New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-21
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
Current Talk of Things Present
and to Come.


A story of Russian life by Mrs E. L. voynich
author of THE Gadfy" and Jack Raymond.
is announced by the Lippincotts for publication
in June The title, "Olive Latham indicates
that it is likely to be of the international" va
riety, but judging from Mrs. Voynichs previous
novels It will not be without certain strongly
individual characteristics.
Biblical students will be interested in the
nouncement that a new edition of Canon I. K.
Cheyne's Commentary the Book of Psalms"
will be issued this month by Thomas Whitaker.
Canon Cheyne has been for some time rewriting
and revising his book and TO accommodate the
new matter he has added the work will now be
published in two volumes
Some of the problems presented by what Frank
Julian Warne. of the University of Pennsyl-
vania in the title of his book just published by
the Lippincotts, terms THE Slav Invasion"
were brought to a very practical issue in the
mine workers strikes of 1900 and 1902. Mr..
Warne's book is the result of a first hand in
vestigation Of conditions in the anthracite coal
fields of Pennsylvania, and is the first attempt
TO point out the most conspicuous effects of the
recent change in the character of immigration
into the United States.
Professor Oscar W. Kuhns's forthcoming book
on "Dantes Influence English Poetry from
Chaucer to Tennyson," has received the tndorse-
ment OF the distinguished Dante scholar. Pro-
fessor Pho Ragna, of Florence who declares 1t
to be the work of lone who shows himself to be
at the same time diligent investigator. an ac-
curate observer and a cautious critic. three
gifts which rarely found together"
General Robert F. Lee is the hero OF James
Barnes's newest book 1.-The Son of Light Horse
Harry" to be published next week by the
Harpers. The story deals with the boyhood OF
the famous Southern general. and follows him
through West Point and into the Mexican War.
The last two chapters deal with the Civil War
and the surrender at Appomattox-
Will ". Harden. author OF "Abner Daniel"
has gone South for the summer. He says he
finds it cooler there. Friends and admirers
solicitous for Mr.. Harbens sanity. after reading
this remark, will be relieved to learn that,
though he frequents low ATTITUDES he seeks high
attitudes.
Miss Elizabeth Robins. the author of THE
Magnetic North" which the Frederick A Stokes
Company is bringing out in this country. will be
remembered the author OF The open CUES
ton" which was published few years ago. II
dealt with problems of heredity and suicide, and
the subject of much discussion at the time.
In Below the Salt" she wrote n penetrating
study of different type. Her other story. The
Fatal Cliff OF Beauty" a cIeverly amusing
sketch of a remarkable maid servant, is less
we'll known. Miss Robins's original profession
was the stage. and she achieved success as
actress and manager In the production OF Ibsen's
dramas in England and the United States.
In Pseudo Criticism: or. The Higher Criti-
cism and It's Counterfeit" O'leming II. Revell
Company. Sir Robert Anderson applies the laws
the facts on which the destructive critics Of the
Bible base their conclusions. He claims that the
average man is fully competent to draw his own
conclusions. and cites the custom OF leaving TO
jury Of average men the duty OF sitting and
weighing the evidence Of experts in law trials |
AS a jury OF one. Sir Robert finds the Bible
critics guilty of msusng their evidence.
John II. CARING, the author Of 1.-THE Vikings |
SKULL is modest that he declines TO furnish |
his publishers with particulars in regard to his
private life In this age of personal exploitation
such retlcence is so unusual as to be note |
worthy. and should certainly be respected. We |
refrain. accordingly, from printing the meagre |
details which his publishers are able to give TO
the press
The Sayings OF Jesus and fragment |
OF a lost Gospel, a few details in regard to |
place Of honor in the fourth part of the !
"Oxyrhynchus Papyri' which will be issued by |
the Graeco- Roman branch of the Egyptian Ex- |
ploraton Fund early next month. The general !
interest which has been excited by this find" of
Drs. Grenfell and Hunt will be met by the pub |
LEGATION by Henry Provide of a cheap popular |
edition OF the Sayings and the Gospel frag-
ment, together with the "Logia" discovered in |
1897. striking feature Of the Sayings" is the |
introduction connecting them with St Thomas !
1t is believed that the 'Logia' papyrus belongs |
to the same collection OF Sayings
Although Professor n. S. Shaler the dean OF |
the Lawrence Scientific School, where he Is also !
professor Of geology. has been identified with |
Harvard University for nearly forty years, his |
life and experiences have been much broader and |
varied than those of most college pro- |
fessors. He served in the Civil War as COM |
mander of a battery, and has since then inter |
ested himself in many topics not generally as |
ISOLATED with the science of geology. In his new
book, THE Citizen" published by A. S. Barnes |
quaintance with such vital subjects as educa- |
tion the suffrage. the duties and rights of cti-
Zens. the relations of labor and capital, and the
negro problem.
"Dickens's Christmas Stories" have been |
"bowdlerized" by Jane Gordon for the American |
Book Company, which has brought them out in !