New-York tribune., 1905-12-23

Illustrated cstsiok sent request
vertising man and publisher, has dipped into au-
thorship In a small volume with the ailur-
ing title Of Frozen Dog Tales" Frozen Dog is
assumed to be the name OF an Idaho metropolis,
and the tales chronicle the doings Of its inhaoi-
tants and casual visitors In the manner Of a
country newspaper, the longer sketches being
freely nterspersed with personal items, poems
and aphorisms In the style of the newspaper
paragrapher, such as:
Let thy stenographer be faithful strong and
Ed searls has bought new red wnssslnarrow s. TOW
It along How 9 about it. Edf eO'N 'ND-'
Jones says that there are two tines In ma mans
a woman. The FIRST is before he Is married and
the second Is after he is married
The volume is plentifuny besprink1ed with pen
and ink sketches and illuminated page headings.
Ralph Waldo Trine's TN Tune with the In
| finite" is to be translated into Russian and into
Japanese, making ten foreign editions in all Of
the volume. One appreciatfve reader is reported
to have purchased two thousand copies for dis
tribution among his friends and business as
sociates." Curiosity is aroused as to what busi-
ness affords SO many associates. Perhaps the
donor is successful life insurance agent
''In6 B6auuIul oOOAs IcSuO0 Dy
Macmillan, does not belle its nams. It is hand
some octave volume bound in blue cloth, with
decorations in gold each page containing within
its dencately tinted borders two dated panels
for autographs and accompanying sentiments.
The appropriateness OF the subject OF the COL
ored frontispiece, however, is not clearly ap-
parent.
The "outing Magazine" is about 70 undertake
sa1,l,if Sfd O1 TT0ftad Etatss what
various other magazines have Of late years
been doing for its dark side, namely, TO "show
It ND" In the March number It will begin the
publication OF a series of articles by Ralph D
Paine, which, under the general title Of "Our
Country" will endeavor to demonstrate that
we are not on the whole so black as some OF
our industriously writing fellow citizens would
paint us. II Mr.. Paine's articles should tend
to make US feel too proud of ourselves we can
always correct our exuberant feelings by turn
ing to the tales of municipal and financial cor
ruption published elsewhere. The author has
made his Investigations thoroughly as II he
were looking for faults instead Of for the hon
esty, integrity devotion to duty and high
minded patriotism that it is obvious must be
prevalent among or else should not be
where We are.
Joe Mitchell Chapp1o, the irrepressfble Editor
Of '9The National Magazine" has broken loose
again with what he believes to be rather a
unique volume" It ought to be at least that It
is entitled Heart Throbs," is Contributed by
fifty thousand people," and contains gems Of
human heart inspiration from all the ages, prize
selections upon which final awards were made
by Senator William B. Allison and Admiral
George Dewey" Blank pages are considerably
left at the end of the book on which the owner
can write or paste In any particular heart throbs
of his own. OF selections that have escaped the
fifty thousand other contributors.
Rsrnes & Co, have just brought out an
India paper edition Of the works OF Edgar Al
Ian Poe In four compact volumes, or ABOUT n'e
hundred pages each, yet of only some tnree-
etghths of an inch IN thickness. and not TOO largo
-four by six inches) for the pocket Each VOL
,,noa contains frontispece printed in tints. fac
siniIes of letters. and an Introduction the l'lfo-
ductory matter consisting Of the personal rccoi-
factions of Poe by the late Richard Henry Stod-
d.rd a. biographical article by G. Mercer
Adams. and series Of contemporary estimates
NJ Poe by Lowell Willis and Griswold The
edition comprises the tales poems and the
more important essays:
From the Forest and Stream Publishing COM
many comes volume of the recollections or w.
IT (s.RiPD Hamilton, entitled MY Sixty Years
nm +he Plains" in which the narrator recounts
his exciting adventures trapper, trader and
Indian fighter Mr. Hamilton was born in 1873,
and so is now 80 years old. He came to this
country in 1925, and his life on the frontier be-
gan in 1912. His many exciting experiences
simply and modestly enough related, cover the
neriod Of the settlement of the far West and
throw much interesting If not entirely new light
on the breaking up of the wilderness. and the
manners and customs of the pioneers. Not the
least astounding circumstance recorded of the
author by the editor, Hilma S. Sieber, is that he
is a. mountaineer who spent sixty years OF his
life on the plains. There are eight illustrations
by Charles NJ. Russell the Cowboy Artist" and
a portrait of Mr.. Hamilton.
Appropriating the name OF an author seems TO
he cheap and dangerous way OF gaining flo
titious fame. Annie Hamilton Donnell. the au-
thor of "Rebecca Mary" a volume recently pub
lished by Harper & Brothers, recently received
letter from a New-York woman, who stated that
she was closely associated in business life with
q nerson who claimed the authors full name
ard all that she wrote. On the strength of this the
fictitious author appears to have attained con-
siderable prestige among her business asso-
ciates 1t was not until Mrs. DonnelPs CORES
pondent read a paragraph IN one Of the New
York papers in which it stated that the
author of "Rebecca Mary" lived both summer
and winter among the Maine hills. that she