New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-09-25
LI7ER1RY NOTES.

It is stated that Montgomery BLAIR Is at worK
upon life Of Andrew Jackson :.
Prof. Tyndalrs Lessons on Electnclty,'
che lectures delivered at tho Royal Institution lo1o-fo
Viii shortly be published IA volume
A "Text-B Book on the Principles of AgT1cul-
TURF by Psei w % e adei ~ ne Collins series
Mr. Basil NJ Pickering LOndon) is to pub
1isb A Suggestive Handbook to Art Criticism, by pr
Thomas GiIks author OF s0me Handbooks on Art ana
other works.
English opiuion as TO Daniel Deronda Is
s., an extremes. The Ahencum says it must be pro-
ponueed both the least good ana tie least interesting Oh
George Eliot's works"
The second revised edition of Prof. Huxley's
elementary biology" written with the assistance o.
Mr. H. N Martini course OF pfa6ucaA lnsttu0'oH' 40
just ready at Macmillan 4 Co.'S.
translation of Prof. Heer's important work
on The Prmeyal World OF switzerland" is about TO De
pablished in England Il comprises tao swiss caFhon
erous formation aud higher strata 10 Iho iHlo0e40 ~
slye, and is fully Illustrated
The new book by Mrs, Leonowens, " Llte ana
Travels in Iudia" viii soon be ready at Jos Coates
Co.'S philadelphia II will contain about thirty instra
tops OF sights and in India ana s sa 10 give uH
excellent pctare Of the life OF that country
NM. Firmin- Did0t, Paris, are now publish
ing an important Dictionary Of Architecture tDieon
naire RaisoaRt dArehiectlirel. by Ernest Bose Ihe
complete work win form four volumes, eontaipng 49O0
columns Of text aud about 900 luasiohS is "el's
brought out In monthly parts.
The second edition of that eyclopedic work,
schpaases History OF the Fine Arts has Just Deeh
completed in Germany By the puAlio9ton OF the con
is Shool IN 10 he end Of the tteonth century 1t
Is edited by Or. ". Ldbke and Dr. o. Eisenmann'
Mr.. Henry CrOlnptOD, an English writer, has
nearly ready for publication by Messrs Henry > hhg
70 a work entitled Industrial Cancellation" IL points
ont the adv antages and Disadvantages of the different
eysteIns OF arbitration aud conoaton ana RYs an ~
count Of the development Of the relations between emf
plOyers and einployed
a work on "The Canon of the Bible; its
Formation History and Fluetuaton" by the Rev saul-
mel Davidson soou to published 10 England is com
prehensiye survey of all that concerns the formation ana
Eneh questions as the Inspiration, authenticity author
ity, and age OF the Scriptures
A collected edition of the poems of Ebenezer
Elliott the Corn Law Rbymer,' in two volumes, IS
being prepared publication by Ncssrs Henry > King
& CO. hinder tie edtorshP Of his son, the Rev Edwin
Elliott of ST. Johns, Antigua 1t VIII contain steel en-
the workngmen OF Sheffield
II is stated that Sir w. Muir has obtained
from Kasb1nif manuscript Of the Athor7a Veda sup
posed to be the oldest yet discovered written IA tue
esrada character on birch bark, which has become quite
brittle from age 1t has been presented 70 .e hu tH
Office Library by whom Il has been sent through Ihe
German Embassy, 10 Prof Rom, az IuOnsen' Iof ca
Among the works announced by the Religi-
nus Tract Society, London, " American Pictures
drawn with Pen and Pencil" by the Rev. s. Manning
IL D. uniform in size aud price with the weil-AnoNh
works by the same author Switzerland, Itsy spain
New Testament FFa by the Rev. Or. Edersheim and
second On the Miracles by tae Dean OF ines
ter The important reprint OF Foxes Acts and Monu-
nents under the editOrship OF Dr. Stooght9 Is rp1!
approaching complexion
One of the most curious books Of the season
viii be thar 70 be published by scrbncT, Armstrong
Co. called The Adventures Of Capt Nago" The new
French writer is more adventurous than Verne for he
goes where critics may follow him. Capt Mage is one OF
The sailors Of Hiram, King OF Tyre anu s. ~ mn
collect materials for Davd's Temple ot JelusaIeil'
Among his adventures are meetings Win D@yiu
Hale had already worked this possibility INTO
portraits Of mOs Of these dgtares are gwen Ia 'uo
illustrations
The author of the Fletcher Prize Essay
~The Christian in the World 1.-THE Eev. D. W. Faunoc
has ready for publication. at sheldoo Co.'s second
volume on A Young Mans Difficulties viii his Bible"
1t grew out Of the actual difficulties presented to I'm by
the youth of his congregations at Concord n H., and
Lynn MsssthOse pct exactly ske al o9t a 1000 aa
Bible the young mans book answers next tAe
questions, "Is it tuel' and 10 nTesl e. anu Iheh
deals IN successive chapters with TIE dheultles as 10
miracles, geology, astronomy, am -loIic Iaet, nc
book holds TO the moderate view, lS FatLer Vo"iEu
the uteralists than the scientists
An interesting series OF sixpenny books Is
10 be published by Macmillan Co. each t. contain two
OF the lectures recently delivered to science teachers at
South Kcnsngton the invitation of the Science and
Art Department Among them win be those by Capt
Abney R. E. f. r. g., Photography; by Prof stokes.
FRS, on Light; by Prof r. Ray Lankes6er ana MT
f. RS. on Meiallurgiial Processes; by Prof Burden
sanderson F. r. s. aud DIR. Lauder BruutoD, F. + S. on
Es5ema}5c Models: 5y Dr H. r. stone, on Sound aud
blusie and by Prof Geie, F. T. g., director OF e Geo
logical Survey Of Scoibnd on fleia GSo'ogyi lno d
VIII be illustrated.