New-York tribune., 1909-08-08


The Macmillan Company promises for the
autumn three books for readers who are inter-
ested in this city and t. cnvirOns The first is
volume ON The New New York" written by
Professor John c. Van Dyke who has often
demonstrated the skill and sympathv with which
he can convey his Impressions His text will be
accompanied by over hundred full page Illus
trations in black and white and in color. These
are made by MIR. Joseph PenneH. The second Of
these Macmillan books has not vet received it's
title, but il is described anthology of prose
and verse relating 10 New York Lastly will
come The Picturesque Hudson" book or
photographs and descriptions by MI Clifton
Johnson.
novel which will be published in the spring 1t
worlds.
AZ a sale in London the other day one Of tho
items was letter of Byrons which fetched sI4O.
Some wicked critic had been finding fault with
Manfred and the poet wrote:
have poured out my Iaver over the earth. until
all that remains of my fatal and exhausted
Is Is a black and barren cone surmounted by bitter
which my Judges have fallen HGircd, indeed It
that the airy children of his brain should be torn
nsn within another's. the poet creates. therefore
Every lover of garden literature values The
English Flower Garden" by Mr. William Robin
son. and especially appreciates the skill with
which that book is written. II is pleasant news
that the author is bringing out book on
"Humors OF Country Life Mr. Robinson is tho
very man TO make such book worth while.
An English publisher recently opened a COM
petition for novelists and took very decided
stand in the matter OF the judges. These he
maintained, should all be women. He persuaded
Mrs. Flora Annie Steel. Miss Mary ChOmondeIey
and Mrs. Roger de Ia Pasture TO serve on the
jury.
Under the title of Police Administration the
Putnams are to issue book by Ieonhard Felix
tuid- II embodles critical study of police
ganzatiOns in the United States and abroad and
IS said To have been written with practical
knowledge and experience"
An interesting volume of letters announced for
publication is that which is 10 give us the cor
respondence of Lady Burghersh, afterward Lady
Mestmorland She was niece Of the Duke of
Wellington and numbered among her friends
King Leopold of Belgium. TaIlryrand. Brougham,
/ Melbourne, Nine de StaGl and others famous in
politics or in literature. Her husband. Lord
Burghersh. was British Ambassador at Florence,
Berlin and Vienna. on the Continent and at
home she had every opportunity to accumulate
memorable Impressions
Professor Witkowski. of the University or
leipSic. has written exhaustive treatise on
The German Drama Of the Nineteenth Century"
II has passed through two editions in his own
country, and now it is To appear in English,
In public speech not long ago Mr Winston
Churchill alluded To "shortfaIl' in the British
revenue The Manchester Guardian is inclined
20 admire this new word, and notes a tendency
toward the revival Of the cOmpOunding power uf
English These examples given:
People have long grown famia, with "forCvo~,I''
Grafton old. Output" was only technical term
of the iron and coal trad - thirty arS ago. now
II Is one Of the haT4eSt worked and reSrect-
able words in the language. Psychologists ara
mech interested AT present in pot id ''iutaL'
Not very long aSO intake "a dialect Wt ri
meaning inspiration of the breath. The truet,.s
IN az the crops. aDG number uf other thir.-S.
Stevenson us a il iu one ot these meanings an in
take of the lrcath-hut IL has hardly vet sut INTO
the educated mans Vocabulary EXCEPT its u5cd-
cal use Many such compounds 81 iu survive iu true
popular speech Hacks. l. r,r example fiu Tho
sense of set back and 'tJckscud' trectiIG
Some are finding their way into the general yo-
cabulIry. We are beginning tc speak without con-
sciousn. s.. for instance Of people being quick COR
them; they "SIlrStep an obstacle instead Of lcdS-
ing II, and 'sIdetrack train instead of sLullt-
ing it,
The late Dr. =. r. Gardiner left unfinished
his History of the Commonwealth and Protec-
torate' II is announced 10y the LonEmans that
the work has been continued by Professor Firth
in two volumes which Nill appear this season
They cover the period from the meeting Of tho
Protectors Second Parliament, IN September.
1856 To his death, two years later.
The author Of ''MaTotz" and 'Dromina, Mr.
John Ayscough has another novel in press. The
Pu;nams viii bring il out this fall under the
title of san CeleStiDQ-"