ing a fund for the relief of disabled soldiers and sailors, and sending 12,200 men to the front and now in this book he depicts graphically incidents that have come under his observation, showing both the war's tragic side and its lighter side. As might be expected, Mr. Lauder's book, though serious in purpose, is lightened by constant flashes of his kindly humor, giving it a flavor which, combined with the interest of the stories that ́he tells, makes it most entertaining reading. BOOKS RECEIVED: WHAT MEN LIVE BY, and Other Stories. By Leo THE HEART OF NAMI-SAN. A Story of War, In- PRINTING FOR PROFIT. By Charles Francis. 404 PP. Cloth. New York: The Charles Francis Press. 1917. WHY ITALY ENTERED INTO THE GREAT WAR (Perchè Chicago 673 pp. Italian ADVENTURES OF JAMES HUNEKER AS A LITERARY STEEPLE-JACK. With portrait. Current Opinion for December. FOURTEEN COMMANDMENTS ON How ΤΟ WRITE SCENARIOS. Robert E. MacAlarney. Current Opinion for December. DAVID MCKAY, 1860-1918. With portrait. Publishers' Weekly for November 30. RELATIONS OF PUBLISHER, AUTHOR, PRINTER. F. Horace Teall. Reprinted from the Inland Printer in the Publishers' Weekly for December 14. FLOYD GIBBONS. With portrait. Bellman for December 7. Randolph Edgar. for December 21. BIDE DUDLEY. December 21. With portrait. Fourth Estate for WALTER HINES PAGE. With photograph. Fourth Estate for December 28. NEWS AND NOTES. A life-size statue of James Whitcomb Riley, paid for by contributions from more than a million school children in America, Hawaii, and Japan, was unveiled November 26 at the poet's birthplace, Greenfield, Indiana. The gold medal of the American Institute of Arts and Letters has been awarded to William Roscoe Thayer for distinguished effort in the field of biography. This distinction has in previous years been given to Saint-Gaudens for sculpture, McKim for architecture, Sargent for painting, Rhodes for history, Howells and Henry James for fiction, and Burroughs for belles lettres. The Authors' League of America has removed its offices to 41 Union Square, West, New York. The first two volumes in the Modern American Writers series, published by Moffat, Yard, & Co., are "The Women Who Make Our Novels," by Grant M. Overton, treating of thirty-two American women writers, including Edith Wharton, Gertrude Atherton, Kathleen Norris, Gene Stratton Porter, Mary Johnston, Mary E. Wilkins, Edna Ferber, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Alice Brown, and Ellen Glasgow, and "Our Poets of Today," by Howard W. Cook, with sixty-eight sketches of biography and brief quotations from the works of American poets who are writing today, including Amy Lowell, Robert Frost, William Stanley Braithwaite, Katharine Lee Bates, and Edwin Markham. "George Meredith: A Study of His Works and Personality," by Dr. J. H. E. Crees, is published in this country by Longmans, Green, & Co. "Modern English Writers." by Harold Williams, discussing contemporary poets and novelists, is published by Sidgwick & Jackson, London. "Abraham Lincoln as a Man of Letters," by Luther Emerson Robinson (Reilly & Britton Company), is a biographical sketch emphasizing Lincoln's literary development. "Ibsen in Germany, 1870-1900," by Willian Henri Eller (Richard G. Badger ), is an historical study of Ibsen's life, work, and influence during his voluntary exile in Germany. "The Power of Dante," by Charles Hall Grandgent, is published by the Marshall Jones Company. "The Life of David Belasco," by William Winter, is published in two volumes by Moffat, Yard, & Co. "Titles," by Armiger, a pamphlet published by the Macmillan Company, is a guide to the right use of British titles. Mrs. Jean E. Burrill, wife of Professor Edgar Burrill, assistant to Professor Brander Matthews in the English department at Columbia University, has sued for an injunction to restrain William LeBaron and Thomas H. Uzzell from continuing the stage production of "The Very Idea," and also an accounting of profits from the play, alleged to amount to $500,000. Mrs. Burrill says that in 1916 she wrote a story, entitled "The Bargain," and submitted it to a weekly publication of which Le Baron and Uzzell were editors at the time. The manuscript was rejected. She says that the play was derived from her story; the defendants say that it was not. Rose Elizabeth Cleveland died at Lucca, Italy, recently, aged seventy-three. Bernard E. J. Capes died in England November 5. David McKay, publisher, died in Philadelphia November 23, aged fifty-nine. Edmond Rostand died in Paris December 2, aged fifty years. William Agnew Paton died in New York December 11, aged seventy years. Monroe H. Rosenfeld died in New York December 13, aged fifty-six. Napoleon A. Jennings died in New York December 15, aged sixty-two. Rev. Dr. Joseph Hopkins Twichell died at Hartford, Conn., December 20, aged eighty years. Walter Hines Pages died at Pinehurst, N. C., December 21, aged sixty-three. Randolph Bourne died in New York December 22, aged thirty-two. B. O. Flower died in Cambridge, Mass., December 24, aged fifty-nine. Mrs. Harriet Mann Miller ("Olive Thorne") died at Los Angeles December 25, aged eighty-seven. Rev. Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman died in New York, December 25, aged fifty-nine. Paul Marguerite died in Paris December 30, aged fifty-eight. The gold medal of the American Institute of Arts and Letters has been awarded to William Roscoe Thayer for distinguished effort in the field of biography. This distinction has in previous years been given 19 Saint-Gaudens for sculpture, McKim for architecture, Sargent for painting, Rhodes for history, Howells and Henry James for fiction, and Burroughs for belles lettres. The Authors' League of America has removed its offices to 41 Union Square, West, New York. The first two volumes in the Modern American Writers series, published by Moffat, Yard, & Co., are "The Women Who Make Our Novels," by Grant M. Overton, treating of thirty-two American women writers, including Edith Wharton, Gertrude Atherton, Kathleen Norris, Gene Stratton Porter, Mary Johnston, Mary E. Wilkins, Edna Ferber, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Alice Brown, and Ellen Glasgow, and "Our Poets of Today,” by Howard W. Cook, with sixty-eight sketches of biography and brief quotations from the works of American poets who are writing today, including Amy Lowell, Robert Frost, William Stanley Braithwaite, Katharine Lee Bates, and Edwin Markham. "George Meredith: A Study of His Works and Personality," by Dr. J. H. E. Crees, is published in this country by Longmans, Green, & Co. "Modern English Writers," by Harold Williams, discussing contemporary poets and novelists, is published by Sidgwick & Jackson, London. "Abraham Lincoln as a Man of Letters," by Luther Emerson Robinson (Reilly & Britton Company), is a biographical sketch emphasizing Lincoln's literary development. "Ibsen in Germany, 1870-1900," by Willian Henri Eller (Richard G. Badger ), is an historical study of Ibsen's life, work, and inflaence during his voluntary exile in Germany. "The Power of Dante," by Charles Hall Grandgent, is published by the Marshall Jones Company. "The Life of David Belasco," by William Winter, is published in two volumes Moffat, Yard, & Co. by "Titles," by Armiger, a pamphlet published by the Macmillan Company, is a guide to the right use of British titles. Mrs. Jean E. Burrill, wife of Professor. Edgar Burrill, assistant to Professor Brander Matthews in the English department at Columbia University, has sued for an injunction to restrain William LeBaron and Thomas H. Uzzell from continuing the stage production of "The Very Idea," and also an accounting of profits from the play, alleged tɔ amount to $500,000. Mrs. Burrill says that in 1916 she wrote a story, entitled "The Bargain," and submitted it to a weekly publication of which Le Baron and Uzzell were editors at the time. The manuscript was rejected. She says that the play was derived from her story; the defendants say that it was not. Rose Elizabeth Cleveland died at Lucca, Italy, recently, aged seventy-three. Bernard E. J. Capes died in England November 5. David McKay, publisher, died in Philadelphia November 23, aged fifty-nine. Edmond Rostand died in Paris December 2, aged fifty years. William Agnew Paton died in New York December 11, aged seventy years. Monroe H. Rosenfeld died in New York December 13, aged fifty-six. Napoleon A. Jennings died in New York December 15, aged sixty-two. Rev. Dr. Joseph Hopkins Twichell died at Hartford, Conn., December 20, aged eighty years. Walter Hines Pages died at Pinehurst, N. C., December 21, aged sixty-three. Randolph Bourne died in New York December 22, aged thirty-two. B. O. Flower died in Cambridge, Mass., December 24, aged fifty-nine. Mrs. Harriet Mann Miller ("Olive Thorne") died at Los Angeles December 25, aged eighty-seven. Rev. Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman died in New York, December 25, aged fifty-nine. Paul Marguerite died in Paris December 30, aged fifty-eight. |