The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-11-05

PEN AND SCISSORS
A fourteenth American edition and
a fourth Canadian edition or Payne
F.rskine's romance Of the Blu Ridge
The Mountain Girl is now
BY Little, Brown. & Co.
Miss Mary Johnston has returned
from Warm Springs, Va, to her WIN
ter home in Richmond. Her ne"
var novel Cease Firing Will De pup
lished in November by Eoushtoh
Mifliin Co.
The Honorable James Bryce's new
book. South America: Observations
and ImpressiOns went into q second
large edition on the day OF its pub
LEGATION, an unusual occurrence Tor q
book Of travel.
New editions have just been sent
to press Of Professor Edward Ais
worth Itoss's The Changing Chinese
and Changing America. This is the
fifth large edition of The Changing
Chinese. the earlier Of the two books.
Woodrow Wilson, though gaining
IdlIy III ptISDIdl pOpuidiiiNt i"o -
no means aid aside his claim to aca-
demic distinction. His work on Con-
g%rcssional Government published by
Mitiiin Coz has recently
been adopted by Harvard University
as textbook in the course on Govern
ment, superceding Bryce's The AmeTi-
can Commonwealth. which has long
been regarded as the standard work
on this subject.
G.. II. Perris's Germany and the
t.crman Emperor is now definitely
promised by Messrs. Henry Holt and
Company for November 9th. This
book is q historical interpretation OF
rise Of the new. German world en-
pire, with poItraituIeS Of such figures
as Goethe. Bismarck, and h present
Emperor.
With the publication in mid-OctO-
Der Of EIkan Lubliner: American by
Montague Glass, the public is intro
duced for the first time to q complete
novel by the creator of Potash 4
Perlmuttcr. Mr.. Glass hitherto has
stuck to the gshOrt story as the best
vehicle for his humor, but in Eikan
Lublincr: American he traces the de
veiopment OF a younnS Russian Jew
immigrant who comes to this country
poor and ignorant.
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To the many who have inquired
whether a second edition Of Sara Teas
dales distinctive volume of verse,
Helen Of Troy. and Other Poems
might not be in train, it will be graft
flying news that a new edition., entire
~ reset, will shortly be published by
the Putnams. 1t is an encouraging
sign of q deeper interest in poelrS
when the public demand for b vol
ume, graceful and impassioned in or
eminent degree. is SO insistent that {
new edition becomes a necessity.
The New Life OF Byron. by Ethe
Colburn Mayne. just published by tn,
Scribners, is the first detailed lif
since The publication Of Lord Love
lace's Astarte in 1905. and thus tn,
first seriously written biography sine
the Byron Mystery was solved. In i
the author discusses that remarkabl
episode and the theories evolved b
Mr.. Richard Edgcumbe from the pub
iication Of Astarte: she sums up tn
physiological situation of the tire
parties concerned and points out tn
true value of Harriet Beecher stowe
revelations. There are two handsome
well illustrated volumes.
Among the new editions which tn
Macmillan Company have lately pub
liShed aside from several reprints c
textbooks, are The GOOdly EeIIOwshi,
by Rachel Capen Scuaffier: Burnin
Daylight. by Jack London;The Wis
cOnsin Idea. by Charles Mccarthy
Socialism As 1t Is. by William Ems
nsh Walling; Social Pathology, b
Samuel G. Smith; Earth Features an
Their Meaning. by William Herbel
HOBBS. and The Rural Life PrOblc1
OF the United States. by Sir Horat
ilunkett.
The critical G. K. Chesterton.
VINO knows what's wrong with tt
world has distinguished himself /
expressing almost unqualified al
prevail Of 4 new work written by
woman. The book is The Thrt
brontes written by May Sinclair, ar
published in this country by Hougl