New-York tribune., 1905-12-30


A work on scarabs from the pen Of Mr.
| Percy E. Newberry has been announced. 1t is
mentioned as elaborate and introduction
to the whole study of Egyptian seals and signet
rings.
| Palmer Cox's Brownies have been turned to
many curious uses. from serving scarfotns to
| decorating piecrusts. and now they are to be
employed to gid the educational pill. The Cen
tury Company announces that 1t has in
press Brownie Primer" It is intended for
the very littlest learners and will be issued late
in the winter The Brownies will be taken
from Mr.. Cox's well known books but the text
is to be entirely new.
Baroness Bertha Won Suttner, the recipient Of
the Nobel Peace award. has been thus mentioned
in the Australian Parliament by the Minister Of
Finance:
lady who in a recent work of fiction has drawn
such a picture of war es must send shudder
few hours to the book and # any one. after having
done so. still retains passion for war can only
sincerely pity him.
1t is this book, die wafren Nieder!'' which is
generally understood we are told, to have first
inspired the Gar with the idea of calling con-
ference to arrange for universal peace. 1.-THE
work." says "The London Academy" has re-
ceived many compliments from the highest
quarters
"It is" Count Tolstoy has declared "a noble
only with admiration for the high idealism Of the
author, but has also given me an eXraor9lnary
literary taste, and stirred in me feeling OF hap
piness."
Mr. Mottraln cousin of the late George Eliot,
in his first published True Story of George
Eliot In Relation to Adam Bede," says that
Adam Bede. in real life. Robert Evans,
xTyac or
ever, but Samuel Evans Seth Bede) who
married the real Dinah Morris. Mr.. Mottram
saws that the Evanses were descended from an
old family of knightly rank who had come
down in the world.
A correspondent who saw Thomas Hardy re-
Gently in his home in Dorchester, describes him
as living quietly quite Indifferent to the social
fame that successful novel writing brings" He
has definitely abandoned London a place of
residence but goes there frequently on short
visits This is how the author appears to-day
to this observer:
He always looks little too grave and distant
to be quite at his in the midst of the 1angle
dinner he becomes at once sympathetic and inter
esting and can be grave and gay. IN stature ne
forehead deeply lined With thought the & dome i Of
The ewes are meditatiye cautious; and then
lighting up with kindly humor. but generally very
5o1B me % dsea5 fso o the the 6a OF
In a volume entitled 1.-THE Coal Mine Work
ers'' recently published by Longmans. Green &
Co Frank Julian Warne, Phi. D., Research Eel
low in Economies Of the University OF Pennsyl-
vania has written what he terms "a study in
labor organization" Believing that, however
greatly they may differ in details Of organiza-
ton and management, all trade unions In their
fna, analysis are working for fdentically the
same objects, the author has undertaken in a
study in detail Of this particular trade union TO
arrive at clear idea Of the fundamental OBJ
+acts Of all similar organizations DR.. Warne
protests that he has no theory to discuss or any
s.ei5e' to support that he takes the trade union
as he finds it. aiming to explain impartially Its
objects and purposes, pointing out what ne be-
neves to be mistakes in its organization snow
ing it's actual operation in the more important
channels through which it's activities are beng
felt tracing its development and describing the
industrial machinery which it is bringing into
eooio+v for the performance of needful service.
To accomplish this task the author mas STUDIED
4be objects and organization Of the union in
reoca as well as in strike times. witnessing its
actual workings outside as we'll as inside its
written constitution and the practical appllca-
4io1 IF its principles to every day affairs. In
those efforts he has been aided both by John
Mitchell president OF the United Mine workers
of America. who opened up many channeis Oh
information which otherwise would have been
oIosad 70 him and bv some of the bitterest op-
ponents'' of the union, lat times when self-ll-
tarast class prejudice and aroused human pas
sion were not present to mar clear and intelIl-
gent conception of what the labor movement
really signifies" In the main the treatment OF
the subject by DR.. Warne is a sympathetic one,
of what ne conceives to be "a generally misun-
darstood social institution of the very greatest
value ard Importance"
Other important denominations are not going
70 LET the Methodsts have monopoly of all the
Good hymns and tunes The recent publication
of THE Methodist Hymnaf' is to be followed
very shortly by a new volume OF "Church
HYMNS and Tunes" edited by Drs Lewis W.
Afrdre and Herbert B. Turner, which will he
brought out by A. S. Barnes & Co. whose name
has been associated with the publication of i'm
portant hymn books since they first issued the
Plymouth Collection" in 1855. half century
eeo. One admirable feature sought TO be at
tanned IN this latest of hymnals is that the
rhythmicaI accents Of the hymns when sung
shall always, so far possible, coincide with
the natural reading accents.
DR. Kel!ogg's American Insects" and Presi
dent David Starr Jordan's Guide to the Study
of Fishes" published here by Henry Holt &
Co. are to be brought out in English editions
by Archibald, Constable & Co. of London; and
George Bell & Sons of London. have arranged
with the Messrs. Holt to. bring out there Philip
HaIe's ''Dramatists of TS Kay" Three English
playwrights, Stephen Phillls<S Arthur Pinero and
q. Bernard Shaw are discussed in Mr.. Halls
volume.