New-York tribune., 1902-08-02

renroductfon in photogravure has been pre-
pared of the designs of William Blake for IL
Illustrations to the Book of Job. The reproouc-
tions are from the original etchings, and are or
the same size the originals. In this form
they have never been reproduced before Inc
edition prepared limited, and part OF II
has been secured by the Putnams for the Ameri-
can market.
1.-THE London Times points out that the war
in South Africa has brought a conslderaoie
literature" IN its wake which. unlike the Wal
itself is not to bc stopped by surrender VI
proclamation. No adequate photography or 'hlS
still inchoate subject yet exists The Brltsh
Museum catalogue is incomplete. The EhslSh
catalogue of books for the last three years ana
the first supplementary catalogue of the Ii
b-ary Of the Royal Colonial Institute. covering
the years 1899 and 1900, at present the
best available means of consultation. rough
estimate by THE Times shows two hundred
and fifty books published the war in Eng
land I'D to the beginning of the present year
This total includes general histories or the cam
paign, personal narratives Of particular opera
tions, fiction, poetry and politics. The siege OF
Iadysmith called out twelve books dealing with
it alone, Mafeking five and Kimberley two.
It developed last season that there no
ton Kingsland was in this extremity called upon
by Doubleday, Page & Co, to digest and codlIy
the unwritten laws the subject. Getting
married is almost as much of art as playing
golf and people who don't know how TO do 1t
properly will find the last word for the present
in weddings" The book is illustrated with
photographs Of large weddings of recent date
TO give an exact idea of how the thing must
be done.
new anthology of Victorian poetry has been
made hv Sir Mountstuart E. Grant Duff, and
will be placed on sale this week by E. 2 Dut-
ron & Co Owing to Mr. Stedman's volume.
which was first in the field being called "a Stc-
torian Anthology a new title had TO be found
for this newcomer. 1t has been dubbed An An
thology of Victorian Poetry"
Leslie Stephens English Thought in the Eigh-
teenth Century is to be issued in third revised
edition by the Putnams in a few weeks. The
edition is in two large octave volumes. with new
material and a new Introduction. The first vol
1Iroe treats of the philosophical basis, construc-
tive and critical deism and the later theology
as represented by Paley, the Unitarians ETC.
The second volume Is devoted to the moral phi
losophy of the time, the political theories, the
various schools of economics. such as the mer-
camille theory the French school and Adam
Smith, and the reaction, religious and literary.
Sir A Conan Doyles history of the war in
South Africa, according to London dispatches
has been translated into a round dozen of Eu-
ropean and other languages, and part of one
edition has been reduced to heiograph signals
This does not that the army is TO keep
1t green in memory during manoeuvres. 1t hap
pened that the Norwegian version was printed
at a press some miles away from Christiania,
where the book issued. A special sreface
was written for the Norwegian version, as had
been the case with all the transations, and had
to be sent in a hurry from Christiania to the
press. But the roads were impossible after a
series OF storms. The telegraph, even the tele-
phone, might have served in this country. But
in a country where the fingers they probably
get accustomed to making use of it.
Archer Butler Herbert Is the author Of ro-
nance of the Far East called THE Queen Of
Queiparte." 1t is to be brought out by Little,
Brown & Co. in September. Mr. Herbert gath
cred the material used while in Corea in 1897
and 1895, as Editor of THE Corean Indepen-
dent and correspondent of several American
newspapers. Mr.. Herbert and his wife at
present on bicycle trip abroad.
Henry c. Shelley has drawn picture of the
poet Keats in Keats and His Circle" which
G. p. Putnams Sons are to publish. The object
has been to present the poet as man. aside
from his literary career. But several points
of doubt in Keatss life that have literary in
ferest have been investigated. and new material
has been used.
Little, Brown & Co. have announced several
new juveniles. "Pansies and Water Lilies" and
The Dolls Journey by Louisa NJ. Alcott, have
been added to their "Children's Friend Series
as have also adaptations by Elizabeth L. Gould
Of Miss Alcott's stories, The Little Women
Play and The Little Men Play" and two books
by Juliana H Ewing, "A Very III Tempered
Family and Snap Dragons" Miss Helen Leah
Reed a graduate OF Radcliffe, writes story for
young girls 'Brenda's Cousin at Radcliffe" :"
which will be issued IN the early autumn. A
new series has been started, the Boys and
Girls Bookshelf to comprise thirty volumes
including stories by Louisa NJ Alcott. Susan
Coolidge Mrs. Ewing. Paula Richards Mary p.
Wells Smith Louise Chandler Moulton, Robert
Louis Stevenson Lily F. Wesselhoeft A. c.
Plympton Harriet Prescott Spoford and Jean
Ingelow.
Doubleday, Page & Co. are publishing new
edition of "A Journey to Nature" and are issu-
ing a sequel In Tangled Up in Beuiah Land"
]. p. Mowbray, as the author Of these books
calls himself is a man well known in letters for
some time retired. and now writing under this
pseudonyme from the secusion Of home on the
Hudson. The earlier of these two books was
account of broker and his young son who
left the city and went to live on a farm in pur-
suit of health. 1t is mainly what is called
nature book" The tangle in Beulah Land has
the qualities of a story. The father and son
have meanwhile returned to town, and this
time it is the son who has TO be taken away:
A. enfYh Yha ooh
change, but from a preoccupatfon the value of
which is nct noeasurab bla i'm dollars and cents