New-York tribune., 1906-06-30

popular books for boys, has been honored with
the degree of Lit. D. from Bucknell College. Mr..
Tomlinson is member of the New Jersey Public
Library Commission. and delivered an address
last week Books for the Younger Readers"
before the Summer Library School of New Jer-
sey. A new story by him, entitled Marching
Against the Iroquois.'' will be published in the
autumn by Houghton. AIf1n & Co.
John Spencer Bassett, the historian and at
present professor of history in Trinity College,
North Carolina, has accepted a similar pro-
fessorship in Smith College, Massachusetts, DR..
Bassett's latest published volume was "The
Federalist System" his contribution to 1.-The
American Nation series. 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 introduction by Pro-
fessor ]. D. NJ Ford, of Harvard University and
Mary A. Ford. The selections are said to have
been made on liberal scale including for in
stance. practically all of Tasso's Jerusalem
Delivered that the average American will care
to read"
Louise Closer Hale the author of the anus
ing story "A Motor Car Divorce" and her hus-
band, Walter Hale. who made the many illus
trations for the book are at present taking an
automobile tour through Spain. and no doubt,
notes for another volume
Books and My Food" by Elisabeth Luther
Cary and Annie NJ Jones, lately published by
Moffat. Yard & Co. is, as stated in the preface
"a somewhat whimsical effort combine intel
lectual and bodily sustenance" There are three
hundred and sxty-five recipes, each of which
is. with only occasional 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 the quotations, the
dishes should prove very appetizins but would
probably be just toothsome without the lit
erary illusions. The volume seems designed to
make housekeeping attractive to ladies whose
tastes are more bookish than astronomical.
George Moore in recent article on American
literature. remarked Of Edgar Saltus that his
books ARE not read" The ]. B. Lippincott
Company, publishers of Mr.. Satus's novel, In
Vanity Square take occasion to explain why
Mr.. Moore's statement is correct. Mr.. Saltus. ii
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 succeeded by COM
pany 20 whose methods the author objected. He
went TO law about the matter. and the Court of
Appeals. in sustaining him. restrained the
company from further publication 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 juvenila," and prefers to base his repu-
tation 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 sue
cessful By the first Of June, the date of his
most recent advices, Mr.. Whitney had pene-
trated to the head waters of the Amazon and
of the Orinoco. travelling a distance of over
nineteen hundred 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 who has been able to make q 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 article in which, under
the title of Americans and British" he dis
cusses the racial characteristics of the two ma
tions The Fourth OF July enthusiasm Of the
editor, which led him TO introduce the word
patriotic into the subtitle so as to make 1t
read "a patriotic study of international con-
trasts," speaks more highly for his Americansm
than for his Judgment, as Professor Matthewss
intention was to present wholly impartial view
Of the subject. Perhaps this same holiday spirit
was responsible also for the obvious misprint Of
"transeontinentaI' for "transcendental' in the
same article.
Rurnor has it that the magazine which
the S S. Mcclure company will begin publish
ing in the autumn will be sold at five cents
copy.
Sins of Smart Society" is the rather famboy-
ant title given to a volume OF sermons preached
to women by the Rev. Madison C. Peters IN
such subjects as drinking, card playing, ex-
trayagance and pleasure seeking as a profess
sion Theodore E Schultz Is the publisher.
Professor William Henry Schofeld. who has
been appointed head of the newly organized
department of comparative literature at Har-
ward University. has written a work on Eng
lish Literature from the Norman Conquest to
Chaucer" which will be published by the Mac
millans next fall
The convenient volume which H. A. Guerber
has written and compiled for the beneht OF
prospective European travellers and has en-
titled How to Prepare for Europe" Oodd, Mead
& Coz, is not intended to supplant the many ad-
mirable guidebooks that are published. although
it will be found useful supplement TO them
upon the trip The book, as its name implies.
aims rather TO assist those who, having decided
10 make the journey across the ocean. are anx-
lcus 10 know what material and mental prepa-
ration is necessary advisable, and in what
countries and by what modes Of travel they will
best accomplish the particular purpose they have
in view How much of the benefit OF foreign