New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-05-31
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
CURRENT TALK OF THINGS PRESENT
AND TO COME.

CURRENT TALK OF THINGS PRESENT
AND TO COME.
The Forum" which has long been one of the
most substantial of American monthly maya
zines will. with the appearance of the July num-
Der, cease it's accustomed monthly visits and
become a quarterly. The general character of
the magazine will be the same heretofore,
the publishers announce. but its purposes
will be more specifically those of a review and
outlook In order that the material may pre-
sent the proper perspective. the magazine Will
be conducted in departments. each being in
charge of a special editor. The following de-
partments are al present contemplated Ameri-
can politics. foreign affairs. finance and eco
nomics science invention and engineering,
music and the drama literature art educa-
tional events and educational research. This
last, it is said. will represent novel feature
in the field of educational literature and will
contain the results of the Investigations of the
editor, who is continuing his research, and
of other investigators who laboring on sim
liar lines.
An amusing illustration of how greatly the
approaching coronation is absorbing attention
in England is shown in the columns of The
Guardian" the chief English Church paper gen.
orally wholly devoted to the minutest concerns
Of the clerical profession. There articles
about the proper way to celebrate in large
towns; in towns of about fifteen thousand in
habitants; in small towns. with sample hymn;
directions for giving tea for all the old people;
how to celebrate In a small country parish;
various kinds of village festivities; the require
ments of tea for five hundred people at seven
pence a head the same for dinner for fifty
old people; the coronation service; notices
of new books about or bearing on the corona
ton; notices of music appropriate for the day,
and. finally, the most marked innovation of all
in the dry dust columns of The Guardian
a practical guide to building peat bonfires. with
cuts showing the ground plan section and eleva-
ton of such bonfire.
The intimate home life of far away Kentucky
village is portrayed in Mrs Nancy Huston
Banks's novel. "Oldfed.' which is about
to appear with the Macmillan imprint. II is
not historical novel. though the beginnings of
the tale look back to the romantic period when
the early settlers came and the quaint. isolated
village has continued 10 stand STILL wholly I'M
altered and far removed from the rushing
changes of the great world. The even tenor Of
its way is changed by the appearance of a
young man who. although from the same stock
has been reared and educated in distant city
under widely different and more modern COndi-
tons
There are number of features OF the present
day periodical that are quite unsatisfactory TO
librarians. and the American Library Associa-
ton has had a committee at work for some time
looking toward more uniformity and proprety
in this matter. After much mature considera- /
ton the committee has issued a memorial TO |
publishers. embodying these recommendations |
TO the printing Of periodicals: Title pages |
and tables of contents should always accom- !
and
the first number of the new volume title pages
and contents should be furnished with every
copy of the issue of a completed number; title |
pages should be printed a two four or eight !
leaved section, separate from other printed mat
ter either advertising reading the section
comprising title page and contents Cor index
should be secured by pastng stitching to the
number which It accompanies. and not be sent |
Valid in loose; in where II is practically i'm
possible to furnish title and contents with the |
completing number of a volume such a separate |
section is described should be made and fur |
nished with the first number OF the vol |
ume stitched in at It's end. not at its beginning. |
These recommendations are signed by William |
J. Fletcher librarian OF Amherst College; Ar |
thur c. Bostwick, superintendent OF circulation. |
New-York Public Library. and Ernst Lemcke. |
of this city.
"One of the most original characters OF her !
epoch. small genius but adventurous and /
picturesque one" is the characterization given |
Of the daughter OF CASTOR of Orleans. the niece !
OF Louis XIII. described in Nine -Arvede Ba- !
rne's book. The Youth OF La Grande Made !
moselle." The book has aroused little inter
est in Paris, for it is said to be interesting |
and entertaining account Of La Grande Made |
moiselles period and of her personality. An !
English translation of it by l.. c. Meyer is to be |
published by the Putname. Her agitated exist |
ence was a remarkable commentary on the pro-
found transformation accomplished in France !
toward the close of the seventeenth century
Another addition has Just been made to the |
great library of Boer books. 1t is called |
Tommy Cornstalk: Some Account Of the Less !
Notable Features of the South African War. |
from the Point of View of the Australian |
Ranks" by J. II. NJ. Abbott, late corporal of the
LIST Australian Horse who publishes his book on |
the ground that the Australian soldier has not |
yet had his say" Among Australian nick
names. Tommy Cornstalk" applies 10 the ma |
tIves of New South Wales. who have acquired |
a reputation for lankiness and witness. Long |
mans, Green & Co publish the book which is |
by the way, the seventh bearing their imprint |
and relating to the conflict in South Africa.
NiTginian" thus:
To Theodore Roosevelt: Some of these pages |
you have seen. some you have praised one |
stands written because you blamed 1t; and |
all. my dear critic beg leave to remind you of |
their authors changeleSs admiration