New-York tribune., 1904-08-13
BOOKS And AUTHORS.
Current T'aIc about Things Pres
ent and to Come.

CHfT6nC Il GLE AOOuL HtHSs TO
ent and to Come.
Harl!n Garland. like Anteus, has gone oacA
to the soil. and, unlike Antseus has become d
farmer He seems to prefer making and watch
ings things grow. even TO looking after sn'el
mines in Mexico his latest recorded occupaNoI
Writing to a friend OF his farm life IN "es'
Salem. Wis. he says:
My life here goes on like the hands on ma q tomd snd
clock write three hours IN me InoriIs' bt1iId
fences in the afternoon go 70 bed az g. and rise a.
Csc the SoS nSSt ss asy worth 30 faks ot uR i
worth of early poatoes.but that sounds 700
pat patch Of hubbard squashssi
From this it is evident that he is making and
watching story grow as we'll as his patch ol
hubbard squashes. May it prove to be OF the
same outdoor variety rather than OF the glass
forced nature of his 1.-The Light of star
The A. c. McCiurg Company OF Chicago an
nounces for publication in September he"
story Of Labrador by Mary Bourchier SanIoru-
II viii he called The Wandering Twins" The
twins are young trappers. who meet with ad-
ventures and hardships in the interior
1,rosassor Jobn Bates Clark, Of Columbia Uni
,ersitv is the author of a volume entitled THE
Problem of Monopoly: A Study of a Grave Dam
ger and of the Natural Mode Of Averting It,
lust published by the Macmillan Company. The
natural method" which appeals to Professor
Clark is not to revolutioniZe our industries py
recourse TO state socialism or by resolving the
great corporations into their constituent ele-
ments. but to retain the corporations fer their
proved efficiency, while taking from them their
power of oppression.
An enterprlsing publisher. who deems it super
nuous to mention his name in connection Win
his enterprise, and whose anonymity we accord
inglv respect has couated and issued library
Of twelve volumes for the delectation OF physi-
clans It is entitled 1.-The Doctors Recreation
Series" and comprises considerable amount OF
curious literature pertaining to the medical pro-
fession. Some of the matter is original ana
more is reprint the object being to put in the
hands of the practitioner material which has
hitherto been either inaccessible widely
scattered as 10 be practically unavailable. There
are books Of short stories. curiosities of medi-
cine. q cyclop@dia of medical history, bio
graphical dictionary OF physicians and many
other interesting titles,
The SaaIfeld Publishing Company, Of Akron,
Ohio, announces for early publication Careers
for the Coming Men" the collection OF twenty
three papers originally published in The Tribune
Review. These papers which have already at
symposium or the callings now open 10 young
Americans the success to be attained in each.
remuneration, experience, etc They are written
by some Of the best known men OF the day,
authorities on the various subjects treated.
Thus the opportunities offered by the military
career are discussed by Colonel A 5. Mills.
L. S. A. superintendent of the United States
Military Academy The chapter on the navy is
by Rear Admiral George Wallace Melville. engt-
neer IN chief. L. 5. y, Mr.. Charles Stewart
Smith. ex-president OF the Chamber Of Com
merce deals with the commercial life and Mr..
L. H. Bailey. director OF the Agricultural Col
lege at Cornell University. writes OF farming.
Senator Dryden tells what the life insurance
business may mean 10 an energetic and clever
young man; Mr. John De witt Warner treats OF
the law; Professor Robert II. Thurston. OF Cor
nell, gives advice to the asprant 20 success in
mechanical engineering. and Mr.. Thomas Hast
ings, the architect OF the NewYork Public Ii
brary, surveys the chances for young man IN
his profession There are chapters on medicine.
teaching, publishing. banking the stage. rail-
roading the church, authorship and other fields
OF endeavor. all written by men wei qualified
to set an ambitious youth in the right path.
These papers are brief. but comprehensive: they
are interesting and they instructive. and the
book cannot but commend itself to parents and
sons
Joseph Conrad has formulated a literary creed.
and has taken the trouble TO write II out for the
benefit of his fellow aborers in the vineyard of
letters. instead OF selhshy keeping It In the re-
cesses OF his mind for his private personal use.
The great danger iE thus laying before the
world ones literary beliefs is. of course that
once people know what these are they are often
uncomfortably ready 10 measure UP ones future
work by the self-imposed standardH. He is a
brave man who thus frankly hands to others the
instrument of his possible destruction. Mr., Con-
rad places himself record in this fashion,
Il is only through complete. answering devotion
the perfect blending Of form and substance IL is
only through an unremittins. never discouraged
for the shape and the ring or sentences that an
approach be made TO plasticlav. to color: and
TO play for an evanescent instant over the com
worn thin defaced by ages OF careless usage The
10 go as far on that road as his strength viii carry
him 10 go undetevred by faltering. weariness
worker In prose And II hts conscience is clear
his answer 10 those who. In the fulness OF a wis
dom which looks for immediate profit, demand
specifically to be edited consoled, amused who de-
NV task which ! am irving TO achieve IS by the
make you feel--it Is before all. TO make you see.
That-and no more and il Is everything. II | sue
erts. encouragement consolation. fear, charm-an
you demand; and, perhaps. also that glimpse OF
truth for which you have forgotten to ask.
Mrs. Violet Jacob. whose novel. The Inter-
Ioper." was published last week by Doubleday
Page & Co.. is a comparatively new writer to
American readers; this is her second book
Mrs Jacob is the wife of Major Arthur Jacob
who has served for some years with distinction
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