New-York tribune., 1903-07-11
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
Current Talk of Things Present and
to Come.

10 COWLGs
The Rev Dr. George A Gordon is spending
his summer in the White Mountains. He has
just finished q new book to be called ultimate
Conceptions Of Faith" It will be published In
the early autumn.
II one is ordering the novel Drexel Biddle
issued lately CO ei Peggy ONeal" it is well to
have ones wits about him. In a l~rge depart
ment store in this city lately some books were
being sold on the drygoods counter as bargain
feature when a man who had been made to
promise TO bring a copy Of peggy ONeal
home with him rushed. in and asked for 1t Inc
presiding genius of the drygoods counter noted
his haste with amused interest Then she
turned to the speaking tube and cried, Send
Peggy O'Neal down right away" A young
Peggy RESPONDED presently and confronted the
amazed customer, who, offering apologies and
explanations was shown to the proper BOOK
department.
Miss Sadie Martinot, who is spending the
summer at Saratoga, is contemplating the prof.
ect of writing a book about her stage expert
ences and acquaintance.
Holcombe Ward contributes a chapter on
American Methods to the volume on Lawn
Tennis at Home and Abroad" which the Scrib-
ners have imported The book is edited by A.
H. S. AIahony H. S. Scrivener, G. W. Hillyard
and Mrs Sterry The manner in which the game
is differentiated in Northern Europe, France
Switzerland, Australia, New-Zealand and India
is discussed. The book is illustrated.
ANDY Barr" is the title of a novel by Willis
b. Hawkins, a newspaper man OF this city,
which the Lothrop Publishing Company is pub
fishing Andy Barr is quaint village charac-
ter
A correspondent has written to suggest to US
that the difficulties which confront the country
on electoral questions could be settled with little
friction by an appeal to the national record in
fiction If there is trouble over the basis OF rep
| resentation in the various States says cor
| respondent why not institute a system?
By this time few corners of the country have
| escaped celebration in novels Of the local color
stripe, and there is indication that the sup
ply is failing that there is any inclination to
lessen the search for undiscovered hooks from
whose bourne new stories might return Let
US adopt q new method of apportionment;
every district which produces seven new novels
of local conditions year shall be entitled to
one rep sentative in the national house.
Frank Dandy the author Of Pigs in Clover"
a novel of English social life, which we re-
viewed lately is Mrs. Julia Frankau, the wife
a
study Of eighteenth century color prints. An
| injunction was once served against one of her
earlier novels, on the ground that it was a skit
upon a prominent London physician.
W. c. Stiles publishes through G. w. Dilling-
ham Company a vigorous, not to say violent,
exhortation to the United States to call the
Russian Government to account for the Kishi-
neff massacre. The book is entitled "Out of
feJIS
order in Bessarabia as it has been rehearsed in
London and American newspaper dispatches,
and at every point contrasts the doings OF the
mob with the official utterances Of Russian rep
resentatives, in rousing oratorical style. He
then sketches the history of the Jews their de-
velopment into world race and the spread of
prejudice in their disfavor He is of the opinion
that admonishment from the Washington
Government would effect an extension of rights
for them because Of the complications in Man
churia. He argues also that such an official
inquiry part into Russian affairs as he
suggests would help the revolutionary move
ment, if it could become generally known, and
that this would be good thing for Russia and
the world In chapter Of addenda is given a
selection OF utterances by public men and cler-
gymen on the KishineT riot, which was the
signal for vast outpouring Of American senti-
ment."
Charles w. Wood author Of Letters from
Majorca" and I'm the Valley # the Rhone" has
published through the Macmillan Company a
volume on Norwegian Byways." It is the rec
ord Of trip made to out of the way parts Of
the country giving glimpses Of the people and
their manners and customs
Gregory Let's Life of sixtus ouintus Pone
of Rome in the Reign Of Queen Elizabeth" is
among the early printed volumes found in the
latest lists issued by Alfred f. Crudge London
In this book. the full old fashioned title page
assures u.s. we have by pleasant digressions"
view OF "the transactions of the Romlsh
Church and of the most considerable affairs OF
Europe in that age" The account of the con-
version of the rakish Earl of Rochester of the
court Of Charles II is set forth in a volume
called Some Passages in the Life and Death OF
the Right Hon. John, Earl of Rochester" This
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