New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-01-01
LITERARY NOTES.

valuable photography OF the books ana
articles on United states histoi y, Wnich were
published during the year 1908, nth some rnehl-
$3.50 IN other portions Of Ar ERICA has Just
been issued as 10. IS Of the pub hcations q me
Carnegie Institution of Washing ton, u1oer tle
+rtIe Of writings on American History looo.
IT, -l, Vas cornpiIed by Andrew G. Nc
1aughlin. director Of the bureau OF Eisl oIic c
research. with the assistance Of William Ad8Ils
sIeda ~ the Library of Congress. and Ernest
n Ie7,e NJ the Carnegie Institution. The ilst
.,6 may fiji ITO large octave pages, which mai
rates the intense interest taken IN American
history by modern investigators and writer's
Princeton. \. J.. as characteristic amer ioo+i
university town, figures largely IN tle GU ~
,,,,,,ber ~ Indoors and Out the new Boston
periodical devoted TO nature aud ar. do"oi0
Crosby Butler contributes an article shoWihs
how. The old town has responded to the beautIy-
;ng Influences OF modern architectural cohd4-
lions There is an abundance of adnirabIe Illus
trations Of the college buildings, both olo anu
new, eg well as OF many Of the private res,
dences, Including those Of Grover CIeVelaliu
woodrow wilson Henry van Dyke all y 49,
WycoR. Another article, by John Rogers !" -.
Jams Is devoted 10 THE Upper Class CIupS =
Princeton"
Three Of. the recent novels on the Harper hse
have been engaged for Australian editlons: %
truda Atherton's THE Travelling THIRDS, Ma
E. wilkins F,reeman's the Debtor and Bootn
Tarkington's The CONQUEST of Canaan.
The January number of the international
srpafon comes with nine color inserts. four OF
them being reproductions of paintings oy ran
von Lgabach, John Hassall. Carolus Duran elid
Wattsau; and there is an appreciation OF Won
Lenbach by Professor Hubert Won HerkofLei.
The leading article OF the American seelo.' -
the number in one on THE Tonal 6chooi u
America written BY Mrs. Clara l2uge ana =
lustrated from paintings by Henry hdieel ,
Louis Paul Dessar, F. Ballard Wuharns' a.
Dougherty and several others.
John F. Hume Is the author Of a book. the
Abolition1sts issued by G. ?. Putnam SolI9
IN which BE traces the history Of the movement
from 1920 70 1864. and into which he has inter-
woven 4 large number Of personal experiences
and recoIIecflons of the leaders Of the antl-sla'-
cry crusade His aim. his cole alm' ne a''l"
has been ITO vindicate the character Oh pr
ton Of tie citizens Of this country-sofne hVii!e
some dead-whom he had always pelleVed 10 ~
most deserving Of popular esteem from nc
he considered the unmerited aspersi0hS "a
iran who has since come into posluoil 50 ga
spicUous and so influential that his condenlfla-
lion necessarily carries with it damaging
feet MI Hume refers. Of course 10 Iheouoi
Roosevelt. and he takes for his text an ext
from Mr. RooseveIt's life Of Thomas h Benton
IN the American Statesmen Series. in "hich 'no
future President states that owing 10 Var'e'S
OF causes the abolitionists have received an M
mense amount Of hysterical praise which they
do not deserve. and have been credited VIII
deeds done by other men whom. in reality they
hampered and opposed rather than aided mi
Hume accordingly. IS simply doing over again
what has already been well done before ana
his conclusion that if President Roosevelt had
been in active politics In 1910. he would accord
ing to his present expressed opinions. nave OeeH
a violent connerbead. a "dough-face" IN the ele-