New-York tribune., 1903-06-27

Ten thousand dollars has already been sub
scribed to proposed fund for a memorial 10 the
late Charles Waldo Haskins. The memorial VIII
take the shape of an endowment for chair IN
the School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance
Of New-York University to be called the
Charles Waldo Hasl.ins Professorshtp of Ac-
counting" Mr.. Haskins was the author OF the
treatise on Household Accounts" which the
Harpers issued shortly after his recent death.
In limp covers. a slim little compend of ad-
vice for coping with accidents is issued by the
Mutual Life Insurance Company. Of this city.
Diagrams illustrate the methods for resuscitat-
ing the drowning and bandaging wounds.
The two ,olumes in which the Scribners have
just published The Travels of Marco Polo a
revision of Sir Henry YuIe's edition, carry a
most elaborate dedication. It runs as follows:
TO THE MEMORY OF
SIR RODERICK l. MURCHISON. BART,
K c. B., G. c. ST. a, G. c. ST. S, ETC.
THE PERFECT FRIEND
MURRAY ErE E9GET46R 46RER IE sE6 ESTEEED 5s7 INTO
AND TO THAT OF MS MUCH LOVED NIECE.
HARRIET ISABELLA MURCHISON.
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UNDER TE WEos o EEER g8Es m HE E92 GT6 9ANY
WERE RTir54 EEAB Jo1 ~ 7,1zs NE rroT RERTGATE 5s
OLD NI-RCF3ISON HOME
/: THE ABiDING 1FFEcT1oS, sYMPATHY,0 AND
AMY FRANCES YULE,
TAfsPA1E R6ss l4Hrnr. snFTFHBSR nth. 1902
This has a fine impressive sound as BELTS a
book in which one finds this sort Of thing, taken
from the prologue:
Great Princes, Emperors, and Kings, Dukes
and Marquses. Counts knights and Burgessesl
and people of all degrees take this
book For let tell you that since our
Lord God did mould with His hands our first
Father Adam, even until this day, never hath
there been Christian or Pagan, or Tartar, or
Indian, or any man of any nation, who in his
person hath had so much knowledge and
experience Of the divers parts of the World and
its Wonders hath had this Messer Marco.
The briskly uncivlized doings in Breathitt
County. Kentucky, is the sort of background
which has been chosen for novel soon to be
published by the Fleming H. Revell Company
under the title Sons of Vengeance" AS cor
rective Of the feud spirit the author suggests
education Of the rising generation
It seems that an English critic has found more
than an echo of Sir William Davenant in the
writings of Father Tabb Thereupon Father
Tabb writes over to 1.-The Academy to say that
he had never heard of Sir William Davenant,
and has made the discovery that Sir William
supposed TO be the natural son of William
Shakespeare This. OF course. is more than
dubious But when 1t comes to Father Tabb's
never having heard OF Davenant the question
arises whether an echo ever hears its original
sound, anyhow.
The Humorous Poems" OF Thomas Hood have
been added by the Macmillan Company to their
Pocket Classics Canon Anger contributes 4
preface, and Charles Z. Brock has made several
illustrations. Miss Edgeworths Castle Rack
rent and The Absentee appear in the same
series. with drawings by Chris Hammond. and
an introduction by Anne Thackeray Ritche.
Brother Jonathan" is the title OF a new book
of stories Of the ancient worth Of the Revolu-
tionary patriots. which Hezeklah Butterworth
viii publish through D. Appleton & Co. The
central character Of the book IS TO be the origi-
nal Brother Jonathan, Governor Jonathan Trum-
bJn Of Connecticut.
Professor Percval Lowell, head of the Lowell
Observatory. at Flagstaff, Ariz, has his eye
on Mars again. The people up there are doing
their best TO signal US What in the world they
are trying 10 say has not yet been determined.
but there the disk Of Mars is a large brill
liant projection. which admits OF no natural
explanation. A thing which can't be explained
must be-artifciaL What would he the use Of
having anything artificial on the disk of Mars
If it not signal to other planets? Pro
fessor Lowell has made special study Of Mars