The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-04-01

scr,biug the changes OF the weasher the appear
snce OF a country.
Mr. J. W. Bouton has . copy Of the Bulmer Shake
speare, in nine volumes. folio, extended TO forty
volumes. with original drawings. etchings mczzotints
and line engraviugs inserted Itcost the owner, well
known bibliomaniac, $4,000 10 complete the work.
Mr.. Bouton also has Burners Milton extended IN the
same manner.
Mrs Mary Mapes Dodge, editor OF S. Nicholas, has
gone TO California for a visit TO her sister,
I. b. Peterson 4 Brothers are publishing q new and
cheap edition OF Dickens.
The April Sc,1Jner contains article on the Thou
sand islands Among It's illustrations is picture Of
'.Bonnie Castle" DR.. Hollands summer home.
GINS "Iife of Poe" which was noticed at some
length In these columns tho time OF It's publication.
few months since, seems TO have met with quite
popular success, three editions having been already
exhausted, while fourth has just made It's appear
ance. This last edition has been revised and con-
sdcrably enlarged and contains some illusions TO tho
criticisms made upon the first edition Tho dedica-
ton has been changed from .Neilsou roe, the poets
cousin heir AZ law, to "Tho University OF vr-
ginia," his Alma Mater Then, additional .cmins-
ccnces given OF Poe's childhood and OF hts school
days at Stoke Newington, England. There are nun.
Of ac-smile letters; from Poe TO his cousin,
Washington Poe; another from the friend OF his latter
days, Mrs Susan Archer Weiss, whose "reminiscences
tho poet appeared in the March number OF Scrib-
ner's Monthly and from Poes aunt and step
mother, Maria Clemm Some engravn2s are
given, Of Poe's adopted iathcr's (Mr. Allan)
house In Richmond and another Of the University OF
vrgnn. There IS an appendix OF nearly thirty pages
OF notes Tho new volume il bound in q handsomcr
cover than that which enclosed tho first edition.
DR.. Barclays now book, "rho Talmud" published
by Murray, London, is full Of errors and dcfcicn-
cics, according 10 the AfhsnaunA
Captain Kennedy is about to put forth new book
OF travel omitted ITO Arctic Regions and Back In
six weeks--A Summer Tour to Lapiand and Nor
way, with Notes Sport and Natural History"
N. Louis Wan has issued his "Histoiro do Mon
tcsquieu, Sa Vic OF SEES Guvrcs.''
Mr. H A. J. Munro whose edition ana translation
OF "Lucrctius'' gavo him splendid reputation. has
book on the Latin poet Catullus. which is
equally deserving OF attention
Arnold do woelmont has published In Paris "My
Wandering Lite In tho Rocky Mountains"
NEW BOOKS RECEIVED
Nv Ce,ias Arbor Tale OF Portsmouth Town. By Wal
tor Jnmcs Rice With illustrations. Harper
BY Proxy Novel, By james Payn. Harper Brothers.
Tho Contemporary Review for March. From the Wilmer
PlAsonis Di.losi VI nx-Aecensone. c. r. HERMANN.
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HaFpcr's Halt Hour series. Davids Little Lad. by
r. Me AIDE and Romance Period. by Eugene Lawrence.
Punch Brothers, Punch and other Sketches. BY Mark
Twain. Published by soto woodmsn Co. Now York
| Dorchester, d. ID. From d. Lothrop Co. Boston.
Printing House. COS and $40 Chestnut ssreos Phila
] delphia.
Armenia and the Campaign Of 1877. By c. b. Norman.
with specially prepared map: and plans Published BY
| Nine Gosselin by Louis Ubach. Published By D..
| Appleton a Co., New York.
| HANDLES in Wonderland, or Up the YeIowstone and
Among and Other Curioses Of the Nations
Park. BY Edwin J. Stanley. With illustrations. From
| u. Appleton h Co.. New York.
The Rocky Mountain Tourist, Arkansas Valley and
San Juan Guide BY J. g. Pangborn. Published by Knight
Il Leonard Chicago.
| superstition in All Ages. By John Meslier Roman
Catholic priest ater pastoral service OF thirty
nbured religious dogmas loft his last will and
be published after his DEATH several enti-
tied Translated from tho French
BY Miss Anna Knoop and tor sale by the New York Pub
| fishing Company
trial OF Thomas c. Anderson in New Oriesua BY 3.
Wharton Collins Jr shorthand reporter PubliAhed BY
| CLARK Il Hoeline, New Orleans 80