New-York tribune., 1906-08-18
BOOKS and AUTHORS.
Current Talk About Things Pres
ent and to Come.

New novels by Clara Louise Burnham and
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward and a volume
OF short stories by Alice Brown are among the
volumes OF fiction promised by Houghton. Mif-
fin s. Co. for fall publication. The same house
will issue the Life and Letters OF Lafcadio
Hearn." prepared by Elizabeth Bisland: Bliss
Perry's 'Walt whitman" and a new life OF
John Sherman by Hon. Theodore e. Burton.
Among the illustrated volumes OF travel 20 be
published shortly by the Macmillan Company
win be a new book by Clifton Johnson. entitled
Highways and Byways OF the Mississippi VAL
ley" and an account Of 1.-THE Fair Hills OF Ire
land" by Stephen Gwynn. himself an Irishman.
Other volumes OF a similar character on the
Macmillan fall list will be DR.. Edward Everett
Hales 'Tarry- Home Travels" Professor A.
V. williams Jackson's Persia Past and Pres
ent." 2. V. Lucas's "A Wanderer in London"
and Mrs. ST. Julien RaveneTs Charleston: the
Place and the People"
J. II. Barrie has taken those chapters Of The
Little White Bird" that contain the story OF
Peter Pan and edited them in such fashion SIS
70 make completely rounded tale Of the epi-
sode, for the benefit Of those who have made
the hero's acquaintance through the play, and
who believe IN fairies" New drawings for
the volume have been made by Arthur RackhaTn.
whose illustrations for Grimms Fairy Tales and
"
London. The pictures for the new Peter Pam
book will be printed in colors.
John Bigelow's book on THE Mystery OF
Sleep" has been translated into Russian and is
published with a preface by Prince Tarkhanov
In view Of the present turmoil and disorder IN
Muscovy the title OF the volume is apt as It's
contents are doubtless aIlurtng to the people OF
that troubled land. Mr.. BIgelow's work had
alreaay been translated into French ana Ger
man.
Fiction for children must be abreast Of the
times in these days and W. ]. Hopkins in THE
Airship Dragon Flyer" to be published this fall
BY Doubleday, Page & Co.. win relate for boys
and girls the adventures Of three youngsters in
en- airship.
1.-THE Long Day" that interesting autobio-
graphical story OF a working girls experiences
in New York, is said to have largely Influenced
the plans Of the Trowmart Inn, the new hotel
for working women, modelled somewhat on the
lines Of the Mills hotels for men. which was re-
Gently opened iii this city When The hook first
appeared. Mr.. Martin. the protector Of the inn
sought an interview with the author and IS said
70 have followed many Of her suggestions, the
results Of painful personal experiences with
lodging houses for women.
Of the entertaining collection of Hindoo love
stories, entitled THE Digit Of the Moon" has
now completed a new volume called "A Draught
Of the Blue" which is listed for early publlca-
ton by the Putnams. Like his previous book
the present volume is. or purports to be, rem
derIng OF Eastern originals.
From the Fleming Il Revell Company the
American publishers Of the textbooks Of ''Es-
ToT1t1yy
OF the growing vogue Of this new universal
language" An Esperanto convention is 20 be
held at Geneva. Switzerland. from August %
TO September 5, at which delegates from Amer
lea viii be present for the first time A young
peoples Esperanto society, recently organized
in this country. is said to have the names Of
five hundred members on It's rolls.
T. Baron Russell has written volume
titled "A Hundred Years Hence: The Expecta-
tions Of an Optimist" that is announced for
publication by A. G. McClurg Co. in Octo-
ber Unlike so many other social forecasters
Mr. Russell does not see in socialism the uni
versal panacea. He believes that the hope of
the future rests upon the education Of the
people and the awakening Of the public con-
science, and that by the end of the century
scientific and inventive progress will have
made this world we'll worth living ina hope
full conclusion that is Of more personal inter
est to our grandchildren than to ourselves.
number of the Comic series which have
appeared in the colored Sunday supplements Of
New York daily newspapers are to be diguihed
by publication in book form by the Frederick A.
Stokes Company. The series selected are
Opper's Maud" ana his The Travels OF Happy
Hooligan." swinnerton's Jimmy and His
Scrapes" and his Sam and His Laugh"
Dirkss THE Tricks Of the Katzenjamrner Kids
and the adventures OF Willie Westinghouse
Edison Smith the Boy Inventor" new Bus
ter Brown" book by R. F. Outcault entitled
Buster Browns Antics" is likewise promised
as is also the latest OF "Bunnys'' Foxy Grand
pa" pictures, to be called Foxy Grandpa FroI-
les"
Sidney Mccall the author Of Truth Dexter
and THE Breath Of the Gods" has written
new story of Japanese life, which Little Brown
& Co. will publish this autumn with many illus
trations. Its title is The Dragon Painter
new novel by Roy RoIfe ellison is to be the
leading holiday book issued this autumn by the
Baker & Taylor Company 1t is entitled 'Katri-
lives over again the love OF his youth in the lit
tie daughter OF the woman he lost" There will
be six illustrations in color by Alice Barber
Stephens
The Total Discourse" of William Lithgow's
Travels is to be brought out in sumptuous
style this fall by James MacIehose & Sons,
Glasgow uniform with their recent edition OF
''Hakluyts Voyages" 1t will be complete in
one volume the full title OF which is as follows:
The Total Discourse of the Rare Adventures