Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-19

versal brotherhood which Mr. Warner holds
Is the basis of true religion-these Ideas are
advanced with a surprising clearness, hu-
| NOR and effectiveness. Three distinguished
| critics known throughout the United States
| Tone throughout the WORLD read the manu-
| script and expressed their establishment at
| the books power and meaning. Mr.. War
| ner is a brother Of the late Charles Dud-
| ley Warner.
| fiction includes ''The Colonel's Dream" by
Charles W. Chestnut; Concerning Belinda"
by Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd; 1.-The Golden
| Heart" by Violet Jacob: "Ayesha," by H.
Rider Haggard, and Sons O. Men," by G.
| b. Lancaster.
| Ethel Watts Mumford's new humorous
book for 1905 is to be a very novel Joke
Book Note Book" to be published by Paul
/ Elder and Company. San Francisco. Since
| the first appearance of the famous Cynics
Calendar of Revised Wisdom, Mrs. Num-
| ford has prepared an annual volume of her
| clever nonsense work. The Limerick Up
/ to Date Book of last year was distinct
/ success and the publishers announce that
| they have just filled an order for an edition
| OF the book for the Australian market The
order includes well editions Of Bachelor
| Bigotries" and widows Grave and Other
| wise"
| The Cynic's Calendar, which apart from
| it's own merits has been distinguished by
| the flood of limitations that have appeared,
Is again on the press for 1905 under the title
| Of the Complete Cynics Calendar" 1t Is
| to include all Of the material, text and IL
| Illustrations. of both the first and second
series. The advance sale has added another
10000 copies to the credit of this successful
nonsense volume.
G. P. Putnams Sons promise the publica-
ton OF several works of especial attract
iveness to book lovers.
"Mohammed and the Rise Of Islam is
the title of volume which will be issued
next month in the Putnam's Heroes OF
! the Nation Series" The author Is Rev.
David Samuel Margoliouth. laudian profess
sor Of Arabic at Oxford University.
DR.. Frederic Rowland Marvin, whose vol
Books will be published in the fall, is
already favorably known in the literary
world as the author of The Last Words of
Distinguished Men and Women and
FLOWERS Of Song from Many Lands"
An interesting companion volume to Ellie
Metchnikoffs THE Nature of Man will
be published In September under the title
of Sex and Character" The author, Otto
Wefninger, was an extraordinarily brilliant
young German who committed suicide at
the age of twenty-three; and most read
ers will consider that his book shows signs
OF insanity as well as genius. He was pro-
foundly anti-feministic, believing that the
female principle is opposed to knowledge
and progress and morality. Weininger does
not admit the validity of the accepted divi-
sion of mankind into men and women. He
believes that in practically no case Is the
distinction absolutely complete.
The powerful and delicate poems of Ju-
Illus Wolff. recountfng, as they do, the shad-
owy legends of old Germany have made
him the most popular of living German
poets. THE Wild Huntsman," more than
any other of his works, has brought him
fortune and fame. 1t has gone through
tWentyseven editions in Germany and in
America 1t has been reprinted three times
in Its original tongue. metrical transla-
ton has now been made by Mr.. Ralph
Davidson OF VOLTS masterpiece, and an
English version of THE Wild Huntsman"
will appear for the first time in September
The volume will contain numerous illustra-
tons which have been drawn by Mr. W. Ide-
mar Friedrich especially for this edition.
and the form will be in every way worthy
of the contents. The book will bear the
Putnam imprint.
The recent activity of Mr.. Henry James
has resulted not only in what has been call
ed polite popularity for his works but
IN numerous attempts on the part OF critics
and reviewers to fix his rank as an author.
A serious study of this kind is now prom
ised from the pen of Miss Elizabeth Luther
Cary, who has long been an enthusiastic
admfrer of Mr.. James art. The Putnams
will bring this book out in September Be
sides the authors critical appreciation. the
volume Will contain. in an appendix, q COM
plete list of the books, stories, articles and
other writings of Henry James This bib
biography has been especially prepared by
Mr.. Frederick A King.
Students and patrons of American litera-
ture are watching with interest the vol
umes of Shelburne Essays which are APP
pearing from time to time by Mr.. Paul
Elmer More of the New York Evening Post.
The plan of these essays came to Mr. More
when, after teaching Sanskrit and Greek at
Bryn Mawr, he turned his back on civiIiza-
ton and lived for two years In a de-
serted farmhouse at Shelburne n. III. A
third volume of Sheburne Essays is an
nounced in the Putnam's fall list. When
the series is complete it will cover in q gen
eral way the whole field of English ltera-
ture.
Houghton, Mifflin & Co. report the fol-
lowing new printings: Sixth edition or
THE Opal" fourth edition of 1.-THE Outlet"
by Andy Adams; third edition (fall, 1900
of 1.-The Satchel Guide and second edition
of "Marlowe," by Josephine Preston Pea
body.