Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-11

| lLawrenceville school, are designed to fix
and establish in the mind Of the student
the essential points in Greek and Roman
| history, in their proper perspective.
Great care has been employed In the ar
rangement of material, and in the Sc
lection of type and ease of reference has
been first considered. Many dates have
ben included, and complete indexes, to-
gether with fifty typical questions from
college entrance examination papers, rem
der the books most helpful. While In
ltended, of course to be used only III
connection with or following complete
text books. they may be used with any
good books.
| Outlines for Review in History. BY c.
B. Newton and e. B. Treat. New YORK,
| the American Book Co.
| Prof. Archibald Cary Coolidge of Har-
(! ward university has written and VIII
publish shortly work on The United
Estates as World Power" which Will
be a critical study of the international
position of the United States today. The
author discusses In detail and with many
comparisons the situation arising from
the formation and growth of the United
/; States, the composition of its white popu-
lation, the colored elements; the Monroe
| doctrine, the Spanish war and the ac-
QUESTION of the colonies; the economic
status of the country; the relations OF
the United States with continental Eu-
rope and with England, the relations
with Canada and with the countries of
Latin America the presence of the
United States in the Pacific and its re-
lations with China and Japan.
Among the autumn publications of F.
A. Stokes company there will be novels
by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Harold
Bindloss, Elizabeth Robins, Weymer Jay
Mills and Duffield Osborne. There will
also be a special gift edition of "The
Garden of Allah" by Robert Hichens.
This edition will contain thirty-two full
page illustrations of unusual beauty from
photographs of the scenes of the novel
taken for this purpose. The book is
printed on special paper Nth wide mar
gins and has a handsomely designed
birding.
Time was when some publishers
thought that the use of a novel as
serial would rob the book of just so
many readers. Recent experiences seem
to belle this theory. Robert w. Cham
bers' novel. "The Fighting Chance" ran
as a serial, and so excited public gossip
that the lrst edition of 1t was $4,000 cop
ies yet it ran on up to dizzy heights.
The new novel by Chambers, THE
Younger Set,p has just finished its course
as serial in Appleton's Magazine, and
advance orders have compelled first
edition of 100000 copies Australia alone
has taken 10000 1t seems inevitable that
the book shall at least double its ad-
vance sale. Serialization has set the
public to talking, and Dame Rumor is
the greatest of all statesmen.
Paul Elder & Co., in connection with
Sisley's of London, are about to pub
lish handy volume series of standard
works under the general title of THE
Panel Books" Twenty volumes will be
ready in September, including "Salambo,"
Don JUAN" "Silas Mariner" Decisive
Battles of the World" "The Art of
Love- Crawford" ''Oliver Twist"
''The Devil on Two Sticks" ''Wuthering
Heights" "Idylls of the King" "The
Black Tulip" 1.-THE Maximis of Napol-
con-" ''The Confessions of Rousseau"
Daudet's "Sapho." "The Life of Beau
Nash" "Sheridan's Plays" Tales from
the Deeameron, "A Sentimental Jour |
ney" and Nelson's Letters to Lady |
Hamilton"
eBetel Nuts: What They Say in |
Hlndustan." by Arthur Guitermar, is soon |
to be published by Paul Elder & Co. 1t |
is an English rendering in rhyme of |
clever and pungent HINDU aphorisms-
more than proverbs, they are really con-
densations of shrewd pithy stories, Illus
trative of native life and philosophy. The
volume will have frontispiece In color
after an oil painting by WIN Jenkins
.'Admiringly dedicated to Ananias,
Sapphira and Baron Munchausen, "A
Ball of Yarn composed of four skeins
Of three yarns each, including the Yarn
of the Two-Tailed Pointer the Yarn of
the Sinner Stung and Others" by Robert
Rudd whiting, is announced for fall pub
lication by Paul Elder & Co. The volume
will have several Illustrations in color
by Merle johnson.
A new book by that forceful writer,
Ralph Waldo Trine. is now in the presses
of Thomas Y. Crowell 6 Co. 1t is en-
titled "This Mystical Life OF Ours" and |
is a selection of Mr.. Trine's ablest |
thought. arranged by himself in fifty- |
two chapters for the weeks Of the year.
Dunield 6 Co. publish this month a ]