New-York tribune., 1878-12-21
ers' in style uniform with Macaulays" History Of Eng
land % which is lust out

land" which is Just out.
OF Stanfelds "Coast Scenery"-being scenes
from the coast England and France bordering on the
English Channe-a but limited edition OF which mas
Just been published by j. W. BOuton-Mr Ruskin has
said: know any work in which, on the WHOLE
there is more unaffected love Of ships for their own
sake. and fesher feeling Of sea breeze always dow
ing than Stanfed's " Coast Scenery"
Under the title Sammy Tubbs, the Boy
Doctor and Sponse the Troublesome Monkey" Dr. f.
B. Foote, of New-York, has published series OF nVe
books TO which he gives general title, Science Ill
Story" In it anatomy, physiology and hygiene are
mingled with comic but instructive story OF phys-
cans door-boy who seeks to learn all that the physician
knows, and mschievous monkey who IS OEstantIy an W
cloth with bevesd edges, have or two hundred pic
lures, and are printed With red lines
What is called "a carnival of authors is
promised in Boston for day in January. The old
South Church will profit from the receipts One anihor'
it said. will 90 to the entertainment perhaps DIS
guised as another-Dr. Holmes, for instance, IN the
character of Dr. Holland Mr. Howells George Tick
nor Henry James, r. as Edward Everett, or Mr. Long
fellow as Bret HaTe. Promise Ia also given that famous
authors Of the past will be represented, and even
Shakespeare is mentioned while the long list includes
Addison, Goldsmith, Goethe Burns, Scott irving anu
Dickens.
Henry James, ir., will write biography OF
Hawthorne for the English Men OF Letters" series
He has story called can International EPISODE III
HncmtWunS UQqu-tne Tor December, WuCu L"c i>N
ainer says is The best thing in the shilling maGa-
zines and perhaps In all the magazines for this mon'n
The scene is laid in Newport and ," anybody WIN
taste for literary vOauvent should, carefully select
ing a moment when he is lazy and family bored st
down and enjoy We cannot imagine better hai-hour
than he will get the slightest necessity Tor SET
Ting what it IS that will give him so much pleasure
Wny is tine cIoquancy of chocolate so nice as wei 1 as
tue favori When that is ceary ascer aimed IL VIII De
worth while to crticSe OF Henry James r
Among the objects of art in the COLLECTION
Of the late Colonel stryker jenkins, OF Baltimore the
sale Of whose pictures in this city two wears ago Will DO
remembered were many choice art books that VIII be SOFA
this afternoon by Geo A. Leavltt Co. The collection
includes DidOts Anacreon lS6D; " Horace" ueoo
and Virgil" QS5s) the Turner Gallery" Qs6l) !;
the Dresden Gallery" volumes u7eO's4)i tP' Do'e
" Milton -" The Art journal UOndon), from lS4o 10
1876; the Rembraut Etchngs the Paris work OF 1878
the Musee Royale and Musee Francaise," two OF
the finest art books published In Paris; Nashs
Mansions OF England and RuskD's Modern rant
prs" the London imperial actayos OF lo2I, ,ns nn"
1850 the three works uniformly bound IN nan husd.
uncut. Bouguereau's art and Literature Whh Mas ss
exhibited the sale two years ago was hoI sou o"'
win be disposed OF this evening.
Bibomaniacs never say die. MIR. irving
Browne remarked TO Troy Times reporter lst aitr lhe
sale OF his books in this city was Finished thhK Ihs
sale demonstrates that good books have their Vaue III
the hardest times Ny books have produced more than
90 per Of their actual cost, while the dwehng III
which they last hOuset sold few months ago lor
lust about La its cost and then the purchaser had 10
lay out a large sum OF money on it. MY BOOKS were
never taxed, and by the possession OF them ""s
enabled 10 earn snug sum every year by my writings,
and at the Of twenty they brng me- reckoning
on gold basis, least 70 per cent OF their cost MY
friends Will thus see that man is not necessarily foo
for loving books" Some editor having devoted col
umn article to Mr. Brownies OF bibiomania lie re-
pes as follows: That's all right: doesn't hurt my
feelings bit; only why doesn't The editor write similar
essays ON stock-lupatics, hOrse-dIOts' 'clubeccen
trcs aud the like? There has been more money fooled
away by many nan Troy the last twenty years IN
gfocks and horses aud clubs without cent to show Tor
it, than put INFO my books, with Sll 900 to sho" ior
them, after using them all these years