The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-08
BOOKs AMI

Life. which are being published In Mcclure
Nooa.ins. take an added interest from the
authors recent death, Mr.. Schurz MIN
self corrected the PROOFS Of France and the
Eve Of the Second Empire for the june
number, in which he tells OF his experience
with Louis Napoleon's police spy
Mrs. @. N. williamson had intended on
leaving America to go to Japan In search OF
novel scenery for a new motor car story
But writing from Cape st. Martin she says;
Il have such a growing disgust for that big
wet, gray thing, the sea, thatl funk Japan
and 30 we will suppose-spend u sum
mer in England, and perhaps goto 'en'ce
for next September and part OF oc'ooer'
until it IL time to come back here''
John T. McCutcheon, whose last book OF
cartoons. The Mysterious Stranger, forms
n history in pen and ink, has sailed for
Europe to make a circuit of that part OF the
world where history is being made most
rapidly just now. From Paris he goes 10
Constantinople, Tifis, the Caucasus NOUN
tains. the Caspian Sea, then by caravan 10
China, whence q thousand miles Journey
northyard takes him into Siberia 10 pro-
ceed either east or west on the Trans
siberian Railway. The journey is not made
for any newspaper but is a pleasure trip OF
extended and difficult travel.
A publisher who was asked what ne con-
sidered the most interesting period IN the
worlds history for basing a novel repheu
without a moments hesitation, line time
Of Christi And he continued: Its the
least worked Of any known period, because
it's too dangerous for an author. lhere
are millions of people who are familiar win
every line of sacred and profane history
concerning that period, and the hmel'ght
has been turned on 50 glaringly mat inc
least slip would spell very much Ike rum
for the author. And yet the man VINO
does write a successful novel so based mas
made his fortune" A book dealing WIN
this period will appear in the early autumn
entitled THE Court OF Plate
Mr.. j. w. Foley, speaking OF his Songs
of School Days." says: 1T was a graauai
growth. l wrote a little poem sketch LOT
Life and it sold. Then l expanded the
second one into three verses-partly De-
cause three verses would bring more than
one and partly because three verses were
necessary to the development OF the IDEA.
That sold. Then VI began to look ABOUT
into the hearts Of the boys Iknew-andp acK-
ward into my own-and ] thought l saw a
lot of things that had not been IN PRINT
So I put them into print and when they
began to be printed I began to get inquiries
as to whether l had not gone to school IN
such and such O place and whether L had not
| - z,ah n how and whether
my lads were not real lads taken from out
my life. Well, they were real boys IN a WY
and they were not real in a way, but ieio
that If they walked without knocking INTO
grown up hearts they must be pretty good
after all. So I continued to write ana they
continued to be printed
In view Of the International conference
30 soon to convene at The Hague, especlai
interest attaches to an article in the June
Atlantic on The Future of Arbitration
by Benjamin F. Trueblood, secretary OF the
American Peace Society. ANY one, ne
says, who has carefully followed the aroi-
tration movement during the decade since
1895 knows that it can no longer be spoken
of as an experiment. A Government which
will not try arbitration before resorting to
arms is In these days scarcely considered
respectable Mr.. Trueblood believes maj
the perfecting OF this system, whether 1t
comes sooner or later, will inevitably see
the end Of war as a general insutuuoh
recognized under international law
Fifty years ago no book lover could be
found to buy Thoreau's week on the Con-
cord and Merrimac Rivers and the author
was obliged to take pack the edition himself
from the publisher. Now the handsome
manuscript edition OF Thoreau's works In
twenty large paper volumes limited to 600
sets, which Houghton, Mifiin & Co. have in
press, has been subscribed before half the
volumes are ready for delivery, and a new
Small paper Walden edition in twenty vol
umes is announced to be sold by sub scrip
ton.
Graeme NJ. Hammond, NJ, D., has written
an article on Nerves and the American
Woman which contains interesting infor-
nation and encouraging conclusions for
the nervous women of our very nervous
country. A consideration Of many cases OF
nervous exhaustion shows the proportion
between men and women suffering from
neurasthenia to be about equal, with a few
more women sufferers than men. Married
ara more subject to nervous p~rostra-
ito man their spinster sisters. Bridge is
pronou ,ced by the writer a harmless and
fasoinati lg game, q wholesome way Of OBJ
tanning recreation if indulged in in modera-
ton, but carried to excess produces a state
O. excitement which is followed by nervous
ex laustion. The encouraging feature Of
the writer's conclusions is that there lie no
destructive disease Of the nervous system
and that all cases are durable. No matter