The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-05-22

embroiled in a love affair with duchess, niece of the Grand Duke Casi- mir whom he accidentally meets at Paris modiste's and who, after surprls- ing adventures, escape together on racing automobile, "HarWicke." by Henry Edward Rood, a romance or young minister, the scene of which IS laid fifty miles from New York. Tine Meditations of an Autograph Collect or" by Adrian H. Joline, which is re- garded as one of the most original books published for some time and is illustrated with 9portraits and tac- simile letters and autographs.
 c. P. Putnam's Sons are planning the publication, in two volumes, of an An thology of Russian Literature" by Leo Wiener, professor of Slavic languages in Harvard university The author has already published Gin English) works from the minor Slavic languages-ser- vian, Croatian, Bohemian, etc.-and is the author of the History of Yiddish Literature" and Songs of the Ghetto" These publishers will bring out in early autumn third volume of the works or Peter Rosegger, now ranked among the foremost of German novelists. While he has written many books, so far only two have been translated into English, "The Forest SChoolmaster' and Ihe God-Seeker." The new volume, Ihe Earth and the Fitness Thereof" is in line with these volumes in thought and interest, and will be portrayal of a "return to the sofia portrayal of the joys, sorrows and drudgery among the Styrian peasantry. A work of very con- siderable importance to be published by this house at an early period is "A Po- litical History of Slavery being an &C., count of the slavery controversy rom the earliest agitations in the l8th cen tury to the close of the reconstruction period in America The work Is written by William Henry Smith, identified with the abolition movement before the civil war and active in the formation or the republican organization Tn Ohlo' l During the war he was private secfe- tary of the governor of Ohio, and later secretary of that commonwealth Sub- seouently he became editcr, and at length general manager of the Assoctat- ed Press, but he has kept up lifelong study of the slavery question and the problems it involved. The work is pub
 
 introduction by Whitelaw Reid.
 Little. Brown x Co., (Boston) will bring out at an early date this summer several new books of fiction: "A Girl of Virginia" love story of the unver- sity, by Lucy Meacham Thruston; "The Queen of Quelparte," by Archer B. Hull bert, "A Maid of Bar Harbor," by Hen rietta G. Rowe, and "Lafitte of Louisi-
 n nt1 and Down the Sands of Gold. In the "Badminton library of sports and pas times" they are publishing volume by Alfred Harmsworth Sir Henry Thomp- son and others, entitled Motor Cars.
 Among new books from the Macmil- Ian company is A University Text Book of Botany" by Douglass Tough ton Campbell professor in the Leland Stanford, Jr, university; the second volume of George Brandes Main Cur rents in Nineteenth Century Ltters- ture, :" this volume treating of 'The Ro- mantle School In Germany QS7S) and "The English Chronicle Play" study in the popular historical literature en- vironing Shakespeare, by Felix E. Schooling, professor of English litera- ture in the University of Pennsyl- vania.
 Great praise is awarded to the latest important volume dealing with the East, "Constantinople and It's Prob lens" (F'lemng H Revell company, of which Henry Otis Dwight is the author In it's broadest sense this is a sociologi- cal study, a study of a city of almost unioue character it's peoples, customs religions and progress, and especially of the practical side of a remarkable religion.
 Current History for May has short sketches of the new secretary of the navy. Cecil Rhodes and the young king of Spain, followed by an article on "The Indians as Farmers" Besides the various papers showing he aspect of the times in the various parts of the world, for example in South Africa, in China in Cuba, and so on. there are papers on pr. Loebs investigations, so- biological topics, art music and the drama, and concise review of some of the new literature.
 ''Trolley Exploring" is the title of an attractive little book in paper cover Of nearly 100 pages, issued by the Brook lyn Eagle. This is an invaluable elec- tric railroad guide to historic and pie turesaue places about New York, cov- ering the Long Island, Staten Island and New Jersey fields. and the routes through revolutionary Westchester and also gives information concerning the trolley trips to Boston and Philadelphia, together with a review of the long dis tance trolley roads of the country with maps and many illustrations accom- panying. It is vol r, No. 6, serial No. 65, of the Brooklyn Eagle Library and is compiled by Cromwell Childe. Cop ies may be obtained of the Brooklyn Eagle at the trifling price of ten cents Apropos to this valuable publication is the following from the Eagle:
 A new race may be expected to spring up in Brooklyn and Manhattan soon--a race of trolley explorers.
 As all Gaul was in old times, divided into three parts, so are the cities on New York Bay surrounded on four sides by plains and hills and Klleys, even mountains, rivers and inlets. For thir- ty miles or more, outside of the other miles of brick, mortar, wood and stone.