New-York tribune., 1905-08-19
BOOKS And AUTHORS.
Current Talk about Things Present
and to Come.

George Bancroft" is to appear in Scribner's
Magazine, beginning with the September num-
Der, and will include an account of the histo-
rian's conversations with Goethe. Bancroft was
one of the earliest American students to attend
the German universities, and was, in fact. pre-
ceded only by Edward Everett and one or two
others After graduating from Harvard in 1917
he went to G5ttngen, and from that time he
had an ever widening acquaintance with notable
neopIe in Europe and America The series Will
be edited by NJ A DeWolfe Howe, and will
undoubtedly be published later in its entirety
In book form.
Elisa beth Luther Cary has just completed a
volume in which she undertakes definitely to fix
Henry James's rank author AS Miss
Cary is we'll known to be enthusiastic ad-
mirer of Mr.. Jamess writings, it is probable
that she will fix his rank high enough to suit
him. The book will be published in September
by the Putnams and will contain besides the
authors critical appreciation" complete list
OF Mr.. James's writings, including his books
stories articles etc. The photography is the
work of Frederick A King
Edwyn Sandys, author OF Sportsman Joe"
and "Trapper Jim" is bringing out new book
of Sporting Sketches through the Macmillan
Company. The volume will be published early in
September. Mr. Sandys is happy combination
of author artist naturalist and sportsman and
in Sporting Sketches" he will relate many Of
his adventures with American game of all sizes
Ethel Watts Mumford known among things
for her clever work in the two issues of THE
Cynics Calendar of Revised WISDOM is about
to publish through Paul Elder & Co. a book Of
humor of which she is the sole author. 1t will
be entitled the "Joke Book Notebook" For 1906
p md he
Of the two volumes OF the calendar for 1904 and
1905 in a single book. and will bring 1t out as
The Complete Cynics Calendar"
Booth Tarknston is a present in New-York
revising the last chapters OF his novel THE
Conquest OF Canaan" which Is running in
''Harper's Magazine He expects to sail next
month for Italy. where he rlans TO spend the
coming year. mos: OF the time al Capri.
In THE Upton Letters" which the Putnams
have published this week, they state that. ''in-
stead of being story told in the form of letters.
these are real letters issued in the form of
sory"-a delicate distinction. The anonymous
author is an English schoomaster, and the
letters are written to an invalid friend in Ma
dera.
The statement OF an enlightened contempo-
rary that CHM & Co.'S Medical Writing Books
have been adapted for in the public schools
OF Ithaca, n. Y, probably due to the care of
an overzealous proofreader. who striking the
word Medal foN the first time. promptly iu-
serted the &C" which he deemed to be missing in
the copy.
The race question" may he in the way OF
solving itself. according to article printed in
the current number OF The Quarterly Journal
OF Economies" OF Harvard University. Pro-
fessor Wilcox. of Cornell one of the census
chiefs OF division, writing of the rate Increase
among the negroes OF the United States. as
senbles figures which indicate that the negroes
of the South are increasing far more slowly
than the white population. Not only is their
birth rate declining. but their death rate is very
high and in the cities it II actually getting
higher. The forecast which the author makes
from his statistics is not bright far As
our feli-~ citizens of African descent are con-
! peruaJ.