New-York tribune., 1905-02-11

his publishers the Macmillan Company. His
life has not only been strenuous hitherto, but is
likely to continue to be So as Mr.. London gives
himself little leisure. Just at present he is
writing play for Ethel Barrymore and run
ming for Mayor of Oakland. Cal. the So
calist ticket In the mean time. he Is planning
lecture and reading tour. to begin next fall
that will take him all the United States
and Will keep him busy all winter.
The cable contradicts the report that Maxim
Gorky was either released or about to be re-
leased. 1t appears that he must stand
trial. and in the time be confined in a
fortress. where, though he will have plenty of
leisure. it will be useless for him to engage in
writing, as whatever he commits to paper must
be destroyed on his transfer or release. life
of Gorky, in English, by DR.. Emile Joseph Dill
Ion, the well known traveller and correspondent
of the London Daily Telegraph" is published
here by Mcclure Phillips & Co. Dr. Dillon. who
spends his time between Berlin and st. Peters
burg. having address in each city. and who
is so familiar with Russian that many of his
published works have been written in that lam
guage. has long known Gorky personally.
George Francis Atkinson. professor Of botany
at Cornell University. author of the well known
books Mushrooms" and Studies of American
Fungi" has prepared a college Textbook of
Botany" to be issued Immediately by Henry
Holt G. Co.
1t is hard to realize that scarcely ten years ago
Luther Burbank actually denounced in the
press as IAN enemy to all true scientific prog
ress" To-day he is recognized both at home
and abroad as a genius of high rank. and has
been so successful In the production of new
forms of vegetable life that, already reported,
the Carnegie Institution has appropriated $780,
a{5 i'm in fbe n
William s. Harwood, who quite recently visited
Mr.. Burbank's California ranch has written two
articles describing the plant wizards theories
and methods, which will be printed in THE
Century Magazine" beginning with the March
number
The Rev. DR.. Henry A stmson, pastor OF the
Manhattan Congregational Church. NewYork
is about to edit for A. S. Barnes 6, Co. what
should prove noteworthy SERIES If the plans
now announced are carried out. 1t Is to be called
THE Right Life" from the title of the first vol
ume. which DR.. Stmson has written. Other con-
tributors will be the Rev. DR.. Charles Cuthbert
Hail. president of the Union Theological Semi
nary; the Rev. Washington GLADDEN.. and the
Rev. Dr. William Douglas Mackenzie, president
of Hartford Theological Seminary. The idea
is to apply the latest results OF scholarship and
the study Of modern conditions to such questions
as: What are we to believe? What is the Bible
to-day? What is the Right Life? What is the
Moral Law IN Business?
Since Bishop Potter attended the opening of
the Subway Tavern and Joined in singing the
Doxology. there have probably been as many
divergent ideas about his opinions the
liquor question there points TO the
pass Letters have been written to the news
papers and have called forth editorials that
leave the reader more confused than he was be-
fore. The curious thing is that DR.. Potter has
never made the least secret mystery of his
views which he has constantly expounded in the
pulpit and in the press. He has now. however,
decided to come out with a definite and authori-
tative statement of his attitude in regard to the
saloon question, and Of his reasons therefor, In
book to be entitled Temperance" shortly TO be
issued by Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.
The Rev. ]. Campbell Morgan recently went to
Wales to study the religious revival in progress
there. an account of which, from The Tribune's
London correspondent, was recently printed in
these columns. DR.. Morgan has written very
interesting report Of his observations which has
been printed in pamphlet form by the Fleming
H. Revell Company through the courtesy of a
friend for gratuitous distribution. While the
edition holds out copies may be had on applica-
ton.
David Graham Phps's novel '"The Cost has
struck Australia, and has been the subject there
of some novel book advertising. One dealer
states that the story has achieved much sue
cess that he has stuck the price on" He says
further. in explanation:
CONSIDER THE COST.
Here is an ILLUSTRATION of the INFLUENCE
Of COST and its s1GF5S sT5E9Endings; - 60 p,o,e
to GIVE THINGS for NOTHING to everyone who
entered and 81 SsuPgUsing g I'M = ANOTHER MOTH IRp psH@oPKEEP @
OTHER SHOP for everything.
not anf in ln ali PRoeABTy @ 50 MUCH TR%18 G06i2
as the HIGH-PRICE MONGER, because in prom
saPs agPeed to do what was oSTRARY o EVERY 2
BoPYsr experience en- Of HUMAN dA1 NATURE @ RE- and so
Andrew Carnegies Life of James Watt"
which he wrote for the Famous Scots" SERIES
as announced in these columns last September
will be published in America by Doubleday
Page & Co. about the end of March. Mr.. Car
nege began work the book when he went
to Skibo Castle last summer and nearly
six months writing It, The volume contains
about 10000 words. The career of the young
Scotch boy who TO fame the lid of a
tea kettle has always had a special fascination
for Mr.. Carnegie. He had already gathered a
mass of material in regard TO Watt in Scotland
and in England, which was available when he
consented to write the inventors life The work
will not appear serially either before after
its publication In book form.
George Bernard Shaw's essay, "On Going 10
Church." is to be issued in uniform style with
his plays. Pleasant and Unpleasant" and
Man and Superman." by John w. Luce & Co..
Boston.
A new edition of the Baron de I.ahontan's