New-York tribune., 1902-10-13

he "similar in style" 10 Laug's Prince Charles
Edward" and Osmond Airy's Charles II Is 10
hold forth most attractive promise. The book
viii be published by the Scrihners in two edi-
tions OF 25O and 1.l50 copies respectively, for
the entire world" They viii have fac-simile
frontispiece In coors, thirty other fun page
illustrations and twelve smaller ones.
Professor Barrett Wendell has made three eN-
periments IN dramatic written in the
Elzabethan manner-v enturesome experiments
they may be called in this age and generation.
They are gathered in book which the Serb
ners are 10 publish under the title Of Raleigh
in Guiana" which describes the first play This,
based on Raleigh's works and on the biogra-
phies ~ him. sets forth after the manner Of the
old chronicle histories the incidents which
brought his life 10 close. "Rosamond. based
on q ballad in Percy's 'Reliques" deals with
the story OF Fair Rosamoud's death AZ Wood
stock. The Christmas MasQue" is a Legendary
story, composed for Performance last Christmas
Eve.
Apropos Of tho great strike that is throwing
this country into need and perpleKity, new
edition is offered by Doubleday. Page q Co
OF Henry % Lloyd's account ~ A Country
without Strikes''-that is, of New Zealand. with
its compulsory arbitration law, which Mr..
Lloyd describes in glowing terms
The new addition to the Putnams stories
OF the Nations" series is 70 he William Barry's
book on THE Papal Monarchy. from St Greg
orv the Great 20 Banifsce VIII, 59o-lS0S" The
author is a well known writer on ecclesiastical
subjects. and professor of ecclesiastical history
in the Catholic ST. Mary's College, oscott
England.
The peculiar value Of Ida Mitchell Eliot and
Caroline Gray Soule's book, ''Caterpillars and
Their Moths which the Century Company is
publishing. Is attributed by the publishers 70
the fact that IL contains neither theories nor
Second hand information. but IS a record in
exact statement Of the authors own experiences
and experiments Pictures from photographs
given Hf, size Of forty-three species, to-
ge;her with the larva and the moth in each
The title of Etiquette for Am Occasions" by
Mrs. Burton Kingsland. published some time
ago by Doubleday, Page & CO. has heen changed
20 The Book of Good Manners" 10 m better
into series that Viii now follow d on some
what similar lines The first 10 come win no
''The Book Of Weddings" a complete manual
Of all the propreties in tho complicated details
OF a modern marriage ceremony.
Among the hobbies Of authors none. perhaps.
Is more curious than that ~ Arthur Morrison.
whose novel OF the London sums THE Hole i'm
the WALL" has recently been published Mr.
Morrison spends his leisure moments and spare
cash in collecting Japanese art For years he
has been mousing all over London and although
he is a comparatively poor man, he has sue
oeeded IN acquiring treasures of japanese art
hooks ~ drawings and Of prints etc THIS he
does by frequenting sunk shops and pawn shops
IN the riverside slums. where sailors bring their
oddities collected in foreign lands. and where
in the purchases, knowledge counts for more
than money. friend Of Morrison's who does
missionary work in the slums relates how ne
once saw the author coming out OF a notorious
fence" with an expression Of heatihc iov on
his face
You look as II you'd discovered gold mine"
said the friend.
Better than that" replied Morrison ..r,,-a
3ust got beautiful ivory for six shillings. ana
q brand new incident ror my next book for moth
ing"
That is how Mr.. Morrison combines his rro-
session with his hobbies.
In her history OF the Franciscan movement
entitled sons of ST. francis" which the Put
mans have ready for publication. Anne Mac
Dowen disputes the idea that Francis was the
literal founder of the order. She saws.
he was responsible for its main features and
tormed II such as il has been al any day
after II could he called an organization at an is
far from the truth. AT some kind OF organiza-
lion he aimed OF course: but he was quite in
capable OF forming the complicated machine the
Minorite body became
With the new portion OF the oxford English
Dictionary" which contains the whole OF @ a
beginning is made OF Volume VIII The forth
coming section has been prepared by Mr. W A
craigie, and, as IN former sections. the number
Of words recorded and illustrated by quotations
Is very great Comparatively few OF the words
beginning with Q in English are OF native
origin.
Ia view OF the announced determination OF the
dealers 10 make feathers take an extraorai
nary part In the coming seasons millinery"
'Bird-Lore" Macmillan Company. the official
organ ~ the Audubon Societies. sounds a rally
call and urges a more strenuous warfare aEasns,
the destroyers Of birds. The attention given 10
tho work OF the Audubon Societies by the nniUi-
merry trade journals apparently shows that the
efforts ~ the bird lovers not without their
influence on the trafhc in feathers As a substi-
tute for birds one dealer offers fish, 'the latest
Partisan creation
Mereikowskis book ''Tostoy ss Nan and
an Artist, with Essay on Dostoievsli" !"
which the Putnsns have nesrlv ready for pub.