New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-31
BOOKS AND AUTHORS
Current Talk of Things Present
and to Come.


FIRST notable biography which the
autumn viii bring to us. His own talk
will enliyen its pages. Re was the au-
thor of many pithy sayings. Grant
Duff quotes one of them. To somebody
who va, speaking with great regret Of
tho disappearance Of much that was
beautiful i'm the medieval order Smith
said. You can't have an ivy and no
WALL
a New Dutton Department.
That excellent and euterprising firm.
7 p button & Co. will Immediately
establish an educational department,
having lately acquired as a foundation
the Thompson Brown Company bust
ness. The latter company Is said TO ne
Tho oldest i'm America engaged eX-
cmsivelv i'm the publication Of educa-
,ional books. The highest educational
standards. VIC are told. are to be main
tanned by the new department.
A Foolish Effort
To the shelves Of books in which
Napoleon ] appears is to he added a
volume devoted to the defence Of Sir
Hudson Lowe against the attacks Of
Bouaparust writer's. IL is work the
doing Of which was hardly worth while,
for no special pleading can alter the
facts which define loves incapacities.
Doubtless he had excellent intentions,
brt mo- was a stupid. small-minded and
provincial person and quite unworthy
of being exalted by a partial writer
iuto-a Real .artyr Of ST. Helena. Do
This rs the title which Mr.. Dundas
Prans gives TO his forthcoming book.
The Worst Handwriting.
surely the worst handwriting ever
known was that mentioned in a re-
cent after dinner speech by Sir Henry
Iucy. He said that when Colonel Fred
Rurnabv-of Ride to Khiva' fame
'cfr this world there was found among
his literary remains the manuscript
of a novel entitled The Radical As
an old friend of the author Lucy was
invited to prepare the book for pun
location He spent some time on what
was a labor of love. but az last. ne de-
.iared. had TO give up the task. COM
plctely baded by the handwriting
At Union Theological Seminary.
Literary activity among members Of
.he faculty Of Union Theological Semi
nary on Mo-aingside Heights is indi-
.a-cd by the publication within recent
months of exegetical and critical COM
montarics on the Books Of Obadiah
and Joel. and on Jonah. by Professor
Julius 4. Bewer, and on the epistles
IN the Thessalonians, by Professor
James r. Frame. Dr. Thomas c. Hall
follows his useful History Of Ethics
Within Organized Christianity with
o. small volume on the Historical Set
ting of the Gospel" Eaton & Mains).
The Rev. G. A. Johnston Ross newly
installed professor Of pastoral theology.
has discussed an aspect Of the Atone
r,out I'm an essay entitled, The cross
the Report Of q Misgiying CReveiD.
TWO expository volumes by Or. Hugh
Rlack are named Three Dreams ana
Hardness" CReveID. the latter giving
in popular form the results Of long pom
dering upon fontal deliverances with
reypect 10 the highest good. In Messrs'
Scribner.s admirable series Of studies
IN Theology" Professor Arthur c. Nc
GiNert has furnished a handbook on
Protestant Thought Before Kant IN
the same series Or. William Adams
Brown writes Of THE Christian Hope
a comprehensive. yet compact setting
forth Of the motives that have obtained
IN the past for faith in immortall'y
and OF the motives operating in ana oil
such faith to-day.