New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-10-10


pie Autobiographies which T. p. Dutton & Co
are conducting. This new issue has p Inrns,
.or editor, and VIII appear in two volumes
illustrated with photOgravure portraits. Car
lyle spoke os Leigh Hunts book as the hest
thing in biography since Boswell's johnson
The authors acquaintance and friendship with
such men as Keats. Byron. Shelley and Lamb
lends unfailing interest. This is the FIRST an
notGted edition.
Victor Leuliette has prepared a translation
O. Paul Lobstein's historical and critical essay
The Virgin Birth OF Christ" The theologian
Who Is professor OF dogmatics In the University
Of StrasbOUrg is known to students on both
sizes OF the ocean. He approaches his subject
IN a spirit or candor and sincerity. The Rev
Dr. ". y. Morrison writes an introduction and
has edited the little volume. This book has just
been published by the Putnams IN their Grown
Theological Librsry.'
careful history Of the happenings in Wind
sor Castle, century after century, TO the pres
snt DAY. is presented in Mrs. Sarah A Tooley's
book Royal Palaces and Their Memories
Though the general aim OF the book is to give a
graphic account OF royal palaces in the light of
their human interest. It is in fact almost an
anecdotic history Of the English throne. The
volume. which is illustrated, viii be issued i'm
rneGately by the A Vessels Company.
A collection OF orations has been compiled by
Charles Morris for the John c Winston Com
psny and is published In a volume OF some six
hundred pages under the title, The Worlds
Great Orators and Their Best Orations." The
work is divided into two parts one for American
orators and another for European. Each part
Is arranged IN nine books. by periods or local.
ties. IN every case a brief Biographical note
az e< he F-Sf
is Patrick Henrys speech in Offering his resolu-
ton TO the Virginia convention that the colony
he put into a state OF defence" In this division
Madison, Hamilton, Henry Lee, Marshall,
Gouverneur Morris and others are represented.
Roosevelt Bryan. Joseph H Choate and
Thomas Bracket Reed are represented among
recent political orators The second part opens
with the orators OF ancient Greece and Rome,
snd includes the pulpit orators OF the Middle
Ages and OF Great Britain, a generous choice
among English speakers from Cromwell to
Chamberlain the orators Of France in the days
n the Revolution and in the nineteenth cen
fury. and those Of Central and Southern Eu-
rope, such as Kossuth. Bismarck and Crispi.
The publication in England OF Helen Keller's
story OF My Life" which Doubleday. Page &
co. brought out in this country, recalls the in
terest that Queen Victoria used to express IN
Queen she asked about the deaf and blind girl,
and DR.. Brooks. who numbered Miss Keller
among his young friends. was able 10 tell a
good deal about her. Miss Keller has many
friends n England besides those whose mem
bership in the British and Foreign Blind Asso-
citation has brought her naturally TO their no.
tice. The Duke OF Westminster has a picture
OF Miss Keller. which he keeps on his desk, and
which given 10 him by Mrs. J. Pierpont
Morgan
William Mathews. author OF a book called
Getting On In The World" which met with
success thirty years ago, has Just published a
new book for young men. The title he has
chosen for this later volume is "Conquering
Success, or Life IN Earnest" Houghton. Mif-
fin & Co. have just brought out the book.
" z. Price. Editor OF The Booklover's Maya
zine" has sent out a circular letter inviting
those interested In Edgar Allan Poe, the man
and his work. 10 join him In the formation OF
Poe society. one OF the ends in view is the
possible acquisition and care OF the cottage at
Fordham. and the project Of a modestly planned
journal is glanced at. Any one interested is
requested TO send name and address to Mr.
Price. at No. 30 East Twenty-frst-st-. and at
the same time to make any suggestions that
may come TO mind.
Il has long been recognized. since II said
with the voice OF pointed authority. that every
man has a good deal OF the schoolrnaster in him.
Just how much OF the schoolmaster there was IN
John Adams and Daniel Webster can hardly be
determined now. There was apparently
siderable But engaging study OF their
frank assumption Of the part in early life comes
from the press OF the Palmer Company in a
little book by Elizabeth Porter Gould, called
John Adams and Daniel Webster a School
masters" AS Charles Francis Adams points
out In the introduction. the two men who in
later lie took such prominent part in voicing
the destinies OF the young nation left al too
little record OF the fashion IN which they at
tempted In their early days 20 guide the devel-
oD1nent CT its youth. The system under which
they taught school was general at the time The
children OF ali ages and both sexes gathered at
the village school and had the three Rs ham
mered into their heads by the one and only
teacher in the district II never occurred to
Adams or Webster that d. cription OF the de-
tails OF this experience would one day be the
story OF a bysone method. and OF intense his
torical and pedagogical interest II rarely does
occur 10 US that the old order is changing be-
meath very eyes.
Mss Gould IN default Of any such aid as they
might have left has made careful study OF