New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-04-22
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
Current Talk About Things Pres
ent and to Come.

CUC UftU " OOHCCS
Kate Douglas wiggin sailed this week for her
annual visit to England and Scotland. The
Misses Ffndlater, who elaborated with her in
writing The Affair at the Inn" are also collab-
| Grating with her in her journey. Mrs. Riggs will
accompany them to their home in Scotland
Cyrus Townsend Brady's new novel, THE Two
Captains" published by the Macmillan Com
pany. relates in it's title to Bonaparte and Mel
son. The hero is an Irish officer in the British
navy who falls in love with the granddaughter
of a French vice-admiral. with all the obvious
and some unexpected complications.
The author Of The Yellow War" recently re-
viewed in these columns, who masquerades as
20" on the title page is reported TO be Cap
tain Lionel James, the war correspondent OF
The London Times" Although only thirty-four
years old, Captain James has been through
numerous campaigns-representin the "Thun-
derer" with the Chitral relief force in the
Indian frontier wars of 1S91-'9S in the Sou
dan in South Africa. in Macedonia and in the
Far East In the Russo Japanese war he organ
lied and directed the dispatch boat Hai-Mun,
which he equipped with wireless telegraph ap-
paratus and American operators. experiencing
many lively adventures. which furnished him
with much Of the material for his sketches of
the naval operations He is also the author of
series of articles on the American army and
West Point, which were printed in The Times
and he is now credited with being the "Inten-
gence officer who wrote ION the Heels Of De
Wet" volume very similar in character to
The Yellow War"
The title of Justin Huntly McCarthys novel
which the Harpers have just published is THE
Dryad." The story tells Of the rule of the
5rtIra In
in the fourteenth century. The hero is a French
soldier Of fortune, who falls in love with real
Dryad in the woods of Eleusis. the last of her
| line-a medieval Eleusinian mystery.
Professor George P. Fisher. of Yale University
has written for the May "Scribner's" his per-
sonai recollections of Webster. Calhoun and
other famous statesmen, the result of visit to
Washington in 1850 during the debate on the
Missouri Compromise repeal
A newspaper Photographer calls attention to
the various sexes" assigned by reviewers to the
unknown author of The Mother Light" a
Christian Science novel. published by the APP
pletons. on investigation. however. the num-
Der of sexes guessed at resolves itself into two
In spite of the slackness IN the London pub
fishing trade reported by our London CORE
books are listed for publication this spring in
Great Britain. A. S Barnes & Co report the
following of their recent volumes issued or
soon to be issued on the other side: Henry c.
Rowlands To Windward." DR. Emma e. Walk
er's Beauty Through Hygiene" DR. Emelyn L.
Cooldge's THE Mothers Manual Tudor
Jenkss In the Days of Chaucer." Arthur Hen
rvs The House in the Woods" Abraham
Cahan's THE White Terror and the Red Pro-
fessor r Kennedy Duncan's The New Knowl-
edge" Professor n. s. Shaler's The Citizen"
the popular three volume edition of The Lewis
and Clark Journals" and the Narratives of De
Soto in the Trail Makers Series, Or. Henry
A. Stimsons The Right Life" and Joseph C.
Linooln's stin unpublished novel. Partners of
the Tide"
Harold MacGrath's The Man on the BOX"
has been turned into a play ny Grace Livingston
Furniss who dramatized Agnes and Eserton
Castles The Pride OF JennicO'
'Shakespeare's London" is the title OF vol
ume by Henry Thew Stevenson which Henry
Holt & Co are publishing this month The au-
thor aims to show not only the picturesque side
OF life in the days when the Strand was little
better than a mud road and when gentles and