New-York tribune., 1905-01-21

Professor w B. Smith. of Tulane University
New-OrIeans. has recently completed a book on
| the race problem in the United States, whlcn Is
to be published early in February by Mcclure
Phillips & Co. under the title of The Coior
Line" The author takes up the questions OF
miscegenation and social. political and COM
merclal equality for the negro, from sclentlnc
standpoint investigating the claims made by
those on both sides of the controversy from an
thropological biological and chronological stand
points. :
Charles D. Stewart. who writes over the name
Of David Stewart, is to bring out through the
Century Company next month a novel. some
what in the nature Of a character sketch, called
'aThe Fugitive Blacksmith One chapter Of IL
will be printed short story in the February
number of The Century Magazine" The hero
is an old Irishman. named Finerty, OF philo-
sophie turn of mind who has charge of the
sandhouse in a railroad yard. Another book to
be issued by the same house next month viii be
THE Smoke Eaters" by Harvey J. O'Higgins-
1t Is a collection of his short stories that have
been published in various periodicals about the
doings and exciting adventures Of New-York
hook and ladder crew.
THE Merchant of Venice" forms the seventh
/ published here by Henry Holt & Co, by arrange
ment with ] NJ Dent & Co.. Of London. The
editor in the present instance is r. NJ. Williams.
NJ A The volume is Illustrated with many re-
productions of contemporary prints and with six
| original drawings by Dora Curtis
The Putnams are Just bringing out second
edition of Charles Mulford Robinson's Modern
Civic Art" which speaks not only for the ex-
I tie
tifcation of towns and cities. but also for the
hold that the movement has taken on the COM
munity There are now in the United States
nearly twelve hundred local improvement
cieties, one Of them having more than three
thousand members.
Henry c. Rowland author Of ITO windward."
has written another novel dealing, at least in
part. with the 1t will be called THE
Wanderers" and will be published next month
by A S. Barnes & Co.
In addition TO the book TO be issued by Mrs.
Leonidas Hubbard. jr. containing the story of
her husbands fatal exploring trip 10 Labrador,
founded on his personal diary which dis
covered with the body. Dillon Wallace. who
Mr.. Hubbard's companion. will also publish
volume descriptive of the expedition 1t will be
entitled The Lure of the Labrador Wild" and
will carry the imprint Of the Fleming H. Reveu
Company. Incidentally Mr.. Wallace aims TO
answer those who have criticised the two ex-
plorers for the alleged foolhardiness Of the en-
terprise and for their apparent unpreparedness
for contingencies which it has been claimed
they should have foreseen.
A large number OF rare autographs will be sold
at auction on Friday afternoon. January %. in
the book auction rooms of Davis & Harvey.
Philadelphia. The collection includes the papers
of DR.. w. P. C. Barton. who was surgeon under
! Commodore Decatur; those of Governor John
Francis Mercer of Maryland, and of James
MiIligan, Controller Of the Continental Currency
Among them the earliest known autographs
OF Edgar Allan Poe, written when he was only
fourteen years Old letter written by Joseph
Smith, the Mormon prophet; copies in his own
handwriting of a series OF love letters written TO
John Howard Payne by a correspondent who
signed herself Little Tear Drop" and the fol-
/ lowing pathetic letter by Robert Morris
II writing notes could relieve you would do it
sooner than any man in the world but all you have
amount when summed up to nothing. Ny money
/ is gone My Furniture IS 10 be sold. to go to
ROBERT NORRIS.
why is it, asks Adrian H Joline. IN the
January number OF The Collector" that plain
persons and even some who consider themselves
I
with unholy glee whenever they find an cppor-
! tunity to utter expressions OF scorn and con-
tempt concerning those OF their fellow beings
who gather autographs and treasure the writ
ten words of the famOus?'' The exciting cause
OF this complaint is the recent discovery by
Mr.. Joline OF letter written by the late Will
tam B. Sprague. d. D.. himself a distinguished
/ collector and dsseminator OF autographs IN
which the reverend gentleman gives this advice
/ to his correspondent:
As a friend. would advise You to havs q. Heat.
20 do with autograph collector as posstIIa soe
though there honorable excantfoTs' -
as a class, think they rank No. in noirS -
/ meanneSS.
Mr. Joline puts up a vigorous plea for the
autograph fend,' in the course OF which n,
tells the following story and it's application 70
DR.. Spragues aspersions:
! Journeying in Canada some years ago IN the so
ciety or an eminent author OF day. we met .
I lad who suffered from a bad cough and soroa
hours later came upon another boy who was lahare
ing under a similar afictlon My literary friend
thereupon delivered himself OF this solemn fnds-
ment: "All small boys in Canada have coughss'.
! The Psalmisr said in his haste that all men are