New-York tribune., 1904-08-08


ance." has been constantly cropping up among
the six best selling books Of the week" is
spending the summer in Germany.
The Entirely New Cynic's Calendar" for
1905, which viii be issued by Paul Elder & Co
OF San Francisco. has been called for in such
quantities that the advance sales have entirely
exhausted the first edition OF ten thousand. and
. a second printing Of twenty thousand additional
was ordered before publication.
Tom Mason now comes forward with a claim
10 the invention Of the Summer Girl" He
wrote poem about her fifteen years ago. and
makes the assertion that il was the first time
she ever appeared in print. He puts himself on
record IN the following words: Il wrote the
verses one February, during binding snow
Storm and the only thing could think of was
The Summer Girl The poem was widely
copied, and became part OF current speech .
II VIII be interesting TO note if the claim VIII re-
main unchallenged. It is hard TO believe that so
interesting person as a species Of such remote
antiquity should have gone so long unnamed
and unclassified
new edition Of Havelock ElIis's wei known
work on the human secondary sexual characters
entitled Man and Woman" has Just been i'm
ported by the Scribners. The book was originally
published ten years ago, and since that time the
result OF a great deal Of valuable specialist work
on the subject has been published. much Of it
countless due TO the stimulus OF Mr. EIlis's
initiative. The author has availed himself Of the
data furnished by these investigators in revising
ana bringing down 20 date the fourth edition oF
MS book All the ground has been worked over
again ana much matter added. Little
change Is 10 be noted IN the conclusions original
~ arrived az, save In the chapter on the senses
IN which. when the book was first written. the
available data were very scanty In the light Of
nus later knowledge Mr.. Ellis thus sums up the
results IS regards the various senses:
we nne that women arc unquestionably superioy
superior in the DISCRIMINATION Of tsg;ss ana probably
ne other senses. the evidence is less concliisye
are clearly and decidedly superior 10 oee5 % Tba
women but il Is Iss cssT ~ Ss[tslny on the side OF
saer side than popular MOTORS would have LED US
booAer l. Washington. after a busy year of
work in the interest OF Tuskegee University and
the preparation Of his book. working with the
Hands is resting at South Weymouth, Mas.
carlo de sornaro. the artist. writing OF D'A
nnnzio IN the August Critic" speaks OF him as
prophet without honor in his OWN country 1.
/ am quite positive" he says, that there ,s M
man u any country who Is more despiseu and
hateo than DAnnunzio is in his own country
personally the impression he made on Mr. For.
naro was oiSagreeable enough TO warrant n.
unfa|oraois opinion Of his fellow countrymen.
- rs type Is essentially the Greek OF the psr,et
oL oecadence. The line from the forehee -. -
al s,, s hese rs nearly straight line but tie nos
-s.,y x-tss sol az the end. The forehead IS rosnS
49, Dssc very high. Intellectual; the ewes bl1s
sots hltn heaEy eyelios; the eyes of a keeI
-. Toe eyes OF memory. Th- FDOufh Il 80
So bst rather small and finely cut with a stHrt
sffterslge. little blond mustache: ans fhs x,-sat
eA-' covered ey & small blond beard. The hsnds