New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-19

attempted to Identify the locality by the SPELL
ings of contemporaneous writer's. The his
torical work on New-York City, entitled Man
haitian in 1925" and recently published by
Dodd, Mead & Co.. contains list OF forty-six
different spellings of the name of the island
which the present Borough of Manhattan is
situated. These are forms in which the ortho-
graphic ingenuity Of seventeenth century re-
| corders found expression:
Manachatas Manades Manadoes, Manados Man
ahactas Manahata, Manahatans Manahatas; Mana Mana
Manatens Manates. Manath Manathans, Manathe'
Manathes. Manatte Maneto Mammal M mar a ian.
hates. Manhathans. Manhatoes, Manhatoos, Man
hatf. Manbattoes Manhattons Manhattos Man
buttons. Mannahata, Mannatans Menade. Meiates'
Nominations. Munhaddons-
For present day spoilers convenient little
handbook has recently been issued in a new
edition by THE Dietetic and Hygienic Gazette"
It is entitled the Gazette Speller and Definer,
and is of shape and size to fit easily in vest
pocket There are two divisions of words in the
volume one of ordinary English words and the
other OF medical terms, the book having origt-
nally been intended for the of physicians who
might be a little shaky on their English: but
the prompt sale of first edition of fifteen thou
sand copies convinced the publishers that 1t was
equally adapted to the needs of the laymen who
are subject to the diseases defined in the second
part. The volume Is the essence or conpaclnesS
| every line contains a word. and that word Is
defined in that line
Nine Washington, widow of the French Am
bassador to the Court of ST James's from 1883 to
| 1893, and author of the entertaining Letters OF
e. Diplomats Wife" is visiting New-York.
which was her home in girlhood. Her father.
Charles King, president OF Columbia Col
| lege from 1S49 TO 1864 and Nine. Washington
a s0acial guest OF university it's e.
| cent sesouicentennial celebration. The December
number of "Scribner's Magazine will contain d
seasonabls little sketch by her entitled Christ
mas in the Valois,' account OF the holiday
| festivities in a small village about sixty miles
| from Paris
Harold MacGrath author OF The Puppet
| Crown" and THE Grey Cloak" has written
new romance. called The Man on the Box" just
/ published by the Bobbs- Merrill Company. The
| Illustrations are by Harrison Fisher.
John u. Higinbothan's contribution to the
| literature CD Of travel. Three Weeks in
Europe" has appeared. and amply bears out the
authors statement that eft does not require
genius to publish a book but nerve" 1t could
have appropriately been entitled. How Not to
Do It," as may be Judged by few choice pas
sages taken almost at random in turning over
the pages: IT learning to carry bundle in
each hand and my ticket in teeth: THE
Aerated Bread Company has about one hundred
lunch rooms in London; they the nearest
British equivalent to the American quick lunch;
Old masters lost their power to trouble us some
time ago" Although the only evidence of gayety
that the author detected in Paris when a
soldier publicly kissed his girl in the street. he
is not altogether unobserving. He notes that in
Rome evidences of Catholicism abound
The Appletons announce that the first edi-
| lions of Hall Gaines novel, THE Prodiga Son."
aggregated 225.OO0 copies $4,000 of which COM
posed the first issues OF the book in England.
Canada and the United States. The remaining
$4,000 copies were divided among the editions
which appeared simultaneously in eight other
languages.
Another work in A. S Barnes & Cos Trail
Makers Series will be published next week. It
Is in two volumes. and is entitled Narratives OF
the Career of fernando De Soto 1t aims to be
a complete presentation OF the contemporary his
! tory of the explorers famous expedition, and 1t
will contain the stories of De Soto's two
panions, Biedma and the Gentleman of Elvas"
together with the diary of De Soto's private
secretary. now translated into English for the
first time by Professor Edward Gaylor Bourne,
of Yale University. the editor of the volumes.
The articles on the making OF artistic porcelain
and stoneware by Taxile Doat. of the Manu-
factory OF Sevres. France, which have appeared
in the Keramc Studio magazine of Syracuse
n. Y, are about to be brought out in a limited
edition in volume. with the title of Grand
Ecu Ceramics" The processes of manufacture
will be fully described. step by STEP and the
important discoveries made at Sevres in the last
fifteen years presented in detail