New-York tribune., 1874-11-19

il better worth study than the substance OF most
other persons. The titles are Mary Queen of Scots
Lord Chesterfield Benjamin Franklin. Edward GiD-
bon, William Cowper. English Literature by H.
Taine. and Pope as a Poet. Mr.. Rae must use the
word English in linguistic rather than political
sense to get in Benjamin Franklin under it, but we
need not quarrel with him for giving us one essay
the He is capital translator, as his version
of Taines Notes on England" proved, ond capi'''
original writer, as his Westward by Rai' proVe"'
Frankln's name reminds me to say that MT. DIE
lows life of BENJAMIN Franklin" which have
seen advertised as published by Irnbner % ~, ngn
don. Jointly with Lippincott q Co., PhiiadeIphia'
cannot he had here. To an application for copy
through my bookseller, the answer reluihcu ".9
" Nuet he in,norted to order" l did not give 'no
order The English importer is q person oi 700 Po'
tive a turn of mind. If you give hlih an oi"oi ~,
an American book and week later you near 'n"'
a consignment of that book has arrived anu sou
apply for your copy you will be told 'ha' YOU
ao+ boro II that Won must wait till the order for
your particular copy has been eXecuted-unless you
are willing to take two copies. The effect OF TINS
ingenious method of self-proection on the part OF
the importer is to confine his business within mar
rover limits than need be, and to develop among
Americans in England the virtue of patience.
OcL 31.-Mr. NJ. ID. Conway's " Sacred Anthology
receives this week the signal compliment OF beng
reviewed by Prof. Max Miller, from whose pen me
Acqdemy publishes some two columns and half OF
cordial criticism. Prof Miller looks upon 1t as an
example of what may be accomplished by enthusi-
asm and perseverance. Mr. Conway tells us that he
is no Oriental scholar but he has nevertheless given
to the world what the world for many years has
been vainly expecting from Oriental scholars, VIZ.
nf +ba
the sacred writings of the East, translated into
English. What he has attempted was not beyond
his strength and by giving TO his collection purely
practical character, Mr.. Conway has, says frof
Miller succeeded in accomplishing useful and I'M
portant task That ne has also succeeded IN rouSing
wide interest in subject hitherto strangely neg
lected, Prof. Muller soundly infers from the rapid
succession of editions of the Sacred Anthology"
and he concludes his review as follows
We have Intentionally abstaned from all critical re-
marks with gard to the translation of single passages
Such remarks might De addressed TO the ransaor but
not to Mr. Conway. He deserves our hearty thanks for
the trouble he has taken in collecting these gems and
strngng them together for the OF those who nave
no access TO the originals and we trust that his book
will arouse a more general interest In lonG-neEected
and even despised branch Of literature, the Sacred
Books Of the East MAX MULLER
Ilet the name stand as an illustration of an incl
must, think on the whole, be condemned, that OF
signing articles There could be no higher tribute
to Mr.. Conway's book than review of it by Max
Miller, but The academy is with the exception of
| The ETdminer the only weekly literary paper IN
which he could have put his name to the review.
Except in the case Of very eminent men, the indi-
vidual name carries less weight than the name OF
| the periodical. The Examiner, l may remark, IS
| rapidly disseminating the signatures Wnlch
are now seldom to be found appended to the polti-
cal articles of that paper. Whether from that or
| other reasons it has greatly improved within the
year. and its comments affairs are more vivacious
| than when they were signed Many Of its Notes
are now very spicy. This week notice that 1T has,
except in its Art department, but one paper signed
with the writer's full name-and that is apparently
for his benefit not that of the paper-and but two
| others to which initials are added.
| In the same journal-1he academy for this week
Mr.. w. NJ. Rossetti has a long notice of Mr. Still
mans Cretan Insurrection Of 1S66-7-8"-a volume
which he thinks will establish for the author still
! higher claim to the respect and consideration he
already enjoys on both sides of the Atlantic. MI.
Rossetti describes Mr.. Stillman zone of those
| multifarious Americans to whom nothing seems to
come much amiss. Landscape painter, author, pho
tographer, mOuntaineer, revolutionary adyenturer
| lin the Hungarian nsurrection OF 1850, diploma
tist-the friend of Emerson, of Lowell, of Agassiz
be has borne part in many schemes of life and of
work." The book is fully analyzed sjustce is done
to Mr. Stlman's difficult position and courageous
conduct. and the "modcrate-sized volume" com
mended, in respect of adherence to its subject-mat
ter and historical conciseness as a model to the
records of those episodes of history which are at
once important and subsidiary
In Mr.. Murray's latest list of forthcoming books
appears The History of the Communistic Societies
of the United States" by Charles Nordboff. l vol.
8vo with illustrations. This will be published here
and in America about the same time, and from what
learn is likely to excite deep interest this side
The subject full of Importance to English students
of social science. 1t attracted attention even when
| caricatured, and will attract much more when
| treated soberly. and with accurate knowledge
and original information, believe it to be in Mr..
| NOTdhoh's book G.w.s.