New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-05-03

fNoDerl Underwood Johnson's COLLECTED
Poems" will be published by the Century Com
pany by the middle of this month. The volume
will be made up OF his previous collections THE
Winter Hour QS92) and Songs of Liberty
uS9O, with new material. including the Italian
Rhapsody" from the March Atlantic" the
ballad Dewey at Manila" and a number of
other poems that have not appeared in any
book
James Bryce will write the introduction to a
book by Irving B. Richman that the Putnams
have in hand entitled Rhode Island; It's Max
ing and Its Meaning; a Survey of the Annals
Of the Commonwealth from Its Settlement 70 the
Death Of Roger Williams, 163G-16S3."
Nine years ago David Copperfeld" stood at
the head of list of most popular novels COM
piled by The Forum" from the special reports
of Librarians all over this country. Since that
time the vogue of Dickens has ebbed and flowed
and is now. according to all accounts, again at
full tide. At the annual meeting of the London
publishing firm Of Chapman & Hall, the other
day, 1t was reported that the works of Dickens
are now having a more extensive sale and are
more popular in England than those of Hall
Caine and Marie Coreln." Whence it would
seem that the Dickens revival" is not confined
to the American side of the water.
last fifty years or so upon the life and work
OF Columbus seems to tend toward diminishing
his standing as a bold and original spirit. Henry
Vignaud, secretary of the United States EN-
bassy at Paris attacks the reputation of the
explorer in volume that E. P. Dutton & CO.
are about TO publish, entitled The Letter and
Chart of Toscaneli." Mr. Vignaud examines
the authenticity and value of the documents on
the route to the Indies by way Of the West sent
in 1874 to the Portuguese Fernam Martins, and
later on to Columbus. and believes that these,
and not original idea of Columbus. were
what gave him the impulse to find Asia to the
west
Sanitation public and private, has become a
subject of the highest importance, for which
vast sums are annually spent; and indeed, the
modern attitude toward the nature causation
and prevention of disease, shown in the passage
Of rigorous laws and establishment OF strict
regulations. has profoundly affected human con-
duct. There is need, therefore, Of an authori-
tative, yet simple compendium Of the latest
views of disease. the germ theory. vital resist
ance, susceptibility, immunity, etc, and this 1t
has been the purpose to supply in professor
William T. SedgwiclIs book PRINCIPLES of SAM
tary Science and the Public Health, with Spe-
Cial Reference to the CausatiOn and Prevention
OF Infectious Disease" The author is professor
or biology ana lecturer on sanitary SCleISt III
the Massachusetts, Institute of Technology The
book is ready for immediate publication by the
Macmillan Company
Edith Eustis" which is the name signed TO
a novel entitled Marion Manning" which the
Harpers will publish about the middle of this
month. IS the pseudonyme adopted by one of
the daughters of Ex-Governor Levi p. Morton.
1t is American novel. with large political
element.
Ten thousand copies Of John Fiske's essay on
Life Everlasting" were taken on publication
last autumn. and two editions have been ex-
hausted since then.
On April 81 Herbert Spencer celebrated his
eIghty-second birthday. and within few days
the Appletons Will publish new book from his
pen-probably his last one-entited Facts and
Comments" He says in his preface that during
the many years spent in writing various sys-
tematic works, there have arisen from time
70 time ideas not fitted, in his judgment, for in
corporation in them. Many of these have found
places in articles published in reviews that are
now collected together in the three volumes or
his essays. But there remained number which
had hitherto not found expression. Some OF
them, in the authors opinion, relatively trivial,
some of more interest and some undoubtedly
important. He felt reluctant to let these pass
unrecorded. and at intervals during the last two
years, at his home, in Brighton, England, he
has been writing them down. This done, he
says: Possibly TO a second edition l shall make
some small additions; but, be this as II may,
this volume l say with certainty, will be
my last" The topics discussed in Facts and
Comments" very various and the treatment
is often quite personal in its nature. "Ameri-
canisms," Presence of Mind" The Corruption
of Music" "Meyerbeer,' The Origin and De-
velopment Of Music" Estimates OF Men,"
State Education" are among his subjects.
Herman X Viele son OF the late General
ebert L. Viele, has written new novel
nounced by Mcclure. Phillips Co II is called
'Myra of the Pnes"-an American story Of to-
Mr.. Viele is known from his former novels
The Inn Of the Silver Moon" and The Last of
the Knickerbockeys."
The next book to be Issued by 4oughton Milf
fin & Co in their notable series Of fine limited
editions will be Henry Fieldings The Journal
Of a Voyage TO Lisbon" which will appear this
month. The edition is to be limited 10 three
hundred copies; a photogravure portrait OF
Fielding. after Hogarth. will form the frontis-
piece of the volume, which will be bound in
rough brown paper boards with cloth back and
paper label, wholly uncut. The choice of this
work for reproduction in such form is good
one, for lovers of English literature have al
ways found much pleasure in this last record
of the author of Tom Jones; Leslie Stephen
saws il testiies TO his indomtable gallantry.
buoyant spirits and flow Of good humor TO the
last
A new "Chimmie Fadden" book will make its