The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-31
ness. MT. Frank dedicates the book in loving tribute to his wife.

QlSIlngulShed nlmSelL as all OrlSiHdl lIl~ vestigator along historical lines, nota- bly, as shown in his series of articles, in Harper's Magazine, entitled Decisive Battles of the Law" is spending the summer in Europe, engaged in histori- cal research in the Library of the Brit ish Museum and in the Bibliotheque Rationale at Paris.
 William Archibald Dunning, author of Reconstruction, Political and Econ omic''-the most recently published vol ume of that important series, "The American Nation: A History'-has been a close and thorough student of the important period of which he treats the troublous period immediately fol- i lowing the close of the Civil War Each of the various authors, indeed, whose united work, under the editorial super vision of Professor Albert Bushnell Hart, of Harvard, makes up this great series, treats of the special period of which he is a historical master.
 Professor Dunuing holds the chair of History and Political Philosophy in Columbia University. He was born in New Jersey, but chose the New York University for his education; and it not only made him one of it's faculty, but gave him excessively the degrees of A. M, Ph.D., and LID,
 He has not only been a close student of history and economies, but has been closely connected with various learned associations, and wrote widely on his torical subjects before taking up the volume on Reconstruction" which the Harpers have just issued.
 The Frederick A. Stokes Company will publish this Fall volume con- taining 'fThe Twenty Best Fairy Tales" being selections from the most 1 familiar tories of Grimm, Andersen, ani others; also, "A Midsummer Nights Dream for Young People" Both of these books are illustrated by Mrs i Lucy Fitch Perkins, and are included in the series of "Dandelion Classics. The same firm will bring out the fol- lowing "Comc Juveniles; Buster Brown & Company by Outcault;
 Foxy Grandpa's Triumphs,' by Bun- nv; 'The Cruise of the Katzenjammer Kids" by Dirks; Happy Hooligan Home Again" and Maud, the Match less" by opper.
 Mcclure, Phillips & Go. announce for Fall publication, "Wine, Woman, and
 Song" with an essay on medieval
 Latin drinking songs by John Adding
 ton symonds Many of the students songs in this collection which has been
 out of print for twenty years, are par-
 odies on church hymns. The work of
 Francois Villon is the continuation of this kind of, convivial verse The illus trations for this volume are taken from
 the woodcuts representing students at their revels
 Mcclure, Phillips & Co. are issuing
 ,fArizona Night by Stewart Edward
 White These yarns in which MT.
 White Is sene at his best as story
 teller, have been appearing for the
 most part in McClure's Magazine, and
 will thus be brought together for the
 first time.
 Two novels which will be brought out
 in book form by Mcclure, Phillips &
 Go. on Sept. 14 are 'The Car of Des- tiny" by c. N. and A. M. Williamson, the scene of which is laid in Spain at
 the time of the recent coronation, and which is said by English critics to sur
 pass in interest and literary power any
 thing that has yet issued from the pens of these authors, and The Sub , urban Whrl" by Mary Stewart Cut
 ting, which is described as a long story of married life, set amid the scenes of
 the New Jersey suburbs.
 Dodd, Mead & Co. have out their fall announcement. Among the fiction . writers named whose books they will publish are George Barr McCutcheon Bettina von Hutten, Maurice Hewlett , Horace Annesley Vachell, Amelia E.
 Barr, Florence Morse Kingsley, Anna B Dodd and oswald Crawfurd Books are also announced by Owen Mister i Jeffrey Farnol, Esther Singleton i Maurice Maeterlinck, Arthur Ransome . and Josephine Tozier There are sev-
 eral boks illustrated in many colors; . Cathedral Cities of France" one of
 Venice and another of "Cairo, Jerusa- , Ilom and Damascus" Among the mis- cellaneous books Is a "Guide to the West Indiesr by F. A. Ofber; Mexico Among the Nations" by Percy F. Mar
 tin; Good Bridge, by Charles Stuart . Street; "Thel Story of the Ring" by s. IT. Hamer, and Culture by Con- versation," by Robert Waters. The August Book News Monthly is
 ali Edgar Allan Poe number and is an other very fine issue. W. A. Bradley writes the critical estimate; Mrs. A. NJ Tyler considers Poe at the Uni versity of Virginia" Dr. Charles Hous- |, ton Goudis contributes a pathological, study, and Joseph Lewis French de-
 scribes the terrible tragedy of the Ipoet's death Numerous pictures ac- lccmpany the articles.
 The fact that group of millionaires is building in New York theatre tC , be conducted on lines similar to the
 state-endowed playhouses of Europe renders of peculiar interest an article by Victor Mapes, entitled "An Art
 Theatre in Operation" published in the Theatre Magazine for August. Mir ' Mapes was director of the short-lived New Theatre of Chicago and he gives the reasons for the failure of that en. terprise. The whole number is full oi 3 attractions.
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