New-York tribune., 1876-02-18
LONDON LITERATURE.
,,opp REPRINTS ANNOUNCED.

TBRLY REvIEw-ACCIUENT TO MR. lENlN"
IFROM Tps REGULAR CORRESPONDENT or Iit iNih0N'''
LONDON Jan. GA volume OF much interest 10
Ameucans Is promised for the coming midsummer
It will be reprint of the iIst three EnsilS DOORS
mn America. We had been, IT appears, mgh ~
years discovered before anybody Thought u worth
While 10 mention us in a book printed III English.
Nor even then was the book printed i'll England inc
earliest work in the English language in which the
word America Tor what is meant for it-Arnlehlcal
occurs was printed at Antwerp by John OF
Doesborowe, about 1911, book oil the new
Iandes and Of the People founde by the Mes
sengers Of the Kyngo OF Portyngac hamcd
Emanuel" The second is AZ years later a trans
lated extract from the "COsmOgrdphia" l0l0l oil
Sebastian Mucnster Professor OF Hebrew at the
University of Basc, entitled "A Treatise OF the
Newe India with other new founde landcs ana
Islandes "A well Eastwarde as Westwardc, as they
are kuowen and founde in these our dayes, NC"
Printed at London by Edward Sutton 1893. Third,
the first English collection of Voyages, Trafhcs, and
Discoveries comprising, among othert things: l. lie
Decades of the kewe WOrlde of West India, con-
teynng the Navgations and ConqueStcs OF the
Spanyarles, with the particular description OF the
rnoste ryche and large LandeS and lslandes la'eiy
founde in the West Ocean pertaining to the inner
itance of the Hinges of Spaync.' These are the
Latin letters variously dated from 1893 to l'2l'
of Petro Martire of Anghcra. Prlvy Councillor To
Charles " q Large quotations from various CO.
temporary and antecedcnt Spanish, Italian ana
German authors, respecting the East and West
Indies MOscovy. Brazil. &c. 3. Early printed mar
ratives OF the first clTcumnayigatiOn OF the GloDe
ender Fernando Magalhaens and Juan Sebastian
del Cano a. Geographical notes obtained 10y the
Compier rird rooo from Sebastian Cabot, then
Grand Pilot of England; from his cards now
lost as we'll as other information gwen by him ana
preserved il EainusiO's Niagg, &c, loo - Inc
First Two Voyages out OF England into Guinea
l553-i All gratuitOusly translated, compiled, ana
annotated by Richard Eden. Printed at London hy
William Powell for Edward Sutton and others,
l555 OF these various works thus to be collected
into a single large volume Mr. Edward Arber Is the
editor whose name Is suihcleht guarantee vi c"i0
full and thorough work.
In saving this volume will he published at mil
summer copy the publishers statement on the
cover of the last volume the third Of GairdnUS
new edition of the "PastOn Letters, which has JuSt
appeared. But referring to the earlier volumes
find the same reprint promised HucoessIvely fol
"about October 1872 and about October. 1874.
The truth j.. we want new Publishers Dictionary
for certain words, dictionary which should explain
the meaning of such words as immediately,
"shortly," ready" "just ready" ready next
week. and the like. The ingenious reader who
find his patience sorcly tested. Nh. Arber, If any
body is entitled to Indulgence for sus of this sort.
His series of reprints has cost him great deal Of
hard and often thankless work. and tine profit OF il
has never, fear, been great.
The completion of MIR GaiTlnerS edition Of
the PASTOR Letters will be welcomed by studcnts of
early English literature and history. We now have.
for the first tme dtion TO the invaluable Scrc,
as given IN Sic John Fcnns three successive original
editions, upward Of SIN hundred letters never be-
fore published. Thus the collection, beside being
now first arranged in true Chronological oIder, is
more than doubled in quantity. lu tine preface To
the first volume, when appeared III 1872. Mir. Gaird
ner recountcd the strange history of these rcmaTka
be documents, their singular preservation, and
the still more singular disappearance OF the
three bound volumes of MSS. tlc originals Of Fcuus
first two vOluuosl after they had actually been
bound tog -tcc and presented To George lii. The
library of that monarch is IN the British Museum
but these MS. have never been seen thcrc. There
is tradition that they were last ia the lilds Of
Queen Charlotte, and guess that sine lent them Ia
one of her ladies in attendance. The originals Of
the three volumes subsequently, published were not
given the King and two of them had been thought
to be dispersed and the greater part iTccoveraby
lost. The originals Of the fifth found, and
found in the house of Nh Sc. eednt Irere, who pub
lshed this volume after Fenn'a death, although Ser
geant Frerc at the time of the publiea-
tol declared he had not been able to find
them. They were in his house all the time
and were discovered 10y his son ia 1862 Just after
an ingenious Hiieraicu had made the complete dis
appearance Of all the Mss. a ground for casting
doubt on the authenticity of the Published letters"
Respecting the originals Of Fenn's third and fourth
volumes Nj. Gardner told us, if recOllect rightly
in the preface to his first volume, that they had
never been bound together, III proof Of which he
cited the fact that single letters turned up from
time to time Some had gone abroad. Twenty are
in the Bodlcian Library. among Mr. Francis Douces
MSS. One he found more lately in Holland House
Tie British Museum has one. Yet 10! at the last
moment the whole of them The originals ofthe third
and fourth volumes of Fenn) are found in the pos
session of Mr. Frcrc Of Roydon Hall, who was quite
unaware of the treasure he had in his hands. The
uncle Mr. Sergeant Frcre, did not live at Roydon
Unluckly these were not brought to light IN time
TO be of much use for this edition. They are in
time however to prove the substantial accuracy Of
the transcripts Sir John Fem had made of them
Mr. Gardner fOrgets to reconcile the discovery
with the existence of the scattered letters above
mentioned. MIR. DOuces must have been copies it
would seem.
ain glad to be able to say Mr.. Green has at last
consented the printing of the Library edition, in
three volumes Svo, Of his "Shor History Of the
English People" 1t viii be- however, reprint
merely, with such corrections of obvious errors az
have been pointed ont or as Mr.. Green himself has
discovered in the original edition. The main work
OF revision is still Reserved for the larger work on
which lie il engaged, and of which gave a brief ac-
count ia a former letter. The new history will eX-
tend 10 seven eight volumes, and will not he III
terrupted or delayed by Che reissue of the existing