New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-11-06
AMONG THE BOOKSELLERS.

There is apparently no limit to the ambition
Of writers and the rsness Of people who PRINT lot he
Somebody, who nOt Charles Dickens, has composeda
continuation of The Christmas Carol" winch we see
announced by London house under the title "OnISV
mas Eve with the Spirits; the Canon's Wandernss
through ways unknown containing Further Ildlnss VI
serooge and Tiny Tim" ManyEears ago Lonoon "u'
thor-f We mistake not the prolific g. W. NJ hey
nOlds-wrOte a continuation Of The Pckwlck faieie
aud took our old friend the spectacles ana CATERS
Pans That was pretty bad; bat TO touch ING O"''0'
mas Carol" Is the objectionable SID. 49,
The rigorous custom, however Whlch oA"0'' 80
every London publisher tribute 10 CuriSV'n"' :" wv
form of a holiday annual or some gay trihe Oh 'na'
aure must often perplex the ingenuity OF the uaue'
and perhaps pleads partial justihcatoh oil such V"Eo
as we have mentioned above We have haturuEeu cer'
taEfeatures Of that custom In the Ohleu STATES anu ~
nroved them as we always do when we borrow from inc
Qua word. witness The Atlantic land AppletOnS Alma
macs I'm London however, every magazine has It's
annual bearing in character about the same re-
iation TO the regular monthly issues that the
Christmas pantomime bears the regular drama Sew
eral Of anDuas for the coming season. besdes the
regular magazines such Hnsleys Chap'berss Journal
The World of Fashion, &c.) may already be found at
BrentanOs such RodedgeS which an outgroWth OF
TIE BroddUdy magazine, containing stories by Annie
Thomas, Mrs Z. Lynn Linton, Amena b. Edwards ana
Others poem by Robert Buchanan. and drawingroom
Operetts with original music and The BoU Bells Alma
nae, whose strength is in wood engravings and lu-
minated covers.
An annual Of a very dierenort'which is saidl TO en-
10y circulation Of fewer than $4,000 copies is also
sent us by BrontanO, namely Zddktefs Almanac, upon
whose astrological predictions thousands Of English men
and women have pinned their faith for the past forty
years. The Saturday ReUieo six years ago published
some curious facts touching the belief in astroOgy which
survives Great Britain 1t appears that the saes OF
the principal periodicals devoted TO this branch OF i'm
posture reach the following extraordinary figures MOores
Almanac GOOOOO old Ifoore's, 100000; Par7dges $780,
COO Zadkte $4,000 Others $4,000 American readers may
be interested to know that some Of Zadkies prOgnos
cations are calculated for the latitude of Washington
and that the 10th house, on the 18TH OF next
month "deuotes severe conduct on the part Of OurI
rulers who viii and Cypress the people without fear
and without pity. Many strange accidents by water IN
different parts OF the States this ensuing Spring chiefly
about the 18th January, 1870 Great floods and sudden
troubles that way may be looked for" II Is unfortunate
tor Alabama claimants that Just at the time Of an
eclipse Of the thea2th of next July Saturn will
be rising and Mars the cusp Of the seventh at full
moon; the natural result Of which will be that as
Americans are more susceptible to planetary influences
than others" some serious quarrel with these
people may be expected"
The Literature of the Council is beginning to invade
book shops and find at least two announcements
Of more than ordinary interest The remarkable work
en- "Tbe Pope and the Council" by Junus, of which an
authorized translation has just appeared in London TO
be reprinted In Boston by Roberts Brothers IL ia sup
posed the work Of several hands and expresses with
0SANNA
of European Liberal Catholics An interesting COM
panlon.wOrk by an author who might perhaps be de-
fined Liberal Ultramonanist, will be DR.. o. a. Brown
sons Conversations Liberalism and the Church"
which sader Co. have now in press. Mr.. sadlier's
newspaper, The Tablet speaks Of it as "a little volumin
GUS work"-a designation which do not profess to
understand.
We were mistaken IN describing Mrs Hawthorne's
Notes in England and Italy a reprint of her recent
contributions Paalam'S Magazine Some Of the chap
did appear that periodical but most Of them
are published for the first time But whether new
secondhand, they are well worth reading
The translator of Remains Saint Paul writes
appeal lenent Judgment Of his work. and 1t reaches
day too late He says nothing which ought TO mod
hy severity Of criticism, but he bears out in
our condemnation Of the bad system upon which Amer
lean publishers manage the translation OF important for
eign works in which there is likely to be competition
"Mr. Carleton eager" he says, to have the
thing appear lest other house might Guido him.
that ] obliged to rush through the work
IN eighteen days, only giving it hundred
hours labor AS you readily imagine, such work
Of erudon needed most careful translation but could
pny ind time to dictate the as eat The pages"
This IL shameful especially the expenditure of small
of money would have given Mr. Carleton early proof
from which the translation could have been made
with due delberaOn and correctness Messrs Appleton
Co. bought early sheets of Victor Hugo's LHoDDe Qt
Ri, and their translation, executed by Mr.. William
Young consequently far superior TO the made in
England.
From poem Of william Morris's printed Every Sat-
Wrdd Nov l3 We extract the following exquisite pic
tuTe Of GnOne at the death of Paris:
A little while she stood and spake no word
Bnt hung above hm' with White o neSvl1g breast ISL
IN aUtumn-tide DER his forgotten nest
Aud then her hands about her throat she pressed
A. though 20 keep cry back, then stopped down
And set her face TO his, while spake her moan;
"Olove. o cherished more than I can tell,
Through years OF woe, o Ioye my ire ana 6ane'
FOTgctfuluess OF grief yet may gam,
In some wise may come ending to my pain;
u may be yet the gods will have me glad
Yet, love, would that thee and pain hadl
ALAS. II may not be, It may not be,
The falling blossom Of the late spring-tide,
Shall hang golden globe upon the tree
When through tho vale the mists OF Autumn glide
Yet would, q Love, with thee might abide.
Now, that reStful death is drawing nigh
Farewell, farewell, how good 1t is TO die!
strange, strange, when on his lips
Her lips were laid! strange that he must die
Now, when so clear a vision had come Ger
His falling heart, ana keenest memory
Had shown him all his changing life passed by
And what he was and what he might have been,
Yea, and should be- perchance. 50 clear were scent
Yea, then were all things laid within the scale
Pleasure and lust love and desire Of fame,
Kindness and hope, and fOnyi-all the tale
Told moment S across him came
That sudden fash, bright as the lightning flame,
Showing the wandercr on the waste how he
Has gone astray mid dark and misery
All. and her face upon his dying face
That the sun warmed no more! that agony
OF dying love, wild with the tale OF days
Long past aud strange with hope that might not be-
All was gone now aud what least part had he
In Love at ALL aud why life all gone
Why must he meet the eyes OF death alone
Alone, for che and ruth had left him there;
Alone, because the ending OF the strife
lie knew, well taught by death, drew surely near
Alone, for all those years with pleasure rife
be- "A Helpu's