New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-17

! Mr.. HEREFORD has borne a part. with MIS-
| Ethel Watts Mumford and Mr. Addison Miner,
| in the preparation of The Entirely New Cynics
| Calendar of Revised Wisdom (San Francisco:
| Paul Elder e. Coz, a pocket volume for lToo'
| The sayings are droIl and suggestive. Here are
| a few of them: Tell the truth and shame the
| family "Knowledfe is power-if you know IL
about the right person" Actresses will happen
| in the best regulated families" You will never
miss water while the champagne runs dry.
| Don't take the Will for the Deed-get the
Deed" Charity is the steriized milk of human
kindness But must not borrow too many
of the shrewd hits in this book. With its
piquanr drawings and decorations, printed va
riously in red black, 1t is of the best
of the publications Of the season making for
mirth. Mrs. Mumford alone has got up Smiles
in Rhine" philadelphia: The Penn Publishing
Company, book Of limericks, illustrated with
opposite absurdities in black and red. The
character of the collection may be best illus
trated by one or two specimens:
DTsPOsINC OF BERTHE.
Bertie The railroad track
Failed to hear the engine squedl;
Scraping BERTHE of the wheel
TOO THIN
There was young lady Of Lynn
Who was, 81 exceedinsly, thin
To imbihe lemonade
She slipped through tho straw and fell IN
Mr.. John Cecil Clay. a draughtsu1an whose
work has Ions been appreciatively noticed in the
magazines, has produced a very successful
Christmas volume in the quarto which he calls
In Loves Garden: A Human Nature Book
(The Bobbs-Merrill Company. It is a floral
scheme, and lovely throughout On every
other page q pretty girl IS drawn emerging from
some flower. and. either facing the design or
forming part Of it, there is appropriate
quotation from one of the poets. Mr.. Clay is
equally dainty in his portraits and in his flowers,
and in each composition he arranges both with
decorative effect. The Illustrations are vari-
ously I'm black and white and in coors. The
tinted pictures have been reproduced with pecul-
lar finish. Even the pages that have no pictures
on them show a dim design in a delicate tint.
and everywhere in the borders in the title page
and in the end papers, artistic taste is revealed
I'm Loves Garden" is to be cordially COM
mended
The Fussers Book CFox-DufTield Company
is a collection of clever drawings by Florence
Lyman, the Rules" in it being written by Anna
Archibald and Georgina Jones The philosophy
of these authors runs somewhat as follows:
Don't drop her like a hot coal the minute the
music stops. Seem Ioath to let her 60 and
waltz few extra steps If necessary. This Is
tremendously telling, and so easy!
Words cheap. When introduced to a girl
at ball. even If you decide that she won't do.
at least remark; May have one later on?'-it
makes for good feeling. Make her care
before you try to make her jealous.
Notice details in girls looks tastes and frocks.
and at some far future time compliment her on
them. Length of memory linked with closeness
of observation will doubly f1atter her" II is not
precisely brilliant fooling, but 1t has its good
points.
Tr,I,It
Coates & Coz is collection of epigrams by
Lisle de Vaux Matthewman. with pictures by
Clare Victor Dwiggins. The epigrams are of
this quality Before you in double har-
ness, look we'll to the other horse. but see TO
it that the other horse doesn't have chance to
look we'll to you" The drawings in this book
even more vivacious than the text "Waes