New-York tribune., 1902-04-26


The Brook Book" is making its timely ap-
peafance from the press of Doubleday, Page G.
Co.. as brooks begin to gain In interest to most
people In it Miss Mary Rogers Miller under
takes to give "a first acquaintance with the
brook and its inhabitants through the changing
year" The pictures in the book are striking
being half tone reproductions of photographs
printed in such tint TO convey closely the
illusion of photography
Miss Josephine Dodge Daskam has given I'D
a long cherished ambition for originality in the
matter Of names Since the publication of her
book, The Madness of Philip she has been
greatly in demand to read her stories. One of
the stories which she usually selects to read
is "Ardelia in Already" sketch of little slum
girl who failed to appreciate the delights of
rural life. Miss Daskam is or was particularly
proud OF the name "Ardelia,' because of 1t she
could say. with the White Knight It's my own
invention" Recently she read this story before
an audience in one of the Eastern cities After
the reading large and digniied woman came
to congratulate her.
Il delighted with Ardelia," said the
woman. Where did you happen on the name?"
Il made il up myself said Miss Daskam, with
pardonable pride.
Indeed" said the woman, frigidly. looking
the young authoress up and down, "as if it were
some strange kind of bug. :" she described it
afterward. Indeed" And she strode away.
little later Miss Daskam understood the
reason. for she overheard the portly woman in
diSnantly denouncing her to friend
Says she made the name up herself! Such
impertinerce. Why. everybody knows that
Ardelia has been family name with for
generations."
The conditions In London and New-York
so far similar that there will be not a little TO
interest those concerned with social betterment
here in volume of essays The Heart of
the Empire that f. p. Dutton & Co. pub
fishing. 1t treats of Housing" Children of the
Town" Temperance Reform Distribution Of
Industry Some Aspects of the Problem Of
Charity" Church and the People" and I'm
perialism Past and Future
Longmans, Green & Co. have now ready for
publication a collection Of sermons by the Rev.
Brooke Herford, late minister to Rosslyn Hill
Chapel, London. and sometime preacher to
Harvard University Its title is The Small
End Of Great Problems" which is also the title
Of the first sermon in the book
4 new addition TO the Great Masters in
Painting and Sculpture series of the Macmillan
company Is devoted 10 lou, aiu Is bS
w. Martin sub b-director of the Royal Gallery Of
Paintings at The Hague. Dou has never before
been made the subject of a monograph. Says the
author: While he was not great genius, he
created a style that captivated public taste
Mr Martin has used a number of unpublished
documents and studied the registers of the guilds
at Leyden, whereby he has been able to rectify
some published statements. fill some gaps in
the story Of Dou's life. and correct many errors
in the attribution of his works.
The case for the trusts is set forth by some
of its most practised representatives in The
Trust: Its Book Being Presentation of the
Several Aspects of the Latest Form of Industrial
Evolution" 1t is by Charles r. Flint, James ].
Hill. James H. Bridge. S. C. T. Dodd and Fran
els B. Thurber, with numerous expressions of
representative opinion and a photography
James H. Bridge is the editor.
J. A. FulIer-MaitIand, the critic of THE Lon
don Times &" and the author of several books on
musical subjects writes the first volume in the
series devoted TO modern music that E. Z. Dut-
ton G. Co. have projected. He treats OF Eng
lisb Music In the XIXth Century, and he is to
he followed by others who will discuss French.
German and Austrian. Italian. Slavonic. Scan
dinavian and American music Of the last CEN
an account as exhaustive possible Of the
progress of music and musical knowledge in
these countries. Speaking of the influence OF
Wagner in England Mr.. FuerMaitland points
ont that il never assumed so large proportions
in England in Germany:
AS q domination-that is tyrannous in
fuence quite destructive of originality and para
living TO national art, the Wagner domination
&c Far more strongly felt in Germany than any
ais
something of their own TO say, and a vehicle OF
their own for its expression, have been com
nelled on pain of forfeiting every chance of sue
cess 70 curry favor with the public by copying
wagner's modes of conveying his ideas. In
fact, taking into consideration the different CON
ditions of the two countries, the state or Ger
,nanv in relation the Wagner influence at
present is closely parallel with the state of Eng
land at the darkest moment OF the Handenan
domination
Additions to the vast library of Dante litera-
ture never cease One is to be made by MIR.
John Lane in Dante and the Divine Comedy,
a series OF studies and notes by w. ]. Paying
Wright They intended. it is said. to
serve at once an incentive to beginners and
a help to those who have already been seized
1,,, the charm of Dante The author advances
what is believed to be new theory OF the motif
Of 1.-The Divine Comedy
.e.ar reading Mrs Athertons account OF
Aaron R,rr as he appears in her novel. The
r,onoueror - which is based on the life of Alex
o,der Hamilton one is not surprised to hnd
that some of the old Colonial houses with Whlch
he was identified. and which are stili stanoing'
have the reputation of being haunted Commo-
dore Thomas Truxton's old house. at Cranpury'
~ IN which Burr fed after he had slain
Hamilton. has a secret panel which leads to
bedroom. which again is approached by wind