New-York tribune., 1873-07-26
FOREIGN LITERATURE.
prcFNr ENGLISH PUBLICATIONS.


CRITICISM on AMERICAN MANNERS
rrpnu THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE IHIhON%I
Io,-noy. July ia book by Emilio Caste
lar. ia an English dress, will bo we'comou py H''"1 1
readers on both sides the Atlantic. Ms' AZ 'lu.
excellent translation OF "R' 'cuerIos uo i.'', ~ ~
lished here by Tnsey Brothers, ana py tue ii' -
yo,y,rk the latter paying Mrs Arnold alr price Ior
o1,,rce sheets The English tltle Is OId Rome anu
New italy" and the accuracy and freshness oI inc
,r,,slatoa NAV be inferred from Mrs. ArhoihS We"
lpoVn familiarity with the Spanish her personal ac-
ouantance with CASTELAR, ana her many iaccoMpii'n-
ments.
Third" q vols. 8yo. Tiusley Brothcr) Is book which
NAV be warmly commended to those Americans (iuht
ington saws they were always about fouiilths OF "a"
who came TO Pari who liked 70 bask IN tho imitation
sunshine OF tho Tuories in the days OF the Imperial
usurper The author is the late Felix Whtchurat ana
many an American bosom VII glow with rapturous
memories when l add that Felix Wh.tehurst was tue
correspondent OF Tie Duly Telegraph There never was
anything Ike his letters OF which the present volumes
are reproductions there ever another journal
In which such letters would have been 50 perfectly at
home. Mr. WhitChurst recognized By the Imperial
nnc.onares, by the police above al, as useiul per
SON. They made him free OF the imperial festivities ana
supplied him with great deal Of what IL was Thought
desirable should be published in London as authentic
Intelligence from Paris. 10 tho most
d1iksv and a parastc-and 1 am afraid he
WAS botb-but he knew how to make fuukeyism
egtcrtl!liug and 10 persuade You that parasite fdl-
filed a harmless and amusing function. Hc 6"Ofe by
The Emperor and above all by the Empress. You can
not ind more rank Imperialism in the writings OF either
OF the Granicls, father who call themselves de
Clssaeuac uosannas to the Of the Queen Of Hoi-
land rosound every page. But tley VIII d0no great
harm now though they did enough in their time IN The
D4ly TeIrrGDh, by helping 20 dcbauch England in the
interests Of Comparison. Their interest noW-ni
real interest wayis as photographs OF that vul-
gar glitter which many Foreigners, VINO knew uOthhs
OF the real Court life OF France mstook for royal spen
dor There are always plenty Of people VINO believed
that the quarter St. German migrated under the En-
uire 70 the Boulevard Hausmann and for such there
was o prophet nor chr0ncler like the correspondent OF
The DQly Te'cJruDh. lie is dead, poor fellow: and
hone ne s happier for knowing that his sparkling de-
scrptlons Of Court ne enjoyed so keenly have been
nut into bou AMI s,iu may be read though the Court
is no more.
the age ffac-sniIes The ANcnD,ui announces
that a new fac-simile Of the IGlJ Shakespeare Folio,
uldcr the direct supervision OF Ir. Howard sUuutul
vii be shortly issued, adding this rather curious state
meut The fac-simile is reproduction OF the splendid
cary i'm the library OF the E.. OF Ehemero 40 Eldge
water House supplemented where any pages OF tNat
volume arc detective by the G-e copy n tLo orenFils
Library OF the British Museum" 1r. Howard Staln.
[
editors and as he is correspondent O. me AHenDUal
this paragraph ou-nt 10 be authoritative. But Is the
esu.rs rst folio defective, 1uit H Is can 90 bt called
a sp,culii copyl / am wruus away from my bJla8
and cannot refer 10 them TO verify NY memory but 10
c1u hardly De true true that somo page" Of chat COPY
are wanting Some may DE defective % fof Mr. 5a1n-
tons purpose that b., presume, .Jr plotO tAOgraph
iu, aud better corresponding PAGES may be found in
orncr COPIES But why fac-simile Not 10 speak on
Verbatim ropdnts-of which There are two, one pub
lrsLed n , 3ui IN 1855, the t er the more aeeu-
rato-wc have ady plofoz1cO-r1pbic fac-simile ol
the 1875 folio produced some ten years since uAIer Mr.
