NEW-YORK TRIBUNE lUXST/HATED SUPPLEMENT. LITERARY NOTES. An English paper says that Rudyard Kipling Is to press hi* suit against the l-umains. The Macmillana will be the English publishers mKt autumn of Mr. John Morl.y's "Life of o raw* II," which has been running as a serial in "The Century Magazine." Mr Theodore Watts- 1 Minion calls his remi- niscences "The Old Familiar Faces." He is re- vising Ihe proofs of this work and of his new n< vel so carefully that neither may be ready for fall publication. A popular edition of "Aylwin" has lately boeii announced in London. "In America," says the London 'outlook. "the harmless, necessary publishers' reader ap- pears to tie largely a woman." This is a mis- take Th« re are unite as many, if not many more men readers. The paragraph goes on in the jauntj fashion .hat English paragraphlsts like to assume in discussing American literary affairs a fashion, by the way. that helps to emphasize their blunders: "That is to say. American publishers write to you like this: •< iur r< ader has just reported on . and speaks very highly of it from a literary point of view, though she doubts if the book would have a very large sale.'" As a matter of fact the feminine pronoun is practically never used in busin \u25a0\u25a0 of this kind. As a rule publishers try to keep the Identity of their readers a secret from the authors of manuscripts \oluntanly Bubmitted. "In England," says the same writer, "w< know there is still a handful or so of men publishers' readers left, though in a certain house which shall be nameless, the 'rough read- ing 1 is understood to be done by the typewriter uirl Probably women are very Qne Judges <>r fiction. They" know what they like, and as the flctionists 1 public is mainly a feminine one, the publisher mi^ht perhaps do worse than ta a few choice lady read, rs. 1 If these re- marks are founded on fact, they may explain Why -c many worthless books are issued from the English press. The importa.it announcement comes from England that Mr. Hall Cain£s new novel wffl be called "The Eternal City." Miss Marie CorelU who by the way, greatly resembtes Mr. Caine,'and whose work is just about as im- portant, will aiso devote to Home several - r-hap- tcrs of her forthcoming novel. "The Master Christian." Stories of the fabulous prices re- vived by these geniuses for their new books have already been started in London. During the next Tew months we shall hear them echoed and re-echoed. Dr William Harry, the English Catholic priest, whose latest novel. "Arden Massiter." is having a wide reading, has turned his attention to his- torical writing, and has arranged to bring- out ;l book entitled "The Papal Monarchy from ry the Great to Boniface Vlll." Mr. William Heinemann has brought out in London Mr. Stephen Crane's two stories, "George's Mother" and "Map^ie." in one volume, und< :• the title of "Bowery Tales." "LR TRAVAIL," BY ANDRE D'HOUDAIN. Croup surmounting the Palais dts invalidcs to the right of the Pont Alexandre 111. "A happy point was made by counsel in de- fending a bookseller at Bow-st. the other day in a case where an English translation of "The Heptameron' was the cause of offence," says a writer In "The London Morninc Post." " 'Do you consider "Tom Jones" an improper book?' the police witness for the prosecution was asked. ' 'I do." was his reply. " Are you aware," said the defendant's coun- sel, thai the novel in question was written by a former chief magistrate of this court?" " A writer in "Macmillan'P Magazine," in dis- cussing recent editions of (Gilbert White's well known book. The Natural History of Sel- bome," notes that though scarcely a plant or animal mentioned in it is familiar in this coun- try it has enjoyed as lorn; and as great a popu- larity with American a.s with English readers. Th- sixpenny edition of "Tess of the d'Urber- villes," which the Harpers s< me time ago ar- i to bring out in England, seems to be reviving the interest which this remarkable book I on us lir.st appearance. ii. \u25a0\u25a0••j-t Spencer, whose health is now said to be excellent, has beer, revising his "First Prin- ciples" for the new edition to appear In the autumn. His changes, however, have been largely verbal The substance of the work re- practicall) unchan Mr. Richard Whiteing, author of "No. .">. John will have a new book ready in the autumn for publication in England and in this c< iint ry, WATER CURE IX GERM \SY. Bremen letter in The Chicago Record. In no other country has hydropathy reached such a state of perfection as in Germany. Al- most everything is cured, or attempted to be cured, by water. Besides the numerous water- Ing places, plain and fashionable, there are dozens of water cure Institutions throughout the empire, and suffering mankind is crowding all of them. The University of Berlin has recog- nized the Importance of this branch of medicine and