New-York tribune., 1906-07-21


milan Company next autumn in two octave vol
umes. richly illustrated with portraits and pict-
ures OF scenes associated with the actors hre'
Mr.. Stoker is making good progress with his
work and it is hoped that the book will DO ready
in time to appear on the anniversary OF lrvins's
death, October 49,
+. Hopkinson Smiths novel. 1.-THE Tides of
Barnegat," will shortly be published in book
form by Charles Scribners Sons. The last install
ment Of the story serial will be printed in
the August number of "scribner's Magazine,
and will be followed by new serial by John
Fox, jr. author of 1.-THE Little Shepherd of
Kingdom Come" which will begin in the Sep
tember number.
A new novel by Sir Gilbert Parker. to be en-
titled 1.-The weavers.' will begin serial publica-
tion in "FIarper's Magazine for October. The
scenes Of the story are laid chiefly in Egypt and
England. and the hero is a young English
Quaker who, by an odd freak Of fate. becomes
an overload in the Nile country.
In the yellowstone Letters; by Rube Shuttle.
Valet" recently issued by the Neale Publishing
Company, is gathered a collection Of corre-
spondence descriptive Of trip through the Yell
lowstone region the humor of which seems
to consist largely in the misspelling OF words.
There is a suggestion in both the title and the
contents of Thackeray's "Yellowplush Papers"
but only that and nothing more.
Talking is not so simple matter as IT seems,
according to DR.. Alexander Graham Bell, whose
new book. 1.-The Mechanism OF Speech" is
shortly to be published here by Funk & Wag-
nails. It is thus that the inventor OF the tele-
phone and graphophone describes the action Of
the thorax in producing what is known the
human voice:
The thorax is the treasure house Of the human
body-a veritable strOngrOom, girt about with walls
OF bone for the protection of those precious organs
g moment a inside the torax @ bHs s witS YOUR
permission let us empty this safe deposit vault 1f
for exploration. We find ourselves in a dark room
vault, with door in the roof. The floor OF this
membrane AM or or muSeeMnOt , fat like @ an ordina1y
umbrella. The door above is OF double trap
opening upward But the most extraordinary thing
about this room is that the floor is in constant
pulsations. The trap doors also in motion; now
Of passages above and now they come fogether
with Quvering motion, opening and shutting with
the whois tHorax tremble The walls also are in
motion the whole room aiteTnately increasing and
it contracts tends to become fiat and tense. and
or domelike floor Of the thoracic cavity in con-
tracing becomes fiat, like the head OF drum.
diaphra gm is attached above by ligaments and tis
incapable of descent. The circumference or edge.
also Is 9tt4Gae 4S osa Ms 9r Seeo as
conical in shape AS ! picture the action IA my
Mashingon @ 1 we're to Change into cone soe%hat
like blunt church spire.
John Brisben Walker has sold 1.-THE Twentieth
Century, to new company. which expects TO
change it into a magazine OF general interest
and OF the same size as "The Century and
| "NFcClure's" With the completion Of this
transaction Mr.. Walker, it is stated. will def
nitely retire from the publishing business.
Charles Caryl Coleman, the American artist,
was at his house on the Island of Capri during
the recent outbreak of Vesuvius and painted
number of pictures Of the eruption as seen frons
that point. Two Of these drawings will be re-
produced in colors in the August number of
! THE Century Magazine together with other
! sketches Of the event in black and white.
| Maxim Gorky will contribute an article en-
titled THE City Of Mammon'' TO the August
number Of "AppletOn's Magazine" which, with
that issue. will for good and all drop the word
"Booklovers' from it's title From the advance
sheets Of the magazine it is apparent that the
Russian authors Impressions OF America
he describes his contribution. were principally
| received in New York and while allowance may
well be made for the effect Of his unsocial re-
| ception upon the socialist writer's mind the
/ manifest exaggerations and distortions OF local
| conditions that he records may tend to render
! American readers chary OF accepting as gospel
! his accounts Of conditions in his own country.
The lecture on Science and Idealism" deliv-
! cred by Professor Hugo Munsterberg. OF Har-
ward University, at New Haven last spring has
been published in a small 16mo volume by
! Houghton, AIhlin & Co. Last fall the Corpora
tion OF Yale University resolved as token Of
! the long existing friendship between the two
oldest universities Of the country to invite every
winter some professors OF Harvard University
| to speak at Yale. The opening address of the
first series was given by President Eliot Pro-
fessor Palmer followed with a number Of lect-
ures. and Professor Munsterberg closed the first
! years programme with the address which now
| appears in book form.
Doubleday, Page & Co. are authority for the
| statement that Eugene P. Lyle's lively story of
| the days Of Macmillan. entitled 1.-The MIssou-
| rian.' is still the best selling book in Mexico.
although it was published more than year ago.
The Putnams have made definite
nouncement of the revival of 'Putnam's Maya
zine" word of which first trickled to America
from London With the resuscitated periodical
| will be merged THE Critic" which has been
published by the Putnams for the last eight
| years. The department which. under the title
| of .The Louneer" has been conducted by Miss
Jeanette Glider since she first started "The
| Critic" In the early SOS, will be retained.
| The new "Putnam's' will be a magazine OF
| general interest, but with decided literary
| character" and precedence will be given 70
American themes and writer's Fiction will oc-
| lass IN 0s