New-York tribune., 1905-07-01

classes.
There was only one book by an American
author on the list of six best selling books IN
England last May, and that was Anna kath-
arine Green's "A Millionaire Baby-so we are
Informed by the Bobbs-Merrill Company.
Harry Thurston Peck's Twenty Years Of the
Republic" which is running as serial III
.The Bookman" viii be published in book form
in the autumn by Dodd, Mead & Co Aithoush
a professor of Latin and editor of classical
dictionaries and of a monthly literary masa-
zine. Mr. Peck has not been unaware of what
has heep going ON around him in the great world
of action since he graduated from coilege'
His articles disclosing the glimpses he has taken
of public affairs since that time. begin with the
Cleveland campaign Of 1884. and Will bring MS
view of the political history of the United States
down to the present day.
Amos R. Wells. who began his literary career
h, writing nonsense verses for est. Nicholas"
and who is now the managing editor of The
Christian Endeavor World" has just completed
a new work on the subject of the unhcation of
denominations, entitled. They All May BE
One" which will be published in the faIi oy
Funk & Wagnalls. There is a suggestion OF
whimsicality in the title. if not in the idea' OF
his latest book which recalls the quaint humor
OF his earlier productions
They all may be one
Oh won't 1t be fun
When folks can be made 10 agree!
It's quite like a game;
They Just think the same
And they are just the same, don't you see!
James M. F7agg, the author of 'Tomfoolery."
a clever collection of verses and illustrations
brought out last year by the Life Publishing
Company is about to issue another volume
through the same house. Its title VIII De H.
Guide to Bad Manners" 1t has not hlTherto
been deemed necessary to compile pooK 1or
this purpose most people being able to acquire
bad manners without instruction. Perhaps there
is a serious design underlying Mr.. Flaggs vol
| ume after all 1t may be that seeing the un-
happy results of attempts to teach good man
ners by means OF handbooks of etiquette, the
author hopes that those who really try to live
up to his precepts will also fail so signally as
actually to fall into good habits.
David Graham Phillips will publish his next
book through James Pott. 1t will be issued In
september. and will be called 1.-The Reign of
Gilt" It is to be volume of fact not of fc-
tion as his previous works have been, and will
embody Ibis strongest beliefs and controlling
purposes" The book. in short, is stated to be
"an arraignment of the American idolatry OF
wealth so powerful as to make the most hard
ened pause and consider" What its effect is
likely to be the only partially hardened
and soft sheIled sinners is left to the imagina-
ton.
Ion Perdcaris, who from his long residence
in Morocco and close relations with the Sultan
not to mention his recent too close relations with
RaisuIi-may be regarded authority, dis
courses in the July number Of "The Interna-
tional Quarterly" on 1.-The Disintegration of
D-AI 1HJa
Results" In view of the decIination of the
Sultan to accede to the French propositions the
fall of the Delcasse Ministry and the honors
simultaneously heaped upon the German Chan
ceuor by the Kaiser. the article is especially
timely. Referring to the present situation as
between France and Germany, Mr.. Perdicaris
says:
What critics ignorant Of trade conditions & in Mo Mo
r9GeU ,2or so and EXPORTS amounts only to about
s15OoooO0 per annum ana that , the fuiniment % OF
Veop transport and other resources constitutes the
only financial b to Of ses fSe r
sponsbty or expense OF mi for oraf re5cS
@ ampy usti6ed in Insisting that German
merchants shall have share in placing tenders
for these Moorish orders. tenders or bids. which,
bief bV the Predominant influence which the French
profess the right to assert by virtue OF the Anglo
Franco Spanish agreement The only way TO Sc
the various governments represented at the Madrid
Conference of 1880 to hold the Sultan to that agree
part of France England or Spain to guarantee to
Pafne influence of tG ahR IN Morocco s OF
What Know About Poker" is the impressive
title of a volume, now in press by Richard
Garlic the actor. The extent of the authors
knowledge is indicated by the statement that
he has had an intimate acquaintance with the
game for nineteen years and that he regards his
experience dearly won that he is unable
to set any price upon his book Any one who
desires copy has only to forward two-cent
stamp to the authors address. and the book
will be mailed to him. This may be altruism.
and it may be-advertsing.
The causes, character and progress of the
Russian revolutionary movement are discussed
hv G H Perris IN a volume entitled Russia
in Revolution" which Brentano's have recently
published The book is illustrated and has
for frontispiece a photogravure portrait of
Stepniak
The Rev. Charles Cuthbert Hall, DID. presi-
dent of the Union Theological Seminary. has ar
ranged for the publication in book form. by the
Fleming H ReveI Company, of the six lectures
lie delivered this spring at Vanderbilt Univers-
itv. The volume will be ready in the autumn
and will be entitled THE Universal Elements in
the Christian Religion In the lectures, which
will appear chapters in the book. DR.. Hall
presented the position in which the Christian
church now finds herself in relation to the world
which she seeks to influence. discussed the bear
ing of sectarianism on the forward movement of
Christianity and treated of the constructive Of
flee of Biblical criticism.