decided upon erecting from October next a special chair for hydrotherapy, which will be occupied by Dr. Briefer, or Berlin. At the Char- it 6. well known also in the United States, ar- rangements have been made for classes where the professor's theories will find practical appli- cation. . When incandescent lamps were made with carbonised bamboo filaments it was impossible t.i get them of uniform resistance throughout. >uit was that, when a current was sent through the lamp, the filament glowed more brishtly In some spots than In others, and in eider to make i!ie resistance unifoi ments had to be "treated." This treatmen con- sisted ill Hit1•Mllleil,- ;l !l>;! • . ica fl>> 'H g \u25a0 bulb and then sending current through the fila- ment. The parrs that glowed brightest, 1. • .. liat were of too hi--;h resistance, had car- bon deposited on them more rapidty than on .ier portions, which brought tl to a uniform resistance throughout. Filaments are now manufactured from cellu- lose by means of the squirting process, and a no difficulty in making them ol uniform resistance, but the treatment is still continued, not because it is necessary to secure 111 resistance, but because it has been found that the hard coating "f graphitic carbon given to tii-' filament by this process greatly Improves its light giving properties. The untreated radiates its heat much more readily than the treated, hence a givi n amount of power ex- pended in the lamp will cause the treated car- b.>n to attain a higher temperature than th«* untreated, and the efficiency o( the lamy is thereby improv. d. IKCANDESrgST LAMP FILAMESTB* Prom Science and Industry. The inner edges of the nests are woven with light sticks, cornstalks, pieces of cloth and dried seaweed. The ftshhawk lives to a good age. On one of the eastern Rhode Islond headlands a Mr. Anthony tells of an incident that happened twenty years ago near his home, A ma!e fish- hawk was brought to the ground by a sun in the hands of a boy. Mr. Aruhony cared for the wounded bird in his barn, picking out grains of sh"t and stopping the flow of Mood. All :he time the hawk fought him with its uninjured wing. In a month's time the wound ha*! healed, and the I\u25a0i r i had become It would not eat anything but tis'n. however. The wounded wing >* is stiff when the bird was given Its I id the peculiarity of this snif wing is Mr. Anthony in a bird that ! cates near hi-* home. He is c>n- tident that it is the bird that was wounded near his home twenty years ag>>. TWO GROUPS OF STATUES ALONG THE QUAYS AT THE EXPOSITION. Paris. July G. — Surmounting the "pans coup--s" which, in the half palaces that occupy the Es- planade dcs Invalides, join the facades ak-r.j the quays with the galleries extending toward the Hotel dcs Invalides, are groups of sculpture rising between pyramidal spires, and facing t!^; pylones of the Punt Aiexandre 111. Standing' in the bridge, to the right 13 "Le Travail.' by A^- dre d'Houdain; to the left. "La France Ac- cuvillant les Nations." by E, Peynot. To begin with France, the sculptor has rep- resented a central figure opening her arms in gracious welcome to four figures below, sym- bolizing Europe, America, Asia and Africa. The figure of France is refined and courtly. The siig'nt inclination of the shapely form is in har- mony with the cliarmins. spontaneous outturn- Ing of the palms. Europe, advancing to her right, is scarce her inferior; she is clad in a dainty ball gown, with her hair piled high en her head. Behind her is America — an Indian, with grinning upturned face! The progress of science, the march of civilization, the discoveries. inventions, improvements of America, are rep- resented by the Incian in pristine guilelessness. Cven the clothes and headgear from European firms that annually tind their way across the seas are merely indicated by a buffalo hide and a bur.. of turkey feathers. This tamed savage adds a picturesque touch to the group: also, it fulfils the conception of what it pleases some Europeans to call "American barbarity." But it is amusing to see the country from which Ku- rope has derived most of its modern comforts classed witn unexplored wilds and decadent races. The nude figure of Asia, a girl of Japanese type, is indolently graceful, whereas the negro that represents Africa is of rugged strength. The other group represents industrial France holding out a protecting arm over her children — the porter, the silk weaver and the smith. There is a quiet dignity, an earnestness, about th«ge figures, which give them a lasting value ov»r their opposite neighbors. Though France J3 greeting her guests, the hour will come for part- ing; but before the greeting work was and after parting work will be. and industry will continue to protect it. The grouping of these figures is particularly happy, since both sculp- tors were hampered by an injudicious order. The