New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-16
NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE,

with the grown-up people 10 which faction MISS ips
sett belongs Roberts Brothers have quite iong hSt
OF books under way. Among them are Engisn i@Ssons
for Fpclisb Iearners bv E. A. Abbott, A. NJ, and j. r.
| seeley A. NJ the author OF "Ecce Homo - Radical
| Faith" by the Rev. c. A. Bartol, worA Which VIII
curioisy combine the doubts and negations OF ramon
nlist thinker with the ecstaeies OF beneVlng soul;
" Four storics OF the Supernatural" by Mrs. Richard
| Grcenouoh "A book which Mrs Helen Hunt admires
with so much enthusiasm as to convince us IL must DC
| deIiebtful and make a premontory cold SILVER run
down our backs Outlines to Shakespeare by Moritz
Retzscb COMPRISING Hamlet Macbeth Romeo and Juliet
otbelo King Lear. Tempest. Merry Wives OF Windsor,
and King Henry w. with 1oi plates illustrative OF the
text altogether OF the most elegant gift OF the
season. 1.-THE Unknown River" by Philip Gilbert Ham
erton with etchings by the author, and most lovely
OF all illustrated books. Goodnight and Good Morn
ing" Poem by Lord HoughtOn, with etchings on cop
per- and flower borders by Walter Severn Nothing can
be beautiful than these Illustrations Each verse
the center of and surrounded by what looks
like OF Billingss finest pen-and-ink drawings
two sides and the Others flowers colored from ma
ture ground Of dead gold should waste words In
trying TO make you how pretty II is The Messrs
Roberts have Just received the proofs OF book Of which
they are 10 import an edition from England-'The
Homes OF Other Days. with illustrations from the iiu
limitations in Contemporary Manuscripts aud other
sources. drawn and engraved by W. Farholt, Esq f.
g. A. The author is the celebrated antiquarian Mr..
Thomas Wright, who published, in 1862 "a History OF
Domestic Manners and Sentiments during the Middle
Ages" book which speedily became standard WORK III
literature, The $50 wood-cuts, which are to embelish
this volume particularly attractive to me Is
fascinating just how those dead ana gone
people, our far away ancestors, lived. You see
here their quaint drinkng-cups, their chairs,
their beds with tall fair asleep them, thrones
with Saxon kings seated on them, queer little Dahles
done up like mummes, and rocked IN queer niue
cradles and even have picture OF an execution by
hanging, showing that Angles we're not all angels or
all saints Their games and sports are also rep
resented their and their towns and the charot
in which they drave furiously." We have droll little
specimens OF their literature also rhymeless songs ana
bits of description favored with sweetscened herbs
Another English book sent for the consideration
OF this firm. is Chamber Dramas for Children by Mrs
George Macdonald. II includes version OF Cinderella
the story Of Beauty and the amable Beast,
on whom Beauty finally bestows her lily
white hand, The TetteTby's, from Dckens's
= Haunted Men," and "The snowdrop." In the last
there is a drol, little matrimonial squabbe between
king and queen The queen has begged little daugh-
of the fairies, aud speaks to the king OF my little
girl that is coming q" The king, reasonable
as his sex always in their dealings with their wives,
interrupts her. loy-" Queen should prefer heir,
IL You please" The Queen with the diplomacy
natural TO a subject race, "Oh, should youi I'm very
sorry YOU then because Pm nearly sure the fairy
promised me girl" OF course the Queen in the end,
has it all her own way.
JOAQUIN Miller and his "songs of the sierTas continue
to be talked about and written about NJ. d. Conway.
always picturesque has represented Miller figuring at
London parties in " red shirt and top boots" Miller
pleads guilty to the boots, but declares that of the
two intimate garments which IL II customary FOR gentle
wear the under may have been red; but the
which concealed IL the honor OF the
wearer always spotlessy white. Millers first knowl-
edge of the "tled lady" TO whom he offered himself In
London and by whom he rejected came to him here
Another report that the LondOners found him bore
as well boor has quite as little foundation IN fact
He writes to friend in Boston: Il rarely went into
society London. did not attend one in twenty of the
breakfasts dinners and evenings TO which was asked
went to club but the Savage" and was there but
twice-the last By especial request and arrangement
| that 1 might meet my friends, many OF whom had
| never before. There was a fuller attendance
! they told me- than there had been for years, and
was made honorary member (which is rare honor
indeed and the clerk gave me most cordial letter TO
| the Saturday Club OF New York"
| The newspaper stories concerning Mer's domestic
troubles have led him furnish for the American edi-
ton OF his POEMS written to his wife, and entitled
| "MYRRH." He says it was written with his hearts
blood. will give you few stanzas, which think we
bound to accept as his own version OF the story
And you and have buried Love,
| A red seal on the collins ma;
| The clerk below, the Court above,
Pronounced 1t dead: the corpse is hid
| And /, who never crossed your Will,
Consent-that you may nave II stil'
| "What reeks it now whose the bamel
| But call il mine for better used
Am 10 wrong and cold disdaiH-
Can better bear TO he accused
OF all that wears the shape OF shame
Than have you feel one touch Of blame
81 alone: little hands
To lead me from forbidden ways,
No little voice in other lands
Shall cheer me all the weary days:
Yet these are yours, and that TO me
IL much indeed, and il must he.
81 did not blame you-dO not blame.
The stormy elements Of soul
That have scorned 10 tone or tame,
Or bind down unto dull control
In full fierce youth, they all are yours,
With all their folly and their force.
but should you some time read sign
name among the pTincely few,
While with your friends and wine
Then careless turn TO one or two;
Saw He mine his smiles, his tears
Were mine-were mine for and years."