New-York tribune., 1902-12-06

IN their way to Norwich Conn Mr. Harland
has been in England for the last fifteen years.
where he went to get in touch with the move
rnent identified with THE Yellow Book" and
such men the late Aubrey Beardsley. He has
spent much Of his time in the interval in Italy
and France, and has made careful study of
French methods of work.
VIII Carleton, whose latest poems have just
been issued by the Harpers under the name
Songs of Two Centuries is quoted as saying
that the poetic spirit Of the age has gone largely
into fiction, citing 'sBen Hur,'' Lorna Doone''
and some of Dckens's novels as examples of the
uoetic in fiction. He considers that dialect verse
will be more liked by the general of read
ers than the conventional, because of its fresh
ness and greater humanness
Mcclure Phillips & Co. add to the books now
heing issued the Boer war by bringing out
the revised edition OF Sir a. Conan Doyle's
count The matter which has been added
doubles the bulk of the book. and includes the
neriod from the fall OF Pretoria to the close of
the struggle. Many new maps are presented.
"I have been counting up the number CT
juveniles issued this season. remarked a pub
Usher the other day. land find they foot up 10
two hundred and fifty. The season for juveniles
is practically confined to the months of Noven1-
ber December and January, which increases the
crowding. Sometimes I have grave doubts
about these juveniles. Good talent is enlisted in
some cases. especially in the illustrating. But
after all there more than enough juveniles in
existence already which have become something
like classics to make the production o. an in
definite stream of new ones take on a precarlous
look Every style of book has its circle of read
ers: but ordinarily they are drawn from gen
eral lot Of people, say from twenty years 10
eighty years of age. But children give an ex-
tremely short period of their lives to the read
ing of juveniles now. They may begin TO read
with them How long they continue is subject
to Individual variation. But Scott and Dickens
are attacked soon. The inane, inept, dishwater
juvenile is doomed. And the clever, well bal
anced juvenile with illustrations Of q high
tistic merit seems to be enlsting more and more
exclusively the interest of grown-ups-'
Birds and insects of London have been made
the subject of book by T. Digby Pigott called
London Birds and Other Sketches and issued
by Longmans, Green & Co Notes and observa-
tions as far afield the Dutch water meadows
are included among the other papers.
Miss Alice Caldwell Hogan, the author of
Mrs Wigs Of the Cabbage Patch" is to be
married on December is in Louisville, KY.
Miss Esther Singleton has translated book
On Musical Education" written by A. Lavignac,
which is to be issued simultaneously early in
February by Paris house and D. Appleton
e Co.
z P Dutton Co. viii publish on Monday
account of voyage taken by a man of leisure
from London in the capacity of deck hand. He
Con- and
experienced the life of an ordinary seaman in a
sail around the Horn. He describes the vessel
rs -four rnaated windjanmer.'' The narrative
Is written in the form Of a journal A charac-
ieristic entry IS the following:
OF all the jobs on a deep ship. tarring
down Is 1 think the dirtiest. You are sent
aIoft with pot of tar slung round your neck
and bit of a rag in your hand. AS you clmD
about you find your hands, arms ana lace
gradually getting covered with tar: ana Iuig sII
Ter will come down from aloit pretty HeoiiS o1i
tar from head TO foot
Poor old Higgins had bad time Of it. as ne
Is very poor climber. First of all he upset nan
his tar over the nlainsail-a crime which orougnt
down the curses of the second mate upon MIN
and which, if it had happened upon hem e triced
Tp in the rigging for-then he got TO WORK upo. .
himself and upon the rigging OF ehs sp' bs vas
more intent upon tarTing himself tnan oolhs
II must haze taken him nearly the whoie Oh
HE first dog watch to get hirnseh ciedh'
Jobn Burroughs has collected ms essays IN
literary criticism in a volume OF Llteiais
FaIues" which is being published py HouehtoH'
.iiffin & Co.
An authorized edition of the American Laws
oF bridge" as adopted November, 15o2. is an
.,ounced for publication to-day by the scriDheiS
Arthur F,iston publishes through L. c Page q
70 study Of Orchestral instruments ~
Their Use" The whole range OF the his'oS
she snh;act from ancient times TO the present M
set forth. relieved with many anecdotes ol iiusi
clans and composers.
Hsn,l,n Garland is in this city at wore ~
series NJ short stories for Harpers "ee''
ubic, vii, deal with the American lnoian iioii-
an intimate point Of view
The Macmillan Company pubishes tiiis
- -, took on Constructive and Pre-
,.,,i,a ph;lan.hropy" This is the second Noi
Yra IN the series on American fhiidlIeif'
,n the Nineteenth Century, edited py fheiD
6 f-ou,n and is written by the Vlce-piesiu
.. .h nTassachusetts Civic League 1t Is an
aooo,,,. of the change of emphasis opserNaoie
in -buantbropic work away from ineie PC
,,,.so eso-. toward a more practicai hsh'
o~a,~.. ro.;.r need and distress, by pointing tie
,. - .4fsc+sng the means TO general peloei-
roer. of conditions. Such improvements as nave
besn b-o,pbt about in home life, through som
of