The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-07-07
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
Current Talk About Things Pres.
ent and TO Come.

Current Talk About Things Pres. !:
ent and TO Come.
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Everett T. Tomlinson. the author of
many popular books for boys, has been
honored with the degree of Lit. D.
from Bucknell college. Mr.. Tomlinson
is member of the New Jersey pub
lie library commission, and delivered
an address last week on Books for
the Younger Readers" before the Sum-
mer Library school Of New Jersey. A
new story by him, entitled, Marching
Against the Iroquois,' will be pub
lished in the autumn by Houghton,
Miffin & Co.
John Spencer Bassett, the historian,
and at present professor of history in
Trinity college, North Carolina, has
accepted a similar professorship in
Smith college, Massachusetts,. DIR. Bas-
sets latest published volume was
The Federalist System" his contri-
button to "The American Nation" SER
les, edited by Professor A. B. Hart, of
Harvard university, and published by
the Harpers.
With the object of promoting the
study of the best Italian literature in
the United States, Henry Holt & Co.
will publish Immediately volume of
selections in the original Italian from
the works OF Pulci, Boiardo, Ariosto
and Tasso, edited, with an English in
PRODUCTION, by Professor j. D. NJ. Ford,
of Harvard university, and Mary A.
Ford. The selections are said to have
been made on liberal scale, includ-
ing, for instance, practically all of
Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered that the
average American will care to read"
Louise Closer Hale, the author of
the amusing story "A Motor Car Di-
vorce," and her husband, Walter Hale,
who made the many illustrations for
the book, are at present taking an
automobile tour through Spain, and,
no doubt, notes for another volume.
Books and My Food" by Elizabeth
Luther Cary and Annie NJ. Jones, lately
published by Moffat, Yard & Co., is. as
stated in the preface. "a somewhat
whimsical effort to combine intellect
ual and bodily sustenance." There
are three hundred and sixty-five re-
cipes. each of which is, with only oc-
casional relevance. assigned to a day
in the year, and each is introduced
with a quotation, where the relevance
Is more apparent. If the recipes are
as apt as the quotations, the dishes
should prove very appetizing, but
would probably be just as toothsome
without the literary illusions. The
volume scenes designed to make
housekeeping attractive to ladies
whose tastes are more bookish than
astronomical.
George Moore. in a recent article on
American literature, remarked of Ed
gar Saltus that his books "are not now
read" The J. B. Lippincott company,
publishers of Mr.. Saltus's novel, I'm
Vanity Square," take occasion to eX-
plain why Mr.. Moore's statement is
correct. MIR. Saltus, it appears. is the
author of more than twenty books the
publication of which has been legally
enjoined. These books were published
by house that failed and was sue
ceeded by a company to whose meth
DDS the author objected. He went to
law about the matter, and the court of
appeals, in sustaining him, restrained
the new company from further pub
LEGATION of his works. Mr.. Saltus gives
as his reason for not accepting the
offers of other publishers to take over
the publication of these books that he
regards them as juvenilia." and pre-
fers to base his reputation upon his
future writings.
Word comes from Caspar Whitney,
the editor Of Outing" that his South
American expedition of exploration
has been so far in every way success
full. BY the first of June. the date of
his most recent advices. Mr.. Whitney
had penetrated to the head waters of
the Amazon and of the Orinoco. travel
ling distance of over nineteen hun
dred miles. fifteen hundred of them
by canoe, in little more than two
months. The speed at which he went
earned for him from the Indians of
his party the sobriquet The Man Who
Never Is Weary" He is said to be the
first white man who has been able to
make close personal study of the
hostile Indians of the upper Orinoco-
and to come out with it.
In the current number Of "The
Reader" Brander Matthews has an
article in which. under the title of
Americans and British" he discusses
the racial characteristics of the two
nations. The Fourth of July enthu-
siasm of the editor. which led him to
introduce the word patriotic" into the
subtitle so as to make it read "a pa
triotic study Of international con-
trasts." speaks more highly for his
than for his Judgment, as
Professor Matthews's intention was to
present wholly impartial view of the
subject. Perhaps this same holiday
spirit was responsible also for the
obvious misprint of "transcontinental"
for "transcendental" the same article.
Sins Of Smart Society" is the rather
flamboyant title given to a volumn of
sermons preached to women by the
Rev. Madison c. Peters on such sub
jects as drinking. card playing, eX-
travagance and pleasure seeking as
profession. Theodore E. Schultz is the
publisher. 4
Professor William Henry Schofield,
who has been appointed head of the
newly organized department of COM
parative literature at Harvard univer-
sity. has written. work on English
Literature from the Norman Conquest
to Chaucer." which will be published
by the Macmillans next fall.