New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-11-10
AMONG THE BOOKSELLEKS.

America and Asia: Notes of Five Years
Journey Around the World, and OF hesufnEo
in Arizona, Japan. and China 1t forms h'''u
some octave of $50 pages illustrated with WOOD en-
cravings. photographs maps, ana Iac hno,ers
Japanese drawings. Yhe most Important thS
at the present junCtnTe are those ItItllut 81 -
Chinese Emnire especially in connection Win ls
new policy Of intercourse with NtsVeLnt KUnck
Professor Pumpelly gives coId coiort ." Dhnol and
dedicates his work 10 Arson Burllngahe' 90 ts;,,,
aufhor of that diplomatic policy WHICH IN oiise
China into the circle of independents hA'ioN'' paw
iscs good 20 the whole WOIld' >, , q
More charming little books than the bayai" "e
ries imported by Scribner, Wexford d Co., u Is hoV
eften the good fortune Of man to see Twelve VOL
umes have now been published, printed III DAINTY
TYNE. with ornamented initials and head ana IAN
pieces delicate cream-tinted paper ana elt eogcs'
and bouud i'm flexible covers Each volume Is Co,n
Met i'm itself and costs only 81 y. The rst OK the
series is The Story of the Chevaer bayaro; rt ni
which we shall speak more fully hereafter, hno
latest is "Chrstabel and the Lyrical anu llnagIIa
five Poems OF $. T. COleTidge," arranged ana iluo
duccd bv AlgernOn Charles Swinburne. Inc eniUoIs
preface is good criticism and good writing WIN one
Selection of pieces we have no fault 10 ma except
th;,. there should be any selection at all When VIC
mi ght have had the whole
The principal course of study pursued by MI loots
ut DR.. Blimber's establishment, was writing lmagl-
nary letters to himself from all the distinguished
persons he could think of The literary luster OF
Walter Savage Lander will rest principally upon MS
aharacters OF various ages and countries. Mr. Charles
Ianman of Washington, ID. g.. emulates the glory OF
either ToOts LandOr for he has nearly READY loI
the press a volume of Imaginary Letters, SUPPOSED
10 have been written by ali Sorts OF people III Which
ne purposes combining entertainment and instruction
in about equal proportions.
OF new novels the number is not bewldering. MT
Kimbals " To-Day" is now on CaTletons shelves
but it has been long one of the chief attractions OF
n magazine that it is hardly new book. Peterson
b,rl fro n SOuthWOTfl
L the shape of one and calls it by the enrious te
Of " The Prince of Darkness Romance OF the DIue
Ridge" which is the name OF the longest vi 'e IUi
kales Arsene HOusSaye's Les Pdr1SteHaeS Is pun
hshed in French at the Office of the Courier dfs EtdS
Inis as one of the serial tctiOns regularly issued un,
der the title of La Se1RGRe Ltteidife The beautiful
little " Handy-vOlume seres" by which the Roberts
Brothers are gratefully known Is enriched 10y
volume of German Tales " of BerthOld Auerbachs-
q writer whose introduction TO America has been
benefit To the country The Soprano" is the title
of a musical story just published by LOrlng: Inc
author who writes under the nom dc plume OF Jane
kingsfOTd, Is gentleman named Barnard lie mas
more skill in expressing aud inspiring enthusiasm Tor
the higher kinds of music than IN constructing q
story Persons of taste kindred to his own VIII
relish his little book and residents OF Boston Will
recognize some of the pen-portraltS drawn W. ~,
Harper & Brothers add to Their well-knoWn nulaIy
Wrecked in Port which is very talr specimen OF
the workmanship of Mr.. Edmund Yates.
Murray's catalogue of forthcoming works includes
new series of Contributions to the Literature of
Artn selected from the remains of Sir c. Lock East
lake, with memoir by Lady Eastlake; "a Personal
Narrative of Occurrences at Pekin during Lord FL
gins Second Embassy to China" by H. Is. Loch, who
the EarIs private secretary; travels III Ldl'ie
Known Parts of Asia Minor by the Rev. Henry d.
Van Iennep; "ScTambes among the Alps" by Ed-
ward Whymper; and a." Brittany and Its Byeways'"
by Mrs. PallIseT.
