New-York tribune., 1873-02-05

done no good no one can eommend who. for past folly,
only asks oblivion.
But sho lived long past tho innocent foes OF those
young dancing days. She did much good She loved
faithfully, ana coanseled wisely and think no reader
will account the time lost which Dr. D0ran invites US
TO spend in making her acquaintance
The young people are TO De congratulated on pros
pect, which take pleasure being the first to inform
them. Lee Shepard have Just effected an engagement
with Col T. W. iggnson, by which he agrees to write
for them Chd's History of the United States some
what the plan of HawthorDes Grandfathers Char'
Col HigginsOn has long believed that history could DC
made the most attractive Of studies TO children, pre-
sented in graphic and be-like manner, giving mu0h
less in the way OF statistics of population names OF pV
ties and the like and much moro In the way OF Po-
lures of social life and the manners and habits OF e0n
period Those who have read the CoonePs " Charse
with Prince Rupert" and The Puritan Minister WI"
be at no loss TO understand how entertaining ana PIC
turesaue history will become in his hands surrey .o
present generation Of students will rise up ana ca nm
blessed for nothing more dry ana umhUrestins 0
possibly be imagined than the "United states hls'o
AZ present in use IN our schools The new TEXTBOOK WI"
have another advantage beside It's piotnresquonos
will be an excellent model OF style since ha"thorno
Il vould he hard TO find any American writer whose En-
osh s o uure and so graceful as that OF COL hIggln
SON Even our critical cousins across the wafer pocol
almost gushing IN praise OF IT. ltis curious i"o' '
STYLE seems usually the very last thing 10 oe eoDsuecu
bX lp m
profoundy as did Mr. Gradgrnd but they tell them us
baldlv as IL gracefuness OF expression we're crime
Yet there is no kind Of literature in when style is Ieay
OF so much Importance in the books winch are 10 DO
read OF studied by young people who are forming er
tastes and insensbly making TO themselves STANDARDS
of criticism as surely and inevitably as they are growing
in stature H. in these formative days. they do notearn
20 write well they will certainly learn to write i-some
habits of expression they will acquire and with refer
epoe 10 this result Col Hggnsons new history is sure
70 be public benefit His facts, we may be certain, VIII
not be lost sight Of obscured but they will be vital
zed clothed upon with flesh and blood Instead OF being
as in the present textbooks the dry bones Of skeleton
ave can't most always have things to please u.s. in
our dealings with publishers. Some years ago Mrs.
Greenough the author Of In EXtremi" wrote novel,
and good one, called Treason at Home" which was
published in England Since her recent successes, Rob-
erts Brothers have contemplated republshing II; by
which issue fame would have rested upon Mrs Green
oughs head and ducats would have enriched her pock
cts Provokingly enough they have been anticipated
by T. B Peterson Brothers of Philadelphia, who have
not only reprinted the novel; without Mrs. Greenoughs
previous knowledge, work, but greatly to her
Indignation have prefxed sensational headings to the
chapters Said indignant complainant In libel SUIT
Was IL enough TO sander me but you must slam
der in bad grammar could have borne you should
have said did it, When you said done you wentto
far" The Ieprintng might have been borne, since, In
deed the law provides remedy-but the sensational
headnes-anguage fails me- and resort to exclamation
points -
Roberts Brothers are to bring ont Bits OF Talk
about Home Matters" by H. II. The book will be full
Of wisdom chunks of It." 1t unvas the inhumanities
and barbartes of parents and sets the wrongs OF chill
dren before you such wise that they cry for Judgment
Being automatically inclined have just counted
ejghty-tbree books published by j. T. Osgood IL
Co.. last year. They are all books worth pub
fishing, either by way Of entertainment or IN
structon; and not few Of them are notable al
ditions 10 our libraries OF permanent value.
" The Odyssey Of Homer" translated by Bryant and
" The Eneid Of Virgil" translated by Cranch, have
continued the wonderful series Of poets translated by
poets with which this firm has been marking an epoch IN
the history literature In America OF scarcely less
Importance are Jonnsons book on Oriental Religions
Flagg's Woods and By-Ways Of New-England'" and
Eastlake's "Hints on Household Taste" edited for
American use by Charles c. Perkins. For 1873 the
promised publications OF Osgood Co. already number
over forty. Some of them will be Of especial interest
new poem by Bayard Taylor will tell captivating
tale, the scene Of which is laid in both Norway and
America We TO have series OF novels In transla-
tion by Emile Gaboran French writer whose stories,
40 they say display combination Of the qualities OF
Wlkie Collins and Edgar A. Poe. Here's your consoa-
ton for sick headaches and rainy days There TO be
diamond edition of the Poetical Works Of Bret Harte-
one Of the precious things put up in small parcels MI
Howels win his Chance Acquaintance" through
tie Atlantic Monthly and then it will be illustrated,
and otherwise gotten up in the elegant style with
Their Wedding Journey :" and be, like that journey
am sure an immense success" His fortune would be
made who could invent such specaces as those Howes
sees through whenever he travels. Mrs A. d. T. Whit
ney is to tell MS about The Other Girs-and if they
are as nice as the Girls have left behind us in the
other books of the author, they are sure Of their
welcome Enigmas Of Life" will be reprinted from
the English in these Cr5da MObier days we had
not enough American conundrums Useful matters,
the Text Book of Art" by Walter Smith, The Ka-
ballah Of the Ancient Egyptians" by George Felt,
Gothic Forms applied TO Furniture Decorations, &c.
by b. j. Talbert with wonderful architectural illustra-
tOns by the Heliotype process entertaining mat
ters as the very bright books Of Jules Verne serious
matters as Parson Murrays SermOns-verily with the
TremOntst Firm the coming year Is one oi Great TX
pectatiOns. l. C. NJ