New-York tribune., 1903-04-07

issue the edition to-day.
William E Grlfas whose books on Holland
are well known. has undertaken the task OF
supplying a history Of the land Of dikes. wind
mills and Motley which viii be serViceable Tor
young readers. Houghton. Mifiin & Co. publish
this Young Peoples History of Holland with
illustrations which include number OF repro
euctions Of historical paintings.
NOW that we NAV consult books Of directions
OF all possible physical. mental or social doings.
IL is not strange 10 find books setting forth the
proper methods for enjoying the artistic Carie-
ton Noyes's book The Enjoyment OF Art, is
not the first in the field, for that matter 1t
covers not only the various branches or ART
with a capital A. such as painting. sculpture.
music and architecture but includes the work
of arts and crafts societies. that one may
know what's in a rug design. decorated tile or
s. candlestick. The book is written for the lay
man with the definite purpose Of encouraging
his fondness for the things about him" And II
# must be said the book explains how this can
be done
The I.egatee' is the title of q novel which
Alice Prescott Smith has published through
rJouphton Mi4fin & Co The hero is South
erner who inherits a lumber mill in Wiscon
sin town. He does not get on too we'll with his
new neighbo-s and newly met relations, for the
time of the story is shortly after the war and
the sounds of battle still rumbling round
the mental horizon Of the characters. Added 10
such antagonisms is the socialist tendency that
develops among his labor, which finally works
Itself up to a strike. Harmony is restored by
sweeping forest fire.
Fred Lewis Pattee has prepared for the
Princeton Historical Association edition of
the poems Of Philip Freneau. II will be printed
in three volumes the first of which has been
issued Since the volume published in 1860 by
Z A. Duycknck. Poems Relating TO the Amer
ican Revolution by Philip Freneau." a selection
Of sixty more notable poems. arranged in chron-
illogical order Of events and furnished with his
tOrical footnotes. the poems have not been re-
issued Many OF the poems exist in unique ed
tions. and all Of them have become exceedingly
hard TO consult except in a few of the larger
Libraries. The present edition presents
count of the poets life and influence and prac-
tically complete collection of his poems. The
endeavor has been made TO rescue every poem
that is in any way significant. They are ar
ranged as far as possible in the order of their
composition, or in the order in which they first
appeared in print. Among matter unpublished
or out of print the edition contains The Spy"
fragmentary drama dealing with the Andre
episode, here printed for the first time. FIRE.
neau's pamphlet satires, produced during the
first years Of the Revolution, republished.
The Voyage to Boston, written and published
while the siege was yet in progress, was cut
down by the poet for the first edition O7S6) of
his works from 605 lines to BOG and of those
that remained more than half entirely
changed IN such cases both texts have been
reproduced. For many of the poems like The
House of Night" and the Revolutionary satires,
variorum readings of all the authors editions
have been indicated.
Dr. Arthur T. Pierson has described the his
tory Of the religious movement in England
known by the name OF the town in which its
first conventions were held. in a volume pub
lished 10y the Funk & Wagnalls Company: The
keswick Movement in Precept and Practice"
L in a pessnistic. despairing mood that
the reader of q novel of the hour put down the
book and repeated sadly. "Of making many
books there is end
Though l have certainly heard that before"
came a weary retort from his controversial
crony. y have never been quite convinced by it.
The implication is always of hopeless de-
spair. a cry of surrender from the man who has
lost the courage to read. If you take your Bib
lical texts literally"-
But l don't!
IF you did, then, you might derive some COM
fort thereby. The words Of the preacher are.
OF making many books there is end. Is.
Evidently not. But will be-? That. submit
is another matter"
The pessnist observed something of making
many Quibbles- But when his crony VIII talk
he viii. and nothing stop him.
My idea is that before many years begin
ming OF the end Will be pointed out. There would
be an end 10 making books If books were not
read would there not? And get less and
less time for reading. The light in evening sub
urban trains is bad for the eyes. But did one
ever hear that dim commercial light bad
for the ears? We shall read through the ears
We shall be read to- Each Will have a
wireless telephone pocket receiver. Every train,
trolley car. hanson cab. ferryboat, office build
ing church, theatre, Judicial bench and automo-
bile viii carry improved coherer. You wish
TO read shall we say, the latest novel, or, better
yet, some book of ponderous Importance that
you could not possibly carry about with you.
You drop in at your publishers. mail them
postal for the wireless tuning key for ''Bedam
in Epigram' or -Four Volume Memorandum
on MicheIsen's Law OF the Fifth In your seat,
wherever that may be. you connect your pocket
receiver to the electrode which puts you in COM
your receiver for epigrans or molecular theories
and lean back and listen The air is filed with
the seoIian voices Of a thousand thousand books,
and you listen 10 one. No eye strain, no volume
TO carry no pages TO cut-nothing but the dis
embodied spirit Of the author in converse with
his reader. In that time. Of making many books
there will be an END. Moreover, by such de-
vice. given an automatic registering mechanism
for keeping track cf the number Of the page,
one could did one choose, read and read, and be
asleep. as / notice you are at present Come,