New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-12-30
1MOYe THE BOOKSELLERS.

= "a polmerstop compiled from family papers ana
inouding his lordshlps private diary Is nearly IeauS
for publication 80
uarrar g. Brothers have reprinted in pamphlet
form. with illustrations, Mr.. Justin Mccarthy
~nyeI INV Enemy's Daughter" which has just been
snisbed in their magazine; and Bound TO JONI
Comnany: or the Adventures and hlsad W
Robert Kinslegh" which has been running iol sOin0
time IN Inc bdzddT' ,
"saalier's Catholic Directory, Almanac. and OTdo
Car 1870 is lust published 1t contains full list OF
Che r. C. clergy in the United States, the British
rovinces and Ireland list of the bishops and arch
bishops in England, register OF the Gadu :; F
variety of other religious ana sta'is'i0'i
zion.
The new Romans Journal is to appear in Boston on
of January under the editOrship of Mrs Law
Armore IL will be a weekly paper, IN quarto lOrh'
little larger than Hdrpa's Beekly except that ~
viii consist of only eight pages: MIs Ju,i b mo rn
lar weekly contributors, and William LLOYD 1aTFiI
son, Lucy Stone. Mrs. Severance, and others VIII
write occasionally
Erery Saturday adopts in the second number OF Its
new SERIES the plan of giving some account OF the
artists from whom it's Illustrations are taken. This
a good idea; but we are sorry the frank acknowl-
edgmeDt of the sources from which ITS reading mat
ter has been borrowed has not been perseVered III:
The new number contains two-page engraving OF
"Puritans Going TO Church." nom picture py
George. II. BoughtOn'
The Practitioner, just received from Macmillan's
Kew-York agency, in reviewing Dr.. William A. Ham
mOnds translation of MOritz Meyers Electricity in
It's Relations to Practical Medicine and the transla
tisn of Niemeyers Text Book OF P[actlcai Medl-
Clne," by Drs Humphreys and Hackley lboth pup
Dashed this Winter by ID. Appleton q CO.., REMARKS
Shat the Americans decidedly ahead OF the En-
Rlish in one important practical matter; they rap,
idly produce translaons of all the best French and
German medical works.
Macmillan g. Co. have on sale ut their branch
establishment in Bleecker-st. two volumes OF "A
4 olc1l VIII
are publishing in monthly numbers and quarterly
volumes These are a Life of Alfred the Great
BY the author of TON Browns School Days" and
1.-THE Apostles of Medieval Europe" by the rev. w.
f. Maelear b. ID. OF these attractive volumes, MS
well as book of stories for children 10y Mr. knatch-
bull-Hugessen, Nj. p, published by the same house.
We hope to speak more fully at an early day.
Thirty years ago Mr. George Hill pubshed-in
this city, we thnk-a little volume of poetry, under
the title "The Ruins of Athens, and other Poems"
EOmewhat enlarged, modified and re1aptized, it is
given once more to the world as " lltanlas ban
quet Pictures of Woman, and other Poems %. APP
pleton a. Col. The principal piece IN the collection
rs it's title indicates, sketch of faiTy-and and
though it provokes continual comparison with a
much greater poem, Mr.. Hill has sufficient playful
of fancy and happiness IN versitcatlon TO make
Of it pleasant little composition. Most OF theOther
poems are graceful in form and delicate IN sentl-
nent; and though the school to which they belong
has passed away, they may still be read with gratlh-
eatiOn if not with enthusiasm.
cit having been generally conceded" says The
band on California, save IN the way of kindness is a
wretch 10 whom il would be base fattery to apply
The endearng epithet of villain the interior journal
list will have no difficulty IN answering the pleasant
satire of Mrs. CalhOuns letters to IHE NEW YORK
TRIBUNE particularly the writer is lone and I'M
protected woman. general alluslon to Susan g.
