New-York tribune., 1902-08-04

A Mcdonnell has turned attention 10 lht
disciples of St Francis Of Assist in oooA 10 pe
Issued by the Putnams entitled Ihe Sons oi d
Francis" The plates illustrating II nave OeeH
nnenared from originals which rank high IN arr
works of the period.
John Ffske left two volumes of essays READY
for n,.bljcation being his only posthumous
work completed and ready for the press He
WAS an energetic worker, and had other ma
terial in preparation, but at the time OF MS
death this was the only manuscript which ne
had carried 10 the final stage The essays VIII
be published by the Macmillan Company in the
early autumn under the title Essays: Historical
and Literary" The contents of the two volumes
viii be: Thomas Hutchinson, Last Royal GOV
srnor of Massachusetts,; Charles Lee, the Sol
dier of Fortune Alexander Hamilton,
Thomas Jefferson. the Conservative Reformer:
James Madison, the Constructive Statesman;
Andrew Jackson, Frontiersman and Soldier
An American Democracy Sixty Years Ago,
-sTippecanoe and Tyler Too" Daniel Webster,
.-Old and New WAYS OF Treating History, The
Boston Tea Party Evolution and the Present
Age" John Milton The Death Of John Tyn-
DALI" ''Koschei the Deathless.' The Makings OF
New-England Town." "reminiscences of Hux-
ley" THE Fall Of French Power in America
and Connecticut and the Federal Constitution
Winston Churchill last week at Cornish, N H.
announced himself a candidate for the legls-
lature 1t seems to be taken for granted in
the dispatches that have come out Of Concord
that after the November polling the author OF
.aThe Crisis" will be the Representative-elect
from Cornish. It is hinted that he has his eye
on Congress. The announcement of his candi-
dature was made at e reception given by Nj
and Mrs Churchill at their summer residence,
Harlaken6en House. on July "a. Augustus St
Gaudens Maxfeld Parrish and l. E Shipman
among others, present, and the announce
rnent is said TO have been received without great
surprise and with no little enthusiasm
H-strdies Of a Biographer" as the collection of
Leslie Stephens critical essays is called viii be
rublished in the fall by the Putnams- Among
the titles in the two volumes are The Brown
ing Letters" John Donne." John Ruskin.'
william Godwfn's Novels Walter Bagehot'
and Thomas Henry Huxley
The Putnams are publishing a new book on
Robert Louis Stevenson This is an essay, more
of a critical than personal estimate, by Leslie
Stephen and will be published in September in
the Ariel Booklet Series"
z. P. Dutton & Co are bringing out book
which has had pleasant reception in London
II is called Studies in the Lives Of the SAINTS
and is written by Edward Hutton. The saints
he has elected to study make an interesting
company-St. Augustine, st. Benedict, St Ber-
nard St Dominic, St Francis OF Assist, the
Blessed Angelo of Foligno, St Catherine OF
Sena, ST. Catherine Adorni, St Ignatius 10y
ola. St Teresa, ST. John of the Cross and St
Rose Of Lima. The book. which is light ana
small. is attractively and simply bound and
rrinted in clear type
As5s we'll known the Rev Dr. Minot ]. Saw
age is deeply interested in the spirit world Dr.
Savage makes a distinction between spiritual
ism" and "spiritism' to the benefit of the latter
In book TO be published by the Putnams,
called "Spiritism or Telepathy?" he discusses
the question with frankness and fearlessly- 1t
is a consideration of a number OF experiences
the results. as the subtitle has it, Of psychical
research. The instances which are authenu-
Gated are held by the author TO be Of 'spritfstfc
revelation or communication
short collection of representative songs is a
difficult thing to attempt, but that never deters
the editor Of courage nor seems to stem interest
in the result Love songs are offered now, hne
knacks for ladies' cheap, choice, brave and
new" but not new, either, unless the tradlton
that the theme never grows old is as SOUND as
lovers nretend for these are Tudor and Stuart
love songs J. Potter Briscoe has done the edit
ing and selecting. and James Allan Duncan has
done the decorating and marginal and initial
embellishments. The book is a handsome ahalr.
with full black type and wide margined deckei
edged paper. and is being put on the market by
z. 2. Dutton & Co.
.aThe pseudonyrnous author" said publisher
the other day seems to be having his fling.
There is quite list of books. If you count them
ND offered to the public under fictitious names
In some cases there is good and sufficient reason
FOR It. If the subject Of book makes il i'm
possible or in bad taste for the author to aVow
himself and yet the book itself is one that the
public ought to have. the pseudonyme Is a nat
ural and proper thing. But II may be questioned
how far ii is a good thing TO use a false name
s,naply for the sake of doing so, simply TO set
,aonle 10 wondering who the author may be.
simply to advertise the book This is done over
and over again and it is rather a cheap trick.
And yet it has good point TOO often over
hooked. It may make people read the book just
"a, voya-e of discovery, but It does put them
,n tte,r rnettle when II comes to Judgment.
Every reader has to have mis- criticism ready
these days People are continually asking
whether YOU have read this. that or the other
II you say no. you are an object OF stupeneo
pity and you open to the annoyance OF De-
ing instructed as 10 the books good points If
YOU say YOU have read il. you must have your
opinion ready churned and patted- You cannot
take refuge, even in this busy age. in the school
girls lust lovely" in the contemptuous
schoolboy's rotten nor yet in the typical Eng
ltshrnan's not half bad You must be prompt
with a digested discrimination. It may be idi-
otic as q serious criticism but il he terse,
clear and rather interesting Now if the book is
by an author with an established reputation,
Won NAV talk about his method. his mental attf-
tude his this and that. But if your author is