New-York tribune., 1919-03-01
With Pen and Press
Current Activities of Authors
and Publishers

=. IN me Economic Basis Of the League
OF Nations" by J. l.. Garvin. of "The
London Observer" will presently be
published by the Macmillan COMPANY.
heconstruction and National Life" by
Cecil F. Lavelle, will issue from the
same press. On March 4 that house
w" WI publish Bishop F. J. McConnell's
,,Democratic Christianity" and on
HLarch 91Ia II George Eliot Tlints "The
Whole Truth About Alcohol" and
Charles G. D. Roberts's "Jim, the story
of a Backwoods Police Dog
Thomas Huxley's son, Leonard Hux-
ley, mas written an intimate and ap-
sorbng biography of his fathers close
friend and contemporary. Sir Joseph
Dalton Hooker. 1t is Being brought
out by the Appletons and is ENTITLED
The Life and Letters Of Sir joseph
Hooker"
The Century Company will publish
this month "Thc American" new
novel by Mrs. Mary Dillon.
Nicholas L. Brown, who las removed
from Philadelphia to Nav York, an
nonces for early publication "The Lw
ing Corpse" (produced as "Redemr-
tion") by Leo N. Tolsto, translated
from the Russian by Anna Monosso-
witch Evarts; Last and First" two
unpublished essays by John Adding
ton Symonds; "Pat Grove, Aviator"
a series of war letters, edited py
William B. Chase; "Ironica," a volume
Of new poems by Donald Evans, and
"Numbers," five one-act plays by
Grover Theis
Brewer Corcoran, author of "The
Boy Scouts Of Kcndallville," "Thc
Road to lie Revc," etc, has returned
10 IL in, Il
setts, after many months of war serv-
ice, and will start at onte on q new
boy scout book which will be- published
by the Page Company.
Harper and Brothers are puhl;shing
"The Private Wire to Washington"
by Harold McGrath, and "The High
flyers" by Clarence Burlington Kell-
and.
Charles Scribncr's Sons announce
for March 7 four books os much IN
terest; ''The Valley of Vision" book
of stories by Henry van Dyke; ;"My
Husband" biography of Vernon
Castle, by Irene Castle; "The Land
and the Returning Soldier" by Fred
eric C. Howe; and "Songs ard Poems,"
by John Jay Chapman.
Lieutenant Coningsby pewson, au-
thor of "Living Bayonets," has gone
DaCK TO tno western lTOnC t) study re-
construction problems.
Isaac L. Marcosson's as. O. S.
Americas Miracle in Francc,' will be
published by the John Lanc Company
this month.
Mrs. G. N. Williamson upon the heels
Of her last travel novel, "Everyman's
Land" has arrived in this country to
gather material for novel, the scene
of which is to be laid in America, and
to arrange publication date, ctc., with
Doubleday, Page & Co., her American
publishers. Her husband and collab-
orator could not accompany her, as he
Is operating from a severe illness
in q sanatorium in England. The Will
iamsons, Of whose earlier books "Thc
Lightning Conductor" and Only Friend
the Chauffeur" are perhaps best known
In this country, make their home in
France
A book that is likely to arouse as
much interest as did Sir Oliver Lodges
account OF the communications he be.
licved he had received from his son
Raymond after the latter had been
nounced FOR immediate publication by
Z. p Dutton g. Co. II contains spirit
communications purporting to come
from Frederic ". II. Myers, with an
account of how they were received and
q discussion Of their significance by II.
A. Dallas. The volume has an intro
ductior by Sir William F. Barrett and
is entitled "Death, the Gate of Life 2"
Henry Holt & Co. have just arranged
for a Danish translation of Margaret
Widdemer's you're Only Young Once"
The Charles f. Merrill Company has
just issued an admirable students edi-
tion Of Scott's "Marmion."
E. 2. Dutton & Co. have ready for
immediate issue Marjorie Bowcn's new
story of the days of Peter the Great of
Russia and his struggle with Charles
XII Of Sweden.
Sir W. Robertson Nicoll, the distin-
guished critic and editor Of "The Brit
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