New-York tribune., 1906-08-13

taxation. When at the end of a strenuous game
OF golf. he returns TO the veranda and sits him.
self down beside a deep and cool tumbler, he 10
apt TO let his mind rove idly over nothing I'm
particular. This is, of course. reprehensible and
we hope that all the members of all OF our coun-
try clubs will procure the current numbe. OF
The North American Review" and. on that
same shady veranda. give themselves up 20
grave thought on what Mr. Henry James has TO
say Of their comfortable institution Only true
sportsman. devoted lover of life out OF doors
could have written this thrilling PASSAGE
There had been one-I mean blest Country Club
lin the neighborhood Of Boston (xhere indeed /
out Of ~ ranse there % had been anothsr an aue
marvellous the Hudson-one OF a numerous
York; there had been supreme specimen. supreme
reserve to myself to Explain in due m conrse and n
such an exquisite sense, my eveno. This had made
long admonition, to which the embowered institu-
tion near Baltimore was TO add a wonderful
while, be asked; to which the answer may perhaps
ones saying that with any feeling for American
NE you soon enough see You see It's most com
edy and also Of p its IS being Right about aef at
more points than il is wrong You see IL apply it's
this doubtless quite unconscious one.with
completeness and a consistency that viii strike
you also (or that ought toD as constituting an
conscious heroism: You viii see IL accept in de;
consequences-the consequences of the straight ap-
plication. in the most delicate conditions of the
prime democratic idea. As this idea is that Of an
universal eligibility. you see it, under the ap
in word. everything staked on the conception of
the young Family as clear social unit-which,
you the ubiquitous fact The conception Of the
Family is goodness knows, 'European' enough;
side of the world in the vertical and the other
IN the horizontal sense II its identity in Europe.
lar. its backward and forward extension its ascent
eo m the o. Ud Oss saes ay nj BY its So lateral a
spread, as one may say; expressing itself thus
itself f9r granted, when one econ comes TO compare,
Ttn an intensity 70 which mere virtue OF name
they stand, register therefore the apOtheoss OF the
received due credit and il is in the light Of Coun-
try Clubs that all this becomes vivid These, organ
accept its eStsnson. is whole extension through
the question Comes up: which is What one means
by their sublime and successful consistency. No.
thing as the American Country Clubs accept these
whole extensions
General a. w Greeley Arctic explorer for
many years chief signal officer of the United
States Army and at present in charge of the
Pacific division, with headquarters at San Fran
cisco, has prepared a Handbook OF Polar Dis
coveries" which Little. Brown & Co.. Boston,
will issue this fall. This book viii contain a
resume Of Polar explorations from the earliest
voyages 70 the present time, and is based upon
his earlier Handbook OF Arctic Discoveries"
The material has been brought up 20 date and
a summary has been added TO the noteworthy
achievements OF adventurers in the frozen
North within the ten years that have elapsed
since it wes published.
An edition Of the collected poems and plays OF
w. 3. Yeats in two volumes. is announced for
fall publication by the Macmillan Company. The
same house Will also bring out a book Of verso
by Alfred Noyes, a poet who has gained some
reputation in England, but whose work has not
previously appeared in America. Two poetical
plays by Percy Mackaye. author of "The Can
terbury Pilgrims will also be issued by the
Macmillans Their titles are Jeanne dare and
"Sappho and Phaon."
Richard T. Nelligan. instructor in athletics at
Amherst College, has written a new book on
swimming which is said to contain some points
not covered by other publications on the subject
The work is now in press, and will soon be pub
lished by the American Gymnasia Company,
of Boston. Although a little late for effective
use this season, the volume can doubtless be
studied with profit by those interested in
aquatics in preparation for next summer
Harlow ". Higinbothan, long a partner in the
firm OF Marshall Field & Co, Chicago, has oc-
cupied his leisure since his retirement from ac-
tive business life in writing a book which he
calls THE Making of a Merchant" that will be
published next month by Forbes & Co. Chicago.
Several chapters in the volume will be devoted
TO Credit" a subject which the author is
said to be authority.
Mr.. Crawford is not allowing his historical
researches and writing to interfere with his
more accustomed work in fiction His next
novel, shortly TO be brought out by Macmillan.
will be called "a Lady of Rome"