New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-09
BOOKS md AUTHORS.
Current Talk about Things Pres
ent and to Come.

Rose o the River' Is the title selected by
Kate Douglas Wiggin for her story which
will be published next week by Houghton, Milf
fin & Co. The scene is laid in Maine, as In
"Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm" and the heroine
is the village belle. with many admirers and
detrimental grandfather. ''Old Kennebec," al
ways reader with advice than with a helping
hand. George Wright furnishes ten full page
i!lustra tons in colors
Miss G. E. Milton, who of Sir Walter
Besant's collaborators in his monumental work
on London, has written the text of book
on Normandy, for which Nico Jungman has
made forty paintings Of characteristic scenes
which will be reproduced in colors The volume
Will be issued shortly by Macmillan.
Raffies," the gentleman burglar, whose ex-
ploits have been ardently emuated in New
York during the absence from the city of Police
Commissioner McAdoo is about to incite the
Economically immoral to further crime. Mr.
Hornung is on the point of issuing through the
Scribners, BOOK of this hero's exciting but
pernicious activities, entitled "A Thief in the
Night: Further Adventures of A J. Rallies
Cricketer and Craftsman" Raffles can scarcely
be longer considered an amateur numerous
and persistent have his housebreakngs become
and the glamour that surrounded them is begin
ming to fade. It is still true however that it
is interesting to read of the only origi-
nails after-dark enterprises than to be the vic
tim of one of his local mtators
The Trident and the Net" the first novel by
the author of The Martyrdom of Empress"
was published this week by the Harpers The
story tells Of the contest between the good and
evil in the nature of man born to high rank
and fort he BRIT
Paris and New-York.
Among the new fiction that Henry Holt & Co.
will publish this fall may be noted The Pro-
fessor's Legacy" by Anna H Sidgwck the leg
acy being a German savant's unfinished work
on corals and his only daughter. and the benef-
ciary his young English assistant; and Losers
Luck" story of American filibusters operating
in Guatemala to restore Central American Dom
ma TO her rights Early in 1906 the same house
will publish a humorous tale. which as vet lacks
a title by Ronald Macdonald, the leading char
acters of which said to be castaway bishop
his prm wife and their lively daughter
Mr.. and Mrs. Williamson are evidently deter
mined to stick to their automobile until it throws
them out. 1t has served as the deus machina
or perhaps one might say the machina ex deis in
their clever books The Lightning Conductor"
and The Princess Passes" and it is now about
to serve the same purpose in a new novel MY
Friend the Chauffeur" which Mcclure Phillips
& Co will publish September Il. The chauf-
feur hero is Irish nobleman in disguise who
conducts three interesting American women on
motor car tour through Northern Italy Dali
malta and Montenegro
Red-Keg is not to be allowed to disappear from
current literature. Dodd, Mead & Co announce
that Mr.. Thwing is about 10 follow up his book
THE Red Keggers." with another, which they
Will bring out In October, to be entitled The
Man from Red-Keg."
The next two volumes to appear IN A. s
Barnes e. Co.'S Trail Makers Series" will he
..Tbe Journeys OF La Sale and His Compan-
ions 166S-16S7, the original narratives trans
lated. and edited by Professor Isaac ]. Cox OF
the University of Cincinnati. with an introduce
ton; and The Voyages and Explorations OF