New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-03-19


TIIoRs RISING TO sUCCEss-sTATUES AND
| PICTUREs-A JOURNALISTIC DINNER-A TIE
| ATRICAL QUARREL-sOCIAL SCIENCE ENlE"
PRISES.
| BosTON, March 1.-THE times are Frightening
up; that Is 10 say speak for the account BOOKS
and balance Sheets but there more news and gossip
literary and art matters floating DShe air than usual
| and I send you "A full budget.
Messrs Roberts Brothers published the only book
now recall issued here since last letter. In Arthur
| Helps's "Casimr Maremma," novel which, not"''-
standing the Oriental OF its hero devoted to the
solid subject OF the emigration question as 1t presehs
self to philosophers in the crowded districts OF England
and vet lively aud fascinating as novel; with some dell
cate and skiful characterdrawIng They are preparing
TO issue on the goth Miss Fothnghams hexameter trans
lation Goethe's dyl, Of which have spoken hereto
fore and on the LIST OF April, Miss Louisa NJ AlcoteS
semiiuvenile novel, "An Old Fashioned Girl" vi 'ns
latter they printing the extraordinary hrst ed
ton OF copies threeourths Of the number being IN
answer to advance orders. They have engraved lour
very pretty pictures for the book and are confident tat
IL will command q similar to that attained Wy
Little Women" which it closely resembles In style
The book is to be simultaneously In London Illus
trations and ALL by Sampson Low * Son. MISS Aicots
says in her preface:
1.-THE .Old Fashioned Girl not intended as perfect
the Period who seems sorrowfully ignorant or ashamed
OF the good old fashions which make woman truiy q,
ul and honored and through her render home what IL
snoud be-a happy place, where parents ana chIdfen,
brothers to love and know and hepo one
| another"
Rather an nnusual compliment that paid to Ameri-
can editor OF the essays English writer by Sampson
Low Son. who sent from London for an edition OF
Messrs Roberts Brothers volume Leigh Hunts Day by
the Fire and Other Papers," for the English market
Gail Hamilton's pucky. unwse, snappy little DOCK IS
out and we told by the IN INC
lady publishers own name though she herself Is sojour'
ing in Washington the first edition is already ex'
hausted and the second rapidly making ready
that many the newspapers in noticing the DOOR, say
that would be unjust to pronounce an OPINION upon INC
matters in controversy until the publishers SO bitterly
attacked shall have been heard in their own DEFENSE
think there ia no ground the assumption that the
house f. likely TO take any steps TO meet or resent
this assault They will rather rest their own reputation
and the manifest disqualification OF their accuser ny
reason OF temper and prejudice, aud so let the gale do"
itself out BY the way, the drolest thing ma IN the
book after all the authors sharp sayings and witty
stories fully enjoyed and digesteds an error
OF the writer's guide philosopher and friend, Mr. Dane
| a well known member OF the Boston bar He explains
his remark that wholesale price OF books rs 40 per
cent off the retail by adding the Illustration that
book that retas at 81 40 Is whoesaei at 81 The Diuh
der is commonplace enough be noticed but for the
lofty strain IN which Nr. Dane continues Pardon me-
but never imagine that woman comprehends what per
cent meansp After this Of the champions OF the
e1uaty OF the sexes mathematical and political, ought
10 make point OF this grand assumption on small OASIS
I'm hundred through the country III might DC
| done without compunctions OF conscience as TO Gail
Hamtons friendship for the unhappy gentleman 10 DO
held m "A hord example for she has never, with all
her mascunity and independence taken up arms for the
acknowledgement OF her but has been powerful III
| fuence on the other side.
| Messrs Fields Osgood & CO. will publish on Saturday
the volume Miracles Past and Present. by the Rev.
william MOuntford, announced some time ago. IL turns
ont TO be in fact work sprtualism, In which MI
Mounford Is firm believer but on very different plane
from OF the spirituasc books written mere during
the past decade. IL book OF clear vigorous tnough
with no yagueness about IT, written by man who sees
in the miracles OF Old Testament and the New the
OF magicans, and the phenomena OF spri
uaIism in our day something OF kinshp. and who
forward TO the utter disappearance OF the material
dsbeevng spirit OF the present before another genera
| tion has passed away.
The same publishers have given TO the printers at last
the fifth and final volume OF their collection Of Thack-
erays "Msceanes," for which they and their agents
have been months housing about among ancient and
forgotten English periodical literature, In order to make
il nearly complete possible. They have gathered
many things in the elegant Smith Elder edition
completed in London within year. and the circles OF
Thackeray worshpers will turn with eaGerness to the
| volume when 1t appears, 20 find new things not
| few from the masters hand. The task has not
| been easy, and has consumed great deal OF
! time beyond that at first set for the appear
ance Of the book. IL includes "Catherine.' the
Christmas Books and the Ballads" which are In the
English octavos and the things mainly essays
contributed in the days Of Thackerays youth
aud before the days OF his fame Many Of them are III
the form OF letters oliver Yorke' the editor. One
budget is called Titmarsh among Pictures and Books
several pieces OF art criticism, STRUCTURES
on Pictures" Our Annual Execution" "A Pictorial
| Rhapsody" "On Men and Pictures" and a number of
literary critiques Box Of Novels" About Christ
mas Book On some Illustrated Chdrens Books" \
Grumble about the Christmas Books" and so forth In
one of these papers occurs Ihackeray's first warm,
hearty praise OF Dickens, then still known popularity as
Boz" he calls " tho master Of all tho English
humorists alive; the young man who came and took
his place calmly the head of the whole tribe" This
was written apropos OF the Christmas Carol and there
are references the later essays to The Cricket on the
Hearth" and others OF Mr.. Dickenss books as they
came out Then the volume contains bunch OF Fraser
Mlscellanies" such as Fashnable Fax and Polite Amy
| goats" the delicious "Memorials of COMMANDING"
which the English editor strangely omitted though Mr.
Fields had already brought IL to the hight in the Early
and Late Papers," Grant In Paris and Lamar Blanch-
ard and the Chances of the Literary Profession Tho
volume has also seven Selections from Punch begin
| ming with " Meditaons Solitude" and " Round
about Ride" written In lsis. long before the Round
about Papers" thought Of and ending with Dt OF
fun suggested by early advertisements OF Pamers
Legs"
Another OF the literary enterprises Of Messrs Fields,
Osgood Co which has not yet been announced is the
reissue of their edition of Thackeray in q new
| FORM called the Illustrated Library Edition"
They have engraved the principal original illustra-
tions from the noyeists own pencil, not the initial
| letters and little scattered cuts in the text but
the full page pictures, the number OF from thirty TO
fifty novel, and by using thicker paper than In their
| =" Household" edition will make u very pretty volume,
neatly bound the books shelves OF those who do not
object TO rather fine type and double columns They
will issue the novels during the Spring, two each month";
,,a, foov than Miscellanies," making