New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-07

XVII centuries, selected and ar
ranged by Fitzroy Darlington.
Among the calendars are,
''The Omar Calendar" richly
printed in colors; "A Calendar
of Paul HeIleu's Drawings
and THE Fusser's Calendar
by Anna Archibald and Georgina
Jones, with pictures by Florence
Wyman.
New editions are also an
nounced of 'Everyman. The
Autobiography of Thief" and
The Man with the Wooden
Face
Il Complete Catalogue uiH Be-
sent on application to Fo1, Dn6icld
ard Company, So East zIst Street,
NeU York
1902 for some reason. Some matter relating to
1902 is to be found I'm the volume for 1901
Martinique and Venezuela play an important
part in F. Frankfort Moores new novel, ship
mates in Sunshine" which will soon be pub
ished by D. Appleton & Co. In the course OF
his story Mr. Moore embodies his observations
on a recent cruise in the Caribbean. The author
visited President Castro at Caracas.
Miss Esther Singleton is Just bringing out
through Mcclure. Phillips & Co. a new volume
of research il the matter of old furniture, called
French and English Furniture" Drawings
have been made direct from old models and from
rare and little known treatises by old furniture
makers H. D. Nichols who drew the illustra-
tions was engaged upon the work for a year
The book covers the important styles in France
and England from the Jacobean to Louis XVI
from Sheraton to Adams.
Examples OF bookbinding and works on the
art from the collection of Samuel Putnam Avery
will be put exhibition in the library Of Co
lumbia University during this month and the
next. The collection will be open to the public
on every week day from until o'clock in the
afternoon.
DR.. Jacob Goldstein has been reading Alfred
Henry Lewis's novel, Peggy O'Neal," and has
come to conclusions regarding the real hero Of
the story. He is. says DR.. Godstein, the ZAP
parently minor character. whom old Jim always
describes as the red-headed Jew He is no less
a person than the famous Major MorCtecai Man
uel Noah editor philanthropst. politician
dramatist ambassador. duellist and Prince in
Israel by special appointment Of the San
hedrim In Jerusalem" If Noah is minor char
acter he certainly played a number of parts
The author of "A Puritan in Bohemia" and
AN Experiment in AItruisnl' has just brought
out. through Houghton, Miffiin & Co. new
novel called Daphne" the love story of a
sitive American and rather mysterious pagan
person. Miss Margaret Sherwood, the author, is
a graduate of Vassar and has also studied in
Zurich. oxford and Italy. In 1898 she took the
degree of Phi. D. at Yale, and is now associate
professor of English literature at Wellesley Col.
lege, having been an instructor there for several
years Besides contributing to some of the
magazines she has already written three novels
Professor William H Pickering's Atlas of the
Moon" which was delayed in publication a year.
has now been published by Doubleday, Page &
CO. The delay was occasioned by discoveries
which Professor Pickering. who is in charge Of
the observatory at Harvard. made while at work
upon the volume and which necessitated a
arrangement of material. Professor Pickering
besides being an astronomer, is a mountain
climber of note. He has assembled over a hun
dred peaks including FL Misti in Peru. This
mountain has an altitude of 1900 feet. He was
in charge of the party from Harvard University
which made a valuable series of moon photo
graphs in Jamaica.
Wiley, has edited and compiled history OF
New Hampshire which has just been published
by the New-Hampshire Publishing Company,
under the title State Builders
Miss Mary Moss, whose new novel "A Sc
quence in Hearts," was published recently by
the ]. b. Lippincott Company. has been request
ed to furnish material for personal mention.
This is the result:
We have three meals every day at our house
four. counting tea. I sleep in 4 bed. Our ONE
lets are made by breaking eggs, and all my
the morning hours, which are the only hours
when l able to work satisfactorily. 7 posi-
lively fatten on unfavorable criticism, unless IL
be OF two kinds: why didn't you write diff
ferent story, with different things and about a
different sort of people?' or There is A certain
emotional field tnclosed TO women" These two
forms of criticism are positively red rag to me.
firmly believe that fiction should cover every
thing. | want to write about the whole OF life
as II inpresses my own retlna-hippant stories
about flippant people. gentle stories OF kind old
men and women, restless stories of people in
the thick Of events, own time and our own
people The long drawn out stupid novel that
tells of its own day is thousand times more
readable than the ceverest bit of reconstruc-
ton.
Three experts in golf, j. Braid J. e. T. Bram-
ston and H c Hutchinson. give their ideas on
what would have been the laws of the Medes
and Persians had they rejoiced in links in their
day in a volume called "A Book OF Golf" which
is published by E. P. Dutton & Co The editing
has been in charge of f. f. Benson and Eustace
Miles. Photographic reproductions are used in
illustration
Frank Norris wrote of tho responsibilities Of