New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-30

copious notes The book viii be authoritative IN
/ the fullest sense.
Some little time ago there discovered a
code" drawn from nearly three hundred de-
cisions rendered by judges and formulated
about $500 3. c. by Hammurabi, King OF BABY
lon From an American translation of this
code Of Hammurabi." made by Professor r.
F. Harper and issued by the University Of
Chicago Press. we quote a few edicts indicat-
ing how the lawmakers of ancient Babylonia
treated problems somewhat similar to those Of
the present day:
II a man. in a case Cpendng Judgment. utters
threats against the witness, (or) does not estab-
fish the testimony that he has given, If that case
be a case involving life that man shall be put
If a man lin a case) offers (as a bribe) grain
money to the witnesses he shall himself bear
the sentence passed in that case.
If a man practises brigandage and is capt
ured, that man shall be put to death.
If a man negects to strengthen his dyke ana
does not strengthen 1t, and break Is mace IN
his dyke and the water carries away the farm
land the man in whose dyke the break has
been made shall restore the grain which he has
If a woman hates her husband and says thou
shalt NOT have me" thew shall inquire into her
antecedents for her defects and If she has been
a careful mistress and is without reproach, and
her husband has been going about ana greatly
belttIing her, that woman has no blame she
shall receive her presents and shall go to her
fathers house.
Mr.. Henry Provide announces the early pub
lication by the Clarendon Press Of an edi-
ton of "Elizabethan Critical Essays" in two
volumes. collated and annotated by Mr.. G.
Gregory Smith. lecturer English literature in
the University Of Edinburgh. The work will
also include an Introduction on the origins OF
literary criticism in England"
Juvenile readers who have followed the adj
ventures of BILLY Whiskers" will doubtless be
pleased to learn that the Saalfield Publishing
Co intends to issue shortly another volume
treating Of the adventures of this wonderful
goat family. The new book will be entitled
Billy Whiskers Jr."
Little Mitchell, the Story Of a Mountain
Squirrel" is the title Of another book for the
young to be published this spring by A c.
McClurg s. Co. The author. Miss Margaret
Morley is already known by her nature books.
THE Song of Life" THE Bee People" etc. Her
new volume will be Illustrated by twenty-four
pictures by Bruce Horsfall.
Among the biographical volumes listed for
early publication by Houghton. Mifiin Co.
are Francis Parkman." by Henry D. Seds-
wick; William H Prescott" by Rollo Ogden.
and william Greenleaf Eliot" by Charlotte c.
Eliot. The subject Of the last named volume
was for many years prominent in the religious.
educational and intellectual life OF the Missis-
sippi Valley He was the founder. and long
the chancellor. Of Washington University. at st.
Louis. The story OF his career should prove at
once interesting and instructive. DR.. J. K.
Hosmer. OF Minneapolis. long personal friend
OF Dr. Eliot has written an Introduction to
Mrs. Eliots memoir.
That invaluable reference annual. who's
who7" has made its appearance for 1904 in it's
usual bright covered garb and will be well
coined by all who have occasion to gather per-
sonal information quickly. This year II is es-
sentially biographical. the various tables which
formed the first part having been removed,
with the exception OF those giving information
concerning the royal family Of Great Britain
and the deaths OF 1903 They obtainable.
however. under separate cover, the publishers
having issued them with the title OF Who's
Who Year Book" The British annual contains
many more names than its American cousin. but
this is not at all surprising in that II seeks to
include sketches OF notable people the world
over.
a scribner importation treating OF subject
that is at present a topic OF vital interest TO
Americans. is Major w. Evans-Gordon's The
Allen Immigrant" The author was formerly a
member OF the British Royal Commission on
Alien Immigration. and has studied at close
range the questions involved.
Those who enjoy struggling with dialect
promised new sensation in novel. ''Tilie." by
Helen +. Martin. that will shortly be issued by
the Century Company. The scene is laid in
little village in the Dutch region of Pennsyl-
vana, and do not doubt that there will be
plenty Of dialect IN it. Moreover the subtitle.
"A Mennonite Maid" may be taken as proof
sufficient that the dialect will be of a peculiar
order.
new annual that promises to be very
viceable. If properly prepared. will see
the light Ernest Gushing Richardson and An
son Ely Morse propose to issue a photography
Of all books and periodical articles on United
States history published from year to year.
and their first volume will deal with the pub
locations of 1902. 1t is stated that the work
will contain more than one thousand titles of
books and pamphlets and more than five thou