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iUB?fflERS?LL lOTNCEMENTS
BOOKS OF THE SEASON
READY AND TO COME
General Aspects of the Autumn's Activities
_Continued Predominante o? War
Books Shifting Interests.
ACCORDING to the official or?
gan of the American book
t:?de. "i I I . her*/Week
ly." there is a rir. rcaao o? twenty nve
I the number of new books
announced for I .
so. the mass of new literature to be
offered us during the autumn and
early winter is suffu'cntly in
It is ra'l.cr a v.-ell-b lamed
although the war overshadows
all other topics as it did last year.
- ? s Indirect on
?nee of the great struggle may
I ? lTi the - r;
nouncements time and again.
as ; n I y. In the
tendency it has imparted to the
nao? book? on purely American
I tv Pleaa for military and na
rcparcdness. studies of Ameri
i an diplomacy, reconsiderations of
onroe Doctrine in tiie light of
an uncertain future, treatises on in- ;
ta ! the rights of
.Is as they affect and concern
us, te. hail al ororka on military train?
ing, modern weapon! of offence ar.d
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with the sunhe? i f politj
economic an'l m J Ameri
affairs that continue tu be pul
vast numbft I terari
it maybe a dded here I - !
T/ortatit idditiona I ;irr.n; ?
Peminiatn af tears to have
from the book sta^e to thai I I I
Inf.
AMERICA PU
Elsewhere, too, thi
America First is seen
announcements. Conditions in E
rope have given the "seeing Amen
firt-t" idra a welcome boost- Ap?
from the books on the Panama-F
dfk exhibition in numbers comme
surate with its importance and su
passing artistic 6Uccess, the fir
place among the books of travel
and among them some of the hani
fcomest holiday books?is given
this country. There are a few torn?
of travel in Italy; advantage h.
been taken of the nation-wide sei
timental interest in Belgium as
was before the wir; but the flood <
trifing trippers.' literature going ovi
the b?ten European paths again ar
aeain with futile and immature ci
thr.siasms h,->s beer; complete!
stopped. It forms a part of tr
eh -:nkage of the volume- of boc
production this fall that will nev<
be missed. New England has bee
explored instead by our profession;
travel writers, occasionally with a
unconsciously humorous amazemer
at the discovery of so much lovel
ness of Nature and historical intei
est here at homo; the road to Sa
Francisco?the whole gre^t West
lias once more come into its own i
the wake of the enthusiastic outbur;
of boo!:3 on California that marke
the fall season last year.
THE WAR.
The war, indeed, is the Kin
Charles's head of our authors, It i
dragged in by the ears by our novel
fata. It even enters our kitchens in th
shape of a Belgian cook book. It is th
preoccupation of our philosophers
sociologists ?.nd clergymen; it ha;
given new impetus to the peace prop
apanda; and, worth noting, it ha;
occupied the pens of 6ome of oui
foremost women writers, Mrs. Whar
ton in the lead in this country and
May Sinclair fa England.
Least profit.hie, but most enter?
taining, in this held is the continued
quest for the ultimate culprit, the
initial cause of the whole ruinous
failure of civilization. The German
culprit, of course, for as yet we are
not in the mood to ?.pportion the
guUt, among the different comba?
tants. We have shifted from
P.ernhardi to Nietzsche, from him to
Treitechke, ti .. to Fred?
erick the Great, and now we have
reached Kant: "The Categorical Im?
1 c: tive, voila l'enenu,*' to para?
phrase Gambetta. Curiously enough
the German author of "I Acc^e"
confesses himself in that sensational
book an ardent believer in the
Kantian idea of world peace, so we
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Russia in a little volume just pub?
lished.
The extension of the war to the
B .kans has found one publisher pre?
pared with a book on Rumania; and
another. looking perhaps still
further into the future, with one
on Finland. Meanwhile a beginning
has been made of elaborate his?
tories 4jf the war, with a monumental
"The Great War," in many projected
volumes, by Professor George H,
Allen, o( the LJnivcrsity of Pennsyl
..,;..a, and Captain Henry C. White
head, U. S. A. Fr;.nk H. Simonds'g
book on "The Second Phase," pub?
lished some months :go, is, like its
predecessor from his pen, "The First
Phase," too well known to need
: comment here; and the same may bt
said of Hilairc Belloc's first vol?
ume, which is more technical in
tone and purpose. Diplomatic his?
tories of the struggle arc increasing
in numbers.
THE DRAMA.
The drama appears to become
daily more a matter of the closet,
leaa of the stage. Many writers are
crying drama, drama when there is
no drama on our stage, in studies of
what seems to be a vanishing art,
notwithstanding many societies val?
iantly battling for its true interests.
The best of Europe's dramatists ?9 at
our service in translation, and a
whole literature of unacted plays i?
?] ringing up, perhaps for the appre?
ciation of a later generation of thea?
tregoers. While reading these plays
one is tempted to suggest to our
manage! s that they might experi?
ment with our publishers' readers as
plgy readers, the dramas they select
are nearly invariably so eminently
worth our while. But there's the
commercial questiun. and the man?
agers cannot live by successes of
esteem.
That t! e war has crept into the
drama need not be demonstrated. It
may be worth observing, however,
that imaginative literature, drama,
poetry, fiction has thus far lament?
ably failed to ri^e to this great op?
portunity. Whether it be James D.
Barri? or Stephen Phillips or An?
dreyev, their inventions fall far short
of the grim narratives of correspond?
ents like K. Alexander Powell, or of
the physicians and nurses who have
witnetaod H al!. And what novelist
or short story writer could rival the
briakntfM of "The Notebook of an
Attach?"?
To return to the drama, however.
