The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-11-10
NEW YORK HERALD MONDAY NOVEMBER TO- SHEET

interesting story the pride passion. treachery mag
niicence and the underlying truth of life among the
nobility"
The life of william Eugene Harvard" by the
Rev. Prank E. Clark is not abook to attract the gen.
eral reader. although there is great deal in It to
interest. Young Harvard q remarkably fine
young man. and death cut him down before he had
even reached his prime. His letters from the field
OF battle and later from Europe. homelike
and manly.
Past Thirty" is little volume in which the
author Aius TO prove that the grand passion Of life
comes to men and women in the mellow days atter
they have reached their thirtiesh year. Anthony
and Cleopatra held up to prove the truth OF this
statement. We do not question the assertion that
people quite capable OF loving after they have
reached the advanced age OF thirty.
Mr.. L. L. Bonaparte. writing to the London -Aca-
deny in reference to the spelling OF tho festival Of
Pentccost as Whtsuntide in Wycliffes old Biblical
translation remarks that it is consonant with
the idea of Wisdom witt Sunday than White Sunday
derivabe from the white garments by cate
chumens on that day. The derivation from
"Pfngsten" he dismisses peremptorily.
The Appletons already preparing . second
edition OF Mr.. Townsend Percys capital Dictionary
OF New York on the model of the Dickens .'Dic-
tionary of London" The first exhausted before
has written little volume called "who was G. W. ?"
which the Appletons will publish. 1t is entirely
concerned with matters relating to tho Seventh
regiment and bears a full length portrait OF .
"curled darling" on the
The earliest grammar of the Welsh language, that
by Griffith Roberts. is now being reprinted at Paris
for NJ. Gaidox, q supplement- to the Revue Cettique
Some correspondence has recently appeared IN Bye
cones on this curious relic Ony perfect copy is
known. that in the possession Of Sir Watkin w.
Wynn; but there is one nearly complete in the
British Museum. Griffith Roberts was resident at
Milan where he was the contessor of St. Charles
Borromeo. The grammar. it is proved.
published in that city. 1t appeared without any
imprint and merely the date, "I667 Primo Martii :"
The officers of tho Thirteenth regiment forwarded
a copy Of Major Kings history Of the Montreal trip
Of that command to Her Majesty Queen Victoria.
Colonel Austen recently received the following ac-
knowledgment:-
BALnoRAL. Oct. 90 1879
Of thu Ts Of the Rsrmsa
Montreal and to request that you viii convey the queens
to ias s a their
honor 0e ogsSsso Lieutenant
regiment, N.G.SNY
"Pocahontas'' is the latest addition to Dodd Mead
& Co.'s Famous American Indians" SERIES and is
Wrlttou ny EtsS1eStou buu Lilllau EBEieSCOu
Seeye. material for the life Of this Indian
girl the authors have woven in the adven-
lures of Captain John Smith in the Turkish wars.
Susan johnson, the Indian woman who, by her
courage, saved the lives Of the Meekers, mother and
daughter, deserves volume in this series. Poca-
hontas threw herself between Captain Smith and tho
club of Powhatan; Susan Johnson defed her tribe
and set the captives free.
''The Children of the Outlaw" is its name and
Rudolph Leonhart is its author and it is published
in Pittsburg Through Blood and Iron" was the
title of this writer's previous work. The present is
abood-curdling story; one has only to look ut the
illustrations to see that. The first represents two
knights engaged in mortal combat, and we told
1.-The mace went through the helmet if it
had been made OF pasteboard." In the second the
knights are on horseback. "The Count Regenstein
ran lance into my masters back with much
force to kill him the spot" Is printed under
meath. In the fourth young girl with streaming
hair is letting herself by rope from a
castle window. She ia about one thou
sand 1eet above ground when her picture
is taken In another herd of boars, with fangs
pointing skyward is charging o knightly party.
while young girl lies prone in the foreground. In
another a man in kingly robes, who, however, is
only count, has pushed young man over prec-
ipice that the Yellowstone country would be proud
surrounding mountains yet tho young man clings
to ledge and is saved. The picture be seen to
appreciate the miracle