New-York tribune., 1902-01-11

and as Queen Regent at four different times She
welded more authority than any other English
Queen Regent except Eliza beth and-in quite an
other sense-victoria. Yet little has been known
| of her life before she to England or of her
| experiences before her husbands accession.
| There are a number Of documents reproduced In
the book from the Hanoverian archives and
! never before published. and some hitherto un-
published dispatches of the English ENJOYS at
| Hanover.
| A fresh and comprehensive discussion of Sem
itic historical ethnographical questions is the
| Characterization given to Professor George A
| Barton's Sketch of Semitic Origins that the
| Macmillan Company is to bring out next week.
| 1t seeks to determine the influence of environ
| ment upon Semitic social organization and the
influence of social life religious ideas.
The young Celtic school numbers
| cruit in Charles Kennett Burrow, a young Irish
man who has not written much, but whose
| novel, Patricia of the Hills is said to be of
promi 5e. 1t is to be brought out here this month
| by G. P. Putnam's Sons. and is said to be an
Irish story, dealing extensively but not aggres-
| svely with Irish politics. Irish landlords and
Irish peasants. and full of Irish local color.
| Dr. Conan Doyle is still revising his book, 'The
| Great Boer War" to bring it up to date" and
the thirteenth edition of it has appeared in Eng
| land. If DIR. Doyle expects to keep his work
| revised up to date the chances that he will
| have long task before him.
Once more the announcement is made that
| David Harum' has gone to press again. The
| present printing makes the eighty-eighth. and
| brings the number of copies issued up to the
| total of 537, 900. In this connection the pub
| Iishers d. Appleton & Co. say that the book
| has kept press busy almost continuously
| since they started to produce it: that is, the
printing orders have succeeded each other so
rapidly that the plates have been kept in use
practically without interruption.
A new volume in the Wayside Edition, pub
lished by r. H Russell, will be entitled, Flow
ers from Persian Gardens" 1t is a selection
from the poems of Saadi, Hafiz, Firdusi. Omar
Khayyam and others, made by DR.. Edward 8
Holden. The book will be of the dainty size
and delicate binding that have marked the
earlier numbers of the series. The best transla-
tiOns have been chosen, and for those who wish
to carry their reading further a photography
OF translatOns of Persian poetry into other
languages is given. This volume will also form
the first of a series of projected Wayside de
Luxe editions limited to hundred copies.
The esteem in which lovers of good books in
artistic form hold the limited editions of Hough-
ton, Miffiin & Co. is shown by the records of
their publications of this sort. They report
that they have sold the entire editions OF How
ellss italian Journeys" 300 copies: Fskes Life
Everlasting" go uncut copies of the first edi
ton: Scudders Life of James Russell Lowell"
325 copies: "Obermanns Letters to Friend
300 copies, and Mr.. Browns Letters to a Young
Man About Town." 500 copies. And the edition
OF 500 Of De Maistre's Voyage Autour de Ma
Chambre" in French is rapidly nearing exhaus
ton.
Bran Stoker, IN the intervals OF his exciting
duties as Sir Henry Irvings manager in Eng
land and the United States, turns TO themes Of
a different kind of excitement which he EN-
bodies in novels dealing with deep and dark
mysteries. To number of such that have ap- |
peared from his pen he is about to add another. |
entitled "The Mysteries Of the Sea-" which |
Doubleday. Page & Co. will publish early in |
March.
Work on the dramatization of his Monsieur |
Beaucaire' for Richard Mansfield has delayed |
Booth Harrington in the preparation of his new |
novel, which. however. is now nearly ready to |
begin it's serial appearance in "McClures Maga- |
zine" In It Mr.. Harrington goes back to the
field OF his first success-the Indiana of THE |
Gentleman from Indiana"
Mrs. Humphry Ward has not escaped the
hawkeyed dramatizer He has made stage
version of her last novel, Eleanor" which will !
be brought out In London this spring Mrs.
Wards new novel will be published serially in
"Harper's Magazine" beginning in May.
More than two years ago DR.. Arthur Cushman
McGiffert wrote his book The Apostles
Greed: It's Origin. Its Purpose and Its Historical
Interpretation" but he has withheld Ii from
publication till he should feel himself fully for
titled in a position that might be assailed II
is now announced by the Scribners. 4 few
changes have been made; and of the conclusions
that he has reached at variance with those ac-
cepted by many modern scholars he has given
a discussion that fills the greater part of the
volume
Reconstruction and the Constitution" by
John w. Burgess, professor OF political science
and constitutional law in Columbia University
will form the last of the American History Series
published by the Serbners. 1t is described as
careful study in popular form of the constitu-
after the Civil War. and of the whole contro-
versy between Johnson and Congress- which Is
recounted in great detail. There is also study
of Lincoln's plan of reconstruction as far as 1t
was foreshadowed by what he did. 1t Is said
that Professor Burgess's views here expressed
as to the sufferings of the South. which he de-
clares was much over punished for its action In
precipitating the rebellion might we'll be taken
as in way an offset to the expressions in
his previous books, THE Middle Period and
THE Civil War" to the effect that the South
was entirely in the wrong and without justifca-
tion for it's course.
The Walter Butler who figures in Robert w
Chamberss novel Cardigan" was a real char