New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-12-22
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

Vol. H. PIP $50. New-f0' a. ~
The reader OF these fascinating volumes may wen
wonder that so much learning did not cramp tne
nan that voye so mary divers facts and thoughts
into fluent and cosby whole. For 1T Is pre]u-
dice which elegant and superficial writers nave
helped to cultivate that head may be too fuii ior
successful utterance. and that authors are dui IN
proporton as they are the slaves of exact informa-
ton. The truth probably is that mind may be
sprightly and original, and yet have little spare
room for storing and sorting great masses OF fac's'
DIR. Doran's was certainly mind OF warehouse
dimensions, superintendent by a large bump OF
order, and provided with an ingenious faculty
of making everything look freshcr and
moro significant when 1t came out than
when it was slowed away. The elder Disraeli had
such mind. with more of proclivity to pleasantly
and criticism aud M0ntaigne could have had one IL
fortune had not done better by him aud reserved so
large share of the seat of for high philoso-
phy Mr. Stoddari, who has given this cheap YET
very attractive edition the passport OF eraceiui
preface has no difficulty in finding Or. Doran su-
perior as an entertaining writer TO Disrael. but
the ordinary reader Will not be very clear IN his own
mind as 10 his preference, or will be inclined TO
favor the one he las read.
"Monarchs Retired from Business " holds its place
as the most popular of Dr.. DOran's several DOCKS
partly because il intrinscaly the BEST ana partly
because this independent age takes very naturai
view OF kingcraft, toerates 1t as bhghted tree III
the landscape SO familiar to the eye that TO remove
il would for a time make the place look TOO nc"
10 be homelike and, besides really feels some pity
for the sorrows OF men "who were greater than
any single individual bat less than the entire peo-
plev There are many reasons why this book should
hold its own for great many years. During the
last half century mOnarchs have found business
lively but precarious. and the outlook Tor the
future is not more promising. III is
instructive, when a dynasty crunbies before our
ayes TO read ofthe earlier ruins on which 1t was
built
Il fact which the guardians of princes may
have overlooked that heir-apparent can afford to
be without a copy of "Monarchs Retired from Bust
ncse7 And int is his good fortune TO get Mr. stod-
iard's preface along with il, he will receive some
enlightenment on the true relation OF potentates TO
he sovereign people DIR. Doran's pages will teach
him what to avoid.
If such book were possible before the French
Revolution. one would like to imagine Frederick
The Great reading it in his cosy study at Sans
Souci. and interfering such words "fact," very
true.v "another ROYAL TOO" " shabby fellow for
prince" and concluding by inscribing on the hy
eaf the name of his nephew and heir Frederick
William IL. Frederick had royal contempt for
anybody in his line OF business who retired without
making an assignment to death.
Mira. Rose Terry Cooke, the author of Uncle
josh ard other admirable Yankee Stories is pre-
pairing them for publication in book form.
new rcd-ne edition of Father RyaD's pa
riotic and rel gous poems has been issned by John
b. Pet of Baltimore. 1t contains a fine engraving
Of the author and will be welcomed by his numerous
admirers.
ChiafEngineer King of the United States Navy
has written an exhaustive work on The War-Shlps
and Navies of the World" a. Williams q Co., Bos-
toni 1t contains go pages and sixty-six full-page
Illustrations.
Pastoral Days" the beautiful holiday book of
which Mr.. w. II. Gibson is both author and artist.
is not as might be supposed. limited in matter to his
magazine articles recently published. The letter
press was considerably increased and several new
illustrations were made especially for the book.
The following lines from TcnnysOn's new volume
of poems are intended for sketch of hospital
surgeon, and have excited the Ire OF The Brif'sh
A'"' He Iookd so coarse and so red,
Iconid think he OF those who could break their
tests Inc dead - 49,.
AMI mange the living dog That had ovd him and fawned
Drenci with the hell!sh oorslthat such things
should be
One of the brightest. whoesomest and handsomest
holiday books for girls and boys is Susan Coolidges
Guernsey Lily" Roberts Brothers.. The author
knows how to give romantic coorng to real child
life as was made apparent i'll her delightful book,
what KATY Did" This was in great part clever
Transcript of Miss Woosey's own child-life. with
her brothers aud sisters for plavmates ut her home
in Cleveland. The Paradise WAS a reality,
woody nook adjoining the garden where the children
had their picncs This new book is a fresh, natural
p;cture of bows and girls life the Channel Islands.
The illustrations are good Nothing could be finer
in its way than the head of the old fisherman, and
there are many clever miner touches like the sketch
illustrating now Time moves slowly for the left
behind"
II the London correspondent of The Toronto Globe
Is correctly informed, Endymion is not paying
investment for the English publisher He says: II
have authority for stating that 10000 was the
suu for which the book was sold. The publishers
can hardly be congratulated upon their bargain, as
the hook has found favor peher with the critics nor
with the reading public. The demand for it at the
circulating libraries fell after the first two or three
days and was nothing like so large as was expected
There 10 much speculation about the real personages
from which the fictitious characters IN Endy-
mion are taken but as a matter of fact prominent
characters in this novel not as was the case with
Lord Beaconsfed's earlier WORKS, intended to be
nortraits. There can be no doubt that to the fact
that it is impossible to identify leading personages in
poltical aud social circles with the characters in
ihe book lies the reason Of its failure"
Mrs Julia Ward Howo's recent papers or lectures
nm Modern Society =" have been issued in little
book by Roberts Brothers. The first paper. which
gives the title to the book, was read before the
Concord School of Philosophy 1t reads like a
hasty production finds flaws rather too recklessly
IN the existing order of things. decries the press
almost uusparingly, the tendency to enjoy wealth
and the propensity to foreign travel. The style of
argument does not commend itself TO persons who
do not reason from limited premises to sweeping
fop m ne vs. apare