New-York tribune., 1918-04-20
The World of Books
Past and Present Doings and
Things to Come

Henry Holt e. Co. will publish on
April % the "Reminiscences" of
Raphael Pumrelly, the veteran geo!o-
glst and traveller, who at the age of
elghty-one looks back upon an un-
usually picturesque and adventurous
career.
:, Joseph Anthony, whose novel Gre
kindled Fires" has just been pub
i;shed BY Henry Holt & Co., is the
youngest author on their list, having
celebrated his twenty-frst birthday
only week before the publication of
his book.
G. P. Putnam's Sons announce for
the late spring publication "The
Shifting of the Rock" by Palmer Bend,
story of the West of today, of mod,
ern pioneering in little settled part
OF Oregon: Danny the Detective,'' by
Vera c. Barclay, book of adventures
and detective work; "A Girl Alone" by
Howell Evans, book full of the vim Of
life; and "Greatheart," by Ethel M
Dell, novel whose atmosphere is
tense with emotion.
The Century Company will soon pub
lish Russia In Upheaval," by Edward
Alsworth Ross, who says that he
travelled 10000 miles in Russia during
the year of the revolution without see
ing blow struck. The Century Com
pany also announces a twenty second
printing of "Hero Tales From American
History" by Colonel Roosevelt and
Senator Lodge.
Donald Thompson, the author of
donald Thompson in Russia" has
been on every fighting front in Europe
since the war started; he has been in
the midst Of thirty or forty battles,
and has been wounded several times
and been arrested many times. He has
made and sent back to the United
States 1l5.O00 feet of moving pictures,
working his camera with bodies falling
around hiN and often upsetting it.
Baroness Vera de Ropp. formerly of
Russia and now of Los Angeles, Cal,
has announced her engagement to Eric
Fisher Wood, author Of the two war
books "The Note Book of an Intelli-
gence Officer" and "The Note Book
of an Attache."
Mary Rinehart's best seller, "K,"
has been adapted and produced for the
motion pictures under the title of "The
Doctor and the Woman"
Cover Here" by Ethel Kelley. pub
lished by the Bobbs- Merrill Co., is the
story of an American war bride, and
it gives a different and delicate sig
nificance to that honorable title.
"Cuneiform Tablets" published by
the Yale University Press, contains
illustrations of number of records on
baked clay with inscriptions that would
lead one to believe that the Temple of
Telloh, where they were found, was an
adjunct of title guarantee and safe
deposit company. Among the docu-
f0
an allotment of land, an inventory of
ships and the establishment of a food
Office.
War Cache" published by D. Appleton
& Co., offered himself to the Royal
Flying Corps, to which he now be-
longs. When the recruiting sergeant
asked him his occupation his answer
was, "Author." "Hawker, his hit?" re-
piled the sergeant as he continued to
write without looking up. SO Mr.. New
ton was put on the list as hawker
turned private for his majesty's SER
vices for the duration of the war
Clarence Burlington Kelland, whose
latest novel, "The Source" was pub
lished a few weeks ago by Harper g.
Brothers, has given up all writing for
the present and will sail imme mediately
1OE rance, uuUCE OEUcTS, 10 OlrcCL
some of the large publicity endeavors
of the Y. M. G.. A.
William Dean Howells has just re-
turned from Florida and Georgia,
where he has been spending his winter
vacation, visiting chiefly Miami and
Savannah.
Burton f. Stevenson. compiler of the
"Home Book of Verse;" and author of
"The Marathon Mystery" sailed recent
ly for France to take charge of the field
work Of the Library War Service.
Christopher Morley's "Shandygaff, !"
published by Doubleday, Page & Co.,
and announced for publication in
March, will appear on April 20, with
the subtitle "The By-Product of a
Happy Youth" "The book deals with
brown eyes, tobacco, books, hay fever,