New-York tribune., 1902-12-15

by the J. B. Lippincott Company, has recently
been completed It is announced that In defer
ence to many requests, supplementary volumes
Will be issued containing the Apochrypha
This is the time of new calendars, picturesque
In design and more or less bright in color One
of the very best in the collection before us is
the whist Calendar for 1908" by Miss Mildred
Howers published by Noyes Platt & Co. OF
Boston. A quantity humorous picture, oalntiiy
drawn and delicate in color. is printed at the
top of each page and the rules of the game
are scattered in artistic lettering throughout the
scheme The idea is good one. and 1t has
heen carried out with taste 1.-The Child: A
Calendar, 1903" is published by Charles W.
Beck ir of Philadelphia, for Jessie WILCOX
Smith and Elizabeth Shipper Green. who sup
ply appropriate pictures. printed on six sheets
Of generous dimensions. In addition to these
there is a kind OF frontispiece. also pictor1aly
adorned. The drawings are altogether charm
ing, and they are printed in beautiful colors.
judiciousiy restrained. This, like the whist
Calendar" deserves the warmest approval
From Raphael Tuck & Sons we have parcel
of calendars. big and little. Conspicuous among
the former is one entitled Natures Daugh-
ters" with large studies of feminine heads print
ed in brilliant hues. Floral motives are well en-
ployed in Buds and Blossoms" but this cal
endar is spoiled by some insipid portraits OF
children. \ very effective calendar is one
formed Of q golden bell. surrounded by holly
berries. The same publishers bring out, as
usual a generous assortment Of prettily deco
rated Christmas cards The best OF the publica-
tions Of E. P. Dutton & Co. In this field are
two large floral calendars with beautifully print
ed roses chrysanthemums and so on; a 'Vene-
tian Calendar" with views Of historic build
ings in vivid colors, and wise Saws for 1908,
a sheaf OF twelve pages decorated with uncom-
monty graceful drawings Of children, and very
refined in color.
When a young horse feels his oats he is not al
WAYS in the easiest form for driving. And your
young author may be in an analogous condition
at times. He can express himself not wisely.
sometimes. but too we'll We read in Gouverneur
Morrisis new book, for instance, Of cigar that
''disashed itself" Now there is no reason why
a cigar should not 'fdisash'' itself. Any man
Of ordinary observation has witnessed that per
formance, and has either been set to brushing
himself pondering the waste and de-
cay Of the universe The cigar is not to blame.
and the expression is certainly neat and direct.
Only there is a certain ungentle surprise about
it. The horse took a clean jump but you don't
wish him 10 be jumping in harness You ad-
mire his strength but you apologize for his
manners. And if there is any habit of writing
similar TO boiling We have it further in the
same story. where. after moving scene, a man
takes little boy in his arms while terrible
sobs shook his body. so that it appeared if
he was vomiting" Stephen Crane fond of
this intense sort Of phrasing- One recalls the
mother hanging on the soldiers neck humble
button Now, unless one has a very well
dressed imagination, that Is expressive. But
its fault is that one forgets all about the
mother. and gapes at the expressiveness Of the
phrase. It is we'll be precise, alert, keen.
searching. if you will But why do the young
men so enjoy assaulting the reader over the
head with heavy shillelah. and crying. Now.
then, do you see what 1 mean?'
Charles Scribner's Sons preparing an edi-
tion de luxe Of Henry van Dykes blue Flow
err Five hundred copies will be printed hav-
ing the authors autograph, his portrait and a
picture of his house. The book will be bound
IN full leather and will be ready December IL
reprint Of the Andover edition of 1920 of
Harmons journal of Voyages and Travels in
the Interior of North America is announced by
the New-Amsterdam Book Company. The re-
gion studied lay between the forty-seventh and
hfty-eighth degrees of northern latitude ex-
tending from Montreal almost to the Pacific
The account recites the experiences Of nineteen
years residence in different parts Of the coun-
Try, for the most part among the Indians
The Macmillan Company issues translation
Of selected poems by Victor Hugo. done by Sir
George Young. The translator aims at repro
ducing the effect Of the difficult passages rather
than at a literal rendering.
Anna c. Brackets sTechnioue OF Rest is to
be translated into Italian. The editor of La
Nuova Paroia,' Of Rome. has asked permission
of Harper & Bros. to have the work done. A
translation in French has already appeared.
James L Ford's The Story of Du Barry
prepared in commemoration Of Mrs. Leslie Car
ters performance of David BeIasco's play, is
one Of the holiday offerings of the Frederick A
Stokes Company. The book gives description
of the stage presentment turning the play into
narrative and a the same time going more
fully into the related history of the period
sixty-odd half tone and photogravure repro
auctions of photographs of various scenes
cf the play make the book a good the
much more illusion about It than has its
more defensible than the editions Of popular
novels illustrated with photographs of the plays
which have been based upon them. A frontis-
piece portrait Of Mrs. Carter and another of
Mr. Belasco in photogravure properly in
cluded, their work being referred to throughout
IN terms Of praise Copies of this book were dis
trfbuted to the ladies Of the audience as souve-
Mrs on the opening night last September.
In An Essay on Laughter which Longmans
Green & Co. have published. James SulIy has
made study of the amusing one Of the most
elusive. and, withal, important subjects for