New-York tribune., 1906-09-22
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
Current Talk About Things Pres
ent ard TO Come.

cnt and TO Come.
Mrs Elizabeth Robins Pennelrs biography OF
her uncle. Charles Godfrey Leland. popularity
known as Hans Rreitmann is announced FOR
publication next week by Houghton. Miftiin
Co Leland entered Princeton College I'm issi.
when ne was seventeen years old. and al a time
when he says. The college was simply a
Ynafheraatfeal school. on ola school Preshy-
serian principles" Mrs. Penneli writes that he
worked with his fellow students. played as hard
as Princeton allowed. smoked harder wrote for
the college journal toined rebellion
against what was thought infringement Of
the students rights and was rustfcated for his
trouble" However. ne secured III. degree. ana
declined the honor of delivering the valedictory
poem After Princeton he studied in Heidelberg
Munich and Paris.
Professor A. V. Williams JacEsons Persia
Past and Present" which the Macmillan Com
pany IS bringing out this week. is largely the
outcome OF the authors travels. OBSERVATIONS
and personal experiences in the country. He re-
iates what be actually saw as interpreted by the
knowledge gained through his long continued
studies OF Persian history and archfeolosy' Dr
jackson IS professor of Fiindo-lranian languages
in Columbia University. and has achieved popu-
lariry as a public lecturer on historical ano
literary subjects
-Od Chester." the imaginary town winch Alrs-
Margaret Deland has invented for purposes OF
fiction. Is 90 have a realization In faet a tract
OF thousand acres in New Jersey near the
ORANGE Mountains has been acquired oy a group
a. ,.ors. Of literary tastes and activities. who
hoos 20 establish there an ideai colony 10 be
,nodsrswa sster an old English village and 10 be
Sncru as OLD Chester. The scheme does not In
r11os any Of the cooperative housekeeping
r..eures favored by slr. Upton Sinclair and HE
.o,iowers; but certain buildings such as VII
lar. ,nn and . church, together with pond ana
. recreation green. win be provided for common
use OF the inhabitants
Under The title OF "A Sailor Of Fortune" NC
r~1ure. Philips q Co. are issuing this week a
-re1rrne OF memoirs OF Captain II. 5. Osooh'
.zritten by Albert Bigelow Paine captain
osbon IS a seafaring man. who has led Varieo
ana adventurous Efe He took part In the wars
against the Chinese pirates. served at OFT SUM
Ter ana with Farragut in the Civil war rose 70
shs rank OF admiral IN the Mexican navy. 1ousn'
a, a volunteer IN the war with Spain and has
bsen associated with many notable peTsonases
,,nder many unusual circumstances.
,ro1urnes designed for the guidance or col
49,. ans the makers OF a-tistio homes are on
,b. Frederick A. Stokes Companys list Tor pun
scs.ion in October "In Decorative Styies anu
Periods" Mrs. Helen Churchill Canoee presents
n study OF the sequence OF styles as one was
.ncooeeded by another from antiquity tnroush
a.. renaissance down the present day In
s.T-bs Collectors Manual" Mr.. y. Hudson Moore
,,r,s to s1Ipplv information by means Of which
,-,a.sur collectors may be able 10 choose what
is GOOD and be aided in detecting what is fraud
ulent.
From Henry Holt & co. comes the announce
pa ANA "A
Panama Canal" the work OF DR.. Willis Fletcher
Iobnso, autbor of "a Century OF Expansion"
ana now and for many years an editorial writer
on The Tribune. In his present book Ut
johnson aims TO give for the hrst time
complete history Of the four centuries OF canal
agitation and attempted realization The author
has been close student Of interoceanio canal
r-oiects since De Lesseps's first disastrous at
tempt on the isthmus ana writes with the
authority OF a personal observer The book is
dedicated to Secretary Taft. in whose company
1Or Johnson lately made visit TO Panama 10
inspect the progress OF the enterprise.
Il G. Weiss novel, In. the Days Of the
Comet viii be published here Immediately by
the Century Company. II is romance or the
future in the authors familiar style. descriptive
OF the great Change" which is 10 bring about
the Utopia which has been the dream Of the
world IN all ages ana which has been especially
eg1tsting the mind of Mr.. Wells
reiig1o-lIisto orical novel Of the days of Christ,
~nrstlec Under Pontius Plate" is announced for
publication next month by Funk & wRgnalls.
The suthor, William Schuyler. is a new writer.
who is said 20 approach his subject in ''up-to-
date and rather daring way"
BY way OF preparation for writing his forth
coming book. ''On the Tran Of the Immigrant"
personality Of one OF the class with which his
volume is concerned. He has made the journey
= from Europe 20 America IN the steerage. not
once but many times. He has lived with the
peasants Of Poland and the Balkans. has been
herded with them European trains and
has even accompanied them 10 their desti-
nations IN America, and has worked with them
sn Pennsylvania coal mines and in Wisconsin
forests. His experiences cover a great part OF
the last twenty years. The volume will be pub
lished next month by the Fleming H. RevelI
Company.
Marcel Levignet-" the new novel by ElWyn
Barron. which Dufaeld & Co. viii publish next
week, is described romance OF modern
Paris, with a strong detective interest The
hero, from whom the book takes its title is a
kind OF French Sherlock Holmes. whose mar
vellous genius for unravelling mysteries leads
him into many lively adventures.
Russell sturgiss History OF Architecture
through arrangement with the Baker & Taylor