The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-18
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.


According to the London Academy
cooperative history is the literary mode
Of the hour, and like other fashions its
contemporary popularity appears TO have
spread from Paris. NJ. Lavisse is editing
there the monumental History Of France"
Messrs. LongmarS, the English firm, are
issuing a twelve volume history Of England
on the same plan and the United States
as usual goes them one better with twenty
eight volume American history under the
care Of Prof. A. B. Hart OF Harvard. The
first Ave volumes Of The American Nation
"a title which this English reviewer labels
Catholic IL cocka whoOp,' have been well
received and the second instsllment Of Ave
is progressing rapidly. The advantage
Of the cooperative method il that each
phase Of the history can be handled ade-
quately by a specialist.
Kate Do1gl1s wiggin viii leave New
70 X on April p for her annual visit TO Eng
land and Scotland. The Misses Findlater
who elaborated with her in The Affair
at tho Inn, are returning with her 10 their
home in Scotland.
San Antonio, Texas, where President
Roosevelt attended the Rough Riders
reunion recently, is the scene OF the opening
chapters OF Andy AdAms's latest cattle
story, The Outlet" The book is dedi-
Gated to Mr.. John r. Blocker Of San Antonio
Robert W. Chambers lie the only man who
can talk about things that one shouldn't talk
about without appearing TO talk about any
thing that one doesn't talk about, was the
comment Of a critic who has had the priv
lege OF reading the advance sheets Of Mr..
Chambers's new book, sIole, which will he
brought out by Appletons next month. II
Is TO be hoped that the book will be less
complicated than the remark, and no more
suggestive.
The twentieth edition OF Nancy Stair
has just been issued in America, and Il is
larger by several thousand than any Of the
previous ones. A second edition for Eng
land was recently ordered by cable from
London,
sThe Wine Press is a new book prom
ised for May written by a woman for the
purpose OF demonstrating that women as
class Historically exRgeerate their wrongs
at the hands Of men The book itself u not
hystercal at all, but Is enlvened by pretty
bit Of romance.
Miss Kate stephens, author OF American
Thumb-prints, which the j. B. Appincott
Company offer among their spring publ
cations, comes from good old American
stock Her forebeaTs Offered two famous
expeditions Of the English oolonists, and
later fought on the Colonial side in the
War OF Independence, which may have
something TO do with her acute under
standing Of certain facts and traits pre-
sented in the essays OF which her new book
Ia made up. Miss Stephens had the chair
Of Greek literature at the University Of
Kansas for six years and she has edited sew
eral volumes and done much original work,
both in the middle West and the East,
The appearance Of a fifth edition Of Mr..
BiRelow's Life OF Franklin first pub
lished thirty-one years ago, stamps with
the authority OF a classic this version Of
Franklin's famous memoir Of the first six
decades Of his life, II Is an interesting
fact that pretty much all that the world
knows about Franklin, whether good OF
bad, OF enduring interest, and pretty much
all that his numerous biographers have
depended upon for interest, has been de-
rived from Franklin's personal correspond
ence.
THE worsted Man just published by
Harpers, u an amusing little operetta by
John Kendrick Bangs, fun Of catchy refrains
Get to well known airs and quaint and
humorous conoeits thoroughly character
istic Of the author and his style, An anus
ing little bit Of verse now floating about
from the pen Of Mr.. Bangs was written at
the request Of the publishers OF a new
dramatic magazine. Mr.. Bangs, recalling
his recent theatrical experience when the
Casino was burned there during the run Of
his play, LADY TeaEle,' wrote the fol-
lowing:
! DO not of,en do the thing,
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