New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-27
LITERARY NOTES.

Another reprint, announced by the Fleming
n. RevelI Company. will consist Of that part Z
Ralph Connors The Sky Pilot which tells
the story of the self-willed girl who was
crippled for life in saving Of her fathers
cowboys The Rev. Charles Cuthbert Hall once
said that these chapters of Mr.. Connors novel
contain the answer to the eternal question OF
humanity, Does God send trouble?" The rep
,tation which the narrative Of this one char
acter has made apart from the rest Of the
story has led to it's separate publication IN
volume which will be entitled Gwen" Each
page viii be decorated with marginal drawings
and printed in two colors.
useful little book for nature lovers Is Ed
ward Steps 'wayside and Woodland Trees"
published by Frederick warne & Co Although
It is professedly a guide to British Sylvia" it
takes in also the foreign trees that have been
successfully introduced into the three kingdoms
and so IS almost as valuable 10 the American
to his overseas cousin. The Illustrations
made on somewhat novel plan, and show pho
tographs Of the same trees In summer and in
winter. while in many instances photographs are
likewise given Of the bole, to exhibit the nat
ure Of the bark and TO give additional aid In
Identification. While not deprecating the COM
mercIal idea OF silviculture illustrated by the
Scotchmans advice TO his son, Jock, when ye
haze naething else TO do ye may be aye sticking
in tree; it Will be growing. Jock, when we're
sleeping" the author has been moved rather by
aesthetic considerations in producing this dainty
volume He says:
Nature and the timber producer have different
aims and pursue different methods in the making
Of forests. though the latter IS not above taking
greater The success of the forester The more pro-
.onno Is the stiIiness OF the forest-5nd the more
its varied and teeining life. have what Words
worth called "a timber factory" =. With every
should be properly developed. we do hope that
fs tns r9rsster vii I'll. not be entirely successful IN
wastes OF Natures own planting may be left for
yet taken TO appraising the value OF everything by
the price it viii fetch in the market.
recent reprint in John Lanes series Flow
ers OF Parnassus." is William watson's 'The
Tomb Of Burns" II is a critical elegy written
In the six line stanza in which Burns himself
wrote many Of his epistles and was included
IN the volume called The Father Of the Forest"
which Mr.. Watson issued in 1895. The reprint
is illustrated with pen drawings of Dumfries'
landmarks and Scotch scenes by d. Y. Cameron
The Louisiana Purchase Exposition is now I'm
better working order, and people are taking
before the real st. Louis summer sets in.
nseful little guide and thine saver has been
published by Laird & Lee. containing most of
The Information that sightseers want to know.
III aims TO help them to get to the exhibits in
which they are most interested with the least
enort- There are also data in regard to hotels
ana boarding houses. dates Of various meetings
70 be held during the fair. and blank pages for
expense accounts ard other personal memo
randa-
The Boston Authors' Club visited wbt,tfe,,s
home ut Amesbury. Mass, last week in a hodv
The pilgrims were entertained by Samuel IT
Pickard. the author OF Whittier Land" An
interesting incident OF the day was the nreser-
tation by Mr.. Pickard 10 Mrs. Julia Ward Howe
OF book which she had sent to Whittier eftv
one years ago, containing a number of com
ments and interlineations by the poet
Margaret Horton Potter. the author y, .ar,.
Flame Caterers" is IN private life Mrs John
u. Black. OF Chicago. She 4. the daughter Of
orrin W. Potter. OF that city was educated AT
Eryn Mawr and was married on January
lSo2 Her husband is son OF General 7 q
black. Although she is only twenty-three wears
oio' she is The author OF five published books
Recently, while gathering material for one of
DIS articles on the misgovernment of cities Lin.
coin stenens CHANGED TO be in the smoking con,.
partnent OF train on his way to the particula,
eity then under consideration with two sfranp
~ THESE men began to talk OF inside polit,ca
matters In that city. and in the course OF thei