New-York tribune., 1904-08-08
WbGf N. y. Booksellers Say Grey
Are Telling Most.

~ L.47 SiiLdll Dody, are very well
SAMMY ana mechanically lifting a monocle to his
wink VIM -'o'" "n''h It IS suddenly dropped with
Mrs. Frances HoGgson Burnett is spending
The summer in her English country home. May
than Hall, in Kent The estate is a very old
one lying I'm the most beautiful part OF Eng
| lands most picturesque county. The founda-
| tons Of the house are over seven hundred years
oid, and the old church the grounds is men
toned ia the Doomsdav Book. Attached to the
han are two quaint villages, RoIvenden Street
and Rolvenden Lane The section of Kent in
which Mrs. Burnett lives is very popular with
literary people Henry James, Joseph Conrad,
Ford Maddox Hueffer and Nine. Albanesi all
have homes within few miles Of Maytham.
George Parker Winship's compilation and
translation Of THE Journey of Coronado" as
told by the Spanish leader and some of his
party, has lately been published by A. 8. Barnes
& Co. as the first volume Of their series of ''Tbe
Trail Makers" Coronado was the first Euro
pean to explore the great West; he started on
his journey seventy-fve years before the Eng
Ish succeeded in establishing themselves on the
northeastern coast OF North America. The OH
ject of the expedition was 10 discover the fabed
riches OF the country and to add them to the
treasury Of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles
v whose name, by singular omission. is not
mentioned in the book. Coronado failed TO find
anv Of the things for which he went in search
The marvellous seven cities Of Cibola turned out
to be Zuhi pueblos. and the far famed Ouivera
an insignificant village of matched huts. No
gold or precious stones rewarded his adventur
Gus enterprise, but he added TO the world ae
known TO Europeans an extent OF country
bounded on the west by the Colorado River from
It's mouth TO the Grand Canyon on the east l,v
the boundless pTairies, and stretching north
ward TO the upper waters of the Rio Grande and
the southern boundary OF Nebraska; and the
accounts OF the Journey. the people and the
hardships endured make volume of FASCINATING
interest.
In Wall Street and the Country" inst nub-
lshed by the Putnams, the author. Charles A
Conant has collected number of articles which
he has written for various publications. to re-
move the popular prejudice which initiates
! against dispassionate solution Of the nevv ma
uonal problems presented by the modern ten
oency to capitalization. He especially opnoses
the extension Of the area OF federal Intervention
INTO heios hitherto reserved for the States and
! lettering that freedom Of action and OF initia-
ave which has been one OF the essential causes
OK our national progress" A certain amount OF
legislative control OF corporations he recognizes
as necessary but draws the line at anything
saVoring or state control In his chapter on
me Functions of Exchanges is a passage
"nich gives concrete statement of his views:
@ me .neehansm OF modern industry affords an AL
a. Nsssspeldoe obstacle 10 state socialism Tf
eocssIsra tinpeG 70 establish any system of state
..,as ~ would have be determined in fI1sf
s.se ptopoIuon every article should be producedN
.S ,sSN many shoes and hats, how much cloth
q. .u,o-,Ss ana vinegar the world needed and
seS ~ ~ necessary 10 adjust the supply 70 that
market it is deter1ondI me 10 nlecnaisn OF the stock
gennity mas yet found il possible Just how much i
20 rbosa commodity. because the products
,,al,,e les which needed rising in
%hleh are not needed are faiiin~ giving w.
Hlat production should be curtaiied A1liiis