The Washington herald., 1912-09-15
Literary Notes

Mrs. Kate Douglas Wiggin is At pres
ent in London. where the dramatic YER
sion of her "Rebecca Of Sunnybrook
Farm" receives its first English produc-
! ton next week.
4 Henry Holt & Co. will publish verse
anthology that will include about four
thousand poems from about twelve hun
dred poets. Bearing the title, The Home
| Book of Verse-American and EnSnsh-
| 15sO-l9l1." IL is said to bring together
most of the best short poetry in the
English language from the time of Spen-
ser to the present day. together with
body OF verse which. II not great poetry,
has at least the distinction of wide popu-
larity" Besides the short masterpieces OF
the great English poets. especial enort
| has been made to gather together IN
this collection the famous fugitive verse
\ for which nobody now knows where to
look. The poems have been selected and
arranged by Burton Egbert Stevenson
and will be contained in about 1000 pages
of India paper in volume two inches
| thick A few well-known poems in for
! eign languages will be given in an ap-
/ pendix.
Messrs. Henry Holt & Co. have just is
sued John Buchan's Sir Walter Raj
eigh." The author has had high praise
! for his work as a novelist and seems to
have a spirit and animation almost equal
! TO that of his great subject While IN
tending his book primarily for boys. 1t
| is very likely to make decided appear
to their elders. too Doubie-page pic
4 lures in color are very attractive fea-
ture OF course. though Raleigh was an
Englishman. he is. If anything. even more
! important to America than to England
The narrative gains great yividness from
| having each chapter told in the first per-
| son by some friend or follower of the
great explorer, as if he had seen It with
| his own eyes.
| Serious books form a goodly portion of
Little Brown & Cos autumn announce
ments, including: THE Intimate Memoirs
| of Napoleon I'LL" translated from the
private diary of Baron d'Ambes, in two
volumes; "A New Book of Cookery" by
| Fannie Merritt Farmer, author OF The
| Boston Cooking School Cook Book;
\ MYTHS Of the Modocs." by the late Jere-
miah curtin: The Party Book" by Win
nifred Fales and Mary H. Northend,
profusely illustrated; "A Manual of Shoe
making" by William H. Dooley, the first
American book on shis subject; "Iodern
Italian Literature" by Lacy Collision
Morley; a translation of The Franco
4 Prussian War and Its Hidden Causes" by
| Emile OLIVER of the Academic Franchise;
Il w
H Addington Bruce: John Hancock, the
Picturesque Patriot" by Lorenzo Sears:
"In the Footsteps of Richard Coeur de
Lion" by Maud NJ. Holbach, fully illus
trated: "A Polish Exile with Napoleon"
| by G. L. de st. NJ. Watson, rich in ma
! terial illustrating the st. Helena period
of the Emperor's career; Lords and
Ladies of the italian Lakes" by Edcumbe
Staley; Penal Philosophy by Gabriel
Tarde. in the Modern Criminal Science
series; "A Short History of English
LAW" by Edward Jenks and "a History
Of Roman Law" by Andrew Stephenson.
The Putnams have just published a vol
ume entitled The Power of the Federal
Judiciary Over Legislation" by ]. Hamp-
den Dougherty, author of THE Electoral
| System of the United States" The line
| of argument in this volume is interest
| ing and novel Its main thesis, is that
| the advocates of judicial recall err in
| asserting that the Federal courts were
never granted power to declare unconsti-
| tutional statutes void. From the debates
| in the Federal convention OF 1851 and in
| the State ratifying conventions. the au-
| thor shows that the makers of the Consti-
tuition and the mepbers of the ratifying
| conventions meant to give, and actually
did give, to the Federal judiciary the
power to declare legislation unconstitu-
| tlOnal. Inc Dlrtn OF tne cOunter-nOtlce
| that the judiciary have no such power
is described by the author. He explains
the great importance Of an independent
judiciary.
Doubleday, Page & Co. announced the
publication at the end of August of the
| following books: Birds of Eastern
North America" by Chester A. Reed
| Cs3.0o nep; profusely illustrated. The
Dog Book" by James Watson CsI5o neO;
revised edition: profusely illustrated.
| Announcement is made by Doubleday,
| Page & Co. that 1t has been necessary
to postpone the publication of THE Leg
end of Saint Jerry" by Roy Rolfe ellison
until next spring. The book had been
scheduled for fall
With September the Macmillan Com
pany begins what pro- Dises to be one Of
its biggest publishing seasons. The fall
announcement list which this publisher
has just issued. shows wealth Of books