New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-03
Brief Notices
Recent Publications and New
Editions

whose maiden effort, "Come Out to
Play" attracted favorable attention. 1t
is a somewhat old-fashioned story OF
young girl in a house OF mystery, IN
stinct with the freshness and charm OF
youth. From the same press comes
Gilbert Cannsn's "Mendel." hot
blooded story Of a young Polish painter
in the slums of London and in the Latin
Quarter Of Paris. "Barnacles," by J.
MacDougall Hay. is a realistic story
bv a minister of the Scottish Church,
telling of a simple hearted musical
genius and the seamy side of life.
"School and College Credit for Out
side Bible Study" by Clarence Ashton
Wood The World Book Company, Is
a comprehensive and orderly account OF
what is being done in institutions OF
learning. including common schools, to
encourage study Of the Bible as a great
/ literary classic, as well as for its splr-
/ itual significance.
/ EP. Dutton & Co. send US only
Dog" by Bertha Whitridge Smith,
/ war story of an Irish terrier which was
| driven from its French home by the
/ German advance and was adopted into
/ the British army. From the same house
comes an encyclopedia collection OF
miscellaneous culinary recipes. IRON
House TO House" gathered by the au-
( thor in the course Of years OF visiting.
Harold +. McCormick's VIA Pacis.'
unfinished by A. c. McClurg & Co.. dii-
4 fors from most neace plans in assuming
that the war mtst be fought to logical
3 finish before any plans can be effective.
+ The Frederick A. Stokes Company has
3 produced an attractive edition of
! princess Marie-Jose's Children's Book.
with a fine portrait of the dainty little
Belgian Vestiare herself as a fronts
/ niece. II is fascinating book for chill
| dren. and not devoid Of charm for
! grown-ups.
In "The Mary Francis First Ad
! Book" much more rs done than 10 ten
n humorous story of surgery practiSed
upon dolls. Valuable instruction IN irst
aid to the injured is given, and there Is
much to inspire children with sympa-
thetic desires and knowledge TO relieve
suffering. II is published by the John
/ {. Winston Company.
Edward J. OBrien's compilation OF
"The Best Short Stories of 1916 from
the press OF Small. Maynard & Co, con-
tains twenty tales CLEANED from seventy
periodicals. critical analyses Of fifty
American short stories. a photography
of books Of short stories. and an index
Of all short stories published in thirty
nine leading periodicals and of stories
of distinction" in thirty others.
There is not a bit Of doubt about the
suddenness Of Clarence Burlington KEEL
1. ..L Tor n
Bros. have put forth. nor about the
suddenness with which the reader, once
beginning. becomes interested in the
work. The interest of both snappy. az
gressive business and ardent love is
maintained without tagging to the end.
The Zionist Primer" Of Sundel Don't
ger which Young Judea has published
! is an instructive manual OF the plans
Of the Zionsts and their reasons Tor
chcrishing them.
G. 4. Fillebrown's principles OF Nat
ural Taxation" published By A. {. Nc
4 Clurg & Co.. * the latest treatise on
the general principle of land taxation
which was promulgated generation
ago by Henry George.
Lloyd L. Morris. in "The Celtic
/ Dawn" Macmillan, takes very serious
/ Is the Irish renascence OF the last gen
Grafton. and gives interesting studies
Of its chief figures. literary and eco
nomic. That renascence culmInated, ne
thinks. in last years abortlvc rebellion,
and closed with its suppression, but 1t
I has left behind it as its fruits new
/ thought. now literature. now economy,
new social philosophy, and even new
nation in Ireland.
/ Hawaii, Past and Present" is a new
and revised edition Of william X.
/ Castles handbook OF our insular terri
/ tory, historical, descriptive and stats
/ teal, forming an admirable gudebook
/ TO those summer isles Of Eden Mr..
/ Castles personal familiarity with the
/ subject invests his work with unsur-
sassed authority. Dodd, Mead e. Co.
| are the publishers. We wish that the
| otherwise admirable illustrations we're
not colored half faded and half
muddy blue.
BENJAMIN Franklin. Printer by
/ John CLYDE Oswald, has been published
/ by Doubleday, Page & Co. for the As
/ sociatcd Advertising Clubs of the
\ World. in style identical with that OF
/ Franklins own sixth edition of "A
| Confession Of Faith" in l1i3. 1t con
/ tains numerous facsimilcs of titles.
/ etc. of works printed by Franklin, and
I some pcrsonalia not commonly found
i'm sketches Of the printer-sagc
In commemoration Of the completion
OF ten years service in the pulpit Of
the Church of the Messiah. the Rev.
John Haynes Holmes has collected thir-
/ teen addresses under the title. ere
/ ligion for To-day" (Dodd, Mead & Co...
/ AS interpretations from radical view
point they depict the new religion As
| standing for truth. not tradition; for
/ liberty. not authority, and for justice,
not charity. A strongly constructive
/ note is struck i'm several Of the chap
tors. especially in the one that attempts
to answer the question. as God a Per
/ sonality?" and in the discussion of the
modern conception Of power. The
preachers spiritual lineage is unmis-
takably reflected in his keen and un-
bending arraignment of the caste spirit.
not TO speak Of his non-resistance
teaching. in which he Christians
j Christianity. The Iedoubtablc Billy"
+ Sunday may he somewhat abashed at
/ the applause from the ranks Of Tus-
cany. but Mr. Holmes seizes upon the
/ evangelist as the most brilliant kind
Of witness to a primary element in the
4 new religion, namely. plain morality.