The Washington herald., 1912-08-18
LITERARY NOTES.

Messrs. Henry Holt and Company will
also issue on August "A the seventh vol
ume In their Grant Allen Historical
Guides" which will be a thoroughly re-
vised edition-from the eighth English
edition-of Paris. A peculiar feature OF
these books is that the illustrations are
not of works Of art about which they
themselves are written, but of similar
works in other places that II Is interest
ing for the traveller to compare those
that he is looking at with.
A calendar of fifty-four leaves, CIV
ing a rare collection OF portraits of the
great authors of classic and English
literature, with selections of literary gold
from their writings. will truly be
Book Lovers Year
The impressions calendar for 1913, now
In preparation by Paul Elder & Co. of
San Francisco. is 10 present portraits in
mezzogrsph engravings of such authors
as Stevenson. Hardy. Tennyson. Brown
ing. Dickens. Thackeray. Eliot. Bronte.
Macaulay. Scott. Boswell. Johnson.
Shakespeare. Milton. Dante. and other
great writer's. The quotations have been
carefully selected. avoiding those that
are overfamiliar. The calendar is 10
be issued in the artistic manner thar
distinguishes all the work of these West
ern publishers. II Is to be published at
the very moderate price of 75 cents net.
The editor Of Popular Mechanics con-
Quoted an inquiry among 1000 eminent
men OF science at home and abroad as
to what were. in their opinion. the seven
wonders of the modern world. About 20
per cent replied. and this is the result:
Wireless. "a: telephone, lS5i aeroplane.
l5I: radium. lG1: antiseptics and anti
toxins, 40: spectrum analysis, les;
X-ray. III. Tn. next In order were:
Panama Canal. IN: Anesthesia. 81: syn
thetic chemistry. 81. The seven winning
wonders are described by an eminent
authority. Telephone. by Alexander
Graham Bell: wireless. by F. Minturn
Sammis: aeroplane. hy Alfred F. Zahm:
X-ray. by Robert Williams Wood: anti
septics. &C. by E F. HYDE. NJ. D.:
radium. by II. y. Mccoy.
Mesrs Henry Holt Co are
just having to print another edition of
Frederick Ehrenberg's and Otto Eggel-
ing's fully illustrated Fresh Water
Aquarium and Its Inhabitants'' (Amer-
lean Nature Series)
The Putnam plan to make immediate
publication Of a volume entitled. "A
Prisoner of War in Virginia GSGi-9." by
George Haven Putnam, adjutant brevet
major, 18th New York State volun-
teers. This narrative of personal ex-
perience in Libby and in DanviIle prison
is expanded from a paper which was
presented to the New York Commandery
of the United States Loyal Legion. un-
der the instructions Of the commander.
in December. 1910. The paper attracted
some continued attention not only among
the veterans. but with others who were
interested in the record OF the war years.
and who realized that a record OF per-
sonal experience. even IL not in itself
an important addition to war history. at
least constituted material for the use
Of the future historian.
The Century Company's Educational
Department announces an early issue OF
English Fiction-From the Fifth TO the
Twentieth Century" by Prof. Carl Holli-
day. acting head OF the Department OF
English. Vanderbilt University;
Source Book in Economics" by Frank
4. Fetter. Professor Of Economics.
Princeton University, and English Com
position and Style" by Prof. William T.
Brewster.
.
'on The American Republic" which
will emphasize the recent developments
in our political machinery-the initiative
and referendum. the commission form
Of municipal government. primary cleo
tions. &c. The Century Company an
nounces issue OF the book in the near
future.
Practically all the branches Of litera-
ture. including fiction, poetry. humor.
utility. travel. sociology. art, and juve-
niles, are represented in the carefully
selected fall list OF Doubleday Page &
Co. who have adopted as their slogan
Fewer and Better Books" In the fic-
ton will be found such standard authors
as Mary Austin. the Williamsons. a
posthumous book of o. Henry material.
E. F. Benson. Alfred Ollivant +. Berke-
ley Smith. Montague Glass. Agnes and
Egerton Castle. and other well-known
authors. besides books by two new au-
thors whom Doubleday. Page & Co. de-
clare are. as promising as anything on
their list. These two are The Wind
Before the Dawn" by Dell II. Munger
and The Soddy.'' by Sarah Comstock
The nonfiction includes Stewart Ed
ward Whites book on Africa. a new
book by Booker T. Washington, and a
number OF other important works while
in the volumes oS literature and the ex-
Edition of o. Henry" F. Hopkinson
Smiths book OF "Charcoals of New
York" several elaborate Kipling re-
prints, and John La Farge's 'Reminis-
cences of the South Seas" No less
notable are the humorous and the juve-
nile lists, which include names well
known and subjects calculated to de-
light the reader. The boys are particu-
larly well taken care of in the Juvenile
list. in which appears Ernest Thompson
Seton's new book on woodcraft. and the
third book in the Doubleday. Page &
Co. series of boys mechanical books.
under the title of The Boys Book Of
New Inventions" by Harry E. Maule.
about October 10 Miss Anne Shannon
Monroe's The Making Of an American
Business Woman" as 1t will be known
in book form. This very human and
very American story-which vividly and
truthfully recounts the experiences of a
young woman who goes to Chicago to
earn her living-excited much interest
as II appeared in the columns of the
Saturday Evening Post of Philadelphia.
but much has been added in book form
to satisfy the readers legitimate curl
osity as to the details of progress and
the further fate of some Of the charac-
ters. especially of the masterful Bittner.
While a number of books have been
recently published on the sinking of the
Titanic. Dood, Mead & Co. have just
published one which deals with the