New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-23

DfSt or the current year Dy Insurance. COMPANIES
transacting business in this country. The book
is divided into two parts. one containing securi-
ties classified by form. year of maturity and
rate of interest, and another containing sched-
ules Of securities owned by the various
panies. In his preface the compiler points out
that heretofore there has been no way of dis
covering what insurance companies held certain
investments except by laboriously going through
the reports of State insurance departments.
From the title of a novel 1t is proverbialIy i'm
possible TO guess the theme. What THE Chasm'
might suggest there is here neither space nor
use in setting down. What it is not likely to
suggest at first flush to any ordinary mind is
the problem chosen by Reginald Wright Kauff-
man and Edward Chids Carpenter-the actions
Of a political candidate. who in the midst of the
campaign falls in love with the daughter of
his rival for office. The novel has been pub
lshed by D. Appleton & Co.
George Barrie & Sons have in preparation a
monumental history Of North America, from the
Isthmus Of Panama to the furthest north and
from prehistoric times TO the present. There
are TO be twenty volumes. Professor Guy Garlic
ton Lee, of Johns Hopkins and Columbia uni
versities. is the editor in chief. He has secured
the services Of a staff OF nineteen authors and
scholars, upon whom the bulk of the work of
preparation is to devolve and also four
operative boards, under whose supervision and
with whose advice the work will be carried for
ward. bringing the number OF men engaged upon
the work to than one hundred and fifty
The editorial board and the board of advisers
on exclusion and inclusion embrace representa-
tive members Of colleges and universities
throughout the country. board of advisers
colonial affairs is made up of William H.
Taft, Sanford Ballard Dole, William H Hunt
and Captain Uriel Sebree who have seen SER
vice as Governors of the Philippines, Hawaii,
Porto Rico, Tutuila and Manua- A board of
military and naval advisers includes Generals
Miles. Corbin and John B. Gordon and Admiral
Cervera. The first eight volumes devoted to
discovery, colonization and the break with Great
Britain. The second volume is concerned with
the Indians of North America in historic times.
particularly in their relation to the white new
corners. The prehistoric period is covered in the
nineteenth volume The ninth volume relates
the history Of Mexico. Central America and the
Southwest; the eleventh that of Canada and
British North America. An unusual method has
been followed in presenting the history of the
Civil War. 1t is written in two volumes, one
from the Southern and the, other from the
Northern standpoint. The final volume, devoted
TO insular possessions and covering the. story Of
the war with Spain, comprises the history of the
native peoples, as we'll the American occu-
patton and government.
THE Moth Book" is the latest addition which
Doubleday, Page & Co. have made to their New
Nature Library. DR.. W. J. Holland, who con-
tributed earlier volume to the series. on
butterflies, is the author of this book With the
idea Of aiding the work of Identification, as
undertaken in earlier volumes. the book is illus
ted in b1yr r;
fifteen hundred moths are represented.
The first two volumes Of Herbert W. Paul's
History of Modern England" announced by
the Macmillan Company for publication this
month, have been delayed and will not be
brought out till January. Mr. Paul has had
experience as journalist, critic and Member of
Parliament. He begins his history with the last
Wing government Of 1916 The work will be
complete in five volumes
A popular edition of Horatio F. Browns biog-
raphy Of John Arlington Symonds, in one
volume. is offered by Charles Scribner's Sons.
Much of the material which Mr. Browns
work rests is photographer, the facts being in
large part gathered from The subjects papers
and correspondence. Symonds was given to in
trospection. and left much of himself as he saw
himself, on record. The volume is supplied with
Miss Mary Lloyd win publish through Albert
Brandt an anthology Of elegies, under the title
'Efegies, Ancient and Modern" The book is the
result Of fifteen years of special study. In in
PRODUCTION there will be a historical and criti-
cal essay on this form of poetry Publication
viii be made in two Volumes of which the
second is still in preparation.
Eastman Lewis has just brought out a new
book by Louis NJ. ElshemuS, called Songs
Of Southern Scenes" and embracing poems writ
ten during the authors travels in Samoa, New
Zealand and Southern Europe. Half tones are
used in illustration from paintings IN oils by
the author. The book is dedicated to Thomas
Bailey Aldrich,
David Starr Jordan. president of Stanford
University, publishes through Paul Elder & Co.
a volume Of essays on the problems of higher
education, called from the initial paper The
Voice Of the Scholar" There are fourteen other
essays, some of the titles OF which are The
Building Of a University" Relative Values in
knowledge" THE Higher Education of the
Business Man." college Spirit and 1.-THE Les
sons Of the Tragedy"
Myron H. Phelps Of the New-Yorlz bar. pub
fishes through G. P. Putnam's Sons a volume
called The Life and Times of Abbas Effendi"
The story of the head of the BabI Persian sect
10 which recent massacres have drawn atten-
ton. is prefaced with Introduction by Pro-
fessor Edward G. Brown. of Pembroke, OK
ford.
In the Romans Choisis" series conducted nv
william r. Jenkins the latest addition is "T a
Marriage de Gerard" It is furnished with ex-