New-York tribune., 1906-06-23
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
Current Talk about Things Pres
ent and to Come.


Next Wednesday Houghton Mifhin & Co are
to bring out popular edition of Mary John
ston's ITO Have and to Hold" to be sold at
popular price" AS more than three hundred
thousand copies of the book have been sold in
the regular edition. it seems hard to understand
on what grounds the publishers have concluded
that the regular price is unpopular. F. Hop
knson Smiths Caleb West is to be issued in
similar form at the time.
Hamlin Garland has sufficiently recovered
from his recent Illness to sail for Europe,
where he hopes 10 complete his convalescence.
The novel which he expected to publish IN
the fall through the Harpers will not, however,
be ready for the press before next spring
The valuable collections of Lincoln and of
Thackeray manuscripts owned by Major Will
lam H. Lambert. of Philadelphia, have just been
destroyed by fire. very considerable amount
of the Lincoln material printed for the first
time In the series of articles Lincoln, the
Lawyer" which Frederic Trevor Hill has been
contributing to The Century Magazine" and
so has been in a measure preserved. The articles
will appear In book form in the fall.
Following the example of Mrs. Ritchie's bio
graphical edition Of Thackerays writings. the
Putnams about to bring out a new "knuts-
ford Edition" OF Mrs. Gaskell's works, under the
editorial supervision Of Adolphus w Ward, Mas
ter Of Peterhouse Cambridge. England DIR.
Ward will exercise the same biographical func-
ton in regard the books of Mrs. Gaskell as
Mrs Ritchie did toward those of her father.
THE Romantic Composers is the title of
volume by Daniel Gregory Mason. author of
From Gulf 10 Brahms" which the Macmillan
Company will publish in the fall The book will
contain seven essays the seven chief COM
posers of romantic music.
The literary needs of the motorist appear
TO be the special care Of the Frederick A. Stokes
Company two of whose June publications are
devoted to automobile subjects. "Krausz's Prac-
ticaI Automobile Dictionary is a reference work
issued in an edition convenient for the coat
pocket giving English. French and German
equivalents of more than twelve thousand terms
used in relation TO motor cars and motor travel
ling THE Happy Motorist' is a volume written
by A. B. Filson Young. author of The Complete
Motorist." and designed to smooth the difficulties
that confront the amateur and the tyro of motor
ing. and that too often tend to make the use of
his new possession far from happy experience
Thus the author describes the person indicated
in his title:
The %GOTs aD he IN T60 S60dse hss S the
or a fad. To be a monarch of miles is very well.
but 70 be slave Of motor cars is very iIl.a waste
freedom of the open road most of us have to pass
beHg in Sondase to e the means at hspy
attain the end; and they who escape from this
bondage quickly as possible are the wise and
happy motorists
That descriptions of Labrador life and explora-
ton continue to exercise fascinating attraction
for readers In milder and less rugged climes is
made evident by the fact that Norman Duncan's
novel Doctor Luke of the Labrador has re-
Gently gone into a fourth edition. and his book
'Dr. Grenfelrs Parish" into It's third edition as
has also DR.. Grenfelrs own story. THE Harvest
/ OF the Sea" Dillon Wallace's The Lure of the
Labrador Wild" is just being issued in a sixth
edition. with a preface. written by the
author since his second and successful expedi-
tion. in which he crossed the wilderness to IN
gava Bay.
Charles NJ. Pepper. author of Panama 10
Patagonia" recently issued by A c. McClurg
& Co. is a newspaper writer who. after long
experience a correspondent in Washington
and with our forces in the Spanish War,
appointed by President Mckinley as a delegate
to the Pan-American conference in Mexico in
1901 Later by appointment Of President Roose-
velt he visited all but two of the Latin-Amer-
ican countries as special commissioner 10 report
on the Pan-American Railway project. He was
then made a member OF the Permanent Pan
American Railway Committee. and is now en-
gagged as Foreign Trade Commissioner OF the
Department of Commerce.
The series of papers The Spirit of De-
r7ocracv" by Charles F. Dole, which were
| printed last winter in The Springfield Repub-
ucan" will soon be brought out in book form
nv Thomas Y Crowell & Co. Mr.. Doe's atti-
tude Is that OF an impartial analyst in search
OF causes of and possible remedies for such
present day conditions as pauperism abuse of
the suffrage over-immigration. excessive taxa
tion and the evils OF party politics
A book on THE Mountain Wild Flowers of
America " by Julia W. Henshaw. is TO be pub
ushed Immediately by CHM & Co. The volume
is intended for those who love flowers for their
own sakes rather than for students of botany
after technical instruction For this
the flowers are classified according TO color.
for ready Identification. instead OF with refer
ence 10 their scientific relationships The illus
trations are more than one hundred in number.
and are reproductions Of photographs made
from nature by the author. Three hundred
and more plants are named and described. most
OF them those that may be found in the course
Of easy rambIes among the mountains.
Babyionian business methods are curiously
brought 10 light in two volumes. by Albert T.
CLAW Ph n recantly published for the depart