New-York tribune., 1905-03-21

ana collection or Special plans, eaSy QeJacnaOie
from the volume. which is. most OF US know
from experience, boon by itself. Birds and
flowers are. doubt. the best precursors Of
spring. but know nothing better calculated
to set the readers mind on thoughts of fair
weather and delightful travel than q new volume
OF 3aadeker. in It's fresh red cover and its
ticing array OF maps
The title CT Professor Ernest W. Clements
new book which the American Baptist PubIica-
tion Society is bringing out has been changed
from Religious Conditions in Modern Japan"
20 Christianity in Modern Japan"
Henry Holt & CO. have just issued the twenty
fifth volume Of yale Studies in English" edited
by Professor Albert S. Cook. of Yale. It con-
sists OF Ben Jonson's Bartholomew Fair" edit
ed. with introduction. notes and glossary, by
DR.. Carroll Storm Allen. instructor IN English
and law in the United States Naval Academy.
DR.. Allen should at least be credited with thor
ougnness in the execution Of his task since the
134 pages Of text carry hundred pages
OF editorial matter.
Aprcpos Of the approaching Lewis and Clark
Exposition, A c. McClurg & Co. have in view
the publication within short time of several
timely volumes. The first of these, From the
West to the West" by Abigail Scott Duniway,
Is an account in fiction form of journey across
the plains TO Oregon. giving a picture Of the
periIs and hardships as well as the romantic
Incidents. Of travel fifty years ago. Another,
entitled Letters from an Oregon Ranch" 81
Illustrated from photographs. will tell in semi
humorous fashion of an attempt 10 create a
home in the wilderness
Alice Ames Winter. author of THE Prize to
the Hardy" recently published by the Bobbs-
Merrill Company, is a daughter of the Rev.
Charles Gordon Ames, pastor Of the Unitarian
Church of the Disciples, Boston. She is gradu-
ate Of Wellesley College. where she took two
degrees, and she afterward studied art in Phila-
delphia- a trip to British Columbia in search of
health resulted in her marriage to Mr.. Winter,
with whom she now resides in Minneapolis.
An enterprising but mendacious book agent
has been circulating through the West repre-
senting himself Elmore Elliott Peake. the
author Of "The House Of Hawley." He has been
selling an encyclopedia, which. he states is in
valuable 10 people OF literary tendencies and one
that has in fact, been a great aid to himself
The facts came TO Mr.. Peake's knowledge
through a young lady in Kansas writing and
asking him for the book of his which he had
promised her. It appears that the impostor has
been offering a copy Of "The House of Hawley'
as an extra inducement to subscribers. Mr..
Peake is wondering how many other young
ladies. in Kansas or elsewhere, are waiting for
complimentary copy Of his last novel.
The deflnitive three volume edition OF George
Herberts works. which Houghton Miff1in & Co.
had announced for the spring. has been post
pOned until next autumn. as Professor George H.
Palmer. who has been engaged in the editing
of this edition for many years. win not be able
to complete his work until this summer.
The publication of Oscar wiIde's de Pro-
fundis." by the Putnans. is shortly to be fol-
lowed by volume Of his ''Epigrams and Aphor-
isms." to be issued by John w. Luce & CO. It
VIII contain selection from his books and plays
Of his most striking witticisms and "smarti-
cisIns," together with some of his whimsical
opinions on art
Owing to the lack Of suitable editions, many
French plays Of the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries seldom read in American schools
and colleges With the purpose Of widening the
range of study in this field CHM & Co. are plan
ming to issue scholarly editions Of number OF
the best plays of this period The first OF these
publications will include Rotrou's Saint
Genest" and 'Venceslas" and will be edited
by Professor T. F. Crane, of Cornell University.
President George e. Merrill Of Colgate Uni
American Baptist Publication Society, volume
On ''The Song OF Songs" He agrees with the
later commentators in dscarding Solomonic
authorship, and declines to follow the allegori-
cal method Of Interpretation. To DR.. Merrill.
as 20 many other close students of the poem,
the 'tsong OF Songs is a dramatic poem Of ORR
entail love. bearing witness TO the superiority of
legitimate welded love to that of the harem.
AS such he considers its place In the canon
should be justified even to those who might
otherwise be inclined to question it.
Admiral Sir E. R FremantIe's 1.-The Navy as
I Have Known II" has just been published
here by Cassell & &C. The author entered the
British navy in 1S49 when Admiral Sir William
Parker. "the last of Nelson's captains" was in
command Of the Mediterranean feet. He took
part In the Burmese war Of 1852. the New-Zea-
land war of 1s64I66 and the Ashantee war Of
1873574. and was q close observer OF the war
between China and Japan.
Frank z. Pergande OF milwaukee,, is the COM
biler and publisher Of a Manual of Examina-
tions for Government Positions" which aims to
assist applicants TO prepare for United States
Civil Service examinations by presenting lists
of questions from former papers with the cor
rect answers. If there were any guarantee that
examiners would restrict themselves TO the ques-
tions Eelected by Mr.. Pergande. there would be
small excuse for any failing 10 pass who pos
sessed a copy of the book Among the positions
covered are such widely vsTied as Chinese
watchInan. discipliIarian. seamstress, inspector
Ct hats. magazine attendant, messenger boy
tagger and farmer.
The autobiography OF the Hon. Andrew White
TfA be published toward tine latter part Of this
month by the Century Company In two royal