New-York tribune., 1915-12-18
PUBLISHERS NEWS
AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
DR.. Trudeau's Autobiography
Buddhist Art.

Doubleday, Page & Co. announce that
in conjunction with Lea & FebInger,
the medical publishers. they will issue
early next spring the autobiography
of the late DR.. Edward Trudeau. This
/ firm also announces that the publica-
, ton of George F. Kunz's Ivory and
the Elephant" has been deferred until
the fall of next year owing TO the
elaborate quality Of the Illustrations.
''On the Trail of Stevenson"
/ Clayton Hamilton's book, which was
withdrawn from the book market sew
eral weeks ago to enable its author TO
/ make certain changes in the text, has
just been issued by Doubleday, Page
& Co. In its defnitive form. The work
! is just in time for the holiday trade,
, and should have the attention of all
Christmas book buyers.
American Music.
The Macmillan Company has added
10 the seasons holiday books a new,
handsomely illustrated edition Of Louis
/ c. Elson's History of American Mu-
sic" first published eleven years ago
/ as the second volume of the History
/ Of American Art Series. Mr.. Elson has
taken advantage of the opportunity Of
fered him by this new issue to bring
/ The record down to date in a supple
mentary chapter. There are twelve
/ full-page photogravures and l03 illus
/ trations in tbs text. The book is
/ large octave. handsomely bound in red
and gold.
An Interesting Study of Harvey.
"Harvey's Views on the Use of the
/ Circulation Of tho Blood" by the late
John G.. Curtis, ". D., LII. d., is an
/ nCunced by the Columbia University
/ Press. The book is the result of its
/ authors intensive study of Haryey's
/ ideas, and a comparison of them with
/ those of the Hippocratic writer's, Aris-
/ totle, Galen and others. After dealing
with Harvey's career as a student at
| Padua, the author presents his general
attitude toward the question of the use
Of the circulation, and then goes on TO
discuss the circulation. as understood
by the various authorities cited, in its
1 relation TO the feeding of the tissues,
respiration and the primacy of the
heart and of the blood, the cause Of
/ the heart beat, and the venous return.
| He then considers the curious doctrine
I Of the blood as the seat of the soul, and
/ the innate heat in its relation to the
/ blood and to elemental fire; and COM
pletes the study with a chapter on the
circulation of the blood and the circu-
/ lation of the heavens. Many early ply
siological doctrines, such as that OF the
spirits. are presented. and the reader IS
carried vividly back into the atmos-
phere Of ancient medicine. In all the
abundant Harveien literature there ex-
/ lists no other work representing such
an intimate familiarity with Harveys
| ideas and such extensive knowledge OF
the classical and Renaissance writer's
on physiology. There are several Mt
| ting illustrations, among them por-
/ trait of Harvey and facsimile OF the
rage from mis- lecture notes IN which
/ there occurs the first recorded mention
of the circulation Of the blood. The
hook appears under the editorial super
vision of DR.. Curtis's colleague and IN
innate friend. Professor Frederic b
| Lee.
Buddhist Art.
In conjunction with the Boston Mu-
scum of Fine Arts, the Houghton M1-
fin Company publishes Buddhist, Art
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