New-York tribune., 1901-07-13


| When John Kimbaly Mumfords elaborate
! book Oriental Rugs published last
winter, it met with prompt appreciation from the
| public, and though large edition has been
| provided by the Scribners it sold out in six
weeks, with orders sufficient to exhaust another
| edition of the same size. Most books would
! have promptly appeared the firms list in
second edition, but the second edition is only
| now being issued. six months after the first was
exhausted. This is because the colored illustra-
| tions. provided by firm in Detroit, and made
| by a new process, require several months to be
! properly made.
Daily contact with financial details in pure
| y business pursuit does not necessarily unit
| him who experiences 1t for the production or
| imaginary literature. Mr.. Stedman has given
| perhaps the most notable proof of this. But 1t
is always interesting to observe new illustrations
| of the fact. Mr. L. F. Brown for example is
| corporation lawyer but he has written in the
| volume called Prince Harold some graceIul
! fairy tales Mr.. Charles f. Carryl, author Of
| similar publication THE Admrars Caravan,
| is concerned with stocks when he is not occu-
! pied with books Mr. J. P Mowbray was once
a stock broker, too. but, as readers OIL MS
| Journey to Nature" know, he can give TO his
| writings a charm far removed from the atmoS-
phere Of Wall Street.
Mr. Andrew Lang. in his Magic and Re
| ligion," which viii be published by the Long
mans in few days, has his innings with the
exponents Of scientific folklore, with whom he
does not always or often agree. He writes:
Tba world az modern readers has watched sun
myths and dawn myths and storm myths ana
wind myths come In and go out: autant en- . eI,-
porte le vent" Totems and tabooS succeeueu
and we are bewildered hy the contendlng theo-
ries Of the origins of taboos and totems' Deltes
of vegetation now are all in all, ana may !, ee
far from US 70 say that any one from oui ~ a' %
TO Pan from the Persian King t. the horses or
virbius Is spirit cf vegetable life
He objects to the prevailing spirit and ten
dency of astrological study general:
The study of the evolution Of myth and belief
has always been and still IS marked ny an
extraordinary use. or abuse OF CONJECTURE Inc
"nerhapses," the I'VE rnsy suppcses" the we
must infers'' are countless. As IN TOO nnuch ot
the ''TItgher Criticism" hypothesis is piled nv
many anthropologists upon hypothesis guess
upop guess while II only oce guess is wrong
the main argument falls 20 pieces
The Rev. william Barry. well known in Eng
land as 2 novelist and Catholic pre;ate. will
write for the Putnans' STORY Of the Nations
series '"rhe story of the Papal Monarchy" The
period covered by the book will extend from
Gregory the Great to Boniface VIII, or from $50
to 1900 A. D.
Mrs Schuyler Van Rensselaer, will write in the
August Century" Of "Midsummer in New
york; the article viii be illustrated with FIVE
fun page and numerous smaller illustrators
Mrs Van Rensselaer, writes a New Yorker
who loves her rative city we'll enough to stay In
II large part of the summer.
Another. the third volume OF Harper's Por-
trait Collection of Short Stories appears this
month Mr. Van Tassel Sutphen's The Nine
teenth Hole" the nineteenth hole being as All
experienced golfers are aware the smoking room
of the clubhouse. where the golAng stories that
Mr. Van Tassel sutphen tells. may be supposed
to have had their origin. The first book In this
SERIES Mr.. Howellss "A Pair of Patient Lovers.
has already reached it's third edition.
The Harpers are about to add number OF
popular novels TO their Popular 12mo. Series.
In which they brought out at half price. about
twenty of their most successful books. The ad-
ditions for this year include Blackmores "Perly-
cross" Du Maurier's 'Trilby," JanvieTs The
Aztec Treasure House" Amelie Rivess "vr-
gina of Virginia" Mrs. Clifford's Mrs. Keith's
Crime" Keightley's THE Last Recruit of
Clare's" Clark Russelrs Mrs. Diness Jewels
Henry James's Washington Square" and
Lillian Bells "A Little Sister TO the Wilderness
Professor Joseph lie Conte. whose death has
just been reported from California, was one Of
the scientific writer's whose work was included
| in the lists of D. Appleton & Co, who are also
| the American publishers of Tyndau. Darwin.
Huxley and Spencer. Professor lie Conte's Re
| ligion and Science" Evolution and Religious
| Thought" and Sight" were among his i'm
| portant books and they reported to have
! remained steadily In demand.
1t has recently been pointed out how closely
| the titles OF many books approach each
| other. though the wonder is, with the multipli-
cation of books, how the authors are able to de-
wise titles enough to go around. Since The
Golden Butterfly" of Messrs. Besant and Rice
appeared years ago. there have been several
titles of similar kind within a few months
several titles have appeared in which the word
| golden used and one prominent pub
| Usher had to forego at the last moment title
| Of this nature because Of the confusion II was
likely TO There recently appeared
| Dorothea Gerard's THE Supreme Crime" and
| now the Harpers are announcing Mr.. A. Maui
rice Lows THE Supreme Surrender" The same
| firm will publish in September THE Strength Of
| the Hills" while the Iathrop Company has only
recently issued Mrs. s1anon Harrison.s "A pr,n.
| cess of the Hills" skd little earlier the put
| mans published "Dwellers In the Hills" In
! stances of the choice of title that has already
| been used are not uncommon, and such a choice
| has not infrequently compelled a publisher to
| make a late and hasty change
Roman Catholic readers will look with eaear
ness for the collection of religious ESSAYS h,
| George Tyrrel. a we'll known English Jasu;t
| and writer OF note. 1t Is called "A More Ex