New-York tribune., 1919-03-22
With Pen and Press
Current Activities of Authors
and Publishers


The Macmillan Company announces
for next week Ida Tarbell's first novel.
THE Rising of the Tide" and Martha
Bensiey Bruere's Mildred Carver, u.
s.. A. In the non-tiction will be DAN
lei f. Rhodes's Our I'm mortality"
Frank N. Doubleday, of Doubleday.
rage d Co., has just returned from
a three months trip tC Europe, dur
ing which he visited England, France
and the occupied portions of Germany.
The John Lane Company has had to
postpone until early in April publica-
ton Of Stephen Leacock's "The Ho-
aenzollerns in America" and Arthur
). Recess detective novel. 'The Shrek
ing Pit" An English translation of
Danlel Halvey's President Wilson"
"lll appear at about the same time.
Robert NJ. Mcbride & Co. announce
the following books for early publica-
ton: Tales of Secret Egypt" bv
DR.. Flu Manchu"; THE Second Bullet
bv Robert Orr Chipperfield; personal
EI;hlclency in Business by Edward
Earle Puriton. author of Efficient
LIVING and "The Triumph of the Man
Who Acts"
Walt Whitman died March &c, 1897,
and on March 26, this year, "The New
Era in American Poetry" Louis Inter
mayors summary of the leading
movements" and figures since Whit.
man. will be published by Henry Holt
co. May 81, this year, is the cente-
nary of Whitman's birth. This book
Is an attempt to estimate how Amer
can poets SO far have answered Whit
mans challenges:
''Poets to Come!
Not. to-day is to justify and answer
But you-a new broad, native, athletic,
continental. greater than known
before
Arouse! you must justify nc.
Il myself write but one or two indica-
tive words for the future
Expecting the main things from YOU"
The Century Company announces for
early publication Democracy and the
Eastern Question:" by Thomas f. Mil
lard. an American who has lived a
number of years il the Far East. and
who is editor of Shanghai periodical
Mr.. Millard is nov in New York on Il
visit.
Harper & Brothers announce "The
"He Made His Wife H Partner" BY
Henry Irving Dodge, an "Busy; the
Life of an Ant" By Walter T. Nc
Caleb.
Tumble Fold" by Joseph Whitaker,
is novel dealing with labor condi-
tions in England and the prevalent
unrest among the industrial popula-
ton which E. P. Dutton G. Co. will
publish early in April.
John w. Luce Co. announce the
publication in April of Luna Bena-
NOR" novel, by Ibanez. the author of
the -Four Horsemen of the Apoca-
lypse." lbanez included in this work
SIX of his Valentian Tales.
Doubleday, Page e. Co. will publish
next week "The American Greed and
Its Meaning" by Matthew Page An
drews, and three novels: "The Valley
of Vision" by Sarah Comstock; "No-
mads of the North" by James Oliver
Curwood, and "Ma Pettengill,' by
Harry Leon Wilson.
Charles Scribners Sons announce
for next week Frederic C. Howe's "The
Land and the Soldier" Jackson Greg
ory's Western story of Judith of Blue
Lake Ranch" and Dr. Arthur Judson
Browns The Mastery of the Far
East"
+. ?. Dutton e. Co. announce that
they have received from the Spanish
novelist, Vicente Blasco Ibanez, au-
thor Of "The Four Horsemen of the
Apocalypse" the sole authority to pub
lish his works in English and that
they will issue the only authorized edi-
tons of all his books, except "The
Cabin" and "Sonnica." They will have
ready in few weeks an American edi-
ton. with an introduction by Isaac
Goldberg, of Ibanez's famous novel of
the bull ring, "Blood and Sand" which
many critics think is his greatest work.
They will have Ibanezs latest novel,
Mare Nostrum," dealing with Spain
during the war, ready next summer
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