New-York tribune., 1902-02-15
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
CURRENT TALK OF THINGS PRESENT
AND TO COME.

Marconi. the inventor of wireless telegraphy,
will tell about his discovery in book entitled
wireless Telegraphy," that Mcclure, Phillips q
Co are preparing to bring out. 1t IS described
as a popular. not a technical, work, in Whlch
Marconi will explain the principles on winch
wireless telegraphy rests, how his early expert
ments were conducted. and the present standing
of the invention. He has chapter on the posi-
bilities of the future, and gives due creolt TO
the pioneer experimenters in this field OF eectrl-
cal research. There is an appendix giving some
biographical details of the inventors career; and
he is said to have put good deal Of his per-
sonality in the book throughout
The series of articles in The Century" on the
West will number some notable additions in the
next numbers. Mr.. Hough's three papers on
The Settlement of the West are to be followed
by four papers by Ray Stannard Baker on The
Remoter West" with illustrations by MaX1eld
Parrish now being prepared on the ground. Be
tween these two series a number of msceIa-
neous articles on the West are TO appear. The
March number will contain several of these
The Old Regime in the Southwest" by Albert
E. Hyde, setting forth the reign of the revolver
in New Mexico with illustrations by Marchand;
a somewhat similar paper by Bishop t1tzgeralu
of Tennessee. entitled "A California Bandit, re-
counting his three meetings with Tiburcio Vas
quez; d" King James of Beaver Island, pY Eu-
ward Frost Watrous a sketch of a curious char
acter. James Jesse Strang, the Michigan usurper'
an offshoot of Mormonism. who set up little
kingdom of his own in upper Michigan and sue
ceeded for long time in defying the United
States authorities, and, lastly, a personal and
anecdotal sketch of Bishop Whipple. entitled
An Apostle to the American Indians by the
Rev II. P. Nichols. The April number VIII con-
tain a paper by Noah Brooks entitled The
Plains Across with illustrations by Remington
Robert Bridges who has written much under
the pen name Of "Droch' has collected num-
Der of his poems for the first time. which the
Scribners are about to publish in volume en-
titled "Bramble Brae." The verses to be con-
tanned in 1t have been produced within the last
fifteen years; many of them have appeared in
"Scribner's" "Harper's" The Century, The
Atlantic Monthly" and Life" The others are
now first published.
A new volume of verses by Maurice Maeter-
linck also two short plays by him, are among
the announcements of Dodd, Mead & Co
A PRESBYTERIAN divines book on Cardinal
Newman ought TO offer much that is OF interest
on account Of the point of view from which the
subject is approached But in Newman: An
Appreciation by Dr. Alexander Whyte' the
author declares his intention 10 touch upon
nothing doctrinaI. He declares that Newmans
life teaches us to see how hateful is the spirit
of party in the Church of Christ. and how beau
tiful is an open mind and a humble and hos
pitabe heart" His book he says. is for peo- !
PIE who do not know Newman. 1t does not |
purport TO be biography. Much stress is laid |
upon Newnan's literary work, and large part |
of 1t consists of a selection of the choicest |
passages of his writings" The appendix con- |
tains six of Newman's letters not refore pub |
lished. Longmans, Green & CO. are bringing |
out the book.