New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-06-06

in Paris
on Tuesday John Lane will add to the nst
of books descriptive of life at sea Win the
publication of collection of sea Stories anu
nautical incidents by Charles Prothero. calleo
Life in the Mercantile Marine" The author
takes as his ttlepage text verse 1ronh Inc
Cruise of the Sunbeam:
7 love the sailor his eventful life.
His calmness in the gale. the wreck, tne s. l
And, though but Wllo anu ieoAie''
ranger.
God grant he reach that port when life is Ger
Where storms are hushed and pillows Dreak ho
more.
Several children constitute themselves anna
teur detectives and are instrumental III saving
a bank in Troy, N. Y. from being broken INTO
nv burglars in Edward S. Van Tiles juvenile
story. Defending the Bank" which the Lo-
throp Publishing Company has just brought out.
who's Who for the British Empire Since the
Days of King Arthur is a title to give colo
and uneasy chill But it is by no means so
ominous as it appears. To begin with, it is not
a title and. moreover, the book which is de-
scribed by the phrase is much less portIy imam
the publication for which it is designed to act as
substitute The volume is the "Eptome and
Index" of the Dictionary of National Biography
and has been prepared by the Macmillan Com
many with view to making the material in the
original sixty-six volumes more easily access1pie
and in less compass. The bare facts of the l1Ves
in the dictionary have been summarized IN 1'foo
pages for rapid reference. Every article IN 'he
sixtv-six volumes and the three volumes of the
supplement is here given in epftome IL shouiu
prove a useful short cut for many purposes
MANY people are inclined to question the JUS
tfcation of training wild animals to dlsport
themselves in tricks for the admiration anu
amazement of men. But when all is said ana
done there are a great many men, ana lheS
must be kept busy at something. 1t is decloeoIy
difficult to train wild animals to do Things LOT
which they no reason ana nave Httie
inclination If succeeds in dong any Iniiis
difficult other people will wonder at 1t ana
probably applaud-and there we are, as Henry
James would say Frank c. Bostock mas gone
20 press with book OH the subject, and there
we are again. His Training of Wild Animals
which is to be published by the Century Com
many this month tells how he does, at any rate,
if he does not tell why. He says that the art is
Young One hundred years ago trained hons
and tigers were unknown How MS HONS anu
tigers must sigh for the good old golden age.
And the involved groups and elaborate trlchS py
animals really wild have been evolved, he says
within the last twenty years. The progress Oh
| the art is not sociological apparently, for the
| less glory and use there is in training him.
DR. William W. Pennel in his Buckeye Doc
| tori tells one of those stories Of the struggles
| of a young man who has to meet every obstacle
| under the sun and finally comes out triumphant
and probably writes his memoirs to show that
! there is always room at the top. was II Mr..
DColey who said that the necessity of comply
| ing with this requirement was what forced fate
| 90 ~ IN 10
! At any rate the Buckeye doctor is taken when
| he is a Young medical school graduate. He
| settles down in small town, remembering a
| remark about a village in Gaul He has new
| tangled ideas. The neighbors don't like new
| tangled ideas They find sIch things annoying
So they proceed to annoy the young doctor, be-
fore he so much gets his shinge out. He
speaks correct English in book where the
other people speak dialect. That annoys the
other characters too. But nothing can daunt
the Buckeye doctor, and out goes his single
| There is an old practitioner. He is fossil
He does his best to make the young man fail
| But fossils cannot balk him either. He even
| falls III love and marries without being Worsted
The story is published by the Grafton Press.
Mr.. E. Boyd Smith, the artist who has made
the illustrations for Andy" Adamss THE Log
of a Cowboy" was born at st. John N. B. He
years he connected with the Riverside
| Press Cambridge but then went abroad to
| study drawing and painting in Paris under NM.
| Boulanger and Lefebvre. He lived for twelve
i years in France, exhibiting pictures, etchinss
| and drawings at the Paris Salon, and making
| illustrations and caricatures for French papers
| and publishing houses. Much of the time he
| lived in a peasant village near Paris studying
| the life of the fields and general outdoor eff
! fects Since his return to this country he has
| lived for a short time in the West, travelling on
! foot among the Rocky Mountains and studying
| the country and the life there He has also
| studied the Indians and the. landscapes in Can
| ada.
The Harpers issued yesterday scientific book
by Carl Snyder under the title New Concep-
tions in Science" The author has attended lect-
| ures at the Sorbonne and the College de France,
| and studied in various Laboratories of Europe for
| some years. this book he attempts to pre-
sent in clear and simple language the results of
| the most advanced scientific research of the day
Mr.. Snyder was born at Cedar Falls, Iowa, and
WAS educated at the State University In the
| laboratory he has devoted himself mainly to the
| theoretical side of electrical work.
The ex-president of Yale University, Or,
Timothy Dwight, VINO held the office from 1886
To 1899 has collected his "reminiscences in
| volume which is being brought out by Dodd,
| Mead &. Co. under the title Memories of Yale
| Life and Men" There will be fortyeight illus
trations many of which will be portraits of
distinguished teachers and alumni DR.. Dwight
| says in his preface:
The story of the years which is presented on
| the following pages has. like all records of