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highest terms her latest book. 1.-THE sor
Of Columbus"
lust to prove it's all true" as Harry
Franck puts II, his new book, ZONE
Policeman 49, (The Century Company
| will show a reproduction of his off1cia
discharge as a policeman on the cana
Zone. The document carries the lorna
| statement, There is objection TO MS
! re-employment" the explanation belna
that any Zone policeman resigning With
| in two years Of his appointment re-
ceives official objection to re-employ'
| ment.
The first of the series of four books
on social hygiene. which the Century
Company is to publish May 10 under the
auspices of the Bureau of Social Hy-
giene, will deal with "Commercialized
! Prostitution in New York City by
| George J. Kneeland, investigator for the
Chicago vice commission, and author of
that commissions report. John ID.
Rockefeller jr.. chairman Of the Bureau
of Social Hygiene, has written the m
| PRODUCTION.
The Essentials Of the Constitution. -
by Elihu Root, will be published this
! summer by the Princeton University
Press This volume comprises the STAT
! ford Little Lectures, delivered at Prince
ton University by Senator Root This
will be the second volume in the Stafford
| Little Lecture series. THE Two Hague
Conferences" by Joseph II. Choate, pub
lished this year, was the first of the
| series
Harold Ellsdale Goad, whose novel Of
modern monastic life in Italy entitled
1.-The Kingdom" is Just being published,
was founder of a social institute in AS
sisi OF which Mr. ]. Pierpont Morgan had
been of recent years the chief supporter.
Doubleday, Page & Co. will publish
early this spring one of the first books
on the new schools of art. which are va
riously called Post-lmpressionism, Futur-
ism. the School of Cubists. &c. 1t is
.'The New Tendency in Art" by Henry
r. Poore, and while it is a little book,
1t contains an exhaustive discussion OF
the aims. principles, and meaning behind
the much discussed followers of Matisse,
Plea bia, and others.
May IS has been decided upon as the
date for the publication Of Winston
Churchills novel, THE Inside OF the
CUP" (MacMillan)
The Century Company reports new
printing of Secretary Redfeld's THE
New Industrial Day." and new editions
of Hero Tales from American His
tory" by Theodore Roosevelt and Henry
Cabot Lodge, of John Benefits peren-
NAL favorite. Master Skylark," and of
Palmer Coxs The Brownies Through
the Union and The Brownies in the
Philippines"
Goods cast up by the sea-goods Of
Gods mercy, that Is what "Wilsam, an
old Anglo-Saxon expression, which Miss
Nethersole uses for the title Of her novel.
which is to be published In May, means.
1t is the life story of bit Of fiotsam and
jetsam, to use more familiar words for
the authors "wilsam," that Miss Meth
ersole tells. There is a literary charm
in the telling. too, which, quite apart from
the characterizations and plot, wholly
remarkable and unusual in themselves,
lends a wealth Of distinction to the book.
The publication of "Wilsam'' in Eng
land preceded by a few weeks its ap-
pearance in America. There it has al
ready won for its author unstinted
praise There is a certainty that here
Miss Nethersole will also be hailed as
one of the most important Of the new
novelists.
q. p. APutnam's Sons are about to pub
fish THE Knave of Diamonds, by Ethel
NJ Dell, whose earlier novel, 1.-THE Way
of an Eagle" now is in it's twelfth edf-
ton. A great popularity is prophesized
for THE Knaye of Diamonds"
A book OF interest to all lovers of
sports u ''Travers' Golf Book" by
Jerome b. Travers, in which the famous
champion talks engagingly and jnstruc-
lively on game in which he is the ac-
leader. There are to be
forty-eight full page pictures in the vol
ume, many Of them posed by Mr.. Trav-
ers himself. 1t is announced for publ
cation in May. (MacMillan)
Mrs. Carroll Watson Rankin is an
author who has evidently the knack of
writing for the girls Of this generation. |
Her first book. "Dandelion Cottage" is !
In it's tenth edition, and her latest story. |
THE Castaways of Pete's Patch" is by
Henry Holt & Co. sent to press for an
other large printing.
A book on the religious situation in
rural districts, entitled 1.-THE Country |
Church." written by Clifford Pinchot and |
Charles Otis Gill, is soon to be published. |
(MacMillan)
1t is doubtful whether there is per- |
son on the entire island of Manhattan |
who knows old Greenwich Village, the
Bohemian quarter Of New York City, |
rs does Nina Wilcox Putnam. who. in |
her new novel. THE Impossible Boy"
has drawn largely upon this fascinating |
district for her local color, her charac-
ters and the wholesome spirit of charm |
Ing good-fellowship which pervades the
entire tale.
A book which promises to be as inter-
est!ng as its viewpoint is~fiew is Charles
A. Boards IAN Economic Interpretation !
Of the Constitution" (Macmillan). Prof.
Beard, who u q member Of the faculty