New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-31


AIdrich report is used in comparison with the
material by J. D Weeks in Volume Xxx Of the
Census Of 1880, lin the chapter on wages. In
a chapter headed THE Greenbacks and the
Cost Of the Civil War;" the author considers
the degree of increase in expense to the fed
eral government brought about by the paper
issues.
Houghton. AIiffiin & Co. include four Juveniles
in their lists Of forthcoming fall books. Eva
March Tappan writes THE Christ Story" with
the attempt of adding no more than necessary
bits of information on the life of the times
The Young Ice Whalers," by Winthrop Pack
ard, is a story OF adventure in which two boys
from Massachusetts, have a lively time with
wild beasts, wild men and wild weather in the
Alaskan seas Everett T. Tomlinson presents
the story of the campaign about Brandywine
ending at Valley Forge, in "a Lieutenant Under
Washington" Imaginative stories about birds
based on old legends and folklore are set forth
in Abbie FarweI Browns Curious Book Of
Birds"
The international Studio" for September
opens with article on the Spanish painter
Ignacio Zuloaga, by Henri Frantz Another ar
ticle discusses the portrait work of G. F.
Watts found upon the walls Of the Holland
House. Lawrence Binyon contributes an es-
innate of the exhibition of drawings Of old mas
tiers at the British Museum which is illustrated
with colored plates.
THE Millionaires Son" is the title of Anna
Robson Browns latest novel, a tale of a young
mans struggles OF mind between the attractions
of wealth Of questionable origin and the higher
call Of social service. The book is Illustrated bv
A Z. Becher. and IS published by Dana Estes
& Co
Mr.. Stephen PhiIips's play David and Bath
sheba" viii be put on the market here in the
autumn by the Macmillan Company Mr. Phil
hpss Ulysses is to be presented at the Gar
den Theatre the middle Of next month
Richard Jenries's work wild Life in a.
Southern Village" IS to b. brought out IN a new
edition by Little. Brown Z. 10 81 the fall II
viii be ill1s>rate9 from photog eauhs taken re-
Gently by Clifton Johnson in tie county OF Witt
shire and win be called An Eas!.sh Village /"
Hamilton Wright Mabie has written an intro
duction
Simeon Ford and seweu Ford are rettinp
themselves mixed up. In a letter to the Editor
or The Bangor Daily Commercial" Mr.. seweI
Ford says:
Dear Sir; With intent evidently of the
80 you nave most amazingly mixed the deeds
ana qolngs or two Fords l am one of tbern
no. ! am not going to be indignant / expect
IN my sixteen years Of newspaper work 7 have
mace many breaks of this same kind This a.
merely 10 untangle myself for your benedt from
the other Ford, and perhaps prevent mora 60
Au TN among my numerous relatives in Maine
The author of Horses Nine" who was horn
IN south LeVant: and who remembers coming
- bangor at oayDreak with his Uncle WIZ TO
sen green corn, is SeWen Ford. That's me NJ
simeon Ln foTd, whose picture you printed and to
Mnohl you gave credit for writing the horse
stories, IS the genial proprietor of the Cirand
Union Hotel in New-York anu
It's Sewen Ford VINO had sixteen mot thirty
nVe) years experience in newspaDer yrori,
Simeon who is the long, lean, laugh maker .;
l haven't achieved much fame and ysyba+
little l possess cannot afford to have merged
with Simeon's, which is greater and OF a dir
ferent character, Sincerely
SEWELL FORD
Miss Fife Douglass-Putnam is publishing her
first novel through the Life Publishing Com
pany. 1t is called "Cirillo." and is the story of