New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-03
BOOKS AND AUTHORS-REVIEWS AND COMMENT
FORERUNNERS OF THE
AUTUMN BOOK SEASON
Publishers First Announcements
for the Fall-NeW Fiction.

The publishers fall season Is open
ing. not only with announcements Of
books 10 come, but with the actual
issue OF the first OF them. From the
Messrs. Scrbner we have just received a
new novel by Judge Robert Grant. THE
High Prestess." which is described as
a sort of "Unleavened Bread" twenty
years after; and we are to have early
this month the late F. Hopkinson
Smiths last novel, Felix 0'Day,"
story OF New York life.
BodIey Head Announcements.
The John Lane Company has ready
for this month Stephen Phillips war
drama, "Armageddon"; a volume Of
patriotic poems by the Belgian poet
Emile Cammaerts, Lord Curzon of
Keddleston's war Poems and Other
TRANSACTIONS" and Houston Stewart
Chamberlain's "The Wagnerian Drama"
A New Novel by Theodore Dresser.
"The Genius" is the title OF Mr..
Dreiser's new book, which the John
Lane Company will issue toward the
end of the month. This is not the
promised last volume of THE Finsn-
cier" tr.lOgy, but "the story Of souls
struggle seen through the eyes of
genius"
Mr.. Putnam's Memoirs.
/ First or the list Of early announce
/ ments made by G. P. Putnams Sons
is George Haven Putnam's Memoirs
of a Publisher" beginning with the
year 1865, which closed his earlier
work, Memoirs of My Youth" The
/ new book covers far wider scope
than its title would seem to indicate.
for II deals with its authors interest
and activity in questions Of public in
terest-free trade, honest money, civil
service reform, municipal affairs, etc,
as well as with American and English
publishing and the agitation for inter-
national copyright. The book will be
issued this month.
Count Hayashi's Memoirs.
From the Messrs. Putnam we are to
have, further, the Secret Diplomatic
Memoirs" of the late Count Hayashi,
Ambassador to London at the time Of
the formation Of the Anglo-Japanese
alliance. This japanese statesman
was. in succession, Assistant Minister
for Foreign Affairs. Minister TO China
and to Russia, his country's represen-
tative at the Hague Peace Conference.
Ambassador to London. Minister Of
Foreign Affairs and Minister of Com
merce. He died in 1918. His memoirs
include a general review Of Japan's
foreign policy, and there are chapters
on the American-Japanese convention
of 1909.
Houghton Mfflin Books.
Samuel Hopkins Adams's Little Miss
Crouch" Mary Hallock Foote'S "The
Valley Road" and William Macleod
Raine's Steve Yeager" are to be pub
lished this month by the Houghton
Miflin Company. In October this
house will issue Mary Johnston's new
historical romance, THE Fortunes Of
Garin," tale of southern France in
the days of the Crusades. In November
we are to have David penstephen,"
| Ey Richard Price. author of "The Sue
cessor." William Roscoe Thayer's
Life Of John Hay" has already been
announced in these columns. 1t will
I
More War Books.
"The Fall Of Tsingtau," by Jefferson
Jones. is another Houghton Miffiin an
nouncement. Mr. Jones and a mill
tary attache we're the only Americans
with the japanese army at the siege.
Paris Reborn" is the title of the new
book of Herbert Adams Gibbons,
author of "Thc New Map of Europe,
which the Century Company has in
press. II contains his observations
during the first six months of the war.
The mobilization, the spy panic, the
panic of the tourists, the coming Of
the Taubes, the fertilization Of Paris,
and other capital events and phases OF
the war are. it is stated, described, not
merely as the author himself observed
them, but as he saw them reflected In
the conversation of typical Parisians,
journalists, priests. lawyers, modistes,
in the hutter Of the populace. in the
beat of the city's pulse.
Walt Mason's Prose Rhymes.
A new collection of Mr.. Mason's
RHYMES has lust been issued by A. C.
McClurg & Co. II is called Horse
Sense" this title having been suggested
by George AIDES expressed opinion
that Mr.. Mason is its high priest.
Kathleen Norris's New Story.
Julia Page" Mrs. Norris's new tale
of San Francisco, will be published by
Doubleday, Page & Co. on September
IS. This firm will also issue during
the next few weeks "The Grey Dawn"
+be second volume OF Steward Edward