New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-02

A small octave volume Of Ruskin's early poems,
cold recently i'll London for 1856.
M. Zo.a's studies of Bazac, Stendha Gustave
Fiaube,t Edmond and Jules dc Goncourt, and
Alphonsc Daudet, have been collected and pub
]ished under the title lies Romancicrs Natural
istcs."
A new work America, by Mr.. Fraser Rae, viii
SOON appear III England H. is based upon his letters
to The London Times, and the first part is entitled.
Newfoundland to Manitoba ; q Guide to Cinadas
Maritime Mining and Prairie Provinces"
The Letters of Madame de Rcmusat," recently
published in Paris. aud said to be an interesting
supplement to her famous "Memors." have been
translated by Mrs. Cashel Hoey and Mr.. John Lille,
and will be published at once by ID. Appleton & Co.
The Illustrated London Ne,rs in noticing Scribncr
for june speaks especially of the engraving of Saint
Gaudenss statue of Admiral Farragut, which il de-
clares to be of the modern examples which
every and then provo that the secret of portrait
sculpture is not wholly lost.
series of English Classics" in small, elegantly
printed volumes, is in preparation at d. Appleton &
Co.'S. The first volumes of the series will be Mr..
Gosse's selection of English Odes"; Tennyscn's
"In Memoriam Z" and /" The Princess" " OF the Imi-
tatiOn of Christ" by Thomas Kempis and :" Selec-
tions from Shelley's Poems."
Prince Bismarck has pronounced against the
Latin letter which has been gaining favor with
scholarly Germans many of whom hope to see il
supplant the eye-torturing Gothic letter, A PAM
phlet printed in Latin letter. which had been sent to
the Chancellor, was returned with the statement
that it robbed him of too much time to read Ger
man in Latin print
The authors of " Half-Hours with Foreign Novel
ists," an English publication consisting of sample
translatiOns from foreign nOvelsts, introduced by
critical notices, pass arbitrarily upon n few noted
Frenchmen. Edmond About is omitted as being
writer of the second rank Victor Hugo because his
stories are prose poems rather than novels; and
Dumas the elder because he is not contemporary"
although Balzac and George Sand are admitted.
ID. Worthington & Co. are looking actively after
their share of the trade i'll the revised version of the
New Testament. Their small plea edition, which
with narrow columns and marginal notes makes q
handsome appearance, is bound in two styles, and
besides, the plates have been used on finer,
red-line octave edition. They also preparing to
issue quarto Family Bible to contain the new
version of the New Testament, the first quarto of
the kind yet published in England or America.
The work of Mr.. Jefferson Davis" says The
Atheneum, will disappoint some readers and
weary others Those who turn to his volumes for
revelations will find that he has little that is new to
tell while those who hope to get from him a con-
else and clear view of the organization of which he
was the soul and the chief will be repealed by the
vast amount of dissertation with which he cumbers
his pages. The principal defence of secession is the
contention that it was warranted by the Copsttu-
ton of the United States. 1t may have been neces-
sary from Mr.. Daviss point of view to make this
clear, but he might have done so in less space"
Senator HILL of Georgia. on being asked by q
correspondent of The Boston Herald what effect
Jefferson Davis's book would have upon the South,
replied " None whatever The number of people
in the South who agree with the view of the war
and its results expressed in Mr. Davis's work is
too limited to have the slightest influence. 1t was
very proper for Mr.. Davis to write the book. Our
people thought it due to himself as well as them
and the cause he represented to put on record his
view of the He has done it ably and honestly
but the book treats of a theory of our Government
which has passed away. 1t will be read as would
be any account of great historical event, but its
theories can never have practical place in our
politics again."