New-York tribune., 1902-02-08

and the New South of the present that mas
hitherto escaped the attention of the novelist
This is the period in which Mrs. Mary Tappan
Wright has placed her novel. Aliens" that the
Scribners have in preparation. 1t tells Of
group Of Northern people who go into the heart
Of the South and is a study of the social condl-
tions and of the play of character of the North
ern and Southern people in contact, Mrs Wright
who is the wife of Professor John Henry Wright
professor of Greek and dean of the Graduate
School of Harvard, wrote "A Truce, and Other
Short stories" that appeared not long ago
Latin versifcation is an accomplishment OF
MANY scholarly men of letters in England. where
it is an essential part of regular classical train
ing What they can do with modern Engllsn
poetry in this way will be seen in the second vol
ume of 'Floregium Latinum," which John Lane
is about to add to his "Bodley Head Antholo-
gies" The first volume included Latin transla-
tions from the period of Wordsworth and Lam
dor; this is from the Victorian poets The col
lection is edited by Francis st. John Thackeray
and Edward Daniel Stone.
1.-THE Rescue" Miss Annie Douglas Sedgwick's 8
five part novelette, that has been appearing in
THE Century" will be published as a book by
the Century Company in the spring.
The Rev. Thomas r. Slcer's book, "One World
at a Time" is TO be published soon by G +.
Putnam's Sons. The author calls it "a contribu-
ton to the incentives Of life and has been
moved to write it by the belief. first. that too
many people regard life as important only in
perspective and that the present business is to
focus effort upon the life that now is; and
second. that too many people are holding on TO
life because they fear to let 60 and are lacking
in incentive and initiative.
The fourth edition of Jacob A Riiss 1.-The
Making of an American is on the press
though it was published little more than
month ago One OF the interesting bits Of news
about it is that an edition for the blind Il now
being prepared by the State of New-York. Few
books receive this honor soon after they are
issued.
f. p Dutton & Co. bringing out a volume
on Early Christianity and Paganism' by H.
Donald NJ. Spence. dean of Gloucester, England.
1t covers the period between a. D. 64 and the
Peace of the Church" in the fourth century.
and is based contemporary records. There
Will be many Illustrations
A new volume by Paul Laurence Dunbar is
announced by Dodd, Mead & Co. a novel de-
voted to negro life in the South, entitled The
Sport of the Gods" 1t tells of the misfortune
and unmerited disgrace of Berry Hamilton. an
emancipated slave sentenced unjustly for steal
ing money lost in gambling by his former mas
ter's brother He is released from prison when
the truth is discovered. but finds his children
gone to the bad, and his wife. believing herself
divorced by his Imprisonment. married to an
other.
Doubleday, Page & Co. will soon publish
eral new volumes in their Masterpiece Ii
brary." for which they report a large public
rba ha
Emerson. Goldsmith, Johnson, Bacon. Milton
and Swift, making the entire series. which is
edited by Bliss Perry, eighteen volumes.
BibnophiIes will find matter to interest them
in the Selected Essays and Papers OF Richard
Copey Christie who had himself a unique col
lection OF books, and wrote on rare issues with
authority. He was English scholar, and
wrote not only on photographed topics. but
matters relating to the Renaissance in Italy.
Longmans, Green Co. publish the book.
Cardinal Gibbons. Bishop Potter. Carroll D.
Wright. Henry D. Lloyd, Samuel Gompers.
Jacob a. Riis James B. Reynolds. Everett =.
Wheeler and others. forty-hve in ALL contribute
TO the volume on Labor and Capital; Discus
sion Of the Relations Of Employer and EN-
ployed." that G. p. Putnam's Sons have in
preparation. The papers cover the whole range
OF present day economic problems, such
trusts and labor unions. their benefits to both
Sides their legal aspects, control by the egisla-
lures, financial responsibility of labor unions.
their Incorporation, conciliaton and arbitration.
trade agreements, labor bureaus. etc. There is
an introduction by the Rev. John P. Peters.
The picturesque and romantic time OF Anthony
Van Dyck's residence in England is taken as
a background for a story. "Old Blackfrlars," by
Beatrice Marshall, which is suggested, she
avows, by the tale OF the friends Leontine and
Eudoxius that Addison tells in the 123d number
of The Spectator She has drawn the facts
of Van Dyck's life from authoritative biogra-
phies, and the illustrations include eight repro
ductions of that painters English pictures
The Hollis say that they issuing a third
of Debate" book in which he takes up, in the
most systematic way, all the different elements
that go to make successful debating.
Professor JohE w. Burgess's book Recon
struction OF the Constitution" will be published
at once by the Scribners. 1t brings the history
of the United States down to the Inauguration
of Hayes and the withdrawal of the United
States troops from the Southern States. The
book completes the American History series
that the Scribners have been publishing, CON-
prising Professor Fishers THE Colonial Era"
Professor Sloanes THE French War and the
Revolution" General Francis A. Walkers THE
Making of the Nation" and Professor Burgesss
three volumes THE Middle Period" THE Civil
War and the Constitution" and Reconstruction
and the Constitution