central figure was in each case to be at leas: two metres higher in stature than the four in- ures about the -ii TRANCE IS ALLEGORY. INGENUITY AND STRKNGTH OF THE BIRD IN PROVIDING MATERIALS FOR IT. Prom Forest and Stream. The genius displayed by Qahhawks in nest building time Is often wonderful, leadii sons to suspect thai th<; mechanical calculations of the bird are equal to those of the a human being. The hawks frequent fon groves fringing the wai rs of Narragan.se 1 1 Bay t" obtain material for building new nests and repairing old ones. Rotten limbs of trees high over one's head are beard snapping and cracking. This snapping of sticks is caused by fish- hawks. Mechanically they examine and off the limbs bj sheer force, something unique in the character of bii Is A hawk flying about wheels short on its wings, having selected a decayed stick that is suitable, on son i . tree. Something after the fashion of tent peg- ging the hawk charges past and just above the bough. Just a- he is pa limb, with lexterity he hooks his claws upon it. and without Btopping in his flight, and with wings flapping furiously enough, bang g"i s the report of the breaking of the rotten limb I triumphantly the Feathered wond r carries to the nesl the stick, sometimes four inches in diameter and tour and one-half feet long. Al though as a rule the birds break off the limbs at the Rrsi attempt, they have been seen to try the operation on the same stick two and three tunes before being successful. In case the stick is not broken off the firs! time, they c i . . not loose their hold, but unceasingly Sap their broad wind's In the air. exhausting every measure toward accomplishing their purpose. Ordinarily their bodies are not -<> heavy as b> i ause one to suspect that thej could >.r"e.ik off such st"ut pieces of boughs, but the momentum carried in their Iliuhl as they hook >>n to the liinli without Plopping almost invariably causes ihnr en" >rta to kx crowned with success. The loud snapping noise of the breaking "f tree branches by the hawks would lead a person not accustomed to their habits to BUppose that an elephant was running amuck through the forest. < h' about four fee) in width and of a compact structure the n sts can withstand the fury of storms. The fabric Is so woven and bound crisscross fashion that cases have i n known of th \u25a0 nests remaining intact even after the wind felled the tree or pole and threw the n si violentlj to the ground. A severe storm blew down a fishhawkN nesl at Warren a year ago, leaving tie , ; . t bottom up. it was dis- coveri I day*: later with three young dead bird- inside. Being Imprisoned, they had uiid of humce7> THE OSPRETS XEST. sence, both legs having been cut off, a pocket handkerchief being tied around one of his poor wounded legs. This man probably had been through several hospital* and each time sent oil again in rag's." Mr. Alfred Sutro, a writer practically un- known In this country, is attracting a good deal of critical notice in Kn^land on account of his play, "The Cave of Illusion," which Grant lUch- ards has brought out. with an Introduction by Maurice Maeterlinck. One of thi mosl Interesting features of the last : \u25a0 "The Anglo-Saxon Review" is Lad} Iph < !hur rhill's "I> 1 ters fi om a Hospital They show that Lady Randolph has the courage ol her views and does not hesitate to riticism of the British Government where to be v. hole: onie. "When." she says, "one thinks nf the thousands and thou- sands that have been spenl In clothing for the hospitals, nol only by the Government, but by private Individuals, it seems incredible that the sick \u25a0 nd wounded should be allowed to leave a hospital, to be drafted to another, or to a hos- pital ship, in the tattered garments they came with, brought in straight from the battlefield. I saw with my own eyes, among a party of wounded who were being Irai From a tug to tin Maine and the Nubia, a man whose khaki trousers were eoni?pi«»"H>ii3 by their ab- < ml of th«- English reviewers says frankly that Mrs. Craigie's "School for Saints" is a disap- pointing k. The novelist, however, seems to ' ' xceptional success in her treatment <\u25a0; Lh< chai v i-r oi I Israeli. i - reported that Mr. George Bernard Shaw thinks of making a visit to this country next winter. '\u25a0'!'• :\u25a0 i'.fs latest piece of work," says "The London Chronicle," "is an article of some ten md unrds on 'Patriotism and Govern- v ni ' It will shortly l"- published in English b> the Free Age Press, "i Maldon, Rssex, the which deals in England with all the nevt writings of Tolstoi. We are also to have ooklets by him. selected From recent letters and unpublished material in the <;.!• <;' his English representative, Mr. Tchert- koff. Tolstoi is now giving the finishing touches to his volume, 'The New Slavery, 1 which is an ilnation of the position of the workers." 12