New-York tribune., 1910-09-03

with the composers relations 10 o'"'
musicians and analyzes his compost
tions. The Rev. F. W. Galpin's work on
'Old English Instruments of Music
Their History and Character, VIII aiso
be published soon.
There is a puzzling sugsestiveness
about the statement made in London
that Mr. H. c. Wells's new novel Is,
VIC are told, giving its prospective pub
fishers much to think about
We are glad to note that Calcutta. in
which city Thackeray vas born. WIZ
formally commemorate his centenary
next year. A. public fund is to be gath
cred with which to obtain replica of
peville's charming bust of the novelist
as boy. IT will be placed In the old
Calcutta Cathedral. wherein Thackeray
was baptized.
The Rules Of the Game" is the title
of the new book which Mr.. Stewart Ed
ward White is soon to bring out through
the firm Of Doubleday, Page & Co.
A book on Miguel Hidalgo. the So
called Father of Mexican Indepen-
dence." is to be published next month
by McClure. Dr.. Arthur Fl. Nol has
written the work-which is to be called
The Life and Times Of Miguel Hidalgo
Y Costilla''-in collaboration with Mr..
A. T. Mcmahon.
The Forthcoming book "Robinetta' Is
.e.;. -@d -J1rf- nj
Riggs and three of her women friends
They arc the same writer's who pub
lished some time ago the book entitled
'The Affair at the Inn"
The Level Plan for Church Union" is
the title Of the Forthcoming book III
which Bishop Brown, OF Arkansas. has
defined his much -talked-of position In
regard to Church unity Mr. Whitaker
will publish the volume.
The original edition of Professor w
NJ Sloanes life of Napoleon is now out
Of print. A new library edition, which
IS on the press of the Century Company,
will present a great deal of entirely new
matter the author having continued to
CCIicCl 1idlCi idl iOi ii''''i- NNN-O
1t is said that much new material VIII
be found in the Life of Robert Brown
ing" which was left unfinished by the
late Professor w. II. Griffin and which
has been completed by Mr.. H. C. Min
chin. Another literary biography which
will be published soon is DR.. q. W.
Steeves's Francis Bacon: A Sketch OF
His Life, Works and Literary Friends
Burning Daylight" is the title Of
Jack Londons new novel. and it is also
the name of his hero-a hero who is de-
scribed as a man fashioned out of the
golden, frozen North and blending in
his nature the powerful and the gentle.
The book will be published next month
by the Macmillan Company. This house
is also preparing to issue Mrs. Mabel
Osgood Wrights new novel. Princess
Flower Hat
The trustees appointed by Herbert
Spencer 10 carry out the directions of
his will are husbanding their resources
as far as possible, in order to complete
the series of Descriptive Sociology de-
signed by him. They state that they
have done what they could TO give the
reading public some of Spencer's works
in a cheap form, and they have now ar
ranged to bring out a cheap edition-one
which, in England, will be sold at a shil-
ling q volume. If the opening volume,
First Principles is successful, they will
follow with others in a uniform style.
Some of the early editions of Spencer's
works are running out of copyright, but
as he revised and reWrote much of these
in the last few years of his life sucn
early editions do not represent his ma
turc views.
Among the semi-historiCal, semi bio
graphical volumes to be produced during
the coming season arc Henry II: His
Court and Times by II. Noel Williams;
Charles IT and His Court" by \. c. y.
Brett; Tho Great Infanta: Isabel, Soy
ero:gn of Flanders by Miss l.. klingen-
stein; Joan of Arc" by Grace James.
and "Vasco da. CANA and His Success