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


The Putnams have arranged to issue in this
country the edition of the works of Charles and
Mary Lamb edited by z Y Lucas. The edition
contains many essays and poems which have
not before beenAdenti1ed. at any rate have
not been collected The first and fifth volumes
are announced. The edition is complete in
seven.
Professor Walter Dill Scott director Of the
psychological laboratory in the Northwestern
University, mas prepared study Of the relation
Of the principles Of psychology to successful ad-
vertising which he viii publish through Small.
Maynard s. Co. III the autumn It win be called
The Theory Of Advertising Those chapters
which have appeared seriaIy IN "AIahin's Maya
zine" have been revised by the author with the
needs of the business man who has distinct
interest IN the subject in view. It is a hand
book for advertisers which aims to apply scien-
tihc principles. Reproductions Of actual recent
advertisements are criticised, and actual ad-
vertisements made up in accordance with the
principles laid down also shown in nlustra-
ton. with some recital of the effects following
therefrom-
A new volume in the Scribners' Country
Life" Library Of Agriculture IS Ernest Mat
thew~s Economies in Dairy Farming" Mr.
Matthews is an expert dairyman- He writes of
the qualities and peculiarties Of milk and
among other hints makes suggestions for the
economical disposal of milk. the feeding of
stock. making butter and keeping accounts The
book is illustrated
Among the items IN the latest catalogue we
have received from wilfrid n. Voynich, Lon
don, is rare edition Of La Araucana,' by
Alfonso de ErcilIa y Zuniga. It bears the i'm
print Of Juan Soler, Saragozza, 15I7-' This is
the book which is described in Ticlnor's His
tory of Spanish Literature In the following
words:
It's subject is the very expedition against
Arauco which occupied eight or nine years OF
his CErcilla's) youth; and he has simply called
Il Ia Araucana," making II long epic poem
In thirty-seVen cantos, which, with the eNcep-
ton OF two or three trifes Of no value, is all
that remains OF ms works =, me MS
division Of the Araucana IS a versifed history
Of the first part of the war. It is geographically
Gad statisfically accurate He begins
with Z description OF Arauco and its people
amid wnGm he lays his scene and then goes
on thruuch fifteen centos Of consecutive battles,
negotiations conspiracies and adventures. just
as they occurred These fifteen cantos.
written between 1865 and 1868. constitute the
first par:
This edition is not mentioned by Tlcknor. and
there IS no copy in the British Museum. It
unknown to Hidalgo Brunei, sabin. Ebert and
Ternaux
Thomas z. Watson. whose Life and Times OF
Thomas Jefferson is 10 be brought out by D.
Appleton & Co IN October, considers that his
tory should be read in the statute book. He
believes that Green stopped short Of what
should be accepted as the true scope Of history
IN his study OF the people compared with
leaders or with national movements and par
ties In its widest meaning he thinks the stat
ute book is the people He uses the word, doubt
less in q broad sense. and would include all
legal enactments without respect TO boundaries
OF the Jurisdiction. This view appears to be a
variation Of the position taken in Germany by
Lamprecht, which is raising such a dust among
historians particularly those Of the Ranke
School Lamprecht passes beyond the State
archives TO the Stadt and Dorf records. and
considers all phases OF intellectual and physical
activity. well the aspect of politics. The
application TO the biography OF a leader of men
OF the method which relegates the aristocratic
part OF the community 10 a relatively small
chapter OF history is still novel enough to en-
gage attention.
Among the recent books brought out by the
University Of Chicago Press is a monograph on
our paper money. called "A History of Green
sA14zs with Special Reference TO the Economic