New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-06
Books of the Week
The Voluminous and Varied Out
put of Publishing Houses

Some Of the most important books
issued during the last week are re-
viewed elsewhere in these columns.
Others awaiting further disposition
are many in number and varied in
character. From the Abingdon Press
come Espey's "The Possible You"
advice for boys and girls and Pei
let's "Our Backdoor Neighbors," n
nature book. E. de Boccard Paris
sends The Schools Of France in 1892
and 19l4-I7." The Britton Company
offers "Do's and Don'ts in the Army"
by Harold Hersey; Uncle Bills Let
ters 70 His Niece" by Ray Brown. and
Little Stories from the Screen" by
William Addison Lathrop. The Bureau
of Public Service Economics publishes
"A Municipal Experiment. an account
OF the New York Hall of Records power
plant. by Reginald Pelham Bolton. Ed
win Curran, GAINESVILLE. Ohio. sends
thin volume OF First Poems" The
George II. Doran Company sends THE
Blue Streak" by Jack Hines, Far
North dog story. Doubleday, Page
Co. send 'Webster-a Mans Nan,"
novel by Peter B. Kyne.
The Dunlap Society publishes
sumptuous volume on Nv lillian Dun
lap. His Life and Works" by DR.. Oral
Sumner Coad. The Funk & Wagnalls
Company publish THE Soldiers Service
Dictionary" a handy manual Of English
and French words and phrases, By DR..
Frank II. Vizetelly. Harper & Bros.
issue John D. Wells's Rhymes Of
Our Home Folks" and the Rev. Sam
uel McCombs's Gods Meaning in
Life" The Houghton Miffln Company
contributes William Yorke Stevenson's
spirited AT the Front in a Flivver."
Henry Holt & Co. send two stories:
"The Wishing Ring Man." by Margaret
Widdemer. and The Five Rabbits at
Bonnyacres." by Walter A. Dryer.
Mitchell Kennerley sends Woodrow
Wilson and the Worlds Peace" by
George d. Heron, and Letters from
Harry and Helen" communications from
the spirit world written down BY Mary
Blount White. The Jewish Publication
Society sends US the american Jewish
Year Book for 567s 1917-18).
The J. b. Lippincott Company pub
fishes two noble volumes: THE Dwell
ing Houses Of Charleston, s. c." by
A. r. II. and D. r. II. Smith. and "Old
Roads Out Of Philsde lphia," By John
T. Faris. Little. Brown & Co. publish
Henry T. Finck's "Richard Strauss:
The Man and His Works." Florence
Twins IN Santa Claus's House;
Blaisde and Balls American History
for Little Folks; Zoe Meyers's Under
: the Blue Sky" a nature book for
Young children. and Thomas Wood
Parry's when Daddy Was Boy a
collection Of negro and other folklore
tales. Moffat. Yard & Co. send three
juveniles Tuck Me-In Stories BY
Enos B. Comstock. animal stories for
bedtime; "All Aboard for Wonder
land" by Helen Ovington Kingsbury'
a volume Of magical adventures, with
gorgeous colored plates, and Holiday
PLAYS for Home, School and Settle.
ment." By Virginia Olcott. volume OF
practical entertainments.
The Lothrop. Lee & Shepard Com
many issues in beautiful form Helen
!. Sanborn's history of Anne Of
brittany" G.. P. Putnam's Sons pub
hsh DR.. T. VI. Prudden's story OF the
BACTERIA" third edition.; William II.
Scheifey's "Brieux and Contemporary
French Society" and The Supernat-
ural in Modern English Fiction by
Dorothy Scarborough. From charles
Scribner's Sons come Brander Mat
,hews's photographed These Many
Years" and Henry Fairfield Osborn s
monumental volume on The origin
and Evolution of Life &. Arnold
shaw publishes in artistic fashion
Iohn Cowper Powys's poignant and
haunting "Mandragora Poems W. j.
Watt & Co. publish F. A. Runners
The Painted Woman romance OF
carly Colonial days. The Va le Uni
yersity Press issues Edward Bliss
Reeds "Sea Moods" a thin volume OF
verse that is not free" but is really
poetical.