The sun., 1918-07-21

Samuel Delano, whose book on Exercise
and Set-Up they have published, is the
man who first wore q mask behind the
bat.
E. P. Dutton & Co. are preparing to
bring out an American uniform edition
Of the complete works of Leonard Mer-
rick. 1t will include at present more
than a dozen volumes, and to it will be
added from time to time whatever new
works Mr.. Merrick may produce. The
novels that have been already published
will all be printed from new plates. Each
volume will have a. introduction by some
well known author, American or English.
Among those who will contribute intro
auctions are William Dean Howells, Sir
James Barrie, Sir Arthur Pinero, w. j.
Locke and Sir William Robertson Nicon.
The first volume of this new edition to
appear will be IVhen Paris Laughed 1t
is a collection Of tales dealing with the
life of Partisan bohemians.
Kdrma, a drama of reincarnation, by
Algernon Blackwood and Violet Pearn,
which E. P. Dutton o.. are publishing,
is in three acts, prologue and an cpl
logue. The central idea is that a woman,
through three incarnations and on into
the fourth, by her great but selfish love
has injured the mission of her husband.
The prologue takes place in modern Eng
land. where the wife, because Of her
dread of life in Egypt, where her hus-
band is a British agent, interferes with
his career and be gives it up for her sake.
Then she sees, in three acts which take
place before her, the three incarnations in
which they have previously lived and
loved and in which she has each time in
jured him in some way. One had been in
Egypt in the time of the Pharaohs, one
in Greece three hundred years before
Christ and another in Italy in the fif-
teenth century. In the epilogue under
standing comes to her and she and her
husband are reunited.
John J. Newbegin of San Francisco is
publishing How to 0utthink Your Op-
ponent; or, INT for Close Infghting, by
AL Williams of the Olympic Club, San
Francisco The INT stands for Thor
oughly Nem Tactics.
Those possessing impracticable farm
tractors will do well to buy The Coopera-
tine Tractor Catalogue, published by the
Implement and Tractor Trade Joxrnol,
which tells how to cure balkiness, spawn,
ringbone and whooping cough at every
age in the life Of Ford.
"a Woman Of No Importance has
written another book, to be called ~Fsr-
ther Indiscresions, which E. P. Dutton b
Co. will publish. Her first volume of
recollections, anecdotes and character
sketches of men and women in English
political, intellectual and social circles
was published last year under the title
Memories Discreet and Indiscreet. In the
forthcoming work she tells many anec-
dotes Of Mrs. Langtry, King Edward
VII, Queen Alexandra, Queen Victoria,
Joseph Chamberlain, Kaiser Wilhelm,
Henry Labouchere, the Duke of Con-
naught and other famous people.
The second edition of Professor Lati-
mer,s Progress bears Simeon Strunsky's
name on the title page.
Henry Holt & Co. will publish in Octo-
Der The Gun Book for Boys and Men, by
Thomas Heron Mckee.
The Good Solder is the title of new
collection of soldiers letters. The editor,
N. P. Dawson,,ha supplied an introduc-
ton and prefaees each letter with an
explanatory note.
"Here are boys" Mrs. Dawson writes.
"an sorts of boys: French, English, Ital