The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-09-05
Other Books.

The volume on Central Europe in APP
pleton's World Series is by - competent
authority Prof. Joseph Fartsch Of the Uni
versity of Broslau The translation from
the German is by Miss Clement inc Black;
it has the fault Of being too literal at times,
which gives the English curious Ger
man turn. Prof Partsch's original IVES 90
long for the purpose OF the series and had
to be abbreviated. In the German edition
it will appear in full. The region covered
includes not only Swift zerland, Germany
and Austria Hungar?. but the Balkan
States north of the Danube. AS in most
modern Biographies, and in this series
particularly, great stress is put on the
geology OF the region.
A permanent record of Pope Leo XIII s
active pontifcate of twenty-five years,
that Catholics and many non-Catholics, too,
will DO glad to poesess. is provided in
thick volume, THE Great Encyclical
Letters of Pope Leo MIL (Benziger
Brot hers) The letters are translated by
various hands, he Rev. John J. Wynne
s. j., furnishes a short but instructive
preface, and Archbishop Farley gives his
imprimatur.
Among the sanitary MEASURES that all
overcrowding civilization has forced upon
us none perhaps appeals more strongly
to our fears and our habits than those taken
to insure the purity Of milk The old
fashioned drink fresh from the COW
would fill with qualms generation fed
from the sterlized tottle. In Clean
Milk" CThe Hardy Publishing Company,
DR.. S. D. Belcher of the Board Of Health
tells of all the elaborate precautions
taken, or that should be taken, in con-
veying milk from the distant COW to
urban lips and enumerates the dangers Of
pollution to which it is subject In transit
In an introduction Dr. w. Fl Park of Belle
vue Hospital, breaches once more the
gospel Of anti-dirt and of extreme caution.
A sensible and timely counterblast to tho
tuberculos panic is DR., Laurence Z. Flick s
Consumption Durable and Preventsble
Disease" David Mckay, Philadelphia }
Without in the least detracting from the
importance of modern meteorological
research, DR.. Flick points out that con-
sumption is cosval with man, who has
managed to get along. withstanding
He lays proper stress on the value Of nutri-
the disease and shows the many ways In
which little care will do away with the
danger Of contagion.
The negro question has entered on a new
and acrimonious phase OF discussion, which
explains the appearance of book entirely
by negroes, THE Negro Problem. JaInes
Pott 4 Coz II ranges from Booker I.
Washington advocacy Of education from
the bottom and Prof. W Il. B. Dubois's
advocacy Of education from the top to
Mr. r. Thomas Fortunes remarks on the
negros place in American life. Mr.. Paul
Laurence Dunbar contributes a sketchy
article on Representative Negroes
A new addition to the reprint by Messrs.
Appleton Of the old-time sporting books is
-I1e History Of johnny O. % Genus, the
Founding of the Late Dr., Syntax," with
twenty -four OF Rowlandson's colored illus
rrations II il The pictures rather than the
mild adventures and easy doggere that have
"A we'd the book from oblivion.
An interesting series Of war stories is
printed in the bird volume Of papers Of the
Military Historical Society Of Massachu-
setts, entitled, Campaigns in Virginia,
Maryland and Pennsylvania. Among the
contributors are the lats Don. Francis "
Pa,frey Gen. Alexander = Webb, Col. Will
lima hllar Of the Confederate service and
cot George Is Davis The chief battles
dr.rnhed ARE Antietam charlottesville
nd GotphnuTR
4 good manual %! elementary zoology
II provdot H., thr' authors, PRECEDENT
DAVID Starr Jordan and prols, vernon
lppap F.lloga and Harold Heath, al II
tine Leland Stanford, Jr Iuiyersi'y 10 the
twentieth century lea bOJh publshrd
Nv tnr Appr'ous under NJ" rtl" Animal
hiudnr IlIp unmts ~ ihr authors
should b. GUARANTEES that the Information
n 40 to date II 10 put IN clear shal-.
and II explained by numerous illustrations.
~ = compaiiioa voluns the hDpetoDs