New-York tribune., 1906-12-15

The four Yale lectures on The hespoiis,'.
.,ies of Citizenship" delivered this year at Ne"
Haven hy William H. Taft Secretary OF "a'
are being now published in book form p9 'iie
Scribners The volume bears the title given 10
.ho lectures bv the author -Four Aspects OF
civic DUTY" lie takes up in turn the respoh-
sibilities 10 the state of a university graduate
of #. ,,are on the bench of a colonial admins
traitor and Of a national executive officer In all
of which aspects he is able. Of course. 10 Wrl'e
fr,,m a ripe and yet recent experience
Mr. William Morrow. who was uhtl laOeis
associate editor and treasurer of Ihe Amer
can Magazine" has become associated Win '"e
Frederick A. Stokes Company. IL is uloei''0O'
that this foreshadows the launching OF ne"
periodical of special appeal. not Of the type VI
the general magazine
.t5arner,s MAGAZINE" for 1907 will make
.nsc,ai feature of the work of recent and pres
en- explorers in the different parts OF worlu
which in spite OF the activity of inqulsluNe
investigators still contains secrets TO be un-
locked by adventurous spirits. Commander
Peary will contribute an account OF his latest
trim in the direction Of the North Pole: Roalo
Ammundsen. the first man in the history OF the
world TO take a ship through the long sought
Northwest Passage will tell of his experiences
fell how he succeeded in being the first man TO
scale the heights of Mount Mckinley, the 10y
test peak in North America, and two other e1-
rlorers who are still on their respective quests
Will write of the progress Of their expeditions.
One Of these men is Ejnar Mikkelsen, Dane.
who has started out in search Of IAN unknown
archipelago, perhaps an undiscovered contl-
nent''; the other is Henry ". Nevinson. VINO
has gone among a strange people who are al
ways in revolt
"A Touch Of Nature" by Maurice Thompson,
and THE Mulberries OF Pays Garden by Will
san, Dean Howells, are the latest issues in
The Swallow Flight series. published by the
Western Literary Press. Of Cincinnati.
Professor Jeremiah jerks. of Cornell Uni
versftv. in his new book, Great Fortunes:
Their Winning and Their Using" recently pub
lished by Mcclure. Phillips & Co. has made a
study of the economical and social aspects of
vast private accumulations of wealth He
takes the view that the possession OF large
fortune IS "a stewardship Of which the man of
millions owes an accounting TO society The
substance of the volume given in course
of lectures delivered by the author on the Adm
BalIou foundation at Meadvile. Penn.
The more recent writings of H. G. Wells have
stimulated the demand for his earlier and
shall we say?-less portentous work Henry Holt
& Co. announce 4 new, and third. edition Of
Mr. Wells's ingeniously clever story, The Time
Machine" which they bringing out in 16mo
form. 1t was originally published in their
"Buckram'' series.
Canon Benham's book on The Tower Of
London" is to be brought out in a few days
10y r. p Dutton Co. II has many illus
trations several of them colored plates from
illuminated manuscripts. Other hooks still 70
be issued by this house before Christmas
Stories Of the Italian Artists" from Vasari.
arranged and translated by T. /. Seeley. with
numerous colored illustrations and halftones:
'vittoria Colonna,'' with some account of her
friends and her times, by Maud r Jerrold
illustrated with photogravures and "westmin-
ster Abbey. the Kings Craftsmen a study in
rnediaval building, by y. R Lethaby. with
sixty illustrations and portrait of Richard H.
A book by the Rev g. Campbell Nor
gan is announced for publication early in Janu-
ary by the Fleming H. Revel Company. The
subject and title The Practice of PRAYER"
The author frankly states that he is not aiming
70 produce conviction in the minds of doubt
TO the value of prayer. as in his tudg-
ment nothing will do that except the practice
Of prayer itself
An English version Of DR. Joseph Spencer
Kennard's "Romanzie Romanzieri Italisni"
which published in Florence about two
years ago. IS to be brought out shortly by Bren-
tano's with the tite. italian Romance Writers"
The author Is American. who has however
written and published most Of his work in ItaI
ian and French. In his forthcoming book he
traces the genesis Of fiction in the Italian liter
sture; and, beginning with Alexander Manzonf
in the early nineteenth century considers chron-
ologicslly the leading Italian novelists including
Massimo. D'Agreglio. Ippolito Nievo Edmondo
daniels. Fogazzaro Verga, Neera. Deledda
and DAnnunzio. He seeks TO diferentiate the
Italian literary genius from that of other peo-
pies and TO exemplify. by the history of Italian
fiction, the laws and processes that underlfe the
never ending conflict between the classicist and
rornanticist. between the idealist and the natu-
ralist"
Mr. Filson Young appears to be both versa
tile and productive writer. Although only lust
thirty years of age. he has written. in addition
historical study of Christopher Columbus in two
entitled 'Mastersingers." The two latter works
are published in this country by the Lippin
colts
An attractive or striking title is as desira hIa
for book as for biscuit and vice versa Mr.
Meredith Aicholsons name fon his recent novel
The House Of a Thousand Candles" has il
appears, been largely paraphrased and initiated
4 railway has advertised itself as The Road of
a Thousand Wonders q confectiorer has H.
scrioed ms establishment The House Of a