New-York tribune., 1919-02-15
With Pen and Press
Current Activities of Authors
and Publishers

and Publishers
Mr.. George II. Doran has recently
returned from visit beyond the At
lantc.
Captain Alan Bott, author of "Cav-
airy Of the Clouds" is to lecture in
this country this spring
Robert NJ. Mcbride & Co. will pub
llsh' on February 26, "Okcwood of the
Secret Service" a romance of advent
ure, by Valentine Williams.
Charles Scribncrs Sons spring list
comprises "The Valley of Nison," by
Henry van Dyke; "Altruism," by
George Herbert Palmer; "Ihe Remak-
ing Of the World," by Henri de Man,
"A Life of Marshal Foch," by Captain
Raymond Recouly; "Aircraft," by Evan
John David, and "a Pilgrim in Pales-
tine by John Finley.
Mr.. Alfred Harcourt, Of Henry Holt
Co., has returned from an English
visit.
The splendid "Chronicles of Amer
ica;' in fifty volumes, published by the
Yale University Press, will be brought
out in England by the Oxford Unlyer-
sity Press. A malignant campaign is
beng waged against it by German
propagandists, Sim Fein and others to
whom the truth of history is distaste-
full.
Rand, McNally G. Co. announce
series OF volumes on peace and Pa
trlotlsm,' edited by Lyman F. Powell.
Dodd, Mead & Co. will presently pub
nsh kerensky's book, "a Prelude to
Dolshevlsm. Other spring publica-
tions Will be Miss Jeanne Judson's
"Beckoning Roads" Lee Meriwether's
"D!ary of Diplomat" and William ].
Neldlg's novel, The Fire Fingers"
Moffat, Yard & Co. will publish at
the end of this month "The Flailn
novel by Newton Fucssle, and "Remak-
ing a Man." by Courtenay Baylor of
the Emanuel Movement in Boston.
me Century Company announces for
publication soon "Peking Dust" a book
on China by Ellen n. La Motto.
The George H. Doran Company will
publish in March Man and the New
Dl,em1locracy,' by Professor William A.
Mcheever, of the University of Kansas.
Doubleday, Page g. Co. announce
"Chrstopher and Columbus" by the
author Of "Elizabeth and Her German
Garden"; "The Valley of Visjon.u hv
sarah Comstock; Ma Pettengill," by
Harry Lecn Wilson; "Nomads Of the
North,D by James Oliver Curwood;
u, ne Sole Cause of the War" bv Andre
,Cheradiame, q, and "Above the Battles"
py o Z, II. A. Andre, all for March 80.
ON -, March Is they will publish The
Riddle of the Purple Emperor" bv T
W. and M. E. Hanshew; "Volleys From
4, Non-Combatant," by William Roscoe
mayer; THE See-Saw." by Sonhie
Kerr; Full Speed Ahead" bv Henry
8. Beston: "From Sunjp to Sundown.
oy Cora Harris and Faith Leech. and
ne tmblems of Fidelity,' by James
Lane Allen. Later spring books, in
APRIL; VIII be "The Haunted Book
snop, by CHRISTOPHER Morey Birds
o. o. feather,' by Marcel Nadaud "The
Cricket,' by Marjorie Benton Cooke;
he Arrow Of Gold" by Joseph Con,
rad; 1.-The Builders" by, Ellen Glas-
gov; "Time Telling Through the Ages" ,"
by Montfort Robinson; "Mexico Under
Carranza,' by Thomas Gibbon. and
lhe Years Eetween," by Rudyard Kip
ling.
The Brtton Publishing Company has
eight new titles on its February list
and not a war book among them.
Edna Geister, author of "Tce- Break
ers," published by The Womans Press
has gone to Hawaii to teach proun
recreation, physical exercise and
/ games.
E. P. Dutton g. Co. announce for i'm
mediate publication "The Forgotten
Threshold" by Arthur Middleton. a
book Of spiritual mysticism.
Forthcoming works of the Century
Company are "Why Joan ?" by Eleanor
Mercein Kelly; "A Little Gray Home
in France" by Helen Davenport Glib
bons; "Diverging Roads," by Rose
Wilder Lane, and "Blue Grass and
Broadway by Maria Thompson Da-
viess.
Little, Brown & Co. will publish in
March "They Who Understand" by
Lillian Whiting; "An American Poilu"
and "Grcen Valley" by Katherine
Reynolds. In April they will put forth
Blind Alley by w. l.. George; "The
Thunder Bird" by B. M. Bower, and
against the Winds" by Kate Jordan
f. P. Dutton & Co. have long and
varied spring list, including "Old
Dad" by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott;
"kirgs at Arms" and "The Burning
Glass" by Marjorie Bowen; The
White Island by Michael Wood, and
"The Walk with God" volume of
hitherto unpublished writings by julia
Ward Howe
Mrs. j. Wilbur Chapman. widow of
the word-famed evangelist, has au-
thorzed DR.. Ford C. Ottman, of STAN
ford Conn., to write the official biog-
raphy Of her husband. DR.. Chapman
md DR.. Ottman were lifelong personal
friends. and closely affiliated in the