New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-09

tanner with 1t. Although the last book by Mr..
Stockton to be published, it is not the last that
he wrote. He had completed The Captains
Toll Gate and considering its publication
when he was asked to write another novel deal
ing with the Buccaneers. He had already pro-
duced a book entitled Buccaneers and Pirates
Of our Coasts. The idea Of writing a novel
while the incidents were fresh in his mind
pleased him, and he put aside The Captains
Toll Gate as the other book, Kate Bonnet,
was wanted soon, and he did not wish the Two
works to conflict In publication
Settlement workers and those interested in
missions especially addressed by Miss W1ni-
fred Buck in her discussion Of Boys Self Gov
erning Clubs" which the Macmans publish
She has had twelve years experience with such
clubs and their members. and aims to Suggest
the educational advantages inherent in the sys-
tenn, and to afford textbook for those who de-
sire to become club advisers" She includes
manual of parliamentary law, and discusses
constitutions, business meetings, devices Tor get
ting in touch with the boys and the ethical les
of the playground.
If Romeo in love with being in love. here
characters who are not even so sure
Of that. In 1.-THE KemptonWare Letters
which the Macmillan Company issues, appears
a correspondence between Herbert Ware, an
instructor in economics in Western university,
and Dane Kempton. English poet and MS
fatherly friend. Kempton upholds the romance
of love the chief end Of man, and Ware con-
tends that it is convention. This is not
all in the air, though it might seem so. The
professor becomes engaged to a girl he likes,
after setting aside a real passion This last
phenomenon, given the posture of affairs, may
tax credulity. But we have the prospectus
merely. before US. series of love letters forms
a prologue developing the woman's side Of the
question. One might suspect to find fourth
dimension in passion somewhere
Echoes Of Mr. Blaikie's book on getting strong
and staying suggested by the title Dr.
Floyd M. CrandaU has chosen for the book
physicians advice which he publishes through
Doubleday, Page 6 Co.. How to Keep Well
To avert avoidable illness is the aim Of the
writer. When asks after darky's health
one gets an enthusiastic reply. Some active
men on the verge Of nervous prostration Will de-
clare with good spirits, that fairly conta-
gious, that they felt better. And others are
never quite justified in being about. according
to their opinion They tell you sadly the
physician has ordered them to drop all work and
take two years rest. 1t is their serene content
to live on the lifelong verge Of breakdown. But
road How are you, Caesar?'' you say to
hulking indestructible piece of robust manhood.
"Oh, jes torable. sah." is the melancholy reply,
lies torable" For people who share this condl-
ton, who feel that they ought to see physician
and are at some loss for definite complaint and
in fear of too definite course of treat
ment such book should be boom A book
costs less than consultation. But why does
not some one write a book on How to Keep
Sick Without Being So?"
John 7. Bell who officer in the I'd
Iowa Infantry serving under Grant and under
Sherman, has drawn from study Of the official
war records Union and Confederate published
by the government in 40 volumes, series OF
CHI apters on the secret history of the COS
which he issues through The Whitaker. Ray Co.,
under the title Civil War Stories"
The Harpers issued on Thursday, with the
imprint of r. H Russell two books of draw
ings. One with the title American Beauties"
contained six heads drawn by Thomas Mitchell
Pierce, printed on heavy paper and colored by
hand. The other comprised twelve portraits by
William Nicholson including those of the Presi-
dent, the Pope Kitchener and Duse.
The story is going around among Mrs. Mar
garet Doyle Jacksons friends that when she
had finished her novel, "a Daughter of the
Pit" and at work on its revision she be-
came so discouraged that she very nearly tore
up the whole manuscript, and at last in disgust
sold it to her husband for 90 cents cash. After
a few days, however, she recovered from her
depression and was anxious to get the story
back at any price Her husband was very con-
siderate and returned the manuscript at an ad-
vance of only quarter of dollar-the same
being for salvage charges, as he expressed it.
After this Mrs. Jackson soon had the story
ready for the publishers.
A book Of antiquarian interest is announced
by Houghton, Miffiin & Co. in monograph by
Andrew Mcfarland Davis on 1.-The Conhscaton
of John Chambers Estate" A letter has been
discovered recounting the msfortunes that be-
fell the Tory Colonel Chandler, of Worcester IN
1174. and Mr.. Davis offers careful examination
of the subject, traversing the old documents
that show the laws and processes of the revo-
lutionsts in Furnishing their Loyalst neighbors-
BOOKS OF THE WEEk.
ART.
Etchtngs Autographs. Reproductions Of
Color Paintings, Pastels, In