New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-02
BOOKS IND AUTHORS.
Current Talk 4bout Things Present
and to Come.

Lest we forget in admiration of President
Roosevelt as a man of peace that he is also
a renowned slayer of wild beasts the Scrbners
are publishing a volume by our Chief
Magistrate although entirely in his capacity as
a private citiZen) entitled Outdoor Pastimes
of an American Hunter" The book is devoted
to accounts of Mr. Roosevelts hunting expedi-
tons made during the last few years, including
his bear hunt in Colorado and his wolf hunt
in Oklahoma this year, his Yellowstone Park
trip in 1903 and his cougar and bobcat hunt
in Colorado in 1901. The volume, a large oc-
tavo. is illustrated with a photographers por-
trait and forty-eight half tone reproductions OF
photographs
Quite a number Of the wildly imaginary con-
ceptons of Jules Verne proved later to have
forecast actual inventions. from which, 1T is
needless to say, the author received no financial
benefit. To Morgan Robertson such a state OF
affairs seemed to be so unfair that he has set
about making practical realities Of the devices
that he has introduced into his stories for
the purpose of enabling his characters to per-
form hitherto impossible feats. One Of these
imaginary inventions was an improved peri
scope that enabled the crew Of a submarine
vessel to take in at a glance the whole cir
conference of the horizon, and not section or
it merely This struck the author as so good
an idea that he followed it up, and he has not
only succeeded in patenting it. but In selling
1t to the Holland Submarine Boat Company
Encouraged by this success. Mr.. Robertson is
now at work trying to make a practical sub
marine searchlight. which he invented with
stroke of his pen in the interests of fiction, but
is finding certain mechanical difficulties in pre-
pairing for the Patent Office experts OF course
not all authors gifted with the mechanical
ingenuity OF Mr. Robertson and in following his
admira BILE example many may have to call in
the services of scientific experts. 1t is possible
however that shall see under the copyright
notices of future romances some such warning
as this: Dramatic and patent rights re-
served"
A history of the Declaration of Independence.
by J. H. Hazelton. is announced for fall publ
cation by Dodd, Mead & Co. The author begins
in IVA and following the initial steps taken by
the colonies defines Jeffersons share in the draft
ing of the document, the help given by Adams
and the position of Hancock. He also gives an
account of how when and where each signature
was affixed. However loudly the liberty bell
rang out on the momentous occasion. the writer
states that the press of the day apparently took
the matter very coolly, a Philadelphia newspaper
Of the period contenting itself with the following
para gra phi in ordinary type, tucked away in the
middle of page, among advertisements and
notices of meetings: This day the Continental
Congress declared the United Colonies free and
independent States"
Thirteen juveniles appear on the Appleton list
this fall and FIVE of them by Gabrielle E.
Jackson author of 'Denyse and Ned Toodles."
Only one Of these five, however. is new pub
lication story for girls entitled Little Miss
Cricket" The other four reprints of which
the Appletons have lately secured the copy
right Of the works of other authors, two are
picture books by Robert w. Chambers
and one by Grace V r. Dwight; there is a
boys story by Ralph Henry Barbour; there are
life stories Of Presidents Lincoln and Mckinley.
an Indian story and two books of short stories.
'F'ifty-two Stories for Boys and "Fifty-two
Stories for Girls"-one for each week in the
year-selected from the writings Of various Eng
lisn authors.
II Rider Haggards new novel, "Ayesha." will
be published here next week by Doubleday.
Page & Co The author claims that the book