New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-24
Brief Notices
Some Recent Publications and
New Editions

Dumb Bell of Brookfeld.' by John
Taintor Foote (Appletons), is series
Of dog stories. full of canine nature,
and of human nature. too. The latter
may be little overdrawn. Men and
women do not as a rule take even
prize dogs quite so seriously. But
there is nothing mawkish in il, and
there is much fine humor.
"Surnames, by Professor Ernest
Weekley (Dutton). is compendious
treatise on the origin. geography and
what not Of English surnames. The
comprehensiveness Of the work makes
us gasp with wonder. and with admira-
ton at the painstaking research needed
in its preparation. II is so packed
with facts, however, about almost
every conceivable name. that it is dry
reading, ard will be Of most service as
work OF reference, for which use it
is adapted through the addition of an
index.
"The Diplomat by Guy Fleming
(Longmans. Green & Coz. is, on the
whole, the best work of fiction that
author has yet produced. II is tale
Of English society. club life and off
cial life, with less exaggeraton than
most writers are likely to employ, and
with a sufficient amount Of action and
of mystery to hold the attention from
first to last.
"The Princess OF Let's Pretend" by
Dorothy Donnel Calhoun (Dutton), is
collection OF fairy tales I'D to date
and adapted to modern life. with illus
trations from moving picture films. the
latter being somewhat more relevant to
the text than are most of those spe-
cially drawn by artists
"The Road to Castaly," by Alice
Brown (Mscmillsns), is a collection of
poems, lyrical and dramatic, in a great
variety Of metres and on a great va
riety of subjects; instinct with true
poetic spirit.
Simple Directions for the Child's
Nurse and simple Directions for the
Butler" both by Caroline Reed Wad-
hams (Longmans. Green e. Co.., are
two volumes of n series of six particu-
larly lucid and practical little hand
books, filed with useful information
on all matters concerning those TO
whom they are addressed.
THE Boys Book of Canoeing and
Sailing by Warren II. Miller (the
George n. Doran Company, is a prac-
teal handbook on the construction and
management of all the kinds of crafts
in which boys are interested, so COM
plete as to be encyclopedia, and pro-
fusely illustrated with plans and pict-
ures Of the most useful character.
"The Son of Tarzan," by Edgar Rice
Burroughs (McClurg), is another and
by no means the least fascinating OF
the popular ape-man series. full of red
blooded adventure and romance, tragic
and tender by turns, and always grip
ping to the imagination.
"The Plattsburg Manual" by Lieu
tenants o. o. Ellis and +. B. Carey.
L. s. A. (the Century Company. is a
perspicuous and comprehensive manual
for Federal training camps. the con-
tents of which ought to become as
familiar TO every ablebodied American
citizen as those Of the spelling book
or arithmetic. The only regret is that
il is printed in a style more fitting for
the library than for the pocket OF the
rookie
Some Legal Phases of Corporate
Financing. Reorganization and Regula-
ton (Macmillans), is pretty we'll de-
scribed BY its title. and when we add
that il is by Francis Lynde Stetson,
James Byrne, Paul D. Crsvath. George
". Wickersham, Gilbert H. Montague,
George S. Coleman and William D.
Guthrie its authenticity and authority
are amply disclosed.
THE Pacific Ocean in History"
edited by II. Morse Stephens and Her
bert E. Bolton (Macmillans), is a
sumptuous octave, containing the pa
pers and addresses which were pre-
scented and delivered at the Panama
Pacific Historical Congress. forming
valuable encyclopedia of historic, de-
scriptive. chronological and other mat
ter about the ocean of the Future"
as Seward called it, and the peoples
who dwell about its shores. Most OF
these are by eminent authorities, max
ing the work of exceptional value.
Joseph Pencils Pictures Of War
in England" (Lippincott is provided
with a preface by II. G. Wells. and
presents in its numerous plates series
of impressive views of the cyclopean
workshops in which the British Vulcan
is srming the British land also the
Allied Mars.
MANS Unconscious Conflict" by
Wilfrid Lay. Phi. D. (Dodd. Mead &
CO... is a popular application Of the
theories of Freud and Jung 10 educa-
ton, to therapy, and, indeed, 10 every
day living.
Doubleday, Page & Co. have just
printed the collected poems Of James
Elroy Flicker, who was one Of the
most interested spectators OF the war
in the Near East.
The Yale University Press publishes
J. Edward Meeker's Life and Poetry
OF James Thomson best known as the
author Of 1.-THE City Of Dreadful
Night" It has just sent out the
fourth edition OF Charles Seymour's
Diplomatic Background Of the War"
"Military Sketching and Nap Read
ing" is an instructive handbook just
published by the United States In
fantry Association.
The Macmillan Company sends US
Tho Human Drift" collection OF half
. dozen Of the late Jack Londons minor
sketches, full of his characteristic
spirit