New-York tribune., 1901-04-08

ject is a difficult for satisfactory eatment
owing imperfect knowledge of the facts OF
his life, beyond a few anecdotes contributed py
the garrulous Vasari. and the further fact that
his legacy of painting" as Mr.. Waters says
''is in many cases irreparably injured. Like
the other volumes Of this SERIES this one is
amply illustrated.
The first two volumes of Mcclure Phillips &
Co.'S Temple "Moliere'' in French. are now
ready. They are lie Bourgeois Gentilhomme'
and LIE Medecin Malgre Lui." The text is that
Of Despois and Mesnard. and the edition is in
16mo FORM The same firm will also publish i'm
mediately Heine's "Buch der Lieder," in Ger
man, which is also in the Temple edition.
American diplomacy is likely to increase in its
Importance with the growing power and infiu-
ence of the United States in other parts of the
world and instructive appreciation of this fact
is doubtless at the bottom Of the growing con-
cern felt in the history of our diplomatic rela-
tons in the last hundred years A significant
indication of this concern is found in the fact
that ex-Secretary John w Fosters book "A
Century of American Diplomacy published last
autumn by Houghton Miff1in & Co. is in such
active demand that five impressions of 1t have
already heen called for
A special feature of Mr.. A. H. Savage Lam
the Boxer uprising and the siege of the lega-
tons will be the illustrations. The Messrs.
Scribner say that they will include about two
hundred in the text, forty-eght full page pict-
ures. eight colored full pages, and four end pa
pers. consisting Of colored Chinese drawings,
two for each volume.
In her preface to her novel. Robert Annys.
Poor Priest" which the Macmillan Company is
| Ami Nath
frankly:
! count all his readers-all recognize the per-
! sonal description of John Ball, as taken from
! his "A Dream Of John Ball They will also
note that some parts OF his sermon as we'll are
from the same book. 1t seemed to me that
too fine and true to he spared in any attempt TO
set the blunt old poor priest before the modern
reader.
The story is of the great uprising led by Wat
Tyler in the last part of the fourteenth century
in England. in which Ball historical par
ticipant.
There certainly should be tagging OF in
terest in the reading lesson OF children who
take it from the last issue in Scrbners' series
OF school readers. This Is devoted to Mrs. Gus
ters own story of her husbands famous cam
paign in the Far West. 1t includes the last
fight on the Little Big Horn and many other
/
the sixties and seventies, 1t is published under
the title of The Boy General"
George Merediths book Of verse. "A
Reading Of Life with Other Poems is soon to he
published by the Scribners. The first poem. that
which gives its title 10 the book. is rather long
one in five or six divisions. Most of the others
are short. some being but few lines in length
! The last group in the book consists OF some
! ba
! eters.
! David Harum" seems perennial. The Apple
! tons rso1nrt that last week two thousand copies
were sold in Chicago, and the book IS far
| beyond the record OF half a million copies
Three important additions to Houghton
| Minin & Co.'S Riverside Biographical Series"
| will be made this month. in volumes John
| Marshall. General Grant and Lewis and Clark.
/ the explorers Of Western America The Mar
! shall centenary makes the first particularly
! timely. 1t is written by Professor James Brad
/ ley Thayer of the Harvard Law School, and Is
TO he illustrated with photogravure from a
miniature in possession of Miss Annie Harvey.
| of Richmond. daughter of MarshalPs only
daughter The Grant book is by Walter Allen.
! and has a portrait of Grant from untouched
! negative made in 1864 the time he ap-
| pointed to command all the Union forces Will
! lam r. Lighton writes the account Of Lewis
| and Clark. Their portraits from original
paintings hanging in Independence Hall Phila-
| delphia
From the press Of D. Appleton & Co. comes
! a book which may not make interesting read
| ing for the layman but still should find hearty
welcome In banks and business Offices 1t is
called Bankers and Merchants Interest Ia
| Dles," and was compiled by Francis II. Coffin
and David II. Moore The aim OF the work is to
| provide a ready means of making interest cal
| culations and the tables are so elaborated and
| arranged that at a glance the interest may be
ascertained on any sum from 81 TO $1,000 for any
| period from day to one year at either 312, A.
| ; or per cent AS the results in the tables
| carried out to five decimals. only the shifting
! of the point is necessary to obtain the interest
| on any further sum up to 81, 100000 In addi-
| tion there are 1 per cent one day table on the
! basis OF 365 days a year from which interest
| daily balances can be computed at any rate on
any sum and time table from which the
elapsed time in days between dates up to two
! years can be found at a glance Any layman
| who has struggled with interest problems will
| have some appreciation Of the convenience OF
| the manual but only accountants will realize
| its full value as a time and labor saver OF
| course. there are other tables with similar
| purpose. None however. have been carried out
| so systematically and completely. 1t should be
added that while the tables confined to the
| four rates Of interest already mentioned. results
| at nearly any other rate can be easily computed
/ by simple combination or percentage the meth
DDS for which, If they require explanation, will
be found clearly and concisely stated in the
| volume