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Show LITERARY NOTES. Mr. William Michael RossHti has at length brought together all of his famous sister's poetry, nnd tho result Is the volume vol-ume Just published by the Macmlllan company, entitled "The Poetical Works ot Christina, .Georglna -Rosscttl." For. what; may be called tho definitive edition of ! Christina Rosseltl's poems, her brothnr has supplied nn adequate memoir and an extensive body of notes. Mr. Arthur Henry's forthcoming story of a return to Nature and an original homu-bulldlng in the mountains, entitled "Tho Houso In tho Woods." will bear the imprint of A, S. Barnes & Co. Clarenco D. Browr.iil, tho author of "Tho Heart of Japan" (.McCluro-Phllllps, Now York), won Jimong the first of tho London newspaper men to bo sent as a correspondent for the cxpocted war in China "between Russia and Japan. DIs-patchcK DIs-patchcK announco his nrrlval at TIcn-Taln on January Uth. Mr, Brownell 1h equipped for his task by a knowiedgo of tho Japanese Jap-anese and their language, such a3 few foreigners havo ever obtained. Ho spent moro than fivo years In Japan living right with tho people. Mr. Brownell knows thoroughly tho Japanese mind and ho says that loyalty and devotion to a principle is a strong clement In Japanese nature. Men and women aro ready to sacrifice anything if a prlnclplo which thoy think just Is Involved, an observation which throws a good deal of light upon tho Japanese nttitudo in tho recent diplomatic diplo-matic negotiations. Mr. Brownell's engagement en-gagement ns correspondent was mado very suddonly. Ho was sent for ono night and asked to start the next day, which ho did. The Century company publishes Helen R. Martin's "Tllllc: A Mennonlto Mnld" In unusually tempting form. The cover of groen cloth has a charming medallion head in tint of Tilllo. framed in a conventionalized conven-tionalized scroll design; and the numerous numer-ous full-pngo Illustrations, by Florence Scovel Slilnn, arc printed in brown tones on doop-cream paper, tho tinted Insets helping to make an exceedingly attractive book. Tho story deals with life among tho Pennsylvania Dutclu An unusually interesting biographical writing is tho llfo studj of Samuel Chapman Chap-man Armstrong, which Doubleday, Pago & Co. publish ns one of tho first Important Import-ant books of 1301. Tho storv of his boyhood boy-hood and youth In Hawaii gives an interesting inter-esting picture of tho islands In tho first half of the century. Ho was a General In the Union army at the age ot 23. His connection with tho Freedmen's Bureau, the founding of Hampton institute, which trained Booker T. Washington and started tho whole modern movement for manual training, and his later work for the Indians, In-dians, are all thrilling chapters In the life of this romarkablo maT about whom biographies biog-raphies have never been written becauso of his own aversion to anything published about himself. Ono of tho Century company's spring offerings Is a new edition of Capt. Robert H. Fletcher's "Marjorlc and Her Papa" in attractive dress, with all of Birch's original origi-nal pictures. Tho protty talo of how Marjorlc Mar-jorlc and her papa wrote a story and made tho pictures for It has always been a favorite, and its handsome new .form should delight old friends and new. An Australian edition of Alfred Henry Lewis's successful novol, "Tho Boss," has been arranged for with A. S. Barnes & Co.. and tho book is to be issued In tho Antipodes Immediately. The Interest nrouseu oy tho story In this country Is said to bo exceptionally widespread and constant. McCIure-Phllllps (New York) have just completed arrangements for bringing out what will probablj bo the most complete library of tho world's literature over published. pub-lished. Tho plans Include over 1000 volumes vol-umes and tho titles will cover not only tho English nnd American classics but all tho vital literature of tho world both ancient and modern. The idea of this immense im-mense onterprlso has been maturing for ovor three years, but the project has not until recently taken definite shape, for lack of a suitable editor. Tho resignation resigna-tion of Gcorgo Edward Woodberry from his position ns professor of comparative lltorature of Columbia university has left him free to tnko editorial direction of this important venture. The scries has been called provisionally "McCluro's Universal Llbrarj'." Its purpose Is to put Into tho hands oC readers reprints of tho world's best literature that shall be Inexpensive and yot beautiful. The books will be simple, sim-ple, dignified and in every point of manufacture manu-facture excellent. The text will bo printed print-ed In nil coses complete with only such notes as aits necessary to explain really obscure points nhd passages. Every vol-umo vol-umo will contain a brief critical and biographical bio-graphical introduction. Prof. Paul II. Hnnus of Harvard is the author of the volume of essays on "A Modern