New-York tribune., 1905-02-04
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
Current Talk about Things Pres
ent and to Come.


Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson has
edited for Houghton. Mtfflin & Co. the volume
commemorative of the anniversary proceedings
at "The Hawthorne Centenary at Wayside'
Concord. Mass, July Al. 1904" which that
firm will issue on the 25th of this month. The
book will contain number of illustrations re-
produced from photographs.
Mrs Alec Tweedie 1t seems. has decided not
to write a volume OF her impressions or Amer
ica because, she says we are too nice; IN
stead she gives them to an interviewer. She
likes our telephones. our railroad trains. and
our 6th-ave.; but she considers US shame
fully behind the times in things" and
cites our postal service. the cost of telegraph
ing and of hanson cabs and the lack of a par
cells post as reprehensible instances.
Gertrude Atherton's Rulers Of Kings" is to be
brought out in Germany by a publisher VINO
is apparently not enjoying the experience. The
story was translated into German by Mrs. Regi-
nald Birch. who submitted it to the publisher
and he accepted it apparently without reading
It. or, at any rate without a very clear idea OF
the free and easy pen portrait that Mrs. Ather-
ton gives of the German Emperor. When the
realization of what the dainty dish contained
that he was preparing to set before the king
penetrated to his Teutonc consciousness he
hastily repudiated the bargain The threat OF
a suit for breach of contract caused him to re-
consider and he has now decided to publish
the volume and run the risk of lese majesty.
oThe Pandex Of the Press is a new maga-
zine published by the Calkins Newspaper
Syndicate. Of San Francisco. and edited by Ar
thur 7 Street formerly of Golfers Weekly and
at one time Editor of the Associated Sunday
49, ,I,lf tfGv1F &c to do
for the daily newspapers what THE Review of
Reviews" does for the monthly periodicals. the
loading TOPICS of the day being treated by means
Of extracts from selected articles from the news
naners Of the land. The result is to give fresn
account Of current events from different points
Of view The magazine is copiously Illustrated
with reduced reproductions of the cartoons pup
I,shed in the press on the subjects treated.
short editorial introduction serves to summarize
the situation in regard to each topic Inc ldea
is novel, at least in its present application ana
the result is certainly interesting.
Almost the entire exhibit of the Partisan book
birdars that was shown at the st. Louis EXposi-
tion has been brought to New-York and may be
seen for a week at the bookstore OF Charles
Scribner's Sons. The collection is interesting as
exhibiting the most recent development OF the
art I'm it's head centre, the occasion beng one
which would naturally call forth the best efforts
of the binders represented. among whom are
such we'll known masters as Cuzin. David Cruel
rortic and Ruban. The general note of the eX-
bibit Is a freedom from restraint, a breaking
avvav from the conventionality of the old school.
the new art" movement dominating in every
direction. with results occasionally beautfuL
hut mostly bizarre. Some of the carved ieather
work of Cruel shown on the front cover OF
a copv of Anatole Frances lie Procurateur de
JUDGE the text of which is printed in an en-
erayed script is especially noteworthy as de-
nartlre from accepted forms, yet we'll within the
limits of good taste. In some instances the
carved leather designs take the form of inset
panels To produce this carving the leather is
first frozen in order to give It the requisite hard
ness for taking the fine lines Of the chisel and
where the effect of high relief is desired the
leather is pushed out from the back and the
space filed in Saint-Andre de hguereux has
a number of examples of this carved work nota-
blv in a large octave copy of the oxford edition
of the HOLY Bible, and in a copy of Don
Ouixote" showing a windmill carved in relief
on an inset panel Some of the most pleasing
effects are seen in the covers inlatd with col
ored leather in natural designs where blind tool
ing is substituted for the usual outlines in gold
which were formerly deemed necessary 10 hold
the inlays in place Some of the new fashions OF
the French binders however. will doubtless be
shortlived as in the case of the covers with in
set panels of wood. One of these, by David a
copy OF Tissot's Life of Christ shows a
wooden panel on which is reproduced a picture
from the book CThe Magnihcan. in which the
grain of the wood is ingeniously made to help
out the design From some of these ecceutrici-
ties turns with relief to four little volumes
of La Fontaine's Fables" bound by Lortic
In full red levant. with a conventional fooled
design that looks. except for its newness. as
II 1t might have been bound the same year that
II printed. which was I'm IT'S
Mr.. and Mrs. Wiamsons automobile ro-
nance, THE Princess Passes" which has been
running a serial in the Metropolitan Maya
zine" will be issued in book form on March IL
by Henry Holt & Co. the publishers OF The
Lightning Conductor" written by the same au
thors.
The new novel ny DR. Henry c. Rowland an
thor of ITO Windward." will be entitled "Tba
Wanderers" and will be published by A 8
Barnes & Co. on the 24th of this month II Is
described a dramatic story of the sea the
action passing yacht between Gibraltar
and the South Seas. Some OF the characters In