New-York tribune., 1902-03-29
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
cr-sRENT TALK OF THINGS PRESENT
AND TO COME.

italian Renaissance IN England phase of
that great movement which has not been thor
ouehly Illuminated. No account has been writ
ten Of the successive steps by which the culture
Of Italy crossed the Alps, the different directions
II TOOK and the extent Of its influence. He at
tempts 10 supply a link in the chain, to trace
the Italian influence in England from the be-
ginning Of the fifteenth century to the death of
Elizabeth Certain aspects OF this have. Of
course. been treated. Mr.. Enstein undertakes
10 discover common impulse running through
The Italian influences in England, to find at the
universities at court ard among the people at
large the results of one and the same great
movement. The author has made use of original
manuscripts and material drawn from unpub-
lished sources. The plates in the book, which is
published this week by the Macmillan Com
pany are reproduced here for the first time.
It is interesting to note that in the book Of
essays on Schools at Home and Abroad" by
the Englishman, r. L. Hughes, the author takes
occasion 10 say this in his preface
Like all writer's in these fields Of educational
activity. the author feels under special debt
Of Obligation TO the annual reports of the Com
missioner If Education, Washington, L. s. A.
He treats Of number Of educational prob
Iems, from the kindergarten up. f. p. Dutton
& Co. are publishing the book
A usefuI book of reference and quotation Is
William Waless What Great Men Have Said
About Great Men,. that f. P. Dutton & Co. are
publishing The quotations are very full and
include illusions from the earliest to the latest
periods.
Cyrus Townsend Brady's historical romance.
"Hoherzollern," viii be published by the Cent
ury Company next week. with illustrations and
decorations. The scene is the Black Forest. the
tine that Of Frederick Barbarossa. The tale has
appeared in The Century Magazine" under the
title OF "Barbarossa." A dramatzation of it
viii soon be produced. with James X. Hackett
in the title role.
The Doubleday & Mcclure Company, that
was separated a couple of years or so ago into
4 TWO firms of Mcclure, Phillips & Co and
Doubleday, Page & Co, has finally made di-
vision of its books. 1t is announced that among
the principal books that viii be published here
after by Mcclure, Phillips & Co. are The
Gentleman from Indiana" uy Booth Tarking-
ton. The Court Of Boyvlle," by William Allen
White. Lord jim" by Joseph Conrad The
Boys Book Of Inventions" by Ray Stannard
Baker and The Man with the Hoe and Other
Poems" by Edwin Markham. Taken over by
Doubleday, Page & Co. are Bob, Son OF Battle"
by Alfred OIivant; The Days Work" by Rud-
yard kiplins; Captain Dieppe." by Anthony
nope htI Gag lts bS FRANK MOTIFS ana the
series of nature books by Neltje Blanchan in
cludng Natures Garden" Bird Neighbors"
and Birds That Hunt and Are Hunted"
The condensed version" Of Clarissa Harowe
which the Holts publish. seems TO have been
gaining in popular interest, and a edition
Is issued. II Is said to have sold ten times as
many copies last year as the year before.
The true story" of Count Tolstoy's Illness is
told in the current number of "The Critic" from
private letter addressed by one Of his daugh-
ters TO relative in ST. Petersburg. 1t seems
that last autumn, after passing through an at
tack Of malariaI fever and quinsy he went TO
the Crimea for recuperation. His strength came
back 10 him under the influence OF the mild
autumn climate. But the violent extremes of
temperature characteristic of the South Russian
winter-the thermometer, rising to 60 or 60 de-
grees during the day. drops precipitateIy to
degrees in the evening and eighteen degrees at
night-agaiu made havoc with the strength of
the aged author and brought Inflammation
Of the left lung. The Inflammation developed
into acute pleurisy, so that it became i'm
rcrative TO summon specialists from Moscow
and St Petersburs. Scarcely had the doc
tors concluded their first consultation when
Count Tolstny became suddenly Nothing
but the mighty constitution of the patient en-
His strength began 10 come back, his pulse
10 approach the normal rate After a few spells
Of weakness there came on February l.. A seri-
Gus relapse. leading up 10 the crisis Of February
i, from which, in turn, he seems partially TO
have recovered.
The steady demand for popular and intelligent
books music-and sometimes for unintelligent
o. -z-has TO be reckoned with more and more
by American publishers One indication Of this
is the fact reported by Henry Holt & Co. that
Il. c. Bannister's excellent little manual Of
music, though published first a dozen years ago.
is Just now going into edition, its seventh
Mrs Wharton's book, The Valley Of De
cision" has been in larger demand than the
publishers expected Within two weeks its first
edition Of 1000 was exhausted, and they are
behind in filing their orders from the second.
Next week the Macmilians will publish Miss
Jane Addams's Democracy and Social Ethics"
As the head of the Hull House social settlement
IN Chicago Miss Adams has had an opportu-
nifty for observing some of the less familiar
workings and growth of democratic thought
sentiment and institutions from what might be
called the under side.
a book appropriate to the Easter season makes
its appearance with the Dutton imprint in Har-
riet r. Il milton Ki~.,'s The Hours of the Pas
sion The author is known through her book,
''Ugo Bassi's Sermons in the Hospital" which
was widely read on its appearance some time
ago and some volumes OF poems.
The limited edition Of Sir Walter Raleigh's
Last Fight Of the Revenge at Sea" which