New-York tribune., 1902-01-04

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embossed for the blind. has obtained permission
| 20 add William Dean Howellss Literary
| Friends and Acquaintance to the list. The
| books will be loaned to blind readers in this
| State without charge for transportation.
! Mr.. Stephen Phillips's Ulysses is announced
for publication in the spring by the Macmillan
| Company.
Alexander Hamilton seems recently to have
! been discovered" by writer's in search of a
| picturesque and romantic subject An addition
| to several recent books on that fascinating fig
| ure in American history will be made before
! long in Mrs. Atherton's volume. announced by
the Macmillan Company under the title of THE
! Conqueror: Being the True and Romantic story
| of the Birth, Life and Death of Alexander Ham
| ilton, Statesman. Orator and Soldier, Including
| Many Passages in His Career Never Before Re-
| counted"
| William Allen White, who wrote "Stratagems
and Spoils," recently published by the Scrlpners
| does most of his writing in his Kansas home,
| after busy day in the office of his newspaper
Mrs White a slight, dark eyed little woman is
| intensely interested in her husbands work. The
only child and idol Of the household is Little
Bill" who has just learned to walk The nome
is filed with Indian curios and a-orac
which MI White has gathered in his many trips
among the Indians of the plains. On the wall
of his office hangs a letter of introduction writ
ten to the late President Mckinley by Senator
Mark Hanna. which ends with this humorous
postscript, He wants office"
A book by the author Of Social Evolu-
tion," Benjamin Kidd. is announced by the Mac
milan Company. Its title THE Principles of
Western Civilization" seems to indicate that
il will discuss the general subject dealt
with by the authors first much talked of book
Audrey" the latest novel by Mary Johnson,
author of ITO Have and To Hold" which has
been appearing in The Atlantic Monthly will
be published in book form by Houghtou Mf-
fin &, Co. about February l.
The cult for Napoleon does not seem to be at
quite high tide as IT has been recently, but
books about him continue to issue from the
press. The Macmillan Company have two on
their preliminary spring list "A Life of Napo-
leon Bonaparte" by ]. H. Rose in two large
octave volumes, and Thomas E Watson's Ma
poleon Bonaparte: A Biography" crown oc-
tavo volume. Both Will be illustrated
The price Of the definittve and variorum edi-
tlons of The Works of Edward Fitzgerald"
has been advanced by Doubleday, Page & Co.
the publishers. to take effect in a few days The
limited edition on Japan paper has been ad-
vanced from S25 to $50 a volume. and the hand
made papier de Rives edition from SO to S12 90.
There $50 sets special machine made
paper which will still be sold ST. The first
volume will be published February l, and the
remaining six will be brought out as rapidly as
possible.
A revised edition Of the third volume OF Ed
ward Stanton Maclays "A History OF the United
States Navy will be brought out by d. Apple
ton & Co. It was this third volume which
tained the criticism OF Admiral Schley that
brought about the recent court OF inquiry. The
revision is complete. and the edition will be
published before the end OF the month.
Howard Chandler Christy is engaged In draw
ing eight full page Illustrations for Mr.. Majors
new novel. Dorothy Vernon OF Haddon Hall"
II will be published by the Macmillan Company
in the spring.
Rapid progress is being made with the pubIi-
cation of uniform pocket edition of the novels
of George Meredith. undertaken short time
ago by Charles Scribner's Sons. Six volumes
have already appeared, and the nine remain
ing will be brought out at short intervals. They
are bound in red cloth and have Mr.. Meredith's
autograph the side.
Peter III, Emperor OF Russia" is the latest
Russian history from the pen of r. Nisbet Balm
IL Will he published IN this country late in jan
uary by f. p, Dutton & Co. The author SAYS
that most of the biographies of Peter III are
obviously fictitious and that Peters memory
has almost been eclipsed by the extraordinary
woman who suppressed him. Many people re-
member him only the murdered husband of
Catherine. Mr.. Balm finds that he had a good
heart. If his head was weak and that while
unfit to rule empire he was far from being
the Idiot that many believe him.
"A Romance Of the White Mans Burden is
the subtitle which Thomas Dixon, tr has given
to his new novel, The Leopard's Spots" which
will be brought out February l by Doubleday
Page & Co. 1t is said to be an unusually strong
tale of the South, showing the terrible struggle
for existence and the blind cropping for light
which has been her lot since the war There
chapters which deal directly with the negro
question. The novel Is Of considerable length
being divided into three books.
So little IS known about the island OF For
mosa that the volume on that subject by James
w. Davidson. United States Consul there will
be welcome addition to the literature ON
Oriental subjects. He has undertaken to give
"a complete account of it's condition, political
and Industrial" The Macmillan Company have
it in preparation.
The fourth volume of William Laird CIowes,s
history of 1.-The Royal Navy was published this
week by Little, Brown & Co. of Boston II &c
the last but one of the set and contain. De-;