New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-20
BOOKS AND AUTHORS
CURRENT TALK OF THINGS PRESENT
AND TO COME

AND TO COME.
The Scribners are keeping their .'O1,+v5srz
Bound edition of Kipling pretty well I'D 70
date. They announce that they have now added
TO this collected issue the latest OF Mr. Kin
ung's novels. kim, 20 be published in the
handsome set soon it be got ready
It will have, the other volumes this edi-
ton have. Illustrations from clay models made
by John Lockwood Kipling. the novelist's
father. OF these there will be ten.
The use OF the English spelling,'-the u
in honour" and other peculiarities that dis
tinguish English usage from American-is con-
sidered = necessity in the printing Of books
that are manufactured in this country. as they
have 10 be for sale in England. in order to
cure copyright. The English extremely
tenacious in their conserva tisn IN these mat
tiers. and publishers are unwilling TO risk Offend
ing English taste by adhering TO American
practices in this regard, while the American
reader is not so sensitive and is not seriously
offended by the appearance on the printed page
OF what is widely regarded in this country
as an anachronisna- Indeed, at least one pub
fishing house in New York uses the English
smelling in all its publications. whether or not
they are intended to be put on the English
market.
4 portion OF the limited edltloA OF b4dAe
Illustrations 10 the Book of Job" has been
secured by the Putnams. and VIII De puollsheo
bv them in this country There are twenty-one
nlares REPRODUCED from Blake's etchlngs by
nbotorray1lre. in the same size as the originals,
as they never have been reproduced before
Copies of the originals are now very scarce
There have been published many lives of
Boone but none in recent years HAD the late
Dr. Lyman Coleman Draper, OF Wisconsin ever
written the huge biography tor which he gath
cred material throughout q lifetime OF la0orlous
collection undoubtedly the last word concerning
the famous Kentucky pioneer would have been
uttered Dr. Diapers manuscript, however
never advanced beyond a few chapters put the
materials which he gathered for this ana many
other works are now in the library or the WIS
consin State Historical Society From THIS MY
Reuben Gold Thwaites has obtained the IN
formation which he has embodied IN ms torth-
coming biography II will be the second in
Appleton's Historic Lives series. MI Thwaltes
is also author OF the first book in this series
the life OF Father Marquette
rr Edward Everett Hale calls his forthcon-
ing hook Of "reminiscences Memories OF d Hun
dred Years" His memory does not extend oack
for quite a hundred years. but his long and as
rirgrfshed career has lasted much longer than
: great fund Of recolIections OF public men and
nuhlic events. The scope Of his life work IS
xbo1-n nv rhe fact that his book opens in the
administration of John Adams and closes in
that Of Theodore Roosevelt There are among
The Illustrations many rare and curious portraits
ans rscsirnTes OF interesting letters. The Mac
milan Company will publish II this fal-
The late Sir Edward Burne-Jones began
Eorz .
his death. for an illustrated edition Of J. W
uaclsirs "Bibna Innocentiur." TO have been
rroduced al the KelrnsCott Press OF the two
hundred pictures projected, many were h"t
finished There were twenty-five, however IN
tended for the Book OF Genesis, that we're so
nearly done that they have been carried out
TO completion with the help Of Mr. Catterson
Smith. These will be reproduced. together win
the text of Genesis. by Doubleday. Page & Co
F Anstey's new book, a Bayard from Ben
GAL soon to be issued by D Appleton & Co
is described on the title page as Being Some
Account of the Magnificent and Spanking Career
Of Chunder Bindabun Bhosh Esq. B A, cam
bridge by Hurry Bungsho Jabber1ee. b A,
Calcutta University. Author Of 'Jottings and
Fittings etc etc, TO which is appended the
Parab les and Proverbs Of PtIjosh freely trans
lated from the Original Styptic by Another
Hand with Introduction, Notes and Appendix
by the above Hurry Bungsho Jabberjee B A.
Shersi is q remote part Of China, plain IN
Northern Asia separated from the valleys OF
the south by mountains weIlnigh irpenetrabie.
Francis H Nichols spent some time there in
missionary work. and described the country and
the people in a book entitled Through Hidden
Shensi" 10 be published by the Scribners- II
is land that has fingered far from the world 5
highways, ami the people have accomplished
much. according 10 Mr. Nichols. who has given
a picture Of them. as he says. sowing, reaping.
toiling thinking and misjudgtng the world be-
yond their mountains as persistently as the
world nlisjudges them"
A seventh revised edition has just been pub
nshed- OF a Century Of American Diplomacy
by John W Foster. Mr. Fosters diplomatic
career is rivalled as TO length of service only by
that of John Quincy Adams. and by none in
variety. Since his appointment as Minister 10
Mexico in 1873 he has been enga ged continu-
ously in the diplomatic service Of this country
President Roosevelt. in a speech last month
at Bangor. took occasion TO speak by name and
in the highest terms of a little book that en-
Of