New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-02-27
BOOKS and AUTHORS.
Current Talk of Things Present
and to Come.

Charles Scribners Sons announce that they
expect TO issue before the end OF March the
first volume OF Professor Charles Foster Kent's
The Students Old Testament" This work
which will be complete in six volumes viii en-
body a chronological Encouragement OF the con-
tents OF the Old Testament. a translation de-
signed TO represent not only the words. but the
ideas spirit and beauty OF the original and an
analysis TO assist the student In tracing the
relation of the different parts to each other and
to the whole Where there are variant YER
sions Of the same narrative they will be printed
side by side. Professor Kent will also pre-
sent the results OF the Higher Criticism" and
will endeavor to show that "the foundations OF
Christian faith. instead OF being destroyed are
simply being laid on deeper and broader his
ioricai basis. and that the newer methods OF
Interpretation are supremacy helpful in gain
ing true knowledge OF the eternal messages OF
the Bible"
Mr.. Charles G. Harper. vino has rambled all
through that corner OF Kent made famous by
the "Ingoldsby Legends" is publishing through
the Macmillan Company a book dealing with the
literary landmarks Of the legends. Its title is
The Ingoldsby Country" and It is illustrated
with pen drawings and Photographic reproduc-
tons
Caroline Abbot Stanley's order No. H." 10
be published next month by the Century Com
pany. Is based on the Civil War measure that
was the result OF the border struggles between
Missouri and Kansas in the days when the
Jayhawkers and QuantrelTs men terrorized the
countryside. The author. it is stated. spent her
girlhood amid the historic scenes and incidents
of the border conflicts.
Houghton Mifffin & Co announce an impor-
tant extension OF their Riverside Press Edi-
TONS" They now propose to publish from time
TO time special limited editions OF reprints of
rare Americana, photographed volumes and
such original works as they may deem worthy
OF special publication There will be but one
edition of each Of these works, and the plates
will be destroyed when the printing is COM
pleted Facts Relating to the Death of Alex
ander Hamilton" and Documents Relating to
the Purchase and Exploration of louisiana" are
two of the volumes TO be published thus at an
early date.
A haunting quality OF mysticism, relieved by a
strong sense of humor. marks the collection OF
the Rev. r. S. Hawker's prose sketches pub
lished by Mr.. John Lane under the title Foot
prints OF Former Men in Far Cornwall" This is
a new edition of old work. the sketches. origi-
nally contributed to various publications, having
AfSt appeared DOCK form IN 1871 Thelr
author was the vicar of Morwenstow. not the
least interesting of Cornish towns and he has
contrived to impart to his legends, "reminiscences
and anecdotes the atmosphere of the region I'm
which he so long labored. He is at his best in
describing the jewellers along the wild Cornish
coast Many of his anecdotes are well worth
quotation, but We have space for only one,
| characteristic picture of the palmy days of the
Cornwall smugglers:
II was full sea In the evening of an autumn
day when traveller arrived where the road
ran along by sandy beach, just above high
water mark. The stranger, who a native CT
some inland town, and utterly unacquainted
with Cornwall and its ways, had reached the
brink Of the tide just landing" COM
ing off. II was scene not only to instruct a
townsman, but also TO dazzle and surprise. At
sea, just beyond the pillows. lay the vessel. well
moored with anchors at stem and stern Be
| tween the ship and the shore boats laden to the
gunwale passed TO and fro Crowds assembled
on the beach to help the cargo ashore. On the
one hand boisterous group surrounded a keg
with the head knocked in for simplicity OF ac-
cess to the good cognac into which they dipped
whatsoever vessel came first hand: one man
had filled his shoe. On the other side they
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