New-York tribune., 1903-05-02
BOOKS and AUTHORS.
Current Talk of Things Present and
to Come

to Come
Miss Louise Forsslund has gone to California
where she will remain for year. she is al Worh
upon new novel. in which the scene VIII De
laid In the places on Long Island that she chose
for 1.-THE Ship of Dreams"
1t was "The Garden of the Commuters Whe
that raised the puzzling question IN the minus
of some English readers as to what COM
nuter might be. To the facetious there may pe
some correlation between the committing hosts
and the title chosen by the author OF this ear
lier hook for one to be issued early in June by
the Macmillan Company In "The People OF the
WHIRLPOOL" the effect which a small colony OF
Nev-Yorlxers produces upon intelligent
ruraI community is made the subject of SINH
lar book.
"vbat kind Of man is he ersasked Olivia Of the
messenger at heI gates. Why' OF nahhiiiu'
was Malvolio's SNUG answer. And when she
asked What manner of man?'-"Of very Ill
manner" said he It would seem that the city
librarian of Jacksonville. Ill. may be aInpi-
tious to understudy Cesario He has drawn
the line at Miss Kenton's story. What Manner
of Man" We shall expect to hear that 'he
sales Of the book have risen in Jacksonville.
Minnie Gresham Machen is publishing through
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of Browning's use of the Bible, under the title
'The Bible In Browning" In the Ring and the
Book" a thorough examination of which occu-
pies the second half of her book, the author
gives some five hundred Scriptural illusions.
Her investigation leads her also to the con-
clusion that the King James version exerted
much influence on the poets vocabulary and
style, while its matter governed to a great ex-
tent his philosophical and religious views.
Miss Petticoats" the novel by Dwight Til
ton" which was issued by the c. NJ Clark Pub
fishing Company has been dramatized as
vehicle for starring Miss Katherine Osterman'
player in vaudeville. 1t is likely that the play
will be tried on in New Bedford. which, in its
old whaling days. is the scene of the story's
opening.
The Chamber of Commerce of San Diego. Cal.
has ordered from D. Appleton & Co. a copy or
"Phenixiana," for presentation to the President
when he arrives at San Diego in May. The
book was written by a forty-niner. John
Phenix,' George Horatio Derby. an editor of d
San Diego newspaper, and a well known figure
in the early days of the West. The book. which
is written in a of dry satire. was first pub
lished in 1855. and has been reprinted several
times
1T is we'll to think ones own thoughts occa-
sionally, even though they be wrong" is the
dictum of the author of The Reflections of a
Lonely Man." which is issued by A. C. McClurg
& Co. The lonely man sits in a comfortable
chair before open fire, smoking his favorite
tobacco in his pet pipe, and reflects. The initials
"A. C. NJ" appear on the title page.
Mr.. Jack London will issue, through the Mac
milan Company. early in July. a story of ad-
venture in the Klondike region. under the title
The Call of the Wild"
Miss Annie Flint, who has satirized present
day fiction and the manner Of its exploitation
in her novel "a Girl of IDEAS" is a daughter Of
DIR. Austen Flint. of this city.
Hampshire Days is the title under which
". H Hudson continues his observations on
life out of doors, which he began In volume
on the birds of London, and another on Down
land" Writing of Ha ats, he naturally has
much to say of the New Forest, which he knows
intimately in all its seasons. and of the people
OF the New Forest and their attitude toward it's
preservation. The book is published by Long
mans, Green Sc Co.
John Steuart, formerly Editor of "The Pub
fishers Circular" has issued, through the Flem-
ing H. Revell Company. a novel called THE
Samaritans." He is the author of THE Minis
ter of State
THE Enchanted Isle of Tew'' is the title of L.
Frank Baum's book. announced by the
Bobbs- Merrill Company.
Little, Brown & Co. will publish some time
during this month a novel by Helen MiIecete
called "A Detached Pirate The tale is told in
the words Of the heroine. the divorced wife of
an English army officer who leaves London for
Halifax where she moves in gay army set
The author who is a Canadian. living in Hall
fax has written for the magazines and pub
lished a novel called "a Girl of the North"
The latest volume in the Macmillan Com
pany's American sportsmen's Library is called
"Tbe Water Fowl Family" Duck shooting and
long shore bird shooting is described by L. c.
Sanford. He adds a chapter on the goose. here
and in Canada. one on rGi shooting. and a
brief consideration of swans. Another sports
man. T S. Van Dyke, stands sponsor for the
birds of the Pacific Coast.
Mason A Walton, who lives at Bonds HILL
Gloucester Mass. and has contributed TO For
est and Stream under the signature of
Hermit will scor issue through Dana Estes
& Co. a book of animal ana forest interest. The
book Will be Illustrated from photographs of Mr..
Walton's hut. built by himself in the woods. and
in which he has lived alone for eighteen years.
and of the animals whom he has into a
tame friendship.
Two Of Charles Scribner's Sons recent pub
licatfons are about 10 issue in London Miss
Prideauxs book the field in which she her
self has done interesting work. "Bookbinders
and Their Craft will bear the imprint of an
other binder Zaensdorf. Mr. Laurence Hut
toms Literary Landmarks of Oxford" will be