Howard stauntons direct supervision" That book is
not yet out OF the market 10 w1s Published 40 s. .,
and sold for time a a5lut - Oh until the stock in
The booksellers hands was reduced, but may s D' mad
FOR E3 y fu any reasonable quantity 1 am toll c)pies
have been Sold iu America lcr as much a' 500 W.ch
seems rather tine usual 100 per cent profit oi the
American book porter and seller. Il there is real
demand for new fac-simile 10 mUs, De due 10 the TACT
that the former f, not fac-simile To VIII be found on
examination that copies differ good deal In general ap-
pcauucc, and differ also, have been told, tcAtualiJ.
Tie truth s that the plates from which tho book was
printed bad the iupcriectoIs well as the merits of
photographs, and that where they seemed defect
i've they were rtoucLad Now the retpucnine OF text
I'm SO dccata It state as thar OF the Shakespeare Folio
is sara 90 lead % errors aAI errors there are ia this
so-cacd fac-simile produced uuIar Mr. Howard staun-
toms direct supervision. III he W ulIara.. tult each
page auI limo of the fac-simile shan De literal
impression of tho original page aud line, defective or
uo shall be happy 90 sci. my COPY on the former issue
ana 1.y new one Even in tlIs case should prefer
a fac-simile Of some ono known and integral copy r0
msl,Ip fac-simile of different parts 0l 500 cOpiss. For,
except asa curiosity. such book is absolutely worth
less unless absolutely accurate Perhaps 5ir stanton
viii kindly rise 20 cgpa.n. when hs new fac-simile is
ready, IN whltits superiority % iho Old consists. An
other fac-simile, also OF much interest TO students Of
seyentccn'hccutury literature, is ,lc original version
OF Paradise Lost; being Fac-Simile Reprint OF the
First Edition - crown ro 1885,. by B. NJ Pcayrlnc tAc
son Of William Pickering, whose name VIII long bc held
ia honor by lovers of wcil-rutod lo.s and ia whose
stops the sou from time % te attempts walk not
successfully II s unfortunate for him ud for an Of w
Chat really good printing is thing much more dni.rlt
90 come by iu these days than ir was twenty and Thirty
years ago. It's the fault of rho ago than
pIntars we want books too cheap and printers ink at
Cl q pound cannot be expected o. De brilliant If it
cost 20s Even tie best French work too usrou
Miss Braddon stIl retains something OF her old vogue
among uOvelTcaders,-n0 perhaps, that readers love
Miss Braddon more but her rivals less. The existing
school, OF mob Of sensational writers D. some
thing dreadful 10 think of, and would be moro dreadful
to read II one had 20 read them. In what s;o can the
brains be Of those galeyslayes who review half dozen
novels a week IN the papersl However here i5 Miss
Bg1dlon, as good bad ever. with what her pub
Usher calls her 3" hcw work" ready ia three vol
umes at all Ibrarc, meauing all circulating iJgaricl
"straugcrs and Pilgrims "Of which | can conscien-
tously say have not read word, and do not mean
II there are auyiAmercans sul left on the other side
Of the Atlantic let beg of Them ont Of tenderness for
the rufed sensibtes Of The S1trday Rsricr to stay
there The efforts Of that journal TO promote kindly
feelings between England and America have long been
known to u.s. We appreciate, hope, its ingenuity IN
finding nvcnting occasions for saying good natured
thing about America and Americans It's regard for lit
erary proprices is very great, but will sometimes
neglect them for the sake OF dragging IN paragraph
aprOpos OF its subject but useful In keeping ts main
object before It's readers To-day for instance it re-
Yiews DE Sclele de Neres hnnl, Thn Enrlsh of the