New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-17
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
Current Talk 4bcut Things Present
and to Come.


4 rpecial edition. with uncut edges. of Thomas
Bailey AIG-ich's tragedy, Judith of Bethuiia'
in which Nance o'Neil is now playing in New
York. has just been issued by Houghton' Milf
fin s. Co. u is limited to seventy-fve copies
ne well known principles of Physiological
Psychology by Wilhelm Wundt. professor OF
psychology IN the University OF Leipsic, has
been translated from TIE fifth German edition
by Edward Bradford kitchener. Sage professor
90 psychology :r Corne! University The first
volume IS announced for early publication by
the Macmillan Company.
TIE Few TIillcrest edition OF Mark Twain's
co;2plclc works, which Harper q Bros. are
Publishing, will fill twen:y-thrce volumes. Mir.
Clemens has written q special preface for this
uniform edition. and there is also biographical
criticism by BTander Matthews An interesting
feature is 4 series of portraits of the author
Reproduced from photographs and paintings
ado approximately at the periods when the
.,ifforeut books We're written. The list of Illus
traitors includes the names of many we'll known
artists
The House of M!rth" Is the title of Edith
whartons new serial story. which will begin
in "Scribnez's Magazine" for January Ii is her
FIRST long novel of contemporary American life.
and is announced 10 be "a sharp comment on
modern social conditions and a serious pres
entation OF their tragic tendencies" The hero
tne is said TO be a charming young woman
who is placed In a false position.
The Rev. Cyrus Townsend Brady is not too
busy writing books collect and edit other
peoples stories His recent volume THE Rec
ords," was frankly the interesting, actual
periences Of persons whom he had met and his
Indian Fights and Fighters" which Mcclure.
Phillips & Co. now bringing out, contains
a. number Of accounts of encounters with red
men, written by the generals in command Of
our troops IN the West. In fact. the larger part
Of the material furnished by the officers or
men who had been in the engagements. The
portions that Mr. Brady has himself written
have also been revised by men who had first
hand knowledge of the events treated
Anne Douglas Sedgwick has been freely criti-
cised for her spelling II the title OF her latest
novel, THE Paths of Judgement" AS a matter
of fact, the use of the "e" in judgement Cor
5udgment) is recognized by some ledcograp pliers,
although the preference is given TO the shorter
form Judgement is certainly the logical way
of spelling the word. and there seems to be no
good reason why. with acknowledgment and
abridgment, il should form of group of
three exceptions to a general rule" or custom.
The late H. C. Bunner always spelled judg-
raent with the extra 'e" and to a correspond
ent who took him TO task for so printing the
word in the pages of Puck he wrote as fol-
lows:
The spelling OF English words is matter not OF
ment is a good way to spell judgement You may
spell it any way you choose
But, to be consistent should not Miss sedg-
wick spell her name Sedgewtck?
11e q inherent
the family of Rudyard Kipling, If may
Judge from the latest story about him, just
waited across the Atlantic. One day when he
was revising the proofs Of "Traffcs and Dis
coveries' last summer. his little daughter Elsie
vas seated in a chair in the same room with
him Suddenly Mr.. Kipling began to sing "On
the Road to AIandalay." His daughter looked
up in surprise Her father kept on singing.
Suddenly she broke out:
Father, didn't you write that song?'
Yes"
Well. il seems to me you would know the
tune better vas the caustic comment.
Joseph c. Lincoln author OF "Capn Eri," is
spending the Christmas holidays on Cape Cod.
Ralph Fletcher Seymour has illustrated and
designed q reprint Of The Book of Ruth" which
has Just been published by the Bobbs-Merrin
Company. Mr. Seymour has used the text of
the edition az the Bible printed at the theatre
in Oxford. IN 1880 There are four full page
drawings and special initials and tailpieces TO
the chapters. The book is printed in black and
red from heavy faced type.
Carroll Watson Rankin CIrs. Ernest Ranking.
the author OF ''Dandelion Cottage" recently
published b. Henry Holt 81 Co., has previously
been known only a contributor OF short
stories 10 periodicals. Mrs. Rankin born
q Marquette, Mich and has always lived there.
except Cor several years she spent at school in
Virginia and abroad Her first literary effort.
g composition on Cats" written when she
eleven years old. was published without her
knowledge consent in an educational journal.
At seventeen she was local editor of a daily
paper and wrote besides great many verses
that were published under pseudonyme in THE
Chicago Inter Ocean" Eight years ago her
arst attempt at e magazine article was accepted
snd promptly published. Mrs Rankin
<esses chat she has never spent the money she
got for this manuscript Nothing" she says.
has ever seemed quite good enough TO buy with
that first astonishing check"
Anne Warner has written another book, which
will be published next year by Little Brown &
Co. Her Susan Clegg and Her Friend. Mrs.
Lathrop." has just been brought out in spe-
cisl edition in Australia
Pastor Wagner and President Roosevelt hav-
ing made the simple life fashionable, Malcolm
= Mcleod, q Canadian, who has transpIanted
himself TO California, is about TO show US how
we can acquire & in q book be pub
nsh.d by Reven. The title. The Culture of