New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-15
BOOKS And AUTHORS.
Current Talk of Things Present and
to Come.

Fiction. too is becoming specialized. Here is
Mr. Arnold Bennett whose Anna Of the Five
Towns" was published lately by Mcclure, Phil
lips & Co, declaring that heroines of eighteen or
twenty are too trivial for the novelist of the
present day THE novel writer's craft" has be-
come much more dignifed than it was in the
early nineteenth century, we learn and along
with this the age limit for heroines has been
raised Mr.. Bennett is writing a book now In
which the heroine will be forty Not that he
thinks forty the only ideal age for literary
treatment. He finds that the most interesting
period is from forty on" In this forthcoming
book the heroine starts at forty and gets only as
far as forty-one But later heroines of his may
age more rapidly.
Eleanor Dayton" is the title OF new novel
which John Lane will issue on August "a. 1t Is
written by Nathaniel Stephenson, who issued
book called "They That Took the Sword about
three years ago. and a later novel, The Beauti-
full Mrs. Moulton."
From the press of Fox, Duffeld & Co. will
come a novel by Meth Boyce called THE
Forerunner," a study Of the typical American
promoter and money maker. Meth Boyce IS the
maiden name of a young American now living IN
Italy. She is a native of California, and has had
| some experience at newspaper work in this city.
Doubleday Page & Co. have issued their
| second instalment of 1.-The Poultry Book" Part
Three which this publication includes, is occu-
pied almost exclusively with the various ques-
lions that arise about the frequent egg. Some
one has said that there is more money repre-
scented in the eggs daily laid throughout the
length and breadth of this land than in all its
mineral resources. Some one may have been
mistaken But the thoughts that rise of a con-
tinent overspread with eggs are impressive In
this book all phases of the industry are con-
sidered Matching marketing and commercial
handling The work is illustrated with colored
plates
The July number of THE Chaucer's Head"
hool, catalogue sent us by William Downing,
London, contains a number Of items from the
library of the late Sir John Forbes. He was
nhvsician to Queen Victoria's household, and the
founder of THE British and Foreign Medical
Review" There are listed also some specimens
of early printing from Dunkirk Manor House.
John d Barry's novel, THE Congressman's
Wife" will be issued by the Smart Set house
September / The story is that of a New-York
| representative from a metropolitan district, who
| gets into the tolls Of lobbyist and then gets
| out again. Mr.. Depew is said to have furnished
| the model for the Senator in the tale-we would
| say, to have been made the model.
Houghton, Mif1in & Co. are making ready
among their historical books for the fall an
! addition to the American Commonwealth Series,
on Louisiana, written by Albert Phelps. Ed
| ward Stanwoods comprehensive history OF the
| tariff in this country, American Tariff Contro-
| versies in the Nineteenth Century," will be is
sued in two volumes. This will In all likelihood
be ready in October. Miss Ellen C. Semple has
undertaken to interpret our history in regard
| to it's control by physical features of the land
| in a volume which she will issue under the title
| Geographic Influence in American History"
A new volume in the series on THE Makers
of British Art is that on Sir David Wilkie by
William Bayne. 1t is illustrated with twenty
plates after Wilkie and photogravure fronts
| piece. The intimate nature of Wilkes friend
ship with prominent men Of culture in his day
is shown in some detail, and the question of
| the change in his style is carefully examined.
The Scribners publish the book.
Illustrated by the authors own drawings,
| collection of ten sketches by Frederic villiers
is to be issued by the National Press Agency.
with the title More Stories of the warpath."
The war correspondent drew on his varied
| career for a book of personal "reminiscences be-
| fore, and the reception accorded the earlier
book has induced his publishers to persuade him
to continue in the same vein.
l. c. Page & Co. will publish IN the fall book
| entitled THE Cathedrals of Northern France
| The text is by Francis Miltoun. Illustrations
| in pen and ink wash and monotone are contrib
uted by Miss Blanche McManus. Miss Nc
Manus is now living in London, but spends
much OF her time the Continent, where
these sketches were made. This volume is the
first of series which is projected to include
the cathedrals Of Southern France, Spain. Por-
tugal- the Rhine and Italy
To the former works by William Campbell
scoheld the Fleming H Reven Company has
now added 1.-THE Holy Spirit in Both Tesla
ments." This comprises a new edition of the
Holy Spirit in the New Testament Scriptures"
TO which has been added The Holy Spirit in
the Old Testament Scriptures" The earlier
works of this author which the ReveIls publish