New-York tribune., 1906-07-07
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
Current TaIb about Things Present
and to Come.

and to Come.
plantation Sketches IS the title OF a volume
which has just been privately published by Mar
garet Devereux, through Houghton. Mifflin &
Co. These pen sketches drawn from memory
as the author Calls them, are intimate recollec-
tions Of a Southern gentlewoman VINO loves the
Old South, and happily blended Of humor
and pathos. Some of the fine. even noble. traits
Of character which slavery brought TO light, per-
haps helped to produce. are recorded. and are at
least interesting illustrating the attitude Of g
cultivated Southerner of the old school toward
Southern problems old and new.
William Harbutt Dawson has written work.
which is issued this week by Macmillan, in which,
under the title OF "The German Workman: A
Study in National Efficiency" the author under
takes TO consider the causes and effects Of Ger
many's rapid industrial advance. Mr.. Dawson
believes that this advance is due in large
measure to the thorough training and the con-
sequent general effectiveness OF the German
artisan Furthermore he holds that the German
state and municipal experiments in dealing
with the problems OF the unemployed, housing,
sanitation, old age pensions and poor relief
which he discusses at length. are capable of af-
fording suggestion and instruction to other coun-
tries that are forced to meet the industrial COM
petition Of Germany in the worlds markets.
The recent discriminating estimate Of the
work OF ]. Fenimore Cooper by William C.
Brownell. which was published in "Scribner's
Magazine" will be the introduction TO the forth
coming "Iroquois Edition Of Cooper's complete
works. to be published by G. p. Putnam's Sons.
This new reprint will fl thirty-three octave
volumes, and will include the story OF Med
Myers" (Which does not find q place in the
previous sets of Cooper's novels) and the entire
series Of the original steel engravings by F. o. c.
Darley. The edition will be further illustrated
with photogravure reproductions of original
drawings by Rufus Fairchild Zogbaum. j. 7.
Richards. Henry Sandman and other well known
artists. Med Myers" is truthful picture of the
life Of an American sailor IN 1s4S and was writ
ten ~ Cooper from material furnished by the
hero.
Current interest in public questions is indi-
Gated by the announcement by Henry Holt s.
Co. that their edition Of 1.-The Federalist." edited
by the late Paul Leicester Ford, has just passed
into it's fifth edition, and that a seventh edition
Of Professor Winthrop NJ. Danielss Elements
Of Public Finance" has been called for.
DR.. John Foster Kirk, IN posthumous article
printed in the current number OF 'Lippincott's
Magazine" and written before the activity Of the
Reformed Spelling Board had aroused so much
controversy in the press, considers the English
language, as spoken and written both sides
Of the Atlantic, with special reference 20 words
and phrases in common use, particularly the So
called "Americanisms" that our English cousins
prone first to pity. then embrace" The
author believes, however that usage would
never be quite the same in both countries. al
though he noted general tendency to assimila-
tion. Summing up his views he declares:
The Innovations real or supposed have been most
ly on this side, where, however, they are now less
Ing and pTonunciation There is Conservatism
that still with or without reason Tesists such
hand Honor" favor. etc. are more likely to find
here though one word of this class. "saVior'' in
its specially sacred did not assume this form
bridge proofr@eader. @ Mr. Nichols. @ whose corrections
Lowell. before would print the name of my Re-
I not told the final word
Modern Love- an Anthology" is the title of a
tastefully printed little volume issued by
Mitchell Kennerley and containing a collection
of poems, mostly by living authors from fifty
different volumes Of verses. The principle fol-
lowed in their selection has been to avoid "the
insincere elaboration and hyperbole OF the style
of the love poems OF early literature. In its
place." continues the editor 1--WE find the spirit of
sadness and melancholy. but IL is a more real
sadness than the extravagant lovers complaints
OF days gone by" Among the authors repre-
sented are Andrew Lang. w E. Henley, John
Dawson. Matthew Arnold. Christina G.. Ros-
setti. Fiona Mcleod. w B. Yeats and many
other well known and little known names The
joyous note of love is painfully absent from the
book the contents of which arc otherwise gem
orally we'll chosen The tone OF the volume is
well represented by the despairing lyric by AL
fred Hayes. which follows:
Moan, wretched wind: drive the sad clouds
Along the blindfold plain;
Ye leaves. whirl your lonely crowds:
Weep on. remorseless rain!
for one smile Of buried Spring
o for one note Of May:
o for sunny hour to fling
My aching heart away!
Frederic j. Stimson whose latest novel, I'm
Cure Of Her Soul" was recently published by
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