New-York tribune., 1905-06-24

prompted them to follow it with "The Silly
Syclopsedia, which, they assert. VIII prove "
be "a terrible thing in the form of a literary
torpedo This is bad enough, but worse is 10
follow It will contain nearly twice as much
reading matter as it's predecessor! The volume
viii be published in July. an appropriate month
for torpedoes, which, however loud noise they
may make once, are never heard again.
Women readers of Professor Otto Heller
Studies in Modern German Literature" tGinn &
Coz will doubtless derive satisfaction from the
fact that that unconverted skeptic as to the ar
tistic capacity of womanknd concludes an ap-
precative discussion of such writers as Isolde
Kurz, Clara viebig Helene Bohau and Ricardo
Huch with the frank admission that one cannot
name the foremost living writer's of Germany
without including several women.
Since Tom Mason the Editor of Life pub
lished his volume of verse. In Merry Measure,
he has been elected q school trustee or Glen
Ridge, n. ]. Possibly this is why his forth
coming book is to be entitled THE Poet in Poll
tics"
Richard Barry, the unattached correspondent,
whose rather 1amboyant but clever book on
the siege Of Port Arthur was recently published
by Moffat Yard & Co, has returned to the
Japanese front, this time the representative
of Golfers Weekly" He is with Nogis left
wing and unless armistice intervenes Is
likely to have some more lively experiences.
A romance with a capital r is Millions OF
Mischief" the new story by Headon Hill, winch
the Saalfeld Publishing Company has just
brought out. According to the announcements
the plot involves the employment of con-
demned convict by disloyal and desperate Can
inet Ministers of a country not specified to en-
compass the death of the Prime Minister Tne
nero who has been condemned to death for the
alleged murder Of his mother and sister ac-
cepts the commission in the light of brief re-
prfeve and uses it to work out his own salvation
and the confusion of the wicked plotters!
The Rev Matthew Stanley Kemp. author Of
BOSS Tom" will have another novel ready for
publication in the early fall by the c. NJ. Clark
Publishing Company, of Boston. "Ande Trem-
bath" is the title of his new story. Mr.. Kemp.
who boasts his descent from that General Kemp
who commanded the left wing of Wellington's s
army at Waterloo, and from Chancellor Kemp,
who was Prime Minister in the days OF Henry
VII, and incidentally Archbishop of Canterbury
is pastor of the Alpha Lutheran Church at
Turtle Creek Penn.
eN0S -
Domestic Chaplain to George II, from 1929 to
1I63. employed his own leisure and diverted thaC
Of his friend, DR.. Samuel Kerrich, Vicar OF
Dersi,gbarn. with a series of letters recounting
the gossip or as he called it, "the lye of the
dav' These letters which recently came to
light, have lust been published by John Lane
The Mexican government recently placed an
order With Charles Scribner's Sons for one thou
sand copies of Professor Carl Lumholtzs I'm
known Mexico" 1t was necessary to translate
the book into Spanish under the direction OF
representative of President Diaz, but in othec
respects, as to form. illustrations and hinding
the volume was precisely like the original edi-
tion in English The book is record OF 1our
wears explorations in the Western Sierra Madre
in the Terra Caliente of Tepic and Tal1aco
and among the Tarascos Of M1droacan-lllus-
trated with photographs taken py the author
President Diaz manifested great interest in Pro-
f.ssor Iurnholtz's Investigations among these
practically unknown Mexican tribes at the time
and greatly facilitated his efforts. The order
lust filled, shows in a very practical way his
anpreciation of the results that the explorer OBJ
tanned.
The Rev. Judson Shaw, late field secretary
of the Young Citizens League, and leaolns
spirit in school library work, has just completed
a book called Uncle Sam and His Children'
in which he describes in a popular way the
larger features of our national life The vol
ume will be published by A. S. Barnes q CO.
DIR. LYMAN Abbotts new book, THE Indus
trial Problem just published by George W.
Jacobs, derives especial timeliness from the
complications brought about by the teamsters
strike in Chicago. The author believes that the
solution of the problem" will be found mot In
any Encouragement of the world of industry, but
only in a complete social regeneration