The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-24
THE NEW BOOKS
PUBLISHERS ACTIVE FOR
FALL SEASON.
Leading Articles In the September Mag
azines-President's Nature Fake Story
in Everybody's.

There has just been published by
Doubleday, Page & Company, the
Memoirs of Madame Ristori," the great
Italian actress. The book contains
many interesting photographs Of Ris-
tori and her famous contemporaries, as
well as Biographical data furnished by
Ristori's friend, L. D. Ventura. It is
aid that Ristori did for Italy what
Bernhard did for France, In awaken
ing the interest of the American public
in the artistic and literary affairs of
her country. Ristori's memoirs abound
in interesting anecdotes and events of
a personal nature hitherto unknown by
the general public. Her influence upon
the politics not only of italy, but of
France and Spain, was most unusual,
and in her biography we find letters
from such men and women as Cavour.
George Sand and the crowned heads of
Europe. The Ristori Memoirs are
translated by @. Mantellini. translator
of de Amioi's works and d'Annunzio's
THE Dead City and Tales of My
Native Town"
Senator Albert ]. Beveridge has adj
ded to his other varied activities that
of Biblical study and e~xpounding. Tho
Henry Altemus Company announces for
publication, September 10. The Bible
as Good Reading" written by the Sem
ator.
At the present time, when the I'M
written law" insanity, and semi-insan-
ity are thrust PROMINENT forward as
q defense by persons accused of MUIR
der, the forthcoming publication of
"The Semi-Insane and the Semi-Re-
sponsible," by Funk & Wagnalls Com
pany. will be timely. The book is a
translation by DIR. Smith Ely Jelliffe,
who, by the way, was one OF the ex-
perts for the defense In the Thaw trial,
of Professor Joseph Grasset's "Demi-
fous ct Demiresponsables."
For fall fiction Dufield & Company
announce, besides Elinor Gyms Three
Weeks" a new novel by Meth Boyce
Mrs. Hutchins Hapgood), dealing with
modern marriage, and called THE
Bond" Richard Pryce's novel, The
Successor" will appear today.
Dufield & C~ompany's fall list will in
clude a new illustrated volume of art
criticisms by Kenyon Cox. author of
"Old Masters and New" to be called
painters and Sculptors;' also Houses
for Town or Country" by William Her.
bert; Historic Churches of America"
by Mrs. N. U. wellington. with an in
PRODUCTION by the Rev. DIR. Edward
Everett Hale; plays of Our Fore
fathers" by Professor Charles NJ. Gay
ley, of the University of California
Poems of Edgar Allan Poe" edited by
Edmund Clarence Stedman and George
f. Woodberry; House Health by DIR.
Norman Bridge; THE Holy Grail" a
posthumous drama by Richard Hovey;
Gypsy Verses" by Helen Hay Whit
ney; Familiar Faces a new book of
comic verse by Harry Graham. author
OF "Misrepresentative Men" and a new
Vermont edition of Miss Theodore
Peck's successful novel, Hester of the
Grants"
The Century Company will publish a
new novel by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
this fall, a story of American life-with
the scenes laid in Boston, New York.
and the Vermont hills.
Smiling 'Round the World" a new
book by Marshall P. Wilder. the famous
humorist and author of The Sunny
Side of the Street." Is a forthcoming
publication by Funk & wagnalls Com
pany.
Cyrus Townsend Brady's new novel.
The luz Oceans Daughter" will b
published by Moffat, Yard q Company
shortly.
Samuel Merwin and Henry K. Web