New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-06-20
FOREIGN LITERATURE.
NOTES FROM ENGLAND.

ON AMERICAN TRAVELS AND AMERICAN shO0iH
TEs-sTIAKESPEARE FoIIos
IFRoM THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE ih"oNNi
LONDON. June 6.-Mr. Conway's valuable ana
unique Sacred Anthology has already reacheu
second edition in London and has been carefully
revised throughout with the help OF some OF tue
most eminent of Oriental scholars. The reception
this book has met with is creditaOle 70 the EheS"
puble for il lies ont Of the range OF ordinary study
and n demand for it indicates an interest IN htera
tures quite unlike the daily bread supplied 10 the
average reader Isaw copy the other day on the
table of a circulating library, with every marx OF
having been faithfully used. 1t seemed an odd sort
of companion for three-volume novels and magazine
essays Some of the highest literary authorities IN
England may be quoted in praise of Mr. ConwayS
book The Ucstminste Rereo saws the idea OF the
work is an excellent one, and Mr.. Conway deserves
great credit for being the first TO realize It," me
Pail NAL Gasette describes ii as volume OF beau
tiful thoughts and precepts skillfully collected by
the EDITOR" The Examiner more fully as " bible OF
humanity" adding that as an ethical textbook 1t
might well be adopted in all schools and families
where an attempt is made to ins the highest prln-
ciples of morality apart from religious dogma
The Daily Neics considers that few more valuable
contributions have been made TO the study of Com
parative Theology than Mr.. Conways Sacred An
thoogy' well fitted TO serve as a volume OF devout
reading to those who without theological fore
thought or afterthOught. apply il TO that use. IL
such reperusal of the book as have found time Tor
since noticed it, l have been more than ever i'm
messed with the variety and richness of the religious
literature it contains, and with the thoroughness OF
the editorial work Mr. Conway has done. The Amer
lean edition is believe, identical in form with the
handsome English one, and may be bought at about
the same price.
A curious pamphlet, entitled "Euthanasia," by
N IN loSh ecn pt ed ESS1Vs
by the Members of the Birmingham Speculative
Club with Preface and Thesis by Mrs. Rose Mary
Crawshay. Mrs. Crawshay's name has, perhaps,
done as much as anything to bring this little treatise
TO the hOuors Of fourth edition. The lady de-
scribes herself the tide page as member OF
Merthyr School Board, and Chairman of Naynor
School Board. 1t can hardly be indiscreet to add
that Mrs. CrawShay is the wife of one of the mil
Ionaire iron and coal owners of Wales. The new
theory to which she lends the sanction OF her name
is so startling that social guarantee for it is by
no means thrown away. Birmingham has long been
known as a headquarters for all sorts Of restless
minded people, aud the Birmingham Speculative
Club is not likely to make orthodoxy its strong point.
What Mr.. Williams advocates is, in plain words,
the right of suicide TO escape suffering. In his own
phrase his main object is to prove that I'D all cases
Of hopeless and painful Illness II should be the re-
cOgnized duty Of the medical attendant, whenever
desired by the patient. to administer chloroform,
such other an@sthetic may by-and-by super
sede chlOroform, as to destroy consciousness at
once, and put the sufferer to a quick and painless
death; all needful precautions being adopted 10
prevent any possible abuse Of such duty. and means
being taken to establish beyond the possibility OF
doubt or question, that the remedy was applied at
The express wish iof the patient" The Saturday
Rerieo speaks of this as a very ingenious essay aud
remarkable, and of the authors main argument, as
based on the paramount duty of doing all that is
IN our power TO lessen the amount of physical suf-
ferng in the world an argument which, so stated,
might support infanticde. suppose may say that
1t is Mrs. Crawshays cOuntenance which has at
tracted great part of the attention Mr. Williams's
views have received. And need not say that Mrs.
Crawshay is a sincere and courageous woman; had
che been less than that not even her wealth aud
social position would have seemed sufficient TO sus-
tain so extraordinary theory An edition OF the
pamphlet is to be brought out by Messrs Wester-
mann in New-YOrk. Prof Newman in The Spectator,
and one Lionel Tollemache in The FortnghHy are
among the eminent English writers who have no.
ticed il here.
Mr.. McGahan's volume on his remarkable journey
to Khiva, delayed unavOidably for some months, ID
now in the press of Messrs. Sampson Low MarstOn
d Co., and may be expected in two or three weeks.
As record of successful struggle with difficulties
which other men found insuperable, it deserves to
be compared with Mr.. Stanleys search for Living
stone. 1t comes out late iIsthe season. but Is likely
to be a most popular book here The English are
never tired of adventure, and lively account of
perious expedition. carried out in defiance even of
Russian military prohibition and of savage hostility,
lacks element of interest TO this still hardy race
my Mother and l." by the author of /" John Hall
fax Gentleman is announced for next week by
Messrs. IsbsteT & Co. The same house publishes
"South by West; OF, Winter in the Rocky Mount
aims and Spring in Mexico edited by Canon Kings
ley, whose daughter is the author of it. This The
Times described last week zone of the most fresh
and pleasant, and in some respects the most original
volumes of travel that has perhaps fallen from
a Young lady's PEN" A third edition of another
capital book on America will appear next week, Mr..
w. +. Rae's Westward by Rail, a Journey to San
Francisco and Back which has had if / mistake
not large circulation in America well in En-
gland. The present season has given very few
books Of American travel; possibly because in pre-
yous seasons American topics had been rather
done and not always too we'll done. This Summer
witnesses the usual flight of young EDglishmen to
fresh Western woods and pastures new, and a new
crop of books is probable enough IN the Winter.
There are STILL it appears. Englishmen who PIT
their money into various descriptions of those
American securities which The Times devOtes
many of the most precious inches in the world to
denouucing So many such Englishmen that Mr.. X.
r. Belairs has thought it worth while to compose,
and Mr.. EffiDgham Wilson to publish, an Analysis
of American and Canadian Securities for the use of
English Investors" The Athen9am reviews it; and
on the whole approvingly enough. though with
much wise shaking of its venerable head. and eau
tious hints that it must be time before English
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