New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-08
NEWS AND GOSSIP OF
BOOKS AND AUTHORS
General Joffres African Campaigns-Our Military In
preparedness Again-Ihe American Negro and
Education Before Emancipation.

No announcement has yet been made
of an American edition Of the English
translation Of General Joffre's My
March to Timbuctoo" (1S99-'94, pub
Hshed by Chatto & Windus. Ernest
Dimnet furnishes biographical intro
duction.
rnia-Panama-South America.
The April bulletin of the Scribner
book store is entirely devoted 70
photography Of these subjects, now so
much to the fore.
Our Unpreparedness.
Frederic L. Hudekoper's "The Mill.
tary Unpreparedness OF the Onlteu
States" Mcbride, Mast G. Co.. is mod
elled upon Upton's Military Policy OF
the United States" the standard book
of reference on its subject of an earl
Ter day. Mr.. Huidekoper has had &C
cess 10 the war Office archives of Paris,
Vienna and Petrograd and Of our own
War Department He was among the
very first to bring our military unpre-
paredness 10 the nations notice, In
magazine article which some years ago
attracted widespread attention IN army
circles and at Washington.
Insects and Man"
In his book on Insects and Man"
! Century Company, c. A. Ealand says
that every year four insect species
alone cost the United States 92,000000.
| Insects, he goes on, control the des-
, TIMES of nations, render uninhabitable
some Of the fairest parts of the earth,
| hold up great engineering schemes, ana
| have caused the abandonment of world
| important enterprises. Were the IN
| sect world not a house divided against
itself, the human race would be extinct
in five or six years. AS il is, vast
number Of our diseases are due to IT..
In no part of natural creation is human
control so indispensable In few mat
tiers then can it be said that wide
spread knowledge is more important.
New Editions.
f. P. Dutton & Co. announce new
editions Of The Little Mother Who
( Sits at Home" BY Countess Barcynska;
"Who Built the Panama Canal by w.
/ Leon Pepperman; Eat and Grow Thin
| by Vance Thompson, and Police Prac-
/ tice and Procedure" by Cornelius v.
| Cahalane. This company also an
nounces a new and greatly revised edi-
ton Of J. Ellis Barker's Modern Ger
many"
/ The American Negro and Education.
A history Of The Education Of the
Negro Prior to 1884," by c. G.
Woolson, Phi. D., will be published
early this month by the Putnams.
/ The book opens up a new chap
ter in the history OF the negro
| in America in revealing the persistent
/ striving Of the race after education
! from the earliest days of its bondage
| here. The early education of negroes
WAS largely a religious effort, but many
I slaves were educated in order 10 in
crease their efficiency. The Revolution,
with its ideal of the rights Of man,
/ brought many educational privileges.
which. however, were withdrawn in the
/ South, partly because of changing in
! dustrial conditions. but also on account
/ Of the growth Of an insurrectionary
/ spirit. The author traces the struggles
/ Of the slaves who continued 10 acquire
/ knowledge in spite Of opposition, and
/ the development OF education among
/ the free negroes in the North.
History Tabulated.
The Putnams have ready a new edi-
/ ton of Tabular Views of History"
which, originally compiled by George
| Palmer Putnam, has been continued 20
/ date under the editorial supervision of
George Haven Putnam. The volume
contain. q series Of chronological Ia
bles presenting, in parallel columns, .