New-York tribune., 1870-02-07
AMONG TIE BOOKSELLERS.

falnler.
Anew work on Alaska .by Dr. Styles, embracing
the record of three years travel and observation, VIII
soon be published by Lee & Shepard.
The poems of the late George ID. Prentice are to
be collected and published by his Col Clarence
j. Prentice.
The Appletons announce reprints Of several English
novels including Anthony TrollOpe's " Ralph the
Heir which they have already commenced IN their
Journal: and q translation of Queen HoTtenSe, one
Of the intorminable Muhlbach series.
Seribner & Co. are preparing volume by Professor
Francis Bowen on American Political Economy
with the currency problem and other financial ana
economical questions which have arisen out OF the
"The History of the Public School Society OF the
City Of New-York." by William GLAND Bourne when
will shortly be published by William Wood d Co.,
will embrace the famons discussion on the seotarl9n
distribution of school money by which the late Arch
bishop then Bishop Hughes first became famous.
Messrs. LoypOdt & Holt have just issued new
and revised edition Of Spielhagep's " Through
Night to Light" which they assure us has been care
fully purged of the numerous blunders Of the types
and the translator, TO Whleh we called attehlloh
when the book first appeared.
We found fault with The Cincinnati Gazette for
speaking of an indictment as "nollied," which. we
observed was not English. The Gazette retorts that
We use the word "patOis" which isn't English
either. In reply, we may say that patols is TO oe
found IN the best English distionares, and the verb
ITO molly" is not
Mr. Thomas Cook, 1.-THE Engshman who takes
tourists all over the world contract, after the
style of Mark Twain's "Innocents Abroad has
written pamphlet in reply TO Cornelius ODowd,
who pOked cruel fun at him in BtdckUOod and DEW.
H. Russell who seems to have made some nreYefent
remarks about COOKS 1Oullsts III MS DIARY III
the East"
The Saturday ReridU in its latest summary of
american Literature praises Col Higginsons
Army Life in Black Regiment" Professor
Whites "Ecce Femina," and Mrs. Hawthornes
"NOes in England and Italy = smashes Mr., Sher-
woods Comic History of the United States" and
appreciativey notices the holiday edition of Long
fellows Building of the Ship"
A correspondent of The Boston Transcript asks why
"A Message from the Sea-" which has always been
credited to Mr.. Dickens is not included in any
edition Of hs.worzsi The samelquestion might be
asked about many other short tales and sketches OF
the same authors, such. for example, as the admir-
able story published several years ago under the title
of The Perils of Certain English Prisoners and
some OF the stories which appeared IN the CHRISTMAS
numbers of All The Year Round and Household JoTds.
There is, in fact edition of Dickens's works. III
either America OF England, which approaches COM
pleteness
Thej latest London illustrated papers contain
pictures Of the Bonaparte tragedy the scene of the
assassination portraits of the actors and the crowds
at the funeral Both The Graphic and The illustrated
London Nous receved from BrentanO) devote several
cuts to this subject but they have been anticipated
here by some original sketches IN Hdrpers UetNtg.
The Graphic is rapidly improving IN the only paItcu-
lar wherein it has seemed to need much improve
ment-namely, the press-wOrk. BrentanO also sends
ms The Period with a coOred cartoon of Gen. Grant,
The TCmakark The IjiH o the Uisp, and the l2th
number Of AatAre.
William Tell was long ago proved to be myth,
and in recent number of the RerHe des Deur Mondes
NJ Marc Monnier has given another blow to the ideal
q u. ~ II ,1o+o ICnIr.
by showing that the fable was not the outgowth OF
popular legend or the exaggeratiOn OF some hlsto-
cal fact, but was manufactured out OF whole clOth
more than a century and half after its assigned
date. 1t first appeared in the Ib6 A6aS OF l4'4 NJ
Marc Monnier contends however that the real his
Nry of the struggle Of the Four CantOns against the
despOtism of the HapsburgS Is more pOetical lnah
the legend. This is some consolation. bmt nothing
can make amends for the loss of William Tell
Tie Quarterly Reriac has already replied to Mrs
Stoves Lady Byron Vindcated," and explains the
circumstances under which the important letters
printed in its previous issue were brought to light
They were given the authority OF the Earl OF
Chichester, Lord William Godolphin Osborne, and
MIR George Leigh, the only surviving of Colonel
and Mrs Leigh Several others, of similar purport
are added. and also the following in which Lady
Byron refers to the charge of incest which was then
siie'uS M1vART's HOTEL, Feb %, 1916
M, dear Mrs Tiliers: consider your letter as very
Rnd proof of the Justice you my feelings, which
by no mean absorbed in own distress as 70 forget
regret the reports which have been circulated re atve to
the cause separation between Lord b. ana myself,
and none more sorrow than tDat whlch
you mention rejecting Mrs Leighs character; but
as can positively assert that notode Of the many reports
have been sanctioned or encouraged by me-
my family my friends Ieannot consider myself III any
degree responsible for them 80 -
During my residence under the same roof with Mrs.
Leigh all my friends have heard me express the most
grateful and aectoDate sense OF her good offices toward
me; and before left the house. wrote OF her. and spoke
of her, those terms TO every one who was intimate
with me. 1870. :,
aware that publication of the real grounds OF difference
between Lord B and myself would be extremely i'm
proper, and. in conformity with the advice nave re-
ceived must abstain from any further DISCLOSURE III is
very painful 70 me to be Obliged IN 10 appear
less confidential than wish toward YOU nave been
with my father since came TO town. OF course wish
npon by my legal advisers that shall have cOmmun
cation with Piccadily. must ask free indulgence Tor
mis- ansTer You 90 no, hnVT rcnm5nces or skaud
feel Of it, Al least, believe me- my dear Nlis
Villiers, yours most truely, a. BYRON
The Hon. Mrs Viliiers
I'm the Spring of $780, continues the reviewer
fourteen years after the separation OF hnsband ana
wife-Lady Byron and Mrs. Leigh quaIreled, ABOUT
money matters il ~ believed-Mrs. Leigh taking
the initiative by declining all further intimacy with
Lady Byron In regard TO Medora Leigh the re-
viewer states that Lady Byron, having known all
about this unhappy gl for ten years without making
any effort for retaining her. suddenly sent for her
i'm the Autumn of 1910, brought her 10 Paris, and
there. or at Fontainebleau, told her the revoting
story of her alleged paternity" In ls43 she took
measuIcs for establishing MedOra Leigh abroad.
1.-The paragraph that has been going the round OF
the papers stating that her story was received by
everybody true is sheer invention OF the writer"
Lady Byron did not forgive Medora Leighs relapse
into frailty. She died in lS47. The reviewer declares
that he has seen the memorandum which Lady
Byron gave Mrs. Stowe and that 1t
contains not q syllable from which any sane person
without 'preudicate' opinion could collect that
Lady Byron ever made the charge IN question, or
any charge involving crime at any time" This how
ever is of little consequence, for Mrs. stoves pre-
indicate opinion was based upon Lady Byrons un-
iaistakable language. Upon the whole the cOntrO-
IN efgl ~ "A