Arizona republican., 1902-08-21
BOOK NOTES


 "Trust Finance" by Dr. E. s. Meade, of the University of Pennsylvania, 12mo cloth. is timely volume pub lished by D. Appleton x Co. of New York It is not more than six months since the articles of Dr. Meade analyz- ing the financial methods of the United States Steel corporation attracted the widest attention in the business world. Nothing more searching and brilliant had been written on the subject. They at once elevated pr. Meade to con- spicuous place as an authority on sub jectS of this class He belongs to q new school among writers on finance and economics. In this book, Trust Finance" he examines eXhaustively and in terms understood of the peo- ple," the financing and financial con duct of industrial combinations.
 My Life in Many States and In Foreign Lands. Written in the Mills hotel in my seventy-fourth year." by George Francis Train. Illustrated. 12mo. cloth. is another of Citizen Trains "reminiscences that will be widely read. He has been for more than thirty years one of the picturesque figures in America. All states have known him, and in many he has had his home. There are few lands on the globe to which he has not made journeys, few conditions of fortune he has not eXperi- enced. With a stenographer 1t his side, he has prepared this book during the summer now two-thirds gone. His memory has shown surprising tenacity. his mind a clearness and vigor unusual to one of his age. For a few years past his home has been in the Mills hotel New York city. Here he has shown the same eager outlook upon the world and mans doings in it as wheE he participated in the building of .. railway across the distant west be- came notable figure in the Paris Com- 1nune or sat daily among the children and the birds in Madison Square.
 Now that the golf season in this sec tion is rapidly approaching text book on the subject, written by J. H. Taylor English professional and open cham pion 1S94-1S95 and 1900, will be hailed with delight. It is called Taylor on Golf is published by D. Appleton x Co. of New York and sells in cloth for $1.60 net, 16 cents additional for post age. The views of an eX-champion would command attention under any circumstances. Expressed as lucidly as they are by Mir. Taylor. they are doubly acceptable. MT. Taylor has won the open championship on three occasions, and in golfng skill is second to no pro- fessional of the day. In this timely and interesting book the author has covered a wide range, dealing practi- cally with every aspect of the royal and ancient game. That portion of the book devoted to science and practice carefully details the practical points of the game and it should be noted that the authors views and instruc- tions are the outcome of personal ex- perience and observation extending over a number of years
 That men who indulge in the san guinary fad of collecting human heads should have a "home-life" which is anything but repulslve seems incredi- ble And yet Dr. w. H. Furness, Sd. who lived for a while among the men of Borneo. in his forthcoming volume, "Home Life of the Borneo Head-Hunt- ers" will disclose a home-life. attract i've and lnsophisticated. which, while dominated by superstitious fears stirred by the ever present mysteries of the jungle, bears also many traces Of that folklore which seems to girdle the earth His book will be Illustrated by almost a hundred heliotypes of mi croscopic excellence, reproduced from photographs. By an ingenious device, involving Implications of the photo graphs. he has reproduced the tattoo ing of men and women with vividness which 1t is believed has never before been attained-something which will be of no small service to those who wish to study these intricate and conven- tfonal designs The edition is limited to five hundred copies. It will be one of the handsomest of J. E. Lippincott Company's autumn publications.
 What promises to be the most strik- ing representations of the art of the American illustrator in any novel of the coming autumn is the new book by Cyrus Townsend Brady, to be called "Woven With the Ship" MT. Brady has put a great deal of time on this new fiction, and says himself that 1t will contain some of his very best work, and one short story which satisfied him more nearly than anything he has done vet. The volume will be illustrated with full-page drawings by Christy. I,eyendecker Glackens. Parkhurst and Crawford and each man has been drawn upon for his most characteristic work The volume will have a striking cover design in colors. It is also one of the Lippincott Company's late books.
 Little Brown & Co.'S fall fiction in cludes "The Pharaoh and the Priest. translated from the original Polish of Alexander Glovatski by Jeremiah Cur tin: "Tower or Throne. a Romance or the Girlhood of Elizabeth" by Harriet T. Comstock: "The Shadow of the Czar." by John R. Carling; new edi- tion of "The Coloners Opera Cloak by Christine c. Bush; a new edition of "Miss Belladonna," with additional chapters by Caroline Ticknor: and new book by the author of Miss Too sev's Mission" entitled Faithful