New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-02
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
Current Talk of Things Present
and to Come.

The Koninklijke Paketvaart MaatschapplJ
Q3oyal Packet Company has issued protusely
illustrated new edition of its Guide Through
Netherlands India done into English oy %. d
Bennington. In space of little more thah TWO
hundred pages the prospective tourist is given
much entertaining and valuable information re-
garding the archipelago of the Dutch East
Indian colonies mournfully admitted by the
packet company to be as yet q terra incognita
among the greatest part of the European
travelling public" For other than tourists the
work is Of especial interest. showing the
manner in which the Dutch government is seek
ing to develop it's East Indian possessions. In
addition to many halftones the volume IN
cludes a number of colored maps.
AS was to be expected, the situation in the
Far East has stimulated the demand for books
treating of Japan. There are several up TO date
works on this subject, such as Mr.. BroWnelFs
The Heart OF Japan" Mr.. Clements Hand
book of Modern Japan and DR.. Sydney L. Gu
lick's Evolution of the Japanese" the last
| named serving especially TO give comprehen-
sive view of the Japanese national character
and explain why the ambitious little people OF
the Land of the Rising Sun not afraid to get
10 grips with the Muscovite hordes.
Houghton Miflin & c. announce for publ
cation this spring volume on American Lit
erary Masters by Leon H. Vincent
It has become known that in preparing his
work THE German Struggle for Liberty. Mr.
Poultney Bigelow was. through the courtesy or
Emperor William, given access 10 the valuable
| manuscripts kept IN the Prussian archives. and
that he has thus been enabled TO incorporate in
his history much material that would other
wise have been unavailable, The third volume
Of his work was recently published by the Har-
pers. Mr. Bigeow. is resident of Ger
many.
We have received from WilfrId NJ. Voynich
the London bookseller whose wife sudden
fame by her novel THE Gadhy." short cata-
logue comprising many interesting first editions
and some unique specimens OF sixteenth and
seventeenth century bindings Mr.. Voynich also
announces for sale, at 600 guineas. n collec-
ton Of unknown or lost books" recently dis
covered in various monastio libraries. The coll
lection includes a manuscript Magellan map OF
the world. drawn vellum Immediately after
the return OF the Vittorta IN 1922; English
| sixteenth century binding. with an unknown
portrait Of Queen Elizabeth stamped on both
sides. and 100 works. printed IN England
France, Germany, italy. Spain. Switzerland. Ice
| land and Poland between the years 1870 and
| 1905. 1t Is stated that "all these works are
| unknown to photographers. and researches have
proved that public private libraries with
printed catalogues of their collections possess
| any Of the books
| There has appeared. bearing the imprint of
| the Salvation Army Publishing Department an
| illustrated biography OF the late Emma Booth
Tucker, consul of the Salvation Army who was
killed in a train wreck last October. The biogra-
| ply is from the pen Of her husband Commander
Booth-Tuc1er. and is prefaced with a tribute
| 10 IoYa
| The illustrations include q reproduction OF the
| last photograph Of Mrs. Booth-Tucker. taken
| in 1902
Among the publishers announcements we note
that Doubleday. Page & Co. will issue during
! the present month biography of General Sam
| uel Armstrong. written by his daughter, Mrs.
| w. T. Talbot. General Armstrong was not ONLY
a pioneer in the modern MANUAL training move
ment. but is accredited with being the man who
started Booker T. Washington on his useful
| career Another work to be issued shortly by
| the same firm is Miss Ellen Glasgow's new
| novel. The Deliverance." a story of Virginia
| and described "a picture of life done on
| large canvas"
useful new textbook is Dr. F. V. N
| Painters Elementary Guide to Literary Crti-
! cism" (Ginn & Coz 1t is certainly ambitious in
design, since it's avowed aim is TO give the
| embryo critic Specific direction for a compre-
hensive analysis Of the principal kinds of liera-
| ture. 1t is intended to show him the various
points in relation to form. content and spirit to
| which in succession he is to devote his atteu-
! ton" At the same time DR.. Painter recognizes
the fact that literary criticism is not a purely
mechanical process. to be learned by rule OF
thumb. His statement of the requisites Of the
critic viii appear formidable to the eager novice.
| THE critic should have the power writes DIR.
| Painter. ITO dlvest himself of prejudice, and,
| like judge upon The BENCH should decide every
| question by the law and the evidence. He
| should be a man of broad sympathes and wide
| culture; nothing that IS human should be for
| eign to him. He should be able to enter into the
| feelings of every class and TO appreciate the
| principles of every school. He should have a
| strong Imagination to enable him to realize the
| conditions of other ages of other social
| engagements" On the other hand. DIR. Painter
assures the student that criticism is an art that
may in large measure be acquired. Wherefore
| the present work. 1t is divided into three parts
the first treating of fundamental principles" the
| second of the external elements OF literature"
| and the third of the leading kinds OF litera-
| ture.' It's usefulness a textbook is increased
| by the addition to each chapter OF long list of
| review questions and illustrative exercises.
| Under the title "Esarhaddon," the Funk &
| Wagnalls Company has brought out small
volume of short stories by Tolstoy. There are
only three tales in the collection. each embodying
the main ideas Tolstoy's philosophy of life
| the doctrine OF non-resistance and the doctrine
| Of the unity and sacredness of all life. In view
of the present fears of repetition OF the Kishi