New-York tribune., 1910-12-10
BOOKS AND AUTHORS

BOOKS AND AUTHORS
Current Talk of Things Present
and to Come.
| The twelfth volume of The Cam
bridge Modern History has just been
published by the Macmillan Company.
This. which treats of The Latest Age.
! rounds out the monumental work
| planned by the late Lord Acton and
developed with impressive thoroughness
by Professors Ward Prothero and
Leathes. The volume is of the highest
| interest. especially to Americans.
The Houghton Miff1in Company an
nounces for publicat tion in the early
| srring a memoir of the late John La
| Fargo, by Royal Cortissoz. The book,
which was sanctioned by Mr.. La Fargo
and Is based upon a long friendship. will
| embody recolIections communicated by
| him to the author in manuscript. to
| gether with numerous notes Of conver
sations. anecdotes etc. 1t will be fully
| illustrated With reproductions of the
great artists work. given in phctogra-
/ vure.
In q handsome octave cf some two
| hundred and odd rages. published to- day
by Charles Scrihners Sons. Mr. William
| Adams Brown hes produced an interest
ing Character sketch Of the late Morris
K. ,IesUp. The book commentaries a
compelling personality and a career of
mir he
thor traverses all of the many phases of
Mr.. Jesups activity as a man of affairs
as philanthropist and supporter of
Arctic exploration and research in nat
ural history The biography is accom-
panied by capital portraits.
Longmans. Green & Co have Just is
sued the first four volumes in the new
collected edition of the writings of Will
lam Morris. which IS edited by Miss May
Norris. his daughter. To each volume
and there viii be twenty-four in the set
she pref1xes an introduction. with bio
graphical notes. The edition is magnii
Gently printed and illustrated. Besides
all the known poetry and prose. it will
contain volume of hitherto unpublished
poems and articles and letters contrib
uteG to tho press.
Little. Brown & Co. who first pub
lished in this country transiations of the
Swedish novels of Selma Lagerof are
bringing out a new illustrated edition Of
her most famous narrative. THE Story
of Costa Rerling.'' Thirteen editions of
the book have been printed since it was
first offered here in 1894 This latest
reprint contains twenty mine illustrations
by Georg PAUL. and map of the Prov
| ince of Yarnland, where the scenes are
laid
Mr.. Warren X Moorehead's work The
Stone Age in North America" has just
come from the Riverside Press. The two
volumes have no less than 724 illustra-
tions of the ornaments, weapons, utensils
and ceremonial paraphernalia of the
American Indians. Twenty years of study
have gone to the making of this work.
The author has thoroughly explored the
fortifications and burial places of the
mound builders. the houses of the cliff
dwellers and the caves of the West and
.
covering more than a thousand titles is
included in the contents.
M Bran Stokers new book Great
Impostors." is to be published imme-
diately by the Sturgis & Walton Com
pany. One of the odd statements of the
book is to the effect that the real Eliza
beth, daughter of King Henry VII, died
when she was a young girl. and that she
was personated thereafter by a relative
of the male sex. Mr.. Stoker seems TO
believe that this queer story is true.
A literary diplomat has Just sailed
hence for Spain. where he will represent
not the United States but the little Re
public of Panama. This is Mr. Edwin
Lefevre, who has written various pieces
of fiction in which Wall Street figures.
He is accredited to Italy as we'll as to
Spain.
The elaborate volume on Toy Dogs
and Their Ancestors" which the Hon.
Mrs. Neville Lytton has written and
which is to be brought out here by the
Appletons. is not yet ready for the press
will not. in fact. be ready until next
spring. The preparation of the numer
Gus illustrations has caused the delay.
1t is book which will appeal to many
readers for the number of toy dogs has
increased enormously in this country of
late years.
"At Sunset" The collection of poems
by the late Julia Ward Howe. which she
was preparing for publication at the
time Of her death. is announced by the
Houghton Mifffin Company. The poems
written for recent public occasions arc
included, with many other verses now
first collected.
What were the faults of the books for
children published in the latter half OF
the eighteenth century? Lady Tenant,