New-York tribune., 1907-06-08
BOOKS And AUTHORS.
Current Talk of Things Present
and to Come.

written in Guernsey during the authors
exile. and it's first publication in France marked
the advent of the Hugo centenary. Religion,
art literature and revolutionary history are
among the subjects discussed in the book.
The twentieth and final volume of the fine
MacLehose edition of "Purchas' will be brought
out Immediately. This reprint, as well as the
Lthgow and other volumes of fascinating old
travel series. projected by Robert Mac
Lehosc, whose death occurred in Glasgow nots :
long ago.
I'VE see a long. gaunt figure, divided between
two chairs Tor comfort. the head bent forward,
the lips curved in laughter. Tho deep
eyes irradiatng their caves of wisdom; the
storytelling Lincoln enjoying tho enjoyment
he gave to others" This is the hero OF ''Thc
Lincoln Story Book CO. w Dillingham; Com
pany). collection by Mr. Henry L. Williams OF
stories and anecdotes OF tho great President
relations Of incidents IN his life well as repe-
tiuons Of the stories told by him. II not all these
anecdotes are effective # may be said that most
Of them worth preservation in this con-
venent form. They have been compiled with
care from oil available sources. and they reflect
all phases OF the mans character. Here IS one
Of the anecdotes Of the iron hand In the velvet
glove
Mr.. President Secretary stanton speaking u
cannot carry out that order. II IS improper. and
Wei l reckon. lIr secretary"-yery gently
"th9t you l VII re- re- 70 carry @ y 1t ,y2a6g 2aI
Il I'gy a,dss "?1, .an MN hcy 10 10
He guessed right the arst time.
The Concordance Society has secured It's
irreducibe minimum Of one hundred members
and is now engaged IN efforts 10 increase its
numbers and in outlining plans for the prepara-
tion and publication Of concordauces. It In
vites suggestions from any ono who has clear
,a
the discovery Of several manuscript concord
auccs- -Marlowc, George Herbert, and Tennyson
being among the authors THUS dealt with
Mr. Henry James. discussing IN "Harp-rs
Bazaar the manners Of American women. points
out "our practical claim that our manners shall
flourish in an air from which criticism is alb
sent" What is criticism but pessimism and
where Is sacred spontaneity. that Of the younger
generations in especial, rising and clamorinE
round us II we pretend really to anayze or
arprcciate anything?" The ways of the 'fe-
male young' OF country do not move our
critic to admiration. They fail to strike him
in any degree as an Improvement on those OF
the women whose remembered youth comes back
TO him with another note; Just as their speech,
that Of these latter, seems to him to have had n
comparative sweetness at the extinction OF
which in their daughters they have helpessly
and almost unconsciously assisted
Did mv, pushing without shade OF trepid71,
perspective deeply participating IN the universal
stTpor straisht to the lr@ut OF @'ery atIeinp%,GH %
the words from their mothers mouths to their
most explicitly IS the only objects of Interest and
hcart-breakingIy exhibit in short the serenity of
their pampcrcd iGnorancc2
Decidedly not. or ct Least ever so much less. we
agance may have been visible in earlier days the
plant has lowered in our time with qutckened
lft hat lTy4 hy.u
G ton ~ their nradecessors Tbcv arc cdncatin
each other as never before and this with such a
volence-by which ! mean with triumph SO
renaonstrant rear drops before It is uttered. Al
one apv a% tic were mder than those of nc ?I
late: II being incontestable that the maidens of
uses Of their best mildness The signs and por
tents Of what I have called the compromise-th
surrender of determinations and ideals, the letting
of standards 90 because they are simply shaken
were too much together.
A biography Of Captain Cook is an
rounced by Dutton the author thereof being
Mr.. Arthur Kitson. We are reminded that the
existing biographies of the circumnavigator are
incorrect in divers partculars-that Cooks own
manuscripts, even, have been in some cases,
too much improved upon" MI Kltson has
gone into the subject exhaustvely. searching
out every available authority public and pri-
vate. Documents in the Public Record Office
in London and papers belonging to the Royal
Society have been consulted with excellent re-
suits. The book is to be handsomely illustrated.
Among the novels which Dodd Mead & Co.
viii publish in the autumn is new story by Mr..
Maurice Hewlett. One of their illustrated hoi-
day books Will bear It's title page the name
of Owen Wister
'The Pulse of Asia" is the title of book
which Mr. Ellsworth Huntington, in
structoc at Yale, VIII bring out in the autumn.
1t IL or account of year recently spent in the
deserts of Chinese Turkestan. He travelled
there practically alone, and had many interest
Ing experiences. Mr.. Huntington. By the way,