New-York tribune., 1902-12-29

grew in and shower" She added this note
The first suggestiol (afterward. of course, en-
larged and altered of the character of Audrey.
and hence of this book was drawn from the
above lines of Wordsworth
A holiday book of poems is offered by the j
X Gill Company of Portland. Ore, in THE
Sorrows of Cupid" by Ella K. Dearborn. The
author is a physician of Portland. Illustrations
are supplied by Eva Ford Cline
Mrs Mary Stuart Cuttings book of Little
Stories of Married Life" shows plainly that she
aims at lfghtness of touch This makes it the
more interesting to know that one of her hrst
attempts was in the nature of lurid sort of
melodrama. Mrs. Cutting, however did not sit
down in cold blood % the composition of a blood
curdling story She took genuine interest in
her characters and maintained a certain SYM
pathy with them until experience more often
heard of in more pretentious work hefeH her.
The villains and base schemers of her tale peeah
TO assume vigor of their own. and plunge her
into crime which she had not anticipated The
story was running along smoothly enough. and
the publishers appeared to be pleased. but the
author stood somewhat aghast at the forces she
had set IN motion How to get the upper hand
in such case may sometimes be a veXlng ques-
ton: but in this manner of tale an author has
began to show themselves blacker than she had
painted them, Mrs. Cutting simply brought
them all TO a sudden and untimely end by vari-
Gus means not unaffected with some spirit of
personal revenge. The incident recalls the novel
Henry Ward Beecher wrote. which became SO
complicated with social ramifications the
story advanced that the author was fain to
seek relief by decimating his list of dramatis
persona in n frightful railroad catastrophe An
opportune railway wreck has its advantages at
times in fiction and the wish will not down that
some novelists would invoke IL frequently.
The Macmillan Company publishes for the
American Club of oxford pamphlet giving in
formation about Oxford 1t has been prepared
by Louis Dyer for the Of students in the
United States of America and in the British col
onies," and is called oxford 1t Is Guide to
Rules of College Residence and Requirements
for Degrees
Mrs. Wigs reappears in a serial contribu-
ted by Alice Caldwell Hogan to THE Century.
opening in the January number. The story Is
called "Lovey Mary" and introduces new char
acters. though the lady of the cabbage patch
cannot be ignored.
A new volume in the STORY of the Nations"
series which the Putnams conduct, has been
written by S. Lane-Poole on Medieval India
Under Mohammedan Rule: and another. on
Buddhist India" by T. W. Rhys Davids, is
nearing completion. Mr.. Lane-Poole's volume
will be published in January.
The Macmillan Company republishes. with a
preface by Mrs. Richmond Ritchie and with the
illustrations done by Lord Leighton, Adelaide
Sartoris's "A Week in a French Country
House."
The secretary of the Episcopal House Of
Bishops the Rev. DR.. Samuel Hart, now head of
the Berkeley Divinity School at Middletown,
Conn, and formerly professor in Trinity College,
has prepared a book of Family Prayers. which
Longmans, Green 6t Co. are about to issue. The
need was felt for 2 book which should be SER
viceable without being too crowded. This vol
ume will contain prayer for the morning and
evening of each day in the week
The book college settlement work in Bos-
ton. by Robert A. Woods, called Americans in
Process is said to have caused quite tempest
in teapot. 1t was reported in some of the
newspapers that local politicians were much
aroused and had threatened to bring suits for
libel. The suits have not been brought beyond
the newspaper columns and, of course. the
sales of the book have not been disadvantage
ously affected by the timely episode.
The Baroness Hutten. author Of Our
Lad of the Beeches,' published by Houghton.
iffin & Co. arrived in New-York this week on
the Trave. She will visit some friends in Boston.
Herbert Maxwell has written a history of
the exploits and achievements of the British
oldiers in various campaigns from the days of
Agincourt to the more recent campaigns in
India. The book is called British Soldiers in
the Field and s published by Longmans,
Green Z Co. Speaking Of the change that has
come over the m~nual, and especially Of the
manner of issuing commands, he says:
There was word of command which ought
never to have been suffered to fall into disuse-
Take heed" is far more effective than its
modern equivalent, Attention." which is not
easily rendered impressive, but generally re-
solves itself into the sternutatory monosyllable
'Shunt' If the field movements were
few and simple the same cannot be said of the
manual. firing, pike and grenade exercises. In
the modern firing exercise half a dozen short
words of command suffice to call company
TO attention, load, fire and stand at ease, but
it was serious and elaborate business when
Marlborough was regimental officer, requiring
no less than forty separate orders Thus,
'.NIusketeers, take heed to your exercise, Joyn
your right hand to your muskets! Poise your
nuskets, Joyn your left hand to your Inuskets,
Handle your matchesi Blow your matches!
Cock your matches! Try your matches!" and
in the text with minute instructions. The
match tickle affair, especially in wet
weather.
Frederic Remington and his wife will leave
New Rochelle for the present, where Mr.. Rem
ington has his home and well known studio
full of frontier properties and will spend the
remainder of the winter in California.
Doubleday Page 6, Co. will have ready early
In the year Helen Keller's autobiography, which
she calls 1.-The Story of My Life She was said
to be averse to writing the book But she had
been possessed of an ambition to acquire small