That Ishmael of dramatic criticism,
Ge rg? Jean Nathan, gives a touch
worthy of Max to the title of his
forthcoming volume, "Another Book
on the Theatre." An edition, in four '
volumes, of the late Clyde Fitch's
plays deserves special mention; so
does a collection of no less than
sixty "Masterpieces of Modern
Drama." American, English and
foreign. Brieux is to be represented
by three more plays of his, including
"The Red Robe," the most dramatic
technically of them all; histories of
the ballet and the harlequinade are
announced: and?the shadow on the
wall!?we are to have still m >re
handbook? on photoplay writing.
BIOGRAPHY, MEMOIRS.
The list in this department of
literature is rather brief this sea
distinguished members of the sex, it
should be mentioned that still
another biographical sketch of Sarah
Bernhard' has appeared. The Infanta
Eulalia of Spain chats of the courts
of Ei:r c in her usual unconven?
tional vein in "Court Life from
Within."
Some years ago Tennyson liter?
ature came to a sudden stop when
on the ver:;e of bi.ng overdone by
members of the poet's family. The
late Professor Lounsbury's "Life and
Times of Tennyson," however, fin?
ished shortly before his death, is
ba^ed upon much new material. A
American Literature Since 1870." by
Fred Lewis Patter. With these may
be mentioned "The Making of an
American's Library," by the librarian
of the St. Louts Public Library. The
first two volumes of a literary "How
to Know" series are "Browning:
How to Know Him," and "Carlyle:
How to Know Him," the one by
Pr< ftssor William Lyon? Phelps, the
other by Professor Blisr, Perry. There
is al undsneo nowadays of condensed
critical studies. Shaw has led through
al! the ytar; the opening volumes of
the "Wtiters of the Day" series?on
Anatole Francs, H. G. WsUl and
; A.no'd Bennett?by their subjects'
fellow craftsmen of the younger gen
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nouncementa of exceptional int?r?t
to Americans. First of all we an
to have immediately William Roscoi
Thayer's "Life of John Hay." ?
work that fills a long-felt want anc
is, in its diplomatic references, o
direct interest in the present crisit
of the world's affairs. George Haver
Putnam continues his autobiographic
reminUcences in the "Memories of t
Publisher," which, in his case, an
also the memories of a public-spir?
ited citizen ever at the service ol
the cause of process in civic and
national affairs. Then there are the
forthcoming reminiscences of Dr.
Lymun Abbott: we are to have a bi?
ography of the late Bishop Henry
Codman Potter; Henry Ford will
tell the story of his successful life,
and William Dean Howells promises
another of his autobiographical vol?
umes, "Years of My Youth."
Dr. Anna Howard Shaw's most
readable "Story of a Pioneer" hai
already bee:? reviewed in these col?
umns; the !;rst complete life of Clara
Barton is ready for publication.
"Fanny Crosby.'s Own Story" was
issued earlier in the season; and,
?ince this is a paragraph devoted to
Little Schoolmates Series
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ta: ?ng a number of his poems hith?
erto u translated, by Dr. Paul Carus,
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while ago. Those who have not read
it should not fail to possess them?
selves of the new edition of the late
Francis F. Browne's "Every! ,y Life
of Lin? -
Returning to Kinr; Charles's head,
brief biographie! of the King of the
Belgians, Joffre and Field Marshal
BTEWAR1 BOB ?RD WHITE
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French should be mentioned here.
They were published in the course
of the sumtr.tr. A serviceable re?
cent addition to the Wayfarers' Li?
brary is "The War Lords" a series
of twenty biographical studies by A.
G. ?Oardtner.
BELLES-LETTRES. FICTION.
A new volume of Paul Elmer
Mere's Shelburne Essays is always
one of t.ic events ot the season in
which it is published. "Aristocracy
and Ja-tice" is its title. Two books
that promise new rather than tra?
ditional viewpoints are "The Mod?
ern Study of Literature," by Richard
Green Moulton, and a "History of
eration, were reviewed here some
weeks ago.
Poetry has kept vigorously alive
through the summer. This autumn
shows a diminution in the quantity
ol the output. The quality remains
still to be seen. Here, ts in the
drama and fa fiction, the war is, of
.-curte, an oft-chosen subject, but
one too vast, it seems, to make the
attempted Mights lUfCgggfuL
To the war. again, must be ascribed
a sudden interest in Belgian liter?
ature, its history and its modern
leaders in prose and verse. And it
is via England that has come to us
the new attention pad to Russian
literature. We stopped short with
Tolstoy, Gorky limping after none
too successfully. Now we have an?
nouncements of many new transla?
tions of the older men. for which let
us be thankful, since the old trans?a
tions were so very bad: and, in ad
dition, promises of English versioni
of the works of the new generation
the decidedly disappointing Artzi
bashetf in the lead. One ne-.v pub
lisher, indeed, Alfred A. Knopf, ol
?his city, makes his d?but with i
list almost entirely made up of Rus?
sian titles, old and new.
The influence of the Russian
school upon the young Englishmen
has long been perceptible, not al
ways to the benefit of the traditions
of British fiction. In this country
we have had recently an example ot
this too faithful following of Russian
models in "God's Min" by George.
Bronson-Howard, who promises to
do much better when he shall have
freed himself from the influence. In
American fiction generally, as in the
new novels from England, there is a
wide choice of famous names signed
to capital work. The novel of fem?
inism, like its literary propaganda, is
less to the fore than in recent years.
There is a decided trend toward ro?
mance, and a curious groping after
Dickensian sent;ment, which too
often succeeds only in mechanically
reproducing Dickensian sentimental?
ity while missing the Dickensian
spirit. The novelization of plays has
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