New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-07-23
BOOKS and AUTHORS.
Current Talk about Things Pres
ent and to Come.


! richly freighted with fiction and especially with
short stories. Salient among all these MARIA
tives is Mr.. Kiplings They which mas tno
| place of honor In 'Scribner's." 1t deserves IT,
| and in that fact alone gives peculiar pleas
! ure. Some Of the authors more recent proouc-
tions have been sadly lacking In the quahtles
which made him famous. The present story sns-
| gests that he is more in possession or MS
true inspiration. It is subtly imaginative piece
| Of work, tinged with that mysticism which gave
! to THE Brushwood Boy THE Greatest story
/ in the World" and few other of his WRITINGS u
| place apart. There is. too. in Ihey tehuei
| ness which we feared that Mr. Kipling, in his
! preoccupation with the South African war ana
| imperialism. had forgotten. AS though TO make
| the readers contentment complete, the puDish-
| ers have left this charming story unillustrateo'
| a blessing for which we give heartfelt thanks.
John Lane has in press for publication early
! in the fall Mr.. Ernest Alfred Vizetelly's Emile
| lola Novelist and Reformer: An Account or
| His Life. Work and Influence" The book Will
| be an octave Of than five hundred pages.
illustrated with portraits. views and facsimiies'
An appendix will contain a note on some Eng
lish translations of Zoas writings. full list OF
them being given. Mr.. Vizetelly had unusual
opportunities for obtaining first hand informa-
ton concerning lola, and his book is expected
to prove authoritative. In it, of course. the nov
elist will hold the centre of the stage, but many
of his literary contemporaries will be noticed
With complete devotion to his old friend, the
author dedicates his work ITO His Memory"
Bliss Perry Editor of The Atlantic Monthly.
will spend his vacation with his family at his
summer home at Greensboro. W.T. and In the
mean time Is preparing for fall publication
volume Of essays on 1.-The Amateur Spirit"
O,,pf,f
Lippincotts a volume of Historical Tales" to
which he adds the subtitle. The Romance of
Reality" The stories are OF the kind with
which we became familiar in our Readers In
childhood's happy school hours. and tell OF such
interesting things as Ponce de Leon and the
Fountain Of YOUTH THE Thrilling Adventure
of Captain John Smith," Governor Tryon and
the Carolina Regulators" and THE Homecom-
ing of General Lee and His Veterans" The
subjects selected with special reference TO
Southern boys and girls. but the book would
have been better for them If the author, IN
stead of rewriting the familiar STORIES had
made extracts from the books of standard au-
thora
st. Clair Baddcey, who an intimate friend
and collaboration of the late Augustus j. c.
Hare has written a book on Recent Discoveries
in the Roman Forum which the Macmans
VIII publish in September Mr.. Baddeley has
followed closely all the work which has been
carried on in the Forum since 1898. and his vol
ume constitutes. in fact the official account OF
the excavations. 1t Will be fully illustrated.
Barr Ferree the secretary of the Pennsyl-
vanla Society. has prepared for use in the state
schools history OF the commonwealth under
the title OF Pennsylvania; 4 Primer" Leon-
ard Scott Publishing Company. Besides It's
purely historical features, the book embraces a
review of the geography. geology. political div
isions and form of government of the State. on
the principle that history is best understood
by comparing the past with the environment OF
the present. The facts presented in the
form of detached paragraphs, which viii render
the book more serviceable a work Of ref
erence if less interesting to youus PIP students.
The numerous illustrations taken from old
portraits reports. books. magazines and similar
sources.
The Rev. DR.. Henry Dyke. who has lately
sailed for Europe. left with his publishers.
Charles Scribner's Sons the corrected proof
81 eets of his new volume of verse. which they
are TO issue in the fall It will include the poem
The Light Between the Trees" which appears
in the August number Of "Scribners Magazine"
An intelligent appreciation OF the work OF
Spain as a coonizing power Is to-day an essen
tial element in the Study or American history
and in a proper understanding OF our political
problems in the West Indies and the Philip
pines. A valuable contribution to the literature
on the subject has lately been issued by Henry
Holt & Co. in the shape OF q translation Of a
chapter from Wilhelm Roschers 'Koonien.
Kolonalpolitik und ACKNOWLEDGING" on the
Spanish Colonial System The translation.
by DIR. Ernest II. Baldwin has been revised and
edited by Edward Gaylord Bourne, professor of
history in Yale University.
The increasing interest in historical and patri-
otto societies in America has stimulated the
dormant heraldic appetite of those Of us who
can trace our ancestry back to Colonial days
for coats of arms. to testify TO honorable
antiquity of descent, to stamp upon sta
tionery and emblazon carriages and auto
mobiles We have warrant for this In the words
of the father Of his country. who said
1t Is far from my design to intimate any opinion
that Heradry, Coat Armor, ETC. might not be
rendered coHdncire to public and private use with
TO the purest spirit of republcansm on the con-
practice of Congress and the States all of which
have established some kind of armOrial devices
authenticate their official instruments.
To facilitate the adoption of such devices by
these who desire them and are in doubt as to
what they may claim, Fox. Dufield & Co. have
published a edition of "Crozier's General
Armory; A Registry of American Families En-
titled to Coat Armor." About two thousand
families included in the present volume with
descriptions of their coats of arms all of which
have been properly authenticated.
Two editions Of Gregorius's "Lucretia Borgia"
which was translated for d. Appleton &, Co n
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