New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-20
PUBLISHERS NEWS
AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
Socrates-The Superman-The
GaIlipOli Campaign.

The Open Court Publishing Com
pany. of Chicago, has just issued "Soc-
rates. Master of Life" by Professor
William Ellery Leonard The book il
described as "a biographical and psy-
Geological study of the first Ancient TO
see the actual identity OF knowing and
being in the theoretical sciences"
4 History of the Superman.
THE superman in Modern Litera
ture," by Leo Berg, has been trans
latei into English and published in
London tJarron. The writer traces the
genesis OF this idea (which is much
earlier than Nietzschc) through. the
work of several writer's. including Car
lyle. Emerson. Kierkegaard, Flsubert
and Renan. lie then dwells on the
tragic irony OF Nietzsche's fate, who
efter denouncing pity as a weakness
became himself the object OF IT,
Finally he shows how the idea has per.
meated tie writings Of modern poets
and novelists. especially in Germany
The DardanelIes.
The first book on the Gallipoli cam.
paign to be published is announced by
Longmans. Green & Co. II is the work
Of Norman wilkinson, and will contain
thirty full-page plates in color repro
duced from water-colors made by him
on the spot, and a number of illustra-
tions in black and white.
THE Drama"
The November number of this Chi
cago publication contains a translation
in full Of enc OF the most successful
comedies of the modern Spanish stage,
Benaventa's Los lnteressos Creados. u
There is also poem. Den Jonson En-
tertains a Man from Stratford," by Ed
ward Arlington Robinson.
Drama and War.
Some Of the comic relief in Mr.. Shell.
don's play Romance" was furnished
it may be remembered. by a German
waiter who once Upon time had been
an operate tenor. The play is now
running in London, but the German ex-
singer has been transformed into q
French one. Thus docs the war in
fuence art.
A Dramatic Library.
The Bloomingdale branch of the New
York Public Library contains the IL
trary Of the Century Theatre Club, 9
collection Of some 200 volumes on the
art of acting and the technique Of the
drama, together with number o.
printed plays, mostly modern. The col
lection is not to be lent for home use
but must be consulted in the building
Thanksgiving Stories.
A welcome book for children at thi:
season is "The Children's Book OF
Thanksgiving Stories" Doubleday
Page & Coz. The editor, Asa Dor
Dickinson, has collected thirty-one OF
these stories, suitable for children OF
all ages. A serviceable table of con-
tents tells for what age each story is
best suited
"Our American Wonderlands."
A. c. McClurg & Co. announce Z
book with this title by George
Wharton James, the pioneer of the
seeing America first" idea, a subject or
which he has delivered over a thou
sand lectures to audiences aggregatinl
over a quarter million OF people.
Paris Past and Present.
The Autumn Special Number of "Tht
International Studio" (the John Ian,
Company is devoted to Paris Pas
and Present" IL contains eight draw
ings in colors by Bejot. Jonas an,
Brangwyn, a colored etching by Raj
faelli, and nearly 200 drawings anc
etchings by well-known artists, French
and foreign, and reproductions of Ole
prints. The volume is an artistic de
light, one of the handsomest books OF
Paris a lover of the city can possibly
find. An etching by George T. Plow
man is reproduced here to-day.