New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-14

! ilege of a college education but the last word
on the subject is doubtless still to be said. Like
all problems dealing with purely human in
! terests, to lay down a general law is as easy
! it is dangerous.
s. p. Scott, whose History of the Moorish
Empire has just been published by the Lippin-
colts. spent twenty years in examining original
manuscripts and gathering material for his
| work.
! The Intelligent compostor' has been dis
turbing the domestic relations of Albert Sonnis-
chen, author of Deep Sea Vagabonds," by
causing friendly interviewer to say that he
had found Mr.. Sonnischen smoking fat cigars
which mis- Filipino wife had taught him to love"
The unfortunate author, who is unmarried, has
! been kept busy informing his friends and rela-
tives that the newspaper correspondent wrote
Filipino life' and not Filipino wife" despite
the testimony of the types.
Now that a belated spring is bringing back
our bird friends from their winter haunts Ralph
HOffman's Guide to the Birds will be found
useful handbook for amateur ornitholOgists. The
birds first classified by seasons, with sub
divisions according to color, and then divided
into two groups, those larger and those smaller
than the English sparrow. that a beginner
quickly find the name of any bird he sees.
The Macmillan Company has begun It's Sc
ries of % cent paper cover copyright novels
with owen Wister's THE Virginian." and will
follow it up at weekly intervals with THE Choir
Invisible" THE Heart of Rome THE Con-
queror." 1.-THE Pride of Jennico' and The
Crisis"
one of the most interesting publications of the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition year SHOULD be
the forthcoming volumes of the Original
Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
In this work. which Dodd, Mead &, Co. are bring
ing out in eight octave -'umes the narrative
and scientific journals of the leaders Of the eX-
petition which have hitherto been available
only in the abbreviated form prepared by Mich
olas Biddle, will be given in full and exactly as
originally written, together with the journals of
Sergeant Floyd and Private Whitehouse. There
will also be included a mass of other material
only recently discovered such five large
manuscript notebooks written upo the expedi-
ton by Captain Clark, many large manuscript
route maps. letters and other important data.
which should throw much new light on early
Trans Mississippi exploration. The publishers
promise an abundance Of illustrations from con-
temporary and modern sources. and historical
introduction by the editor, Reuben Gold
Thwaites.
A new and inexpensive edition of Celia Thax-
ter's AN Island Garden is published by
Houghton. AIifTiin & Co. Th~re have been may
garden books issued since the first appearance
OF this sympathetic account of flower growing
the Isles of Shoals bur Mrs TEaxter's little
volume still maintains. by -irtue of it's poetic
charm and practical helpfulness, a leading
position
Happy is the nature that can find consolation
even I'm the midst Of overpowering misfortune.
An aged peasant on the estate of Baron Won
Hutton. in the Main Valley. Bavaria had lost
his wife. and the baroness. who is we'll known
the author of "ArabyY and The Notorious
Sir Charles Graturicke." gracousIy called to
extend her sympathy. The man sat stod and
silent under her condolences, not even desistinc
from vigorous attack upon his evening meal.
4 pause followed the last Of her comforting
speeches. Then the old peasant. still eating |
spoke for the first time:
We'll. it's good thing it wasn't the cowr'
The formal courtesy of the japanese nation |
adds not little TO the difficulties OF the foreign
err. accustomed TO THE sabre cuts of Saxon |
speech in acquiring it's language. DR.. James |
A. B. Scherer in his book Japan To-day"
published by the ]. r. Lippincott Company |
gives. by way of example, a few simple English |
phrases with their equivalents in japanese con- !
struction:
Please excuse me becomes August excuse
deiEn." GO slowly "AugustIy leisurely going |
deign 10 be" sit down moment "a little hon |
orably hip suspending deign." Il feel bad Bod
lily state bad is Please tell me-" Causing 10 |
as-for" Good morning Honorable carliness is -
May % is the date set for the publication of
Winston Churchilrs novel. THE Crossing" by /
the Macmillan Company Mr.. Churchill still /
sticks to American history for his inspiration. /
and his latest book Will deal with the crossing /
of the Cumberland Mountains by the early /
pioneers and the following tide of settlers be- !
tween 1916 and 1892
People who have never hObnObbed with roy |
atty, but would like to know how It is done |
can doubtless be enlightened by reading kings /
and Queens l Have Known" by Mile Helene |
Vacaresco, lady-in- waiting to the Queen of |
Rumania. Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff. in his /
"Diary." described Mile. Vacaresco as "a hand
some person. with an expression of much life
and go" The book contains portraits OF the |
authOr and of ROYAL frfends