New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-03-01
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
CURRENT TALK OF THINGS PRESENT
.HD TO COME.

CURRENT TALK Or liii-N'
AND TO COME.
,..,,,,,sns have in preparation Frederic
nv ..or on Tribal Custom in Anglo
49,, ~" It is supplemental to his previous
80 -, The English Village Community
I'D THE Tribal System in Wales.
orl,, within recent years that the truth as
=. T-r,nress GATHERINGS disposition of her
- peter III. has become known, and the
= an authentic and impartial account of
..,eortlr,ate fgurehoad in The Russian En-
- Mr. r Nisbet Bain has-endeavored to sup
-, - his hook. Peter Ill Emperor of Russia;
Ite Story Of a Crisis and = Crime +. P. Dut-
%. & CO. are about 70 publish it, Mr.. Balm has
written d number Of other BOOKS on Russian
historical subjects. He says
We sin do not know precisely how Peter III
~ go ~ death but that he persisted by VIC
49, t5era can now be doubt whatever.
Moreover, the long debated question OF Gather
ines innocence or gulit can ~ LasI, IN me ngnt
II recently dlsc. 7H 1'' 1i' ''' ~ ~" "a
practically settled.
. ,,cIu7oe Of new stories by Bret Harte. the
-,,Ia If which IS not yet chosen, is announced
Gov spring publication by Houghton. Miflin &
"a They include Colonel Starbottle for the
Plaintiff" An Ali Bahia OF the Sierras" and
The Goddess Of the Excelsior; there are to be
nine in all
The only remaining link needed 70 complete
the chain Of American histories. from the dis
covery Of the New World to the adoption of the
constitution. upon which John Fiske had been
for so many years engaged Is about to he
published by Houehton, MifTiin & Co It is en-
titled New France and New England" and
presents the causes and events which marked
the victory or this continent of the English
civilization over the French.
Miss Jane adams. widely known as the head
Of the Hull House settlement. in Chicago. is the
author Of the next volume in the Macmillan
Conpany's "Citizen's Library Of Economics.
Politics and Sociology" II will he entitled
Democracy and Social Ethics" Its six chap
ters are devoted 10 the various types and groups
who are impeed by the newer conception of
democracy 70 an acceptance of social oblga-
lions involving in each instance new line Of
conduct. She finds that the tentative and actual
attempts At adjustment are largely coming from
the less educated classes in the community.
How IS it." asks The London Globe. that a
firm Of American publishers are permitted 10
initiate q complete variOrum and de1nitive ed-
ton Of FITZGERALD? Why has the club which
PLANTED the Naishapur rosehush on FitzGerald's
grave permitted its somewhat obvious literary
mission 70 be defined and forestaled in New
York"
4 biography Of Helmholtz. the great German
physicist is in course Of preparation by Pro-
fessor Leo K0nigsberger, senior member OF the
faculty Of natural philosophy and mathematics
at Heidelberg and for many years a friend Of
Helmholtz. It is TO be in two volumes. and
VIII be based on Helmhotzs correspondence
with his father and numerous personal and sci
entiic friends and the scientific papers left at
his death; and the author will have the active
cooperation Of the Helmholtz family. The
work is expected TO take two or three years.
Another novel Of the South IS announced but
without any problems of the South and with
only it's local color and atmosphere as adjuncts
az an old fashioned love story" This will be
The Master Of Caxton." by Hildegard Brooks
20 he published by Charles Scribner's Sons, who
also published her Without a Warrant" last
year. Miss Brooks IS a young girl who lives
not far from New-York. in one of the Hudson
River towns Her father owns a large estate
IN Georgia, where the family spends several
months each year. There she has obtained the
vivid Impressions Of the South and its life that
she has reproduced in her work. In fact. the
scene Of Without Warrant" Is said 20 have
been on this estate The new book is not identi-
fed with particular spot in actual life.
Il high time for a book on ping pong.
ana now Z IS coming. Ping Pong TABLE Ten
nisl. the Game and How TO Play It" II is by
Arnold Parker. an eminent English "pongist"-
the proper term. as We observe in some advance
sheets Of the hook-winner Of the Queens Hall
tournament and second prize man OF the Table
Tennis Championship Tournament Of England
g. p Putnams Sons are preparing the book.
The ancient history OF ping pong seems 70 begin
about eleven years 90; the original name Of the
game, Cessna was changed two years ago
10 that which has met with universal
ceptance. At about the same time the seamless
xy!onite balls were introduced:
was found that great skill was necessary TO
pay Well and that the result Of a match did not
depend on the vagaries Of a very badly made
pall. This was about Christmas, 1900. For the
next IeW months every one, more or less played
ping pong. Clubs were formed every
ana then 4 tournament held recently at the
Royal Aquarium, Westminster, for the table
tennis Championship Of London. The entry
enormous, numbering between two hundred and
three hundred
The Macmillan Company has nearly ready for
publication Gertrude Atherton's The Con-
eueror-' This is the true and romantic story
OF Alexander Hamilton" which. she SAYS, has
never yet been told in its completeness. Her ac-
count IS based on research into the Hamilton
family records and the public records Of the
west India island where the wonderful youth
was born and spent his boyhood. Mrs. Ather-
ION says that she has solved vexed questions re-
'a'ing 10 his birth and early years.