New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-12-20
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

,,Ipr /. rRAyERs LES MoEURs. BY Hk ma New
WARD. Illustrated by Z. GohI"
,r, o'" 80 sn.ci,nen Of the art OF book
,no,,og "a Il IL practiscd nowhere oue Ia ia"e
Mr. Henry Hazard. pleasantly KNOWN -, ~
readars ontside his own country py HIS 80. q.
,,nS,., I'D his History of the Faience OF DENT "
Gov Nothing of u dozen treatiScs OH i 30.
,rL;ects has written treatise IN whch ho eni'
IN graceful style and witt plenty oil alcouoto 90
npotation. certain philosophical nouohs ~ '" -"
80, and growth of artistic production among hu-
man societies and in individuals MrHaVaTu Iolpio'
If he have one. is not omnscencc as was S'u Va "a
,ybcvretI and which rs painfully the ease VITO NJ
Tape but he really finds litt'o less difficulty man
Mr. Taine In solving the universe and making fo"S'
nlaces almost ridiculously pam. However hs %
not dognatic and even pessimlst he'd "O' ."
troubled in looking at life and its problems i'i
awhile through Mr. Havard's ToSe-coloTed RlaaS'S,
knowing how easily Re can take them Oh agar" ana
plsase himself with querying and amentihg rs oe-
fore. -;.,, 10
One trouble with this beautiful BOOK WIN '''
clear white paper, black ink large type anu
ops margins is that it cannot be read with comfort
and we sbouId very much like to read it, II one
likes philosophic confectionery, not OF the
bon.hon sort but of Tho more resisting
and satisfying kind. where one is to
vvarded after an interval of sweetness WIN a
solid mt or hit of fruit Just as he began 10 IhiN
ihe trine clOying-H he like thls SORT oI doom,
this as Mr. Lincoln might have sad, IS inc 'orV %
hook he would like. But the publisher ongh' 10
have nut IT, for such reader, into shape thai nc
could loll on sofa with it, draw up with oeSiuo
the fire on an afternoon. He can do nothlhg "I 'no
sort with this volume whose material heaVlhe'S 10
in strong contrast to its inward lightncss lie must
co at Il deliberately with a table and chair
L. he
IN plenty, and they are well chosen Tor III
terest or beauty or rarity. But while there
= necessarily. since Mr. Hazard is tax
ino about art and its development In human
societies necessary connection between Ills SUD
iect and ANYTHING he might show us OF what art
has ACCOMPLISHED there is really for the most part,
no more connection than this between the teAt anu
the Illustrations. They cuts OF great many
and of very various things, drawn, the most OF 'e
but rot all, by Mr.. GOntzwilleT, draugh's'la"
whose skill is admired by all who have become Ia
mjliar with it in the pleasant years OF 'ner
acquaintance with that prince OF ART 1o'Inai''
the Gazette des BeaaT Arts, from "lnch "o'
a few of these illustrations have been borrowed
and they are as we have said, well chosen SO IN
terestiug in themselves and OH the whole so new
thourb we doubt if any of them were made Tor TINS
hook that we can well enjoy the book for the cuts
alone Still we are on the lookout all the time Tor
some to the cuts illustrations oil the text
and as this but seldom arrives the convection al
last dawns upon us that. III very pleasant ana lot
eiyable sense we are the victims of book-makers
conspiracy Mr.. Hazard has agreed to talk deughV
fully for an evening, while Nj. GontzwlIier thro"S
upuu screen for the amusement OF those VINO are
too law to listen. sketches of a world OF pretty
things and oddities, which here assembled ar
ranged with sly, airy method
But let no one think from what has been
said that he is here in presence OF one OF thos'
chcap and vulgar deluSions made tn sell to eager
but little discriminating hoiday-buyers. Ids
Is really beautiful book, and by far the greater
number of the illustrations thing that Will Al
WAYS nlease And if we have permitted ourselves
TO sneak somewhat lightly of Mr. llavard's phiI0so
phising we hasten to admit thai he mas III perioG
lion his art of saying old things III Shc
n way that they seem to be discoveries ana 0f pre-
eepting the plainest common sense In language ihat
makes the reader feel he been listening to teacher
half poet half ACCOMPLISHED man Of the world.