New-York tribune., 1906-11-20

| morning rrom y until Ii, deVot1nB tneS rest or
the day to his out-of-door interests and to rec
| reation.
second edition Of '@Fho House Of Quiet" has
| just been issued by e. P. Dutton & Co. Tho
| book, which originally published anony-
mously in 1904, bears upon its title page
| the name of Arthur Christopher Benson. the au-
| thor of the Upton Letters" and From a Col
| lege Window"
volume just announced by the Fleming H.
Revell Company, and entitled "The Moham-
medan World of To-day" serves to call atten-
ton to the potent influence still exerted in world
politics by the followers of the Prophet. In
spite of the combined backwardness and ap-
parent decadence of IslaIn 1t is still sufficiently
active to cause concern to the great powers in
many quarters. The present volume has been
written in collaboration by James L. Barton, S.
NJ. Zwemer, a well known authority on Arabian
affairs, and E. NJ. Wherry
DR.. Fridtjof Nansen is approaching the end of
a fatiguing task-the writing of an exhaustive
history of Arctic exploration
The publication, later In the month, by the
Funk & Wagnalls Company of Count Tostoy's
work William Shakespeare in an English
translation, will be awaited with considerable
interest
There is to be a new Short History of
England published by A. S. Barnes & Co. Tho
author is Mr.. NJ B. Synge, Fellow of the Royal
Historical Society and writer on historical
subjects. The volume aims less to record the
glorious achievements of past ages than to de-
scribe the material conditions in which our an
cestors lived and died. For example, it Is stat
ed that the reader may learn from the book
such interesting facts as that William the Con-
queror ate with his fingers and never saw a
coal fire; that the two thousand cooks of Rich
ard II could make neither plum pudding nor
mince pie; that Chaucer saw q printed
book; that Queen Elizabeth never heard OF tea
a newspaper that George had umbrella
and that Queen Victoria the first sovereign
TO try locomotion by steam: that people lived
without sugar to the thirteenth century. without
coal until the fourteenth. without butter until
the fifteenth. without potatoes until the six
teenth. without tea. coffee soap until the
seventeenth, and used candles and lamps until
the eighteenth
A new one-volume Shakespeare has Just been
issued from the Oxford University Press. It
claims the merit of being printed IN larger type
than any one-volume Shakespeare previously
published.
The story of the Confederate soldier named
Renfrew, who refused to surrender with the rest
of his comrades at the close Of the Civil War.
and who took the STARS and Bars to South
Sea island and there raised them again, has
been written by Mr.. Theodore F. Allen, Of the
1th Ohio Cavalry. who dedcates the volume ito
the vanishing army of Morgans men," The
hook, which will bear the title 1.-THE Flag Still
There" will be published on November 20 by
the western Literary Press o. Cincinnati.
The friends Of the late Mr. Ruel Durkee, who
has been acknowledged by Mr.. winston Church.
,I 10 be the original OF his character or Jethro
paes in "Coniston." have arisen In wrath to de-
ferd the character OF the deceased New Hamp-
shire politician from the aspersions which they