New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-03-30
BOOKS AND AUTHORS
Current Talk of Things Present
and TO Come.

Socialism in France. Germany and
England is the subject Of a series of
articles the publication OF which will
be begun I'm the May number OF THE
Worlds Work" MIR. $ +. Orth, the
author, has obtained interviews with
every Socialist leader of Importance In
the three countries, and his papers Will
probably be valuable in one way or an
other. They are TO be fully illustrated.
Poems Of n. n. Brownell.
The forthcoming volume in the series
of Riverside Press Editions" contains
selections from the war poems of Henry
Howard Brownell. He was acting en-
sign on the Hartford under the COM
mand Of Farragut, and his poem on the
battle Of Mobile Bay was spirited
record by one who took part III the
fight. Mr.. NJ. A. De Wolfe Howe, VINO
has made the selections for the volume,
has also furnished an introduction. in
which, drawing from unpublished ma
teriaI, he has given an interesting sketch
of BrownelPs life. The book is to be
entitled Lines of Battle"
Dickens.
Another forthcoming item Of the
Riverside Press Editions" Is the COL
lection of introductions to the novels OF
Dickens prepared by +. p. Whipple
forty years ago. These introducuohs
have been included in two volumes en-
titled Charles Dickens; His Life and
Works" A biographical sketch OF
Whipple by Mr.. Arlo Bates will accom-
pany these essays.
Woman's Changing Position.
In careful paper in THE Atlantic
Professor Hugo Munsterberg describes
the remarkable change in recent years
In the position of the German woman.
When he was a student in Leipzig
twenty years ago or more, there was
one American woman who was the spec
tacle and the sensation in the lecture
courses. Last year in large meeting
I'm Berlin devoted to the discussion OF
some problems of student life he found
a. young woman speaking so firmly and
effectively that she carried with her the
majority Of the grave professors pres
ent He found that the appointment OF
women as secretaries, librarians and 80
On for the new Amerika Institut was
considered most natural, and that many
Of the candidates came from families
which. twenty years ago, would have
thought activity and financial independ-
enCe outside the home for their daugh-
tiers matters of impossibility. As for
the higher education, he found In the
lecture room. when giving his university
course as Harvard Exchange Professor,
moro than a hundred women students
among the masculine listeners. And,
still more remarkable. at a great BAN
Quet in celebration of the birthday or
leading jurist a young lady gave one
of the toasts in a brilliant speech, de-
handing for woman the same rights
as the men in public life. Where is my
Germany of yesterday" asks our emf
nent professor. He discusses with keen
interest the different phases OF the
change and inspires the same interest
in his reader He notes that the old
belief in equality in the German home
has passed and that there is growing
comradeship between tho wife and the
husband who used to be the master"
The frequent commanding tone" he
adds, '1n which the cheaper kind OF
men so long INDUCED in their inter-
course with their wives would to-day
simply be considered as rudeness and
would not he tolerated by any one"
There are divers female novelists who
will have TO make new observations Of
German matrimony.