The Washington herald., 1908-04-05
THE WORLD OF BOOKS
LITERARY GLEANINGS AND GOSSIP

The record OF book popularity at the
Public Library during the week is as fol-
lows: In nonfiction. Thorp's Outlines OF
/ Indp ssrial Chemistry" and Leup's How
to Prepare for Civil Service Examina-
ton" In fiction. Glasgow's Ancient
Law and Athegton's Ancestors In
the juvenile department. Defoe's Robin
son Crusoe" and Grimms Fairy Tales
Books an religion and Esperanto were in
considerable demand. On the former sub
| ject II was Hollands Greed and Char
acter" and Walpoie's Vital Religion
that had the most calls. With reference
| to Esperanto, the most demand was for
Builen'g Course of Esperanto and
tOConnor's Esperanto the Universal Lam
guage.
The Chicago Evening Post points out
| that the assembling Of Libraries for ships
is the work of the officers of the Bureau
of Equipment in washington. The Ii
brary of the Vermont is a fair sample Of
those assembled for the new big battle
ships
The books on this boat cost the govern
ment $500 There are, of course. die
tionaries, enelycopedia, volumes OF gener-
al reference. and all kinds Of books on
fortihestions. photography, naval Rrchi-
| lecture, navigation, sesmanship, tactics,
and other subjects pertaining intimately
TO the service. In addition TO these works,
/ however. the men are given history. f1c-
tion, science. and works Of a miscel'sne-
Gus character
/ Under the heading of fiction in the Ii
brary Of the Vermont is a delightful as
/ sortment, including works OF Scott. Dick
/ ems. Thackeray, Stevenson. Hope. Marry
att, Mark Twain, and dozens of others.
The books in the libraries on seaboard are
/ in great demand, and it is said that when
the enlisted men ask for books they are
I Just as likely TO take away history as
| they are to take away fiction, something
which is not true of the patrons OF all
American circulating Libraries.
! simultaneously with the new edition Of
Justin McCsEthy's Victorian commentary.
"A Short History Of Our OwO Times, -
published in this country by Harper &
Brothers. comes the announcement that
| Mr. McCarthy's Modern England Under
Queen Victoria has gone into an italian
translation and viii be published by an
Italian house Of Turin, Fratelli Bocca-
| Everybody has heard OF that French
book Sans Qui nj Que" which, as the
title indicates. contains IN ali It's length
not one who" OF which" Gelet Bur-
CESS has accomplished almost as remark
able a literary stunt" in The Heart
Line" his latest novel One OF his lads
! is A disbelief in the word very" Except
when quoted in conversation. the word is
not to be found among the $4,000 of THE
Heart Line"
Prof Charles Zueblin, Of the University
Of Chicago, has written book he calls
''The Religion of a Democrat, - to be pub
Iished shortly by B. ". Huesbsch. Prof.
Zuebln is a popular lecturer at some of
our most prominent universities. His
forthcoming book deals with the question
Of mans religious needs and the present
day means OF satisfying them.
/ on Wednesday the three following
books were published by the Mcclure
/ Company: Loves Logic" a collection of
short stories, by Anthony Hope; The
Tenants a story of the South. by
Mary S. Watts. and Katherine Theval-
van" a novel OF New York society. by
Louise Maunseu Field. New editions are
being published of Homer Lea's ''Vermil-
/ lion Pencil" and o. Henry's 'Cabbages
and Kings"
Two books which will be published in
the early part OF next month by Moffat.
Yard & Co. are a Teacher Of Dante, and
other Studies In Italian Literature by
Nathan Haskell Dole. containing essays
on Dante. Petrarch. Boccaccio, and other
of the great poets and writers OF Italy.
/ on account OF delay due to the photo
gravure illustrations the publication of
! Charles Edward RuSselfs Thomas Chat
/ terton" has been postponed until now.
! Four books have been published recent
" by Charles Scribner's Sons, as follows:
! The English translation Of Rene Bazin S
u. Isoiee." entitled "The Nun" "Oid Mr.
/ Davenant's Money" a romance of Long
/ Island. by Frances Powell. author of
The House on the Hudson" &c; Mind
4 IN the Making: A Study In Mental Devel-
! d.
/ pedagogy in washington University; The
Coming Catholicism and Passing Prot
estantisn." by the Rev. Newman Smyth.
d. D.. pastor OF the First Congregational
/ Church. New Haven.
| f. P Dutton & Co. published last week
"reminiscences of oxford by the Rev.
w Tuekwen, n A, late fellow of New
I ~
Of course. is an old Oxonian. takes up
the Oxford Of the early sos, and tells Of
many OF the original characters harbored
/ by the famous university during and since
/ that period. The book contains sixteen
/ Illustrations.
Edith MacVane, whose new novel, The
/ Duchess Of Dreams" Will be published by
| Lippincott's. is a daughter Of Prof. s. NJ.
Macvane, economist and historian. Of
Harvard University. She is less than
thirty. and resides at Cambridge when
she is not abroad with her sister, who is
married and resides in France. Miss
/ MacYane is soon to write a play. which
/ is to be presented by Margaret Anglin.
| THE Duchess of Dreams was written at
| Sorrento. although it is an American
story It is described as "a tale Of social
ambition, Of startling adventure, and of
/ passionate love, placed against a back
ground OF Newport summer"
| When ". J. Bryan was in Indianapolis
recently he met Meredith Nicholson. the
novelist, at small dinner party. Some
where between soup and salad the author
asked the orator If he could, and would.
/ tell in a sentence the secret Of successful
| speechmaking. BE sure Of your facts
and believe all you say" replied the Dem
ocratic idol And now Mr. Bryan con-
tinued, will you tell me. in a sentence,
/ how you make successful fiction?" For
get the facts and make the other fellow