New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-02-23
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
Tile MARCH MAGAZINES.

porty but valuable addition 70 the collection Oh pe'ou
tcaI literature. In public and private libraries
We have received the first number OF new
Magazine entitled the Brooklyn NonhS recently es.ao
,shed I'm that CITY by Horace w. Love Co.. INTENDED 10
-, ranro,on,ative OF American taste and cultivation,
.pd IN contain contributions from the ablest writers III
Rrooklvp the Interest of which will be the leading though
not the exclusive object OF the periodical Inc pleSe
number contains o biographical sketch OF henry
ward Beecher by l. p. BrOckett, NJ. d.. "HistoIy
sf Education In Kings County" by H. H. e'hes'
H. D., Newspaper Life in New-York'' Dy Aus uS
tus Maverick, The Hymns OF the w
Ages by Benz. D. sllmaD, 1.-The Last bat'i0 u r
WAR; by Col WIN. W Bliss 1.-The Past, Prescott anu I u
,ure Of brooklyn" by the Rev. s. T. Spear D. d. ana
several anonymous papers Of various degreesoi nio'
This work IA brought out in neat style OF Typographical
execution end Will doubtless find encouragement In the
career on which IL has entered
The contents of Pdckdrds Monthly for this
month have the usual variety aud livelness OF that
periodical and will be read with interest by tile cro"d Oh
young men for whom it is especially designed Inc
opening article The characteristics OF Printers
by Junius Henri Browne who paints his expressive pOr
trature In printers ink reproducing the features OF the
eccentric tr1bo whom he calls the born Bohenlans OF
The race" queer fellows, and ALL with some uelecs
but many virtues Intensely American, having
she shrewdes sense and clearest perceptions yet SO
Astounding in recklessness that If excursion were
planned to the Bottomless Pit the first passengers 10
secure tickets would be printers beyond all question
The Opera Bou1e is severely denounced Oy Edwin 10
Leon as tending disort the minds ana mor"S VI o'
Young men and madens well as those OF ripper years
eopcealng oathsome poison in the honey OF sweetest
melody Education IL Should Be- Is discussed IN
.eoopd paper by Horace Greeley How Beecher Makes
His Sermons" is told by Ralph Meeker, and Oliver Dyer
gives another his lurd pictures Illustrative OF the DARK
side OF metropolitan nfe
large portion of this number of LippincoH
IA taken up with fiction. including the third mstament
OF Beyond the Breakers" American novel; by ROBERT
Dale owen the SHADOW Of Fate" by r. Fitzgerald my
Grandmother that Might Have Been, by Alice Cary ana
the second part Of lover Yonder. The paper on the
"Publc Library Of Boston is valuable photographed
memoir describing the origin and progress OF that ad
irabe institution, with brief notices OF its founders ana
promoters Within IA years the library has Increased
from l6O 900 volumes TO more than $4,000 volumes, ana
with the exception Of the library Of Congress the
largest collection of the United States 1t was
the result entirely Of donations and opens its treas
ures to public without fee or assessment circulating
tts volumes with certain restrictions among the people
OF Boston, and aordng the largest facility for consult
ing the works that not allowed TO be taken from inc
building during secular days OF the from nine
o'clock the morning until ten at night The rare ana
collection OF Theodore Parker was bequeathed
20 the library by that scholar and on
mis- death in 1860 came into its possession comprising
more than 900 volumes in the most important branches
of theology intel lectual philosophy Scandinavian an
Equities the civil law the classics the Oriental languages
history and phiOlOgy. Other choice collections have
been added its contents by various pubcspirted en
Eens Of Boston, giving character Of intrinsic value to the
library, as well Of wide compass. A paper on the
"Foundng Hospital In London" gives some curious facts
illustrative Of the social life in that metropolis, though
the writer is not always in his Details confound
ing for instance the Christian name OF the celebrated
poetic founding Richard Savage, with that OF Mghy
esteemed venerable antiquary and geneaogst In Boston,
who has taken much pains TO mako faithful record
OF the names OF Others for his own to be wrongly applied
TO the London adventurer. Hans Breltmann III
Politics." by c. G. Leland presents the hero of his maea'
ronc verses in phase of activity among the self
sacrificing patriots Of the day. The number closes with
the usual gossip aud notices Of current literature.
Hours at Home for March has more than its
usual variety wen the to popular taste for
agreeable if amusing Magazine articles. In the first
paper Professor VIM Wells offers sketch Of the celebra.
ted French journalist Emile de Gsrdn relating at length
several the salient details Of his Kaleidoscope career
Professor continues his instructive suggestions on
Books and Reading" laying down number OF excel
bent rules the profitable OF books and closing his
homy with sautary warning against TOO liberal IN
diligence their perusa 1t is implied in all these rules
that no person should feel obliged to read everything
that is published. Read everything that Is puDhsheu
why should man think of such thing. II were as rea
sonable feel obliged talk with every man whom yo
meet and to talk with him long as he chooses to ho
you the button whether he taks sense or
sense, whether what he says concerns you little 0
much OF not at all And yet there are who aspire
read everything that is printed-men who in order
keep abreast with the literature Of the day. the
phrase IT, labor hard at the service and grOan inwady
not audbly because the time fails them amds
the multitude OF books which every week BRING
cut But the attempt and the desire seen
10 us very unreasonable, Unless indeed all au
tbors are equally able and honest, choice wei
necessity should direct 10 the opposite. For VIII
would listen TO organ grader in the streets when
might hear from the nobest Of instruments harmonies
to be played I'm heaveni Or who would stop listen
violin soraper when mis- way a series Of solos b.
Ole Bull or Pagannii Or who would read laundering
confused lying history when lie might read that
neat, orderly, aud trustwOrthy1 Or why read the on
when you are satisfied from the otheri Who would reaC
AnOvel or poem that depicts disgusting degrading
scenes, that paints virtuOusly but feebly when b.
might read those that present worthy themes Civ
them well. Books are constantly issued cOncernin
which it honor to to say that he has reat
thembooks which repel right minded man the verJ
slightest ntance-boOks of which such would
nstnctvey, that he knows enough OF them wisl
20 know nothing more" Lost in the Desert" in
teresting bit from the Journal Of accomplished traveller
John ID. Sherwood; italy Ho," spirited portrait OF
Reynard Fox his works and ways by the indefat
gable schele dc Vec aud there readable papers by
n Towle on the Vineyards OF France" Professor
Fisher on 1.-THE New Life OF Raleigh" and Gen. j. Grant
Wilson, on Two Veterans" boGide translation from
the Russian "sevastopO in May, 1865" from
the German giving "reminiscences Of schleermacher
both Of which add TO the interest Of the number.
The new story by Charles Reade, entitled
"Put Yourself in his Place." with which the Galary
opens introduces tho reader to English manufactur.
Ing town, in which the eaouses OF Tire operatives fur
nsh the materials for the first what promises
be plot Of exciting interest. portrait OF Mr. c. W.
Curtis IN the series devoted to New York Journalists
BY Eugene Benson compares the productions OF that
fayore writer to the paintings Of Kensett and repre-
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