New-York tribune., 1902-06-21
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
CURRENT TALK OF THINGS PRESENT
AND TO COME.


This week sees the issue of the third in
the Macmillan Company's important American
Sportsmen's Library 1t is a volume on Sal
mon and Trout and the writers collaborating
in it are Dean Sage c. H. Townsend, H NJ
Smith and William c. Harris AS with the
others Of the series, the illustrations form an
important feature of the book and have been
made by A b Frost and others.
The growth Of popular interest in art, and the
desire TO be informed about it is probably even
greater than the interest in music, to which ref
erence was recently made in this column This
is signifed by the rapid multiplication of more
or less popular monographs the subject
The Scribners announce now a new series of
such monographs. on The Makers of British
Art" edited by James A. Manson to be Illus
trated with photogravure portraits and nan
tone and line reproductions of pictures. Inc
aim of the writers is to keep the human interest
we'll to the front, we'll as to appreciate the
men and their works. The first volume, TO be
published early next month. will be on Land
seer by the editor. Mr. Manson says that no
complete biography of Landseer has ever been
written and that after spending a great deal
Of time in search of materials he has come to
the conclusion that the time is past when a
complete biography is possible Other books IN
the series will treat of Constable. by Lord Wind
so-: Millafs by ]. Eadie Reid; Reynolds, by Elsa
d'Esterre Keeling; Romney. by Sir Herbert
Maxwell; Turner by Robert Chigne, and
Wilkie, by Professor Bayne-
One of the most elaborate books Of the season
is now ready for publication by Longmans'
Green & Co 1t is ]. G. Milias's Natural HIS
tory of the British Surface Feeding Ducks III
sumptuous quarto form. with six photogTaVure
illustrations. forty-one coIored plates and twen-
ty-five other Illustrations. Many Of these MI
NIillais who is the son Of the late Engllsh
PAINTER ]. f. Millais. and has some artlstc
ability of his own, has drawn himself. Mr.
NiIIais is a we'll known sportsman. and some
months ago published another elaborate book
on shooting wild fowl. In his preface to this
hook he tells how twenty years ago he bagged
a rare duck and a wader; and looking through
every known book British birds failed 10
find any ADEQUATE description Of them He
says:
Breeding over my disappointment. ] finally
resolved to f1rd out for myself all that was TO
be learned of these interesting creatures, their
IN hits and mode of life, and every circumstance
connected with their periodical changes OF plu-
mage ard then decided l would some day en-
BODY this Information in a book for the beneht
Of other students of natural history FROM tldt
day to this L have persistently laporeo 10 that
end and this volume is the first fruit or my
research.
There are six hundred copies printed Of the
large paper edition. of which only small num-
ber have come to this country.
Walter J Travis author Of practical Golf
and who is amateur golf champion OF the
United States, has about one hundred cups and
trophies which he has won at golf tourna-
roents II IS a problem in Mr.. Travis's house
hold where 10 keep all the silver prizes lie pos
sesses some of which cumbrous in form
biS
nresent time do not give so many such large
trophies as they did year ago. The cups
too often fit the description-"an inarti5tic mon
strosity that is neither food, drink nor good
clothes to wear"-given by Van Tassei sutphen
So there is now variety and more utility
in the prizes offered
Mrs Mary Johnston author of Audrey. Is
spending the summer. as usual, in Virginia 1t
s said that she has begun another book.
THE fundamental principle Of the studies
which submit to the public" writes James
FILLS in the preface OF his Breaking and Rid
ing" published here by the Scrioners, is that
It is necessary for a horse to be correctly bal
anced and light in forward movements ard
propulsion, in order that the rider may obtain
the most powerful effects with the least eXer-
ton. My method Of equitation consists in dis
tribution of weight by the height OF the neck
bent at the poll and not at the withers; propul-
sion by means of the hooks being brought under
the body; and Iightness by the loosening of the
lower law. When we know this we know every
thing. and we know nothing. We know every
thing because these principles of universal
application: and we know nothing because they
have to be applied practically"
The latest addition to Appleton's Town and
Country Library" numbered 313 in that excel
lent series. is w e. Norris's The Credit of the
Country"
A somewhat novel point of view. it is stated,
will be taken in the book on Insurance and
Crime" by A c. Campbell, Canadian writer.
that the Putnans are announcing. He treats
Of the effect upon society of insurance abuses,
with some historical instances. He has been
al work on It for number Of years. and the
different chapters have been carefully inspected
by men prominent in the practical conduct of
different branches of insurance. It is intended
to make the book as far as possible final
authority on the aspect Of insurance Of which
it treats.
The next Of Houghton Miffiin & Co.'S fine
limited editions that have repeatedly had
occasion to speak of in terms of admiration will
be a volume of The Poems Of Edward Row
land Sill II will be made up Of ali the books
of SiITs poems previously printed from the slen-
der volume The Venus of Milo and Other
Poems" published in San Francisco thirty-f1ve
years ago, to the ''Hermione and Other Poens.'
published in 1899, and includes several other
poems that have appeared only In periodicals.
For the first time the publishers say, these
poems offered in appropriate form. The
edition, which is to consist of 500 copies. and