New-York tribune., 1879-02-24
LITERARY NOTES.

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nnarchs who viii appear in il.n Is sara tha' '"e INV
hi.: ~ Hanover Viii be one ,
Watcrton's Wanderings" had been dilh-
,,, IN .t when the new edition came out few weeks
90, T,,ras IIurhe. ha. written notice OF " TOT ."'
P,lru.ry EacmiIhn's Magazine, when "Ieh7 !" '"''
WAY; II there chance {" be any rc"de' U. ''''
~ ,i ls Pc acbcd wears OF dIscreton and rcGd Win
ont having learn, 10 love watertor'' Wandtrre''
.,Ii,h thouqu hi. tte, proud his name,
L,nt, lies. tIs Wralti ~ WISE may c'im'
don't et hin trouble himself to p,rase ano'her ihe VI
ti.s paper. nut just ro down
r, the yii. dl,t iro". whence he SpInhg,
UnAcpt. unEun"rrd ahd Ghs"hI'
Tn- hin aul his couFrutrs NJ iiihs!tti r'pl''rS e"
IN these pages or ,scwhrc LII Peter Bl' t. him Inc
p-mrosc iy the rivers bcim. VIII stu y" y"'!"W P'
rose-auG nothing ror.-lnd the exquisite "r' II ana
geld octave which lies before -c.nt!aGnG WIN ha"
Of g,orio6s a1; nany -coor,J ,ays will remain green
AMI gold ccta'o, mere fun furr book e. Ice s'ncs "P
p0ssloly prominent place on his snrlv q Dee 'u-e
90 g.ntIcinals library should he without IT only hs
a0d Lythug moro" Nj. Hughes calls II " the WOIk of
man oi gru.ns," aud snvs 1t il "dcsned e. 'emah
" the classics 0f English litcrite t. many genet
atoms" liz dnds one q It's heglN' ,hnit ms /" Ue IL"
cutiip ai.sercc ~ the lusL Of sayng." NacrOu died
at tho axe a. cjrnrr-rco hi. stl able u ciinb his
tr,es. and u. Ui p.CGSart wisdom 80 IN ~ pes,
wing caught In rnrnto WLtertDn visited tIc Unt,cd
Stes ar lorG ago ~ ls24 hnt "i1 t9 I",mu ~ ,i' th
wrong place TO Iool for bu=s bears pru'es ana o'H"
lOc3."
Uibliophiles ia this country have probably
Illustrated book Llor" II qacnty th"n lr'inSs
Il fc of WaslinsiOn." a remarkable example II the
Ient 10 which they have carried their collections OF
portraits nnd autographs afforded in tie copy OF
this ro,k which belonged to tno Menzies Library Mr.
J. W. Sou;nn h.a nOw on exhibition at ais book store IA
hvy wof q. ths character which, IN some respects Is
tso remarkable edisiOp OF Iryings "ashn0toh
that Ia, ever put together In certain particulars
81 ..1f.a nptfrU altt A
per copy OF rhe Putnam print Of 1s35'59 comprising
five uusrtO volumes. OF which Only 10 copies were
rutcd. /: presentation copy and hears the auto
gla of Irving The collector, at an expense or SeVera
dollars. has enr ched 1t, after many yeds OF
searching, with nearly l100 extra illustrations. 10
autograph letters, and l3O portraits OF Washington
many OF the prints being OF contemporary execution
AMI early improssiOns India paper. The work thus
extended comprises eleven volumes, which III
clndc one volume made up exclusively OF pOr-
traits. SPECIAL tltlepagcs have been printed
for each volume, and each page contains an en-
hcmatIcHl yignttte on India paper The auto
grapn letters pertain for most part to the PERIOD
aud are from the most important civil and military
pcr>uuages OF the age OF Washington. Three
~ the letters WasIington's own, three are
John IIancocks ard thrco each are General Waynes
ad Laaycue's while there two each from Benedict
Arnold Israel Putnam, General Gates and General
gage. Single letters are given from William Penn
General BIdddoch, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine,
Thomas Jefferson ,neral- Clinton BurgoyDc Steuben
aud Harry Le", John Paul Jones, Daniel Boone, Patrick
Henry, and MANY other cIninont men. The binding Of
THIS city has been engaged upon 1t Tor three months
pas II l. IN fuil HHseraheu; nafH green Leva' Ivan
ana is lined with panels of crimson morocco bearing
.hG owners m3nogram ~ inc ser esne & hac YOing ON Ts
IOn at Nj BoutOps until tomorrow, when IL will 90 To
It's owner in san Francisco. An interesting incident
was Its transfer from binders hands to Mr. BouOns
ready for shipping at q late hour on trday-the eve
Of Wazhmgton's birthday
The history of ancient Carthage has never
been clearly and viyldy told until now The materials
for such history have always been few and fagmentay
Roman cupldty destroyed what literature this early
Venice found time In her last Of wealth to give unto the
world and the Ipeagrc cs in her brilliant that
have come down to modern times were mainly derived
through Roman writer's aud exact truth could not
he expected from them. book was published In Lon
don in the past year by r. Bosworth Smith, under
the title Carthage and the Carthagnians." which in
some measure supplies the deficiency Mr. Smith points
out that tlis daughter Of Tyre was unlike the PhBni-
clans proper IN that she reared an empire while Pho
ucia herself was content 10 remain strip OF land
thirty miles long and mile broad, without ambition,
except respect wealth and desire to be the worlds
neutral and common carrier. But within tho dOininlons
Of Carthage were included Sardinia. regarded by the
ancents as the greatest of all islands," Elba, Malta
and the western half OF Sicily. Corsica, II not hers,
was at least closed by her to all other States she
was the lord of the Egatan, LiparBan, Baearic and
Ptyusan Ises and in the course OF time Spain also be-
came part OF Carthagnan empire. The city with It's
streets and gardens, covered peninsula twentythree
miles in circuit, aud guarded by triple wall with
interior Easements which housed 800 elephants, 5000
horses and 10000 infantry. la times Of peace myrIaGs
of vessels anchor safely tho lake of Tunls In
fines Of danger they cOuldBheltcT themselves IN harbOr
400 feet long aud 100 feet broad, which opened by
nm entrance 10 wide into IN Inner hatbOr for ships
of war surrounded by Quays with docks for 220 Raeys
M Smith HamllCHr his tavOfite hero and while
aeceptIug the verdict that Hannibal was greater
gruca than Cesar Marlborough, or even Alexander,
aud that sole equal military history was Napoleon.
ne reserves the father still higher place, ana
records 1t th father and together unapproach
ablr for greatness by any two Romans. The Second
Punc war he declares 70 have beeu the OF Han
nbal for 10 was tougnt by an army which owed aeg
auce TO him, which created by him, and whose |
his tIiumDhs. Ii tine custom ol HAN
ubal 10 carry with him IN his campaigns two Greek
men Of letters for the purpose OF recording hs
ernlo. But this plan which Hannibal had formed for
giving t o,trrty his OF his own campaigns, "a
JuliuT Caesar did after him, frustrated; the manu-
scripts were lost destroyed The solitary relic OF
Cartha.iuan literature that the world possesses -
work on agriculture by Mage, but translated into
Latin and in that form has become The STANDARD Iaiiu
classic also on agriculture. Carthage was not bullt To
endure In its seven centuries OF marvellous growth IL
took no deep root ia human soil IL did not conquer
The minds OF men but their bodies and their wealth, 40
that content to keep It's armies III isolated places
sprakg different Tongues. Rome has tiduch btcbuse
conquered not only The bodies Gnd wealth OF men, but
their minds also.