Several important art works are among the holt
day announcements of Bell & Daddy in London. An
imperial quartO volume containing sixteen autotype
of la
Sheepshanks Gallery" with twenty of the most i'm
pOrtant pictures in the Sheepshanks collection ut the
South kensingtOn Museum, reproduced by the same
process; and volume of photographs of the works
of Sill George Harvey are among those 10 be ready
this mouth. Bell & Daddy have also under way
reissue of the works of George Crulkshank
In Scribners list of Christmas books the most
prominent titles a small quarto edition of Mrs
Browning's Lady Geraldine" with illustrations
drawn by Hennessy and engraved by Linton ;
"Songs of Life. small quartO volume of miscella-
neOus selections, with drawings by Hcnnessy, Her
mex Fem GrswOld, barley, HOppn, Eytnge, and
others; and POuchets elab0rately Illustrated WORK
on The Universe" with nearly $50 wood cuts and
four cOlOred plates. curious book TO be issued by
the same house Is entitled Pictures Of EdgewOOd.
in which Mr.. Donald q. Mitchell gives an account OF
his famous farm and a view of Its past and its present
condition. illustrated with photographs by Rock
wood. The edition of this work will consist of only
3gO copies.
The announcements of d. Appleton & Co. for the
for Winter Sunbeams, to be printed in rather lux
urious style and abundanty illustrated; the first
part of Mr. s. Barring Gould's Origin and Develop
ment of Religious Belief :" the thirl volume of Dr.
Eluts PHYSIOLOGY of Man, and Translation of
Vogers Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Chill
dTen" For holiday books they offer a companion tO
their last years Schiller Gallery" namely, The
Goethe Gallery with fifty steel engraylngs by Pecht
and Won Ramberg: The Poet aud the Painter OF
Gems of Art ami Song" with - large steel engTav-
lngs; The Churehs Floral Calendar" an iunn-
mated volume of selections for the church festivals.
and In FARMLAND poem of William Allingham's,
with coored illustrations by Richard Doyle
j. b. LipPincott & Co. have in press Analysis
of American Law" by I. w. Powell; Manual Of
Hypodermic Medication by Prof Roberts Bartho
low Vital Philosophy; Survey Of Substance
md an FxpositiOn of Natural Religion" by JOna-
thar, = Mcdonald; THE Great Empress a Por-
trait by Prof Schelc De We're; A Memorial Vol
unIe Of the Hon. Howell Cobb of Georgia." edited
j. g. Findel revised by ID. Murray Lyon; - In Both
Worlds" by the author of The Sexes Here and
Hereafter and Prof OrdonauX translation OF the
famous Rtgimet, SdRtatiS' of the school OF saer-
num- They are also getting ready for the holiday
trade editions imported presume) of several En-
Rlish art works, including the Turner Landscapes
and "Sheepshanks Gallery" of which we have
spoken above Their list of forthcoming novels
comprises an Egyptian romance by Edwin DE Leon.
"Magdalena,' by b. Marlltt, and Puck" by Ouida.
Several miscellaneous announcements call for
word of notice. Cassell, Peter, g. GalpiD win
soon offer collection of Studies from the Choice
Poems of Thomas Hood" illustrated on steel 10y
ustaye Dore The subjects chosen by the artist are
4he Song of the Shirt Ruth, the Lady's Dream, the
Haunted House. the Bridge of Signs, Queen Nab.
the Ode 10 Melancholy, and the Dream OF Eugene
Aram.-WiddlctOn has in preparation new edition
of the poems of Edgar A. Poe, with thirty ilustra-
tions on wood by Patton. MeWhirter, Stanton, Proc
tor Standard Hay. Lawson, Palmer. and Others
Macmillan promises Globe Edition of Spenser.-M.
w. DOdd has in press a second series OF Il. Paxton
Hoods Lamps. Pitchers, and Trumpcts.'-G. =.
Putnam 81 Son announce a story of college life en-
titled Fair Harvard" -Hurd & HOughtOns list in
cludes an account Of the festivities carols, aud
ancient Observances of " The Holidays" by Nathan
n u nv narlav