New-York tribune., 1905-01-28

of Oriental empire, his naughty, domineering
spirit, the unsettling effect upon Oriental reIg-
ions of the white mans missionary propaganda,
real a cause of the war as the direct
economic problems" He thinks the White Peril
is as threatening for the East the Yellow Peril
is for the West. Mr.. Okakura- -Kukuzo calls 1t
the white Disaster"
The next volume in Putnam's Heroes Of the
Reformation Series will be Thomas Cranmer
and the English Reformation. 14S9-1556. by
Albert F. Pollard, author or England Under
the Protector Somerset" 1t will constitute the
sixth volume of the series.
Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler, author OF Con
cerning Isabel Carnaby, ,""Kate Of Kate Hall' and
various other novels. has written book each
year since her first story was published, which
seems fairly good record to keep up in these
days. 1t does not seem to satisfy Miss Fowler
however who is reported to have said recently
to friend: When look at my set of Dickens
with its fifty-three volumes. confess that my
heart fails When considers the length
of the novels of his day. the courage of the Vic
torian writer's is positively appalling.
new edition of ''The Colombian and Ven
ezuelan Republics" by William L. Scruggs. late
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten-
tiary OF the United States to Colombia and
Venezuela, is announced by Little, Brown
Co. The author has written additional chap
ter on the Panama Canal Projects to bring
the volume up to date, and a verbatim copy Of
the treaty with the new Republic Of Panama.
providing for the canal, has been added Com
menting the action of President Roosevelt
in recognizing the new republic Mr.. Scruggs
writes:
The rights of sovereignty of even the weakest and
most Insignificant of the Central and South Ameri-
great powers, and more especially by the United
But these rights Should be Exercised in spirit be-
hitting the occasion and the wants and necessities
as its rights Neither Colombia nor other Of those
governments. even If administered with more re-
gard to the just demands of commercial nations
than they have sometimes been. can be permitted 70
ways of the world. and Justify the act by the pre-
tension that these avenues of international trade
fore that they, may choose TO close them or. what
with such eXorbltant and unreasonable demands
and unjust relations would prevent their general
Doubleday, Page & Co. will bring out early
next month novel entitled THE Lions Skin,"
by John S. Wise 1t is to be another story OF
Southern history in reconstruction days. The
author is a of General Henry Wise the
famous war Governor of Virginia. and himself
an ex-Confederate Republican Congressman
from that State
David Eugene Smith professor of mathe-
matfcs in Teachers College Columbia Univer-
sity, delivered address before the students
OF the State Normal School at PIattsburg N Y,
last week. His subject was The History
Of Mathematics" To most people mathematics
is simply subject to be studied as a necessary
but often disagreeable, feature of an H'educa-
tion." About the history and future of II
they know nothing aIsJ care less To Professor
Smith, however, it Is very live topic as is
shown by his recent monograph. THE Outlook
for Arithmetic in America" published by CHM
&. Co.
E. P. Dutton Co. announce a new volume of
the late Bishop Phillips Brooks's works for
February publication. 1t is to be a series of
Lente0 readings selected from his unpublished
writings, and will be entitled Christ: Our Life
and Light" 1t will contain the last of Bishop
Brooks's writings that will appear