New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-11-22
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
CURRENT TALK OF THINGS PRESENT
AND TO COME.
.tudv Of English pleasure Gardens has heen

made by Rose Standlsh Nichols. in a book OF
hat name which the Macmillan Company has
,ssred Many illustrations from photographs
and drawings of various styles Of existing Eng
',sb gardens made by the author give the vol
vs. additional interest. Eleven plans are sun-
lied bv Allen II. Cox. Descriptions and discus
siors OF the several manners of laying out gar
5sns still 10 be seen or preserved in historical
accounts, are given the monastc, medieval,
Tusor Elizabethan, Stuart and Italian forms
al being represented.
The popularity of the older novelists among
,,,bors OF the present day is illustrated in a
story OF a vote taken at dinner given by the
tate Harold Frederics in London some years
ago The guests numbered twenty-four and
we're all authors Of some prominence. Some one
suggested in the course Of the evening that they
take a ballot for their favorite novel When
the votes were read it was found that all but
-vo Of the company had agreed on Charles
Reade's The Cloister and the Hearth"
Esther singleton's Social New-York Under
the Georges is being published this week by
n Appleton & Co. Miss Singleton has chroni-
cIed the conditions of living in this city in the
period from 17l4 to 1776, when there existed
social spendor here not far removed from
that Of the London of the day The book rests
IN original sources. .contemporaneous mention
in wills. inventories. letters and newspa pers.
Photographs of relics in furniture, china. plate
and costumes illustrate the text.
Iris" A. ". Pinero's play, is published by r.
T. Russell in book form.
WM Ramsay has written book which is 10
he published by G. P. Putnam's Sons on ne
EDUCATION OF Christ The writer is known
for his study of the personality of St Paul and
Of the credibility Of the narrative of ST. Lukes
Gospel and other religious books. He was for
nery professor Of classical archaeology at OK
ford and in 1894 was lowering lecturer in Johns
Hopkins University. He is now professor of
humanity at Aberdeen.
Samuel AIcChord Crctners, whose Juvenile
story. Miss Muffet's Christmas Party" has
been published by Houghton, Mifiin & Co,
has had charge of the First Parish in Cam
bridge Mass. since 1894. and has served for
three years as one of the preachers TO the uni
rersity. He was born in 1857 at Oswego, H..
and spent his early life in Ohio. He was gradu-
ated from Princeton in 1874. and studied for
the ministry at the Union Theological Seminary
in this city. He has had churches in Eureka,
New Santa Barbara, Cal; Brattleboro. Vt. and
St Paul, MINI. The cover design, lining pages,
and full page and text illustrations for Miss
Mufet's Christmas Party are drawn by Miss
Olive II. Long.
The latest adventure which has befallen the
book on ''Luncheons.' by Mary Roland. is rather
more apt and appetizing than some of the sew
eraI previous ones. chronicled and attested as
true Orders for the details of publishing have
resulted in various homogeneous substances being
put in -Luncheons." The other day the printer,
thinking it his turn for his little joke. sent up
a batch Of proofs, just taken from the plates,
separated sheet from sheet by wrappers printed
for a we'll known manufacturer of Worcester
shire sauce.
Douglas Zabriskie Doty has published through
J. F. Taylor & Co. biographical matter
from the davs Of the food which has not before
found its way into print. One Andy it seems, !
a person not mentioned in the older accounts,
was nevertheless present on the Ark. and had
a number OF strange adventures. which Mr.
Doty has now set down, and OF which Louis
N. Glackens has drawn a set of illustrations.
There is a sort Of person who thinks that no
reviewer ever reads book and that no pub
Usher ever unties the manuscript of an I'M
familiar author. Quite possibly, If his true
opinions could be had in detail, it would be
found that in his estimate fisherman ever
went TO sea and NJ butter ever saw a Churn.
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publishing house was exclaining the other day
with some little heat. Il can see how such an
idea might originate" said he. but I cannot
see why it should continue indefinitely. If I
could just have some of these seers in a room
with four walls and nothing else 1 should be
glad 70 have half an hours earnest and con-
tnuous conversation with them. 1t would ease
my mind considerably. Why, II you had any
idea Of the other side of the score! What is an
author to a publisher? A of the necessary
talent to produce stuff that is decidedly worth
reading: not simply worth writing, for per
Eonal satisfaction enters there. but worth read
ing Well, now, when the present familiar
authors are all gathered TO their fathers what
IS 10 become Of the incorporated publishing
houses? The truth is, of course, has been
said often enough, that publishers are on
still hunt for new authors all the time. But
think il Will bear emphasizing 10 point out
that authors, as a class be the most un-
profitable, disappointing workers in existence.
a new writer appears, say, with piece of
work that sets all the office to going about and
patting one another on the back. Nothing is
too good for that fellow; he's the Benjamin OF
the house. Every facility and encourag cement
are rendered him. And what is his return? 1t
happens time and time again that such a man
never writes another chapter worth considera-
ton, though he works like a beaver at ii, and
preserves a lasting impression that publish
ers ought in simple duty to print and sell every
line he is guilty Of That is the one-book author.
We've classified them already. Then there is
the young writer of decided promise, who gets
10 z certain point. after a deal Of nursing and
attention. and never gets further. never man
ages TO fulfil the expectations he inspired. He
nerer understands either, and considers the
publishers q finicky set of raScals who have