New-York tribune., 1918-07-27
With Pen and Press
What the Authors and Publish
ers Are Doing

Lillian Whiting has completed for
Little, Brown 4 Co., to publish this
fall, THE Golden Road" which She
says, lis not travel, nor biography, nor
crltlcSm, nor autobiography, but a
blend of all" Miss Writings first
beck tool was "The World Beautiful" in
1874, and her twenty sixth was "The
Adventure Beautiful" in 1917.
following books for publication during
August: "The Stakes of the War" by
I. Lothrop Stoddard and Glenn Frank,
a summary of the facts involved in the
problems of race and territory that
will come up for settlement at the
close of the war; "The Flame That is
France" translated from the French
Of Henry Malherbe, the book which
won the Concourt prize in Paris for
1917, awarded the previous year to
Under Fire." "The Golden Bird" a
romance by Marie Thompson Dayies,
and "Miss Ingalls," new love story by
Gertrude Hall.
Edna Ferber's "Cheerful-By Re
quest" will come from the press of
Doubleday, Page & Co., on or about
September 13, making thirteen a lucky
number for the appreciative reader
E. P. Dutton & Co. will publish next
month an English translation of V.
Blanco Ibanez's powerful war romance,
The Four Horsemen of the Apo
calypso" The reference of the title is
to the four horsemen who precede the
Gieat Beast in the Revelation-war,
famine, pestilence and death.
Louisa M. Alcott's classic, Little
Women" is being put into the
"movies."
"The Third Estate" by Marjorie
Bowen, is romance of the French
Revolution, which E. P. Dutton g. Co.
will publish in August.
Owen Johnson's "Virtuous Wives
will be published by Little, Brown e.
Co. fortnight hence.
Jacques Mortane, heads the fall list
of Moffat, Yard & Co.; graphic record
of the great French aviator.
Booth Harrington, is one of the at
tractive fall announcements of Double
day, Page & Co. 1t will come out
late in October.
Miss Mink's Soldier" by Alice
Hogan Rice, which the Century Com
pany will publish in the fall, is a col
lection of eight short stories, in the
characteristic style of the creator of
"Mrs. Wigs"
Arnold Bennett writes to his Amer
lean publisher, George H. Doran, con-
cerning The Pretty Lady" and the
London criticism of it, as follows:
"Some of the good reviews have said
that it is decadent and cynical, and
that it gives an entirely ruthless pict-
ure of heartless people in London.
This is not so. and particularly want
you to note that the war has a good
effect on the three principal characters.
namely, Christine, Conception and G..
j., all of whom do what they can. The
book is emphatically not cynical. Nor
does it portray heartless people, and
I should like this to be insisted upon"
Louis " Ledoux's "The Poetry of
George Edward Woodberry." published
by Dodd, Mead & Co., is partly bog-
raphy but chiefly a critical study Of
Woodberry's works and his influences.
both subjective and objective; an in
teresting appreciation OF poet by poet.
Ernest j. P Benn's "The Trade of
Tomorrow" which L. P. Dutton & Co.
published this week, may we'll prove as
interesting and suggestive 70 American
as to English readers. All who are
concerned with the methods by which
the industrial side of the world will
be reconstructed after the war will find
it we'll worth study. His plea is for
the organization of the trades in such
a way that the three parties in inter
est, the state, the workman and the
capitalist, may be able to develop har-
moniously the industries of the couu-
try to- their fullest extent.