New-York tribune., 1867-10-18

Mr.. Anthony Trolope which, for being new, ana LOT
being well printed deserves that its first number at
least, should get read MT lIoope llakts H; ne tliyo
his readers behind the scenes Tor moment lhe
first number of his new novel lands us ON the lIlsh
ground which Russell is tTaVerslng IN IHSty y
ground so heavily trOd by Lever and his lmltatofs
that it is miracle if any green leaf can again spring
from It, Politics are not rejected from ~. Iat
though poetry is and Mr. G0schen N. r., discusses
i'm rather a vague way, the g Leap in the DARK,
Mr.. G0schen being a rising banker, polticlan' anu
one of the Liberals who helped take llle reap; "a
have named Out of the whole number the no.
ticeable articles seem TO he few trase discusses
name of odor in America-contrlbutes to Belgdra
an article on Paris Fashions, which the organ not
exactly of fashions but OF the Fashionable WopiG o
are rather common Macmillan supplies an article on
Eating and Drinking in America. Stroll among the
| Saloons in Newiork-with the comlcai sde out
Macmillan appears at last without the dreary Sllcote
combinations of Henry Kingsley. Next month IL VIII
begin new novel by the author of book once popi,
lar in the United States Friends in Council and
another by the author of the Heir of Redcyfe hear
that Macmillan sent Carlyle cheque for fl3O III re-
turn for Shooting Niagara" Mr. IT, NJ: i0wIe-T5lh Tl
American beleve-has statistical article IN ihe
FortnighHy oD Harvard and Yale Universities.
These institutions might properly he descrl1ed az
universities in the English sense, bnt Mr. iowie
would have done well to keep 10 the true American
names, Yale College and Harvard College. The paper
is full of information but not attractive III style
In the same periodical is n long review, by the
poet tSwinbnrnerit fills 40 pages-of fMatthewArnold's
poems. Mr. Swinbnrne is an ardent admirer of Mr..
Arnold, not only. as we all are, OF Arnold the essay
ist, but in greater degree OF Arnold the poet,
saying: THE most memorable quality abont him ls
the quality of poet His best essays ought TO live
longer than most, his best poems cannot put hye as
long as any of their time" And again: we have
poet comparable for power and perfection oi land
scape"-no liring poet, i suppose, Mr. swinbnrne
means. He SAYS further on: There are in the En-
glish language three elegac poems great that they
eclipse and eace all the elegac poetry we know all
of Italian all of Greek II is only because the latest
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vast to say sO The Thyrsis' of Mr.. Arnold makes
a third. with 'Lycdas' and 'AdonaisN Much OF
what Mr. Swinburne has TO say IN justification OF
these verdicts- much shining and subtle rhetorc-l
wonld quote. if had space, but can only note the
judgment and pass on. ,
BldcklrOod shall have paragraph to itself for the
sole reason that il has two American articles. One
slips in at the end postscript in rejoinder to Mr
Wells. Ii is not much rejoinder as an evasion OF
Mr. Weiss conclusive exposition OF the financial mis-
statements in the July BidcLJcOOd His points are not
met not even fairly stated No doubt II Is easier
10 call Mr.. Wells underlined foolish, ana as
honest than 10 answer him, and the Edinburgh
writer takes the easier course. One article III better
temper is "lnroads upon English, subject when
affords opportunity for ridiculing the American
dialect bit which is turned to better use The fact
Is recognized which don't remember 10 have seen
recognized before IN an English PRINT, that many
"Americanisns consist of words and phrases thnt
are genuine English kept alive in the popular speech
of America but preserved here only in the literature
before the sailing of the Pilgrims. There remains
plenty of Amercanisms. properly so called, sprnging
into from the fresh life, and new circumstances
and modes OF thought not existing In England. Most
of those here quoted may be found in Bartetts Die
tiOnary of Amcricanisns and most of the learning IN
BldciIrOOd was supplied by Lowells preface to the
last series of the Blgow papers. Some terms OF
later coinage have been gathered. "Nalussia,' for
instance the origin Of which BidckcoOd correctly de-
scrlbes without being that Mr. Horace Greeley
is the author of IT, Possibly Will strike some people
as a coincidence that for such "A word back
bone Anna Dickinson should be quoted as author
ity while for weak bneed the writer betook him
self to The Ne,c- York TmCs,
ha edit af "a lsp
twenty volumes, and Will contain. say the publishers;
all of Mr. 1hackemys writings, which II - believed
he would desire should he included IN standard
edition of his works They promise that the edition
shall be printed in the best style, from new type
with all the original. and some new illustrations;
the wood eng1ayings being printed from the original
wood blocks instead OF as hitherto from stereotype
casts. The size tO he crown octave; the series 10
begin Nov l. with the first volume Of JaRy far,
with 20 steel engrayings and ~ ON wood the second
and concluding volume Of Jdnify F0r 10 appear Nov.
30; the other works at intervals of a month.
The discovery is announced OF new feature IN
Shakespearan photography nothing less than anhn;
known edition of " Venus and Adonis, and a second
and perfectly perfect copy OF the 1899 surrepitious
edition of the Pdssiobqfe Pilgrim and Other pieces
The copy ia the matchlc>s Cassc col ection at Cam
bridge has hitherto been considered unique lts
rival was found by Mr.. EdmOnds oi The mouse ol
Willis q Sotheran large dealers IN old books, on
examination of the library OF SiT Charles lsnan; at
Lamport in NOrthamptonshre In back lumDer
room among hundreds of worthless old volumes, Mr.
Edmonds discovered the Passionate Pilgrim bound mp
with an edition of JeRus and AdoHi', printed in 1893
These books are supposed to have been
collected hy Thomas lsham, who died IN
1905. There is every evidence, says Mr. Edmonds,
10 show that the books have remained IN the house
from a very remote period. and that no additions
have been made 10 the library for the last 100 years
The volume containing the two editions Is bound
in the original wrapping vcum. with strings.
without any outside lettering, measures five inches
by hreequarters OF an inch and contains, also two
rare tracts-EpigrdD,nos and Eieqes by l. ID. and G..
NJ a. e. Sir John Dawes and Christopher Marlowel,
and C,itdine Of O,ids Eiegios by &. MarlOwe both
printed at Middlesb0rough without date but proba-
DIV about IjG IL is now to Dc nj the book shop
of Messrs Willis q Sotheran, IN the Strand.