New-York tribune., 1881-09-13
LITERATURE IN LONDON.
NEW BOOKS AND NEW EDITIONS.


voLUMSoUs wmTINCs-rEINr&o siRdoNS IN
YIlE BOOK MARKET-A NEW VOLUME or ESSAYS
AND ADDRESSES BY PROFESSOR HUNLhN-fA-
voRABLE RECEPTION OF MR.. CABLE MNihN'iH
pEIP}uNE."
JFpoM THE REGULAR coRREsroNpxNr or raE rtI1tNN
LONDON Aug. 23.-Messrs. Iong'nahs beslde
what tbev call tae Hughendeu EdtioE Of Lord
Beacon siied's Novels and Tales, give uoiiec that
they have in press two octave volumes Ci MS
Speeches A collection of all the speeches Ar.
Disracl aud Lord BeaConshed ever maVc between
them would fill nearer twenty volumes than two.
The two volumes contain selection only, made hy
Mr. I. F.. Kebbel. Tory writer for the periodical
press who has at sundry times during Lord Beacons
fields life undertaken to expound his doctrine.
My Kobbel contributes also explanatory Notes
anil Preface. This is not speech-Teadirg age.
Most people have enough of speeches in their daily
paDors, and even too much, as the penny papers
have found ont. Penny papers IN London are made
TO sell. and they print what people will buy and
have, after many years of rather cropping expert
ment. satisfied themselves that people will not buy
what they do not want to read. SO for years past
the penny papers have been cutting down their
Parliamentary reports. 1t must I've great speech
aud made by great man. one who passes for
SUCH to get reported fully Or else there have
been an Irish row. in which the speeches, and
even the fragIHentary calculations of Irish abuse
and splutterng Hl-temper, get printed verbatim.
ia summary. though more amply than you think it
worth while to report legislative proceedings in
Washington. There are eXtant moreover, numcr-
Gus volumes of speeches by orators of past genera
tions of Pitt of Fox, of Burke and other giants of
those days And this, if ever would be a for
applying Sam Rogerss IN AKIN " When new book
comes out, l read an old one" Lord BcaconSfeld
will always be worth reading, but he is better in
small doses. and 1 doubt whether Mr. Calcrafts
Anthology, which l mentioned the other day, will
not attract more readers than any volumes of
speeches that now be published. it is almost a
pity that Mr.. CalcFaft did not christen his book
Beauties of Beaconsfeld," in the simple fashion
OF earlier days. Have we not had. even lately
Gleanings of Gladstone" in seven square closely
printed voiumesf
As for the Hughendeu Edition of the Novels and
Tales. have not it and cannot say what it is
like. But the Publishers account of it is glow
ing and stuffed with capital letters that it
would perhaps satisfy Lord Beaconsfclds aspira-
tons after color" in style. The edition is illus
trated with MacliSes Portrait of the Author of
Vivian Grey, later Portrait engraved on Steel for
this Edition from recent Photograph by J.
Hughes, and Vignette TO each oiuiue, cmbudyiug
a Series of Views of fIughenden Manor House and
its Surroundings This is in the fine OLD English
manner which Dizzy" loved. Bnt it is distressing
that the Publisher should have omitted to add that
the recent Photograph 10y Jabez Hughes is one tof
n, q RVUe.
OF more probably Cowcs when the deceased states
man was visiting her Majesty at Osborne. Legends
20 this effect may still be seen on copies exposed
for sale in Photographic shop windows in Regent
and other streets i'll London; unless peradventure
an eager .worshipping Jingo public have
bought them all up this.
The Hughenden Edition will be a popular book
But the Beaoonsield bibliOphile will continue to
prefer the original editions of the novels and tales
which nv and in, -I,r,n
and five volumes each. may be had of tho second |
hand booksellers at no very great price. "Endy- |
mon," one almost regrets to SAY, is "a drug in the
market at sixth of the price of issue Ii is per-
fecty true though the story has been eagerly con
tradicted, that great number of the copies of
Endymion' issued bv the circulating libraries to
their customers, were returned with the leaves of
the third and second volumes uncnt The story
was coutradicted because 1t was thought injurious
TO Lord Beaconsicld | must say think it more
diSerediable to the cireuls ting library public than
to hun. The book has not story enough for
them; and to it's re'l interest they were blind or
indifferent. Its real interest is not that of a novel
but of diary which IA veteran politician and
observer and a very original genius with cxtraor-
dlnary opportunities, has set down his views on
politics and society. AS tn the other story about
the book not selling we'll and Lord Beaconsiield
Offering to return the McsSrs Iougnlns a part of
the 2lO 600 they paid him in advance the truth ls
more difficult TO determine. 1t is affirmed aud
denied with equal positivcness and on what seems
equally good authority. A junior partner in the
firm declares that 1t is perfectly true. The son of
one OF the senior partners declares that it is abso-
lutely false. The question will have To he left for
modctn rIlates to repeat till they tired of the
jest. genial cync of my acquaintance, however,
answered 1T To his satisfaction 1t was utterly
and equally Incredible, he observed that Lord
Beaconstield should have offered the money and
that Messrs Longmans should have refused it,
Some notion OF the late Dean Stanley's voIumi-
nousness and also of his popularity as a writer on
ecclesiastical subjects. aud subjects related to
the Church. NAY be got from the list of his works
advertised since his death by Mr. Murray. The
masnate of Aibemare-st. falls in with the habit of
his rivals in sezing upon the occasion of a
writer's death to promote the sale of his books
which may be profitable. at any rate. To his execu-
tors. Mr. Murrays list includes thirteen separate
works, some of them in several volumes each The
" Lectures on the History OF the Jewish Church"
are III their eighth edition; those on the Eastern
Church have reached fifth; of Sinai and
Palestine" the public las bought thirteen editions
and part Of fourteenth. The fourth issue of the
" Historical Memorials of Westminster Abbey
Is now selling, while those of Canterbury have |
gone TO ninth edition. Is Canterbury, after a l. |
more popular" than Westminster The "I,fe
and Correspondence of DR.. Arnold first published
more than thirty years ago -n 1914 if recol ect
is still IN print and the eleventh edition of il il
to lie bought. Even sermons sell with Stanlevs |
name to them, and when preached before a Prince |
and eniiv"ned with Notices of some of the Ioca- |
Ties where they were preached, or which the !
Princely party visited During Tour in the !
East" The Fifth Thousand of these dscourses has
been printed. What would poor Parson Adams !
say Admirers OF the Dean may nevertheless