New-York tribune., 1878-06-07

and rivers OF Flanders and Northern France and the
book will be illustrated with an embematic ttlepage py
Walter Crane.
1t seems by mail advices, that the report of
the Royal Copyright Commission is by no means unani
NOUS as reported by cable. Minority reports have
been written by Sir Louis Malet, Sir John Rose' Mr E.
jenkins, Mr. A. Trollope, and other members OF the
Commission, the hIst-9amed OF ", %nIn ON ano'' '"i' "
A new edition of General Hallecks Inter
national Law is published in England someN hat re-
arranged and furnished with notes and cases TO date
and not least important, index. Another tribute TO
solid American literature is found In AN English COM
pressed adaptation OF Mr.. Motley's Dutch Republic
q5sSr I5aS the 'lo OF Holland ana ner h''Os' 0 ''
Gustav Freytag, the German novelist, has
30 OF health during the past WINTER that
the publication of the volumes OF his novel
series of German life Die Ahnen CThe Ancestors) has
been Indefinitely postponed. The earlier volumes OF
this genealogical enterprise were Translated IN tne
Leisure Hour Series" but the translation was given up
several generations back. v
The late DR.. L. II. Clarke's book on " Wis
ions is just ready from the press OF Houghton Os-
good Co. It's subtitle, a Study OF False Sights
tells the story of the book which is endcavor to ex
plain scientifically various OF apparons, etc. by
referring them 10 medical causes. Dr. Clarke became
famous by his "Sex I'm Education" book but had long
before been known in Boston as very eminent phls-
clan. lie died last FALL and memorial OF him by Dr
Holmes preiaces this volume
Professor Fawcett's book on Free Trade and
Protection is just ready IN England. Besides CIV
ing detailed consideration to the arguments which are
ordinarily advanced by American, Continental ana
Colonial Protechonsts, the book says The Ahen@hm'
deals with many subjects possessing practical interest
at the present time such for instance, as reciprocity
commercial treaties, commercial depression, and the
effect produced on our trade by various forms OF pro
lection maintained IN other countries. g. tue bouneS
gwen on the export Of sugar by the French Govern
mcnt ., ,r
The popular Leisure Hour Series " OF Henry
Holt Co. ia already nearly hundred volumes DID, ana
volume 100 IS TO be "a Century OF American
Literature" compiled edited by Professor Henry A.
Beers OF Yale College suggested by the Five Centuries
OF English Literature" which was number 900 OF the
Tauchntz Collection. Volume ninety-iye will be " Ma
Elce" by "TheO. Gift;" nnetysix Mr. Rossitrf JoHn-
sons compilation OF Payday Poems" already re-
ferrcd to- ninety-scycn "Hathocourt" the first novel
written by Mrs. MolcsWorth, whose Cuckoo Clock
written for children under the dc plume OF Enuis
Giahan has made Der many friends. Numbers ninot e
eight and ninctyuine stl uncertain, hut volume
OF plays for representation at the summer resorts ana
work Of travel ami experience in picturesque ana
romantic region, are likely TO supply, the missing
link" The Leisure Hour Series viii certainly DC
more Of a delight the leisure hours Of tins S2mmer
than ever before, and that Is saying a great deal