New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-02-25
LITERARY NOTES.

James Geikie has revised his work on The
Great lee Age and edition of 1t has been printed
lu London
The most important parts of the memoirs OF
Prince Metternch written in the language OF dipo
macy so that the French edition and not the German is
the original one
Dr. George NJ. Beard has written practical
treatise on Nervous Exhaustion Its symptoms, nature,
sequences and treatment which will be thefruit of orig
inal observations and researches extending over many
years. William Wood Co. already have 1t far along III
The press
Indexes to two very important historical
works are now In prepa alton for Macmillan d Co One
IL for Lsufrey's Napoleon" the other for Massons
Milton" Only a few months ago the same house pub
lsDed IN a volume by itself exhaustive index to Free
mans Norman Conquest" Byandby the world Will
have than has to complain OF the de-
plorable lack of good indexes IN works whosA value
would be doubled if they had good ones but which with
out them are sealed books 70 many eyes. Inc 'ie -
work will give to any man half the glory he cOud ger
from writing GOOD DOCK
j. w. Benton has made arrangements to Sc
cure for This market portion OF edition. limited TO
500 copies, OF The Complete Works of Rembrandt-a
new Frencn publication of great Importance to art II
has been prepared by NJ Charles Blanc Of the French
Academy and besides notes and descriptions comprises
catalogue raisOnue If all OF RembrandpS plates with
rerroduc facsimile of the whole Of his etchines,
there being in all $50 plates II would require fortune
to collect a complete set Of Rembrandt'S plates In fne
condition, If indeed such undertaking would be pos
sible at all. Two partial editObs Of Rembrandt were
osI ssss until low There are three
folio volumes and one portfolio IN ms edition aac9 ~
them Will be printed on extra ine paper
Under the title Contemporary Portraits
A. ID. +. Randolph & Co have brought ont series CT
sketches by NJ dc Pressense of famous men Of recent
times for The part Frerchmen who have had more
or less do with religious movements in Europe There
are all portraits and among them are the follow
log: "Thiers."" STRAUSS and Notaise,' Dnpapioup"
Adolphe Monod p"vinet" aud "veiny and Robertson.
The thor states IN q preface that from his study OF
the Catholic crisis he bias reached two CONCLUSIONS: FIRST
that the pursued by the Uilr0montanes Is one
fraught with danger TO our social interests, and sec
ond, that ait is both ujus,ifabe and unwse to at
tempt to combat Ultramoniansm with its own weapons
Again 1t his growing conviction that Prote slant
Ism has greatly suffered OF late years from too excu-
siye absorption IN quest o, OFT ~ Ho h
In February 1853, five years before he pub
ished his "Hstory" Buckle wrote as follows TO Lord
Kintore, who had asked what the book would bet 81
may say generally that have been long convinced that
the progress Of every people Is regulated by principles
or as they called Lawsas regular and certain
those which govern the physical world 10 discover
those laws the object Of my work." He goes TO say
that be intends make particular application OF those
general relations which exist between the various stages
through which every people have passed, and "by a
careful analysis OF the history of England to show how
they have regulated ts civilization, and how the
sye and apparently arbitrary forms of its government
it, literature its laws and its manners have naturally
grown out OF their antecedents" His attempt will be
o history from the hands OF anpaliss, cbroui
ees and anfiquares Up TO his eighteenth year. Buckle
had read little except Shakespeare" The Arabian
Nights" ana The Pilgrims Progress, three books, he
says on which he" literally feasted." He thought
Shakespeare the second greatest teacher ana civil
yscr OF mankind that lived Christ being the first
greatest Between the ages Of eighteen and nineteen
Enckle dimy conceived the plan OF his History" and
began 10 work average OF nine or ten hours day.
His method was 70 study IN tho morning ply seal