School." which the Macmlllan company will publish this week. Tho book endeavors to set forth the scope and aims of a modern school, more particularly particu-larly of a secondary school, and the conditions con-ditions essential to Its highest efficiency. The author Is a leading nuthorltv on the history and art of teaching, but his book is designed for the general reader as well as for the professional student and tho teacher. March publications of tho Century company com-pany will include Caroline Abbot Stanley s "Order No. 11" and Alberto Santos-Du-mont's "My Air-Ships." both promising to attract unusual Interest. The C'enturv company announces among later Issues of tho spring: "Four Roads to Paradise." a novel of American life, bv Maud Wilder Goodwin; "Roof and Meadow." a record of bird and animal llfo from the author's personal observations, by Dallas Lore Sharp, author of "Wild Life Near Home"; "A Daughter of Dale," a love story set In a university town, by Emerson G. Tnv-lor; Tnv-lor; and "Fable and Woodmyth," with Illustrations by the author, from the pen of Ernest Thompson Scion. Mr. John Graham Brooks, the well-known well-known author of "The Social Unrest." which has recently attracted so much attention at-tention from Independent thinkers and students of economics the world over, contributes con-tributes to the February Atlantic Monthly Month-ly a remarkable paper entitled "Is Commercialism Com-mercialism in Dlsgrnco?" This paper, which was announced by tho editors us tho first of on Important and tlmelv series se-ries upon tho ethical aspects of business, will recelvo close attention both from students stu-dents of our economic life and from men of affairs, Mr. Brooks preserves a happv mean- botwecn optimism and pessimism It is of courso impossible for so keen and profound a student of American liro to be-blind be-blind to tho many abuses which have arisen aris-en in a commorclal age, but ho is too sound a thinker to be dlsmaved by them. I Ills hopeful conclusion will bo found un- I usually stimulating and soundlv reassur- 1 ing. " I In the fall of 1D01 Rev. Peter Roberts published a book entitled "The Anthrn-clto Anthrn-clto Coal Industry," In which he gave tho facts relative to the economic llfo of tho pcoplo of the mining regions of Pennsylvania. Pennsyl-vania. This volumo he has followed up with another on "Anthraclto Coal Communities." Com-munities." which the Macmlllan company com-pany are about to publish. Tho object of tho new volumo Is to give tho facts rola-tlvo rola-tlvo to tho social, educational and moral llfo of the anthracite mlno employees. The author discusses the twenty-six nationalities national-ities residing In the coal regions, their different ways of living, their educational opportunities, tho saloons thpy maintain, their savings, their criminals and their politics. Tho readers of "The Letters of a Solf-Mado Solf-Mado Merchant to Ills Son," and those readers were many, will welcome the announcement an-nouncement that George H. Lorlmcr has another book ready for publication. It la to be called "Old Gorgon Graham," and Is, like Its predecessor. In tho form of letters; let-ters; but the new letters tell tho self-made self-made merchant's own story and do not i concern the.fiselves with the son. , Mr. Lorlmcr, who Is the editor of tho i Saturday Evening Post and was a sue- j cessful business man before ho became a ; successful literary man, was strongly i urged to follow his "Letters of n SelT- j Made Merchant" by a volume of letters from the son of the self-made father, hut he declined to cheapen tho flrat success by so obvious a trading upon it, ft However, he roceived scores upon scores f of letters begging him to "tell more about jj tho old man." and at last he -yielded to these suggestions. The new book, which t promises to be one of the very successful jj books of the year, will be published by S Doubleday, Page & Co. f ,1 Janet Young; the purpose of tho compilation compila-tion being to Illustrate tho activo Intlu-I'ni'e- ot tho power of thought In practical nffn in, "Tho Simple Homo." by CharloH Kcelor. being a discussion ot tho architectural archi-tectural -construction and furnishing ot the home building In tho stvlo suggested V' tlt,e; tlio volumo Is to have ten Ilustratlons; "Fairy Tales Up toNow." by Wnllnco Irwin, author of 'Tho Lovo bonnets of a Hoodlum, Being Old Myths Mado Probable;" tho typography of this llttlo humorous volumo is to bo on the scheme of tho modern newspaper, in fact that thought Is to bo tho motive from coyer to coyer, one binding ot tho book being dona In genuine nowspapor matrix. The publishers will' also nave ready In llmo for tlio Easter season a scries of Impression Broadsides," being Illuminated Illuminat-ed leaflets designed by W. S. Wright. The twelvo intended for this season will include in-clude selections from Sill, Browning. Mulr Stevenson and others, "Flowers of Fnto" recently published has proved a gTcat success and is having a largo sale |