New-York tribune., 1901-06-15
English Bible'' a book of somewhat wider scope
than It's title would indicate.

I English Bible" book of somewhat wider scope
| than Its title would indicate.
| Another elaborate series of books sports
will make its appearance in the fall. with the
imprint of E. P. Dutton & Co. 1t will be on
Sports in Europe" and l.; intended to give an
account of the shooting, fishing. hunting and
other sports in the different countries of Eu-
rope. Different writers will treat of the differ
ent countries from an individual point of view.
which may be expected to he of value from the
fact that each is acknowledged authority on
what he writes of. There will be seventeen
countries described by as many contributors.
The new Vale Press publication. the "Ru-
baiyat of Omar Khayyam. which will be ready
in about week. of which only a hundred copies
will be procurahle in this country. is said to
have been practically all subscribed.
The July Century will contain a hitherto
unpublished portrait of Alfred the Great. from
vigrette in manuscript of Mathew, of Paris.
at Corpus Christi College. Cambridge.
The appearance of the 300th number of
their Town and Country Library this
month is not unnaturally referred to with pride
by the publishers. d. Appleton & Co. 1t has
been appearing for many years. and by Its care
full selection and it's issue in attractive form
has gained widespread audience The new vol
ume will be a romance of the present day by A.
r. Conder. entitled The Seal of silence" Like
the author of David Harum.' he never saw his
book. He was a young oxford graduate. who
finished his novel last December. about month
before his death.
The path of the student of French is made at
tractive nowadays by the nature of the material
he may be put at work on Moved by the sue
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text book, Messrs. Henry Holt & Co.
preparing publish Immediately a classroom
edition of the same authors "Une Vile tIot-
tante," abridged and edited. with a vocabulary
by c. Fontaine, of the Washington High School
Several generations of Americans who have
been brought up on Alice in Wonderland" have
come 20 believe that Sir John TennieTs pictures
Of Alice and the delightful people she are
almost with Lewis Carrolrs lima ginings
Harper & Bros. think differently is shown
by their announcement of a new edition of
Alice" with illustrations by Peter Newell.
The fourth and fifth volumes Of Doubleday
Page Co.'S Personal edition Of George
Eliots works have just appeared. containing
"Romola" There a number OF Photographic
reproductions recalling the visits of the author
to Italy while the story in preparation
series of historical selections from we'll
known French writer's seventeenth century
life. intended to supplement prepare for the
study Of the literature of that period is in prepa
ration by Henry Holt & Co. 1t is by Fl. Isabelle
Williams and Delphine Duval. of Smith College,
and under the title of The Seventeenth Century
in France" will contain pieces by Saint Amand
Ramhaud, Voltaire. Saint Simon and Sainte
Beuve
The Macmillan Company Is Just publishing
the Lectures the History Of Physiology
During the Sixteenth. Seventeenth and Eigh-
teenth Centuries" by Sir Michael Foster.
The Beleaguered Forest is the title of a
novel by Mrs. Ella ". Peattie to be published
this month by d. Appleton & Co. Its action
passes mostly in fresh and picturesque field.
the pine forests OF Northern Michigan. Mrs.
Peattie is a Michigan woman. who has written
not a few stories and sketches OF Western life
and types.
Bucher's Industrial Evolution is to be
made accessible to English speaking students
OF economic problems in their historical aspect.
through a translation by DR.. :. NJ. Wicket.
lecturer in Toronto University. The Hots will
publish IL at
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