New-York tribune., 1901-09-23

IN Boston University. He is said to owe MS
love for the woods TO his Quaker mother. ana
much inspiration TO three years of friendship
and close relations with Professor Jenks the
naturalist and friend of Agassiz.
Mcclure Phillips & Co announce a new eol>
zion of Professor ]. w. Jenks's book on Ihe
Trust Problem" the fourth. There Will be a
new chapter on Foreign Combinations. an
appendix and a complete index. which has been
lacking in the previous editions.
The first number OF Country Life in Amer
ica" edited by Professor L. II. Bailey and pub
Iished by Doubleday. Page & Co, is announced
for November L. In the mean time pre-
lfminary prospectus has been issued, which is
practically a number of the magazine itself
II is about IA by 10 inches in size, and contains
forty pages, printed on fine calendared
paper with cover in which two charming
photographs from nature form part Of hand
some decorative design. The text Is varied IN
theme, and is in good hands. An essay on Ola
gardens. by NJ. ]. p. Mowbray, comes hrst; IL Is
followed by an account OF Ellerslie, eX-Nlce-
President Morton's beautiful estate, and after
this comes a study of the ruby throated humming
bird and the flowers on which it feeds with
The Life-Story of Frog" brief paper on
"A Home Makers Lawn" description of La
Belle Fameuse,"-the domestic apple OF the Ca
madam French-and half dozen other opposite
items. The presence of poem by John Bur-
roughs and review of a recent book on Tho
reau indicates that the literary interests of the
nature lover are not to be neglected
On its illustrative side this magazine shows
itself to be especially worthy OF Country Life"
the well known English publication from which
the projectors have obviously taken their cue.
Photographs are almost exclusively used. IN
halftone reproductions Of the highest quality
Mr. Dugmore's illustrations for The Llfe-Story
of a Frog particularly TO be commenced
We must protest, however. against the dlshg-
urenent of some of the best illustrations by
slaring lines of typography. The exquisite
sylvan scene at the head of Mr.. Mowbrays
essay has the title of the latter and the authors
name printed across its face and the fine photo
eraph of the entrance to Ellerse is spoiled in
similar fashion If the first number has not
already been printed off these needless bem-
fishes should be summarily removed. as they are
well calculated to make the fastidious reader
shudder and impair confidence in the artistic
taste controlling the enterprise
Calumet *" by Samuel Merwin and h IL
Webster is described by its subtitle as
Romance OF Grain Elevator" and in 1t the
authors are said to have discovered in the ex-
citing movements of trade and finance field
Of fiction hitherto overlooked by American
writers. but containing great wealth of ro-
drawings by H. C. Edwards. The Macmillan
Company publishes the book
The latest studies and discoveries regarding
the wonderful extinct monsters whose remains
have been preserved in America and Europe
are embodied in a book the Appietons are soon
TO publsh-"Dragons of the Air.. by H e.
Seeley, professor Of geology in Kings college,
London. Il is an account of extinct flying rep
and he nfe
.ated in it. Kansas has furnished the skeleton
of the largest pterodactyl yet found, and the
Bad Lands and other portions Of this country
have provided some of the most remarkable
discoveries OF bygone monsters. so that Ameri-
can museums in New-York. New-Haven and
Philadelphia among the richest In these
fossils. Professor Seeley's explanations OF the
anatomy. probable habits and possible origin
of the dragons Of the air are reinforced by
! numerous diagrams and illustrations.
Harper & Bros. have in preparation book
on Queen Victoria, Her Life and Empire"
by 1.-THE Marquis of Lorne, now the Duke of
Argyll" as his name appears on the title page.
The Queens son-in-law has written several
books before this one, including "The United
States of America After the War" a Life of
Palmerston and volume Of Tales and Poems"
The Century Company reports that President
Rooseveits book of essays and addresses that
1t published last year under the title of 'The
Strenuous Life has been in increased demand
within the last few weeks. His views to the
necessity of life OF toll and effort, labor and
strife, are developed in this volume. and readers
of It will be struck with the fact that he has
been far from the affiiction suggested in the
lines IN the beginning Of the book. quoted from
Tennysons Ulysses:
How dull il is TO pause TO make an end
To rust unburnish'd not TO shine in use
Arrangements have been made for the trans
lation of Mr.. James Huneker's book, Chopin,
the Man and His Music" into French. The
work will be done by Arthur Bles. The publica-
ton in Paris Of this American estimate of
musician whose life was almost wholly spent in
Paris is a compliment TO the American author
that readers Of the book Will feel to be well de-
served. Messrs. Scribner, the publishers say
that the book has steady sale in this country
In The Ffrebrand," by S. r Crockett which
Mcclure. Phillips & Co. Will soon bring out the
author leaves the heaths and highlands of Scot
land and takes his hero to Spain. 1t is in the
time when the followers Of Maria Christina and
those OF Don Carlos fighting for the right of
succession to the throne. The hero is a valiant
hotheaded young Scotchman, THE Ffrebrand"
who becomes involved, with two friends in
plot 10 abduct the Queen Regent and Isabella.
Another book trusts is forthcoming now
on the press with the Macmillan Company for
immediate publication. 1t is Professor John
Bates Clarks treatise on THE Control of
Trusts" 1t is not history description or
a statistical treatment Of trusts, but an argu-
nnentative work. advocating a particular policy
toward the trusts that in the authors view
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