Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-03-28
The Diamond Dickens.

The Diamond Dickens.
There is no such wonderful wizard in all
the world as Dickens. There is no writer
who equals his skill in portraying the faith
full and exact likenesses of character. There
is nobody who brings his mirror so closely
to the level of his fellow humanity, and who
gains consequently so true and undistorted
a reflection. 1t is sometimes charged that
his characters are overdrawn and unfaithful;
eccentricities and whimsicalities are magni-
fed unreasonably and untruthfully but no
one who has studied human nature will thus
assert. 1t cannot be caricatured; the phases
of the human mind are diverse and curious
beyond any possibility Of its own deserip-
tion, and no picture can be SO quantity
drawn that it shall not represent living re-
ality in life. And 50 we say Dickens is a
wizard He does not make men and wo-
men he does not create their grotesque and
and astonishing outlines, but he produces
on his canvass so admirable an image that
we can only be astounded at his skill.
One of the finest editions of our favorite
authors works that has ever been vouch-
safed, as real blessing, to American read
ers, is the Diamond Edition." of Ticknor
& Fields, just now being run through the
press. "Pickwick Papers" and Our Mu-
tual Friend" have already appeared, and
have delighted everybody in their style and
character. The design has been to combine
in the greatest possible degree both elegance
and cheapness, and this has been satisfactory
ly accomplished, by printing the text in un-
usually small type,-that known to printers
as Diamond The objections to its small
ness, however, have been very far overcome
by manufacturing it with peculiarly plain
and open face, which makes perusal of the
work quite as easy ahe eye as type of
much larger technical designation.
The price of the series is kept within the
reach of almost every class Of readers, it be-
ing placed at $3.50 each for the illustrated
edition and $l.25 for the plain one. The
whole series will be completed in twelve or
thirteen volumes, which will ae issued at the
rate of one month. These can be procured
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be sent by mail by the publishers, on receipt
of the price.
We shall have more to say of the "Dia-
mond Edition." as successive numbers ap-
pear.
HENRY G. LEA, of Philadelphia, the well
known publisher of medical works and peri
odicals, has sent us the Half Yearly Ad-
stract of the Medical Sciences" 1t is the
forty fourth volume, and embraces the peri
cd from July to December, 1866, inclusive.
The contents comprise an analytical and crit
ical digest of the principal British and Con-
tinental medical works and periodicals pub
lished during that time The list of these,
from which selections have been made, in
cludes seventeen British, ten American, four
Colonial, nineteen French, seventeen Ger
man, and one Italian publication.
The arrangement and classification of the
contents and the system of indexing is very
complete and elaborate. The first part, de-
voted to General Questions in Medicine"
contains articles on Hygiene, Acute Diseases,
the Nervous System, Respiratory System,
Circulatory System, Alimentary System,
Gcnito- Urinary, Cutaneous System, and
Muscular System. The succeeding parts
are devoted to Surgery, Midwifery, Materia
Medica and Therapeutics, Reviews, Philoso-
phical Notices, &c.
The Half Yearly Abstract is published as
above, at $3.50 per annnm. in advance, or
Sl.5O per volume.
HARrERs MAGAZINE, for April, "Opens with
continuation of the dodge Club" pa
pers, this being the second of the series.
We may say of them that they are vivacious
and readable, and profusely illustrated. The
descriptions, however, are more sparkling
than graphic, and the humor is mildly fla
vored. John S. G. Abbott contributes his
XVIIth article on the "Heroic Deeds of
Heroic Men," this giving an account of the
hcroism of Lieut.. Benjamin H. Porter, of
the U. S. Navy. Probably one of the most
useful and suggestive articles lately publish
ed is that which next follows-"A Christian
rections concerning house building, plan
ming, and furnishing, and for the arrange
ment and employment of a community of
individuals, showing in answer to their de-
sires, the opportunity and means of doing
good to themselves and to others.
Other articles in this number are "a
Forced March, ~; Easter Holidays" "Davy
Crocketts Eectioneering Tour, Chaucer's
ga Money Article" and "The
Romance of Sleep" Several others are brief
fictitious papers. The graceful and pleasant
pen of the Editor makes the Easy Chair,
Department pleasant, this month, as usual
THE GALAXY for April LIST has the first in
of Mrs. Edwards new story,
'' Steven Lawrence, Yeoman," which it
prints from advance sheets purchased from
he author. David A. Wasson, one of our
,est American literary writer's, contributes
IN article on "Modern Poetry and w.
Ninwoode Reede one on English Scien-
ific Societies." NJ. Blot, our cooking friend,
yives his ideas on "Modern and Medieval
with the former of which he is
perhaps best acquainted. The Editors De-
,artment of "Nebulae" contains pleasant
sossips on several subjects. The story by
'Irs. dt is MS Davis is continued and
1ennessey has two illustrations of it.
The price of The GALAXY is So year;
70 cents single number. 1t is published
vice month, and is one of the cheapest
magazines in the country. Subscriptions
hould he addressed to W. c. Il f. L.
Church, 80 Park Row, New York.