New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-16

gang fame. has turned author. Together with
this information We have received q little green
covered volume entitled "Jim Cummins' Book
CThe Reed Publishing Company, in which the
whilon guerilla and highwayman narrates what
is described in a subtitle as a True but Terri
BILE Tale Of Outlawry." AS may be imagined. the
work is largely autobiographical. but 1t contains
some miscellaneous blood and thunder" infor
nation Of interest to those to whom that sort
of thing appeals. That the author Is frankness
itself may be shown by this quotation from his
preface:
Every book must have preface. and 1 am
yielding to imperious custom" The preface
usually tells why the author wrote the book
there crying need. long felt want. de-
mand. etc Now. really. friends, there was
crying need IN this case-a crying need Tor the
coin of the realm which it is hoped the sales OF
this book will bring me-
The Frederick A. Stokes Company announces
for immediate publication English transta-
ton of Lieutenant Bilse's novel. "A Little Gar
rison" the work which has cost Its author
long term OF Imprisonment for his holiness In
venturing to expose the evils of life in German
garrison. In addition to this punishment, Lieu
tenant Bise dismissed from the service.
The translator OF the novel. Mr.. Wolf Won
Schierbrand. formerly officer in the same
branch of the German army, the cavalry. and is
thus we'll equipped for his task. 1t IS stated
that the German edition reached a sale Of over
one hundred thousand copies within fortnight
after publication.
Beginning next month. the Arthur II. Clark
Company will issue limited edition OF a series
Of annotated reprints OF some rare contemporary
volumes OF travel descriptive of the social and
economic conditions OF the Middle and Far West
during the period of early American settlement.
This series viii be edited by Reuben Gold
Thwaites, and viii be complete in thirty-one
Volumes issued at the rate of volume every
month. 1t viii contain facsimiles OF the orig
inal title pages maps. portraits. views. ETC.. and
the publishers state that IT will comprise only
works OF permanent historical value. some OF
which that they to be found
in the largest collections OF Americana in this
country. A feature OF the work Will be an elab-
crate analytical index, which VIII occupy the
concluding volume. Mr.. Thwaites will contribute
introductons TO the various reprints and many
historical geographical. chronological and biblio-
graphical notes.
Professor n. s. Shaler who viii publish In
February through Houghton. Mifiin Co vol
with the significant title OF The Neighbor:
Study of Race Prejudices." has left Har-
ward for a six months vacation This he plans
to pass in the Mediterranean countries making
the Nile trip, and then traversing Palestine and
Greece.
Not a few people Will be surprised to learn
that Bruno Leasing. the author of Children OF
Men CNcClure. Phillips &c Coz is none other
than Rudolph Block. the comic artist. sponsor
for Foxy Grandpa, Lady Bountiful, Happy
Hooligan and other coored supplement creations
II while he reporting for The Sun" q
cloakmakers strike that Mr.. Block became In
terested in the status of the East Side Jew. and
IL throw light this subject that
he wrote the stories embraced in Children Of
Men
Mr.. Bart Kennedy, author OF "A Sailor
Tramp" not long ago made pedestrian tour
of Spain. which he traversed from Andalusia to
Andorra. acquainting himself thoroughly
possible with the country and its people. His
impressions of the land OF the Dons are recorded
in volume entitled "A Tramp in SPAIN which
will come from the publishing house OF Fred
erick Warne & Co.
News comes from abroad to the effect that
Booth Harrington, whose latest book, Cherry
Harper & Bros) is repeating the successes
of its predecessors recently had a somewhat
citing experience on Mount Vesuvius. Mr.. Tark-
ington made the ascent Of the volcano accom-
panied by his family and several guides AS the
party neared the rim of the crater they We're
greeted by shower of stones. Writing home,
Mr.. Harrington reports that they stood not on
the order of their going. but went at once