New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-10-17
LITERARY

Il Is pleasant 10 see tnas tae class OF rspfh'So
now most snccessfo IL mainly composed OF WORKS %
very high character. The elegant Boston edition OF
Lord Bacons workg-,hough only one yolame OF
the fifteen is i,soedhas met with so good RECEPTION
hst the tuocsss CT the Il sscnd and what
is rather curious, pore copies Of the original Lonaon
eGon, in seven voluia an expensive se Of books
costing between thirty and forty doIlIs) haye bson
sold by the importers n;e the announcement Of the re-
pin, than Of any previous time. Messrs Shelton s.
Co. first volume Of their edition of &" Mioans Latin
ch,ishat jy be,rsys the sane fine workmanship aud
il indeed iron tie same Ca nbridee press as tue BNon
Bieop, ard has TIA came pr:spect Of immsaiste
sseefss Itsrs Appleton & Co. edition of Raw
In sons H,rodotus ia Just completed by the paniica'
lion Of tie fourth volume, and en- American booS.
bnyer can procare the whole work at once, an ad7an
tag rot vet enjoyed Eoglaud for before the issue OF
volnme Nv. volumes l. ard II. out Of print,
and have not vet been made accessible in a new i'm
prefsiou so limited seals is the production in Ea
GLAND of works that aopes 10 the educated cRses Tor
patronage. Nlesfrf Ticknor & Fields edition oil
Waller Savage Lander complete Works, Ill haad'
sore l2uo volumes may be alluded 10 as an enterprise
that 10 English publishing house would undertake;
the only existing edition. in two large volumes double
columns having been executed by the author al his
on II expense, and made presen, by him to his put
Usher the late Edward Mo&on.
The new edition of the MSauel dU LibrdtJy OF II.
Brunei, Of which part l. of volume has just been
publahed By T. Didot ct Clio. Of Paris, is undoubtedly
TIE meet lsocrious enterprise undertaken by an
author in bis slst year, TO which pstgiarchai term
the ace Of this veteran photographer extends. Six
large voluries of 900 te 900 pages each, every line
bri.tipg With datee fzres az words in every known
| fOut
yourges eyss might shrink, particularly DC the type Is
,bsrp, finely ent and dazzling to the visual organs.
How well this literary Nestor has kept Up even with
the PRODUCTIONS Of the transatlantic press appears in
| many iostances oae Of which ie shown in bis no.
tee cf Mr. Allbcns's " Critical Dictionary of Engish
| and American Iiterature and Authors" After re-
citing the title CT the work, hesaye; This immense
compilation s very reEoarsble vsrk, and, as each ar
ticle is confirmed by citations from authorities, 1t VIII
| be of the greateet usefulness, The volume already
psblished Contains more than 900 pages in donbie
celInus OF 80 70 100 lines eacl aud costs In LoRaon
| E2l0 Tire second volume may be expected ininls-
diately" The works OF Mr. J5hn r. Bartlett Dc
t;onary Of Americanisms and "Survey Of the Next
can Boundary Commission are each noted, and the
same Intelligence shown respecting many lees known
American publications. The advertisement to the
work contains a review, Of extreme interest to book
eoectora of the casses ofboOks most in demand,
and the progressive changes thst have taken place il
tie BOOK MAI ket and the public tastes for the as' IL
teen yeaIs since the iJIti edition OF the AdHaeI was
publabed.
An intelligent and interesting notice ia given in
The AtkenaUn Of Mr.. Vim. Gowsnss reprint OF a
scarce little American work, Two Years journal
;nSNew- YoIk, by c. W, the original OF which was
pIiuted in a miniature volUme-London, EOl-anf Il
so searce that not than three copies can BE- traced
ht preient in existence. That which served as tnt
original of the present Eited ed3n was detected BY
the keen bbliographieal iusinct Of NJ G,gans in
volume bound up with other tracts, in The cata
loeue of a bookseller at Hull in Yorkshire. TIE an
thor wss ascertained by DR. O'CaIashsn whose care
fl editorial labors are properly complinsnted in the
EagIish cnrnal TO be she Rev. Charles Woley, an
pifcopal minister wko N this little volume, furnishes
one of the most curious existing records of Manhattan
, in colonial times.
"A book that cannot fal Of immense gale If /.
reaches all who are con erned IN ts subject is just
nouaeed from tho pen ofEIr Z. L. Blanchard, with
sufficiently appe,izDg tile "a Handy Book on Din
3 ne g. On Monday, Oct l. 1860 uill be served up to
suit every taste, Dinners and Diners, az Home and
Abroad, richly illustrated with oiquaut plates and
choice cuts comiea GnGtonicsl, and gastronomicsl
comprising desultoy dottiog upon Diet aud forming
Comprehensive Dining Directory for all Palates and
Pockets.'
That somewha age rsssiys author, William How.
it,, na-raes curious passage of his experience
relating literary history spEopo to bis oSertions for
the making scandinavian !, eTerure better known 10
England He Gays: "Wh.n Mrs Hewitt and myself
commenced the stady Of G,lndinaviln- while Living
abroad nearly twenty ay5sg0-auong the first mod
ern books that we read were the novels of Miss
Bremen It seemed to % that they onght be intro
drced in I;7gland sni MIS- Il witt began to translate
'The Neighbour brought with ne to London the
first volume of IT, and translated TIE second myself in
copsequeB of the printer sssz-i1y that he should
10; know " ere to End peFsoa capable of correcting
sbe press after II departore When complete, car
ied the work to my pz5.shs-s. toe 1essrs LOug0sn.
I4T Thomas Longmaa, on ise;Dg;', said: hope you
G5er0t going 20 ask rs 90 taks.hst Iasked 'WGyi
IIS replied Because n)tOdy TeSIs trsnslltiong If
this written by arca.1el, end tr2nslstes by
anNhel It would nos DO Sd mach foreiRu trash has
been trazslatsd.' For ,5is reason, / answered,
have boea Desperate enough 10 pablsE It on ny oT1
account. No eooDaI ives :be work oUt than Il was
popular. + second and third Edition WAS called fns
aud we determined 70 proceed win the rest Of Misc
Bremers Desels. TIER porulsr y soan brought DOM
upon ssso9al pia,;sll plblishsrs sly pirateal,
eeSuie tho6gh they 2rOfe SD 20 ira sle their works
afresh, they merely alseTei OTIS little aud gublshed
them az original trsos,ations, al shil Ing copy
The consequence was a. We were Ie'G with ',OOo
volumes Of our htgsEy eGifol On hand which sold
to Mr.. Bohn no OBJ shilling PER volame, and Jenianed
$500 minus by this ad5sDtngs Such was my first at
| tempt 10 introduce s 40 jnavisl Ie,ature"
-Msssrs R9u.le5css rev illustrated volume for