The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-20
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than any other of his works, has brought
 him fortune and fame. It has gone
 through twenty-seven editions In Ger
 many and in America 1t has been re-
 printed three times In It's original tongue
 A metrical translation has now been ihaoe
 by MT. Ralph Davidson of Woln mas
 terpiece and an English version or Ihe
 Wild Huntsman will appear for the nrst time in September. The volume Will con
 tain numerous illustrations which nave
 been drawn by Mr Woldemar Friedrich
 esneciaIlv for this edition, and the form will be in every way worthy of the con tents The book will bear the Putnam imprint.
 Dr. Brandreth Symonds. whose read able treatise on Life Insurance Examin- ations Is the standard manual for medi- cal examiners, was educated at his fa- ther's school at Osslning, Hobart college and the College of Physicians and Sur geons of New York city. He received his degree of M D. in 1884 and immediately entered Bellevue Hospital, where he served until 1886. After three years of private practice he became connected with the Mutual Life Insurance com pany, and served through the various grades of the medical department, until he became medical director In 1903. Dr. Symonds is a member of the University and Grolier clubs. For the past five years he has been secretary of the Association of Life Insurance Medical Directors.
 The recent activity literary and other wise of Mir. Henry James. has resulted not only in what has been called 'po- lite popularity for his works, but in num- erous attempts on the part of critics and reviewers to. fix his rank as an author. A serious study of this kind is now prom ised from the pen of Miss Elisabeth Luther Cary, who has long been an en- thusiastic admirer of MT. James art. The Putnams, who are Miss cary's regular publishers, will bring this book out in September Besides the authors critical appreciation, the volume will contain, in an appendix a complete list of the books, stories, articles. and other writings of
 Henry James. This bibliography has been
 especially prepared by MT. Frederick A. King
 An interesting companion volume to
 Ellie Metchnikoffs "The Nature of Man"
 will be published in September by the
 Putnams under the title of Sex and Char
 acters The author, Otto Weininger, was
 an extraordinarily brilliant young Ger
 man who committed suicide at the age
 of twenty-three; and most readers will
 consider that his book shows signs of
 Insanity as we'll as genius. He was pro-
 foundly anti-feministlc, believing that the
 female principle is opposed to knowledge
 and progress and morality. Weininger
 does not admit the validity of the ac-
 cepted division of mankind into men and
 women. He believe that in practically no
 case is the distinction absolutely com plete. The first portion of the book deals
 with this theory on the physical side,
 while the second and longer part Is more psychological, and applies the new view
 to many of the most immediate problems
 of humanity. In spite of its exaggeration,
 this is an important contribution to hu-
 man science. which all future thinkers
 will have to reckon with.
 Prince KropotlSin, whose book, ''Rus- sian Literature" shows how prevalent so- cialistic and democratic tendencies have been amongst Russian writers, is himself
 both an author of distinction and dem ocrat in exile. In a recent letter on the
 present agitations in Russia. he com plains that there are ''so many nurses
 and duennas among the people. so many clamoring, Don't do this. and don't do that. you cannot accomplish much by forcer !" 'But few" he remarks, "dare to say, as Danton said Have the cour- age-the courage to. do and to act-the courage to think and to act And Kro- potkin concludes eloquently: And it is
 necessary that the few should encourage the mighty of the people to think and to ! act nightly. It is necessary that the few shall be with the people in all their
 struggles and plant everywhere the hope in revolutionary destruction of the old and