton & Co.
One of the most interesting and iiIumi-
mating chapters in the book on "Substi-
tutes for Saloons" which Houghton, Mif-
fin & Co. announce for this spring, is
that giving the testimony of labor lead
ers OF the attitude their organizations
take toward drinking places and the |
drinking habit. Statements so authentic |
presented.
When the campaign committee of the
forces opposed to Tammany looks around |
for literature It VIII doubtless select first
Josiah F1ynts new book THE World of
Graft, to be published by Mcclure, Phil
lips & Co. After the appearance in NC
Clure' s Magazine" of his remarkable arti-
Gle, " Y Ork,' a Dishonest City, the New
York police pretended to hunt for Mr.
Wa h. - 80 -.
Detective Bureau warned him to leave
town and threatened him with the po-
lice inquisition-the Third Degree. Mr.
FIynt knew too much" he had given |
away the whole system of brigandage /
of which the public is the victim. He
had told similar story of Chicago. Gre
he did in New York, and it is Boston's /
turn now. Then the result of Mr.. FIynt's
explorations in The World of Graft
the world peODled by known and m | .
known thieves. bribe-givers and bribe-
takers s"-will appear in book FORM con-
an exposure which viii open the |
eyes OF the citizens Of the great American
cities to the perils of the alliance which |
today exists between the criminal Pow
ers that Prey and the no less criminal |
police and political Powers that Rule"
A cable despatch from Cape Town an
nounces that Mr.. Howard c. HiIlegas'
book, THE Beers in War" published in
this country by D. Appleton & Co, has
been suppressed by the English authori-
ties. The English title is with the Boer
Forces"
The need of popular but definite hand
book of insect life, with accurate illustra-
tions in colors, is to be met in the forth
coming new edition of Insect Life" by |
the eminent entomologist Prof j. H
Comstock. The pictures are not from
drawings, but are actual reproductions of
nature approved by the author, who Sc
ected and arranged the specimens In /
sect Life" with illustrations in natural |
colors, will be published Immediately by |
D. Appleton * Co.
"Aristotle's Psychology" a treatise on
The principles OF life CDe Anima and Par
"a Naturally has been translated and ed
ted with introduction and notes, by VIII
lam a. Hammond, NJ. A, Phi. D, assist
ant professor of ancient and medieval
in Cornell University, and will
De published Immediately by the Macmil-
an Company.
Mr.. Ernest Seton-Thompson is now hard
It work on his book for next fall, which
le will call THE Lives of the Hunted"
t is his intention to make this new book,
f possible, greater and more popular
work even than wild Animals l Have
Known"
"A Search for an Infidel' is the title
# the Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones new
)ook Like jess; or, Bits of Waysidc
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