New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-03-25

W. w. Jacobs takes the public into his conf
dence as to the sources of his inspiration for
his delightfully."- humorous and original books.
Gladstone Lane" "At Sunwich Port" and odd
Craft" in article printed recently in 1.-THE
London Chronicle" He says:
Il. It never occurred to me at the time that my
had any dramatic Possibilities 1t was only when when
by e its side asserted themselves as the bacR
ground for my thoughts. and that the figures that
across our little stage became the actors of real
comedy But please don't think that have I, not
mans life. It teaches self-resraint and discipline
@ that a brs OF an Eli that Is say Is
that distance lends enchantment to the view and and
OF those who go down TO the. sea in ships was in
tensifed in the perspective Of years
Isobel Strong has written a story of the pict-
uresque court life of Hawaii about twenty years
ago when Kalakaua King. It will be pub
lished in April by Mcclure, Phillips & Co.. with
the title of THE Girl from Home" The heroine
is California girl who goes alone to the
islands.
The publishers of 1.-The Worlds Work. give
an interesting explanation of their inability to
print in the April number illustrated account
of the st. Petersburg massacre. BY cable they
commissioned Howard Thompson. an American
correspondent in the Russian capital. to prepare
such an article. He was soon on the trail OF
some photographs showing the actual shooting
of the populace, but when he got to the photog-
raphers he found that the police had been
there before him, confiscated the prints and
smashed the negatives. Called away to Fin
land, he left assistant to procure other photo
graphs of which he had heard, and when he re-
turned a few days later he learned that this
photographers apartment has also been rifed
by the police. and that the man himself was in
the SITS. Peter and Paul fortress Even an Amer
lean must hustle to get ahead of the Russian
bureaucracy.
A new feature of 1.-THE Honiletfo Review is
announced by the manager of its advertising de-
partment It will be called 1.-THE Preachers
Exchange" and will be sort of want supply
department through which pastors may sell and
exchange or purchase anything needed in the
church, the Sunday school or the home.
Under the title of "otia" John Lane has brought
out a volume of the criticisms and poems Of
the late Armine Thomas Kent. which have been
collected by Harold Hodge. the Editor of 'The
London Saturday Review" in which periodical
a number of the essays originally appeared. A
preliminary memoir of the author is contributed
by Arthur A Baumann.
Colonel L. Austine Waddelrs book on the
Younghusband mission to Tibet will be pub
lished shortly in this country by z. P. Dutton
& Co., with the title, "Lhasa and It's Mysteries:
An Account of the Expedition of 1903-19O4."
Colonel Wadden has already written work on
1.-The Buddhism of Tibet" and his volume will
doubtless pay more attention to points OF ar
theological and anthropological interest than
the books of Messrs. Landon and Gambler, which
we reviewed q week or two ago.
A new photographic enterprise that Funk &
Wagnalls now have well under way is a stand
ard Bible Dictionary" which they propose to
issue some time within year. 1t will be issued
in a single volume of about seven hundred
thousand words, and is being prepared under
the editorial direction of Melancthon W. ia
eobus, dean of Hartford Theological Seminary
and professor of New Testament literature and
criticism; Edward e. Nourse professor Of Bib
lical theology in Hartford Theological Seminary,
and Andrew C. Zenos. professor of ecclesiastical
history in Mccormick Theological Seminary,
Chicago.
owen Kildare's autobiographic narrative. MY
Mamie Rose-The Story Of My Regeneration
has recently been issued in a. cheaper edition by
the Baker & Taylor Company. This is the book
in which Mr.. Kildare tells of his rise from
typical illiterate East Side "Bowery boy to
be Journalist and author.
Houghton, Mif1in & Co. have selected for
early publication in their Riverside Press Edi-
tions PIutarch's "Consolatorie Letter or Dis
course sent unto his wife
touching the death of her and his daughter" in
the translation by Philemon Holland 1852
1e30. The letter was first published in Hol-
lands translation of 1.-THE Philosophie COM
monty called the morals written by the learned
philosopher, Plutarch of Chaeronea," published
in 1903; but the text of the present printing is
taken from the newly revised and corrected
edition" in the folio of 1857. The book will be
a thin octave printed IN severely simple style.
The first book to be issued by the new publish
ing house of Moffat, Yard & Co. Will be Richard
Earrys Port Arthur" The author is the young
San Francisco journalist described In Frederic
Villiers's account OF the siege (reviewed in an
other column), who went to Port Arthur last
summer with only $500 and no overcoat, and
made a spectacular success war CORE
spondent. Mr. viliers. who is an old campaign
err devotes considerable space TO his criticisms
of the fresh" behavior of number Of the un-
attached English Correspondents" who mis-
represented the press with General Nogis
army; but he greatly admired Mr.. Barry, and
.,churnrned" with him during the entire three
months that he spent before the fortress