Anthony and strong minded females a hlnt OF MISS
Dekinson's fate. and graceful assortment OF rura
pleasantries, Will probably do the business. Should
he fail, hOweyer-andit is just possbie-he can da
back the pleasant incense of Dixon of The BOS
ton Advertiser the SMOKE Of whose sacrifice Is contn-
sally ascending from various parts Of the State-lt
must be confessed, somewhat TO the detrlment OF
clear view. Or. he may turn to TOdds bOOk-TOdd
who is sick of love, and who seems to have been
stayed with tiagons and comfOrted with large apples
to surprising extent. And then, there is somebody
who has been writing in the Rerue des Deu1 Mondes
"a pleasant son OF France. who has gazed. perhaps
too often on the Vaccinations OF the California fair
and has taken large and exhaustive views of our hats
and coats and other things, which so largely make
MP sOciety-frOm the Gallo w-pOint-On Mont
gomery-st, and don't like them. But he pleasant
hand-kissng. hat-lifting gentleman, and such,
leave him to the kindness Of the interior journalist
An entertaining literary gossip on the staff of The
GOndoR Daily NeoS from whom we have several times
quoted, mentions a few particulars illustrating the
benefit which English and foreign authors have de-
rived from the International Copyright Convention
between Great Britain and some of the continental
States Victor Hugo received 81 600 for the right of
N translating his latest novel into English The we'll
H known Tauchnitz editions are protected by copy
right but IL does not appear that the German pub
Usher has made very liberal payments to the English
authors whom he reprints. Mr.. Carlyle, for four
volumes OF ms Frederick the Great, received from
Baron Tauchnitz only f225 Mr. Dickens for his last
novel Our Mutual Friend" ESQ; Miss MulOch
her publishers, for Noble Life" ESQ; Mrs. Wood
for Oswald Cray" eco; Miss CTaik for Christians
Mistake ESQ., Miss Kavanagh, for Beatrice" ESQ;
Mrs. Rddel. for George Goth" f25 Miss Annie
Thomas, for "On Guard,' E25; Miss Edwards, Tor
Half a Million of Money" E4O; Mr. Hepwortb
Dixon for bis Holy Land" $40; Mrs. Oliphant, for
Agnes 920; Florence MarTyat, for Loves COLI
hct, f2j. and Mr.. Charles Lever, for "Luttrell of
ArTan' $50. These payments do not cover the right
Of translation, but only of republication in the
original language Still the sales must be very large
Tor the books are highly popular not only the
Gnent of EUROPE 5Gt slsO in the United States. OF
"0uT Mutual Friend" Tauchnitz printed the first
year $500 copies and Of Carlye's Frederick 1000
AMI W. H. Barber died the other dav g. Iopdon
nj the age of 81. whose hiorv onna lannon's in peri
Ddical and pamphlet literature furnishes almost the
only instance of an innocent man obtaining compen-
station from the British nation for wrongful cOnyic
fion before criminal tribunal. About twenty-five
wears ago man named Fletcher committed an
extraordinary series of frauds on the Bank OF En-
gland by means of forged wills and other documents
dealing with unclaimed dividends. He had confed-
crates whom he employed TO peTSonate IeRatees ana
witnesses to pretended signatures. Mr. Barber, who
was employed by Fletcher III the customary way TO
prove the forged wills and transact other business IN
connection with them, was convicted In 1914 at the
Old faily accomplish; but was subsequently
proved, both by the separate and independent con-
fessions Of Fletcher and all his accomphces, and by
numerous collateral evidences, to have acted IN the
business with bone fdes BARRIERS case is ably set
forth in a volume from the pen OF Mr. Il. III. Thomas.
on the Judgment of the Court OF Queens Bench,
on Mr.. BARRIERS application Tor his certhcate PIT
the picturesque and touching narrative OF ms suffer
ings which, under the title of Transported for
Life" was published 10y him in HousehOd Uords in
July and August. 1852 pamphlet on the Barber
case entitled The Royal Pardon Vindcated,' was
also published by the late Sir George Stephen. Mr.
Barber obtained $500 damages from Parliament
in 1859.
p I..u;oor o1;tioo ofg bau,'s Choice Cneci-