New-York tribune., 1902-12-09

r,rofessor TIeilprfn viii give an account Of the
eruption Of Mont Pelee on August 3d. which
he observed on the spot in the course OF his
description Of his observations in Martinique IL
the book which J. B. Lippincott Co. announce
for publication presently
Ionpmans Green & Co. issuing a treatise
on '"The Composition Of the Hexateuch." by J.
Estlin Carpenter. An appendix on laws and
institutions is supplied by George Hartford
A compilation of religious views and specu-
latior is offered in w. NJ. L. Jays The Kings
Garden; or, The Life Of the World to Come.
cuotations are drawn from a wide range of
writer's On various topics concerned with the
future life Some OF the chapter heads are
The Passing Of the Soul,'' ''The Spiritual
Body" Ranks and Degrees" z. ?. Dutton &
Co are issuing the book.
Leon H Vincent has added volume on
AIollere to his series Of essays on French So
ciety and letters in the seventeenth century
Houghton, Mifflin & Co publish the book
Major 6 H NJ Byers. who contributes to the
Christmas issue Of Harper Magazine a poem
called THE Growing Of the Cock" was the au-
+hor of the federal song in the latter part Of the
Civil War ..Sherman's March to the sea-
Major Byers wrote II while in prison at Colurn-
bia, S c. He had previously assumed con-
federate uniform to escape from the Macon
stockade Escaping also from Columbia, ne re-
4oined the army and served for a time on the
Generals staff He now lives in Des Moines,
iowa The verses he later Incorporated into
long epic, which he called 1.-The March to the
Sea" a less known work.
7 3. Lippincott & Co viii issue shortly an
otber volume Of the variorum Shakespeare.
Haor7 red
the editorship of the son of Dr.. Horace Howard
Furness with his fathers assistance. 1t is the
older Or F1,rness's wish that his son should now
assume the task of individual editorship for the
laborjous work with which he hi self has been
so long identified Horace Howard Furness, jr-'
viii probably present Richard IT. next
IN his historical survey of THE Enemies Of
England" George Peel comes to this CONCLUSION
as 10 future conditions Of nationality;
ENGLAND has led the way in the establishment
c4 Ii}7er+y against any would-b be master; yet Is
freedom working absolutely We'll! Ihere are
free nations in Europe. but each is arming rIlln-
o1slv against each So the question OF the
f1fTlre win be whether nationality is curse or
2 blessing-a curse, If il is 10 break US win
arrnanaents; blessing. If IL can draw new
energies from the human spirit and ind fresh
reefs OF one below If nationality Drove irtcJer-
able after all. viii tear up its title deeds
as surely as they tore up those OF ferdalisn
In that event there would be the -iauger that
the oscillation back TO unity would begin anew,
and thai some fresh conQueror would ProiTer TO
the nations an escape from the burdens Of ra-
tfonality. So that England must not think thai
her task even in Europe. is finally accom-
plished, or that her arm will be invoked no
more
Juliette Larnber, whose book The Romance
Of My Childhood and Youth has been published
through the Appletons, is TO add three more
volumes Of autobiographic material in the near
--d 70 her
literary life There will be another 10 recount
the experiences she passed through during the
siege OF Paris il the days Of the Commune. Her
father held an official post at the time, and she
had many opportunities for observation and for
meeting prominent persons, such as Gambetta
The third volume viii deal with political mat
ters.
A book On the intellectual history of Boston is
offered by Little. Brown & Co. in Miss Lillian
Writings Boston Days" The various move
ments and literary periods which have given
Boston its prominence in letters are studied
The transcendental period when Emerson, Mar
garet Filler, Elizabeth Peabody and James
Freeman Clarke were prominent is such q
division. Another is the time Of great Eliza
bethan thought IN which Lucy Stone, Mrs.
Livermore, Mrs. Howe and Colonel Higgin-
son were active. and still another a sine Of
creative and critical work under Hawthorne,
Lowell Longfellow, DR.. Holmes. Wnipple. Dr.
Hale and Louisa Alcott.
The article in The Quarterly Review for
April last on ''Zionism and Anti-SeTnitisnn' is
being reissued by z. P. Dutton & Co in bound
form. A map OF Europe is included IN the beck,
showing the density Of the Jewish population in
shades Of color.
@. s. Boulger publishes. through Longmans.
Green Co.. volume entitled Wood: a Man
ual on the Natural History and Industrial APP
plications of the Timbers Of Commerce
R. A. Van Niddeldyk, the librarian Of the
Free Public Library al San Juan, Porto Rico,
has prepared a history of that country from the
time Of the Spanish discovery 10 the American
occupation Martin @. BTumbaugh has written
a Introduction and done the editing Mr..
Brumbaugh is at present the Commissioner of
Education in Porto Rico. This volume will be
the third in the Expansion of the Republic"
series, which has been undertaken by the Ap-
pletons.
Archer Butler Hubert the author of the
Queen Of Quelparte" publishes through Lit
tie, Brown & Co., series of monographs six
teen in number, called The Historic Highways
Of America
CALLS PUBLIC GIFTS ENERVATING.