New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-26
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
Current Talk of Things Present and
to Come.

Mrs. Katherine Cecil Thurston, author of
novel called THE Circle" who is bringing out
novel serially through the Harpers, called The
Masquerader." was born in Cork, In the south Of
Ireland. AS a child she was much given to read
ing but was not one of those writers so often
read about that begin with all the impulses OF
authorship in the cradle. Mrs. Thurston says 1t
never occurred to her to write until her nus
band who is also an author. suggested the Idea
She lives in London the year round, except Ior
the pilgrimage she makes regularly to her own
country. This novel was written In the
primitive village OF Ardmore. in the south OF
Ireland.
THE Anglers Secret is the title selected for
a book on fish and fishing which G. P. Putnarns
Sons are preparing to publish. Charles BRAD
ford the author, has already entered the heid
with a book called THE Determined Angler.
He is also the author of volume of natural
history called 1.-THE Wild Fowl of the Great
Lagoon"
Charles p Chapman the author Of two OF the
Saalfeld Publishing Company's new DOCKS OF
Juvenile fiction called 1.-TWO Boys and Dog'
and Through Unknown Isle, Is member
Of the class of '06 at Colby College, WaterVllle'
Me- He wrote his first story four years ago IN
collaboration with his father, who is a Baptist
minister It was undertaken for the amuse-
ment of his younger brother and his chum
They were in due course much amused by find
ing themselves figuring In the story. The author
himself says Of this method: Il have endeaV-
ored to make my heroes in all cases real live
boys, not fanciful youthful prodigies
An ESSAY I'm comparative apologetics. based
upon the Nathaniel Taylor lectures given by
George William Knox before the divinity school
of Yale University, is offered by the Scrioners
in a volume entitled 1.-The Direct and Funda-
mental Proofs of the Christian Religion The
author is professor Of the philosophy Of history
and religion in the Union Theological Seminary.
The book describes the modern view OF the
world and its effect upon the traditional posi-
ton, discusses the nature Of reality and re-
ugion and sets forth the essential principle OF
Christianity it's validity and its adaptation to
the ethical and religious needs of man. The
teachings of Christianity are compared with
the concepts of salvation in the ethnc religions
Brahmanism. Buddhism. Confucianism and
Islam.
The Macmillan Company has issued book by
the late Professor Henry Sidgwick treating po-
litical science from the point of view Of an evo-
! lutionary study of the development of polity
within the historic period in Europe. 1t is called
1.-THE Development of European Polity.'
| Under the title 1.-TWO Argonauts in Spain,"
| Jerome Harris recent letters written to THE Ar
! gonaut" from Southern Europe have been col
| lected in one volume. printed from type.
| with illustrations from photographs taken by
| the 1.-TWO Argonauts." map Of Spain is in
| cIuded The book. Of which the edition is linn
| tied, is being published by the Argonaut Com
pany.
George AIDES father the first man in his
part of the country to achieve the luxury and
of fun ted
| AIDES father was a prosperous farmer Of Kent
| land, Ind. His carriage was the pride OF the
| village and brought its owner the honor and
responsibility Of entertaining the visitors OF note
| who came TO the town to make political speeches
or take part in public functions The younger
AIDE found that this touch with outside interests
of wider scope than those Of Kentland filed
| him with ambitions to be somebody. and he
would have US believe that the labors of the
photographers OF the moment to be laid to
the charge Of that two seated covered carriage.
William Elliot Griffis IS bringing out through
| Andrus & Church a biography of popular
preacher, the Rev. John Chambers For over
fifty years he pastor of congregation
in Philadelphia. The book is based on personal
| recollectons first hand information and origi-
! nal documents. The title Of the book is John
! Chambers. and His Ministry in Philadelphia"
c. B. and c. V Waite have published a
'Homephonic Conversation Book in English,
| German, French and Italian" in which they
! set forth a method Of mnemonic study. The
| conversations are arranged under such heads as
| the time, the weather, the news. and designed
! TO cover the emergencies of travel. Soma five
| hundred words of similar sound and Specification
are collected and the form of the word in each
| language is added in an alphabetical table The
! publishers are G. V. Waite & Co.
! Miss Marie Manning, author of Judith of the
/ Plains" brings from OF her horseback trips
into the wilder parts of Tennessee a tale Of the
extension into the backwoods of the domain of
! the curling iron. She made the acquaintance of
! a family in which the eldest daughter had re-
Gently returned from a visit to a town and
brought back with her pair of curling irons
| All the women Of the family had since spent
| their spare time curling their hair without the
| slightest visible effect. Miss Manning, suppos-
! ing she might have happened upon some curl
Gus effect Of climate, inquired into the matter
| gympatheticaly, and to the Joy of the family
but TO her own mingled disappointment and
amusement. found that the curling irons had
never been heated. The feminine heads of the
family. when success was thus afforded them,
| did not escape some scorching
| George Harding London, sends us a catalogue
| Of books relating TO Africa, America, Australia
! the British colonies and slavery An account of
| the expedition against Louisburg under the
command Of Admiral Boscawen in 1856 is con-
| tanned in the Interesting Narrative OF the Life
Of olandah Equiano, or Gustavus vassa, the
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