The Washington times., 1901-10-06

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( early publication u complete. authorita-
tive and elaborate work entitled, Col
onial Furniture in America Its purpose
is to furnish collectors and other persons
interested with absolutely trustworthy in
| formation upon the whole subject desig
! mated by the title, so presented that u
Will be as intelligible to the novice as 10
the expert and so arranged as to be an
infallibe guide to the style ana the CLOSE
ly approximate date OF any given piece OF
colonial furniture, Offering detnlte means
for the detection of the spurious as Wen
as for the determination OF the genuine.
new volume of fiction from the pen of
: A. T. Quiller- Couch (under the familiar
| 90" of course) is announced for early
| October by the Scribners. The title will
| be ''The Lairds Luck, and Other Fireside
! Tales"
Municipal Administration. by John
| A. Fairlie, may justly be called the first
comprehensive and systematic treatise on
| the subject. 1t is divided into four
/ parts. The first, on municipal history,
! treats briefly of ancient and medieval
( cities and more at length of the stupen-
| dous municipal development during the
nineteenth century.
"A PaIadin in Khaki novel of love
and adventure by II. S. Garfield, author
of Down by the Rio Grande" etc. will
son-Higgins Co
The Macmillan Company publish this
week handsome limited edition in royal
quarto of A. L. Baldry's Hubert Won
Herkomer: A Study and a Biogra aphy.'
The professor will be dealt with both
as a personality and as an artist The
story Of his life will be told with all nee
essary elaboration, and an analysis of
his curiously complex character will be
attempted. A full description of his num-
erous phases will be given. while his
paintings will be amply illustrated, and
his many-sidcdness will be demonstrated
by numerous examples of his excursions
into other branches of craftsmanship.
In "Morgan's Men," which John Pres
ton True has written, there is narrated
the adventures of Stuart Schuyler, Cap
tain Of Cavalry in the Revolution. This is
sequel to Scouting for Washington"
which delighted so many boys. 1t will be
illustrated by Lillian Crawford True, and
published by Little, Brown < Co.
Nineteenth Century" and Lucas Malet's
The Wages of Sin are two books on
the autumn list of Messrs. r. +. Fenno
& Co.
The title of Mr.. Alfred Holders novel
will be The New Americans" This de-
scribes the story, whereas the title under
which 1t was at first announced, THE
y.
title has been recently used on a novel.
so the change will be satisfactory in every
way.
The Scribners announce a new story for
boys by Noah Brooks. the welI-known
author of The Boy Emigrants." "The
Fairport Nine. and other juveniles
Lem, New England Village Boy: His
Adventures and Mishaps,' is its title, and
boy life in a New England village forty
trayed more faithfully or more wildly
than in this wholesome tale of Lem Par
ker and his chums. !
Just before Ernest Seton-Thompseu
started West he completed a cover for his
coming book, Lives of the Hunted
which will doubtless be a source of con-
siderable speculation when the book Is
offered to the public next month. The
puzzling feature of it is great eye in a
mass of foliage darting arrows at num-
Der OF animals under the trees. a right
hand also in the foliage, points index and
little fingers at the eye. 1t was Mrs. Sc
ton-Thompsons idea, the eye represent
ing the spirit of cruelty to animals, and
the hand standing for the growing mod
ern spirit of kindness. The hand is held
in the good luck position" so much used
by the Italians. and pointing toward the
eye of cruelty, is intended as counter
to the EVIL influence.
Messrs. Small, Maynard & Co. made
special arrangements with Edwin II.
Blashfield for a frontispiece for their
book "Aphrodite: The Romance of a
Sculptors Masterpiece" Messrs. Curtis
& Cameron have arranged with Messrs.
Small. Maynard & Co. to bring out this
subject in their "Copley Prints" in ef-
fective sizes.
A feature of unusual interest in the
October Critic" is carefully COM
piled and tabulated list of forthcoming
books from American publishers These
lists have been prepared with a view Of
being valuable to librarian as well as the
general reader, and give an accurate idea
of the character and volume of the pub
fishers output.
A series Of histories for young folk.
suited to the mental capacity of children
from eight to twelve years, is being pub
lished by Mr.. Thomas Whitaker, New
York. He has already issued in it old
Tales from Greece" "A History of Rome"
and "A History of France" and will add
Immediately stories from English His
tory" by Mrs F. Boas, and "A History
of the United States by Mary Ford.
In the new list of genuine "Copley
Prints and Copley Sepias." published by
Messrs. Curtis & Cameron, are several
subjects frcm the Museum Of Fine Arts
in Boston. Included in the new acquisi-
tions are Winslow Homer's ''Alrs Weli,'
Fog Warming: Regnaults Autome-
Farge's Halt of the Wise Men" Della
crGiNs Lion Hunt" and Rubens Mar
riage Of st. Catherine"
I'm the Fireflies' Glow" is a collection
of short stories intended for children.
Most of them are rather commonplace
fairy tales. The portrait OF the author,
Alice Rogers Moore, adorns the frontis-
piece. (New York: F. Tennyson Neely
Company)
Bridge Whist" by Lennard Leigh, ed
itor of whist Opinion" is a little book
which will be interesting and useful to
those who are accommodating a library on
the subject of whist. 1t presents a code
of laws for bridge whist and in the tacti-
cal portions OF the book the text is il
Illustrated by examples and specimen
deals. philadelphia: Henry r. Coates &
Coz
''Frolics of the A b c." by Fannie E.
Ostrander, is a book of the alphabet for
small children, illustrated by r. w.
Hirchert The Illustrations are clever and
artistic well as gay, which is not al |
ways the case with books of this kind, |
and the verse is not doggerel, either. |
This contribution to Juvenile literature is
worth putting into anyones home libra |
ry. Chicago: Laird * Lee.)
Loves Quicksand" by Virginia Dit
mar, is novel written after the style of
Nine. Sarah Grand. and a long way
after at that. New York: f. TennysOn
Nicely Company
New Books Received.
WHO'S WHO IN AMERICA. BY John W. Leon
ard. Chicago: A. n. Marquis & Co. S2.7j.
HER GRACE'S SECRET. By Violet Tweedale.