New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-03-12

of the atlas that accompanied the cuuhrous German
work Tho Illustration Of the English volume ws rom r"
dra wings, largely by DR.. schlemann himself anu me-
give more diaS1 Ss With tho depth At which was
found lis age being thus identified and man, are III,
serted IN ' ,S % arSe petes Which dive also views
county and OF the works. maps aud plans INC so
Col. HiggnsOn sets the style for the " BRIEF
biographies" lie ia editing for q. p Pntnams Sons py
writing himself the first volume. which will be ready
next week The books will be OF duodecimo sihe sV
pages In length will be sold at 81 90 volume ana WI"
have q binding Of striking design, uniform except 'o'
the individual, titles ana the coas-of arms o te eo"
tries whose leaders are sketched. In tue No'"'o o'
English Statesmen" Col Higginson selects as foremost
Gladstone, Disraeli and John Bright. Mr. G'austone
has given his bograpber great deal OF trouble ior he
has made new move every time Col. Hisglnsoh mas
finished the sketch and the plan OF the series
that the text should he brought down to the date OF puo
lication The avowed object OF the writer ~ 10 give
graphic sketches of great statesmen and he mas
therefore drawn his description OF them dlrecuy Ir
nression derived from his own previous conception OF
them Dates and statistical facts are throughout supos
such as he has In innd of his countrymen ana tns
facts OF the personal literary, and poiiteai caree,
n introduces both Gladstone and Dsrae
with dramatic effect by reproducing what was sa' "A A.
when Macauay reviewing Gladstoues first book ION
the same subject which still fascnaes MIN; ~ The
s ~. none Of the stern and unbendDg Tories" COZ
Higginson, speaking for himself M En- eshi
stones appearance in the House us now un ,Dn
now American !" and that In Inc premier om
iibrary he was haunted throughout the htetVe" WIN
an resemblance to another face ana VOICE,
I'm at last it almost seemed tnat ~ was Mr. Eoi'o"
himself with whom was talking"
ID. Appleton g. Co.'S new popular Science
Library" at 81 volume ful1lls useful purpose In
pursuance OF It's plan OF abrdgng broad subjects SO as 10
them within the OF all classes OF readers one
OF the volumes will be "Outlne OF the Evolution
Philosophy translated from the French OF Dr. f. Ca
zelle by the Rev. O. b. rockingham. Prof. Quatre-
FACES Natural History Of Man." translated by Miss
Youmans, will soon follow the book on Health
already issued In Prof. Quatrefage's work there VIII
be 81 ne cuts giving portraits OF The several human
ypes illustrations Of their respective cranial develop
men and reproductions OF prehistoric remains Prof
Ouatrefages is OF the most eminent founders OF
nnthropolocic science" well as popular tedcner
The preseut book written lectures 10 WORKING
men at Vncennes, and these nave peen puplsn'a III
several languages in Europe Inc lectures SNOW mrs,
the general relations OF IN the organic Woru ana
then treat Of the unity the antiquity and the origin OIL
man and his physical intellectual and moral character
Prof Onatrefages asserts positively tue unity OF the
race, and with equal p1sNcness man ignoIahce as W
his antiquity and origin. But OF thing he Is certain
that man did not originate from the monkey tribe; he
is an antiDarwinan, and thinks that even on the OAR
wtnan theory II Is bad reasoning 10 evolve men, VINO
essentially walkers, from monkeys, VINO are essen
TALLY climbers. The other side OF the controversy Is
given in appended notes ny Prot Gi OF ,ne n.nSo
Science of Music" by Sedey Taylor an Enelish writer
This up Of popular lectures which presume
knowledge Of only arithmetic and the common musical
notation. But they give full and even PROFOUND view
| of the theory sound. There many diagrams III
the book aud statement OF the results or HelmhotZs
great work oil acoustics. which. says Mr. Taylor does
for acoustics what the Principal OF Newton did for
| astronomy