New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-03-15


szsuntnoann. sudermann. Pinero. Shaw, Phillips
and Maeterlinck. The volume will be issued this
epring by Henry Holt & Co.
Several works of interest to students and
hoyers of music appear in John Lanes announce
anent OF books for spring publication Among
Them is q life OF the composer Peter llch
rchaikovsky, 1S40-1S53." written by his brother
Modesto Tchaikovsky. with numerous illustra-
lions and facsimiles. and an introduction by
she editor Rosa Newmarch. who has prepared
the work from the Russian and German editions
Another volume is THE Singing of the Future,
nv D. Ffrangcon-Davies. The book carries an
introduction by Sir Edward Elgar. the COM
poser, together with photogravure portrait of
the author A study of Berlioz and the romantic
movement, an analysis of programme music,
past and present. and the relations of Herbert
Spencer Maeterlinck and Richard Strauss to
music and its future are discussed in volume
of essays by Ernest Newman entitled Musical
Studies
The ID Corps Of Cadets of Boston. it is stated,
has secured permission from Newton Kirk TO
use his stealthy Steve as the leading char
acter in their musical comedy. to be produced
Shis month Stealthy Steve is the hero OF
nar Kinks book of the same title. satirizing the
reflective literature of the day. Mr.. Kirk is the
successor of the late Charles H. Hoyt as the
official humorist OF THE Boston Post and is
himself beginning to be known as writer OF
tarcical plays.
"Burdetts Hospitals and Charities 1905" the
well known English year book of philanthropy
nnd hospital annual, published by The Scientific
Press Qdmited) London, contains as a special
feature this year complete figures for ten con-
secutive years showing the resources and ex-
kenditures of the nnety-four voluntary hos
pitfalls OF London. During this time the annual
total income has increased from tSO',fSo 10
Fl 1871, 09O and the annual total expenditure
from 1887 725 to f. ,341, GIL the expenditure con-
eistently continuing in excess of the income. In
regard to this condition of affairs Sir Henry
Burdett says:
The old hospital shibboleth, that no hospital can
well appeal for funds unless it can so arrange It's
hard in dying. although we have striven to prove
an almost every volume Of this publication the az,
gIrdty of this view. IT is time that all the
= hospital managers instead of living from hand TO
order a as enGeaRoT to put forward an nei
gent budget each year and fully CONSIDER IL IN t an
10 see that their expenses. the year goes on are
kept well within the receipts, and THAT Que reserve
IS during the fat years for the lean ones that
are sure to follow.
Advice that may well be taken to heart by
she hospital managers of our own country
Karl Edwin Hartman, author of Ann Arbor
bHThe Pilgrim and of his first duties was
Ehe painful one of returning a manuscript of
his own as unavailable. 1t seems that Mr..
Hartman had sold TO a magazine an article
which, for some editorial reason. could not be
used while it was still timely. The editors ac-
cordingly placed it in the hands of literary
agent who unwittingly. or it may be Willingly.
promptly submitted it TO THE Pilgrim" to
which periodical. fortunately for the authors
Samuel Hopkins Adams's articles on tuber-
culoss and on modern surgery. which have ap-
peared recently in "McClure's Magazine" have
had one unlocked for result in bringing their
author heavy correspondence. AS DR."
Adams ne has received many pitiful letters
from victims Of tuberculosis. appealing for adj
vice and help. Physicians write to tell Of
parallel cases, and candidates for the surgeons
sxnife ask to be directed to specialists.
Leroy Scott, who, as a Settlement worker on
the East Side. for a number of years
brought closely into contact with members of
labor unions. and has made a study of their in
huences for good and i'll, has written-a novel,
70 be called THE Walking Delegate" which
twill be brought out this spring by Doubleday,
Page & Co. Tho leading figure the walking
delegate. is said to be man somewhat of the
SaIil Farks type, nut or greater intelligence,
Hnd more subtle in his methods
THE History of the Victoria Cross" by Phil
Up A Wilkins, is to be published In this country
by e P. Dutton & Co. The author tells of the
90 acts of bravery for which the cross has al
ready been bestowed and has succeeded in Sc
curing portraits of 392 recipients The decora
ton Of the Victoria Cross was Instituted in
nS5e. and its award made retroactive to
the commencement OF the Crimean War It has
been granted to men who served with particular
walor and merit in the Crimea. in Persia, India.
China, New-Zealand Canada, Africa, Egypt
the Boer war. Somaliland and elsewhere from
1854 down to 1908.
PREDATORY to illustrated catalogue of over
three hundred books published by CHM g Co
Cor supplementary reading and school libraries
l. II. Jones. president of the Michigan State
Normal College has written suggestive mono
graph on What Are Our Young People Read
ang?" Pleading for more care in the selection
of the books that children are allowed TO read
and holding that zone serious mistake that
has been made is taking for granted that the
worlds best literature is too good and too great.
sor them. he says:
Our children. soon as they have gained the
fed with the amount of reading they can obtain
IN the classroom When they have discovered
the joy that LES in reading they will seek it ar
other times and in more propitious places no
satisfy the desires that have been created
something readable, whether suited or tlnsuitad
10 their needs, will be found so that II is even
possible that a taste for reading may be pro-
ductive of harm as well as Of good. the taste in
ttself being neither more commendable nor more
Firtuous than physical hunger.