New-York tribune., 1874-11-06

and gospel truth has greatly developed his natural
| abilities for invective. Altogether, most useful
person in this country which stands greatly in need
of able writers with q contempt for conventiona-
ties and disposition to ask disturbing questions.
Like Mr.. Congrcve's recent volume. Mr.. Harrisons
would be well worth repinting in America If only
to show Americans how freely some Englishmen are
thinking on subjects that have been thought TO be
| closed.
Among books of scientific inquiry most interest
ing title is the "PrimDval World of Switzerland"
by Prof Oswald Heer of the University of Zurich,
translated by w. S. Dallas, and edited by James
Haywood, to be published in November, in vols.
Syo., with many illustrations i note also Mr..
ID. d. Heath's Elementary Exposition OF tho Doc
trine of Energy" post 8vo.. with wood cuts Mr Heath
being, presume, the Douglas Demon Heath who
edited one section of the works of Bacon in the now
standard edition of SPEEDING Ellis and Heath; Mr..
Henry Dunnng McCleod's second volume of the
second edition Of his " Principles of Economical
Philosophy" to be ready in November; third and
revised edition of book which is now classic,
Sir John Lubbock's Origin Of Civilization and the
Primitive Condition of Man, Svo.. with wood cuts; 4;
and Mr.. Richard A. Proctor's The Transis of
Venus" already out, and controversial to degree.
The two concluding volumes of llumes PhilosOphi-
cal Works, being his Essays, Moral. Political. and
Literary" edited by Messrs Green and GrOse. will
appear in November. If the work on them be as
thoroughly done as that of the first two the readers
of Hume may be content, and one more of the great
English csscs will have passed into the too short
catalogue of well-edited books.
In miscellaneous literature Messrs Longmans
promise us "Isaao Casaubon 1559-l614." by Mark
Pattison. Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford, Svo-a
name which will give rise to reflections on the part of
those readers of the greatest of recent novels who
have heard any personal gossip about it. Mr.
acknowledgements annual volume, OF course
stories for children, appears under the title "Whis
pers from Fairyland," with nine illustrations,
or. Syo-a new sort of book to come from the sober
magnates of Paternoster Row. "Down the Road"
by c. I. s. Birch Reynardson, medium Svo, with 10
acknowledgement illustrations from original
paintings by III. Aiken, is book of "reminiscences
of Gentleman Coachman In these days. when
amateur coaching is once more popular, and ap-
parently growing SO yearly. such book is
of success if toerably good. Dr. II. Willis Baxley.
who has written-as who has not IA book on Amer
ica puts together in two vols post svo narrative
Of nearly three years residence in the Peninsula,
which he calls Spain; Art Remains and Art
Realities; Painters, Priests, and Princes"-a good
specimen of very bad sort of sensational ttle well
adapted to beget prejudice against what may be
an interesting volume Most volumes on Spain are,
especially if they borrow good deal from
Fords Handbook, the unabridged editions of which
are the most entertaining of works on Spain, since
Don Quixote. "Charles L." Drama in Five Acts.
post SvO, may or may not be Mr.. Willss and. If it
be, may or may not prove to be something less of
vulgar libel on Cromwell than when it was acted
on the Lyceum stage That inexhaustiblc maker Of
popular books ON Natural History, the Rev. j. G.
Wood has done another on insects Abroad" with
I vol G.fk rxs. -kk n
.,. Sn""." say; the second being Out of Doors"
selection of original articles on Practical Natural
History, with six illustrations CT. Svo Forest
Trees and Woodland Scenery, as described in
Ancient and Modern Poets" by William Menzies
deputy surveyor of Windsor Forest and PARIS. will
be published by Messrs. Longmans in vol. imperial
4to with 90 plates coored 10 fac smiie Of the orig
inal drawings provided sufficient number Of sub
scribers at four guincas $50 the copy DO obtained
There could hardly be more attractive subject to
the lover of nature Aud the prose analogue of Mr.
Tupper the Rev. A. X. II. Boyd, otherwise called
the Country Parson is more in the fe!d-notfor
the last time 1t may be feared-with Landscapes,
Churches, and Moraities," l VOL, CT SyO. There
seems no particular reason why he should not add
Shakespeare and the Musical Glasses, nor why there
should ever be any end to the feeble How OF his
prose. .
A book big enough, IN size and promise at least
to have a paragraph to itself, is Mr.. HalliweiPs
Illustrations of the Life of Shakespeare to be pub
lished IN folio parts price 4s. each This szc which
is not selling one, has probably been adopted to
make these new " Illustrations" range with Mr.. Hal
liwels Shakespeare in the folio vclnmes-now get
ting out Of the market though still TO be had for
less than the subscription price. Of living English
editors, Mr.. Haiwell is now the one who has done
most for his author. This new contribution seems to
be meant as final repository for all that he has
gathered and not yet published in permanent FORM
1t will be indispensable to any library that has pre-
tensions 10 be called Shakespearcan. 6. W. S.