New-York tribune., 1903-07-25

ventures of NJ. D D'Haricot, will publish through
the Harpers, some time in the early autumn
new novel Mr.. Clouston is the son or an emil
nent Scottish physician, himself the author OF
several scientific works Mr.. Clouston's new
sbook is not so broadly farcical as the former
Cheerful Americans is the title chosen by
Charles Battell Loomis for a collection or
stories which have appeared in 1.-THE Century,
THE Saturday Evening POST and other period
icals. and which he will issue through Henry
Holt & Co
The Macmillan Company is bringing out the
new number. being Number VIII, OF the Annual
of the British School at Athens 1t contains an
account of Mr. Evans's excavation at kronos'
among other articles of archaeological interest
oliver G. Pike adds to the summer books on
birds a volume called with the Birds" which
is brought out by the New-Amsterdam BOOK
Company The book is illustrated from photo
graphs taken by the author.
The Police Commissioner, General F. V.
Greene contributes a memoir Of his father the
late Major General George Sears Greene to the
genealogical work the family which the
Putnams are issuing privately under the title
..,rl,e Greenes of Rhode Island" The late Major
General Greene spent many years in collecting
the material for this book. His manuscripts
have been compiled and arranged for publica-
ton by Mrs. Louise B. Clarke, of the NeW-Hork
Genealogical and Biographical Society. The
publication is made by the compiler's sons AS
far as possible the volume has been brought
down to date, and full index has been pre-
pared. Besides the portraits, the views OF Eng
lish and American homesteads and the arms
and seals reproduced. there is a facsimile Of
o1oia af nf ha
gansetts. to John Greene and others of land
now in Warwick, r. l.
John Bennett the author Of Master Sky
lark and "Barnaby Lee is a graduate Of the
Art Students League, of this city. Mr.. Bennett
used to live in Chillicothe Ohio but since his
marriage he has lived in Charleston, S. c.
oscar Jewell Harvey has completed the His
tory of Wilkes Barre Luzerne County, Penn,
upon which he has been at work for several
years and is now seeing it through the press.
It is hoped to issue the book in January. Mr..
Harvey has taken particular pains with the
Colonial and Revolutionary records Of the
Wyoming Valley.
DR.. James Gregory Mumford has published,
through ]. ]. Lippincott Company, a Narrative
of Medicine in America" The plan OF the book
a
physicians of successive periods.
Milan, first King of Servia, is the subject Of
a novel by Frances Gerard which Dodd, Mead
& Co. have in press. 1t is entitled "a Kings
Romance" Milan, it will be remembered, was
proclaimed King in 1882 after Servia had
achieved independence by repeated revolts from
Turkish rule. In 1875 he married Natalie
Ketchco. In 1889 he suddenly abdicated in
favor of his Alexander, and removed to
Paris He divorced Queen Natalie, though
afterward they were nominally reconciled and
the decree was annulled. The novel has the
setting of a troubled reign.
Charles Raymond Macauley, the cartoonist
who last year colaborated a childs book
with John Kendrick Bangs, will publish in the
fall. through the Bobbs-Merrill Company, a.
fantastic story called "Phantasmaland" Mr..
Macauley, in the intervals of work ilustra-
tions for fall books, is applying his familiarity
with politics, gained by continuous cartoon
work, to novel of political life.
John Louis Haney, instructor in the Central
High School, Philadelphia, has prepared a
photography of Samuel Taylor Coleridge,"
which presents a list of all editions English
Continental and American, of Coleridge's works
from 1894 to 1903, and Of his contributions to
periodicals and to the works of other writer's
The literature dealing with Coleridge's life and
his achievements in poetry. criticism and philos-
ophy Is also catalogued. The marginalia listed
! collects the titles of over three hundred and
forty of the volumes annotated by Coleridge.
! Wherever possible the history and present own
| ership of these volumes are indicated. It has
! happened that most of them have found their
! way into public libraries and similar institu-
! tions, but much still remains in private hands
! For frontispiece, Washington Allston's portrait
has been reproduced il photogravure. The book
| is privately printed.
Biographies of two famous ministers are
among the books announced for the fall by
| Hodghton, AIifflin 6, Co. The Rev. Dr. Lyman
Abbott's book on Henry Ward Beecher, his
| predecessor in the Plymouth Church pulpit is
described as more intimate than formal Paul
Revere FrOthinghams memorial address on
| William Ellery Claiming" delivered upon the
occasion of the unveiling of the Claiming mon
| ument in Boston, is made the basis of a study
| of the preacher and published under the same
! title in convenient form. Among other bio
! graphical books which the same house is pre-
| pairing is Professor Simon Newcomb's "Remi-
| niscences of an Astronomer An autobiograph-
! ical account of General Putnam. giving histor-
| ically interesting letters and official papers.
| called The Memoirs of Rufus Putnam is ed
! tied by Rowena w. Buell. George r. Carpenter
dds a study of Whittier to the American Men
- Letters series, and E. p Allan publishes the
/ Life and Letters of Margaret Junkin Preston, -
! the Southern poet
The outlook Company announces a book on
trees. in which emphasis will be laid upon the
peculiar beauties of the ordinary varieties that
| escape the accustomed eye OF most observers.