The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-27
BOOKS AND

Inc purpose OF Luclan /. Fosdick's new
work, THE French Blood in America, {"
is to trace the presence and influence Of
the French Protestant blood in this country
and to show the part played by French
families In our development. Names that
are household words in American history
Revere, Faneuil, Bowdoin and Oar In
New England, Jay, Desbrosses, Hamilton
in New York, Girard and Bayard in Penn
sylvania-came from the French refugees
who sought asylum in our colonies at the
time Of the prosecutions Of the Hugenots
in France. Mr.. Fosdick's book will be
published In May.
.The Private War; by Louis Joseph
Vance, will be published to-day. The
author will return shortly from England,
where he spent the winter. Aside from
his novels Mr.. Vance does considerable
other literary work, and his journey to
England was for the purpose Of settling to
his own satisfaction the question as to which
country afforded the larger field for his
particular kind Of writing. After several
months in England Mr.. Vance has decided
in favor Of America.
Mrs. Russell harrington, who wrote the
va ~ = 'tNNSf
last year., has prepared the authorized
| biography of another great artist, which
will be published under the title Of THE
Life, Letters and Art of Lord Leighton
The two volumes will contain one hundred
illustrations from drawings and paintings
by Lord Leighton.
The object OF the New Earth the
| forthcoming book by Mr.. w. s.. HARDWOOD,
who wrote New Creations in Plant Life, . is
to bring out the remarkable progress made
In the last two generations In all that per-
tains to the cultivation Of the earth-agri-
culture, horticulture, Horticulture. forestry,
dairying. irrigation, DC.
Prof. Charles Sprague Sargent. author
Of the manual Of the Trees of North
America" has just returned from South
America, where he spent the winter in
| the study Of the trees and shrubs Of the
South.
William B Weeden's new historical
work, war Government; Federal and
State" will be published on Saturday.
The book is not merely an impersonal dis
cussion of the principles Of administration,
but contains much Of the personalities OF
the great statesmen Of the civil war, es-
pecial!y Andrew, Curtin and Morton. To
quote from the preface, "a vast amount OF
humanness-of the nature n condition Of
man-ehows itself in the interplay of these
powerful, practical men Of affairs with the
authorities at Washington"
The 1905 Social Progress which has
just come out. presents some startling
statistics on Socialism. DR.. Strong as
head OF the American Institute of So cial
Service, although he is not in the accepted
sense OF the word a Socialist, indorses and
labors for much socialistio work. The
new book, which is international in scope,
includes reports of the advance of Socialism,
and in the United States shows that since
1889, when there were 2,o4s Socialist votes
cast, there has been an increase OF nearly
100 per cent every ten years, until the total
vote for 1904 was AZ, 400. Throughout the
world there are nearly 100000 Socialists
to-day, with 700 socialist O publications.
Harold Holdings Problems in Philos-
ophy" Is described by Prof. James as the
Danish thinkers philosophical testament"
The authors purpose is to classify the
main problems Of philosophy, which he
finds to be four in number-those OF con-
sciousness, Of knowledge, OF being and OF
values, Treating them In this order, he
makes psychology lead up TO logic, and
logic 10 metaphysics. Then mans relation
to the universe in his capacity OF feeling
and willing subject is taken into account
from the ethioo-religious standpoint.
Joseph Spencer Kennard's italian
Romance Writers, " which Is announced for
early publication, Is essentially a transla-
ton of DR.. Kennard's Romantic Romanzi
eri I~taliani," which was published in Flor
enoe. II is a curious fact that the author,
though an American, has published more
in Italian and French than in English. The
new book traces the genesis OF fiction In
the Italian literature, establishing Its con-
neotion with the universal human tendency
to story telling and, beginning with Man.
zoni in the early nineteenth century, con-
siders chronologically the outstanding Ital-
ian fiction writer's down to Fogazzaro,
Grazia Deledda and d'Annunzio.
The first Lord Lamington's papers on
an the Days Of the Dandies" are now re-
printed in book form with Mote by the
authors daughter Constance, Countess
de la War;. Lord Harrington, himself one
OF the chief Of the Dandies, gives us an
entertaining sketch Of their times, good
DAYS when no man could gain social i'm
portance without possessing intellectual
abilities, when dress was the least part OF
the Dandies' concern and politics were as
much their business as was fashion. Il
care nothing for the mob said George ~.
when in great fear Of a disturbance at his
coronation, but / do for the Dandies,'
and at the suggestion Of his advisers the
King invited the Dandies TO breakfast with
him on the day Of his browning.
A nav volume which has made some