New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-08-05
NEW BRITISH BOOKS.
ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR AUTUMN.

EsTING GEOGRAPHICAL WORKS PRoMIsED-RU-
RoPEAN HANDBooKs-DR. sCTLIEMANN's TROY
AND ITS REMAINs."-NEw EDITION OF BoswEILs
JoHNsoN-NUMERoUs DICTIONARIES PROMISED
REMARKABLE COLLECTION OF CARICATUREs.
lsRoM THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIDUNEJ
LONDON July 20-Mr. Murrays July list of forth
coming works leads off with The Last Journals of
David Livingstone" svo, including his Wanderings
and Discoveries in Eastern Africa from 1865 to
within few days of his death with map pre-
pared on the spot by the author and Illustrations
This is to contain, as / understand. all of LIVING
stones writings which have reached England, and
which it is thought desirable TO publish. 1t is not
stated who is to edit them, but may be permitted
20 hope they have not fallen into the hands OF any
body who has an interest suppressing any part OF
them or in controvertng LivingstOnes fixed no.
lions respecting Central Africa, in proving the
Royal Geographical Society right and Livingstone
wrong; or, in a word, anybody who is not heartily
ready and eager to do full justice to the known
wishes and views of the heroic and amented author
This is only one of number ofimpOrtant books on
geography OF related to it, the subject being one
which has long been speciality of Mr. Murray
Prof Archibald Geike of Edinburgh is TO give us a
Memoir of Sir Roderck /. MurchisOu" based upon
his journals and letters with notices of his scenthc
cotemporaries and sketch of the rise and progress
for half century of paleOzoic geology In Britain.
] mention this in connection with Livingstones
Journals because Sir ROderick Murcbson was geog-
rapher well geOlOgst, but especially because ne
was to the last Livingstones most faithful triend
and AZ one time almost the only eminent man who
persisted in disbeeving the false story of his DEATH
Prof Gekie is a most compete man for the geo.
logical part of the work he has undertaken ana
naturally marked out for it by holding as he does
the Murchison ProfesSorship IN the University OF
10 will
with portraits, &c.
n second and revised edition is announced OF Col
Yrles version of Marco Polo, book which has put
otner versions out of date, and is an excellent eX-
ample Of faithful and intelligent work The NTH
gId concluding part of the folio Historical Atlas
of Ancient Geography, Biblical and Classical" by
DIR. William Smith and Mr.. George Grove may
shortly he expected and DR.. Smith is also at work
on Modern Geography for Schools" l2mo. Sir
Henry Rawlinson has in preparation England and
Russia in the East" series of papers on the poiti-
cal and geographical condition of Central Asia,
volsvo, with map.
Lastly under this head, comes Murrays European
Handbook a condensed guide for travellers to the
chief routes and most important places on the Con-
tiDent. This if fairly well done, ought to dspace
once and for all that worst and most untrustworthy
of gnide-books TO which Messrs Harper have too
long lent the sanction of their respectable name
Murray's books are by no means without faults, but
they at least honestly edited They are inferior
to Baedeker in arrangement ease of reference COM
pleteness of information many practical points
Typography, portability, and above all In good maps
and plans. But they so thoroughly adapted to
the average English mind that they keep their
ground In respect the average Enelishman
and average American are very much alike. They
have an extreme desire TO know what the best hotels
in a town are, and Murray's indications are on this
point, more detailed than Baedeker's, though his
list of hotels and especially Of secOnd-class hotels
is likely to De less complete. But neither Murray
nor Baedeker has vet issued general guide to
European travel. and the only book of that sort
known to me which an American can consult with
reasonable hope of not being mised is AppletOn's
European Handbook.
H. archaeology Mr. Murray promises us DR.. Schlie
manns Troy aud Its Remains" researches and dis
eoveres-the result Of excavations the Trojan
Plain. Thanks to Mr.. Bayard Tayors excellent let
tiers IN THE TRIBUNE, American readers already
know more about Dr. Schemann's discoveries than
most Englshmen aud will be the more eager to have
DR. Schemanns account in full. This will be trans
lated with the authors sanction and illustrated from
photographs with maps, views. objects composing
the treasure of Priam, plans &c. all in l vol. syO.
III YOU wish for full statement of the critical and
skeptical view of DIR. Schiemann's discoveries YOU
cannot do better than apply to Mr. Stllman, whose
knowledge on these matters is very accurate and
who sails to-day from southampton for New-York.
Mr. Darwin has been revising his Descent of
Man" aud new edition will appear this Autumn in
I vol CT. svo Lectures on the Early History of
Insttutions" by Sir II. s. Maine, will be eagerly
looked for by all readers of his Treatise Ancient
Law TO winch 1t is announced a supplement.
series of the late Dean Manses lectures before the
University of oxford is to be published under the
title of The GnOsc Hereses of the First and Sec
ond Centuries" and there will be a brief sketch of
his life. work and character. by an unnamed hand
Nause though not original sort OF person, made
considerable figure in his time. He was just one
of those accomplished aud not too Independent
elergymen whom the Church delights to number
among it's dgnitarieS, and for whom il keeps a few
choice deaneTies and other good things As they do
not attain to the importance which requires sepa
rate biography, their admirers write biographical
notices of them in The Times and elsewhere and
these OF similar sketches help 10 make after-death
editions of their books more readable
A new library edition of Hume's History of
England annotated and revised, was foretold last
year but it is not yet promised for any fixed date.
So was the new Cookers B)swell's johnson, which
is now to be Napers Cookers Boswelps johnson.
MI Alexander Napier is the editor of Isaac BarIows
works should that happen to he a recommendation
10 ANYBODY. What would most recommend an
editor of Boswell TO woud be his first putting
the Right Hon. John Wilson Croker wholly aside,
together with POzzi, Hawkins aud all the rest of
the extraneOus persons whom Croker fOised into
the text and tagged 20 IL in the shape of notes
This is what Mr.. Percy Fitzgerald has done in
edition just published and for doing it he is entitled
70 praise and thanks But then, if You eliminate
one bad editor, good in place of him is still
necessary and MI Percy Fitzgeralds reputation for
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